X-Files

Question 1

Gillian Anderson’s character was named after this famous L.A. Dodgers announcer.

Answer 1

Vin Scully

Question 2

Agent Scully’s character was based off his fictional character in film. The actress who played said fictional character, actually voiced a talking tattoo in Season 4 of the X-Files.

Answer 2

Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)

Question 3

This character is Agent Mulder’s primary antagonist in the show. In the first season, this character speaks no more than four words total.

Answer 3

Cigarette Smoking Man

Question 4

These two characters took Mulder and Scully’s places in the X-Files office after their forced leave at the beginning of Season 6.

Answer 4

Jeffrey Spender, Diane Fowley

Question 5

This Breaking Bad showrunner wrote an episode of the X-Files as a freelancer.

Answer 5

Vince Gilligan

Question 6

The X-Files was filmed in this location for the first five seasons before moving to Los Angeles.

Answer 6

Vancouver

Question 7

Part of the reason for moving the show to Los Angeles was because David Duchovny wanted to be closer to this fellow actress and his then-wife.

Answer 7

Tea Leoni

Question 8

This character, played by Mitch Pileggi, supervised the X-Files office.

Answer 8

Walter Skinner

Question 9

According to show composer Mark Snow, the theme song was inspired by this Smiths song.

Answer 9

How Soon Is Now?

Question 10

This “Monster of the Week” episode, named after said monster, was the most-watched episode of the X-Files ever. It aired after Super Bowl XXXI.

Answer 10

Leonard Betts

Question 11

This was the showrunner and creator of The X-Files.

Answer 11

Chris Carter

Question 12

This actor played the main antagonist in the “Monster of the Week” episode “Drive.” In it, he plays a seemingly deranged man who traps Mulder in a car.

Answer 12

Bryan Cranston

Question 13

Nicholas Lea played this eventual X-Files antagonist, who at first replaced Scully in the second season after her disappearance.

Answer 13

Alex Krycek

Question 14

A “Monster of the Week” episode during the X-Files’ seventh season was a crossover with this reality television program.

Answer 14

Cops

Question 15

In S02E05, Mulder comes face-to-face with this character, a former FBI agent who was locked up in an asylum due to his beliefs about alien abduction and experimentation.

Answer 15

Duane Barry

Question 16

While S03E12 is centered around cockroaches, the episode’s title has a more general title of “War of the ______.” What is the missing word, which is a term given to creatures that feed on feces.

Answer 16

Coprophages

Question 17

This actor plays the titular character in the X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.”

Answer 17

Peter Boyle

Question 18

S03E02 is named after this real-life operation that brought Nazi scientists to the US in order to win the space race.

Answer 18

Operation Paperclip

Question 19

Fox prevented the episode “Home” from being re-aired due to its disturbing content. The episode centered around this family, a Pennsylvania family of incestuous mutants.

Answer 19

Peacocks

Question 20

In S04E14, Agent Scully learns she has a rare form of cancer. The episode’s title is this Latin term, which literally translates to “remember that you have to die,” and was used in Latin Christian theory to remind people about the mortality of life.

Answer 20

Memento mori

Question 21

In S03E20, Scully is interviewed by this fictional author who is writing a book about alien abductions called “From Outer Space.”

Answer 21

Jose Chung