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50 free RWBY trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
RWBY began as a short trailer tacked onto the end of another web series and grew into a long-running animated saga with novels, comics, console tie-ins and an anime spin-off. Its world mixes monster hunting, transforming weapons and characters borrowed from fairy tales, which gives fans a lot to remember. This quiz covers the four heroines and the students who fight beside them, the villains working against them, the weapons and powers, the music, the split journeys of the fourth volume and the people who made the series. It suits anyone who has watched from the first volume, and it holds a few harder questions for viewers who know the cast list and the lore by heart.
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Q 01Ruby, the scythe-wielding leader of Team RWBY, alludes to the heroine of which classic fairy tale?
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood explains the red cloak Ruby wears, modelled on her mother's white one. Her three teammates each nod to a different storybook character.
Q 02In RWBY, what are people born with animal traits such as tails, horns or claws called?
Faunus
Faunus face open prejudice in Remnant, and one Beacon bully torments a classmate with rabbit traits simply for being one.
Q 03In RWBY, what is the name of Ruby's scythe, which doubles as a high-caliber sniper rifle?
Crescent Rose
Crescent Rose is the weapon Ruby learned to wield from her uncle Qrow, whose own giant sword can turn into a scythe as well.
Q 04What is the name of Ruby and Yang's pet corgi, sent to them through the mail in RWBY's Volume 2?
Zwei
Zwei is named as a play on Ein, the corgi from Cowboy Bebop. Ruby later sneaks him along on a mission, where he helps the team in a fight.
Q 05Which Rooster Teeth animator created RWBY and voiced Lie Ren before his death in 2015?
Monty Oum
Monty Oum gave his character designer a single rule for the series: "everyone must be badass."
Q 06Which immortal villain of RWBY became part Grimm after throwing herself into a pool of darkness?
Salem
Salem was cursed to live forever after trying to trick the gods into reviving her dead lover. She leapt into the pool hoping to die, and now commands the Grimm instead.
Q 07In RWBY, what does Blake keep hidden beneath her bow until Sun sees through the disguise?
Cat ears
Cat ears run in the family: Blake's mother Kali has them too, while her father Ghira has retractable panther claws at his fingertips.
Q 08In RWBY, which element sold by the Schnee family company set off an industrial revolution?
Dust
Dust is loaded into weapons across Remnant, and the fortune built on it made the Schnee family a target for the White Fang.
Q 09Which part of her body does Yang lose while protecting Blake during RWBY's Fall of Beacon?
Her right arm
Her right arm is later replaced by a bionic one, which has a shotgun mechanism built into the wrist.
Q 10According to RWBY's creator, every character's name in the series is tied to a specific what?
Color
Color even names the teams: the initials of each four-student squad spell a word such as "cardinal" or "indigo".
Q 11Which cane-carrying professor is the headmaster of Beacon Academy when Ruby enrolls in RWBY?
Ozpin
Ozpin calls his cane The Long Memory, and it stores kinetic energy he has built up across many past lifetimes.
Q 12Which orange-haired crime lord does Ruby fight in the very first episode of RWBY?
Roman Torchwick
Roman Torchwick fights with the Melodic Cudgel, a cane that doubles as a firearm, and his outfit was inspired by Alex from A Clockwork Orange.
Q 13Which android friend of Ruby in RWBY hiccups every time she tells a lie, a nod to Pinocchio?
Penny Polendina
Penny Polendina fights with the Floating Array, a small backpack holding an array of gun-bladed weapons on wires.
Q 21Trivia Vanille is the birth name of which mute RWBY villain with an illusion-casting Semblance?
Neopolitan
Neopolitan took the name from an imaginary childhood friend, and she fights with Hush, a parasol that hides a blade in its handle.
Q 22Which red-haired villain was Blake's mentor and boyfriend before becoming her archenemy in RWBY?
Adam Taurus
Adam Taurus is based on the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, with elements of Gaston from the 1991 film.
Q 23Which devoted servant of RWBY's main villain attacks with a scorpion's stinger?
Tyrian Callows
Tyrian Callows is named after a shade of purple, and he alludes to the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog.
Q 14Which celebrated Beacon fighter in RWBY moves metal objects with her Semblance, Polarity?
Pyrrha Nikos
Pyrrha Nikos was given her first name for her red hair, and her full name is a reference to a Pyrrhic victory.
Q 15The full name of RWBY's heiress Weiss Schnee is German for which two words?
White Snow
White Snow flips the name of the fairy-tale princess Weiss is modelled on. Her designer called her the favorite of the four heroines to draw.
Q 16Team JNPR, the squad that trains beside Team RWBY at Beacon, pronounces its name like which word?
Juniper
Juniper turned into "junior" after the team lost one of its four members and shortened its name to JNR.
Q 17In RWBY's lore, what did the God of Darkness shatter as he and his brother left Remnant?
The moon
The moon was broken on the day the two gods abandoned Remnant, leaving behind four Relics that could one day summon them back.
Q 18Nora Valkyrie, the talkative orange-haired member of RWBY's Team JNPR, alludes to which Norse god?
Thor
Thor suits her war hammer, Magnhild, and her Semblance, which channels electricity into her muscles for superhuman strength.
Q 19Team RWBY meets which famous superhero team in a two-part direct-to-video animated crossover film?
Justice League
Justice League heroes are turned into teenagers and trapped in a digital simulation of Remnant, where Batman finds he has taken on bat traits.
Q 20RWBY's first trailer debuted after the credits of which Rooster Teeth series' season 10 finale?
Red vs. Blue
Red vs. Blue made RWBY possible: RWBY's creator was told he could do whatever he wanted once he finished animating that tenth season.
Q 24Which RWBY villain grew up as a mistreated servant at the Glass Unicorn hotel in Atlas?
Cinder Fall
Cinder Fall is an allusion to Cinderella, down to the cruel stepmother and stepsisters who made her childhood a misery.
Q 25Which hidden feature does RWBY's Mercury Black have because of injuries inflicted by his father?
Mechanical legs
Mechanical legs suit his weapons, Talaria, which are a pair of greaves that also work as guns.
Q 26RWBY's hulking villain Hazel and the sister whose death he avenges are named after which fairy tale?
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel fits the grudge that drives Hazel: he blames Beacon's headmaster for his sister Gretchen dying on a training mission.
Q 27Which film gives the character Abra Stone a room with RWBY posters and an Emerald Sustrai statue?
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep added the nods at the suggestion of Kyliegh Curran, the RWBY fan who played Abra, and her character even wears Emerald's hair in a dream.
Q 28The surname of Maria Calavera, the old Huntress who mentors Ruby in RWBY, means what in Spanish?
Skull
Skull suits a fighter once known as the Grimm Reaper, whose twin kamas inspired the design of Qrow's own weapon.
Q 29Which Rooster Teeth co-founder voices Taiyang Xiao Long, father of Ruby and Yang, in RWBY?
Burnie Burns
Burnie Burns first plays the part in Volume 3, after two volumes in which the girls' father was only ever mentioned.
Q 30Which voice actress plays Ruby, the title heroine of RWBY, in the original English version?
Lindsay Jones
Lindsay Jones recalled showing RWBY to Japanese colleagues, who promptly started arguing about whether it counted as anime.