120 Better Call Saul Trivia Questions & Answers

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These Better Call Saul trivia questions cover all six seasons, with major spoilers through the series finale and labeled Breaking Bad crossovers.

Jimmy McGill Before Saul Goodman

Begin with the mailroom, the nail salon, and the choices that start Jimmy’s transformation.

1. What is Saul Goodman’s birth name?
   Answer: James Morgan McGill.
2. Who plays Jimmy McGill?
   Answer: Bob Odenkirk.
3. In which city does Jimmy build his legal career?
   Answer: Albuquerque, New Mexico.
4. What nickname followed Jimmy during his scam-filled Cicero years?
   Answer: Slippin’ Jimmy.
5. Where does Jimmy work after Chuck helps him leave Cicero?
   Answer: The HHM mailroom.
6. What law school does Jimmy attend by correspondence?
   Answer: The University of American Samoa.
7. What slogan does Jimmy enthusiastically attach to that school?
   Answer: “Go Land Crabs!”
8. Where is Jimmy’s first cramped law office located?
   Answer: In the back of a nail salon.
9. What kind of law brings Jimmy his first steady client base?
   Answer: Elder law.
10. Which retirement community becomes central to Jimmy’s class-action case?
    Answer: Sandpiper Crossing.
11. What professional name does Jimmy eventually adopt?
    Answer: Saul Goodman.
12. What phrase inspired the name Saul Goodman during his con-artist days?
    Answer: “S’all good, man.”
13. What business does Jimmy operate while his law license is suspended?
    Answer: A prepaid-cellphone business.
14. What nickname does Jimmy use while selling burner phones?
    Answer: Saul Goodman.
15. What wardrobe choice visually separates Saul Goodman from the more restrained Jimmy McGill?
    Answer: Loudly colored suits and ties.

Kim, Chuck, Howard, and HHM

The legal world gets personal fast when loyalty, pride, and sibling history share the conference room.

16. What is the name of Jimmy’s older brother?
    Answer: Charles “Chuck” McGill.
17. Who plays Chuck McGill?
    Answer: Michael McKean.
18. What prestigious law firm did Chuck co-found?
    Answer: Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill.
19. What condition does Chuck believe he has?
    Answer: Electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
20. What does Chuck wrap himself in when he fears electrical exposure?
    Answer: A space blanket lined with reflective material.
21. Who secretly blocks Jimmy from being hired as an HHM attorney?
    Answer: Chuck.
22. Who outwardly accepts Jimmy’s anger to protect Chuck’s secret decision?
    Answer: Howard Hamlin.
23. What is Kim Wexler’s profession?
    Answer: Attorney.
24. Who plays Kim Wexler?
    Answer: Rhea Seehorn.
25. Where did Kim first work alongside Jimmy?
    Answer: The HHM mailroom.
26. Which major banking client does Kim bring to HHM?
    Answer: Mesa Verde.
27. What solo practice does Kim pursue after leaving HHM?
    Answer: Business law, especially Mesa Verde work.
28. What kind of cases increasingly matter most to Kim?
    Answer: Pro bono criminal-defense cases.
29. Who is HHM’s polished managing partner?
    Answer: Howard Hamlin.
30. Who plays Howard Hamlin?
    Answer: Patrick Fabian.

Mike Ehrmantraut’s Long Road

This round follows Mike from a courthouse parking booth to Gus Fring’s most trusted fixer.

31. What former job did Mike Ehrmantraut hold in Philadelphia?
    Answer: Police officer.
32. Who plays Mike Ehrmantraut?
    Answer: Jonathan Banks.
33. What is Mike’s job when Jimmy first meets him?
    Answer: Parking-lot attendant at the courthouse.
34. What is the name of Mike’s deceased son?
    Answer: Matt Ehrmantraut.
35. What nickname did Mike use for his son?
    Answer: Matty.
36. Who are Mike’s daughter-in-law and granddaughter?
    Answer: Stacey and Kaylee Ehrmantraut.
37. Why does Mike feel responsible for Matty’s death?
    Answer: He persuaded Matty to take dirty money before corrupt officers killed him.
38. Which two Philadelphia officers does Mike kill in revenge?
    Answer: Jack Fensky and Troy Hoffman.
39. What veterinarian connects Mike with criminal jobs?
    Answer: Dr. Caldera.
40. What baseball-card collector hires Mike as protection?
    Answer: Daniel Wormald, also known as Pryce.
41. What bright vehicle does Pryce drive?
    Answer: A yellow Hummer H2.
42. What phrase does Mike use to distinguish morality from legality?
    Answer: He says there are good criminals and bad cops.
43. Who hires Mike to supervise construction of the underground lab?
    Answer: Gus Fring.
44. What is the name of the German engineer leading the lab crew?
    Answer: Werner Ziegler.
45. Why does Mike kill Werner?
    Answer: Werner escapes and risks exposing Gus’s secret project.

Nacho, Lalo, Gus, and the Cartel

Spoilers ahead as the Salamanca and Fring storylines tighten around everyone in their path.

46. Which Salamanca does Nacho secretly try to kill by switching medication?
    Answer: Hector Salamanca.
47. What does Nacho put inside Hector’s heart-medication capsules?
    Answer: Ibuprofen.
48. Who discovers that Nacho caused Hector’s stroke?
    Answer: Gus Fring.
49. What restaurant chain serves as Gus Fring’s legitimate front?
    Answer: Los Pollos Hermanos.
50. Who is Lalo Salamanca?
    Answer: Hector’s charismatic and dangerous nephew.
51. What name appears on Lalo’s forged bail identity?
    Answer: Jorge de Guzman.
52. Who travels into the desert to collect Lalo’s bail money?
    Answer: Jimmy McGill.
53. Who saves Jimmy from gunmen in the desert?
    Answer: Mike Ehrmantraut.
54. What object does Kim notice has a bullet hole after Jimmy returns from the desert?
    Answer: His “World’s 2nd Best Lawyer” travel mug.
55. Who orders the attack on Lalo’s compound?
    Answer: Gus Fring.
56. Who survives that attack and returns to Albuquerque?
    Answer: Lalo Salamanca.
57. How does Nacho die in season six?
    Answer: He takes his own life after confessing and confronting the cartel.
58. Whom does Nacho falsely blame for employing him against the Salamancas?
    Answer: Alvarez and the Peruvian gang.
59. Who kills Lalo beneath the unfinished superlab?
    Answer: Gus Fring.
60. Where are Lalo and Howard buried?
    Answer: Together beneath the future superlab.

Cons, Clients, and Courtroom Plays

Jimmy and Kim can turn a legal strategy into theater before anyone else spots the stage.

61. What kind of scam first brings Jimmy and the skateboard twins into Tuco’s orbit?
    Answer: A staged pedestrian accident.
62. What punishment does Tuco inflict on the twins after Jimmy negotiates?
    Answer: He breaks one leg on each twin.
63. What fake billboard rescue does Jimmy stage in season one?
    Answer: He saves a worker who pretends to fall from a billboard.
64. What flamboyant client embezzles county money with her husband?
    Answer: Betsy Kettleman, with her husband Craig.
65. Where do the Kettlemans hide after claiming they were kidnapped?
    Answer: In a tent in the hills behind their home.
66. What does Jimmy find in the Kettlemans’ tent?
    Answer: The stolen cash.
67. What commercial-production crew repeatedly helps Jimmy?
    Answer: A trio of UNM film students.
68. What elderly client is the public face of the Sandpiper case?
    Answer: Irene Landry.
69. How does Jimmy pressure Irene into settling?
    Answer: He manipulates her friends into shunning her.
70. How does Jimmy later repair Irene’s friendships?
    Answer: He deliberately lets the women overhear him admitting the manipulation.
71. What plan do Jimmy and Kim build around Howard in season six?
    Answer: A scheme to make him appear unstable and force the Sandpiper settlement.
72. Which judge does Jimmy impersonate in staged photographs?
    Answer: Mediator Rand Casimiro.
73. What drug does Jimmy obtain to make Howard’s pupils look dilated?
    Answer: A stimulant supplied through Dr. Caldera.
74. Who kills Howard in Kim and Jimmy’s apartment?
    Answer: Lalo Salamanca.
75. What does Kim do after Howard’s death?
    Answer: She quits the law and leaves Jimmy.

Episodes, Objects, and Visual Clues

Time to remember the coffee mugs, burner phones, black-and-white futures, and carefully chosen titles.

76. What keepsake does Marco leave Jimmy?
    Answer: A pinky ring.
77. What expensive liquor do Jimmy and Kim associate with their scams?
    Answer: Zafiro Añejo tequila.
78. What stopper tops the Zafiro Añejo bottle?
    Answer: A distinctive spiked metal cap.
79. What false identity do Jimmy and Kim use to con Ken at a bar?
    Answer: Viktor and Giselle.
80. What color dominates the Gene Takavic sequences?
    Answer: Black and white.
81. Where does Gene Takavic work?
    Answer: A Cinnabon in an Omaha shopping mall.
82. Which episode opens with Gene collapsing at work?
    Answer: Season three’s “Mabel.”
83. Where does the black-and-white opening of the series premiere find Gene at work?
    Answer: At a Cinnabon in Omaha.
84. What car does Jimmy drive for much of the series?
    Answer: A yellow 1998 Suzuki Esteem with one red door.
85. What personalized gift does Kim give Jimmy?
    Answer: A “World’s 2nd Best Lawyer” travel mug.
86. What does the episode title “Chicanery” refer to?
    Answer: Chuck’s furious accusation that Jimmy has made a mockery of the law.
87. Which episode shows Jimmy and Mike stranded in the desert?
    Answer: “Bagman.”
88. Which episode reveals the aftermath of Chuck’s recorded confession trap?
    Answer: “Witness.”
89. What do the first letters of season two’s episode titles spell when rearranged?
    Answer: “FRINGS BACK.”
90. What symbol is repeatedly tied to Kim and Jimmy’s relationship?
    Answer: The Zafiro Añejo bottle stopper.

Breaking Bad Crossovers, Clearly Labeled

Every question here identifies the crossover connection while keeping Better Call Saul at the center.

91. Breaking Bad crossover: Which fast-food executive becomes Mike’s employer?
    Answer: Gus Fring.
92. Breaking Bad crossover: Which Salamanca enforcer is already wheelchair-bound later in the timeline?
    Answer: Hector Salamanca.
93. Breaking Bad crossover: Which attorney’s office is first shown being remodeled in season six?
    Answer: Saul Goodman’s strip-mall office.
94. Breaking Bad crossover: Which chemistry teacher appears in the final-season episode “Breaking Bad”?
    Answer: Walter White.
95. Breaking Bad crossover: Which former student appears alongside Walter in that episode?
    Answer: Jesse Pinkman.
96. Breaking Bad crossover: Which Better Call Saul character meets Jesse outside Saul’s office?
    Answer: Kim Wexler.
97. Breaking Bad crossover: What question does Jesse ask Kim about Saul?
    Answer: Whether Saul is a good lawyer.
98. Breaking Bad crossover: Which vacuum-store operator arranges Saul’s disappearance?
    Answer: Ed Galbraith.
99. Breaking Bad crossover: What new identity does Saul receive in Nebraska?
    Answer: Gene Takavic.
100. Breaking Bad crossover: Which DEA agents appear in the final season?
     Answer: Hank Schrader and Steven Gomez.
101. Breaking Bad crossover: Which cartel cousins threaten Mike’s family?
     Answer: Leonel and Marco Salamanca.
102. Breaking Bad crossover: Which lawyer represents Krazy-8 after his arrest?
     Answer: Jimmy McGill, while building his Saul Goodman practice.
103. Breaking Bad crossover: Who suggests making Krazy-8 a DEA informant?
     Answer: Saul Goodman.
104. Breaking Bad crossover: Which criminal contact book does Saul eventually inherit?
     Answer: Dr. Caldera’s coded notebook.
105. Breaking Bad crossover: Which lab builder is never seen alive in Breaking Bad?
     Answer: Werner Ziegler.

Gene, Consequences, and “Saul Gone”

Full finale spoilers ahead for Omaha, Kim’s return, and Jimmy’s last courtroom decision.

106. What cab driver recognizes Gene as Saul Goodman?
     Answer: Jeff.
107. What department-store theft does Gene organize with Jeff and Buddy?
     Answer: A carefully timed robbery of luxury clothing.
108. Who is Jeff’s mother?
     Answer: Marion.
109. How does Marion discover Gene’s true identity?
     Answer: She searches Ask Jeeves for information about Saul Goodman.
110. Where is Gene hiding when police finally arrest him?
     Answer: Inside a dumpster.
111. What sentence does Saul initially negotiate after his arrest?
     Answer: Seven and a half years.
112. Why does Jimmy abandon that favorable plea deal?
     Answer: He chooses to confess fully in court, especially to reclaim honesty before Kim.
113. What name does he insist on using during his final confession?
     Answer: James McGill.
114. What does Jimmy admit about Chuck in court?
     Answer: He sabotaged Chuck’s insurance and believes he contributed to Chuck’s downfall.
115. What legal step has Kim already taken regarding Howard’s death?
     Answer: She submitted a sworn affidavit describing the scheme and the truth.
116. What sentence does Jimmy ultimately receive?
     Answer: Eighty-six years in federal prison.
117. What nickname do prisoners chant for Jimmy on the transport bus?
     Answer: “Better Call Saul.”
118. Where do Kim and Jimmy share one final cigarette?
     Answer: In the prison visitation room.
119. What familiar gesture does Jimmy give Kim as she leaves?
     Answer: Finger guns.
120. What is the title of the Better Call Saul series finale?
     Answer: “Saul Gone.”

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Sources and Further Reading

• AMC official Better Call Saul series overview
• AMC biography of Bob Odenkirk
• AMC biography of Rhea Seehorn
• AMC interview on the final-season Breaking Bad crossover
• Television Academy awards page for Better Call Saul