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50 free Fate/stay Night trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fate/stay night began in 2004 as a visual novel from Type-Moon and became the foundation of one of anime's biggest franchises. Its setup is easy to explain and hard to put down: mages called Masters summon heroes of myth and history as Servants and fight in secret for a wish-granting Holy Grail. Each Servant hides a famous name behind a class title such as Saber, Lancer or Rider, and working out who they really are is half the fun. This quiz stays with the original story and its adaptations. Expect questions on the Servants and the heroic spirits behind them, the Masters who command them, the rules of the Holy Grail War, and the twists of the Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel routes. Others cover the people who made the game and the television series and films that followed. Anyone who has watched one of the anime will find plenty to answer, and players who finished every route of the game get a few harder ones. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01Which legendary figure is the true identity of Saber, the armoured swordswoman who serves Shirou in Fate/stay night?
King Arthur
King Arthur is recast as a young woman, Artoria Pendragon; in the writer's first draft Saber was a man, until the artist suggested swapping genders with the lead.
Q 02Which Servant of Fate/stay night is revealed in the Unlimited Blade Works route to be a future version of Shirou?
Archer
Archer is Shirou from a possible future, embittered by a lifetime of killing for his ideal, and he tries to erase himself by slaying his younger self.
Q 03Which Greek demigod is Berserker, the giant who guards a young Master and revives after death in Fate/stay night?
Heracles
Heracles has to be killed twelve times before he stays dead, one death for each of his famous labours.
Q 04Which soft-spoken Fate/stay night heroine, raised by another family of mages, is revealed to be Rin Tohsaka's sister?
Sakura Matou
Sakura Matou was born a Tohsaka and given away for adoption as a small child, a secret at the heart of the game's third and darkest route.
Q 05Which disaster orphaned Shirou as a child, ten years before the story of Fate/stay night begins?
A massive fire
A massive fire swept the city when Saber was ordered to destroy the Holy Grail at the end of the previous war, a truth Shirou only learns years later.
Q 06Which figure of Greek myth is Rider in Fate/stay night, a blindfolded Servant who fights with nails on a chain?
Medusa
Medusa wears the blindfold to seal her Mystic Eyes of Petrification, which can turn anyone weaker who meets her gaze to stone.
Q 07Which legendary Mesopotamian ruler is the arrogant extra Servant in Fate/stay night who launches weapons from a vault?
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh calls himself the King of Heroes and has lingered in the world for ten years, ever since the previous Holy Grail War ended.
Q 08In the true ending of the Unlimited Blade Works route, Shirou and Rin leave Japan to study magecraft in which city?
London
London is home to the Clock Tower, the mages' academy where the 2014 anime's epilogue shows Shirou and Rin as students.
Q 09Which young aristocrat, living in a castle outside the city, is the Master of Berserker in Fate/stay night?
Illyasviel von Einzbern
Illyasviel von Einzbern is a homunculus built to become the vessel of the Holy Grail, and she is the daughter of the man who adopted Shirou.
Q 10Which company, later behind Demon Slayer, animated the 2014 Unlimited Blade Works series and the Heaven's Feel films?
Ufotable
Ufotable has a long partnership with Type-Moon, having also animated its Garden of Sinners films before taking on the Holy Grail War.
Q 11Which warrior of Irish legend is Lancer, the first hostile Servant to attack Shirou in Fate/stay night?
Cú Chulainn
Cú Chulainn carries a cursed spear that reverses cause and effect, so its thrust is fated to pierce the heart before it is even made.
Q 12Which sorceress of Greek myth is Caster in Fate/stay night, a princess of Colchis branded a witch?
Medea
Medea cheats the system by summoning a Servant of her own, the swordsman who stands guard at the gate of her temple stronghold.
Q 13Which famed Japanese swordsman's name is borrowed by Assassin, in truth a nameless samurai, in Fate/stay night?
Sasaki Kojirō
Sasaki Kojirō is only a borrowed name: the Servant is an unknown swordsman whose Turning Swallow Strike cuts from three directions at once.
Q 21Which marks borne by each Master in Fate/stay night can bind a Servant into absolute obedience when one is used up?
Command Seals
Command Seals are scarce: each Master gets only three, and Rin impulsively burns one almost at once to bring her unruly Servant into line.
Q 22What term does Fate/stay night use for a Servant's legendary trump card, such as Lancer's cursed spear?
Noble Phantasm
Noble Phantasm covers more than weapons: Berserker's is a power of resurrection, and another Servant's is an entire world filled with swords.
Q 23Which power of Berserker in Fate/stay night revives him automatically, so that he must be slain again and again?
God Hand
Q 14Which priest, supposedly the neutral overseer of the Holy Grail War in Fate/stay night, secretly controls Lancer?
Kirei Kotomine
Kirei Kotomine took Lancer by ambushing the Servant's original Master and cutting off her arm, all while acting as Rin's trusted guardian.
Q 15Which retired mage, Saber's Master in the previous war, rescued the orphaned Shirou and raised him as a son?
Kiritsugu
Kiritsugu was once a feared hired killer of mages, yet he was reluctant to teach his adopted son magecraft and passed on little before he died.
Q 16Which stoic teacher of Rin's class is revealed in Fate/stay night to be a trained assassin and Caster's Master?
Souichirou Kuzuki
Souichirou Kuzuki has no magic of his own, so Caster strengthens his fists with spells and takes the souls of others to sustain herself.
Q 17Which English teacher, Shirou's guardian in Fate/stay night, co-hosts the comic hint corner shown after a bad ending?
Taiga Fujimura
Taiga Fujimura dislikes her nickname, Tiger, yet the hint corner she runs after each of Shirou's untimely deaths is called the Tiger Dojo.
Q 18Rin Tohsaka of Fate/stay night stores her magical energy in which objects, which she can detonate in battle?
Jewels
Jewels charged with mana over time let Rin release far more energy in one burst than her body could normally handle.
Q 19In which fictional Japanese city do seven Masters fight the Holy Grail War of Fate/stay night?
Fuyuki
Fuyuki is where three mage families built the Holy Grail ritual long ago, and the war in the story is the fifth to be fought there.
Q 20In Fate/stay night, Shirou inherits from his adoptive father the dream of becoming what?
A hero of justice
A hero of justice who saves everyone is an ideal that even Shirou's own future self calls naive and impossible, and each route tests it differently.
God Hand also makes him immune to lesser attacks, so only the mightiest legendary weapons can take even one of his lives.
Q 24Which weapon of Caster in Fate/stay night cancels any magic it touches, even the bond between Master and Servant?
Rule Breaker
Rule Breaker is nearly useless as a blade, yet a single stab is enough for Caster to make Saber her own Servant for a time.
Q 25Which fiery Chinese dish does the priest of Fate/stay night devour in a scene of the first Heaven's Feel film?
Mapo tofu
Mapo tofu became a running joke among fans, and the priest's voice actor said the restaurant scene made a real impact on followers of the original game.
Q 26Shirou first becomes a target in Fate/stay night after witnessing two Servants duel at which location?
His school
His school is where Lancer strikes him down for seeing too much, and only Rin's magic brings him back from the brink of death.
Q 27Which corrupted Servant, swallowed by the shadow in Heaven's Feel, is finally defeated by Shirou and Rider?
Saber Alter
Saber Alter is what remains of Shirou's own Servant after the shadow devours her, forcing him to strike down his former partner.
Q 28Which entity, summoned as a weak Avenger in the third war, has tainted the Holy Grail of Fate/stay night ever since?
Angra Mainyu
Angra Mainyu began as an ordinary villager sacrificed as the source of all the world's evil, and his defeat left the Grail filled with a black mud.
Q 29The true Assassin of the Heaven's Feel route takes his name from which founder of the medieval Order of Assassins?
Hassan-i Sabbah
Hassan-i Sabbah is a title in the story: every leader of the order took the name, so each war summons a different man who once bore it.
Q 30Which magecraft does Shirou first use in Unlimited Blade Works to copy weapons, having trained only in reinforcement?
Projection
Projection is usually dismissed as useless because its copies are so fragile, yet Shirou uses it to recreate powerful weapons he has seen.