Six of Crows
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50 free Six of Crows trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Six of Crows took the Grishaverse out of palaces and battlefields and dropped it into the back alleys of Ketterdam, where a teenage crime boss gathers five other outcasts for a job nobody is supposed to survive. It is a fantasy novel built like a heist film, and the plan matters as much as the magic. This quiz covers the whole job: the crew and what each of them brings, the gangs and landmarks of the city, the break-in at the Ice Court, and what happens when the crew comes home. Later questions reach into the second book, the wider Grishaverse, the author's life and the television adaptation. It is written for fans who have finished the duology and want to see how much stuck, and for book clubs looking for a ready-made round. Be warned that the questions give away major plot turns in both books.
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Q 01Which American fantasy author wrote the heist novel Six of Crows and its Grishaverse companions?
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo set the story in the world of her earlier Grisha trilogy, but swapped a country at war for a merchant city run by thieves.
Q 02What is Kaz Brekker rarely seen without in Six of Crows, the legacy of a childhood trauma?
Leather gloves
Leather gloves cover the hands of a boy who was once dumped among plague victims and swam to shore using his brother's body as a float.
Q 03Which nickname did Inej Ghafa earn for slipping in and out of anywhere unseen and unheard?
The Wraith
The Wraith is the name Kaz gave her after buying out her contract, and he taught her to crack safes and pick pockets along the way.
Q 04In Six of Crows, Inej Ghafa gives each of her favourite knives a name taken from which group?
Saints
Saints lend their names to all six of the blades she carries, a habit that suits the most devout member of the crew after Matthias.
Q 05Ketterdam, the canal-laced trading city of Six of Crows, is loosely inspired by which real European city?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam in its Dutch Republic heyday was the model, which is why Ketterdam answers to a council of merchants rather than a king.
Q 06Which costly habit keeps Six of Crows sharpshooter Jesper Fahey deep in debt in Ketterdam?
Gambling
Gambling hooked him soon after he arrived from a frontier farm to attend university, and his father still believes he is in class.
Q 07Nina Zenik, a former soldier of Ravka's Second Army, is which kind of Grisha in Six of Crows?
Heartrender
Heartrender Grisha work on the human body, and Nina turns the gift to gentler use at her day job, where she alters her clients' moods.
Q 08From which island prison do the Crows break out Matthias Helvar early in Six of Crows?
Hellgate
Hellgate held him for a year after Nina, trying to shield him from Grisha spies, falsely denounced him to a Kerch trader.
Q 09Which novel, set days after Six of Crows, completes the story of Kaz Brekker's crew as a duology?
Crooked Kingdom
Crooked Kingdom opens with the crew cheated of their reward and one of their own held hostage, so the thieves turn on the merchant who hired them.
Q 10Which Netflix fantasy series gave the Crows of Six of Crows an original storyline in its first season?
Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone ran for two seasons before Netflix cancelled it, taking a planned spin-off about the Ice Court heist down with it.
Q 11Which Ketterdam gang, marked by a crow-and-cup tattoo, counts Kaz Brekker as its lieutenant?
The Dregs
The Dregs are named for sitting at the very bottom of the city's roughest district, and rivals dismissed them as a joke until Kaz made them competitive.
Q 12Which powerful Ketterdam gang, owners of the Emerald Palace, is the chief rival of Kaz Brekker's crew?
The Dime Lions
The Dime Lions use the symbol of a feral cat curled into a crown, and their other businesses include the Sweet Shop and the Kaelish Prince.
Q 13Which powerful Ketterdam figure swindled a young Kaz Brekker and his brother out of their farm money?
Pekka Rollins
Q 21Matthias Helvar once belonged to which holy Fjerdan order trained to capture and execute Grisha?
Drüskelle
Drüskelle swear sacred oaths, and Matthias ends up giving his to Nina, vowing to keep safe the very Grisha he once took captive.
Q 22Which Shu scientist, the inventor of jurda parem, is Kaz Brekker hired to rescue from the Ice Court?
Bo Yul-Bayur
Bo Yul-Bayur has already been killed by the time the crew reach his lab, so they bring out his teenage son, who was being forced to redo the research.
Q 23After surviving jurda parem withdrawal in the Six of Crows duology, Nina Zenik gains power over what?
The dead
The dead answer to her once the drug has rewired her gift, which makes Nina the only known Corpsewitch.
Pekka Rollins posed as a friendly merchant to run the con, and years later he cannot even recall the boy who has built his life around revenge.
Q 14Which nickname did Kaz Brekker earn in Six of Crows for doing any job for the right price?
Dirtyhands
Dirtyhands is a reputation he leans on, because rivals who believe he will carry out any threat tend to back down before he has to.
Q 15Jan Van Eck disowns his son Wylan in Six of Crows because the boy cannot master which skill?
Reading
Reading defeats him because of severe dyslexia, yet he is a fine mathematician, chemist and musician, and the crew's demolitions man.
Q 16Which Fjerdan war machine do Jesper and Wylan hijack to smash out of the Ice Court in Six of Crows?
A tank
A tank from the fortress's own armoury rams through the walls, and the crew fire its gun to bring down a bridge behind them.
Q 17Which actor plays the cane-wielding thief Kaz Brekker in Netflix's Grishaverse adaptation?
Freddy Carter
Freddy Carter plays him with blue eyes, although the novels describe Kaz as very pale with dark hair and dark brown eyes.
Q 18From which Ketterdam brothel did Kaz Brekker buy Inej Ghafa's indenture before Six of Crows begins?
The Menagerie
The Menagerie marked its girls with a peacock tattoo on the forearm, and Inej is the only known member of Kaz's gang who does not wear the gang's own tattoo.
Q 19Which act did Inej Ghafa perform in her family's travelling troupe before she was taken to Ketterdam?
The tightrope
The tightrope was her act from early childhood, and she walked it barefoot beside her father and cousins, falling only once.
Q 20Which Ketterdam district of gaming halls, brothels and slums is home turf for Kaz Brekker's gang?
The Barrel
The Barrel lies between two canals, East Stave with its betting parlours and West Stave with its pleasure houses, and tourists roam it in costume.
Q 24To which Grisha order does Jesper Fahey secretly belong, a gift inherited from his late mother?
Fabrikator
Fabrikator power lets him guide a bullet around a corner, but his father, fearing persecution, raised him to keep it hidden.
Q 25Which prized pearl-handled weapons is Six of Crows sharpshooter Jesper Fahey almost never seen without?
Revolvers
Revolvers mean so much to him that losing the pair in a card game, staged to keep a lawyer away from his office, is a real sacrifice.
Q 26What is the name of Kaz Brekker's older brother, whose death in a Ketterdam plague drives his revenge?
Jordie
Jordie had sold the family farm and brought Kaz to the city hoping to become a merchant, only to lose every coin to a con.
Q 27Before naming himself after dockside machinery, Kaz Brekker was born with which surname?
Rietveld
Rietveld survives as a black letter R tattooed on his bicep, and he later revives the name as an alias in a con of his own.
Q 28Which actress plays the knife-carrying spy Inej Ghafa in Netflix's Grishaverse adaptation?
Amita Suman
Amita Suman was born in Nepal and moved to Brighton at seven, and she had a guest role in Doctor Who before landing the part.
Q 29In Kaz Brekker's plan in Six of Crows, how do the six crew members first get inside the Ice Court?
As prisoners
As prisoners, having swapped places with six captives on an intercepted wagon, they reach the cells and then climb for the roof.
Q 30Which currency do the merchants and gangs of Kerch count their fortunes in throughout Six of Crows?
Kruge
Kruge are the stakes of the whole heist, because Kaz is promised thirty million of them for the Ice Court job.