BURNING QUESTIONS TRIVIA CHALLENGEThink you know everything there is to know about The Hunger Games series? Then try your hand at the trivia questions and see how many questions you can answer

without help. And may the odds be ever in your favor…

1. How many Hunger Games victors did District 12 have before Katniss and Peeta?

2. What’s the benefit of signing up for a tessera?

3. How many times would an 18-year-old’s name be entered into the reaping if he or she didn’t have any tesserae?

4. What is Gale’s nickname for Katniss?

5. Who gave Katniss her mockingjay pin?

6. The mockingjay was created by the mating of which two birds?

7. Every 25 years, there’s a special Hunger Games. What’s it called?

8. When Katniss got back from her first Hunger Games, she had to pretend that Gale was her what?

9. Which Gamemaker was executed for letting both Katniss and Peeta win?

10. Where do the Hunger Games winners get to live?

11. When Katniss blows up the Careers’ food supply, what does she lose?

12. What is an Avox unable to do?

13. What does Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee have on his watch?

14. What is District 12’s special wedding ritual called?

15. How was Katniss’s father killed?

16. Katniss notes that President Snow smells like what two things?

17. In Catching Fire, what does the new Head Peacekeeper do to the Hob?

18. In The Hunger Games, whom does Katniss look at during her first interview with Caesar Flickerman?

19. What is the nickname of Katniss’s part of District 12?

20. Victors are supposed to have a talent. In Catching Fire, what does Katniss claim hers is?

21. What did Katniss find out about on the mayor’s television?

22. Who saves Peeta’s life after he hits a force field?

23. Who from District 12 is turned into an Avox?

24. What’s the former name of the mountain range where the Capitol is now located?

25. What is the first gift Katniss receives during the Hunger Games?

26. Who is in the trees with Katniss during the games?

27. What district was Thresh from?

28. What does Katniss’s music teacher call the song she sings to Rue?

29. What does the bread from District 11 look like?

30. What kills Foxface?

31. What product does District 8 produce?

32. What product does District 4 produce?

33. What product does District 3 produce?

34. What place has Katniss never wanted to share with anyone but her father?

35. What does Katniss thank District 11 for?

36. How did Maysilee die?

37. How did Haymitch kill the girl from District 1?

38. Who introduces Katniss to Mags?

39. What can Mags make?

40. Who does Katniss hang in effigy?

41. What does Peeta paint for the gamemakers?

42. What instrument does Haymitch send as a gift?

43. Why does Wiress keep saying “tick tock”?

44. What proves an antidote to the toxic fog?

45. How does Katniss know when there’s a force field?

46. What lie does Katniss tell to explain her ability to see the force field?

47. Who made sure there was a wire among the weapons?

48. Why does Johanna stab Katniss in the arm?

49. Which three players were picked up by the Capitol after the Quell?

50. At what age can people start working in the mines?

51. How does the age at which people start working make life different for District 12 children as opposed to children in other districts?

52. What is the only part of District 12 that escapes destruction?

53. What is Katniss’s final condition for becoming the Mockingjay?

54. Who does Katniss find shackled in Room 3908?

55. What kind of weapon is created for Finnick in District 13?

56. Which district does Katniss go to on her first raid?

57. What is the name of the song that Katniss’s father sang to her as a little girl?

58. What is the name of the commander in District 8?

59. What is President Snow’s first name?

60. What’s Katniss’s nickname for the mountain that houses the Capitol’s military?

61. What is the English translation of the Latin phrase “Panem et Cicenses”?

62. Who stops Peeta’s attack on Katniss?

63. What is the name of the commander in District 2?

64. Whose wedding does Katniss attend in Mockingjay?

65. Who demands that Katniss transfer the Holo to her?

66. What is the name of the stylist with cat whiskers who helps Katniss?

67. Who gets upset when Katniss removes the earpiece?

68. Why does Prim arrive late at the bunker?

69. What are the names of the red-bearded twins?

70. After the hospital is burned, what does Katniss say that becomes a new catchphrase?

71. Which character is killed by an exploding silver parachute?

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ANSWER KEY

1. Two2. A year’s supply of grain and oil for one person3. Seven times4. Catnip5. Madge, the mayor’s daughter6. A mockingbird and a jabberjay7. The Quarter Quell8. Cousin9. Seneca Crane10. Victor’s Village11. Her hearing in one ear12. Speak13. A mockingjay14. Toasting15. Mine explosion16. Blood and roses17. Burns it down18. Cinna19. The Seam20. Designing clothes21. An uprising in District 822. Finnick Odair23. Darius, the Peacekeeper24. The Rockies25. Medicine for her burns

26. Rue27. District 1128. A mountain air29. Dark ration grain shaped like a crescent30. Nightlock berries31. Textiles32. Seafood33. Electronic gadgets34. The lake35. Their children and their bread36. Birds skewer her in the neck.37. He lets her ax fly back from the force field and hit her

in the head.38. Finnick39. Fish hooks40. Seneca Crane41. Rue, lying dead surrounded by flowers42. A spile, which collects water from trees43. The arena is arranged like a clock.44. The saltwater45. She can see the square where there’s a chink in the force

field.46. She says she can hear it because of the way they fixed her

ear after her first Hunger Games.47. Plutarch Heavensbee48. To dig out her tracker

49. Peeta, Johanna, and Enobaria50. 1851. Children in other districts learn their trades from a

young age, so they go to the games with skills already developed.

52. Victor’s Village53. I KILL SNOW54. Venia, Flavius, and Octavia55. A trident56. District 857. The Hanging Tree58. Paylor59. Coriolanus60. The Nut61. Bread and Circuses62. Boggs63. Commander Lyme64. Finnick and Annie’s 65. Jackson66. Tigris67. Haymitch68. She goes back for her cat Buttercup.69. Castor and Pollux70. If we burn, you burn with us.71. Prim

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