Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Trivia
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100 free Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Brotherhood is the second anime adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga and the one that follows it to the end: 64 episodes from Resembool to the Promised Day. These Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood trivia questions cover the Elric brothers, Equivalent Exchange, the State Alchemists, the seven Homunculi, the voice casts in both languages and the manga behind it all. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which studio animated Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
Bones
Bones was set up in 1998 by three Sunrise staffers who had been working on Cowboy Bebop and split off to form a studio of their own.
Q 02Who directed Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood?
Yasuhiro Irie
Yasuhiro Irie had been animation director on the 2003 series' opening titles, and six years later he was handed the whole second adaptation to run.
Q 03What does every State Alchemist carry as proof of the title?
A silver pocket watch
A silver pocket watch: Edward's is stolen by a pickpocket, and when Winry looks inside it she finds the date the brothers burned down their house.
Q 04Why did Fullmetal Alchemist get a second anime adaptation after the 2003 series?
The first strayed from the manga
The first strayed from the manga because it overtook the chapters then in print and had to invent its own story, so Brotherhood started over and followed the comic to its end.
Q 05Who wrote and illustrated the Fullmetal Alchemist manga?
Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa is a pen name with a masculine ring, and she learned her craft as an assistant to the creator of the comedy manga Mahōjin Guru Guru.
Q 06Which US network premiered the English dub of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in February 2010?
Adult Swim
Adult Swim, where the 2003 series had been a staple for years, gave the dub the midnight spot in its Saturday anime line-up, and much of the first dub's cast came back to record it.
Q 07Which State Alchemist fuses his daughter Nina with the family dog to keep his licence?
Shou Tucker
Shou Tucker, the Sewing-Life Alchemist, had won his licence two years earlier with a chimera that could talk, and Edward works out that he made that one from his wife.
Q 08In which remote village are the Elric brothers raised?
Resembool
Resembool is where the brothers set fire to their own house on the day they leave, so that neither of them has a home to turn back to.
Q 09Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is set mainly in which fictional country?
Amestris
Amestris grew into a near-perfect circle through centuries of border wars, each one staged so that the bloodshed would mark out a transmutation circle the size of the country.
Q 10What is the name of the Elric brothers' mother?
Trisha
Trisha died of an illness while the boys were small, and years after they try to bring her back, Edward digs up what they made that night and finds it was never her at all.
Q 11What is the name of the Elric brothers' absent father?
Hohenheim
Hohenheim began life as a nameless slave, Number 23, until the tiny creature grown from his blood taught him to read and gave him his name.
Q 12Who taught the Elric brothers alchemy before they tried to revive their mother?
Izumi Curtis
Izumi Curtis only agreed to teach the boys after stranding them on an island for a month, without alchemy, to work out the riddle 'one is all, all is one'.
Q 13What does the failed transmutation take from Edward before he trades his right arm for Al's soul?
Left leg
Left leg was the price of what he was shown that night: ever since, Edward has been able to transmute with a clap of his hands, no circle drawn.
Q 21Which Fullmetal Alchemist serial killer targets State Alchemists to avenge his people's genocide?
Scar
Scar kills with alchemy, the very science his people's faith forbids, working it through the tattooed right arm his dying brother gave him.
Q 22Which homunculus murders Maes Hughes?
Envy
Envy corners Hughes at a phone booth, takes the shape of his wife Gracia, and shoots him in the second he hesitates.
Q 23In Brotherhood, King Bradley, the country's Führer, is secretly which homunculus?
Wrath
Wrath was once an ordinary boy, raised with other candidates to become the perfect ruler, and having started out human he still ages, so his body struggles to keep pace with what his eye foresees.
Q 14What are the mechanical prosthetic limbs in Fullmetal Alchemist called?
Automail
Automail has a weakness the plot leans on: ordinary steel limbs can give their wearer frostbite in the far north, so Edward has to be refitted with a cold-weather set.
Q 15In Fullmetal Alchemist, which law of alchemy says nothing can be created without all its parts present?
Law of Equivalent Exchange
The Law of Equivalent Exchange even frames Edward's clumsy proposal in the finale: he puts marriage to Winry as an alchemist's trade, and she accepts.
Q 16In Fullmetal Alchemist, what is the godlike being that confronts anyone attempting human transmutation called?
Truth
Truth appears as a blank white copy of whoever stands before it, and the toll it takes is aimed at whatever that alchemist valued most or was reaching for.
Q 17In Fullmetal Alchemist, a philosopher's stone is made by trapping what?
Thousands of human souls
Thousands of human souls go into every stone, a secret Dr. Marcoh hid in research notes disguised as a cookbook that the brothers spend days decoding.
Q 18Roy Mustang holds which rank for most of Brotherhood, as Edward's commanding officer?
Colonel
Colonel is only a step for Mustang: sickened by what he was ordered to do in the Ishval war, he means to climb all the way to Führer and change the country from the top.
Q 19Which State Alchemist title does Roy Mustang hold?
Flame Alchemist
Flame Alchemist Mustang learned his craft from notes his teacher had tattooed across his own daughter's back, and after the war she asks him to burn them off.
Q 20What are Roy Mustang's gloves made from?
Ignition cloth
Ignition cloth throws a spark when he rubs his fingers together, so his team calls him useless in the rain, yet he only needs some other way to strike a light.
Q 24Which character from Xing becomes the new vessel for Greed?
Ling Yao
Ling Yao lets it happen: he came west hunting immortality to win his throne, so when the stone is forced on him he hands over control willingly.
Q 25Which homunculus does Roy Mustang kill in Brotherhood?
Lust
Lust has left Mustang for dead when he sears his own wound shut, then burns her again and again until she can no longer regenerate.
Q 26What kind of animal is the tiny companion that rides on May Chang's shoulder?
A panda
A panda, kept cub-sized by an illness, and May's only escort: her clan is too poor to send bodyguards, so the two of them crossed the desert from Xing alone.
Q 27Who discovers that Bradley's son Selim is the homunculus Pride?
Riza Hawkeye
Riza Hawkeye was working as Bradley's personal assistant by then, a posting meant less as a promotion than as a way to hold her hostage against Mustang.
Q 28What is the northern fortress the Elric brothers travel to called?
Fort Briggs
Fort Briggs is a wall built across a mountain pass on the Drachman border, and when a Drachman army is tricked into storming it, the garrison wipes the attackers out.
Q 29Which general commands the northern fortress in Brotherhood?
Olivier Armstrong
Olivier Armstrong runs her fortress on the creed 'survival of the fittest', and to fight the conspiracy she works her way into the Führer's inner circle while her own troops slip into the capital behind her.
Q 30In Fullmetal Alchemist, what astronomical event does Father's plan require on the Promised Day?
A solar eclipse
A solar eclipse joins the alchemical sun, read as male, with the moon, read as female, into one 'perfect being', which is why Father has waited centuries for this single day.