Fullmetal Alchemist Trivia
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89 free Fullmetal Alchemist trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist ran nine years in Monthly Shōnen Gangan and spawned two very different anime, two films, light novels and a live-action trilogy. This Fullmetal Alchemist trivia covers the Elric brothers' failed transmutation, the State Military, Xing's alkahestry, the homunculi named for the seven deadly sins, and the production details behind Brotherhood and the 2003 series. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who wrote and illustrated the Fullmetal Alchemist manga?
Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa draws herself as a bespectacled cow, a nod to the dairy farm she was raised on, yet readers often took her for a man because of her pen name.
Q 02Which magazine serialized the Fullmetal Alchemist manga from 2001 to 2010?
Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Monthly Shōnen Gangan all but sold out when it ran the final chapter, so the publisher apologised to readers who had missed it and printed the whole chapter again two issues later.
Q 03What is Fullmetal Alchemist's Philosopher's Stone made from?
Human souls
Human souls are condensed into each Stone, a secret the brothers uncover partway through the manga's 27 volumes by cracking the code in a doctor's research notes.
Q 04Which company publishes the Fullmetal Alchemist manga in Japan?
Square Enix
Square Enix took over the series mid-run: the manga launched under Enix in 2001, and two years later Enix merged with its rival Square.
Q 05In which fictional country is Fullmetal Alchemist mainly set?
Amestris
Amestris was built for a purpose: its hidden founder steered centuries of border wars so the country would grow into one giant transmutation circle.
Q 06What is the foundation of all alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist?
Law of Equivalent Exchange
Law of Equivalent Exchange: to gain anything, something of equal value must be lost, and an alchemist who tries to cheat it can pay with part of their own body.
Q 07Which limb did the failed transmutation take from Edward Elric before he gave another for Alphonse?
His left leg
His left leg was the toll, and the result was no comfort: when Edward later dug up what the brothers had made, he found it had never been their mother at all.
Q 08What anchors Alphonse Elric's soul to his suit of armor?
A blood seal
A blood seal drawn inside the armor holds the soul in place, and it is his one weak point: another armor-bound soul in the series dies the moment his seal is scratched out.
Q 09What is the rural hometown of the Elric brothers in Fullmetal Alchemist?
Resembool
Resembool is where the brothers burned down their own home on the day they set out, a date Edward keeps engraved inside his pocket watch.
Q 10Which Fullmetal Alchemist town is famed for its automail engineers?
Rush Valley
Rush Valley greets Edward with a theft: a pickpocket running on automail legs lifts his State Alchemist pocket watch soon after he arrives.
Q 11Who trained the Elric brothers in alchemy in Fullmetal Alchemist?
Izumi Curtis
Izumi Curtis made the boys earn it: she stranded them on an island for a month with a riddle, 'One is all, all is one', before agreeing to teach them.
Q 12Which officer urged Edward Elric to become a State Alchemist?
Roy Mustang
Roy Mustang saw the aftermath of the brothers' forbidden experiment and offered Edward a way forward: join the military and gain access to the state's alchemy research.
Q 13Which automail surgeon built Edward Elric's first metal limbs with help from her granddaughter?
Pinako Rockbell
Pinako Rockbell went to work after Alphonse carried his bleeding brother to her door, and she had already taken both boys in when their mother died.
Q 21In Fullmetal Alchemist, what is Xing's own medical form of alchemy called?
Alkahestry
Alkahestry draws on the Dragon's Pulse, the earth's flow of life energy, so it keeps working when the villain shuts down every ordinary alchemist.
Q 22Who commands the northern Fort Briggs?
Olivier Armstrong
Olivier Armstrong fights beside her troops and ignores orders she disagrees with, which is why the garrison answers to her alone and not to headquarters.
Q 23Father's Promised Day transmutation can only be triggered during what event?
A solar eclipse
A solar eclipse is the trigger and also Father's undoing: the moon's shadow sets off a counter-circle Hohenheim had prepared, stripping away the power he has just seized.
Q 14Scar hunts State Alchemists to avenge the genocide of which people?
The Ishbalans
The Ishbalans forbid alchemy as heresy, yet Scar takes his revenge with an alchemical array tattooed on the arm his brother gave him.
Q 15Which homunculus murders Maes Hughes?
Envy
Envy, a shapeshifter, wins the fight by turning into Hughes's own wife at the last second, and the moment of hesitation costs him his life.
Q 16In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, King Bradley is secretly which homunculus?
Wrath
Wrath is the one homunculus who grows old: he began as a human boy raised to rule, and he alone among the candidates survived being injected with a Philosopher's Stone.
Q 17Which homunculus turns out to be Selim Bradley?
Pride
Pride is the eldest homunculus despite the child's body, and his living shadow needs light to exist, so plunging him into total darkness leaves him helpless.
Q 18Which homunculus is nicknamed the "Ultimate Shield"?
Greed
Greed walks out on his own creator: he wants everything for himself, so feeding someone else's ambitions is the one thing he refuses to do.
Q 19In Fullmetal Alchemist, the "Ultimate Shield" hardens his skin by rearranging which element?
Carbon
Carbon gives him diamond-hard skin, and in the final battle he runs the trick backwards, turning the villain's body into its weakest, most brittle form.
Q 20Which Fullmetal Alchemist character willingly lets a homunculus take over his body?
Lin Yao
Lin Yao, spelled Ling in the anime, is a prince of Xing who offers himself as a host because he sees no other route to immortality, and he ends the series as emperor.
Q 24In Fullmetal Alchemist, which ancient country created the being later called Father?
Xerxes
Xerxes died in a single night: the creature in the flask tricked its king into a vast transmutation that consumed every citizen and left the creature with a body.
Q 25Which Fullmetal Alchemist lieutenant has her death faked so she can flee abroad?
Maria Ross
Maria Ross appears to be burned to death in an alley, but the charred body is a dummy: the officer who 'executed' her staged it so she could slip out of the country.
Q 26Who discovers that King Bradley's young son is a homunculus?
Riza Hawkeye
Riza Hawkeye finds out while posted to the leader's office as a hostage, is threatened into silence, and still gets the warning out as a coded message.
Q 27At the end of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, what does Edward give up to restore Alphonse's body?
His ability to use alchemy
His ability to use alchemy is the toll: Edward performs one last human transmutation on himself and trades away his own Gate to bring his brother back.
Q 28Who does Edward Elric marry in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga?
Winry Rockbell
Winry Rockbell gets a clumsy proposal at a train station, phrased as an alchemist's trade, and her equally awkward yes leaves Edward laughing.
Q 29Which animation studio produced both Fullmetal Alchemist anime series?
Bones
Bones gave its second adaptation to a new director and team, and where the first series had invented its own ending, this one treated the manga, as director Yasuhiro Irie put it, "like the Bible".
Q 30Who cuts off her own arm in Brotherhood?
Lan Fan
Lan Fan severs her wounded arm to throw King Bradley off her trail, a scene the 2003 anime never reached: it had outrun the manga, so Brotherhood's 64 episodes retell the story faithfully.