Age of Empires II
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50 free Age of Empires II trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Age of Empires II has been played competitively for more than a quarter of a century, and much of its appeal comes down to one question: which civilization should you pick? Every faction shares the same medieval toolbox, yet each one bends the rules with its own bonuses, a signature unit and a landmark only it can build. This quiz tests how well you know those differences. You will match civilizations to their unique units, economic quirks and Wonders, name the heroes of the story campaigns, and recall the technologies, cheat codes and expansions that long-time players take for granted. A few questions step outside the game to cover how it was made and how its community plays today. It is written for anyone who has queued for a ranked match, watched a tournament, or finished the tutorial years ago and still remembers the villagers' voices. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something about your next pick.
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Q 01Which Age of Empires II cavalry civilization never needs to build houses to support its population?
Huns
The Huns start every game with their population room already at the maximum, a bonus designed to make them feel like rampaging nomads. A test build that gave them houses again, even at no cost, was judged a disaster.
Q 02Which classic sports car, firing bullets at its targets, appears when a cheat code is typed into Age of Empires II?
AC Cobra
The AC Cobra behaves like a very fast-firing gunner on wheels, tough enough to mow down whole armies. Its shots also hurt friendly units that wander into the line of fire, including other cars.
Q 03Which Age of Empires II siege weapon is built at the Castle and must be unpacked before it fires?
Trebuchet
The Trebuchet has the highest attack of any unit in the game, so its main job is flattening enemy Castles from a safe distance. It is helpless against anything that gets close.
Q 04Which French heroine leads an Age of Empires II campaign against the English in the Hundred Years' War?
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is one of only two heroes in the original campaigns whom the player controls as a unit on the map. In the others, orders come from guiding spirits who stand in for the army's commander.
Q 05Which film franchise borrowed the Age of Empires II engine for its 2001 strategy game Galactic Battlegrounds?
Star Wars
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds was made by LucasArts and leaned heavily on the older game's mechanics as well as its engine. Empire Earth and Cossacks: European Wars also drew on its design.
Q 06In which age does a standard Age of Empires II random map game begin, with a Town Center and a scout?
Dark Age
The Dark Age comes first, followed by the Feudal, Castle and Imperial Ages, which together span about a thousand years. The first Age of Empires opened in the Stone Age instead.
Q 07Which dangerous animal do Age of Empires II players lure to the Town Center as an early source of food?
Wild Boar
The Wild Boar fights back, so villagers have to attack it as a group; one villager alone cannot handle it. It carries more food than most huntable animals, which is why luring one home is a standard opening move.
Q 08Which Age of Empires II civilization builds the Turtle Ship, a slow armoured warship, and the War Wagon?
Koreans
The Koreans launch the Turtle Ship from the Dock, where it fires cannonballs and shrugs off most damage. The War Wagon, a heavily armoured cavalry archer, comes from the Castle; both arrived with the first expansion.
Q 09Which Wallachian prince, who fought off Ottoman invasions, got his own Age of Empires II campaign in 2013?
Vlad the Impaler
Vlad the Impaler, whose other name Bram Stoker borrowed for his vampire count, defends Wallachia across five scenarios. An old veteran of his wars tells the story to travellers sheltering in Poenari Castle.
Q 10Which objects do Monks carry to the Monastery in Age of Empires II to earn a steady trickle of gold?
Relics
Relics start scattered around the map, and each one generates gold for as long as it sits in a Monastery. Holding every one of them for long enough can even win a standard game.
Q 11Which Scottish rebel gives his name to the tutorial campaign that teaches new Age of Empires II players the basics?
William Wallace
William Wallace fronts the learning campaign, set in the Wars of Scottish Independence against Edward I Longshanks. It is rated the easiest of the five campaigns that shipped with the original game.
Q 12Which sultan's campaign in the original Age of Empires II has players defend the Holy Land against Crusader armies?
Saladin
Saladin commands the Saracens against the Crusaders, and his campaign is rated one of the two most challenging of the original five.
Q 13Which ruler's campaign in the original Age of Empires II sweeps across Eurasia and ends with an invasion of Hungary?
Genghis Khan
Q 21Which Age of Empires II civilization trains the Longbowman and gives its foot archers extra range?
Britons
The Britons add range to their foot archers as the game goes on, then stretch it again with a technology called Yeomen. Their shepherds also work faster, which speeds up the opening minutes.
Q 22Which Age of Empires II civilization trains the Berserk, a heavy infantryman who slowly heals his own wounds?
Vikings
The Vikings also get Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart for free, an economy so strong that tournaments have often banned them. Their whole team pays less for Docks as well.
Q 23Which Age of Empires II civilization swamps opponents with cheap infantry and the arrow-resistant Huskarl?
Goths
Genghis Khan's six scenarios are narrated by the anonymous author of The Secret History of the Mongols. The campaign's icon is a black horse-tail war banner; white-tailed ones were flown in peacetime.
Q 14Which Holy Roman Emperor, drowned on the Third Crusade, is the subject of the Teutons' Age of Empires II campaign?
Barbarossa
Barbarossa only appears in his own campaign after death: his body, preserved in vinegar, rides in a barrel on a Trade Cart. The story is told by a tavern patron who turns out to be his rival Henry the Lion.
Q 15Which Castilian knight, exiled by his own king, got an Age of Empires II campaign in the game's first expansion?
El Cid
El Cid is sent into exile partway through his six scenarios, so the player ends up fighting alongside the Moors he once opposed. The Saracens stand in for those new allies.
Q 16Which studio, shut down in 2009 just after finishing Halo Wars, developed the original Age of Empires II?
Ensemble Studios
Ensemble Studios had signed for a sequel before the first Age of Empires was even finished. The follow-up overran by a year, so the team shipped The Rise of Rome in 1998 to fill the gap.
Q 17Which 2000 expansion pack first gave every Age of Empires II civilization its own unique technology?
The Conquerors
The Conquerors also added five civilizations, among them two New World peoples who cannot train cavalry. It let infantry garrison inside battering rams as well, which makes the rams faster and stronger.
Q 18Which 2019 remaster of Age of Empires II added 4K graphics and bundled every earlier expansion?
Definitive Edition
Definitive Edition marked the game's 20th anniversary and added four civilizations from Central Asia and Eastern Europe. When its new computer opponent was tested against the old one, the newcomer won easily.
Q 19Which energy drink brand lent its name to the Wololo tournament that brought Age of Empires II to a Spanish castle?
Red Bull
Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado was held at the Castle of Almodóvar in 2024 with eight top players. Its audience peaked at 85,800 concurrent viewers.
Q 20What does typing 11 in Age of Empires II chat signal, a habit that grew out of the game's numbered taunts?
Laughter
Laughter is what the game plays whenever someone types 11, one of its numbered chat taunts. Players now use the number the way others would type lol.
The Goths pay less for every infantry unit, and their Perfusion technology doubles the speed of their Barracks. Anarchy even lets them train the Huskarl there instead of only at the Castle.
Q 24Which Age of Empires II civilization starts with three extra villagers and trains the rapid-firing Chu Ko Nu?
Chinese
The Chinese pay for those extra villagers with less starting food and wood, which makes their opening trickier to play. Their Town Centers also support more population than other civilizations'.
Q 25Which Age of Empires II civilization trains the Gbeto, a fast female infantry unit that attacks by hurling knives?
Malians
The Malians' Gbeto was only the second trainable female unit in the game, after the female villager. Historically its fighters belonged to the Fon people of Dahomey, not to the Mali Empire.
Q 26Which Age of Empires II civilization can build the Feitoria, which generates resources without any villagers working?
Portuguese
The Portuguese pay for that free income in space: each Feitoria takes up 20 population slots. In return it trickles in food, wood, gold and stone all at once.
Q 27Which Age of Empires II civilization lets its whole team train the Condottiero, infantry built to hunt gunpowder units?
Italians
The Italians' team bonus puts the Condottiero in every ally's Barracks. At home they also train the Genoese Crossbowman, a foot archer with a bonus against cavalry.
Q 28Which Southeast Asian civilization in Age of Empires II lets farmers bank food without walking to a drop-off?
Khmer
The Khmer, whose Wonder is the central shrine of Angkor Wat, can also advance through the ages without first constructing the usual prerequisite buildings. Their villagers can even hide inside ordinary houses.
Q 29Which Age of Empires II civilization can research Flemish Revolution, turning every villager into a soldier at once?
Burgundians
The Burgundians' gamble swaps their entire workforce for Flemish Militia, infantry with a bonus against cavalry. The technology is researched at the Castle, late in the game.
Q 30Which Age of Empires II civilization can build a second Town Center as early as the Feudal Age?
Cumans
The Cumans can also roll out Battering Rams an age earlier than usual, so they threaten a boom and a rush at once. Their Kipchak is a horse archer that looses several arrows per volley.