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  Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"   popular trivia quiz  
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 15 Qns
"Carnivàle" was a brilliant HBO series that mixed historical drama, fantasy, and horror. This quiz covers the entire show. You may forgo the admission fee and enter the tent.
Average, 15 Qns, Caseena, Feb 10 10
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  "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz on the first two seasons of the HBO drama "Carnivale". There are spoilers in this quiz.
Average, 10 Qns, Sarah606, Jul 25 05
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  HBO's "Carnivale" Season One    
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 10 Qns
The questions are based on information from the first season of Carnivale.
Average, 10 Qns, jlozado, Jul 25 05
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trivia question Quick Question
A big mystery in the series is Ben's father. What is his name?

From Quiz "HBO's "Carnivale" Season One"





Carnivale Trivia Questions
1. Who gives the opening monologue at the beginning of each season?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Samson

Right off the bat, Samson prepares us for a mystical journey.

2. Who turned out to be Ben's father?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Henry Scudder

Henry "Hack" Scudder was played by John Savage.

3. Who is the bearded woman?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: Lila

Lila's beard looks very real, a testament to great makeup artists. Ruthie is the snake charmer, Rita Sue is a stripper and Sofie reads tarot cards with the help of her mother.

4. What is the first thing that Justin does in the series (not in the chronology of his life) that demonstrates his powers?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: He makes a women vomit coins

He has no control over this event and tries to stop it. Originally Justin was in control of the situation, having been developing his powers for years, and enjoyed making Eleanor think she was vomiting coins. However, the creators decided to push his career back by a couple of years to give Justin time to grow as a character and altered this scene accordingly. Ben's first act in the series is healing the lame girl (though he brought a kitten back to life when he was very young).

5. Which person lost a daughter in the first season?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Rita Sue

Rita Sue's daughter, Dora Mae, was lynched. She was also Libby's sister.

6. What is the relationship between Rita Sue and Libby?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: mother/daughter

Both of them are strippers and prostitutes. Libby's sister, Dora May, was also in the strip show until she was murdered.

7. What is unusual about Sophie's mother Apollonia?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: She's catatonic and telepathic

According to the creators, Apollonia became catatonic and gained magical powers when she gave birth to Sophie, the Omega (the last Avatar). Sophie thinks that her mother reads the cards and tells Sophie what they mean; in reality, Sophie is the one who can read the past, present, and future.

8. What is the name of Justin's sister?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Iris

Brother Justin lives with his sister Iris. Iris is played by Amy Madigan. Amy Madigan is married to actor Ed Harris.

9. Which character has NOT committed murder (as far as we know)?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: Jones

Samson shot the man who allegedly killed Dora May. Iris killed several children by setting Justin's new church on fire. Ben strangled Lodz for murdering Ruthie. Ben is also being hunted by the police for murder.

10. Jonesy tells Ben to clean out the baggage trailer. What's the joke?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: The carnival doesn't have a baggage trailer

Samson says the "baggage trailer" is a carnival gag. Ben finds it anyway; Management makes it manifest to show Ben some things about his past.

11. What is the name of the small person who handles the day to day operation of the carnival?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Samson

Samson is played by Michael J. Anderson. Anderson was also in the series "Twin Peaks".

12. What is the name of the man/creature behind the curtain?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: Management

Samson continually refers to him/it as "Management" throughout the show. He is the one that supposedly makes all decisions concerning the crew of the carnival. At first, only Samson is allowed to speak with him, but eventually we see Lodz and Ben talking with him as well.

13. In "Lonnigan, Texas" we first see Ben's wanted poster. What does it say that he's wanted for?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Murder, chain gang escape

According to the pitch document written by Daniel Knauf, Ben killed a prison guard while trying to escape the chain gang to care for his dying mother. He was originally arrested for trying to rob a bank.

14. Where was Ben when he saw his father's death mask?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: his Grandmother's house

Ben saw his father's death mask at his Grandmother's house. At this point Ben assumed his father was dead, but he was mistaken.

15. During a flashback sequence, we see Ben as a child after he brings an animal back to life. What animal does he bring back from the dead?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: kitten

We see Ben's mother yelling at him and then drowning the kitten because it's supposed to be dead. Healing injured animals/people and bringing them back to life is Ben's gift.

16. What is the name of the bearded lady?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Lila

Lila is the bearded lady at the carnival. She is played by Debra Christofferson.

17. Brother Justin refers to himself as what?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: The Left Hand of God

Justin calls himself this while in the mental hospital.

18. What does Ruthie (mother of Gabriel, the Strong Man) do at the carnival?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Charms snakes

She also serves as a talker for her son's act. Sophie and Apollonia read the cards, Jonesy works the wheel, and the women of the Dreifuss family dance. Ruthie becomes a surrogate mother figure/lover for Ben.

19. What was the ethnicity of Management?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Russian

Cameron Clapp played Management. Management had been a Russian soldier during World War I. Ben had to kill Management to defend his father.

20. Which member of the Dreifuss family is horribly murdered at Babylon?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Dora Mae

Stangler kills her so that the undead miners will have a woman to--uh, play with--for eternity. Beyond creepy. Samson then kills Stangler in retribution.

21. What is the relationship between Ruthie and Gabriel?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: mother and son

Ruthie is the snake charmer. He son Gabriel is a very large boy.

22. Samson runs the carnival, but he used to be one of the acts. What was Samson's talent?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: body building

Everyone who attends Dora May's funeral places a personal object in her grave. Samson contributes a photograph of him flexing his muscles in a professional pose.

23. What affliction of Jonesy's does Ben heal?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: His bad knee

This is one of the sweeter, more uplifting moments in this series. While healing the tar-and-feather wounds, Ben also, accidentally or on purpose, fixes Jonesy's knee. With his knee healed, Jonesy can go back to playing baseball if he wants to.

24. What is the name of the preacher who tried to kill Brother Justin?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Norman

Norman raised Justin and Iris when they were left parentless. He tried to kill Justin at a revival after he understood that Justin was an evil man.

25. What is the name of the stripper Stumpy/Felix hires to work with Rita Sue and Libby?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: Catalina

He sleeps with Catalina in a bar/brothel and then hires her to come work for him in the strip show. Rita Sue is very jealous of her and tries to upstage her.

26. Why does Justin have Tommy Dolan arrested?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Tommy was about to announce that Iris burned down the orphanage

Tommy found out that Justin's sister Iris was responsible for arson and murder and was going to bring the information to light. Justin instead made Tommy think he was writing Iris's confession when he was really writing his own. He was arrested and never seen again on the show.

27. Who did Ben heal, causing the other members of the carnival to believe in his powers?

From Quiz "Carnivale" - The First Two Seasons

Answer: Jonesy

Ben found Jonesy after he had been tarred and feathered. He used his power to save him from dying from injuries from that and incidentally healed Jonesy's bad knee.

28. A big mystery in the series is Ben's father. What is his name?

From Quiz HBO's "Carnivale" Season One

Answer: Henry Scudder

Scudder used to work with Samson in the carnival but has since disappeared. Ben is interested in knowing more about him.

29. Where does Ben eventually find his father, Hack Scudder?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Damascus

He meets his father's mother in Ingram. While Ben is an avatar of Light, his father is an avatar of Darkness.

30. When Ben and Justin each kill their respective Prophets, into what color does their blood change?

From Quiz Come One, Come All, To "Carnivàle"

Answer: Blue

Series creator Daniel Knauf quickly realized the problem of blue blood in the series finale: blue just doesn't evoke the visceral reaction of red. However, HBO loved the idea of blue blood, so it stayed. It certainly shows that the two of them aren't human.

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