Monty Python and the Holy Grail Trivia
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57 free Monty Python and the Holy Grail trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
54 free Monty Python and the Holy Grail trivia questions with answers. Monty Python and the Holy Grail cost £175,000, was funded by Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, and became one of the most quoted comedies ever made. This quiz covers the whole quest: the coconut horses, the Black Knight's flesh wounds, the Trojan Rabbit, the Knights Who Say Ni and their shrubbery, Castle Anthrax, Tim the Enchanter, the killer rabbit and the Holy Hand Grenade, the Bridge of Death and the swallow question, and the police who end the film. It also digs into how it was made: Doune Castle standing in for everything, the rock-star investors, Graham Chapman drying out on set and Eric Idle turning it all into Spamalot. Easy questions ask how the knights 'ride' and what the Black Knight says. The hard ones want the size of Led Zeppelin's investment, the royal object the Holy Hand Grenade parodies and the alternative ending the Pythons dropped. It suits a film night or a quiz for people who can recite the whole thing. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its makers, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What shape does Holy Grail's Sir Bedevere say the Earth is?
Banana-shaped
Banana-shaped, says Sir Bedevere the Wise, whose witch-trial logic also holds that witches burn because they are made of wood.
Q 02Which two Pythons directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones: neither had directed a feature before, and on the next Python film Jones directed alone while Gilliam shaped its look.
Q 03Who plays King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman: his alcoholism left him trembling and afraid of heights, and on the first day of filming he froze at the gorge's edge.
Q 04How do Arthur and his knights 'ride' in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Miming as servants bang coconuts
Miming as servants bang coconuts: the budget couldn't stretch to real horses, so they borrowed an old radio sound effect for hooves.
Q 05What do the French guards claim when Arthur invites them on his Grail quest?
That they already have one
That they already have one: the guard says it's very nice, then refuses to let the 'English types' see it and taunts them.
Q 06In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what does a villager claim the witch turned him into?
A newt
A newt: when Bedevere looks doubtful, the villager admits, 'I got better', and the crowd wants her burned anyway.
Q 07What does the Black Knight say after losing an arm?
''Tis but a scratch'
''Tis but a scratch': Arthur protests, 'A scratch? Your arm's off!', and the knight keeps fighting.
Q 08Which Python plays the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
John Cleese
John Cleese: once the knight is down to one leg, a real one-legged local stands in, with a false leg for Arthur to chop off.
Q 09Why does Arthur turn away from Camelot?
He decides it is 'a silly place'
He decides it is 'a silly place': he changes his mind after watching the knights inside break into a song-and-dance number.
Q 10In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who orders Arthur to find the Grail?
God
God: his face is a photo of cricketer W. G. Grace, and he tells Arthur off for grovelling.
Q 11What do the French soldiers use to drive the Britons back from their castle?
A barrage of barnyard animals
A barrage of barnyard animals: first, though, a guard jeers at the 'English pig-dogs' and tells them to go and boil their bottoms.
Q 12What flaw ruins the Trojan Rabbit plan?
Nobody remembered to hide inside it first
Nobody remembered to hide inside it first: the French wheel it in, then fling it straight back over the wall at the knights.
Q 13In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what one word terrifies Arthur's party in the woods?
'Ni!'
Q 21In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what does Arthur say after 'One, two...'?
'Five!'
'Five!': a knight has to correct him with 'Three, sir!', since the instructions say five is right out.
Q 22In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what must Arthur use to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest?
A herring
A herring: Arthur protests 'It can't be done', and the knights recoil in pain whenever anyone says the word 'it'.
Q 23At the Bridge of Death, what must each knight do to cross?
Answer three questions
Answer three questions: an easy one about his favourite colour still trips up Galahad, who is flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.
'Ni!': the knights later rename themselves, so Arthur calls them the Knights Who 'Til Recently Said 'Ni'.
Q 14What do the knights who guard the forest demand from Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
A shrubbery
A shrubbery: Arthur gets one from Roger the Shrubber, only for the knights to demand another.
Q 15How does Sir Robin avoid the Three-Headed Knight?
He runs off while its heads argue
He runs off while its heads argue, but at the Bridge of Death his luck runs out and he's flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.
Q 16Who occupies Castle Anthrax?
Young women who all try to woo Galahad
Young women who all try to woo Galahad: a grail-shaped beacon lures him in, and Lancelot then 'rescues' him against his will.
Q 17Who really wrote the distress note Lancelot answers at Swamp Castle?
The effeminate Prince Herbert
The effeminate Prince Herbert: before realising, Lancelot storms the castle and kills several wedding guests.
Q 18Who is Tim the Enchanter?
A fire-wielding sorcerer who points them to a cave
A fire-wielding sorcerer who points them to a cave: the knights ignore his warnings about its guardian, and three of them die.
Q 19What guards the Cave of Caerbannog?
A killer rabbit
A killer rabbit: the knights scoff at the harmless-looking bunny until it kills Sir Bors.
Q 20What does Arthur use to destroy the beast at the cave?
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: Brother Maynard carries it as a sacred relic, and a monk reads its instructions from the Book of Armaments.
Q 24Which question stumps the Bridge of Death's keeper himself?
The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow: Arthur asks, 'An African or European swallow?', and the keeper, not knowing, is flung into the gorge.
Q 25How does Monty Python and the Holy Grail end?
Police arrest Arthur and break the camera
Police arrest Arthur and break the camera: they take him and Bedevere in on suspicion of murder.
Q 26Which modern-day character is killed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
A historian filming a documentary
A historian filming a documentary: a knight rides past and cuts him down while he's in the middle of explaining Arthur's story.
Q 27In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what does Patsy say when the knights first see Camelot?
'It's only a model'
'It's only a model': and it really was, since Camelot was a big cut-out rather than a real castle.
Q 28Which Argyll castle, set on a tidal islet, plays Castle Aaargh in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Castle Stalker
Castle Stalker: the vast army that charges it in the finale was really a crowd of Stirling university students.
Q 29Why did Holy Grail's crew film most of its castles at one site?
Permission for other castles was pulled
Permission for other castles was pulled: two weeks before shooting, they were told they wouldn't respect 'the dignity of the fabric' of the buildings.
Q 30Which fortress, later Winterfell in Game of Thrones, was Holy Grail's main location?
Doune Castle
Doune Castle: shot from different angles, it plays nearly every castle in the film, from Castle Anthrax to Swamp Castle.