180 free Elden Ring trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
58 free Elden Ring trivia questions with answers. Elden Ring sold 30 million copies and collected more than 300 Game of the Year awards, and its lore is dense enough to keep players arguing years later. This quiz covers the whole thing: the Shattering and Queen Marika, the demigod shardbearers, Ranni's scheme, Malenia and the legend of Let Me Solo Her, Torrent and Melina, the six endings, plus the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, the Nightreign co-op spin-off, the Game Awards stage-crasher and the A24 film. Easy questions cover things every Tarnished knows; the hard ones dig into Radahn's horse, Ranni's doll and who owns FromSoftware. It works for a Discord night, a stream quiz or a solo lore check. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the game, its expansions, its characters and its studio. If it could not be cited, it was cut.
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Q 01On what date was Elden Ring first released?
February 25, 2022
It had been delayed five weeks from January. A closed network test ran in November 2021.
Q 02Which fantasy novelist provided the worldbuilding for Elden Ring?
George R. R. Martin
Martin was given freedom to design the backstory, while Miyazaki wrote the in-game narrative.
Q 03Who directed Elden Ring?
Hidetaka Miyazaki
He wanted it to be a mechanical evolution of Dark Souls, and became FromSoftware's president in 2014.
Q 04Which company published Elden Ring outside Japan?
Bandai Namco Entertainment
FromSoftware developed it. Kadokawa owns 70% of the studio, with Tencent and Sony holding minority stakes.
Q 05What is the name of the land where Elden Ring is set?
The Lands Between
It has six main areas, from grassy Limgrave to the rotting wasteland of Caelid.
Q 06What is the player character called?
A Tarnished
The Tarnished are exiles summoned back after the Shattering to repair the Elden Ring and become Elden Lord.
Q 07Which queen shattered the Elden Ring, triggering the war called the Shattering?
Marika
Her demigod children then warred over pieces of the Ring. Her consort Radagon turns out to be inhabiting her body.
Q 08What is the name of the spectral steed the player rides?
Torrent
Despite being called a horse he has goat-like horns, and he was the first mount in a Soulsborne game.
Q 09Who gives the player their steed and offers to be their Maiden?
Melina
She later carries the Tarnished to the hub area, and can sacrifice herself to burn the Erdtree.
Q 10What is the name of the hub where players gather to plan repairing the Elden Ring?
Roundtable Hold
Its benefactor, the Two Fingers, sends players out to collect Great Runes. Nightreign reuses it in ruined form.
Q 11What is the in-game currency used to level up at checkpoints?
Runes
Souls, Blood Echoes and Sen are the equivalents in Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro.
Q 12What are the checkpoints in Elden Ring called?
Sites of grace
Players respawn at the last one they touched, and can also revive at special stakes near boss arenas.
Q 13What are the enchantments that give weapons new skills called?
Ashes of War
Spirit Ashes are the separate items used to summon spectral allies near Rebirth Monuments.
Q 14Where can spirit summons be used?
Q 21How many different endings does Elden Ring have?
Six
They range from becoming Elden Lord to Ranni's Age of Stars and the Frenzied Flame burning everything.
Q 22What must the player obtain to set the Erdtree on fire?
The Flame of Ruin
If they instead take the Frenzied Flame, Melina abandons them and they must burn it themselves.
Q 23Which optional boss is widely considered the hardest fight in the base game?
Malenia, Blade of Miquella
Bandai Namco data showed she had killed 10 players a second since launch across 329 million attempts.
Near Rebirth Monuments
They are mostly found in large areas and inside boss arenas, so you can't summon a mimic in every fight.
Q 15What item does a host use to attract more invaders?
Taunter's Tongue
It also shortens the time between invasions. Invasions otherwise only occur when a host has co-op partners.
Q 16What is Godrick's gruesome practice, from which he takes his title?
Grafting severed body parts onto himself
Halfway through his boss fight he grafts a dead dragon's head onto his arm and uses it as a flamethrower.
Q 17Which boss guards the front gate of Stormveil Castle?
Margit the Fell Omen
Stormveil is the game's first legacy dungeon, though a hidden route lets you skip most of it.
Q 18Which scheming castle servant offers you a choice of routes into Stormveil?
Gatekeeper Gostoc
Nepheli Loux is the warrior you can befriend before the Godrick fight; she is fought as an ally, not a gatekeeper.
Q 19Which demigod guards the Erdtree in Leyndell and declares it will admit no one?
Morgott the Grace-Given
He is the same Omen you meet as Margit at Stormveil. His brother Mohg abducted Miquella.
Q 20Which two foes does the player fight inside the Erdtree at the end of the game?
Radagon and the Elden Beast
Radagon is Marika's consort who had been inhabiting her body; the Elden Beast is the tree's guardian.
Q 24What is Malenia's title once she is overcome by the rot in her second phase?
Goddess of Rot
The Scarlet Rot is a disease inflicted by an Outer God, and Miquella used Unalloyed Gold to try to ward it off.
Q 25Roughly how many times had players fought Malenia by March 2023?
329 million
That works out to about ten player deaths every second since launch.
Q 26What did the famous player 'Let Me Solo Her' wear on their head?
A jar
Otherwise unarmored and dual-wielding katanas, they beat Malenia for strangers thousands of times and won PC Gamer's Player of the Year.
Q 27Which twin sibling of Malenia is the focus of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion?
Miquella
Both were born Empyreans, candidates to become gods. His corpse is seen in a cocoon in the base game.
Q 28What is the name of Radahn's tiny horse?
Leonard
He learned gravity magic specifically so his enormous body would not crush his beloved scrawny steed.
Q 29Why did Radahn study gravitational magic?
So he could keep riding his small horse
He also famously halted the stars in their courses, which is why Ranni's quest needs him defeated.
Q 30Under what alias does Ranni first help the player?
Renna
She meets you at the Church of Elleh and hands over the Spirit Calling Bell.