"The Order" - Magic Majors Trivia Quiz

Answer: Belgrave University

Many of the buildings of the Vancouver campus of the University of British Columbia stood in for Belgrave University. The aerial views are of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The apparently-abandoned building in which The Order had its headquarters and meeting rooms was the Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Answer: the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose

Jack Morton (played by Jake Manley) arrives at Belgrave University and is invited to join the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose. The invitation is in the form of an actual blue rose left for him. A few entering freshmen are invited to join this order which teaches initiates the practice of magic.

Answer: the Knights of Saint Christopher

Werewolves on campus are banded into the Knights of Saint Christopher. Thomas Elms plays Hamish Duke, a teaching assistant. Adam DiMarco plays Randall Carpio, a resident advisor. Devery Jacobs plays Lilith Bathory, a student who insists that the "knighthood" is a "gender-neutral collective of werewolves."

Answer: Jack's grandfather, "Pops" Morton

Pete "Pops" Morton is Jack's grandfather. He is obsessed with revenge against Edward Coventry, grand magus of the Order, for killing Jack's mother. He helped Jack get into the Order in order to gain access to Coventry. In addition to playing Max Headroom, Frewer played Matt Prager in "Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal" (1997-1999), Dr. Jim Taggart in "Eureka" (2006-2012), Doctor Leekie in "Orphan Black" (2013-2017), Carnage in "Altered Carbon" (2018), Logan in "Fear the Walking Dead" (2019), and The Binder in "The Magicians."

Answer: a collegiate secret society

Jack did not fully appreciate what he was getting into when he pledged the order. He thought it was a secret society like Skull and Bones at Yale University, the Order of Gimghoul at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the fictitious Order of X in the NetFlix TV series "Dear White People." Jack discovers that he is apprenticed to a society of magicians, not limited to the college campus but around the world.

Answer: Alyssa Drake

Jack meets Alyssa Drake (played by Sarah Grey) at an orientation tour of the campus which she is conducting but which he hijacks with his remarkable knowledge of the school. She holds a higher rank in the Order than do acolytes, those first inducted into it; she is called a "medicum" which is Latin for doctor. Romance follows. Cassie Amelia Blake is the protagonist in "The Secret Circle." Astrid Bell is one of two female leads in "Astrid and Lilly Save the World." Hope Mikaelson is a female lead in "Legacies."

Answer: each week's title was divided into two parts

In season 1, the ten episodes were named "Hell Week" Parts One and Two, "Introduction to Ethics" Parts One and Two, "Homecoming" Parts One and Two, "Undeclared" Parts One and Two, and "Finals" Parts One and Two. In Season 2, the ten episodes were named "Free Radicals" Parts One and Two, "Fear Itself" Parts One and Two, "The Commons" Parts One and Two, "Spring Outbreak" Parts One and Two, and "New World Order" Parts One and Two. [Were the title writers paid only half the normal rate for the series?]

Answer: Vera Stone

Katharine Isabelle plays Vera Stone who holds several positions of power in this story arc. She is chancellor of Belgrave University. She is, at first, the "temple magus" in charge of the order's meeting place on that campus, and finally is elected the grand magus of the entire order. Isabelle has played in a great many horror films, e.g. "Disturbing Behavior" (1998), "Ginger Snaps" (2000), "Bones" (2001), "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003), "30 Days of Night: Dark Days" (2010), "See No Evil 2" (2014), and "Tamara" (2014).

She was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for "The Order" in 2019.

Answer: Edward is Jack's father

Edward Coventry is played by Max Martini. He is the grand magus of the order, driven mad by his quest for absolute magical power. Coventry has a younger son, Maddox (played by Christian Michael Cooper). Coventry is unaware that he has an older son. Jack believes Coventry drove his mother to suicide.

Answer: it was canceled by NetFlix

"The Order" premiered on NetFlix in 2019. It was almost immediately renewed for a second ten-episode season to be released in 2020. After the conclusion of the second season, NetFlix canceled the show. There was no conclusion and a number of issues were left unsatisfactorily unresolved.

The showrunner, Dennis Heaton, reacted to the cancellation, saying "We aren't returning, but I will always cherish the memories and the props I stole."