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50 free Fate Series trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Fate series began in 2004 as a visual novel from the small Japanese company Type-Moon and grew into one of anime's biggest franchises. Its hook is simple and endlessly reusable: mages called Masters summon heroes of history and myth as Servants, then fight a secret war for a wish-granting Holy Grail. Part of the fun is working out who each Servant really is, because the series loves to hide a famous name behind a class title such as Saber, Archer or Lancer. This quiz covers the whole franchise. Expect questions on the Servants and the heroic spirits they are based on, the Masters who summon them, Noble Phantasms and the rules of the Holy Grail War, plus the anime, films and games from Fate/stay night and Fate/Zero to Fate/Apocrypha and Fate/Grand Order. A smaller group looks at the writers, artists, animation houses and singers behind it all. Viewers who have seen only one of the anime will find plenty they can answer, while long-time Type-Moon fans get harder questions on the games and spin-offs. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01In Fate/stay night, the armoured heroine Saber is a female version of which famous British monarch?
King Arthur
King Arthur becomes a girl named Artoria in the story, whose father hid her sex at birth for fear his subjects would never accept a woman on the throne.
Q 02Which Greek demigod is the towering Servant who protects a young homunculus Master in Fate/stay night?
Heracles
Heracles has to be killed twelve times to stay dead, once for each of his legendary labours, thanks to his Noble Phantasm God Hand.
Q 03Which ancient conqueror is the boisterous Rider of Fate/Zero, summoned by a student using a stolen relic?
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great appears under the name Iskandar, the King of Conquerors, and joins the war hoping to be reborn and resume his conquest of the world.
Q 04Which historical figure is summoned to referee the war between the Red and Black factions in Fate/Apocrypha?
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, called Jeanne d'Arc in the series, belongs to neither team and is summoned as a mediator to see that the war is fought fairly.
Q 05Which Mesopotamian hero appears in Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night as an arrogant Archer who calls others "mongrels"?
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh calls himself the King of Heroes and fights by opening portals to a mystical vault that holds the treasured weapons of other legends.
Q 06Which Roman emperor is reimagined as the female Saber and lead heroine of the PSP game Fate/Extra?
Nero
Nero leads Fate/Extra, a 2010 dungeon crawler whose war begins after an object beyond all human wisdom is discovered on the Moon.
Q 07Which figure from Greek myth is the blindfolded Rider serving Shinji Matou in Fate/stay night?
Medusa
Medusa wears the blindfold as a seal, because her Mystic Eyes of Petrification turn weaker beings who look at her to stone.
Q 08Which famous writer is summoned as Caster of Red in Fate/Apocrypha, fighting with illusions instead of weapons?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare fights with a Noble Phantasm named First Folio, which builds elaborate illusions out of a target's own past.
Q 09Which legendary sword is Saber's main Noble Phantasm in Fate/stay night, later used to destroy the Holy Grail?
Excalibur
Excalibur is Saber's trump card in Fate/Zero too, where a rival Lancer breaks his own spear to heal her wound so she can use it to destroy Caster.
Q 10Which studio, later famous for Demon Slayer, animated both Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works?
Ufotable
Ufotable also adapted Type-Moon's The Garden of Sinners, and its 2020 Demon Slayer film Mugen Train topped the annual global box office.
Q 11Which Fate/stay night heroine, a model student who stores magical energy in jewels, is the Master of Archer?
Rin Tohsaka
Rin Tohsaka had wanted to summon Saber, but the ritual she performs at the start of the story gives her Archer instead.
Q 12Which priest oversees the Holy Grail War in Fate/stay night after fighting as a Master in Fate/Zero?
Kirei Kotomine
Kirei Kotomine eats mapo tofu at a Chinese restaurant in one film scene, which his voice actor said had an impact on long-time fans.
Q 13Which Irish hero is the Lancer who mortally wounds Shirou at school in Fate/stay night, wielding the spear Gáe Bolg?
Cú Chulainn
Q 21Which Type-Moon co-founder began writing the story of Fate/stay night as a student, years before it became a game?
Kinoko Nasu
Kinoko Nasu first imagined the story as a novel, and in his early drafts Saber was a man while the lead character was a girl with glasses.
Q 22Which illustrator co-founded Type-Moon and designed the characters of Fate/stay night, including Saber and Shirou?
Takashi Takeuchi
Takashi Takeuchi likes Saber so much that he keeps designing new heroines based on her, a habit fans call the "Saber face".
Q 23Which writer, co-creator of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, wrote the light novels of the prequel Fate/Zero?
Gen Urobuchi
Cú Chulainn is called the "child of light" from Ireland, and the full name of his weapon marks it as a spear of impaling barbed death.
Q 14Which famed Japanese swordsman's name is claimed by the Assassin guarding a temple gate in Fate/stay night?
Sasaki Kojirō
Sasaki Kojirō is only a borrowed name here, since the Servant is really a nameless swordsman whose Turning Swallow Strike hits from three directions at once.
Q 15Which Knight of the Round Table, driven mad by guilt, is the Black Knight serving Kariya Matou in Fate/Zero?
Lancelot
Lancelot went mad from wanting to be punished for his affair with Guinevere, and he can turn almost anything he grabs into a Noble Phantasm.
Q 16Which student steals his teacher's relic to summon Rider in Fate/Zero and later takes the title Lord El-Melloi II?
Waver Velvet
Waver Velvet hoped that winning would force the Mages' Association to recognise his genius, and he gains his title when the El-Melloi family adopts him.
Q 17Which sorceress of Greek myth is the Caster of Fate/stay night, wielding a dagger called Rule Breaker?
Medea
Medea is the disgraced princess of Colchis in the story, and her weak-looking dagger dispels every form of magic it touches.
Q 18Which notorious mage killer is Saber's Master in Fate/Zero and later rescues the child Shirou from a huge fire?
Kiritsugu Emiya
Kiritsugu Emiya joins the war believing the Holy Grail can grant his wish for world peace, leaving behind his work as a mercenary.
Q 19Which family of mages creates homunculi such as Irisviel to act as the vessel of the Holy Grail in Fate/Zero?
Einzbern
Einzbern mages have about a thousand years of history behind them, and the residence where Irisviel first appears stands in Germany.
Q 20What is the name of the scabbard of Saber's sword, which Shirou carries sealed inside his body in Fate/stay night?
Avalon
Avalon shares its name with the mystical land where only true heroes may reside, the place where Saber finally waits for Shirou.
Gen Urobuchi wrote for the game studio Nitroplus, and Fate/Zero first appeared in December 2006 as a collaboration between Nitroplus and Type-Moon.
Q 24Which company animated the first Fate/stay night anime, a 24-episode series from 2006 based mainly on the Fate route?
Studio Deen
Studio Deen followed the series with a 2010 film of Unlimited Blade Works, years before that route was remade for television.
Q 25Which Fate/stay night route, centred on Sakura Matou, became a film trilogy released between 2017 and 2020?
Heaven's Feel
Heaven's Feel was created by partly combining two heroines' planned storylines, which spared the team from splitting the game into two releases.
Q 26Which vampire-themed visual novel, first sold at Comiket in 2000, was Type-Moon's hit before Fate/stay night?
Tsukihime
Tsukihime was made while Type-Moon was still a hobbyist dōjin circle, and its success turned the group into a commercial company.
Q 27Which 2005 sequel to Fate/stay night traps Shirou and Bazett Fraga McRemitz in a repeating four-day time loop?
hollow ataraxia
Fate/hollow ataraxia uses its time loop so the cast can share everyday scenes while the mystery behind the Holy Grail War comes out.
Q 28Which Japanese voice actress has played Saber across the Fate franchise since the 2006 Fate/stay night anime?
Ayako Kawasumi
Ayako Kawasumi was suggested by the sound director, and the game's creators chose her because they found her voice a fit for Saber's personality.
Q 29Which singer performed "oath sign", the opening theme for the first half of the Fate/Zero anime?
LiSA
LiSA made "oath sign" her first solo single, a year after her major debut as a vocalist for a fictional in-story anime band, Girls Dead Monster.
Q 30Which singer performed "Brave Shine", the second opening theme of the Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime?
Aimer
Aimer's "Last Stardust" was first meant for that opening slot, but it was instead played during Shirou's duel with Archer in episode 20.