Kingdom (Manga and Anime)
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50 free Kingdom (Manga and Anime) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kingdom turns the last decades of China's Warring States period into one of manga's great war stories. It follows Xin, an orphan with nothing to his name but a huge ambition, and Ying Zheng, the young king of Qin who means to end centuries of fighting by conquering every rival state. Hundreds of chapters, several anime seasons and a run of hit live-action films later, the cast of generals, strategists and schemers is enormous. This quiz starts with that cast: who leads which army, who schemes against the throne, and which rivals stand between Xin and his dream. It also covers the people who made the series, the anime's production history, the film adaptations, and the real commanders and kings the characters are based on. It is written for fans of the anime and manga alike, with easier questions for anyone who has only seen the early arcs and harder ones for readers who know their Qin from their Zhao.
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Q 01In Kingdom, a minister takes Xin's best friend Piao from their village to the royal palace to serve as what?
The king's body double
The king's body double was the job, offered because Piao looked identical to Ying Zheng. He dies of wounds from an assassin, and his last words send Xin to find the real king.
Q 02Kingdom's boy king Ying Zheng is based on the real ruler who unified China in 221 BC under which name?
Qin Shi Huang
Qin Shi Huang was China's first emperor. He invented the word for emperor himself rather than reuse the old title for a king, and Chinese rulers kept it for two thousand years.
Q 03Kingdom's author wanted the usurping prince in the 2019 live-action film modeled on which Game of Thrones character?
Joffrey Baratheon
Joffrey Baratheon was the model he insisted on. The author had followed Game of Thrones since its fourth season and joined a roundtable with its two showrunners that same year.
Q 04The real Meng Tian, Kingdom's flamboyant young commander, later led 300,000 men north and began work on which landmark?
The Great Wall
The Great Wall grew out of the defences he started after driving the northern nomads back. A forged imperial letter later forced him to take his own life in prison.
Q 05As the mortally wounded General Wang Qi dies in Kingdom, which of his weapons does he hand to Xin?
His glaive
His glaive passes to Xin moments before the general dies on horseback. With it comes a refusal: he cannot train the boy, who must learn from the battlefield itself.
Q 06The real ruler behind Kingdom's Ying Zheng was buried near which discovery made by farmers in 1974?
The Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army turned up when farmers were digging wells. Each life-sized clay soldier came from mix-and-match molds and was then individualized by hand.
Q 07Which star of Netflix's Alice in Borderland plays the war orphan Xin in the live-action Kingdom films?
Kento Yamazaki
Kento Yamazaki first played Xin in a three-minute short made for the manga's tenth anniversary in 2016. He kept the part when the first feature film arrived three years later.
Q 08The first two seasons of the Kingdom anime were made with which technique, dropped for hand-drawn 2D in season three?
CGI rendering
CGI rendering was used for characters and backgrounds, most heavily in season one. Season three arrived with an entirely new production team to cover the manga's Coalition Invasion arc.
Q 09Which animation studio, known for Naruto and Bleach, has produced the Kingdom anime since its first season in 2012?
Pierrot
Pierrot shared the third season with its subsidiary Studio Signpost, when the series brought in a new director, new writers and new character designs.
Q 10In Kingdom, Xin and Piao train every day in their village dreaming of earning which title?
Great Generals of the Heavens
Great Generals of the Heavens is the dream the two boys share. Xin goes on to chase it under a king who wants to unify China for the first time in 500 years.
Q 11Which younger half-brother of Ying Zheng seizes the Qin throne in the opening arc of Kingdom?
Cheng Jiao
Cheng Jiao, called Sei Kyo in Japanese, is ousted when Xin and the mountain tribes help the king retake his palace. The real prince later defected to Zhao.
Q 12In Kingdom, which Mountain King agrees to lend Ying Zheng an army after four centuries of broken ties with Qin?
Yang Duan He
Yang Duan He, called Yo Tan Wa in Japanese, is won over by the king's promise of better ties and his dream of unification. She goes on to gather the scattered tribes under her own rule.
Q 13Which Kingdom character, the last of a mountain tribe, hides that she is a girl and later becomes a strategist?
He Liao Diao
Q 21Which Qin general in Kingdom is a former bandit leader nicknamed the Beheader who favours psychological warfare?
Huan Yi
Huan Yi, called Kan Ki in Japanese, rises from outlaw to one of Qin's highest commands. The historical general vanishes from the main chronicle after a crushing defeat by Zhao.
Q 22Which Kingdom general is based on the Qin commander who demanded 600,000 men after a rival failed with 200,000?
Wang Jian
Wang Jian, called Ou Sen in Japanese, got his army, then kept loudly demanding rewards on campaign so that a distrustful king would think he craved riches rather than the throne.
Q 23Which rival of Xin in Kingdom is a master spearman who leads a cavalry unit drawn mostly from the nobility?
Wang Ben
He Liao Diao, called Ka Ryo Ten in Japanese, studies strategy and returns as the Fei Xin Unit's tactician. She first meets Xin while helping the king escape his pursuers.
Q 14In Kingdom, the swordswoman Qiang Lei was raised in which clan of female assassins before joining the Fei Xin Unit?
Chi You
Chi You candidates rise by killing their rivals in deathmatches. Qiang Lei walked away to hunt the woman who won a rigged round of those duels, then found a home in the unit.
Q 15In Kingdom, Wang Qi is the last survivor of which elite group of commanders from King Zhaoxiang's reign?
The Six Great Generals
The Six Great Generals were Qin's most feared commanders a generation earlier. Ying Zheng later revives the title for six new commanders charged with unifying China.
Q 16Which Zhao strategist, one of the Three Great Heavens, engineers Wang Qi's death on the Mayang plains in Kingdom?
Li Mu
Li Mu, called Ri Boku in Japanese, keeps a whole army hidden until his trap closes. The real general twice crushed Qin invasions, so Qin bribed his own court into removing him.
Q 17Which Zhao warrior, who calls himself a god of war, deals Wang Qi his mortal wound in Kingdom?
Pang Nuan
Pang Nuan, called Hou Ken in Japanese, is about to lose the duel when an arrow hits his opponent from behind. The same man had already beaten him once, nine years earlier.
Q 18Which woman general, betrothed to Wang Qi and secretly a king's daughter, died years before Kingdom's Mayang campaign?
Liao
Liao, called Kyou in Japanese, wore a mask to hide that she was King Zhaoxiang's child. Her betrothed had promised in childhood to marry her once she became a general and took a hundred castles.
Q 19Which chancellor, once a wealthy merchant, is Ying Zheng's most powerful rival inside the Qin court in Kingdom?
Lü Buwei
Lü Buwei, called Ryo Fui in Japanese, bought his way to power by backing a minor hostage prince who became king. The real chancellor also sponsored the encyclopedic Lüshi Chunqiu.
Q 20Which exiled former great general of Zhao commands Wei's army against Qin in Kingdom?
Lian Po
Lian Po, called Ren Pa in Japanese, left Zhao after a new king stripped him of command. The real general once carried thorn branches on his bare back to apologise to a minister he had resented.
Wang Ben, called Ou Hon in Japanese, is strict where his fellow young commanders joke around. The historical general won a siege by diverting river water to flood an enemy capital.
Q 24Which headmaster of Kingdom's strategist academy is based on a Qin noble who died as a rival state's last king?
Lord Changping
Lord Changping, called Shou Hei Kun in Japanese, commands all of Qin's armies in the story. An earlier one-shot by the same author shows him defecting to his homeland when Qin invades it.
Q 25Which fake eunuch in Kingdom becomes the Queen Dowager's lover and leads a doomed revolt against Ying Zheng?
Lao Ai
Lao Ai was slipped into the palace by a chancellor eager to end his own affair with the king's mother. Some modern historians doubt that he ever existed.
Q 26The real Li Xin, the general behind Kingdom's hero, lost an army of 200,000 while invading which rival state?
Chu
Chu struck by surprise after his early victories and burned two large camps. It ranks as the worst setback of Qin's unification wars, and a veteran needed three times the men to finish the job.
Q 27Tradition credits the real Meng Tian, known as Mou Ten in Kingdom, with inventing which writing tool?
The ink brush
The ink brush is his by tradition, though wrongly, and a pen festival in Huzhou grew out of rites at his family temple. He is also credited with the guzheng, a bridge zither.
Q 28Zhao's hatred of Qin in Kingdom goes back to which general's killing of 400,000 surrendered soldiers?
Bai Qi
Bai Qi, called Haku Ki in Japanese, led the previous generation of Qin's top commanders. In Kingdom a Zhao army massacres a Qin town in open revenge for what he did.
Q 29Ying Zheng rules Kingdom's Qin from which capital city, burned in 206 BC after the dynasty he founded collapsed?
Xianyang
Xianyang kept one last secret for him: when the emperor died on tour, his ministers hid the death for the whole two-month journey back to the city.
Q 30Which manga artist created Kingdom and said in 2015 that he planned to run the series to 100 volumes?
Yasuhisa Hara
Yasuhisa Hara nearly gave up on manga first: when his early one-shots went nowhere, he spent three years as a systems engineer, work he calls crucial to how Kingdom turned out.