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50 free Critical Role trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Critical Role began as a private Dungeons & Dragons game among friends who happened to act for a living, and it grew into one of the most watched tabletop shows in the world. Three long campaigns, a fourth under a new Game Master, animated series, comics, novels and sold-out live shows have followed. This quiz covers the characters first: Vox Machina, with Vex'ahlia, Percy, Grog and Pike; the Mighty Nein, with Caleb, Fjord, Beau and Yasha; and the Bells Hells. It also asks about villains, places and gods, the people at the table, the guests who dropped in, and how a home game became a business. The early questions suit anyone who has watched the animated shows; the later ones are for viewers who have sat through hundreds of hours of the stream. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which fantasy world did Matthew Mercer create in 2012 for the home game that became Critical Role?
Exandria
Exandria outgrew the show that made it famous: in 2020 it became an official Dungeons & Dragons setting with a sourcebook of its own.
Q 02Critical Role grew out of a one-off game played as a birthday treat for which cast member?
Liam O'Brien
Liam O'Brien had kept turning down invitations to play because of his new baby, then agreed to a single birthday session that the group enjoyed so much it ran at home for two years.
Q 03Which crowdfunding site raised over $11 million in 2019 for an animated Vox Machina series?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers were asked for $750,000 to fund a single 22-minute special; pledges passed $1 million within an hour and the project grew into a full series.
Q 04What kind of animal is Trinket, the loyal companion of Vox Machina's half-elf ranger Vex'ahlia?
A bear
A bear, Trinket fights beside Vex'ahlia throughout the first campaign, and in the animated series his growls are performed by Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer.
Q 05How are Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan, Vox Machina's half-elf ranger and rogue, related?
Twins
Twins, the pair are fiercely protective of each other, and their years before joining the party are told in the prequel novel Kith & Kin.
Q 06What nickname do fans of Critical Role go by, a name first floated during an early episode's Q&A?
Critters
Critters was suggested at the end of the tenth episode and caught on with the live chat; the segments in which fans' gifts to the cast are opened are known as Critmas.
Q 07On which night of the week has Critical Role traditionally streamed its new episodes since 2015?
Thursday
Thursday became so tied to the show that the third campaign's opening theme song is named after the night.
Q 08Which Dungeons & Dragons villain, known as the Whispered One, does Vox Machina face in its final battle?
Vecna
Vecna actually succeeds in becoming a god during the campaign, so the party needs special powers lent by other deities before it can face him.
Q 09Which Game Master replaced Matthew Mercer behind the screen for Critical Role's fourth campaign?
Brennan Lee Mulligan
Brennan Lee Mulligan, the creator of Dimension 20, brought a new world called Aramán with him, while Mercer stayed on at the table as one of the players.
Q 10After playing Vex'ahlia in Vox Machina, Laura Bailey played which tiefling cleric in the Mighty Nein?
Jester Lavorre
Jester Lavorre follows the Traveler, an obscure patron who turns out to be no god at all but an archfey the first campaign's party had already met.
Q 11Which streaming service premiered the animated series The Legend of Vox Machina in January 2022?
Prime Video
Prime Video ordered 14 extra episodes before the show had even aired, lengthening the fan-funded first season and guaranteeing a second.
Q 12Which city, the ancestral home of Percy de Rolo, does Vox Machina fight to free from usurpers?
Whitestone
Whitestone was seized in a coup that killed most of Percy's family, and the returning party finds its sacred Sun Tree dead and hung with effigies of themselves.
Q 13Which weapon does Vox Machina's Percy de Rolo create after a dream offers him the means of revenge?
The gun
The gun became Percy's signature: he engraved the barrels of his pistol with the names of the five conspirators behind the coup that killed his family.
Q 21Which lord and lady, a vampire and a necromancer, murdered most of Percy de Rolo's family?
The Briarwoods
The Briarwoods outlast their own defeat: Lady Delilah's voice still troubles a member of the Bells Hells two campaigns later.
Q 22What name do the four ancient dragons who attack Emon in Vox Machina's campaign go by?
The Chroma Conclave
The Chroma Conclave kills the Sovereign and carves up the kingdom, sending the party on a hunt for legendary magic items powerful enough to fight back.
Q 23Which Vox Machina druid undertakes the Aramenté, a journey to become leader of her people?
Keyleth
Keyleth's quest takes her from tribe to tribe, and among the Fire Ashari she learns that her mother came through on the same journey about ten years earlier.
Q 14Which channel co-founded by Felicia Day hosted Critical Role for its first four years?
Geek & Sundry
Geek & Sundry first pitched a version in which the players would switch to a video game to resolve combat; Matthew Mercer refused, and the group kept its dice and tabletop.
Q 15Grog Strongjaw, Vox Machina's barbarian of great might and slow wit, belongs to which fantasy race?
Goliath
Goliath muscle comes with a soft spot: Grog's best friend in the party is the gnome cleric Pike Trickfoot.
Q 16Which Vox Machina gnome bard is a raunchy hedonist whose most useful spell is a giant purple hand?
Scanlan Shorthalt
Scanlan Shorthalt later leaves the party for a stretch to spend time with his daughter, and a newcomer adventures in his place until he returns.
Q 17Which continent, home to the Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn Dynasty, do the Mighty Nein roam?
Wildemount
Wildemount lies to the east of the first campaign's continent, and its story opens about twenty years after that earlier party's final battle.
Q 18Which rule system did Critical Role's home game use before converting to fifth-edition Dungeons & Dragons?
Pathfinder
Pathfinder was dropped to streamline play for the cameras: the characters were converted to fifth edition just before the first broadcast in March 2015.
Q 19Which Mighty Nein blood hunter, a tiefling from a travelling circus, is killed early on by slavers?
Mollymauk Tealeaf
Mollymauk Tealeaf began as a backup plan: Taliesin Jaffe first designed him as a replacement in case his first-campaign character Percy died.
Q 20Which fast-food chain sponsored a 2019 Critical Role one-shot that was pulled after a fan backlash?
Wendy's
Wendy's paid for the episode to promote its own tabletop game, Feast of Legends; after the backlash the cast gave their sponsorship profits to a farm workers' charity.
Q 24Which Mighty Nein goblin rogue is really a halfling woman named Veth, living under a curse?
Nott the Brave
Nott the Brave gets her halfling body back late in the campaign, then has to choose between adventuring and staying with her husband and son.
Q 25Which real-world language stands in for Zemnian, the mother tongue of the wizard Caleb Widogast?
German
German is spoken at the table whenever Caleb uses Zemnian, a choice Matthew Mercer put down to the actor's love of the language.
Q 26On which livestreaming platform did Critical Role debut in 2015 and later rank among the top earners?
Twitch
Twitch paid the company more than $9.6 million in two years, a figure that only came to light when the platform's payout data leaked in 2021.
Q 27Which city hosted Critical Role's first live show outside the United States, in a sold-out arena?
London
London's Wembley arena sold all 12,000 tickets in under six minutes, a leap from the 2,000 to 3,000 seat venues of earlier live shows.
Q 28Which Critical Role cast member missed long stretches of play while filming NBC's Blindspot?
Ashley Johnson
Ashley Johnson was away so often that the animated series later wrote her character Pike into scenes she had missed in the original game.
Q 29Which automaton cleric of the Bells Hells sacrifices themself on the red moon so the party can escape?
Fresh Cut Grass
Fresh Cut Grass, FCG for short, proved far older than the tinkerer who rebuilt them: the initials first stood for Faithful Care-Giver.
Q 30What is the name of the red moon said to imprison an ancient evil in Critical Role's third campaign?
Ruidus
Ruidus gives its name to the Ruidusborn, people born during the moon's sudden flares, and two of the Bells Hells are among them.