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50 free Fantasy Books trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fantasy has grown from a handful of children's classics and one Oxford professor's private mythology into one of publishing's biggest genres. Its best-known series now range from doorstop epics and comic satires to the romantasy boom, and readers argue about them as fiercely as any sports fans. This quiz covers the books themselves: the heroes and villains, the invented lands and their rules, and the writers and real-world stories behind them. You will meet the work of Tolkien, Lewis, Pratchett, Rowling, Martin, Jordan, Sanderson and Maas, plus a few cult favorites. It opens with questions most readers can reach and gets tougher as it goes, so it suits a book club night, a library or classroom quiz, or anyone settling an argument about who wrote what.
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Q 01In L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what color are Dorothy's magic shoes, which MGM's 1939 film made ruby?
Silver
Silver shoes carry Dorothy home in Baum's book. The studio turned them red to show off the three-strip Technicolor process on screen.
Q 02In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which sweet does the White Witch use to tempt Edmund Pevensie?
Turkish delight
Turkish delight is the enchanted treat that turns Edmund against his brother and sisters, along with the Witch's promise to make him a prince.
Q 03Which British publisher agreed to print the first Harry Potter novel after twelve other houses had rejected it?
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury took the gamble after its chief executive's eight-year-old daughter read the opening chapter and gave it a glowing verdict.
Q 04In Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins trades riddles in the dark beneath the Misty Mountains with which creature?
Gollum
Gollum loses the riddle game to Bilbo. In the first edition he meant to hand over his ring as the prize, a scene Tolkien later rewrote.
Q 05In Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson novels, the dyslexic schoolboy Percy learns he is the son of which Greek god?
Poseidon
Poseidon, god of the sea, is Percy's father. Riordan began inventing the stories for his own son, who had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.
Q 06J. M. Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to which British children's hospital, which still benefits from it?
Great Ormond Street
Great Ormond Street received the Peter Pan rights in 1929, and Barrie asked that the income they brought in never be disclosed.
Q 07In A Song of Ice and Fire, which castle built over a natural hot spring is the ancestral home of House Stark?
Winterfell
Winterfell is the Starks' castle and the capital of the North. The scalding water piped through its walls keeps the halls warm and the ground unfrozen.
Q 08In Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, Bella Swan moves from Phoenix to which small town on Washington's Olympic Peninsula?
Forks
Forks is a real Washington town. In the novel Bella's father is its police chief, and she meets the vampire Edward Cullen at its high school.
Q 09Which T. H. White novel about the orphan Wart, tutored by the wizard Merlyn, became a 1963 Disney animated film?
The Sword in the Stone
The Sword in the Stone follows the boy who grows up to be King Arthur. It first appeared as a stand-alone book and later became part one of The Once and Future King.
Q 10In The Lord of the Rings, the One Ring can only be destroyed in the fires of which volcano in Mordor?
Mount Doom
Mount Doom is where Sauron forged the Ring, and its molten heart is the only place the Ring can be unmade. Its Elvish name is Orodruin.
Q 11In Christopher Paolini's Eragon, what is the name of the dragon that hatches from the farm boy's mysterious stone?
Saphira
Saphira hatches from what Eragon takes for a polished stone. Paolini began the novel at fifteen, and his parents self-published it before a major house picked it up.
Q 12In Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher books, which white-haired monster hunter for hire is known as the White Wolf?
Geralt
Geralt of Rivia lost all his body pigment to the mutations that made him a witcher, which explains the pale hair and the wolfish nickname.
Q 13Richard Adams's Watership Down follows which animals, led by Hazel and the seer Fiver, in search of a new home?
Rabbits
Rabbits flee a condemned warren in the novel, which began as stories Adams told his young daughters on long car journeys.
Q 21Which author's dragon-rider novel Fourth Wing opened the Empyrean series and became a viral hit on BookTok?
Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros gave her heroine Violet a fragile body drawn from her own experience of living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Q 22Which author created the Grishaverse, the setting of the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology?
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo calls her debut's style Tsarpunk: fantasy that takes its look and mood from early-19th-century Russia.
Q 23In Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments, Clary Fray meets which order of angelic warriors, also called Nephilim?
Shadowhunters
Q 14In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, what name is given to the animal form that embodies a person's inner self?
Dæmon
A dæmon shifts shape freely through childhood, then settles for good into the one animal that best matches its human's character.
Q 15For American readers, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was retitled with which word in place of Philosopher's?
Sorcerer's
Sorcerer's was Rowling's own suggestion after the American editor judged the original word too archaic for young readers.
Q 16In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn is crowned king of which realm, long ruled by Stewards from Minas Tirith?
Gondor
Gondor had gone almost a thousand years without a king when Aragorn was crowned. He then found a sapling of the White Tree on the mountain above Minas Tirith and planted it in place of the dead one.
Q 17Which English conflict helped inspire the feuding noble houses of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire?
Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses, fought between Lancaster and York, fed Martin's feuding noble houses, though he avoided adapting any real event directly.
Q 18Which Oxford mathematician published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll?
Charles Dodgson
Charles Dodgson spent most of his life teaching at Christ Church, and some of Wonderland's upside-down reasoning echoes his published work on mathematical logic.
Q 19Which American author created Earthsea, the island world where young Ged trains at a school for wizards on Roke?
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin built the magic of her islands on true names: to know the real name of a person or thing is to hold power over it.
Q 20Which book of Tolkien's Middle-earth creation myths did his son Christopher edit with help from Guy Gavriel Kay?
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion was pieced together from drafts Tolkien left unedited and topped bestseller lists in 1977. Kay later became a fantasy novelist himself.
Shadowhunters guard ordinary people, whom they call mundanes, in a world where every creature of folklore turns out to be real.
Q 24In Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which Patrician rules the city of Ankh-Morpork under a system of one man, one vote?
Havelock Vetinari
Havelock Vetinari is the one man, and he holds the one vote. Among his first acts was to legalise the Thieves' Guild, which put it under his scrutiny.
Q 25In Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, which sheep herder from the Two Rivers proves to be the Dragon Reborn?
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor flees his village of Emond's Field after monstrous Trollocs attack it, and learns he is the reincarnation of a hero from an earlier age.
Q 26In Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind, which legendary hero is hiding as the keeper of the Waystone Inn?
Kvothe
Kvothe agrees to tell a travelling scribe his life story over three days, one for each book of the planned trilogy.
Q 27In Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, which escaped prisoner leads the thieving crew that recruits the street urchin Vin?
Kelsier
Kelsier broke out of the Pits of Hathsin, a brutal prison camp, three years before the story opens, and found there that he was Mistborn.
Q 28Which hero of Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, heir to a long line of peacekeepers, became a gunslinger at fourteen?
Roland Deschain
Roland Deschain was tricked into taking his trial of manhood years early by Marten Broadcloak, his father's treacherous adviser.
Q 29Which Neil Gaiman novel sends the ex-convict Shadow Moon on a road trip with Mr. Wednesday, an incarnation of Odin?
American Gods
American Gods pits Old Gods, weakened as their believers dwindle, against New Gods born of technology, media and pop culture.
Q 30Jim Butcher's Dresden Files follow Harry Dresden, a wizard and private detective, through which American city?
Chicago
Chicago is home to Harry, who openly advertises as a wizard and consults for the police department's Special Investigations division.