Q 01/05

Which Baltimore police unit is Jimmy McNulty in when The Wire opens?

A) Major Crimes

B) Narcotics

C) Homicide

D) Marine Unit

Answer · why

C) Homicide

Homicide is McNulty's unit when the series opens; by going over Major Rawls's head to a judge about the Barksdale killings he gets the special detail ...

Q 02/05

Which game does D'Angelo Barksdale use to teach his young dealers how the drug trade's hierarchy works?

A) Chess

B) Checkers

C) Dominoes

D) Poker

Answer · why

A) Chess

Chess: finding two of his crew playing checkers with chess pieces, D'Angelo casts Avon as the king, Stringer as the queen and the street dealers as pa...

Q 03/05

Which cereal does Omar Little walk out to buy in his pyjamas, sending the street dealers running?

A) Honey Nut Cheerios

B) Frosted Flakes

C) Froot Loops

D) Cap'n Crunch

Answer · why

A) Honey Nut Cheerios

Honey Nut Cheerios: the shop is out of his brand, but on the walk home a frightened dealer drops a stash from a window at Omar's feet, though he has n...

Q 04/05

Season 2 of The Wire, while continuing the Barksdale story, widens its focus to which part of Baltimore life?

A) The public schools

B) The docks

C) The Baltimore Sun

D) City Hall

Answer · why

B) The docks

The docks: season two follows Frank Sobotka's union as vanishing work pushes it into smuggling, a story David Simon called a meditation on the death o...

Q 05/05

What was Major Howard 'Bunny' Colvin's Season 3 drug-toleration zone nicknamed?

A) Hamsterdam

B) The Towers

C) The Pit

D) Franklin Terrace

Answer · why

A) Hamsterdam

Hamsterdam, a corner-boy mangling of Amsterdam, is the nickname for the free zones where Colvin lets dealers sell without arrest until City Hall shuts...