Q 01/05

Reign follows a teenage Mary, Queen of Scots, at the French court, and was made for which American network?

A) The CW

B) Showtime

C) Starz

D) Freeform

Answer · why

A) The CW

The CW ordered the pilot in February 2013 and kept the drama on air for 78 episodes before ending it in 2017.

Q 02/05

In Reign's opening episode, where has the young Queen Mary been living in France since the age of nine?

A) A hunting lodge

B) A convent

C) A lighthouse

D) A village inn

Answer · why

B) A convent

A convent hid Mary until a failed attempt to poison her there sent her back to the royal castle for safety.

Q 03/05

How is the increasingly mad King Henry II fatally injured in Reign's first-season finale?

A) Poisoned at a banquet

B) Felled by a stray arrow

C) Struck in a joust

D) Stabbed in his sleep

Answer · why

C) Struck in a joust

Struck in a joust, Henry is brought down by his own son Francis, who had secretly swapped places with the opposing knight.

Q 04/05

Which real-life seer at the French court in Reign predicts that marrying Mary will cost Francis his life?

A) John Dee

B) Paracelsus

C) Count Cagliostro

D) Nostradamus

Answer · why

D) Nostradamus

Nostradamus is played by Rossif Sutherland, a son of actor Donald Sutherland and half-brother of Kiefer.

Q 05/05

Alan van Sprang said he modelled Reign's womanising King Henry II on which American president?

A) Bill Clinton

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Richard Nixon

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

A) Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton was the model, the actor said; in the show Henry keeps a long-term mistress and then takes Mary's lady Kenna as another.