Into every generation, a Slayer is born, and apparently so is a trivia round. These 120 Buffy the Vampire Slayer questions cover Buffy, Willow, Xander, Giles, Angel, Spike, Cordelia, Anya, Dawn, Sunnydale, the Hellmouth, Big Bads, magic, heartbreak, musical demons, silent episodes, and seven seasons of saving the world. A lot.
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Buffy, Sunnydale & the Scooby Gang
Q: Who plays Buffy Summers?
A: Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Q: What supernatural role does Buffy hold?
A: Vampire Slayer.
Q: What California town does Buffy move to?
A: Sunnydale.
Q: What is hidden beneath Sunnydale?
A: A Hellmouth.
Q: What is a Hellmouth?
A: A supernatural convergence that attracts demons and evil forces.
Q: Who is Buffy's Watcher?
A: Rupert Giles.
Q: Who plays Giles?
A: Anthony Head.
Q: What job does Giles have at Sunnydale High initially?
A: Librarian.
Q: Who is Buffy's red-haired best friend?
A: Willow Rosenberg.
Q: Who plays Willow?
A: Alyson Hannigan.
Q: What supernatural skill does Willow develop?
A: Witchcraft.
Q: Who is Buffy's longtime male best friend?
A: Xander Harris.
Q: Who plays Xander?
A: Nicholas Brendon.
Q: What nickname is given to Buffy's core friend group?
A: Scooby Gang.
Q: What cartoon mystery team inspires that nickname?
A: Scooby-Doo.
Q: Who is Sunnydale High's sharp-tongued popular girl?
A: Cordelia Chase.
Q: Who plays Cordelia?
A: Charisma Carpenter.
Q: Who is Buffy's mother?
A: Joyce Summers.
Q: Who plays Joyce?
A: Kristine Sutherland.
Q: What is Buffy's younger sister's name?
A: Dawn Summers.
Q: Did Dawn appear in the early seasons?
A: No.
Q: Why does everyone remember Dawn as always existing?
A: Monks magically alter memories when transforming the Key into human form.
Q: What is Dawn really?
A: A mystical energy called the Key made human.
Q: Who plays Dawn?
A: Michelle Trachtenberg.
Q: What school mascot is Sunnydale High associated with?
A: Razorbacks.
Q: What happens to the first Sunnydale High at graduation?
A: It is destroyed during the battle with the Mayor.
Q: Where does Buffy attend college?
A: UC Sunnydale.
Q: What job does Buffy eventually take at a fast-food restaurant?
A: Doublemeat Palace employee.
Q: What job does Buffy later hold at rebuilt Sunnydale High?
A: School counselor.
Q: Why does the Scooby Gang matter?
A: Buffy repeatedly survives because friendship, research, magic, and ordinary human courage supplement Slayer power.
Angel, Spike, Vampires & Slayers
Q: Who is Buffy's first major vampire love?
A: Angel.
Q: Who plays Angel?
A: David Boreanaz.
Q: What makes Angel unusual among vampires?
A: He has a soul.
Q: How did Angel regain a soul?
A: A Romani curse.
Q: What happens if Angel experiences a moment of perfect happiness?
A: The curse breaks and he loses his soul.
Q: What is soulless Angel called?
A: Angelus.
Q: What event triggers Angelus's return?
A: Sleeping with Buffy and experiencing perfect happiness.
Q: Who restores Angel's soul?
A: Willow recasts the curse.
Q: What does Buffy have to do anyway at the end of Season 2?
A: Send the re-souled Angel to a hell dimension to stop Acathla.
Q: What spin-off follows Angel in Los Angeles?
A: Angel.
Q: Who is Spike?
A: A platinum-haired vampire who becomes enemy, ally, and complicated love interest.
Q: Who plays Spike?
A: James Marsters.
Q: What was Spike's human first name?
A: William.
Q: What insulting nickname describes his human poetry?
A: William the Bloody is linked jokingly with his bloody awful poetry before his vampire reputation.
Q: Who turns Spike into a vampire?
A: Drusilla.
Q: Who plays Drusilla?
A: Juliet Landau.
Q: What does the Initiative implant in Spike?
A: A behavior-modifying chip preventing him from harming humans without severe pain.
Q: Does the chip stop Spike from fighting demons?
A: No.
Q: What does Spike eventually seek deliberately?
A: His soul.
Q: What happens after he regains it?
A: He struggles with guilt and ultimately becomes crucial to the final battle.
Q: What is a Slayer in the show's mythology?
A: A chosen young woman given supernatural strength and abilities to fight vampires and demons.
Q: What traditionally happens when one Slayer dies?
A: Another is called.
Q: Who is called after Buffy's brief death in Season 1?
A: Kendra Young.
Q: Who kills Kendra?
A: Drusilla.
Q: Who is called after Kendra?
A: Faith Lehane.
Q: Who plays Faith?
A: Eliza Dushku.
Q: What happens between Buffy and Faith?
A: They move from allies to enemies and eventually back toward alliance.
Q: What accidental killing pushes Faith toward darkness?
A: She kills Deputy Mayor Allan Finch.
Q: Who becomes Faith's father-figure employer?
A: Mayor Richard Wilkins.
Q: What does the final spell change about Slayer succession?
A: Every potential Slayer in the world is activated.
Big Bads, Magic & Famous Episodes
Q: Who is the Big Bad of Season 1?
A: The Master.
Q: What happens when Buffy first faces him in the finale?
A: He kills her briefly by drowning.
Q: Who revives Buffy?
A: Xander performs CPR.
Q: What ancient demon does Angelus try to awaken?
A: Acathla.
Q: Who is Season 3's main villain?
A: Mayor Richard Wilkins.
Q: What does the Mayor want to become?
A: A giant pure demon through Ascension.
Q: What event does he choose for Ascension?
A: Sunnydale High graduation.
Q: What does the graduating class do?
A: Arms itself and fights back.
Q: Who is Season 4's Frankenstein-like villain?
A: Adam.
Q: Who creates Adam?
A: Professor Maggie Walsh and the Initiative.
Q: What is the Initiative?
A: Secret military project capturing and studying demons.
Q: Who is Buffy's Initiative-linked boyfriend?
A: Riley Finn.
Q: What Season 5 villain wants Dawn's Key energy?
A: Glory.
Q: What is Glory?
A: A god from a hell dimension trapped in human form.
Q: What does Buffy do in the Season 5 finale?
A: Sacrifices herself by jumping into the dimensional portal.
Q: How does Buffy return?
A: Willow and friends resurrect her with magic.
Q: Where was Buffy actually after death?
A: A peaceful heavenly dimension.
Q: Why does resurrection traumatize her?
A: She was pulled out of peace and returned to painful earthly life.
Q: Who becomes the main magical threat late in Season 6?
A: Dark Willow.
Q: What triggers Willow's transformation?
A: Tara's murder.
Q: Who kills Tara?
A: Warren Mears.
Q: What does Willow do to Warren?
A: Kills and magically flays him.
Q: Who stops Willow from ending the world?
A: Xander.
Q: How?
A: He stays with her, repeatedly tells her he loves her, and reaches the grieving Willow beneath the rage.
Q: What primordial evil is the main threat in Season 7?
A: The First Evil.
Q: Can the First touch physical objects normally?
A: No.
Q: What creatures serve the First?
A: Bringers and Turok-Han ubervamps, among others.
Q: What nearly silent episode features frightening floating gentlemen?
A: “Hush.”
Q: What do the Gentlemen steal?
A: People's voices.
Q: What musical episode forces people to sing their secrets?
A: “Once More, with Feeling.”
The Body, Finale & Hard Buffy Trivia
Q: What episode deals with Joyce Summers's death?
A: “The Body.”
Q: What kills Joyce?
A: Complications related to a brain aneurysm.
Q: Is Joyce killed by a supernatural monster?
A: No.
Q: Why is that important?
A: Buffy confronts an ordinary death she cannot fight with Slayer powers.
Q: What stylistic choice makes “The Body” unusual?
A: Almost no non-diegetic musical score.
Q: Who is Willow's first major boyfriend?
A: Oz.
Q: What supernatural creature is Oz?
A: Werewolf.
Q: Who plays Oz?
A: Seth Green.
Q: Who becomes Willow's great love?
A: Tara Maclay.
Q: Who plays Tara?
A: Amber Benson.
Q: Who does Xander nearly marry?
A: Anya Jenkins.
Q: What was Anya before becoming human?
A: Vengeance demon named Anyanka.
Q: Who plays Anya?
A: Emma Caulfield.
Q: What does Xander do at the wedding?
A: Leaves Anya at the altar.
Q: What happens to Anya in the series finale?
A: She dies fighting Bringers.
Q: What happens to Xander's eye in Season 7?
A: Caleb gouges one out.
Q: Who is Caleb?
A: A misogynistic preacher empowered by the First Evil.
Q: Who plays Caleb?
A: Nathan Fillion.
Q: What powerful weapon does Buffy find?
A: The Scythe.
Q: What does Willow use it to help do?
A: Activate all Potential Slayers.
Q: What does Spike wear in the final battle?
A: An amulet.
Q: What does the amulet do?
A: Channels power that destroys the Turok-Han army and collapses the Hellmouth.
Q: What happens to Spike?
A: He burns up while sacrificing himself.
Q: What happens to Sunnydale?
A: It collapses into a giant crater.
Q: What does Dawn ask Buffy at the end?
A: What are they going to do now?
Q: How does Buffy respond?
A: She smiles.
Q: Who created the television series?
A: Joss Whedon.
Q: How many seasons are there?
A: Seven.
Q: What network aired the first five seasons?
A: The WB.
Q: What network aired the final two?
A: UPN.
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