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Test your knowledge of the cult comic series!
The comic follows this preacher who has lost his faith.
Allfather D'Aronique
Jesse Custer
In the new AMC television adaptation of Preacher, Jesse, a Texan, is portrayed by English actor Dominic Cooper.
Cassidy
Odin Quincannon
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Which DC Comics imprint published Preacher?
Mad Magazine
Helix
Vertigo
Other Vertigo titles include The Sandman, Hellblazer, and The Saga of the Swamp Thing.
Elseworlds
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What century-old Irish vampire does Jesse team up with early in the series?
Cassidy
Later in the series, we learn that Cassidy took part in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland, and he "dies" shortly thereafter.
Starr
The Saint of Killers
Hugo Root
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What is the name of the entity that inhabits Jesse early in the series?
Revelation
Exodus
Archangel
Genesis
Genesis gives Jesse the power of the Word of God, forcing anyone who hears him invoke the word to obey his command.
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How does the comic book indicate when Jesse is speaking in the Word of God?
Exclamation points
Red text
The red text is an allusion to the Biblical tradition that prints the words of Jesus in red.
Italics
Latin
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What comedian popular in the 1980's and 90's does Jesse reminisce about seeing perform in the comic?
Bill Hicks
Hicks was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but continued to tour until close to his death. Jesse expresses admiration for Hicks willingness to tell the truth as he saw it, regardless of the consequences.
Eddie Murphy
Jerry Seinfeld
Chris Rock
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Who do the angels send to extract Genesis from Jesse?
Starr
The Saint of Killers
The Saint of Killers is a Confederate veteran who was originally consigned to hell but is later offered to take the job of reaping souls from the Angel of Death.
The Duke
Jesus DeSade
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For what organization does Herr Starr work?
The Grail
In the world of Preacher, Jesus did not die on the cross. He lived to be 43 and produced offspring. The goal of The Grail is to preserve Christ's bloodline and keep it pure.
Knights Templar
Freemasons
The Illuminati
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What writer of such comics as Judge Dredd and Punisher created and wrote Preacher?
Alan Moore
Frank Miller
Garth Ennis
Ennis was born in Northern-Ireland and, perhaps unsurprisingly given the material in Preacher, he is an atheist.
Stan Lee
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Who is Sheriff Root's son?
Skeeter
Pube
Cyrus Chunt
Arseface
Arseface ends up deformed after attempting to kill himself with a shotgun, like his hero Kurt Cobain.
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What is the name of The Grail's fortress?
The Tower
Neuschwanstein
Gibraltar
Mosada
Mosada was a fortress where a group of Israelites fought off the Romans until it became clear they would be overrun and committed suicide. Modern Israel also names their intelligence agency after the site.
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Where does the "War in the Sun" from issues 34-40 take place?
The Sahara Desert
Monument Valley, Utah
The area has been featured in numerous media, including many John Ford westerns.
The Alamo
Sun City, South Africa
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In what Texas town does Jesse serve as sheriff?
Salvation
Salvation, Texas is not a real town, although a film by the same name was released in 2008.
El Paso
Nogales
Brownsville
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Who illustrated Preacher?
Todd McFarlane
Brian Bolland
Steve Dillon
The English illustrator got his start working on Dr. Who comics.
Jack Kirby
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Who saved Jesse from death during the War in the Sun?
Tulip
God
After saving Jesse's life, God asks him to give up his quest, but Jesse refuses.
Cassidy
Herr Starr
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What character owns a meat processing plant and takes a prurient interest in his product?
Hugo Root
Colonel Holden
Billy Bob
Odin Quincannon
Quincannon is played by Jackie Earl Haley on the AMC series. However, they have not portrayed any sexual activities with the meat...yet.
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Which of the following is *not* one of the Chunt Brothers, a cannibalistic clan who capture Starr?
Paul
Starr ultimately escapes, but not before the Chunts eat his leg.
Cyrus
Karl
Ernie
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Which of the following is *not* a power that the Saint of Killers possesses?
Invulnerability
Flight
He can't fly, but he cannot be destroyed, even by a nuclear weapon!
Complete accuracy with his guns
The ability to kill anyone with his weapons
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Which character does Jesse order to "go fuck himself" using the Word of God?
Cassidy
Sheriff Hugo Root
After hearing the command, Sheriff root cuts off his own penis and sodomizes himself with it. He commits suicide shortly thereafter.
God
Arseface
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What is wrong with The Messiah kept by The Grail?
Narcoleptic
Hemophiliac
Inbred to the point of idiocy
The Messiah's idiocy leads Starr to conclude that he cannot unite the world after the apocalypse, so Starr has him killed.
Deaf, dumb, and blind -- but sure plays a mean pinball
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Who is Jesse's imaginary friend?
Allfather D'Aronique
The Duke
The Duke seems like a manifestation of John Wayne, his father's hero. However, The Duke can also be interpreted as the spirit of Jesse's father, John Custer.
Jesus DeSade
Marie L'Angelle
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Who serve as enforcers for Jesse's grandmother, Marie L'Angelle?
Odin and Conan Quincannon
Hoover and Featherstone
Jody and T.C.
Jody killed Jesse's father John in front of Jesse when he was five years old. Jesse later gets revenge by strangling Jody to death.
The Chunt Brothers
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Who captures Jesse, dresses him as an SS officer, and ties him to a bed with the intent of raping him?
Tulip
Miss Outlash
Miss Outlast is Odin Quincannon's lawyer and secretly a dominatrix.
Amy Grinderbinder
Jesus DeSade
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Who is the Saint of Killers first victim?
Jesse
Cassidy
The Devil
After giving the Saint revolvers that will kill anything, the Devil insults the Saint and seals his fate.
Starr
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Of what war is Jesse's father John a veteran?
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
John served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he received a Zippo lighter from John Wayne that was engraved with the words "Fuck Communism."
The First Persian Gulf War
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Which character hosts debauched parties that include drugs, zoophilia, and pedophilia?
Si Coltrane
Freddy Allen
Frankie Toscani
Jesus DeSade
The last name "DeSade" comes from the Marquis DeSade, a French nobleman during the French Revolution, who glorified deviant sexual acts.
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What Alanis Morissette song does Arseface cover?
"Hand in My Pocket"
"Ironic"
"You Oughta Know"
The subject of "You Oughta Know" has been much debated over the years, but many people believe Morissette wrote it about Dave Coolier, who played Uncle Joey on Full House and briefly dated Morissette.
"You Learn"
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What does Jesse order Hoover to do using the Word of God?
Fly to the moon
Count every grain of sand on a beach
The comic shows him reach three million grains before freeing himself of the command, which seems like a low number for the grains of sand on a beach.
Walk across the Earth
Take him to God
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Who does Starr kill in a coup d'etat to seize control of The Grail?
Colonel Holden
Jesus DeSade
Eccarius
Allfather D'Aronique
Before the coup, D'Aronique is the leader of The Grail and also a distant relative of Jesse!
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Preacher ran from 1995 to what year?
1998
1999
2000
The final monthly issue, number 66, ran in October 2000.
2001
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Where does Jesse have his final showdown with Cassidy and Starr?
The Alamo
American legends including Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis were all killed during the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
Fort Sumter
Fort Ticonderago
Alcatraz
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Who does *not* die (at least temporarily) in the final showdown?
Jesse
Starr
Tulip
Starr kills Jesse, but is then killed by Tulip, while Cassidy commits suicide by standing in sunlight.
Cassidy
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Who kills God?
Cassidy
Saint of Killers
The Saint of Killers kills God as revenge for fating him to become death.
Jesse
Tulip
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In the late 1990's, Garth Ennis approached this creator of Jay and Silent Bob about financing and adaptation of Preacher, but it never came to fruition.
Jim Jarmusch
Ben Affleck
Richard Linklater
Kevin Smith
The adaptation would have been produced by Smith's View Askew Productions, which has released such films as Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy.
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What writer and star of Pineapple Express adapted Preacher as an AMC television show?
Seth Rogen
Rogen and his frequent co-writer Evan Goldberg read the series in the '90s and have wanted to adapt it for many years.
Paul Rudd
Jonah Hill
Steve Carell
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