Asterix Trivia
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60 free Asterix trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Asterix trivia for anyone who grew up on the little Gaulish village that still holds out against the invaders. Since Pilote magazine in October 1959, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's comic has sold close to 400 million albums in more than 110 languages, spawned 18 films and a theme park, and even lent its name to France's first satellite. This quiz covers the creators (including the six fingers Uderzo was born with and Goscinny's Argentine childhood), the village and its cast (Obelix and his cauldron, Getafix and his golden sickle, Vitalstatistix on his shield, the gagged bard, the long-suffering pirates), the running jokes and the multilingual name puns, the sales figures and publishing feuds, Anthea Bell's English translations, the animated and live-action films, and the later albums by Ferri, Conrad and Fabcaro. Easy questions suit anyone who has read one album; the expert tier is for people who know their Impedimenta from their Bacteria. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its albums and its characters, and the supporting sentence is attached to each question.
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Q 01In which magazine did Asterix first appear, on 29 October 1959?
Pilote
Pilote. For the new magazine its creators first planned a strip about Reynard the Fox, learned a rival artist was already drawing one, and invented Asterix in its place.
Q 02In Asterix, which plant does the druid Getafix cut with a golden sickle for his magic potion?
Mistletoe
Mistletoe. The detail is borrowed from the Roman writer Pliny, who described white-robed druids climbing an oak to cut mistletoe with a golden sickle and brew an antidote from it.
Q 03Every Asterix album opens in 50 BC with one village holding out in which French region?
Brittany
Brittany, in ancient Armorica. Uderzo had lived there during the war and chose it; his co-author asked only that the village lie by the sea, so the heroes could sail off on adventures.
Q 04What are the four Roman camps around Asterix's village called?
Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium
Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium. Totorum, a tot o' rum, was coined to keep the joke of the French original, Babaorum, which is named after the rum baba cake.
Q 05What is the druid of Asterix's village called in the original French editions?
Panoramix
Panoramix. Most Asterix names are puns that only work in French, so translators coin new ones: English readers know him as Getafix, the druid from whom the village gets its fix of potion.
Q 06In the first Asterix album, which real Gaulish chieftain surrenders by dropping his weapons onto Julius Caesar's feet?
Vercingetorix
Vercingetorix. History and a famous painting have him lay his arms at Caesar's feet after Alesia; the comic drops them on the conqueror's toes instead, and Caesar leaps from his seat with a howl.
Q 07Why does Obelix have permanent superhuman strength?
He fell into the potion as a child
He fell into the potion as a child, so its effect never wore off. Getafix refuses him any more, and Asterix and Obelix All at Sea shows why: a whole cauldron of it turns him to granite.
Q 08What is Obelix's job?
Menhir deliveryman
Menhir deliveryman. In Obelix and Co. a Roman economist buys every stone he can carve, hoping riches will soften the village, and the glut of menhirs ends up wrecking Rome's own economy.
Q 09What is Obelix's catchphrase?
'These Romans are crazy!'
'These Romans are crazy!' The Italian edition turns the line into 'Sono pazzi questi romani', a long-running Italian joke reading of the Roman initials SPQR.
Q 10What is the name of Obelix's dog in the original French?
Idéfix
Idéfix. Readers suggested the name in a contest run by the comic's magazine; it plays on idée fixe, an obsession, and the English Dogmatix puns on dogmatic while slipping in 'dog'.
Q 11In which album does Obelix's dog first appear, trailing the heroes all the way round Gaul?
Asterix and the Banquet
Asterix and the Banquet. A little dog outside a butcher's shop tags along for the rest of the tour without the heroes noticing, until Obelix finally spots him at the very end.
Q 12What is the name of the chief of Asterix's village?
Vitalstatistix
Vitalstatistix. He rides on a shield whose two bearers keep dropping him, yet in Asterix and the Big Fight he wins single combat against a pro-Roman chief with the whole village at stake.
Q 13In Asterix, which villager is usually tied up and gagged at the feast that ends most albums?
Cacofonix
Q 21In Asterix and the Black Gold, the druid-spy Dubbelosix is drawn as which James Bond actor?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery. Dubbelosix, a double-O-six on Caesar's secret service, rides a folding chariot packed with gadgets and files his reports to Rome by carrier fly.
Q 22Roughly how many Asterix albums had been sold worldwide by 2025?
400 million
About 400 million: 393 million at the last count, more than any other European comic. Not everywhere, though: a US publisher tried three albums in 1970, found sales modest and gave up.
Q 23As of 2025, which manga is the only comic series to have outsold Asterix in collected volumes?
One Piece
Cacofonix. The bard is trussed up so the village can feast in peace, though his voice has its uses: in Asterix and the Normans it teaches invaders who know no fear exactly what fear is.
Q 14From Asterix and the Magic Carpet onward, what does the bard's singing cause?
Thunderstorms, even indoors
Thunderstorms, even indoors. From that album on his voice brings down rain, once inside the chief's own hut, and the plot turns on it: a fakir flies him to India to sing an end to a drought.
Q 15Which Asterix running-gag characters, first seen in Asterix the Gladiator, parody the adventure comic Barbe-Rouge?
The pirates
The pirates. They spoof an adventure strip that ran beside Asterix in the same magazine, and are sunk so often that they end up serving as innkeepers and galley slaves to pay for the next ship.
Q 16In Asterix, what is the name of the village chief's wife?
Impedimenta
Impedimenta. She finds her husband short on ambition and jumps the queue at the fish stall as 'the chief's wife'; in Asterix and the Secret Weapon the village women make her chief in his place.
Q 17In Asterix, old Geriatrix is a veteran of which battle, where the Gauls beat Caesar?
Gergovia
Gergovia. The 93-year-old elder never lets the village forget it: when his blood is up, he cries that it will be Gergovia all over again.
Q 18In Asterix, the fishmonger Unhygienix insists his fish are brought in from where?
Lutetia
Lutetia. He lives on the coast and owns a boat, yet has his fish brought in from far-off Lutetia, today's Paris, sure that it is finer, so it is never fresh and sets off many a village brawl.
Q 19Asterix's name puns on 'asterisk', but why did his writer want it to start with A?
To top alphabetical listings
To top alphabetical listings. His writer called a name beginning with A an undeniable advantage for the comics encyclopedias of the future, and the asterisk supplied one.
Q 20In the English Asterix translations, Roman names end in -us and British names often end in what?
-ax or -os, punning on taxes
-ax or -os, punning on taxes. The French original set the endings with Jolitorax and Zebigbos, 'the big boss'; the English translators filled them with Valuaddedtax and Selectivemploymentax.
One Piece. Eiichiro Oda's manga has passed 500 million copies, but it has needed more than a hundred volumes to do it; Asterix runs second on about forty albums.
Q 24By 2022, Asterix had been translated into roughly how many languages and dialects?
About 110
About 110: a 2009 count found 107 and the publisher gave 111 in 2022. Not all are living tongues: schools use the Latin and ancient Greek albums to teach those languages.
Q 25How many copies did the first Asterix album sell in its year of publication?
6,000
6,000. Sales then multiplied with every new book, and six years later the ninth album sold 1.2 million copies in two days.
Q 26Which writer and artist took over Asterix in 2013?
Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad
Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad. Conrad was a late substitute: Uderzo's first choice to draw, his studio artist Frédéric Mébarki, withdrew a year before the new team's first album was due.
Q 27Which publishing giant took control of Asterix when Uderzo sold his stake in December 2008?
Hachette
Hachette. Uderzo's daughter Sylvie attacked the sale in Le Monde, writing that it was as if the gates of the Gaulish village had been thrown open to the Roman Empire.
Q 28In Asterix in Corsica, which pungent island delicacy gives off fumes that blow up a ship?
Cheese
Cheese. A Corsican chief unwraps one so ripe that the Gauls feel ill, then leaves it aboard when he swims for home; a torch later meets its fumes and the whole ship goes up.
Q 29For Asterix albums 4 to 29, what pattern did the stories' settings follow?
Even-numbered abroad, odd-numbered in Gaul
Even-numbered abroad, odd-numbered in Gaul. The two albums before ran the other way round: book two never left Gaul and book three crossed into Germania, and only then did the rhythm settle.
Q 30Where did Asterix's first writer, René Goscinny, spend his childhood?
Argentina
Argentina. His family left Paris for Buenos Aires when he was two, and the move saved them: relatives who stayed in Europe were murdered in the Nazi camps.