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Since Buffy the Vampire Slayer is by far the best vampire television show ever made (kicking the pouty ass of Twilight up and down the street), here's some random trivia questions to test your Buffyverse knowledge!
Ready? Set? Go!
1) In the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth," Buffy Summers meets Rupert Giles, the school librarian and her Watcher.
a) True - And to top it off, Buffy hates him.
b) False - Giles is introduced in this episode, but Buffy does not meet him until the secon episode, "The Harvest."
2) In the series premiere, Buffy also meets her first true love -- the vampire-with-a-soul, Angel.
a) True - But she doesn't learn his name until the seventh episode, Angel.
b) False - Angel doesn't appear until the seventh episode, "Angel."
3) Throughout the series, Buffy meets with Giles and her friends in the school library, trains as a warrior in the school library, and uses the library as a base. Everyone knows they won't get interrupted there. Why is that?
a) A binding spell has been put on the library door, keeping out unwanted intruders.
b) Giles physically locks the doors and covers the windows.
c) Geez, everyone knows that in the modern day and age, no one uses a physical library any more!
d) It's really a secret library, with the real library somewhere else in the school.
4) In the Season One episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date," Giles says there is no instruction manual for being a Slayer. Is his statement true or false?
a) True - That's why they have Watchers.
b) False - Buffy learns in the Season Two episode, "What's My Line, Part 2," that there is a manual. But Giles felt it would do Buffy no good.
5) Principal Flutie is the principal of Sunnydale High School when Buffy arrives there. He has a low opinion of Buffy, since she burned down the gym at her old high school in Los Angeles. He also seems to recognize that she did so "because it was full of vamp -- uh, asbestos." Principal Flutie is replaced by Principal Snyder. Why?
a) He knew too much, so the school board replaced him.
b) He was eaten alive by students who were possessed by hyena-spirits.
c) He fled town after being threatened by Buffy and vampires.
d) He got sucked into the Hellmouth while practicing black magic.
6) The vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, was once a minor Irish nobleman who was a cruel, over-sexed, vindictive, mean drunkard who spent his time whoring, drinking, and carousing. He was turned into a vampire by Darla, and later "sired" both Spike and Drusilla. But what happened to Angel's family?
a) Vampires got 'em!
b) They were killed when their mansion fell into the sea during a demonic attack.
c) They disowned him, and he has no idea where their descendants are.
d) His parents died a natural death, and he still sees his sister's descendants on occasion (helping with small gifts of money).
7) Does everyone know that Angel has a soul and won't feed on human beings any more?
a) Yes - Duh, that's the whole point of the show!
b) Not really - Most vampires and demons know it, but the Watchers were unaware of Angel's transformation. (That changes during the course of the show.)
c) Almost - Giles didn't know, because he'd been sanctioned by the Watcher Council and had not had access to the most current records.
d) No - Almost no one knows this.
8) Buffy's father is alive and well and living in Los Angeles.
a) Yes - And he actually appears from time to time in very minor roles through the early part of the show.
b) No - He's dead, killed by vampires.
c) No - As in the film Miracle on 34th Street, he's alive but living in France.
d) Yes - Yes, but he is in prison for having murdered a man (he thought he was a vampire).
9) No one in the series believes in the paranomal except for Buffy, the Watchers, and her friends.
a) True - Everyone else in the world is in intense denial.
b) False - We learn in the Season One episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" that the U.S. government is exploting the paranormal for its own purposes.
10) Show creator Joss Whedon decided early on that the first season should have a season-long "story arc" involving the powerful vampire known as The Master. This was intended to keep viewers interested in the show the entire season, boosting ratings. How many "Buffy" seasons had story arcs like this?
a) Every single season had one.
b) Every single season except Season Six had one. (Season Six was broken into bits involving Anya being a demon again, Dawn's kleptomania, the lesbian witch Tara, the nerdy Trio, and more.)
c) Just Season One (The Master), Two (Angel), Three (Faith), and Four (the Initiative).
d) Just Season One (The Master) and Five (Glorificus).
11) How many times does Buffy die (if at all) during the series?
a) She never dies. She's the star of the show!
b) Once, while saving the world from Glorificus.
c) Twice, at The Master's hand and while saving the world from Glorificus.
d) Three times: at The Master's hand, while saving the world from Glorificus, and at the hand of the First Evil.
12) Buffy goes through a traumatic nervous breakdown in the Season Two premiere, "When She Was Bad." Her confrontation with The Master has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, causing numerous problems for her. Does this happen again?
a) No. Buffy learns her lesson.
b) Yes, when The Master is resurrected by the little boy's dream-world and The Master turns her into a vampire.
c) Yes, it is a recurring theme at the start of each season.
d) Yes, after Buffy kills Angel (she runs off to Los Angeles but returns at the start of Season Three).
13) Early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were often pastiches of existing horror movie tropes. This was because it was easier to write stories off existing horror themes, and because it allowed audiences to relate more easily to the show. It also allowed the writers to update existing horror stories for a modern audience, to show off their imaginations and excite audiences. Examples include the Invisible Man ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight"), mummies ("Inca Mummy Girl"), the Creature from the Black Lagoon ("Go Fish"), the Wolf Man ("Phases"), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("Beauty and the Beasts"), and the Frankenstein monster. Which early episode was an update of Frankenstein?
a) "Some Assembly Required"
b) "I, Robot... You, Jane."
c) "Ted"
d) "School Hard"
14) In the Buffyverse, what is it about vampires and Halloween?
a) They love it! It's like their Christmas and Fourth of July and birthday rolled into one.
b) They hate it as a silly, commercial, made-up, crass holiday.
c) Eh, just another boring night.
d) It's a religious holiday for them, one spent in quiet contemplation of evil.
15) Spike was intended by Joss Whedon to be a four-episode character who is killed off, but audience response was so overwhelmingly positive that he wasn't dusted. In fact, Spike became a major recurring character, then a regular. In time, he became Buffy's friend, lover, and savior. Spike was introduced...when?
a) In the Second Season episode "School Hard."
b) In the Season Three episode "Dead Man's Party."
c) In the Season Three finale "Graduation Day."
d) In the Fourth Season episode "The Harsh Light of Day."
16) As a demonic vampire, Angel was hardly angelic: He murdered Drusilla's family, drive Drusilla insane, and then bit her. On Valetine's Day, he also once nailed a puppy to a -- never mind. Spike was a meek, effeminate aspiring poet living in the 1880s who was sired by Drusilla. He turned his own mother into a vampire to save her from dying from tuberculosis, and then staked her because she taunted him about his incestuous lust for her. He killed two Slayers (one during the Boxer Rebellion in China, another in New York City in the early 1980s). But Spike got his nickname from...?
a) His incessant lust (use your imagination).
b) His blond-dyed hair.
c) His love of vampirism (it's a reference to his teeth being extra-long and spiky).
d) He loved to torture people with railroad spikes.
17) In the Season Two episode "Halloween," audiences first meet Ethan Rayne, one of Giles' old friends. Rayne reappears later that season in the episode "The Dark Age", where his past as a warlock is revealed in greater depth; in Season Three in the episode "Band Candy" as the maker of cursed chocolate; in the Season Four episode "A New Man," where he warns Giles about The Initiative's experiments with demons and technology. Rayne also reveals something about Giles' past. What is it?
a) Giles was once a warlock, too, experimenting with demon possession.
b) Giles is a bisexual, and they once were lovers.
c) Giles really isn't English, but just affects the accent.
d) Giles was kicked out of the Watchers Council for refusing to train Kendra the Vampire Slayer.
18) The Irish wastrel Angelus was turned into a vampire in 1753. But after killing a Gypsy woman, he was cursed and his soul restored (to cause him to feel eternal remorse) in 1898. A two-part episode, "Surprise" and "Innocence," forms the middle of Season Two. At the end of "Surprise," Buffy makes love to Angel for the first time. Because Angel feels a moment of pure contentment and happiness, the curse on him....?
a) Is lifted, and he reverts back to being a psychotic vampire.
b) Becomes permanent, and can never be lifted.
c) Is transferred to the nearest vampire, which happens to be Spike. This is how Spike gets his soul back, too.
d) Nothing! Nothing happens! The curse is lifted because of black magic used by the demon Acathla.
19) Xander frequently refers to Buffy and her friends as the "Scooby Gang," a reference to the cartoon mystery series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and its many sequels. Many fans believe this was part of the show from the very beginning, but it wasn't. Xander first uses this phrase:
a) In the middle of Season Two.
b) In the middle of Season Three.
c) At the end of Season Three.
d) At the beginning of Season Four.
20) Angel reverts to his psychotic Angelus form during the series. This forms a story arc most fans remember as being the high point of the series, and creates the legendary "Buffy and Angel" love story. How many episodes did "psycho Angelus" last on the show?
a) Only nine -- just half a season!
b) Nineteen -- Half of Season Two and almost all of Season Three.
c) Twenty-two -- a full season (Season Three).
d) Trick question! As you know from above, Angel nevere lost his soul!
21) Much of Season Two is spent looking at the love story between Giles and Jenny Calendar. Jenny dies in the Season Two episode "Passion." Who kills her?
a) Buffy.
b) Oz.
c) Angel.
d) Drusilla.
22) Anyanka the Vengeance Demon makes her first appearance in the Season Three episode "The Wish." Cordelia Chase and Xander Harris have been lusting for one another for two and a half years now, exhibiting their first love-hate attraction in "Inca Mummy Girl," kissing and dating in "What's My Line?", and breaking up in "Lovers Walk." They broke up once before in ""Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," where Xander retaliates by asking Amy the Witch to cast a love spell (which backfires). In "The Wish," Cordelia retaliates by asking for a wish to be granted. What is is, and what happens?
a) She asks for Xander never to have been born, and this changes the world so that Willow is the Vampire Slayer.
b) She asks for Xander to be in love with her. This leaves her unemployed, fat, pregnant, and married to Xander after high school while they live in a trailer.
c) She asks that Buffy never come to Sunnydale. An alternate universe is created in which Cordelia dies early, Xander and Willow are vampires, and Buffy lives in Cleveland.
d) She asks for powers of her own. She gets the psychic ability to see when others are in need, but it leaves her with intense migraines.
23) Buffy's three great loves during the show are Angel, Riley Finn, and Spike. But she also dates a boy named Owen in the first season, a boy named Scott in the third, and a college fratboy named Parker in the fourth. The first two are attracted to her secret, thrilling lifestyle. Buffy dumps Owen because she realizes he doesn't like her (just her adventures). Scott breaks up with Buffy after being traumatized by the death of two friends in the Season Three episode "Beauty and the Beasts." He indicates Buffy's adventures are very upsetting (the opposite of Owen's response). Parker dumps Buffy, revealing that he was just a womanizer. In Season Seven, Buffy tells us what happens to Scott. What does she say?
a) He died during the episode "Graduation Day" (he's one of the students eaten by the demonic form of Mayor Wilkins).
b) He became part of The Initiative, and was killed when the cyborg demon Adam went wild.
c) He married some girl, and Buffy discovered that he's married with children and quietly settled down. (She even secretly envies him.)
d) He came out gay.
24) The new Slayer, Faith, joins the show near the start of Season Four, as does a new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The role Faith plays on the show is:
a) What a Slayer is like when she strictly follows Watcher Council guidelines.
b) Someone who gives Buffy hope that Slayers can lead normal lives.
c) What a Slayer is like when they never, ever have a Watcher.
d) What Buffy "could have been" without Giles and the support of her friends.
25) During the Sixth Season, The Trio becomes a minor story arc. The Trio are three super-geeky nerds who form a super-villain club to try to kill Buffy so that they can take over Sunnydale. One of them is Jonathan Levinson, who made his first appearance in the series premiere ("Welcome to the Hellmouth") and who Buffy saved from suicide in the third season ("Earshot"). The second is Warren Mears, a robotics genius who creates a sex-bot for himself in Season Five ("I Was Made to Love You") and later helps build a Buffybot for Spike. The final member is Andrew Wells, an effeminate, timid gay boy dabbling in magic who lusts for Warren and fights for Warren's favors with the hetersoexual Jonathan. But Andrew wasn't a major player in the first episode in which he's mentioned. Where is Andrew first mentioned?
a) It's his older brother, Tucker Wells, who unleashes hellhounds on Buffy's senior prom.
b) He's seen in the background in Warren's lab, pining for Warren, in "I Was Made to Love You."
c) He was seen hanging around Jonathan Levinson in the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
d) He was the cloaked warlock who pretended to steal Angel's soul (so Buffy and Giles could deceive Faith and Mayor Wilkins) in the Season Three episode "Choices."
26) Just before Season Four started filming, Seth Green (the werewolf character "Daniel 'Oz' Osborne") announced he was quitting the series in order to have a movie career. Green's decision shocked everyone, including Joss Whedon, becaused they'd just added Green as a permanent cast member the previous year and Whedon had planned a whole year's worth of subplot designed to explore his relationship with Willow. On the show, they explained Green's sudden departure how?
a) Oz falls in love with another werewolf, Veruca, and then leaves Sunnydale after she dies.
b) Oz is kidnapped by the U.S. government.
c) Oz has a religious conversion to Buddhism, and flees to Tibet.
d) Willow comes out as a lesbian, and Oz flees town -- brokenhearted.
27) Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated just once for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode which garnered this honor was:
a) The series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
b) The Second Season episode "Innocence," which depicts the aftermath of Buffy's decision to have sex with Angel (also the show's highest-rated episode ever).
c) The Season Four episode "Hush," in which everyone in town loses their voice (it has just 17 minutes of dialogue).
d) The Season Five finale "The Gift," in which Glorificus is stopped from destroying the world.
28) Characters on the show discover in Season Two that there is indeed a "Slayer's Manual." Is there also a "Slayer's Weapon"?
a) Yes - It's the Slayer's Scythe.
b) No - Although Willow does cast a spell that turns Olaf the Troll's hammer into a magical weapon.
29) In Season Six, Willow and Tara are shown making love. Tara literally floats off the bed as Willow performs cunnilignus (off-screen) on her. Spike and Buffy also have a sexual relationship. Their passion is depicted by:
a) The house shaking and falling apart around them.
b) Bells pealing.
c) A flower opening.
d) A train going into a tunnel, its whistle screaming.
30) What happens to Sunnydale at the end of the show?
a) Nothing.
b) The Hellmouth is sealed, but the town survives.
c) It becomes a ghost town, abandoned but still there.
d) It collapses into the Hellmouth, and is destroyed -- leaving only a huge crater behind.
Answers are in bold...
1) In the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth," Buffy Summers meets Rupert Giles, the school librarian and her Watcher.
a) True - And to top it off, Buffy hates him.
b) False - Giles is introduced in this episode, but Buffy does not meet him until the secon episode, "The Harvest."
2) In the series premiere, Buffy also meets her first true love -- the vampire-with-a-soul, Angel.
a) True - But she doesn't learn his name until the seventh episode, Angel.
b) False - Angel doesn't appear until the seventh episode, "Angel."
3) Throughout the series, Buffy meets with Giles and her friends in the school library, trains as a warrior in the school library, and uses the library as a base. Everyone knows they won't get interrupted there. Why is that?
a) A binding spell has been put on the library door, keeping out unwanted intruders.
b) Giles physically locks the doors and covers the windows.
c) Geez, everyone knows that in the modern day and age, no one uses a physical library any more!
d) It's really a secret library, with the real library somewhere else in the school.
4) In the Season One episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date," Giles says there is no instruction manual for being a Slayer. Is his statement true or false?
a) True - That's why they have Watchers.
b) False - Buffy learns in the Season Two episode, "What's My Line, Part 2," that there is a manual. But Giles felt it would do Buffy no good.
5) Principal Flutie is the principal of Sunnydale High School when Buffy arrives there. He has a low opinion of Buffy, since she burned down the gym at her old high school in Los Angeles. He also seems to recognize that she did so "because it was full of vamp -- uh, asbestos." Principal Flutie is replaced by Principal Snyder. Why?
a) He knew too much, so the school board replaced him.
b) He was eaten alive by students who were possessed by hyena-spirits.
c) He fled town after being threatened by Buffy and vampires.
d) He got sucked into the Hellmouth while practicing black magic.
6) The vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, was once a minor Irish nobleman who was a cruel, over-sexed, vindictive, mean drunkard who spent his time whoring, drinking, and carousing. He was turned into a vampire by Darla, and later "sired" both Spike and Drusilla. But what happened to Angel's family?
a) Vampires got 'em!
b) They were killed when their mansion fell into the sea during a demonic attack.
c) They disowned him, and he has no idea where their descendants are.
d) His parents died a natural death, and he still sees his sister's descendants on occasion (helping with small gifts of money).
7) Does everyone know that Angel has a soul and won't feed on human beings any more?
a) Yes - Duh, that's the whole point of the show!
b) Not really - Most vampires and demons know it, but the Watchers were unaware of Angel's transformation. (That changes during the course of the show.)
c) Almost - Giles didn't know, because he'd been sanctioned by the Watcher Council and had not had access to the most current records.
d) No - Almost no one knows this.
8) Buffy's father is alive and well and living in Los Angeles.
a) Yes - And he actually appears from time to time in very minor roles through the early part of the show.
b) No - He's dead, killed by vampires.
c) No - As in the film Miracle on 34th Street, he's alive but living in France.
d) Yes - Yes, but he is in prison for having murdered a man (he thought he was a vampire).
9) No one in the series believes in the paranomal except for Buffy, the Watchers, and her friends.
a) True - Everyone else in the world is in intense denial.
b) False - We learn in the Season One episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" that the U.S. government is exploting the paranormal for its own purposes.
10) Show creator Joss Whedon decided early on that the first season should have a season-long "story arc" involving the powerful vampire known as The Master. This was intended to keep viewers interested in the show the entire season, boosting ratings. How many "Buffy" seasons had story arcs like this?
a) Every single season had one.
b) Every single season except Season Six had one. (Season Six was broken into bits involving Anya being a demon again, Dawn's kleptomania, the lesbian witch Tara, the nerdy Trio, and more.)
c) Just Season One (The Master), Two (Angel), Three (Faith), and Four (the Initiative).
d) Just Season One (The Master) and Five (Glorificus).
11) How many times does Buffy die (if at all) during the series?
a) She never dies. She's the star of the show!
b) Once, while saving the world from Glorificus.
c) Twice, at The Master's hand and while saving the world from Glorificus.
d) Three times: at The Master's hand, while saving the world from Glorificus, and at the hand of the First Evil.
12) Buffy goes through a traumatic nervous breakdown in the Season Two premiere, "When She Was Bad." Her confrontation with The Master has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, causing numerous problems for her. Does this happen again?
a) No. Buffy learns her lesson.
b) Yes, when The Master is resurrected by the little boy's dream-world and The Master turns her into a vampire.
c) Yes, it is a recurring theme at the start of each season.
d) Yes, after Buffy kills Angel (she runs off to Los Angeles but returns at the start of Season Three).
13) Early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were often pastiches of existing horror movie tropes. This was because it was easier to write stories off existing horror themes, and because it allowed audiences to relate more easily to the show. It also allowed the writers to update existing horror stories for a modern audience, to show off their imaginations and excite audiences. Examples include the Invisible Man ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight"), mummies ("Inca Mummy Girl"), the Creature from the Black Lagoon ("Go Fish"), the Wolf Man ("Phases"), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("Beauty and the Beasts"), and the Frankenstein monster. Which early episode was an update of Frankenstein?
a) "Some Assembly Required"
b) "I, Robot... You, Jane."
c) "Ted"
d) "School Hard"
14) In the Buffyverse, what is it about vampires and Halloween?
a) They love it! It's like their Christmas and Fourth of July and birthday rolled into one.
b) They hate it as a silly, commercial, made-up, crass holiday.
c) Eh, just another boring night.
d) It's a religious holiday for them, one spent in quiet contemplation of evil.
15) Spike was intended by Joss Whedon to be a four-episode character who is killed off, but audience response was so overwhelmingly positive that he wasn't dusted. In fact, Spike became a major recurring character, then a regular. In time, he became Buffy's friend, lover, and savior. Spike was introduced...when?
a) In the Second Season episode "School Hard."
b) In the Season Three episode "Dead Man's Party."
c) In the Season Three finale "Graduation Day."
d) In the Season Four episode "The Harsh Light of Day."
16) As a demonic vampire, Angel was hardly angelic: He murdered Drusilla's family, drive Drusilla insane, and then bit her. On Valetine's Day, he also once nailed a puppy to a -- never mind. Spike was a meek, effeminate aspiring poet living in the 1880s who was sired by Drusilla. He turned his own mother into a vampire to save her from dying from tuberculosis, and then staked her because she taunted him about his incestuous lust for her. He killed two Slayers (one during the Boxer Rebellion in China, another in New York City in the early 1980s). But Spike got his nickname from...?
a) His incessant lust (use your imagination).
b) His blond-dyed hair.
c) His love of vampirism (it's a reference to his teeth being extra-long and spiky).
d) He loved to torture people with railroad spikes. (It's an idea he got because people said they'd rather have a spike in the head than listen to his poetry.)
17) In the Season Two episode "Halloween," audiences first meet Ethan Rayne, one of Giles' old friends. Rayne reappears later that season in the episode "The Dark Age", where his past as a warlock is revealed in greater depth; in Season Three in the episode "Band Candy" as the maker of cursed chocolate; in the Season Four episode "A New Man," where he warns Giles about The Initiative's experiments with demons and technology. Rayne also reveals something about Giles' past. What is it?
a) Giles was once a warlock, too, experimenting with demon possession.
b) Giles is a bisexual, and they once were lovers.
c) Giles really isn't English, but just affects the accent.
d) Giles was kicked out of the Watchers Council for refusing to train Kendra the Vampire Slayer.
18) The Irish wastrel Angelus was turned into a vampire in 1753. But after killing a Gypsy woman, he was cursed and his soul restored (to cause him to feel eternal remorse) in 1898. A two-part episode, "Surprise" and "Innocence," forms the middle of Season Two. At the end of "Surprise," Buffy makes love to Angel for the first time. Because Angel feels a moment of pure contentment and happiness, the curse on him....?
a) Is lifted, and he reverts back to being a psychotic vampire.
b) Becomes permanent, and can never be lifted.
c) Is transferred to the nearest vampire, which happens to be Spike. This is how Spike gets his soul back, too.
d) Nothing! Nothing happens! The curse is lifted because of black magic used by the demon Acathla.
19) Xander frequently refers to Buffy and her friends as the "Scooby Gang," a reference to the cartoon mystery series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and its many sequels. Many fans believe this was part of the show from the very beginning, but it wasn't. Xander first uses this phrase:
a) In the middle of Season Two.
b) In the middle of Season Three.
c) At the end of Season Three.
d) At the beginning of Season Four.
20) Angel reverts to his psychotic Angelus form during the series. This forms a story arc most fans remember as being the high point of the series, and creates the legendary "Buffy and Angel" love story. How many episodes did "psycho Angelus" last on the show?
a) Only nine -- just half a season!
b) Nineteen -- Half of Season Two and almost all of Season Three.
c) Twenty-two -- a full season (Season Three).
d) Trick question! As you know from above, Angel never lost his soul!
21) Much of Season Two is spent looking at the love story between Giles and Jenny Calendar. Jenny dies in the Season Two episode "Passion." Who kills her?
a) Buffy.
b) Oz.
c) Angel.
d) Drusilla.
22) Anyanka the Vengeance Demon makes her first appearance in the Season Three episode "The Wish." Cordelia Chase and Xander Harris have been lusting for one another for two and a half years now, exhibiting their first love-hate attraction in "Inca Mummy Girl," kissing and dating in "What's My Line?", and breaking up in "Lovers Walk." They broke up once before in ""Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," where Xander retaliates by asking Amy the Witch to cast a love spell (which backfires). In "The Wish," Cordelia retaliates by asking for a wish to be granted. What is is, and what happens?
a) She asks for Xander never to have been born, and this changes the world so that Willow is the Vampire Slayer.
b) She asks for Xander to be in love with her. This leaves her unemployed, fat, pregnant, and married to Xander after high school while they live in a trailer.
c) She asks that Buffy never come to Sunnydale. An alternate universe is created in which Cordelia dies early, Xander and Willow are vampires, and Buffy lives in Cleveland.
d) She asks for powers of her own. She gets the psychic ability to see when others are in need, but it leaves her with intense migraines.
23) Buffy's three great loves during the show are Angel, Riley Finn, and Spike. But she also dates a boy named Owen in the first season, a boy named Scott in the third, and a college fratboy named Parker in the fourth. The first two are attracted to her secret, thrilling lifestyle. Buffy dumps Owen because she realizes he doesn't like her (just her adventures). Scott breaks up with Buffy after being traumatized by the death of two friends in the Season Three episode "Beauty and the Beasts." He indicates Buffy's adventures are very upsetting (the opposite of Owen's response). Parker dumps Buffy, revealing that he was just a womanizer. In Season Seven, Buffy tells us what happens to Scott. What does she say?
a) He died during the episode "Graduation Day" (he's one of the students eaten by the demonic form of Mayor Wilkins).
b) He became part of The Initiative, and was killed when the cyborg demon Adam went wild.
c) He married some girl, and Buffy discovered that he's married with children and quietly settled down. (She even secretly envies him.)
d) He came out gay.
24) The new Slayer, Faith, joins the show near the start of Season Four, as does a new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The role Faith plays on the show is:
a) What a Slayer is like when she strictly follows Watcher Council guidelines.
b) Someone who gives Buffy hope that Slayers can lead normal lives.
c) What a Slayer is like when they never, ever have a Watcher.
d) What Buffy "could have been" without Giles and the support of her friends.
25) During the Sixth Season, The Trio becomes a minor story arc. The Trio are three super-geeky nerds who form a super-villain club to try to kill Buffy so that they can take over Sunnydale. One of them is Jonathan Levinson, who made his first appearance in the series premiere ("Welcome to the Hellmouth") and who Buffy saved from suicide in the third season ("Earshot"). The second is Warren Mears, a robotics genius who creates a sex-bot for himself in Season Five ("I Was Made to Love You") and later helps build a Buffybot for Spike. The final member is Andrew Wells, an effeminate, timid gay boy dabbling in magic who lusts for Warren and fights for Warren's favors with the hetersoexual Jonathan. But Andrew wasn't a major player in the first episode in which he's mentioned. Where is Andrew first mentioned?
a) It's his older brother, Tucker Wells, who unleashes hellhounds on Buffy's senior prom.
b) He's seen in the background in Warren's lab, pining for Warren, in "I Was Made to Love You."
c) He was seen hanging around Jonathan Levinson in the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
d) He was the cloaked warlock who pretended to steal Angel's soul (so Buffy and Giles could deceive Faith and Mayor Wilkins) in the Season Three episode "Choices."
26) Just before Season Four started filming, Seth Green (the werewolf character "Daniel 'Oz' Osborne") announced he was quitting the series in order to have a movie career. Green's decision shocked everyone, including Joss Whedon, becaused they'd just added Green as a permanent cast member the previous year and Whedon had planned a whole year's worth of subplot designed to explore his relationship with Willow. On the show, they explained Green's sudden departure how?
a) Oz falls in love with another werewolf, Veruca, and then leaves Sunnydale after she dies.
b) Oz is kidnapped by the U.S. government.
c) Oz has a religious conversion to Buddhism, and flees to Tibet.
d) Willow comes out as a lesbian, and Oz flees town -- brokenhearted.
27) Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated just once for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode which garnered this honor was:
a) The series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
b) The Second Season episode "Innocence," which depicts the aftermath of Buffy's decision to have sex with Angel (also the show's highest-rated episode ever).
c) The Season Four episode "Hush," in which everyone in town loses their voice (it has just 17 minutes of dialogue).
d) The Season Five finale "The Gift," in which Glorificus is stopped from destroying the world.
28) Characters on the show discover in Season Two that there is indeed a "Slayer's Manual." Is there also a "Slayer's Weapon"?
a) Yes - It's the Slayer's Scythe.
b) No - Although Willow does cast a spell that turns Olaf the Troll's hammer into a magical weapon.
29) In Season Six, Willow and Tara are shown making love. Tara literally floats off the bed as Willow performs cunnilignus (off-screen) on her. Spike and Buffy also have a sexual relationship. Their passion is depicted by:
a) The house shaking and falling apart around them.
b) Bells pealing.
c) A flower opening.
d) A train going into a tunnel, its whistle screaming.
30) What happens to Sunnydale at the end of the show?
a) Nothing.
b) The Hellmouth is sealed, but the town survives.
c) It becomes a ghost town, abandoned but still there.
d) It collapses into the Hellmouth, and is destroyed -- leaving only a huge crater behind.
Ready? Set? Go!
1) In the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth," Buffy Summers meets Rupert Giles, the school librarian and her Watcher.
a) True - And to top it off, Buffy hates him.
b) False - Giles is introduced in this episode, but Buffy does not meet him until the secon episode, "The Harvest."
2) In the series premiere, Buffy also meets her first true love -- the vampire-with-a-soul, Angel.
a) True - But she doesn't learn his name until the seventh episode, Angel.
b) False - Angel doesn't appear until the seventh episode, "Angel."
3) Throughout the series, Buffy meets with Giles and her friends in the school library, trains as a warrior in the school library, and uses the library as a base. Everyone knows they won't get interrupted there. Why is that?
a) A binding spell has been put on the library door, keeping out unwanted intruders.
b) Giles physically locks the doors and covers the windows.
c) Geez, everyone knows that in the modern day and age, no one uses a physical library any more!
d) It's really a secret library, with the real library somewhere else in the school.
4) In the Season One episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date," Giles says there is no instruction manual for being a Slayer. Is his statement true or false?
a) True - That's why they have Watchers.
b) False - Buffy learns in the Season Two episode, "What's My Line, Part 2," that there is a manual. But Giles felt it would do Buffy no good.
5) Principal Flutie is the principal of Sunnydale High School when Buffy arrives there. He has a low opinion of Buffy, since she burned down the gym at her old high school in Los Angeles. He also seems to recognize that she did so "because it was full of vamp -- uh, asbestos." Principal Flutie is replaced by Principal Snyder. Why?
a) He knew too much, so the school board replaced him.
b) He was eaten alive by students who were possessed by hyena-spirits.
c) He fled town after being threatened by Buffy and vampires.
d) He got sucked into the Hellmouth while practicing black magic.
6) The vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, was once a minor Irish nobleman who was a cruel, over-sexed, vindictive, mean drunkard who spent his time whoring, drinking, and carousing. He was turned into a vampire by Darla, and later "sired" both Spike and Drusilla. But what happened to Angel's family?
a) Vampires got 'em!
b) They were killed when their mansion fell into the sea during a demonic attack.
c) They disowned him, and he has no idea where their descendants are.
d) His parents died a natural death, and he still sees his sister's descendants on occasion (helping with small gifts of money).
7) Does everyone know that Angel has a soul and won't feed on human beings any more?
a) Yes - Duh, that's the whole point of the show!
b) Not really - Most vampires and demons know it, but the Watchers were unaware of Angel's transformation. (That changes during the course of the show.)
c) Almost - Giles didn't know, because he'd been sanctioned by the Watcher Council and had not had access to the most current records.
d) No - Almost no one knows this.
8) Buffy's father is alive and well and living in Los Angeles.
a) Yes - And he actually appears from time to time in very minor roles through the early part of the show.
b) No - He's dead, killed by vampires.
c) No - As in the film Miracle on 34th Street, he's alive but living in France.
d) Yes - Yes, but he is in prison for having murdered a man (he thought he was a vampire).
9) No one in the series believes in the paranomal except for Buffy, the Watchers, and her friends.
a) True - Everyone else in the world is in intense denial.
b) False - We learn in the Season One episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" that the U.S. government is exploting the paranormal for its own purposes.
10) Show creator Joss Whedon decided early on that the first season should have a season-long "story arc" involving the powerful vampire known as The Master. This was intended to keep viewers interested in the show the entire season, boosting ratings. How many "Buffy" seasons had story arcs like this?
a) Every single season had one.
b) Every single season except Season Six had one. (Season Six was broken into bits involving Anya being a demon again, Dawn's kleptomania, the lesbian witch Tara, the nerdy Trio, and more.)
c) Just Season One (The Master), Two (Angel), Three (Faith), and Four (the Initiative).
d) Just Season One (The Master) and Five (Glorificus).
11) How many times does Buffy die (if at all) during the series?
a) She never dies. She's the star of the show!
b) Once, while saving the world from Glorificus.
c) Twice, at The Master's hand and while saving the world from Glorificus.
d) Three times: at The Master's hand, while saving the world from Glorificus, and at the hand of the First Evil.
12) Buffy goes through a traumatic nervous breakdown in the Season Two premiere, "When She Was Bad." Her confrontation with The Master has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, causing numerous problems for her. Does this happen again?
a) No. Buffy learns her lesson.
b) Yes, when The Master is resurrected by the little boy's dream-world and The Master turns her into a vampire.
c) Yes, it is a recurring theme at the start of each season.
d) Yes, after Buffy kills Angel (she runs off to Los Angeles but returns at the start of Season Three).
13) Early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were often pastiches of existing horror movie tropes. This was because it was easier to write stories off existing horror themes, and because it allowed audiences to relate more easily to the show. It also allowed the writers to update existing horror stories for a modern audience, to show off their imaginations and excite audiences. Examples include the Invisible Man ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight"), mummies ("Inca Mummy Girl"), the Creature from the Black Lagoon ("Go Fish"), the Wolf Man ("Phases"), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("Beauty and the Beasts"), and the Frankenstein monster. Which early episode was an update of Frankenstein?
a) "Some Assembly Required"
b) "I, Robot... You, Jane."
c) "Ted"
d) "School Hard"
14) In the Buffyverse, what is it about vampires and Halloween?
a) They love it! It's like their Christmas and Fourth of July and birthday rolled into one.
b) They hate it as a silly, commercial, made-up, crass holiday.
c) Eh, just another boring night.
d) It's a religious holiday for them, one spent in quiet contemplation of evil.
15) Spike was intended by Joss Whedon to be a four-episode character who is killed off, but audience response was so overwhelmingly positive that he wasn't dusted. In fact, Spike became a major recurring character, then a regular. In time, he became Buffy's friend, lover, and savior. Spike was introduced...when?
a) In the Second Season episode "School Hard."
b) In the Season Three episode "Dead Man's Party."
c) In the Season Three finale "Graduation Day."
d) In the Fourth Season episode "The Harsh Light of Day."
16) As a demonic vampire, Angel was hardly angelic: He murdered Drusilla's family, drive Drusilla insane, and then bit her. On Valetine's Day, he also once nailed a puppy to a -- never mind. Spike was a meek, effeminate aspiring poet living in the 1880s who was sired by Drusilla. He turned his own mother into a vampire to save her from dying from tuberculosis, and then staked her because she taunted him about his incestuous lust for her. He killed two Slayers (one during the Boxer Rebellion in China, another in New York City in the early 1980s). But Spike got his nickname from...?
a) His incessant lust (use your imagination).
b) His blond-dyed hair.
c) His love of vampirism (it's a reference to his teeth being extra-long and spiky).
d) He loved to torture people with railroad spikes.
17) In the Season Two episode "Halloween," audiences first meet Ethan Rayne, one of Giles' old friends. Rayne reappears later that season in the episode "The Dark Age", where his past as a warlock is revealed in greater depth; in Season Three in the episode "Band Candy" as the maker of cursed chocolate; in the Season Four episode "A New Man," where he warns Giles about The Initiative's experiments with demons and technology. Rayne also reveals something about Giles' past. What is it?
a) Giles was once a warlock, too, experimenting with demon possession.
b) Giles is a bisexual, and they once were lovers.
c) Giles really isn't English, but just affects the accent.
d) Giles was kicked out of the Watchers Council for refusing to train Kendra the Vampire Slayer.
18) The Irish wastrel Angelus was turned into a vampire in 1753. But after killing a Gypsy woman, he was cursed and his soul restored (to cause him to feel eternal remorse) in 1898. A two-part episode, "Surprise" and "Innocence," forms the middle of Season Two. At the end of "Surprise," Buffy makes love to Angel for the first time. Because Angel feels a moment of pure contentment and happiness, the curse on him....?
a) Is lifted, and he reverts back to being a psychotic vampire.
b) Becomes permanent, and can never be lifted.
c) Is transferred to the nearest vampire, which happens to be Spike. This is how Spike gets his soul back, too.
d) Nothing! Nothing happens! The curse is lifted because of black magic used by the demon Acathla.
19) Xander frequently refers to Buffy and her friends as the "Scooby Gang," a reference to the cartoon mystery series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and its many sequels. Many fans believe this was part of the show from the very beginning, but it wasn't. Xander first uses this phrase:
a) In the middle of Season Two.
b) In the middle of Season Three.
c) At the end of Season Three.
d) At the beginning of Season Four.
20) Angel reverts to his psychotic Angelus form during the series. This forms a story arc most fans remember as being the high point of the series, and creates the legendary "Buffy and Angel" love story. How many episodes did "psycho Angelus" last on the show?
a) Only nine -- just half a season!
b) Nineteen -- Half of Season Two and almost all of Season Three.
c) Twenty-two -- a full season (Season Three).
d) Trick question! As you know from above, Angel nevere lost his soul!
21) Much of Season Two is spent looking at the love story between Giles and Jenny Calendar. Jenny dies in the Season Two episode "Passion." Who kills her?
a) Buffy.
b) Oz.
c) Angel.
d) Drusilla.
22) Anyanka the Vengeance Demon makes her first appearance in the Season Three episode "The Wish." Cordelia Chase and Xander Harris have been lusting for one another for two and a half years now, exhibiting their first love-hate attraction in "Inca Mummy Girl," kissing and dating in "What's My Line?", and breaking up in "Lovers Walk." They broke up once before in ""Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," where Xander retaliates by asking Amy the Witch to cast a love spell (which backfires). In "The Wish," Cordelia retaliates by asking for a wish to be granted. What is is, and what happens?
a) She asks for Xander never to have been born, and this changes the world so that Willow is the Vampire Slayer.
b) She asks for Xander to be in love with her. This leaves her unemployed, fat, pregnant, and married to Xander after high school while they live in a trailer.
c) She asks that Buffy never come to Sunnydale. An alternate universe is created in which Cordelia dies early, Xander and Willow are vampires, and Buffy lives in Cleveland.
d) She asks for powers of her own. She gets the psychic ability to see when others are in need, but it leaves her with intense migraines.
23) Buffy's three great loves during the show are Angel, Riley Finn, and Spike. But she also dates a boy named Owen in the first season, a boy named Scott in the third, and a college fratboy named Parker in the fourth. The first two are attracted to her secret, thrilling lifestyle. Buffy dumps Owen because she realizes he doesn't like her (just her adventures). Scott breaks up with Buffy after being traumatized by the death of two friends in the Season Three episode "Beauty and the Beasts." He indicates Buffy's adventures are very upsetting (the opposite of Owen's response). Parker dumps Buffy, revealing that he was just a womanizer. In Season Seven, Buffy tells us what happens to Scott. What does she say?
a) He died during the episode "Graduation Day" (he's one of the students eaten by the demonic form of Mayor Wilkins).
b) He became part of The Initiative, and was killed when the cyborg demon Adam went wild.
c) He married some girl, and Buffy discovered that he's married with children and quietly settled down. (She even secretly envies him.)
d) He came out gay.
24) The new Slayer, Faith, joins the show near the start of Season Four, as does a new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The role Faith plays on the show is:
a) What a Slayer is like when she strictly follows Watcher Council guidelines.
b) Someone who gives Buffy hope that Slayers can lead normal lives.
c) What a Slayer is like when they never, ever have a Watcher.
d) What Buffy "could have been" without Giles and the support of her friends.
25) During the Sixth Season, The Trio becomes a minor story arc. The Trio are three super-geeky nerds who form a super-villain club to try to kill Buffy so that they can take over Sunnydale. One of them is Jonathan Levinson, who made his first appearance in the series premiere ("Welcome to the Hellmouth") and who Buffy saved from suicide in the third season ("Earshot"). The second is Warren Mears, a robotics genius who creates a sex-bot for himself in Season Five ("I Was Made to Love You") and later helps build a Buffybot for Spike. The final member is Andrew Wells, an effeminate, timid gay boy dabbling in magic who lusts for Warren and fights for Warren's favors with the hetersoexual Jonathan. But Andrew wasn't a major player in the first episode in which he's mentioned. Where is Andrew first mentioned?
a) It's his older brother, Tucker Wells, who unleashes hellhounds on Buffy's senior prom.
b) He's seen in the background in Warren's lab, pining for Warren, in "I Was Made to Love You."
c) He was seen hanging around Jonathan Levinson in the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
d) He was the cloaked warlock who pretended to steal Angel's soul (so Buffy and Giles could deceive Faith and Mayor Wilkins) in the Season Three episode "Choices."
26) Just before Season Four started filming, Seth Green (the werewolf character "Daniel 'Oz' Osborne") announced he was quitting the series in order to have a movie career. Green's decision shocked everyone, including Joss Whedon, becaused they'd just added Green as a permanent cast member the previous year and Whedon had planned a whole year's worth of subplot designed to explore his relationship with Willow. On the show, they explained Green's sudden departure how?
a) Oz falls in love with another werewolf, Veruca, and then leaves Sunnydale after she dies.
b) Oz is kidnapped by the U.S. government.
c) Oz has a religious conversion to Buddhism, and flees to Tibet.
d) Willow comes out as a lesbian, and Oz flees town -- brokenhearted.
27) Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated just once for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode which garnered this honor was:
a) The series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
b) The Second Season episode "Innocence," which depicts the aftermath of Buffy's decision to have sex with Angel (also the show's highest-rated episode ever).
c) The Season Four episode "Hush," in which everyone in town loses their voice (it has just 17 minutes of dialogue).
d) The Season Five finale "The Gift," in which Glorificus is stopped from destroying the world.
28) Characters on the show discover in Season Two that there is indeed a "Slayer's Manual." Is there also a "Slayer's Weapon"?
a) Yes - It's the Slayer's Scythe.
b) No - Although Willow does cast a spell that turns Olaf the Troll's hammer into a magical weapon.
29) In Season Six, Willow and Tara are shown making love. Tara literally floats off the bed as Willow performs cunnilignus (off-screen) on her. Spike and Buffy also have a sexual relationship. Their passion is depicted by:
a) The house shaking and falling apart around them.
b) Bells pealing.
c) A flower opening.
d) A train going into a tunnel, its whistle screaming.
30) What happens to Sunnydale at the end of the show?
a) Nothing.
b) The Hellmouth is sealed, but the town survives.
c) It becomes a ghost town, abandoned but still there.
d) It collapses into the Hellmouth, and is destroyed -- leaving only a huge crater behind.
Answers are in bold...
1) In the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth," Buffy Summers meets Rupert Giles, the school librarian and her Watcher.
a) True - And to top it off, Buffy hates him.
b) False - Giles is introduced in this episode, but Buffy does not meet him until the secon episode, "The Harvest."
2) In the series premiere, Buffy also meets her first true love -- the vampire-with-a-soul, Angel.
a) True - But she doesn't learn his name until the seventh episode, Angel.
b) False - Angel doesn't appear until the seventh episode, "Angel."
3) Throughout the series, Buffy meets with Giles and her friends in the school library, trains as a warrior in the school library, and uses the library as a base. Everyone knows they won't get interrupted there. Why is that?
a) A binding spell has been put on the library door, keeping out unwanted intruders.
b) Giles physically locks the doors and covers the windows.
c) Geez, everyone knows that in the modern day and age, no one uses a physical library any more!
d) It's really a secret library, with the real library somewhere else in the school.
4) In the Season One episode "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date," Giles says there is no instruction manual for being a Slayer. Is his statement true or false?
a) True - That's why they have Watchers.
b) False - Buffy learns in the Season Two episode, "What's My Line, Part 2," that there is a manual. But Giles felt it would do Buffy no good.
5) Principal Flutie is the principal of Sunnydale High School when Buffy arrives there. He has a low opinion of Buffy, since she burned down the gym at her old high school in Los Angeles. He also seems to recognize that she did so "because it was full of vamp -- uh, asbestos." Principal Flutie is replaced by Principal Snyder. Why?
a) He knew too much, so the school board replaced him.
b) He was eaten alive by students who were possessed by hyena-spirits.
c) He fled town after being threatened by Buffy and vampires.
d) He got sucked into the Hellmouth while practicing black magic.
6) The vampire-with-a-soul, Angel, was once a minor Irish nobleman who was a cruel, over-sexed, vindictive, mean drunkard who spent his time whoring, drinking, and carousing. He was turned into a vampire by Darla, and later "sired" both Spike and Drusilla. But what happened to Angel's family?
a) Vampires got 'em!
b) They were killed when their mansion fell into the sea during a demonic attack.
c) They disowned him, and he has no idea where their descendants are.
d) His parents died a natural death, and he still sees his sister's descendants on occasion (helping with small gifts of money).
7) Does everyone know that Angel has a soul and won't feed on human beings any more?
a) Yes - Duh, that's the whole point of the show!
b) Not really - Most vampires and demons know it, but the Watchers were unaware of Angel's transformation. (That changes during the course of the show.)
c) Almost - Giles didn't know, because he'd been sanctioned by the Watcher Council and had not had access to the most current records.
d) No - Almost no one knows this.
8) Buffy's father is alive and well and living in Los Angeles.
a) Yes - And he actually appears from time to time in very minor roles through the early part of the show.
b) No - He's dead, killed by vampires.
c) No - As in the film Miracle on 34th Street, he's alive but living in France.
d) Yes - Yes, but he is in prison for having murdered a man (he thought he was a vampire).
9) No one in the series believes in the paranomal except for Buffy, the Watchers, and her friends.
a) True - Everyone else in the world is in intense denial.
b) False - We learn in the Season One episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" that the U.S. government is exploting the paranormal for its own purposes.
10) Show creator Joss Whedon decided early on that the first season should have a season-long "story arc" involving the powerful vampire known as The Master. This was intended to keep viewers interested in the show the entire season, boosting ratings. How many "Buffy" seasons had story arcs like this?
a) Every single season had one.
b) Every single season except Season Six had one. (Season Six was broken into bits involving Anya being a demon again, Dawn's kleptomania, the lesbian witch Tara, the nerdy Trio, and more.)
c) Just Season One (The Master), Two (Angel), Three (Faith), and Four (the Initiative).
d) Just Season One (The Master) and Five (Glorificus).
11) How many times does Buffy die (if at all) during the series?
a) She never dies. She's the star of the show!
b) Once, while saving the world from Glorificus.
c) Twice, at The Master's hand and while saving the world from Glorificus.
d) Three times: at The Master's hand, while saving the world from Glorificus, and at the hand of the First Evil.
12) Buffy goes through a traumatic nervous breakdown in the Season Two premiere, "When She Was Bad." Her confrontation with The Master has left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, causing numerous problems for her. Does this happen again?
a) No. Buffy learns her lesson.
b) Yes, when The Master is resurrected by the little boy's dream-world and The Master turns her into a vampire.
c) Yes, it is a recurring theme at the start of each season.
d) Yes, after Buffy kills Angel (she runs off to Los Angeles but returns at the start of Season Three).
13) Early episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were often pastiches of existing horror movie tropes. This was because it was easier to write stories off existing horror themes, and because it allowed audiences to relate more easily to the show. It also allowed the writers to update existing horror stories for a modern audience, to show off their imaginations and excite audiences. Examples include the Invisible Man ("Out of Mind, Out of Sight"), mummies ("Inca Mummy Girl"), the Creature from the Black Lagoon ("Go Fish"), the Wolf Man ("Phases"), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("Beauty and the Beasts"), and the Frankenstein monster. Which early episode was an update of Frankenstein?
a) "Some Assembly Required"
b) "I, Robot... You, Jane."
c) "Ted"
d) "School Hard"
14) In the Buffyverse, what is it about vampires and Halloween?
a) They love it! It's like their Christmas and Fourth of July and birthday rolled into one.
b) They hate it as a silly, commercial, made-up, crass holiday.
c) Eh, just another boring night.
d) It's a religious holiday for them, one spent in quiet contemplation of evil.
15) Spike was intended by Joss Whedon to be a four-episode character who is killed off, but audience response was so overwhelmingly positive that he wasn't dusted. In fact, Spike became a major recurring character, then a regular. In time, he became Buffy's friend, lover, and savior. Spike was introduced...when?
a) In the Second Season episode "School Hard."
b) In the Season Three episode "Dead Man's Party."
c) In the Season Three finale "Graduation Day."
d) In the Season Four episode "The Harsh Light of Day."
16) As a demonic vampire, Angel was hardly angelic: He murdered Drusilla's family, drive Drusilla insane, and then bit her. On Valetine's Day, he also once nailed a puppy to a -- never mind. Spike was a meek, effeminate aspiring poet living in the 1880s who was sired by Drusilla. He turned his own mother into a vampire to save her from dying from tuberculosis, and then staked her because she taunted him about his incestuous lust for her. He killed two Slayers (one during the Boxer Rebellion in China, another in New York City in the early 1980s). But Spike got his nickname from...?
a) His incessant lust (use your imagination).
b) His blond-dyed hair.
c) His love of vampirism (it's a reference to his teeth being extra-long and spiky).
d) He loved to torture people with railroad spikes. (It's an idea he got because people said they'd rather have a spike in the head than listen to his poetry.)
17) In the Season Two episode "Halloween," audiences first meet Ethan Rayne, one of Giles' old friends. Rayne reappears later that season in the episode "The Dark Age", where his past as a warlock is revealed in greater depth; in Season Three in the episode "Band Candy" as the maker of cursed chocolate; in the Season Four episode "A New Man," where he warns Giles about The Initiative's experiments with demons and technology. Rayne also reveals something about Giles' past. What is it?
a) Giles was once a warlock, too, experimenting with demon possession.
b) Giles is a bisexual, and they once were lovers.
c) Giles really isn't English, but just affects the accent.
d) Giles was kicked out of the Watchers Council for refusing to train Kendra the Vampire Slayer.
18) The Irish wastrel Angelus was turned into a vampire in 1753. But after killing a Gypsy woman, he was cursed and his soul restored (to cause him to feel eternal remorse) in 1898. A two-part episode, "Surprise" and "Innocence," forms the middle of Season Two. At the end of "Surprise," Buffy makes love to Angel for the first time. Because Angel feels a moment of pure contentment and happiness, the curse on him....?
a) Is lifted, and he reverts back to being a psychotic vampire.
b) Becomes permanent, and can never be lifted.
c) Is transferred to the nearest vampire, which happens to be Spike. This is how Spike gets his soul back, too.
d) Nothing! Nothing happens! The curse is lifted because of black magic used by the demon Acathla.
19) Xander frequently refers to Buffy and her friends as the "Scooby Gang," a reference to the cartoon mystery series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and its many sequels. Many fans believe this was part of the show from the very beginning, but it wasn't. Xander first uses this phrase:
a) In the middle of Season Two.
b) In the middle of Season Three.
c) At the end of Season Three.
d) At the beginning of Season Four.
20) Angel reverts to his psychotic Angelus form during the series. This forms a story arc most fans remember as being the high point of the series, and creates the legendary "Buffy and Angel" love story. How many episodes did "psycho Angelus" last on the show?
a) Only nine -- just half a season!
b) Nineteen -- Half of Season Two and almost all of Season Three.
c) Twenty-two -- a full season (Season Three).
d) Trick question! As you know from above, Angel never lost his soul!
21) Much of Season Two is spent looking at the love story between Giles and Jenny Calendar. Jenny dies in the Season Two episode "Passion." Who kills her?
a) Buffy.
b) Oz.
c) Angel.
d) Drusilla.
22) Anyanka the Vengeance Demon makes her first appearance in the Season Three episode "The Wish." Cordelia Chase and Xander Harris have been lusting for one another for two and a half years now, exhibiting their first love-hate attraction in "Inca Mummy Girl," kissing and dating in "What's My Line?", and breaking up in "Lovers Walk." They broke up once before in ""Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," where Xander retaliates by asking Amy the Witch to cast a love spell (which backfires). In "The Wish," Cordelia retaliates by asking for a wish to be granted. What is is, and what happens?
a) She asks for Xander never to have been born, and this changes the world so that Willow is the Vampire Slayer.
b) She asks for Xander to be in love with her. This leaves her unemployed, fat, pregnant, and married to Xander after high school while they live in a trailer.
c) She asks that Buffy never come to Sunnydale. An alternate universe is created in which Cordelia dies early, Xander and Willow are vampires, and Buffy lives in Cleveland.
d) She asks for powers of her own. She gets the psychic ability to see when others are in need, but it leaves her with intense migraines.
23) Buffy's three great loves during the show are Angel, Riley Finn, and Spike. But she also dates a boy named Owen in the first season, a boy named Scott in the third, and a college fratboy named Parker in the fourth. The first two are attracted to her secret, thrilling lifestyle. Buffy dumps Owen because she realizes he doesn't like her (just her adventures). Scott breaks up with Buffy after being traumatized by the death of two friends in the Season Three episode "Beauty and the Beasts." He indicates Buffy's adventures are very upsetting (the opposite of Owen's response). Parker dumps Buffy, revealing that he was just a womanizer. In Season Seven, Buffy tells us what happens to Scott. What does she say?
a) He died during the episode "Graduation Day" (he's one of the students eaten by the demonic form of Mayor Wilkins).
b) He became part of The Initiative, and was killed when the cyborg demon Adam went wild.
c) He married some girl, and Buffy discovered that he's married with children and quietly settled down. (She even secretly envies him.)
d) He came out gay.
24) The new Slayer, Faith, joins the show near the start of Season Four, as does a new Watcher, Wesley Wyndham-Pryce. The role Faith plays on the show is:
a) What a Slayer is like when she strictly follows Watcher Council guidelines.
b) Someone who gives Buffy hope that Slayers can lead normal lives.
c) What a Slayer is like when they never, ever have a Watcher.
d) What Buffy "could have been" without Giles and the support of her friends.
25) During the Sixth Season, The Trio becomes a minor story arc. The Trio are three super-geeky nerds who form a super-villain club to try to kill Buffy so that they can take over Sunnydale. One of them is Jonathan Levinson, who made his first appearance in the series premiere ("Welcome to the Hellmouth") and who Buffy saved from suicide in the third season ("Earshot"). The second is Warren Mears, a robotics genius who creates a sex-bot for himself in Season Five ("I Was Made to Love You") and later helps build a Buffybot for Spike. The final member is Andrew Wells, an effeminate, timid gay boy dabbling in magic who lusts for Warren and fights for Warren's favors with the hetersoexual Jonathan. But Andrew wasn't a major player in the first episode in which he's mentioned. Where is Andrew first mentioned?
a) It's his older brother, Tucker Wells, who unleashes hellhounds on Buffy's senior prom.
b) He's seen in the background in Warren's lab, pining for Warren, in "I Was Made to Love You."
c) He was seen hanging around Jonathan Levinson in the series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
d) He was the cloaked warlock who pretended to steal Angel's soul (so Buffy and Giles could deceive Faith and Mayor Wilkins) in the Season Three episode "Choices."
26) Just before Season Four started filming, Seth Green (the werewolf character "Daniel 'Oz' Osborne") announced he was quitting the series in order to have a movie career. Green's decision shocked everyone, including Joss Whedon, becaused they'd just added Green as a permanent cast member the previous year and Whedon had planned a whole year's worth of subplot designed to explore his relationship with Willow. On the show, they explained Green's sudden departure how?
a) Oz falls in love with another werewolf, Veruca, and then leaves Sunnydale after she dies.
b) Oz is kidnapped by the U.S. government.
c) Oz has a religious conversion to Buddhism, and flees to Tibet.
d) Willow comes out as a lesbian, and Oz flees town -- brokenhearted.
27) Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated just once for an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. The episode which garnered this honor was:
a) The series premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth."
b) The Second Season episode "Innocence," which depicts the aftermath of Buffy's decision to have sex with Angel (also the show's highest-rated episode ever).
c) The Season Four episode "Hush," in which everyone in town loses their voice (it has just 17 minutes of dialogue).
d) The Season Five finale "The Gift," in which Glorificus is stopped from destroying the world.
28) Characters on the show discover in Season Two that there is indeed a "Slayer's Manual." Is there also a "Slayer's Weapon"?
a) Yes - It's the Slayer's Scythe.
b) No - Although Willow does cast a spell that turns Olaf the Troll's hammer into a magical weapon.
29) In Season Six, Willow and Tara are shown making love. Tara literally floats off the bed as Willow performs cunnilignus (off-screen) on her. Spike and Buffy also have a sexual relationship. Their passion is depicted by:
a) The house shaking and falling apart around them.
b) Bells pealing.
c) A flower opening.
d) A train going into a tunnel, its whistle screaming.
30) What happens to Sunnydale at the end of the show?
a) Nothing.
b) The Hellmouth is sealed, but the town survives.
c) It becomes a ghost town, abandoned but still there.
d) It collapses into the Hellmouth, and is destroyed -- leaving only a huge crater behind.