Q 01/05

Season one of Game of Thrones adapts the first novel of which fantasy book series?

A) The Wheel of Time

B) A Song of Ice and Fire

C) The Kingkiller Chronicle

D) The First Law

Answer · why

B) A Song of Ice and Fire

A Song of Ice and Fire began as a planned trilogy, but George R. R. Martin's story outgrew three books, and the ten episodes cover only the first nove...

Q 02/05

What are the words of House Stark, which Ned speaks in the first episode of Game of Thrones?

A) Hear Me Roar

B) Ours Is the Fury

C) Winter Is Coming

D) Fire and Blood

Answer · why

C) Winter Is Coming

Winter Is Coming: Ned says it to Catelyn as his reason for taking ten-year-old Bran to watch a beheading, adding that the boy won't be a boy forever.

Q 03/05

Which position does Robert ask Ned Stark to fill after the death of Jon Arryn?

A) Master of Coin

B) Lord Commander of the Kingsguard

C) Hand of the King

D) Warden of the East

Answer · why

C) Hand of the King

Hand of the King: Ned would rather stay at Winterfell, and accepts only after a letter from Lysa Arryn claims the Lannisters murdered her husband, the...

Q 04/05

What had the Night's Watch deserter Ned executes in the premiere seen beyond the Wall?

A) A dragon

B) Wildling giants

C) The Children of the Forest

D) White Walkers

Answer · why

D) White Walkers

White Walkers: the ranger had watched one kill both his companions, but Ned insisted they had been gone for thousands of years and beheaded him for de...

Q 05/05

Which two dead animals, both house sigils, do the Starks find on the road?

A) A stag and a direwolf

B) A lion and a wolf

C) A stag and a lion

D) A boar and a direwolf

Answer · why

A) A stag and a direwolf

A stag and a direwolf: Ned means to kill the dead wolf's orphaned pups until Jon points out there are five, one for each of the Stark children.

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