"Firefly"-"Safe" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jiangyin

Reading a painted plate in the gift shop, Simon reads, "Jiangyin Prairie Paradise." He then makes fun of the plate, making Kaylee feel a little bad, because she really liked it.

Beaumonde is the planet Serenity was headed to before Saffron hijacked the ship. Sihnon is where Inara was born, and Triumph is the place they picked up Saffron in the first place.

Answer: Hodgeberries

Simon: "Remember when we found those giant Hodgeberry bushes on the Camberson's estate? We thought they'd grown wild..." Then River tells him they're poisoned, causing him to spit them out.

River: "He believed her! Made a face."
Simon: "You are such a brat!"

Answer: duck

Inara: "What is this? A duck?"
Kaylee: "It's a swan. I like it."
Inara: "You do?"
Kaylee: "It looks like it was made with...you know, longing. Made by someone who really longed to see a swan."
Inara: "Perhaps because they'd only heard of them by rough description."

Answer: We can't see the card, and nobody explains.

This is one of the mysteries that the series, unfortunately, never got to resolve. Who is Shepherd Book, and what is his past? Many times during the series, Book shows himself to be far more knowledgeable about the world of crime than a Shepherd ought to be, and this scene in "Safe" is one of the most mysterious.

Unfortunately, the camera angle is such that we can't see what's on his Ident Card, and nobody spills the beans.

Answer: morbid and creepifying

River: "The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems."
Mal: "See, morbid and creepifying I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like."

Corpsified and gross is how Wash describes Zoe in his fake eulogy for her in the episode "Shindig." Naked and articulate is how Mal describes Saffron in "Our Mrs. Reynolds"-it's his excuse for falling for her feminine wiles. Rich and fancible is how Jayne describes Simon in "The Train Job."

Answer: They think she's a witch

There's a little girl named Ruby in the town who doesn't speak due to traumatic events in her past. River is psychic-Simon calls her very intuitive-and it frightens the town's teacher when River knows what happened to Ruby without being told. The teacher says, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live!"

Answer: 30

Man: "Twenty a head."
Mal: "That's an amusing figure, in light of you already agreed on thirty with Badger."

They eventually settle on 25 because, as Mal says, they look like "clean and virtuous boys."

Answer: Grange

Lawman: "Marcus and Nathaniel Grange! You are both wanted in connection to the illegal killing of Rance Durban. You are bound by law to stand down!"

Durban, as can be seen by the above quote, is the last name of the man the Grange brothers killed. Burgess is Rance Burgess, the name of the man in "Heart of Gold" that kills Nandi. Hessian is the last name of Stitch, Jayne's past partner in crime in the episode "Jaynestown."

Answer: The Darbanvilles'

Simon, to his parents: "Did you have a good time at the Darbanvilles' ball this year? River thought it was duller than last year's. But since we don't know anybody named Darbanville, I'm having trouble judging. Did you even read these?"

Harbatkin is the fake name on the ship's registration that Mal gives to the Alliance men to get Shepherd Book some medical care in this episode. Elder Gommen is the man whose township the crew helps out in "Our Mrs. Reynolds." The Cambersons are the family with the giant hodgeberry bushes that Simon and River found when they were children.

Answer: 3

When Simon is trying to explain to his parents that River is in trouble at the Alliance Academy, one piece of evidence is that River is misspelling words in her letters. His parents give him a blank look, to which he responds, "She started correcting my spelling when she was three." They still don't believe him. Poor River.