Red Queen (Victoria Aveyard)
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50 free Red Queen (Victoria Aveyard) trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen opens with a simple, brutal rule: your blood decides your life. Silvers have supernatural abilities and rule; Reds have none and serve. Then Mare Barrow, a Red teenager with no prospects, does something in front of the whole court that no Red should be able to do, and the ruling family has to decide what to do with her. This quiz covers the first novel from Mare's village to its final betrayal: the characters and their houses, the abilities that define the Silver court, the places the plot moves through, and the rebellion working out of sight. A later stretch follows the series into its sequels and novellas, and the last questions turn to the author, the prizes and the long road to a screen adaptation. It suits readers who have just finished the book, fans rereading before the sequels, and book clubs or classes that want a quick character and plot check. Every answer comes with a brief explanation, so a miss still tells you something about the world of the series.
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Q 01Victoria Aveyard pitches Red Queen as Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games meets which superhero team?
The X-Men
The X-Men complete her three-part pitch, a habit from her screenwriting training, where she learned to sell a story as one hit meeting another.
Q 02Which power does Mare Barrow, a Red, unleash by accident before the Silver court in Red Queen?
Lightning
Lightning bursts from her as she falls, which no Red should be able to do; the king hides the truth by passing her off as a lost Silver noble.
Q 03After Mare Barrow's power is exposed in Red Queen, which royal is she forced to become engaged to?
Prince Maven
Prince Maven, the king's second son, is the match the king imposes to keep her close; his older half-brother is promised to another bride in the same announcement.
Q 04At the start of Red Queen, how does teenage Mare Barrow bring in money for her poor family?
Picking pockets
Picking pockets is all she can offer, since she has no apprenticeship; her sister's sewing work is what really keeps the family fed.
Q 05Which rebel group in Red Queen fights for equality with the Silvers and recruits Mare Barrow?
Scarlet Guard
The Scarlet Guard takes her in when she turns up furious over a brother's death, and she is soon working against the court from inside the palace.
Q 06In Red Queen, which contest sees noble Silver daughters show their powers to win a prince?
Queenstrial
Queenstrial ends in chaos when a Red servant girl tumbles into the ring and survives a shield that should have killed her.
Q 07Which best friend of Mare Barrow sets the plot of Red Queen moving when he loses his apprenticeship?
Kilorn
Kilorn loses his place when his master dies, and Mare's scramble to keep him off the front lines is what leads her to the rebels and then the palace.
Q 08Which element can the king and both of his sons manipulate in Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen?
Fire
Fire is the gift of House Calore: Silvers who wield it are called burners, and the king passed the ability to both of his sons.
Q 09Under the queen's mind control, whom is Cal forced to kill near the end of Red Queen?
His father
His father dies by Cal's own hand on a live broadcast, which brands the prince a traitor and clears the throne for the queen's son.
Q 10In Red Queen, Mare Barrow lives in which kingdom ruled by the Silver House Calore?
Norta
Norta's Red villagers, like Mare's family in the Capital River Valley, serve a Silver elite that holds every seat of power.
Q 11In Red Queen, Mare Barrow grows up in which poor Red village in the Capital River Valley?
The Stilts
The Stilts is where her parents and sister scrape by while her three older brothers serve on the front line of a long war.
Q 12In Red Queen, which seamstress sister of Mare Barrow has her sewing hand broken as a punishment?
Gisa
Gisa is only fourteen, and the injury ends the apprenticeship that fed the family and shielded her from conscription.
Q 13Which queen in Red Queen, the king's second wife, can read and control other people's minds?
Elara
Elara, born into House Merandus, has an ability known as whispering, and she uses it in a plot to put her own son on the throne.
Q 21Evangeline Samos, Cal's chosen bride in Red Queen, is which kind of Silver?
A magnetron
A magnetron bends metal at will, a trait of House Samos; Evangeline loses face when Mare's power overwhelms hers in front of the court.
Q 22After being branded traitors at the end of Red Queen, how are Mare Barrow and Cal sentenced to die?
Fighting in an arena
Fighting in an arena against their former sparring partners is the sentence, but rebels break them out before it can be finished.
Q 23After Mare Barrow meets Cal at a tavern in Red Queen, what does he quietly arrange for her?
Work at the palace
Q 14Before his master dies in Red Queen, Mare Barrow's best friend is an apprentice in which trade?
Fishing
Fishing kept him out of the army until his master's death; with no apprenticeship, a Red his age is conscripted and sent to the front.
Q 15In Red Queen, Mare Barrow helps rebels plan to kill several leading Silvers at which palace event?
A royal ball
A royal ball is the target, but an explosion the rebels never planned kills bystanders, letting the court paint them as terrorists.
Q 16Which rebel captain in Red Queen demands two thousand crowns to smuggle Mare Barrow and her friend to safety?
Farley
Farley, whose first name is Diana, sets a price Mare cannot pay; the scramble to raise it ends with Mare inside the palace.
Q 17Which royal librarian in Red Queen, an uncle of Cal, tutors Mare Barrow in controlling her power?
Julian
Julian works out that her blood carries a mutation giving a Red abilities as strong as any Silver's, and that she is not the only one.
Q 18Which brother of Mare Barrow, reported executed during Red Queen, turns out to be alive at the end?
Shade
Shade faked his death and joined the rebels; he carries the same rare mutation as his sister, which is why he was marked to die.
Q 19In Red Queen, Mare Barrow's kingdom has spent about a century at war with which neighbouring power?
The Lakelands
The Lakelands war has swallowed all three of Mare's older brothers, who are serving at the front when the story opens.
Q 20Which novel by Victoria Aveyard is the direct sequel to Red Queen and the second book in the series?
Glass Sword
Glass Sword picks up straight after the first book's ending and sends Mare across the kingdom to find other Reds with powers like hers.
Work at the palace is what he arranges overnight; only once she is serving there does she learn the generous stranger is heir to the throne.
Q 24In Red Queen, what false Silver name is Mare Barrow forced to use at court to hide her Red blood?
Mareena Titanos
Mareena Titanos is presented as the long-lost orphan of a Silver war hero, adopted by Reds near the front, to explain away a Red with powers.
Q 25In Red Queen, Cal is a nickname; which first name does the crown prince share with the king?
Tiberias
Tiberias Calore VII is his full title, since the reigning king is the sixth of that name; Mare first knows him only as a servant called Cal.
Q 26To which Silver city does Mare Barrow's sister regularly travel for her apprenticeship in Red Queen?
Summerton
Summerton is where the Silver royals hold their warm-weather court, and a rebel bombing elsewhere throws its market into chaos while the sisters are there.
Q 27At which royal residence in Red Queen is Mare Barrow's power exposed in front of the court?
Hall of the Sun
The Hall of the Sun is where the great Silver houses gather to compete for a royal marriage, and Mare arrives just in time for it.
Q 28Whitefire Palace, the king's main residence in Red Queen, stands in which city?
Archeon
Archeon is where Mare travels with the royal family late in the book, and where the rebels then try to seize the palace from within.
Q 29How do the rebels carry Mare Barrow and Cal away from their execution at the end of Red Queen?
An underground train
An underground train does it: the rebels run a hidden line they call the Undertrain, which had already taken Mare to a secret meeting with them.
Q 30Before going into hiding in Red Queen, what does Mare Barrow's tutor leave her to carry forward?
A list of names
A list of names is his parting gift: each one is a Red with a mutation like hers, and finding them becomes her mission.