About This Quiz
Is there anything more awesome than Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Not if you're a true Buffy fan. While some people think of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie that came out in 1992, most are fans of the television show of the same name that aired from 1997 to 2003. The show followed Buffy Summers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, her mentor Giles, and her friends Xander, Willow and Cordelia as they battle vampires, demons and other assorted monsters. It seems that Buffy was the "chosen one" and her destiny is to keep mankind safe from evil. While initially she is totally bummed about this, as she would way rather go shopping at the mall and all that, soon she embraces her destiny.
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has all sorts of rabid fans who can tell you pretty much anything about the show and take great pride in their knowledge of all things Buffy. Are you one of them? Take this quiz, and we'll tell you how much you really know about the show. Don't worry, we understand if you need to take a break to avoid direct sunlight, and we promise this quiz has nothing to do with garlic or holy water.
The character of Willow, played by Alyson Hannigan, was the only other character other than Buffy, to appear in every single episode. Others have appeared in every episode other than one.
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Buffy was pretty restrained when it came to hanging out with a bunch of guys on the show, but she hung out with a few. But she never hung out with Xander, let alone kissed him.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. is an actor that was in "She's All That," "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." He and Sarah married in 2002 and have two children together.
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In season 2 Buffy was turned into a rat in some episodes, but it wasn't for a totally awful reason. The show was so successful that Sarah Michelle Gellar needed time off to be on Saturday Night Live.
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When you think of the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," you don't usually think of the character "Oz." Yet that is the one producer Joss Whedon based on a real life person.
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Britney was going to be in an episode in season 5 called "I Was Made to Love You." She was to play a robot girlfriend but bailed because of a scheduling conflict. This is seriously a sad thing.
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Eliza Dushku was the actress that played the character named Faith. She grew up a Mormon and didn't want to show any skin on the show. Dushku has been on many shows since "Buffy."
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Kristy Swanson was a pretty big star when she was the featured actress in the movie versions of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." One of her biggest roles was in the movie "Pretty in Pink."
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There were a whole lot of characters that were killed off over the course of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." According to the production team, Buffy's mother was the hardest one to let go.
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Dawn was played by Michelle Trachtenberg. She first appeared on season 5 of the show. Even though Buffy never had a sister before, it was just accepted that she had one on this season.
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One of the coolest, and weirdest, things about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was apparently in Sunnydale High School, kids and vampires hung out at the same club. Sounds fun to us.
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David Boreanaz was such a breakout star as the character "Angel" that the network decided to give him his own show. The show "Angel" was successful for many years on TV. It ran for five years.
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On a show like "Buffy," just about everyone that isn't a monster starts out good, but then does some bad things. Of all the main characters on the show, Xander is the only one that never killed a human.
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Just like many of the characters on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended up killing a human, many became demons too. Dawn is the only main character that never turned into a demon on the show.
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The Trio was originally just a bunch of nerds that hung out on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and didn't' scare anyone. But that changed in season 6. They all became just a bit menacing. Especially Warren.
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If you're making a show like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" it needs to be set in a town with a good name. When you think of it, what better name could there be for a town like that than Sunnydale?
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Katie Holmes was at one point offered the lead role in " Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but she turned it down. If she did take this job then maybe she wouldn't have ended up marrying Tom Cruise.
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Just about everyone knows that the main character in this show is named Buffy and others know her last name is Summers. Only a true lifetime fan knows that her middle name is Anne.
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It's hard to know if the producers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer were huge fans of the band Widespread Panic, but one might think so. There were numerous posters of the band featured in the show.
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Nerf Herder is a band from California that describes themselves as geek rock and is best known for being the band that performed the Buffy theme song. A version of this band is still active today.
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Sumerian is a mystical language, and yet one that is real. Sumer is one of the first civilizations in the world, along with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley. Much of the ancient texts in Buffy were written in Sumerian.
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Dolly Parton was involved in some way in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie. Because of that, she also got a producer credit on the television show. Dolly has a lot going on if you didn't know.
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As you probably know, the television show "Angel" was a spin off of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and there was a lot of actors that appeared in both shows. The official number was 18.
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Buffy is known as being short for the name Elizabeth because of how a child might pronounce the first name. The show has made the name Buffy so much cooler than it used to be thought of.
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Alyson Hannigan has had a long and successful career since being one of the stars of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." She not only starred in "How I Met Your Mother" but also the movie "American Pie."
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Seth Green was the actor that played the character "Oz." Despite him being a fairly well known actor, he never had a very big role when it came to being on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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While Spike appears to be from England, the accent is not real. In fact, when James Marsters first auditioned for the role of Spike, he did so while sporting a Texas accent. But the producers told him to go for English instead.
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" didn't have a huge budget so they had to improvise. The show was filmed at a warehouse and also at the same high school that Beverly Hill 90210 was filmed at.
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Seth Green was a very successful actor back in the day and still has success currently. He is the only actor that has appeared in both the television and movie version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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It is hard to imagine someone as popular as Ryan Reynolds was possibly going to have a supporting role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Reynolds was offered the part of Xander but turned it down.
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Spike as a human was known by the simple name of William. We know that doesn't sound that exciting, but in reality it was just a bit cooler than that. His name was actually "William the Bloody."
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Mutant Enemy Productions is a production company that was created by Joss Whedon to produce Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It also produced the shows "Angel" and "Firefly." It was started in 1996.
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Anthony Head has been a very successful actor in the United Kingdom for many years, but he is best known in America for only one role. He is still active as an actor in England today.
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Back when the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie came out, both Donald Sutherland and Luke Perry were huge stars. Ben Affleck had a smaller role while Judd Nelson did not appear in the movie.
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Lots of actors in television and movies that play teenagers are way older than the characters they are portraying. Still, being 27 like Charisma Carpenter was, is pushing the envelope for sure.
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