50 free Narnia trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
48 free Narnia trivia questions with answers. Narnia started as a picture in a teenager's head of a faun carrying parcels through snow, and ended as 120 million books in 47 languages. Along the way it picked up an argument about reading order that has never been settled, a lion that Lewis insisted was not an allegory, and a talking mouse he thought was the point of the whole thing. This quiz runs 50 questions across all seven books, from the wardrobe and the Stone Table to Charn, the Dawn Treader, Puddleglum and the ape Shift, plus C. S. Lewis himself (Belfast, Jack, the Inklings, the Kilns evacuees) and every screen version: the BBC serials, the Walden Media films with Liam Neeson and Tilda Swinton, and Netflix's coming Greta Gerwig film. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know what an immram is. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a school book club, a family quiz or a literature round at pub trivia.
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Q 01How many books make up The Chronicles of Narnia?
Seven
They were published between 1950 and 1956, and Aslan is the only character to appear in all of them.
Q 02Who illustrated the original Narnia books in the 1950s?
Pauline Baynes
Her pen-and-ink drawings have appeared in every edition since the 1950s.
Q 03Which is the only Narnia book whose protagonists are not children from our world?
The Horse and His Boy
Shasta and the talking horse Bree begin as captives in Calormen during the Pevensies' reign.
Q 04Which book was published first, in 1950?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Geoffrey Bles released it in London on 16 October 1950; the prequel The Magician's Nephew was the last written.
Q 05Which book, the last one Lewis wrote, tells the story of Narnia's creation?
The Magician's Nephew
Completed in 1954 and published in 1955, it has been placed first in chronological-order editions since 1994; whether it belongs first or sixth is a long-running fan argument.
Q 06For which Narnia book did Lewis win the 1956 Carnegie Medal?
The Last Battle
It was the final book, chronicling the end of Narnia and the passage to Aslan's country.
Q 07Who first called the series 'The Chronicles of Narnia', in 1951?
Roger Lancelyn Green
The fellow children's author coined it after reading The Silver Chair, then titled Night under Narnia.
Q 08What image did Lewis say the whole series began with?
A faun carrying parcels in the snow
He said the picture dated back to when he was 16, in 1914; that faun became Mr Tumnus.
Q 09Roughly how many copies have the Narnia books sold worldwide?
120 million
They are Lewis's best-selling work and have never been out of print.
Q 10What are the four Pevensie children called?
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy
Their surname is not actually revealed until The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Q 11What sweet does the White Witch use to tempt Edmund?
Turkish delight
She also promises to make him a prince if he brings his siblings to her.
Q 12What are the Pevensies' royal titles once crowned at Cair Paravel?
Peter the Magnificent, Susan the Gentle, Edmund the Just, Lucy the Valiant
Peter is High King over the others.
Q 13Which of the four Pevensies is absent from Aslan's country in the final book?
Susan
Q 21What summons the Pevensies back to Narnia in Prince Caspian?
Susan's horn
Only a year has passed in England, but 1,300 years in Narnia; their castle is in ruins.
Q 22Who is the priggish cousin who joins Edmund and Lucy in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
Eustace Scrubb
He is turned into a dragon, reflects on his behaviour, and comes back a nicer boy.
Q 23What is Eustace turned into in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
A dragon
Aslan eventually changes him back; he returns as a hero in The Silver Chair.
What are the crew of the Dawn Treader searching for?
She has stopped believing in Narnia, though Lewis wrote to a fan that 'there is plenty of time for her to mend'.
Q 14How long has the White Witch's winter lasted when the children arrive?
A hundred years
It is always winter and never Christmas, until Father Christmas himself turns up with gifts.
Q 15What is the White Witch's real name, and where does she come from?
Jadis, from the dead world of Charn
Digory wakes her from a magical sleep in The Magician's Nephew and brings her, disastrously, to Victorian London.
Q 16On what does the White Witch kill Aslan?
The Stone Table
She invokes the 'Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time' that gives her the right to Edmund's life; Aslan takes his place.
Q 17Whose son is Aslan?
The Emperor-Over-the-Sea
Lewis said Aslan was not an allegory but a 'supposition' of how Christ might appear in another world.
Q 18What word did Lewis prefer to 'allegory' when describing the Christian element of Narnia?
Supposition
He also drew on Plato, George MacDonald, Dante and Milton.
Q 19Who is the first creature Lucy meets in Narnia?
Mr Tumnus the Faun
He invites her to tea intending to hand her over to the Witch, then repents.
Q 20Which wolf does Peter kill to save Susan?
Maugrim
The kill earns him his sword's first blood and, later, the title High King.
The seven lords banished by Miraz
The ship sails east toward Aslan's country at the edge of the world.
Q 25Which gloomy Marsh-wiggle guides Eustace and Jill on their search for Prince Rilian?
Puddleglum
They are hunting for Prince Rilian, who vanished ten years earlier.
Q 26Which is the first Narnia book with none of the Pevensie children in it?
The Silver Chair
Eustace and his classmate Jill Pole take over; fifty Narnian years have passed and Caspian is an old man.
Q 27What is Shasta's true identity, revealed in The Horse and His Boy?
Cor, heir to Archenland
He was kidnapped as an infant, raised by a fisherman in Calormen, and is the elder twin of Prince Corin.
Q 28Which honour-obsessed talking mouse sails into Aslan's country at the end of Dawn Treader?
Reepicheep
Lewis said he 'specially' embodied the book's theme of the spiritual life.
Q 29In the final book, which animal tricks a donkey into impersonating Aslan?
Shift the ape
Puzzle the donkey wears a lion skin, setting off the war between Calormen and King Tirian.
Q 30The Professor who hosts the Pevensies is revealed in a later book to be which character?
Digory Kirke
He was 12 in The Magician's Nephew, set in 1900, and hosts the children 40 years later.