Hunger Games Trivia Answer Sheet
Hunger Games Trivia
(Directions for “Gamemaker”: Begin by reading the below text, “Read to Participants.”
Then read each question and multiple choice answers once, repeating questions if
requested. Give the kids time to confer with their teammates and answer. Ask for their
answers in letter form, then give the correct answer that is in bold print on the answer
sheet. Teens will mark 1 tally mark for correct answers, and none for false answers.
Don’t expect to finish all of the questions, that’s part of the challenge).
Read to Participants: “Your knowledge of past Hunger Games contestants will help you
succeed when you are in the arena. Answer these multiple choice and short answer
questions to earn points towards your total tribute score. I will read each question and
answer set once, and you will have a few seconds to confer with your teammates. When
you are finished put your pencils down. I will prompt each team for their correct answer,
then tell you the correct answer. If your team selected the correct answer, mark one tally
mark on your score card.”
1. What is Prim’s cat’s name?
A. Rue
B. Buttercup
C. Dandelion
D. Fluffy
2. Katniss, her family, and Gale all live in the poor section of District 12. What is this
part of District 12 called?
A. The Ridge
B. The Gap
C. Hooverville
D. The Seam
3. How did Katniss’s father die?
A. Starvation
B. A hunting accident
C. In a mine explosion
D. He was executed as a traitor
4. What did Katniss learn from her father?
A. How to hunt
B. How to use a bow and arrow
C. How to track
D. All of the Above
5. What is the name of the Capitol City?
A. Panem
B. Panama
C. Washington DC
D. Pandora
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6. What is Katniss’s mother’s occupation?
A. Doctor
B. Teacher
C. Witch
D. Healer
7. Short Answer: Why was Katniss so surprised when they called Prim’s name at the
reaping?
Answer: This was her first year and she only had one slip in the drawing.
8. Short Answer: What memory does Katniss have of Peeta when they were younger?
Answer: Peeta threw loaves of burnt bread out to her when she was
starving.
9. Short Answer: What is “tesserae”? Why is it good and bad?
Answer: A year’s supply of grain and oil for one person. To get it, your
name is added to the reaping list again.
10. Short Answer: What does Katniss mean when she says to her mom, “don’t clock out
again!” before she leaves for the Capitol.
Answer: Don’t go getting depressed again (like she did and abandon her
children, namely Prim.
11. Short Answer: What does Madge give to Katniss before she leaves?
Answer: A gold circular pin of a mockingjay.
12. The Capitol is in a place that was once called _______?
A. The Appalachians
B. The Rockies
C. The Cascades
D. The Olympic Mountains
13. District 12 was once called ________ ?
A. The Appalachians
B. The Rockies
C. The Adamant Mountains
D. The Ozarks
14. What is the name of the leader of the Capitol?
A. President Rose
B. President Thresh
C. President Snow
D. President Ice
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15. What is the name of Peeta’s stylist?
A. Cinna
B. Portia
C. Rita
D. Rue
16. Short Answer: What is an “avox”?
Answer: A person who commits a crime and the Capitol cuts their tongue
out and makes them a slave.
17. Short Answer: Why is it so hard for Katniss to let Peeta become a friend?
Answer: She knows she may have to kill him.
18. Short Answer: What are Career Tributes?
Answer: People trained as tributes in the wealthier districts
19. Rue is from what which district?
A. District 12
B. District 4
C. District 1
D. District 11
20. Short Answer: Katniss is the last tribute to show her talents to the Gamemakers
during the training. They are ignoring her because they are more interested in their food.
What does Katniss do?
Answer: She shoots an arrow into the apple in the mouth of a roasted pig.
Then she storms out of the room.
21. How long can the tributes stand on the metal circles when they first are in the Hunger
Games before the land mines blow up?
A. 60 seconds
B. 30 seconds
C. 20 seconds
D. 10 seconds
22. Short Answer: What does the Cornucopia look like and what is in it (name at least 3
items)?
Answer: It is a giant golden horn about 20 ft. high, & has food, containers
of water, plastic, weapons, medicine, firestarters, silver sheath and bow and
arrows, tent.
23. What happens in the arena to mark the death of a tribute right after they die?
A. A verbal announcement from the Gamemakers
B. A gunshot
C. A cannon fires
D. A silver parachute is released
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24. What does Katniss use to make snares to catch rabbits during the hunger games?
A. Rope
B. Wire
C. Nets
D. Cages
25. Where does Katniss find it is best to sleep during the Hunger Games when she is
alone?
A. In a tent
B. In a large bush
C. In a tree
D. In a shelter she made out of branches and leaves
26. What is the first major catastrophe that the Gamemakers cause for Katniss?
A. A wall of fire
B. They dry up all the sources of water
C. Thunderstorm
D. Mutations
27. What are the muttation wasps called?
A. Mocking-wasps
B. Fire Wasps
C. Mutt-wasps
D. Tracker jackers
28. Short Answer: What does Katniss do with the “tracker jacker” nest during the Hunger
Games?
Answer: Saws off the tree limb it rests on and drops the nest on the Career
tributes
29. What tribute becomes a major ally of Katniss even before Peeta?
A. Thresh
B. Cato
C. Foxface
D. Rue
30. How do Rue and Katniss signal each other?
A. Smoke signals
B. A specific mockingjay call
C. Signs drawn in the mud
D. A cannon
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31. If a tribute wins the Hunger Games where do they live afterwards?
A. In the victor’s village in their district
B. In the Capitol City
C. In their old homes
D. Nowhere, they are killed after their victory feast
32. Short Answer: Why does Katniss believe she will never have children of her own?
Answer: She does not want her children to have their names put in the reaping
and possibly die in the Hunger games.
33. Short Answer: Why do Peeta and Katniss have to split up while they are hunting?
Answer: Peeta makes too much noise
34. The creatures that run after Cato, Katniss, and Peeta resemble ferocious wolves, but
also part human. What are they really?
A. Muttations of the tributes that have already died in this Hunger Games
35. How do Katniss and Peeta trick the Gamemakers so that both of them can live and be
victors of the Hunger Games?
A. They pretend that they are both going to eat Nightlock (poisonous) berries
at the same time. They know the Capitol needs at least one victor alive.
36. What is Katniss's final score from the Gamemakers when she shows them her archery
skills?
A. 12
B. 11
C. 100
D. 7
Match the Districts on the left with their major export on the right. (worth 1 point per
district)
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