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"Bones" - "The Pilot" Trivia Quiz

This quiz is about the pilot episode of "Bones". This is my first "Bones" quiz and I hope you enjoy it.

A multiple-choice quiz by sunny_mel. Estimated time: 5 mins.

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Updated
Dec 03 21

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Question 1 of 15

1. In the first scene we see Angela arriving at the airport to meet Temperance's flight. Where was she arriving from? Hint

Guatemala

India

Quebec

South Africa

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who had arranged for Brennan to be detained at the airport?

Answer: (1 or 2 words- full, just first or just last name)

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Question 3 of 15

3. When Booth tells Brennan that she is "not the only forensic anthropologist in town", where does she tell him the next university is?

Answer: (One word, a city)

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who says to Brennan, "This eco-warrior look works for you"? Hint

Zach

Angela

Hodgins

Booth

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Question 5 of 15

5. What sport did the victim play? Hint

Volleyball

Golf

Gymnastics

Tennis

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Question 6 of 15

6. Who is the "bug and slime guy"?

Answer: (1 or 2 words- full, first or last name)

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Question 7 of 15

7. Booth's nickname for Brennan and her team is "squints".

True

False

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Question 8 of 15

8. The victim, Cleo Eller, worked for which Senator? Hint

York

Bethlehem

Davies

Jack

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Question 9 of 15

9. Booth tells the victim's parents the truth about whether their daughter suffered.

True

False

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Question 10 of 15

10. What does Brennan take from the bin in order to get a DNA sample for the Senator? Hint

cigarette butt

lollypop

cigar butt

chewing gum

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Question 11 of 15

11. The murderer tried to hide Cleo's identity.

True

False

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Question 12 of 15

12. What was found at the Senator's house during the FBI search? Hint

sledgehammer

Cleo's jewellery

Cleo's clothing

Love letters

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Question 13 of 15

13. Who works out that Ken Thomson is the killer? Hint

Temperance

Hodgins

Angela

Ken

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Question 14 of 15

14. Why did Thomson kill Cleo? Hint

he was jealous

it was an accident

it wasn't his child

to keep his job

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Question 15 of 15

15. What age was Brennan when her parents disappeared?

Answer: (1 word or number)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In the first scene we see Angela arriving at the airport to meet Temperance's flight. Where was she arriving from?

Answer: Guatemala

Temperance had been Guatemala identifying victims of genocide.

2. Who had arranged for Brennan to be detained at the airport?

Answer: Seeley Booth

Booth had Brennan detained at the airport so that he could stage a rescue as that was the only way he could get to her. Brennan had her assistant stonewall Booth when he tried to contact her.

3. When Booth tells Brennan that she is "not the only forensic anthropologist in town", where does she tell him the next university is?

Answer: Montreal

Brennan then says to Booth "Parlez vous Francais?"

4. Who says to Brennan, "This eco-warrior look works for you"?

Answer: Zach

Zach says this to Brennan when he meets her at the scene where the skeleton was discovered.

5. What sport did the victim play?

Answer: Tennis

Brennan knows this as the victim has bursitis in the shoulder and in someone that young, it must have been caused by a sporting injury.

6. Who is the "bug and slime guy"?

Answer: Hodgins

Dr. Jack Hodgins is an expert on insects, spores and minerals and is obsessed with conspiracy theories.

7. Booth's nickname for Brennan and her team is "squints".

Answer: True

He calls them "squints" because when the FBI can't work out clues they call in experts to come and squint at them.

8. The victim, Cleo Eller, worked for which Senator?

Answer: Bethlehem

Cleo worked for the Senator and it was rumoured that they were involved sexually.

9. Booth tells the victim's parents the truth about whether their daughter suffered.

Answer: False

Booth tells the Eller's that Cleo "never saw it coming". Later he tells Brennan that "they deserved the kindness of a lie" when she says they should have been told the truth.

10. What does Brennan take from the bin in order to get a DNA sample for the Senator?

Answer: chewing gum

The Senator won't commit to a DNA test to see if he was the father of Cleo's baby so Brennan steals a piece of chewing gum that he had put in a bin.

11. The murderer tried to hide Cleo's identity.

Answer: True

The murderer had smashed Cleo's face, whittled away her fingertips and removed all her clothing and jewellery to try and stop her from being identified.

12. What was found at the Senator's house during the FBI search?

Answer: sledgehammer

The murder weapon was found during the search but the Senator is insistent that he has never seen it before.

13. Who works out that Ken Thomson is the killer?

Answer: Temperance

When the gang are looking through the "Book of Saints", Zach mentions fish mongers and Brennan remembers that the substance that was found in Cleo's skull could be used as a filtering agent for a water filter and also the Ken Thomson kept tropical fish.

14. Why did Thomson kill Cleo?

Answer: to keep his job

Brennan thinks that he killed her because she wouldn't get rid of the Senator's baby, but Booth tells her it was because he wanted to save his job. If the Senator was caught up in a baby scandal, Thomson would lose his beltway to the fast track.

15. What age was Brennan when her parents disappeared?

Answer: 15

Brennan tells Booth this at the end of the episode.

Source: Author sunny_mel

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