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Need some more Narcos in your life? Season 2 is finished and there is potential for a 3rd (yes, that's right)! What better time to recall the facts and and challenge yourself, with this quiz on the Netflix original, Narcos!
What is the main character's name?
Tata
Moura
Pablo
Based in the country of Columbia, Narcos recounts the rise of Pablo Escobar from humble origins to the biggest drug dealer in the world!
Carillo
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What was Pablo's biggest fear?
Being murdered
Being extradited
Escobar’s greatest fear was being extradited to the United States. He was terrified of spending the last years of his life in an American jail. He even offered to pay Colombia’s debt in an attempt to change the extradition law, which totaled about $10 billion!
Getting older
Staying in Colombia
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Who were the two characters, Murphy and Pena?
DEA agents
Steve Murphy and Javier Pena were based on two real life agents who actually went after Escobar!
FBI agents
Sicarios
Columbian officers
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In the intro episode, Murphy says “The hippies had been replaced with _____”
Drug dealers
Murders
Columbians
"The hippies had been replaced by Colombians, and these guys didn't wear flip-flops.” Speaking of the drastic change from being an agent in America vs. Columbia!
King pins
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On the show, when Pablo was arrested in 1976, the DAS agents that confiscated the truck with cocaine were _______.
Working for him
Not corrupt
In reality they were not! They were honest and refused to accept a bribe from him! The officers were later murdered!
DEA agents
His friends
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What is a Sicario?
An agent
A hitman
Pablo Escobar had many sicario's working for him as hit men!
A dealer
A Columbian
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In the show, the character Gacha, is shown entering a party to do what?
Capture a woman
Sell some cocaine
Dance
Murder everyone
Rodriguez Gacha enters the party and murders everyone inside! This did happen. Gacha decided to eliminate his old associate Molina in his mansion killing 18 people!
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Who is Gustavo?
Pablo's brother
Gustavo is Pablo's brother-in-law. He had strong ties with Pablo and was arrested with him!
Cali Cartel member
DEA agent
Columbian Colonel
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According to the producer, Narcos was originally supposed to be:
One season
Three seasons
Two seasons
A full length film
According to Producer Eric Newman, once they started discussing how in-depth they wanted to get with the backstories of both the good and the bad characters, the team knew there would be way too much content for a movie. The story was just too good!
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Who narrates the series?
Pablo
Colonel Corillo
Murphy
Holbrook’s role as real-life DEA agent Steve Murphy on “Narcos” has thrust him into the spotlight in a way no one could have predicted when the show began filming last year on location in Bogota, Colombia. Holbrook’s voiceovers alone — a history lesson on drug trafficking in South America!
Tata Escobar
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Where does Pablo's mom go, that ends up leading attackers back to the family?
To visit a friend
The market
Church
The enemies end up following her back to the house where the family is hiding and Tata's brother ends up being killed!
A funeral
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What country does Pablo's family try to flee to?
Mexico
France
US
Germany
Escobar’s wife, mother, and children aren’t allowed to escape to another country. If they can make it into Germany (the country they choose to flee to), they’ll be safe. Back in Colombia, they’ll be threatened by Los Pepes! Germany's immigration laws were very lax at the time!
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What Platform is responsible for the show?
Discovery Channel
Hulu
HBO
Netflix
Narcos is on Netflix exclusively, alongside many other Netflix original series! It was Originally supposed to be a Netflix Original Documentary!
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What does Pablo's father do?
He is a government official
He is an officer
He is a farmer
Pablo goes to visit his father and hide out. His father disapproves of him!
He is dead
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The names of the two founders of the Cali Cartel are Miguel and what?
Michaelangelo
Gilberto
Miguel and Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the founders of the Cali Cartel, were Pablo Escobar’s biggest rival. The cartel made several assassination attempts on Escobar!
Marty
Limon
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After the Medellin Cartel is diminished, who takes over?
The Cali Cartel
Season 2 ends with the Cali Cartel being the only cartel of Power - and there is talk of there reign being the door to season 3!!
Los Pepes
The Mexican Cartel
Tata Escobar
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What is the name of Pablo's wife?
Juan
Tata
Pablo got married when he was 27 and Tata was only 15!
Moura
Limon
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What was the name of the president of Columbia?
Murphy
Juan Pablo
Gavira
César Gaviria, the president of Colombia in 1990-94 oversaw Escobar's downfall!
Corillo
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What was the name of Murphy's wife?
Murphy
Moura
Tata
Connie
DEA agent Murphy and his wife went back to visit the country, for the first time taking their two twenty-something daughters, whom they adopted as babies in Bogotá and Medellín!
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Pablo is killed at the end of which season?
He's alive!
Season 3
Season 1
Season 2
"We'd always intended to kill Escobar at the end of Season 2, but I will be honest — I've really regretted not building it into four seasons or five seasons, and not just because Wagner is so good as Pablo Escobar, and he is brilliant!
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Who controlled Los Pepes?
The Medellin Cartel
The Cali Cartel
The DEA
The highly effective resistance group,Los Pepes (or PEPES), controlled by the Cali Cartel, and the Colombian government, in collaboration with the Cali Cartel, right-wing paramilitary groups, and the United States government!
The United States Army
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Where was Pablo murdered in the end of season 2?
At the German border
His house
A rooftop in Columbia
The death scene of Pablo in NARCOS season two was shot exactly at the same place where Pablo died in reality.
In a plane crash
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Who was the founder of the Medellin Cartel?
Murphy
Juan
Guivarez
Pablo
At the height of its operations, the Medellín Cartel smuggled tons of cocaine each week into countries all over the world and brought in at least $420,000,000 per week!
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What is the name of the actor who played Pablo?
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura learned to speak Spanish and gained 40 pounds to play Pablo!!
Brad Pitt
Joey Tribianie
Murphy Pena
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When Pablo and his family are hiding out, his family gets very cold. What does Pablo burn to keep them warm?
Newspaper
Marijuana
Money
Pablo once burned his $2 Million dollars just to keep his Daughter and Wife warm!
Books
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Who is Pablo's son?
Juan Pablo Escobar
Born Juan Pablo Escobar, (now) Sebastian, has been very open about his opinion of the show, claiming that the series insults Colombia and the victims of drug trafficking!
Mario Escobar
Lurel Escobar
Tata Escobar
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What was the name of the Colonel who led the Search Bloc for Pablo?
Colonel Carillo
Maurice Compte who portrayed Colonel Carrillo, the leader of the Search Bloc going after Pablo Escobar in Narcos played a hit man for a Mexican cartel in Breaking Bad.
Colonel Juarez
Colonel Murphy
Colonel Pena
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Who is “Los Pepes?”
Mexican Cartel
Medellin Cartel
Pablos Cartel
Counterterrorist group
“Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar” (People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar), or “Los Pepes.” The group became notorious for hunting down and killing scores of people who worked for or even associated with Escobar!
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Who was the main Journalist whom had tied with Pablo?
Juan Corillo
Valeria Velez
Escobar was well known for his love affairs, and Virginia was one of his most famous mistresses. Vallejo was not only a journalist, anchorwoman, and socialite at the time. She was also considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Colombia! Los Pepes murdered her!
Cesar Avarez
Connie Murphy
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These two men, helped writers fill in the gaps of the show.
Juan and Maura
Pena and Tata
Murphy and Pena
Murphy revealed that he and Peña “flew to California to work with the writers. After that, we spent hours and hours on the phone and on email answering questions and filling in the gaps!
Pablo's son and brother
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What year was Escobar killed?
1993
Season two starts in 1992, although season one crammed over a decades worth of stories in!
1989
2002
1980
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When does the Narcos series end?
When Pablo is killed
It hasn't ended yet
Narcos' producers state with confidence that the show doesn’t need Pablo Escobar as its antagonist in order to continue. “We plan on stopping when cocaine stops!”
When Pablo's wife dies
When Los Pepe's is defeated
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Who did Los Pepes target?
Anyone who helped Pablo
Those who were not killed by Los Pepes surrendered to the government. Escobar became so terrified by all the violence that he bought plane tickets for his family to escape.
Only Pablo
The DEA
The Cali Cartel
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Who was working with the DEA to bring Pablo down?
Agent Murphy
Columbian special forces
The columbian government thought it would be best if Pablo died at the hands of a columbian officer!
Pablo's wife
Limon
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What was Limon's cover job?
A teacher
A pizza man
Driving prostitutes around
Limon, making what passes for a straight living driving prostitutes around town in his cab, the opportunity to serve Pablo undoubtedly means trouble. But he reaffirms much of what made Escobar so popular, “You’ve done so much for the poor of Medellín”
A columbian officer
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