X-Files Flashcards

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

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Vin Scully

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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.

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Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)

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

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Cigarette Smoking Man

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

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Jeffrey Spender, Diane Fowley

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

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Vince Gilligan

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

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Vancouver

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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.

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Tea Leoni

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

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Walter Skinner

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

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How Soon Is Now?

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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.

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Leonard Betts

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

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Chris Carter

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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.

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Bryan Cranston

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

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Alex Krycek

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

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Cops

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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.

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Duane Barry

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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.

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Coprophages

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

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Peter Boyle

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

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Operation Paperclip

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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.

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Peacocks

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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.

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Memento mori

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

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Jose Chung