The 'Orphan Black' Quiz

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The 'Orphan Black' Quiz
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Forget zombies and vampires — the true terror lies where science meets fiction. Take our quiz to test your knowledge of cult favorite "Orphan Black."
What year did "Orphan Black" premiere?
2010
2013
2016
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The BBC America sci-fi series launched with a 10-episode run in 2013.

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Which of these topics does the series explore?
vampires
adoption
cloning
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The series explores the concept of cloning and the ethical and moral issues surrounding this branch of science.

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What is the name of the woman at the heart of the series?
Sarah
Elizabeth
Monica
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Poor orphan Sarah Manning steps into a world of trouble when she assumes a dead woman's identity.

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Whose life does Sarah take over in the first episode of the series?
Helena
Rachel
Beth
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After watching police officer Beth jump in front of a train, Sarah realizes that she looks enough like the dead woman to assume her identity.

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What is the name of Sarah's daughter?
Kira
Kendall
Kimberly
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When the series opens, viewers learn that Sarah has lost custody of her 8-year-old daughter, Kira.

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What is the name of Sarah's identical twin?
Cosima
Helena
Delphine
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Sarah soon learns that she has an identical twin named Helena, who was raised in a harsh environment in the Ukraine.

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What company owns the Dyad Institute?
Umbrella Corp.
Topside Corp.
Sweetwater Corp.
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Topside Corp. owns the mysterious Dyad Institute, an organization responsible for cloning research.

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Which of the clones was raised by Dyad?
Sarah
Alison
Rachel
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Rachel is the only one of the clones who knew of her status as she was growing up, because her parents gave her to Dyad when she was just a child.

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Which of the clones was a member of the Proletheans?
Alison
Rachel
Helena
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Angry over her upbringing, Helena was a Prolethean until she met Sarah and changed her ways.

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What is the name of Sarah's brother?
Felix
Finn
Freddy
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Felix Dawkins is Sarah's foster brother and her closest confidant and friend.

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What makes Sarah unique?
She's left-handed.
She has a daughter.
She doesn't age.
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Sarah is a mystery because she is the only known clone who has a biological child.

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What mysterious project is behind the female clone line?
Lobo
Monitor
Leda
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Dyad's Project Leda is responsible for the female clone line — but out of the entire line, only Rachel initially knows she's a clone.

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What is the name of the male cloning project?
Mark
Castor
Aaron
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The goal of Project Castor is to create a line of male clones for the military.

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Who are the people assigned to oversee the clones?
mentors
advisors
monitors
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Dyad picks a person to act as a monitor for each clone, but even the monitors don't know about the cloning project.

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What is the name of Henrik Johanssen's daughter?
Kira
Gracie
Evie
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Henrik Johanssen is such an extremist that he is willing to experiment on his own daughter, implanting fertilized eggs in Gracie as part of his research.

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How does Helena refer to her fellow clones?
sister
sangreal
sestra
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Helena refers to the other female clones as "sestra," a Slavic word for sister.

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Which of the clones was a doctoral candidate?
Rachel
Cosima
Alison
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Cosima was working towards a doctorate before dropping out to study the clone biology.

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Which clone is married to Donnie?
Alison
Rachel
Helena
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Alison is married to Donnie and is the adoptive mother to Gemma and Oscar. She works hard to keep up appearances to cover up her addictions and crimes.

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Who is Beth's partner on the police force?
Anthony
Andrew
Art
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Art Bell is kicked off the police force for investigating Beth's death too intensely but eventually gets reinstated.

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Who is the head of Dyad when the series begins?
Dr. Leekie
Dr. Johanssen
Dr. Malone
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Famed Neolutionist Dr. Aldous Leekie heads up the cloning and evolution work at Dyad.

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Who does Sarah think has kidnapped Kira in the season two opener?
Alison
Rachel
M.K.
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Sarah believes that Rachel has kidnapped both Kira and Mrs. S when season two kicks off.

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Who tells Sarah that she is a clone?
Dr. Leekie
Helena
Alison
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Sarah already suspects something strange is going on when Alison spills the beans that both women are clones.

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What book holds the secrets to cloning?
"The Island of Dr. Moreau"
"Moby Dick"
"Lord of the Flies"
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Ethan Duncan pens the secrets to the cloning project in a copy of "The Island of Dr. Moreau."

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Who replaces Dr. Leekie as head of Dyad after his death?
Delphine
Rachel
Sarah
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The brilliant Delphine replaces Leekie as director of clone research at Dyad.

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Who is the genetic original for the clones?
Mrs. S
Cosima
Kendall
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Kendall Malone, estranged mother to Mrs. S, provided the original genetic material for both the male and female clones.

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Which of the clones uses a sheep mask as a disguise?
M.K.
Helena
Cosima
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M.K. lives off the grid and wears a sheep mask to conceal her face when she heads out in public.

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Who kills Dr. Leekie?
Sarah
Donnie
Mrs. S
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Donnie Hendrix, who is Alison's husband and monitor, accidentally kills Dr. Leekie.

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Who was Beth's monitor before her death?
Steve
Dan
Paul
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Paul was Beth's monitor but takes over as Sarah's monitor during season two.

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What clone was born two decades after Sarah and her line of clone sisters?
Molly
Charlotte
Laura
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Young Charlotte is born 20 years after the other clones and has a serious illness caused by cloning.

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Which of the original clones has a serious illness?
Cosima
Rachel
Sarah
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Cosima has a genetic illness that could take her life, so she works furiously to study both cloning and her condition in an effort to find a cure.

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