Q 01/05

Before creating The X-Files, Chris Carter spent years writing for a magazine devoted to which sport?

A) Skateboarding

B) Surfing

C) Golf

D) Motor racing

Answer · why

B) Surfing

Surfing: hooked on the sport since boyhood, Carter joined Surfing Magazine after his journalism degree, and reached television only when studio boss J...

Q 02/05

In The X-Files pilot, Mulder and Scully's first case takes them to which state?

A) Maine

B) Oregon

C) Montana

D) Vermont

Answer · why

B) Oregon

Oregon: near the fictional town of Bellefleur, classmates are turning up dead with two small marks on their backs, and the agents lose nine minutes wh...

Q 03/05

Fox Mulder's younger sister vanished when he was 12; what was her name?

A) Rebecca

B) Jessica

C) Samantha

D) Sarah

Answer · why

C) Samantha

Samantha Mulder, aged eight, vanished from the family house in November 1973; her brother believes aliens took her, and that loss drives his obsession...

Q 04/05

Why did The X-Files writers have Dana Scully abducted early in season two?

A) Her actress was pregnant

B) Her actress was filming a movie

C) The network wanted a new lead

D) Ratings had started to fall

Answer · why

A) Her actress was pregnant

Her actress was pregnant: Gillian Anderson needed time off, so Scully vanished for an episode and came back in a coma, filmed days after Anderson gave...

Q 05/05

Which actor played The X-Files' chain-smoking villain, the Cigarette Smoking Man?

A) John Neville

B) Steven Williams

C) William B. Davis

D) Mitch Pileggi

Answer · why

C) William B. Davis

William B. Davis was hired as a wordless extra for the pilot, and his silent smoker in the corner grew into the show's chief villain.