Assassin's Creed
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50 free Assassin's Creed trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few game series have covered as much ground as Assassin's Creed. Since 2007 it has sent players across rooftops in one century after another, mixing invented heroes with real rulers, artists and outlaws, and wrapping the whole thing in a modern-day conspiracy about a secret struggle that never ended. This quiz tests your knowledge of all of it. Expect questions on the lead characters of the main games, the cities and eras they explore, the historical figures who turn up along the way, and the tools and traditions that define the series. Other questions step outside the games to the studio that built them, the voice cast, the music and the film adaptation. It is written for anyone who has played at least one entry, and the questions stay light on spoilers: they ask about premises, settings and characters, not endings or late twists. The first set is the gentlest, later sets are for players who know their lore, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Assassin's Creed grew out of plans for a sequel to which Ubisoft series, rebooted by the same team in 2003?
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia was meant to get a spin-off in which the player guarded a prince instead of playing one. Ubisoft balked at that idea, so the project became a new series.
Q 02In Assassin's Creed, a Leap of Faith from a rooftop perch traditionally ends in which soft landing spot?
A haystack
A haystack breaks the fall from any height. The stunt was borrowed from Hollywood films, and the same hay piles double as hiding places from guards.
Q 03Which television star lent both her voice and her likeness to Lucy Stillman in the first Assassin's Creed?
Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell took the role of Lucy while starring in the detective series Veronica Mars, years before she voiced Anna in Frozen.
Q 04Ubisoft reused its Assassin's Creed Unity model of which Paris landmark for a virtual reality experience?
Notre-Dame
Notre-Dame caught fire in April 2019, and Ubisoft responded by giving the game away for a week and donating €500,000 to the rebuilding.
Q 05Which Renaissance artist decodes Codex pages and builds new weapons for the hero of Assassin's Creed II?
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci appears as a young man who turns the Codex schematics into poison blades and a miniature wheellock firearm.
Q 06Which notorious real pirate helps run a pirate republic at Nassau in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag?
Blackbeard
Blackbeard dreams of a pirate utopia beyond the reach of any crown or church. The game surrounds him with other real pirates, among them Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Charles Vane.
Q 07Which deposed queen, at war with her brother Ptolemy XIII, recruits the hero of Assassin's Creed Origins to her cause?
Cleopatra
Cleopatra hands the hero a list of targets, and later has herself smuggled into the palace rolled in a carpet to meet Julius Caesar.
Q 08Which actor both co-produced and starred in the 2016 Assassin's Creed film as Callum Lynch and his ancestor Aguilar?
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender signed on in 2012, and the film reunited him with Justin Kurzel and Marion Cotillard, his director and co-star from Macbeth.
Q 09Which real retainer of the warlord Oda Nobunaga is one of two playable heroes in Assassin's Creed Shadows?
Yasuke
Yasuke is based on a historical African samurai, and he shares the game with Naoe, a fictional female shinobi.
Q 10Assassin's Creed Valhalla follows the Viking raider Eivor, who leaves Norway to found a settlement in which country?
England
England is carved into four rival kingdoms in the game, and the clan's settlement, Ravensthorpe, grows as Eivor wins allies among them.
Q 11In Assassin's Creed, which machine lets Desmond Miles relive the memories stored in his ancestors' DNA?
The Animus
The Animus translates genetic memories into a simulated reality. The writers invented it so that one series could visit assassinations from many eras of history.
Q 12Desmond Miles, the modern-day lead of the first Assassin's Creed games, is working which job when he is kidnapped?
Bartender
Bartender is the quiet life he chose after abandoning the isolated Assassin community in which he was raised.
Q 13Which Florentine nobleman is the hero of Assassin's Creed II and returns in Brotherhood and Revelations?
Ezio Auditore
Q 21Which brig, seized from a Spanish fleet, does the hero of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag sail as captain?
The Jackdaw
The Jackdaw made open naval exploration a major part of the series for the first time, and the player keeps upgrading the ship throughout the game.
Q 22Which Assassin's Creed game casts players as Shay Cormac, an Irish-American sailing the North Atlantic in the 1750s?
Rogue
Rogue was led by Ubisoft's studio in Sofia and is set around the French and Indian War, with its hero ending up on the Templar side.
Q 23Twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye take on a Templar-run underworld in which city in Assassin's Creed Syndicate?
London
London is seen in 1868, and the twins cross its seven boroughs by carriage and aboard a train that serves as their base.
Ezio Auditore is followed from his youth in Florence to old age, a story that ends in the animated short film Embers.
Q 14Which Assassin, demoted after a botched mission at Solomon's Temple, is the hero of the first Assassin's Creed?
Altaïr
Altaïr is stripped of his rank as Master Assassin and must earn it back by hunting nine targets spread across the Holy Land.
Q 15The first Assassin's Creed is set in the Holy Land in 1191, in the middle of which conflict?
The Third Crusade
The Third Crusade brings King Richard the Lionheart to the Holy Land, and the hero ends up pleading a case in the king's own camp.
Q 16Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is set almost entirely in which Italian city, then ruled by the Borgia family?
Rome
Rome begins the game in ruins, and the player wins it back district by district by destroying twelve Borgia towers.
Q 17Which gadget, new in Assassin's Creed: Revelations, lets the hero ride ziplines across Constantinople?
The hookblade
The hookblade replaces a wrist blade that breaks at the start of the game, and it reportedly makes getting around the city about 30 percent faster.
Q 18Assassin's Creed III follows a half-Mohawk Assassin through Boston, New York and the frontier during which conflict?
The American Revolution
The American Revolution puts the hero beside Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and the Marquis de Lafayette. The game was among the first big releases to feature Mohawk people prominently.
Q 19The hero of Assassin's Creed III is born Ratonhnhaké:ton but goes by which adopted name?
Connor
Connor was the name of his mentor's late son, and the old Assassin passes it on to help his pupil blend in with colonial society.
Q 20Which Welsh privateer turned pirate captain is the hero of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag?
Edward Kenway
Edward Kenway only became Welsh after the team cast Matt Ryan and asked the actor to use his natural accent.
Q 24Which German political theorist hands the Frye twins side missions in Assassin's Creed Syndicate?
Karl Marx
Karl Marx is one of several real Victorians the twins assist, alongside Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and the Queen herself.
Q 25Which Medjay from the Siwa Oasis sets out to avenge his son in Assassin's Creed Origins?
Bayek
Bayek is voiced by Abubakar Salim, who was first told he was auditioning for an animated television series.
Q 26Which combat-free mode for Assassin's Creed Origins turns ancient Egypt into a series of guided history lessons?
Discovery Tour
Discovery Tour strips out every fight so that teachers can show the game to schoolchildren, and Ubisoft added it as a free update for owners of the game.
Q 27In Assassin's Creed Origins, the hero scouts enemy camps through the eyes of Senu, which kind of bird?
An eagle
An eagle, specifically a Bonelli's eagle, replaced the sixth-sense vision mode of earlier games, and later entries kept the idea of a bird companion.
Q 28Assassin's Creed Odyssey lets players choose between the mercenary Alexios and which sister of his?
Kassandra
Kassandra was meant to be the game's only lead, but the team was told that was not an option, so her brother became playable too.
Q 29Assassin's Creed Odyssey casts players as a mercenary free to fight for Athens or Sparta during which war?
The Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War was chosen so that players could meet Socrates and Hippocrates. Ancient Greece had been one of the settings fans requested most.
Q 30The hero of Assassin's Creed Odyssey fights with the spear of which Spartan king, an ancestor?
Leonidas
Leonidas opens the game himself, leading the Spartans at Thermopylae before the story jumps ahead to his grandchild.