Q 01/05

Which network aired Outlander from 2014 to 2026?

A) Showtime

B) Starz

C) AMC

D) HBO

Answer · why

B) Starz

Starz ordered the series in 2013 and premiered it on 9 August 2014, with Ronald D. Moore of Battlestar Galactica as developer and showrunner.

Q 02/05

Who wrote the Outlander novels?

A) Philippa Gregory

B) Deborah Harkness

C) Susanna Kearsley

D) Diana Gabaldon

Answer · why

D) Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon, then a research professor at Arizona State University, began writing Outlander in 1988 as a practice novel, never intending to show it...

Q 03/05

Claire Randall served as a combat nurse in which war before the story begins?

A) World War I

B) The Korean War

C) World War II

D) The Boer War

Answer · why

C) World War II

Claire served as a combat nurse in World War II; in 1945 she and her husband Frank are on a second honeymoon near Inverness when she touches the stone...

Q 04/05

To which year is Claire transported back in time?

A) 1750

B) 1745

C) 1760

D) 1743

Answer · why

D) 1743

Claire lands in 1743, two years before the Jacobite rising of 1745, which she knows from her own time is doomed to fail.

Q 05/05

What is the name of the stone circle through which Claire travels?

A) Callanish

B) Clava Cairns

C) Craigh na Dun

D) Ring of Brodgar

Answer · why

C) Craigh na Dun

Craigh na Dun is fictional; the show's version was built in what is now Tay Forest Park, and later filmed at Kinloch Rannoch.