King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
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40 free King Arthur: Legend of the Sword trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword turned the old story into a street-level fantasy brawl in 2017: an orphan who grows up far from court, a blade nobody else can lift, and an uncle who will pay any price to keep the crown. It arrived with a huge budget and big plans, and its fate at the box office became a story of its own. This quiz covers the whole film: the plot from the opening siege to the final scene, the heroes and villains, the cast and a famous cameo, the music, the locations in Wales and Scotland, and what happened when it reached cinemas. Searches for the King Arthur movie of 2016 and of 2017 both lead here, because the release was pushed back by almost a year. It is written for fans who have seen the film once or many times, and for anyone putting together a movie night quiz. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which former England footballer makes a cameo as Trigger, a guard, in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
David Beckham
David Beckham got the part through his friendship with the director, and his guard oversees the prisoners lined up to try pulling the sword from the stone.
Q 02Which Sons of Anarchy star plays the street-raised Arthur in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam was the director's own choice for Arthur and was cast in August 2014, almost three years before the film reached cinemas.
Q 03Which director of Snatch and Sherlock Holmes made King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie had wanted to make an Arthur film for several years, and he also co-wrote the screenplay and served as one of the producers.
Q 04Which actor, Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films, plays the tyrant king in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Jude Law
Jude Law plays Arthur's uncle, who murders his way to the throne of Britain and is able to transform himself into a demonic knight.
Q 05Before it flopped, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was planned by its studio to launch what?
A six-film franchise
A six-film franchise was the plan, with different characters getting their own films before teaming up, but the sequels were cancelled after the first lost over $150 million.
Q 06After a frustrated Arthur throws his sword away in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, who returns it to him?
The Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake hands the blade back and shows Arthur a vision of England's future under his uncle. She is played by Jacqui Ainsley, who is married to the director.
Q 07Which enormous creature does the sorceress send into the castle to save Arthur in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
A snake
A snake of giant size attacks the castle on her command, after she had dosed Arthur with snake venom to protect him from the surprise.
Q 08Which legendary castle is besieged by a warlock's armies in the opening of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Camelot
Camelot is saved when Arthur's father slips into the enemy's lair in the middle of the attack and beheads the warlock with a unique blade.
Q 09In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the stone gripping the sword is really the body of which king, Arthur's father?
Uther Pendragon
Uther Pendragon sacrifices himself to save his young son, and his body becomes the stone that entombs the blade, as Arthur learns in a vision.
Q 10After King Arthur: Legend of the Sword flopped, its director next made which Disney live-action remake?
Aladdin
Aladdin arrived in 2019 and earned more than $1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of the director's career.
Q 11In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which uncle of Arthur seizes the throne of Britain in a coup?
Vortigern
Vortigern envies the popularity of his brother, Arthur's father, and secretly persuades a warlock to attack the kingdom to clear his own path to the crown.
Q 12Which Australian star of Troy and Hulk plays Arthur's father in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Eric Bana
Eric Bana played the Trojan hero Hector in Troy, and his king here is betrayed and killed by his own brother in the opening act.
Q 13Which Game of Thrones actor, the schemer Littlefinger, plays a rebel archer in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Aidan Gillen
Q 21Which warlock leads his armies against the king of the Britons at the start of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Mordred
Mordred is usually Arthur's treacherous nephew or son in the legends, but here he is a sorcerer who is beheaded while Arthur is still a small child.
Q 22In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the orphaned Arthur grows up in which city, known by its Roman name?
Londinium
Londinium was Roman London, a settlement founded on the Thames around AD 47 to 50, and the film's Arthur ends up there as a small child.
Q 23In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey's sorceress is credited only under what title?
The Mage
The Mage never gives a name of her own, presenting herself only as an acolyte of Merlin when she arrives to help the resistance.
Aidan Gillen plays a former knight of Arthur's father who has joined the resistance, and by the end of the film he has taken up his old title again.
Q 14Which Blood Diamond and Amistad actor plays resistance leader Sir Bedivere in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Hounsou plays a former general of Arthur's father who shelters the rescued heir, and he reunited with the film's lead in Rebel Moon in 2023.
Q 15Which Hollywood studio lost more than $150 million on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. spent $175 million making the film and at least $100 million more on marketing, then watched it open in third place at the North American box office.
Q 16What does Arthur begin building in the final scene of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
A round table
A round table takes shape after Arthur reclaims the throne and knights his friends. In legend it has no head, so everyone seated at it has equal status.
Q 17In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, what is the tyrant king building to increase his own magical power?
A tower
A tower rises near the castle on the king's orders, and Arthur follows his uncle into it for their final confrontation.
Q 18Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, the sorceress of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, played a mermaid in which film series?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides cast her as a mermaid, and in 2011 she also won the Trophée Chopard for female revelation of the year at the Cannes Film Festival.
Q 19Kingsley Ben-Adir, Wet Stick in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, later starred in a biopic of which music legend?
Bob Marley
Bob Marley: One Love gave him the title role in 2024, after he had won a breakthrough award for playing Malcolm X in One Night in Miami.
Q 20Where is the orphaned Arthur raised after fleeing the coup in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword?
A brothel
A brothel takes the boy in, and he grows into a tough minor chieftain of the city's streets, plagued by nightmares of the night his parents died.
Q 24Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey's role in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was first written as which woman of legend?
Guinevere
Guinevere was the plan when she was cast, but the link was dropped during production and the character became a nameless sorceress instead.
Q 25In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, which moat creatures grant the tyrant power in exchange for a loved one's blood?
Syrens
Syrens, a trio living in the water around the castle, turn him into a Demon Knight when he sacrifices someone he loves to them.
Q 26Whom does the tyrant king sacrifice at the climax of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword to become the Demon Knight again?
His daughter
His daughter, Princess Catia, dies so that he can face Arthur, repeating the bargain he struck years earlier when he gave up his wife Elsa.
Q 27In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, a vision in which realm shows Arthur how his mother really died?
The Darklands
The Darklands trip is the sorceress's idea, and what Arthur sees there finally convinces the reluctant hero that he is the rightful king.
Q 28In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt's Greybeard belongs to which people?
Vikings
Vikings under Greybeard do deals with the tyrant king, and Persbrandt is also known as the shape-shifter Beorn in The Hobbit films.
Q 29In King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, what is the nickname of the rebel archer who once served Arthur's father?
Goosefat Bill
Goosefat Bill is a skilled bowman and former knight who joins the resistance, and he resumes his identity as Sir William by the end.
Q 30At the end of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Arthur's friend Wet Stick is knighted under which famous name?
Sir Tristan
Sir Tristan turns out to be Wet Stick's real name, while Arthur's friend Percy is knighted as Sir Percival.