Animal Farm Trivia
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108 free Animal Farm trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Animal Farm trivia quiz covers George Orwell's 1945 fable of a farmyard revolution betrayed by its pigs. The easy questions cover the author, the animals who take charge, the horse who works himself to death and the famous line about some animals being more equal than others. From there the quiz moves through the plot: Old Major's dream, the Battle of the Cowshed, the windmill, the purges, Boxer's van, the sheep's slogan and the card game that ends the book with pigs and men indistinguishable. The hard end covers the allegory (who stands for Stalin, Trotsky, the Tsar, Pravda and the Orthodox Church), the Seven Commandments and how they were rewritten, Mr Whymper and Pinkeye, Sugarcandy Mountain, the publishers who turned the book down and the Soviet spy at the Ministry of Information, the suppressed preface, the V-1 that flattened Orwell's flat, the CIA-funded cartoon and the balloons that carried copies over the Iron Curtain. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry on Animal Farm before publishing and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our George Orwell, 1984 and classic literature quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01Which band's album Animals was loosely inspired by Animal Farm?
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's cover shoot went awry when their 40-foot inflatable pig broke loose over London and drifted into Heathrow's flight path.
Q 02What was the original subtitle of Animal Farm, dropped by American publishers in 1946?
A Fairy Story
A Fairy Story was Orwell's own subtitle, and for the French translation he proposed a title abbreviating to URSA, Latin for bear, a symbol of Russia.
Q 03What was the farm called before the animals renamed it Animal Farm?
Manor
Manor Farm returns in the last chapter, when Napoleon tells his human guests that the name Animal Farm has been abolished.
Q 04What is the name of the drunken farmer the animals drive out?
Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones lost the farm after a drinking binge left the animals unfed all day, until they broke into the store-shed and chased him off.
Q 05Which prize boar inspires the rebellion with his speech and song before dying?
Old Major
Old Major dies three nights after his speech, and the pigs later dig up his skull and make the animals file past it, as Lenin's body was displayed.
Q 06Which revolutionary song does Napoleon ban once he rules the farm?
Beasts of England
Beasts of England was no longer needed, the pigs announced, because the Rebellion was complete, and the poet pig Minimus wrote a new anthem to replace it.
Q 07Which Russian ruler does Animal Farm's drunken farmer represent?
Tsar Nicholas II
Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate and later executed; his farmyard stand-in fails to win back the farm and dies in an inebriates' home.
Q 08Which Soviet figure does the pig Snowball represent?
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky was Stalin's exiled rival, and once Snowball is driven out the pigs blame him for every mishap, from stolen corn to broken eggs.
Q 09What is the name of the small pig who serves as Napoleon's propaganda minister?
Squealer
Squealer is later found stunned beside a broken ladder and an overturned pot of white paint at the barn wall where the commandments kept changing.
Q 10What is the name of the loyal horse whose motto is 'Napoleon is always right'?
Boxer
Boxer grieved over a stable-lad he thought he had killed with his iron-shod hoofs, but the boy was only stunned and slipped away.
Q 11What happens to the loyal farm horse who falls ill?
Napoleon sells him to a knacker
Napoleon sells him to a knacker, the pigs claim the van belonged to an animal hospital, and they soon buy another case of whisky.
Q 12Which cynical old donkey is one of the few animals who can read properly?
Benjamin
Benjamin said there was nothing worth reading, yet near the end he read Clover the barn wall: only a single commandment was left.
Q 13What is the vain white mare Mollie fond of?
Hair ribbons and sugar cubes
Hair ribbons and sugar cubes won out: Mollie was last seen harnessed outside a pub, wearing a scarlet ribbon while a man fed her sugar.
Q 21How does Napoleon finally drive Snowball off the farm?
He sets his dogs on him
He sets his dogs on him: nine puppies Napoleon had taken from their mothers, Jessie and Bluebell, and raised in secret.
Q 22Which neighbouring farmer pays Napoleon in counterfeit money and then attacks the farm with explosives?
Mr. Frederick
Mr. Frederick got the timber for nothing, and soon after his men invaded the farm, killing many animals.
Q 23Why do the pigs say they alone must have the farm's milk and apples?
They are brainworkers
They are brainworkers, the pigs said, and without the milk and apples their ousted farmer would come back.
Q 14What kind of animal is Moses, who preaches of a paradise above the clouds?
A raven
A raven, Moses returns years after the Rebellion; the pigs call his tales lies yet let him stay idle with a daily gill of beer.
Q 15What is the name of the goat, one of the few non-pigs on the farm who can read?
Muriel
Muriel reads the Sixth Commandment to Clover after the executions, and it now forbids killing only 'without cause'.
Q 16Which commandment do the pigs rewrite first, once in the farmhouse?
No beds
No beds became 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets', though Clover could not recall the rule ever mentioning sheets.
Q 17The barn wall's final commandment says some animals are what?
More equal than others
More equal than others: once the wall read that way, nobody found it strange when the pigs put on clothes from the farmhouse wardrobes.
Q 18What slogan do the sheep bleat to drown out any dissent?
Four legs good, two legs bad
Four legs good, two legs bad later became 'Four legs good, two legs better!', bleated by the sheep as the pigs began walking upright.
Q 19What do the animals call the fight in which the ousted farmer fails to retake the farm?
The Battle of the Cowshed
The Battle of the Cowshed showed Snowball's bravery, yet Napoleon later smeared him as a secret ally of the humans.
Q 20What structure does Snowball propose building to modernise the farm?
A windmill
A windmill was Snowball's plan, but once he was chased off, the pigs claimed the idea had been Napoleon's own all along.
Q 24What is Mr. Whymper's role in the story?
Napoleon's human go-between for trade
Napoleon's human go-between for trade was Mr. Whymper, a Willingdon solicitor sharp enough to see that the commissions would be worth having.
Q 25Which animals are the first executed after confessing to plotting with Snowball?
Four young pigs
Four young pigs had protested when Napoleon abolished the animals' meetings, and after their forced confessions they were killed on the spot.
Q 26How does Napoleon break the hens' rebellion over their eggs?
He stops their rations
He stops their rations: nine hens die before the rest give in, and their deaths are blamed on coccidiosis.
Q 27What is unusual about the cat's only recorded vote?
She voted both ways
She voted both ways, and though she dodged all work, she once leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws into his neck.
Q 28What does Snowball make the farm's hoof-and-horn flag from?
An old green tablecloth
An old green tablecloth: its hoof and horn seem to echo the hammer and sickle, and by the end the symbol has been removed.
Q 29What are the pigs and men doing when the animals outside realise they can no longer tell them apart?
Playing cards and cheating
Playing cards and cheating: Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades at the same time.
Q 30Which 1943 summit shaped Animal Farm's closing scene?
Tehran
Tehran was thought to have set up the best possible relations between the USSR and the West, but Orwell personally did not believe they would last.