Test your knowledge of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games saga — from Katniss and Peeta in District 12 to the Capitol, the Quarter Quell, and the prequel's young Coriolanus Snow.
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The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins and first published in 2008, is one of the defining young-adult dystopian sagas of the 21st century. Set in the fictional nation of Panem — born from the ruins of North America — the saga pits twenty-four teenage tributes against each other in a televised arena every year, a cruel ritual designed to remind the twelve outlying districts of a failed rebellion against the all-powerful Capitol.
The trilogy follows Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old hunter from coal-mining District 12 who volunteers as tribute to save her little sister Prim. Her unlikely alliance with baker's son Peeta Mellark, her mentor Haymitch Abernathy, and the stylist Cinna sets in motion a political firestorm that engulfs the Capitol. The books — *The Hunger Games*, *Catching Fire* and *Mockingjay* — have sold over 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 50 languages.
The film adaptations, starring Jennifer Lawrence, grossed more than 3 billion dollars at the global box office between 2012 and 2015, with director Francis Lawrence steering four of the five entries. In 2020, Collins returned to Panem with the prequel *The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes*, exploring the origins of a young Coriolanus Snow — later adapted into a blockbuster in 2023 with Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.