Game of Thrones Trivia Quiz: How Much Do You Remember?

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Nobody was safe. That was the promise Game of Thrones made in its very first season, when the show killed off the man everyone assumed was its main character and dared its audience to keep watching anyway. Based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the show spent eight seasons proving that promise over and over: beloved characters died at weddings, at executions, in battles nobody expected them to survive, and the ones who lived often paid for it in ways that were somehow worse. It became appointment television in an era when almost nothing else could claim that, and its final season remains one of the most fiercely debated endings in modern TV history.

“The Lannisters send their regards.” Roose Bolton delivers the line while pushing a blade into Robb Stark, and the episode carrying it, “The Rains of Castamere,” aired on June 2, 2013 and ended a war in about nine minutes of screen time. The Red Wedding worked because the series had spent two and a half seasons teaching viewers that guest right, sworn oaths, and narrative protection counted for nothing, a lesson that started with Ned Stark’s execution at the Great Sept in the ninth episode of season one. Martin’s rule, that importance to the story buys a character no safety at all, transferred to the screen close to intact, and the deaths landed because the political arithmetic behind them was legible in advance to anyone paying attention.

The scale is what made the show difficult to follow and worth following. Great houses came with sigils and words attached, from the Stark direwolf and “Winter is Coming” to the Lannister lion and a motto most people quote wrong, since “A Lannister always pays his debts” is an unofficial saying and the house words are “Hear Me Roar.” The geography ran from Winterfell and the Wall in the north down through the Riverlands to King’s Landing and Dorne, then across the Narrow Sea to Braavos, Astapor, and Meereen, where Daenerys Targaryen spent four seasons acquiring an army, three dragons named for dead men in her family, and a string of titles longer than her fleet.

The quiz moves across all eight seasons and rewards a viewer who tracked alliances rather than dragons: house words and sigils, parentage revealed late but seeded early, the Battle of the Bastards and the Long Night at Winterfell, and the succession of people who held the Iron Throne between Robert Baratheon and whoever was left standing at the end. A few questions reach north beyond the Wall, where the White Walkers and their wights spent seven seasons approaching and a single episode being resolved, and a few reach into the smaller details, including who Hodor was before his name shrank to one word.

The final season split the audience so thoroughly that a petition demanding a remake collected well over a million signatures, which has stopped nobody from rewatching the earlier ones. Scores tend to reflect how closely someone followed the middle seasons, the stretch with the most moving parts and the least spectacle, and whichever house got mixed up with which sorts itself out once the results show.