Q 01/05

On which channel did the BBC series Merlin air from 2008 to 2012?

A) BBC One

B) BBC Two

C) ITV

D) Channel 4

Answer · why

A) BBC One

It ran for five series, ending with a two-part Christmas finale on 24 December 2012.

Q 02/05

How many series of the BBC's Merlin were made?

A) Three

B) Five

C) Four

D) Seven

Answer · why

B) Five

Broadcasting rights were sold to more than 180 countries.

Q 03/05

Who played Merlin in the BBC series?

A) Bradley James

B) Eoin Macken

C) Colin Morgan

D) Santiago Cabrera

Answer · why

C) Colin Morgan

The Northern Irish actor later played Leo Elster in Humans and Billy Clanton in Belfast.

Q 04/05

Why must Merlin hide his powers in Camelot?

A) Gaius has forbidden it

B) The dragon demands secrecy

C) Arthur fears all sorcery

D) King Uther executes sorcerers

Answer · why

D) King Uther executes sorcerers

Uther's crackdown twenty years earlier was known as the Great Purge.

Q 05/05

What was Uther's crackdown on magic twenty years before the series called?

A) The Cleansing

B) The Burning

C) The Reckoning

D) The Great Purge

Answer · why

D) The Great Purge

He also imprisoned the last dragon in the caves beneath the castle.