100 free Skyrim trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free Skyrim trivia questions with answers. Skyrim has been re-released on almost everything with a screen, and fifteen years on millions of people are still walking the Seven Thousand Steps. This quiz is for them. Fifty questions cover the game's story and world (Alduin, Paarthurnax, the nine holds and their jarls, the guilds and Daedric artifacts), the three add-ons, and the real-world side: development at Bethesda, Jeremy Soule's barbarian choir, the voice cast, the patches, the memes, the mods that got their creators hired, and the sales figures. It starts with things any Dragonborn knows (which shout you show the Greybeards, who asks about the Cloud District) and works up to questions for people who have read every loading screen: how many masks unlock Konahrik, which Daedric Prince taught Miraak, and what Bethesda last shipped on a Nintendo console before the Switch port. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia article on the game or the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, and each question shows its source. Good for a gaming quiz night round or for settling arguments in the Bannered Mare.
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Q 01On what date was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim released worldwide?
11 November 2011
Bethesda revealed the '11-11-11' date at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards; a leaked Xbox 360 copy let modded consoles play it ten days early.
Q 02Which studio developed Skyrim?
Bethesda Game Studios
A team of roughly 100 people built it, and Bethesda Softworks published it; Todd Howard directed.
Q 03Which technology, forked from the Fallout 3 codebase, powers Skyrim?
Creation Engine
Havok's Behavior toolset handled the character animation, and Radiant AI from Oblivion was updated so NPCs could farm, mill and mine.
Q 04Skyrim is set how many years after the events of Oblivion?
201
It is deliberately not a direct sequel; the Empire has since lost the Great War and signed the humiliating White-Gold Concordat.
Q 05What is the name of the World-Eater, the dragon prophesied to destroy the world?
Alduin
His name breaks into Al-Du-In, 'Destroyer-Devour-Master' in the dragon tongue, and he calls himself the First-Born of Akatosh.
Q 06How many playable races does Skyrim offer at character creation?
10
Todd Howard called the choice more important than in earlier games because Skyrim's culture contains more racism, though it never locks players out of quests.
Q 07Skyrim's 18 skills are divided evenly among which three schools?
Combat, magic and stealth
Characters level indirectly by levelling skills; the class system of earlier Elder Scrolls games was dropped entirely, to widespread critical approval.
Q 08Traditionally, into how many holds is the province of Skyrim divided, each governed by a jarl?
Nine
The developers designed each hold to feel topographically distinct, and gave up generated landscapes in favour of hand-crafting the whole map.
Q 09Which deified human general do the Nords worship as a ninth god, in defiance of the White-Gold Concordat?
Talos
The Thalmor forced the ban into the treaty because a man becoming greater than any elf offended them, and the ban helped ignite Ulfric's rebellion.
Q 10Who is the last known dragon, secretly protected by the Greybeards atop the Throat of the World?
Paarthurnax
His name means 'Ambition Overlord Cruelty'; he was once Alduin's lieutenant, and the Blades demand you kill him.
Q 11What is the name of the pacifist discipline practised by the Greybeards, founded by Jurgen Windcaller?
The Way of the Voice
Ulfric Stormcloak trained with the Greybeards too, which is how he can Shout; the Greybeards summon you with a shout heard across the province.
Q 12How many words of power make up a complete dragon shout?
Three
Each word is unlocked by spending an absorbed dragon soul, and holding the shout button longer releases more words.
Q 13Which shout, forcing a dragon to land by making it comprehend mortality, must the Dragonborn learn to fight Alduin?
Dragonrend
Arngeir refuses to teach it because it violates the Way of the Voice, so you learn it by reading an Elder Scroll at the site of Alduin's original banishment.
Q 21Which of Skyrim's three add-ons revolves around a battle between vampire hunters and Clan Volkihar?
Dawnguard
It adds crossbows, the Soul Cairn and the Forgotten Vale, and PS3 performance problems delayed it there by eight months.
Q 22The Hearthfire add-on lets the player build houses and adopt up to how many children?
Two
Three plots of land are added, and the house is built from raw lumber and clay that you gather or buy.
Q 23The Dragonborn add-on takes place on which island belonging to the province of Morrowind?
Solstheim
Its antagonist Miraak, the First Dragonborn, was a dragon priest who learned from Hermaeus Mora how to bend dragons' will; the DLC lets you ride dragons.
Q 14Which captured dragon flies the Dragonborn to the Nord afterlife in exchange for freedom?
Odahviing
His name Od-Ah-Viing means 'Snow-Hunter-Wing'; after the main quest you can call him down with a shout that is simply his name.
Q 15Which composer wrote Skyrim's score, having also scored Morrowind and Oblivion?
Jeremy Soule
The 'Dragonborn' theme was sung by a choir of about 30 in the dragon language, layered three times to sound like 90 barbarians.
Q 16Bethesda's Adam Adamowicz created the Draconic language and a runic alphabet of how many characters?
34
New words were added to the lexicon, in Bruce Nesmith's words, every time the studio 'wanted to say something'.
Q 17Which Academy Award nominee voiced Esbern, the Blades loremaster?
Max von Sydow
The cast of more than 70 actors also included Christopher Plummer as Arngeir and Joan Allen as Delphine, across over 60,000 lines of dialogue.
Q 18Which actor voiced Arngeir, the spokesman of the Greybeards?
Christopher Plummer
Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, is also in the cast, as Paarthurnax; Lynda Carter voices Gormlaith Golden-Hilt.
Q 19Which Japanese magazine gave Skyrim a perfect 40/40, the first Western-developed game to earn it?
Famitsu
The four-editor score put it alongside a handful of Japanese classics; reviewers elsewhere still criticised the 'floaty' melee combat.
Q 20Roughly how many units of Skyrim had been sold by June 2023, according to Todd Howard?
60 million
It had already shipped 7 million in its first week and hit 65 million by July 2026; Howard blames the endless re-releases on the millions still playing.
Q 24Which Daedric Prince taught Miraak the power to bend the will of dragons?
Hermaeus Mora
Miraak turned on his winged overlords and slaughtered them, so the dragons razed his temple; Mora protected him but trapped him in Apocrypha.
Q 25Which city is the capital of Skyrim, seat of the High King, and built on a natural arch over the Sea of Ghosts?
Solitude
Jarl Elisif the Fair, widow of the murdered High King Torygg, rules from the Blue Palace; the Bards College and Imperial Legion HQ are also there.
Q 26Which city is built inside an ancient Dwemer city, with much of it carved into the surrounding rock?
Markarth
Its Silver-Blood family owns half the city and Cidhna Mine, said to be the most secure prison in Skyrim.
Q 27The Thieves Guild inhabits the sewers beneath which city?
Riften
The tunnels are called the Ratway; guards demand a 'tax' at the gate, which you can pay, talk your way out of, or pickpocket the key for.
Q 28Which family, headed by Maven, controls the Rift's meadery and has ties to the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood?
Black-Briar
If the Imperials take the Rift, Maven replaces Laila Law-Giver as jarl.
Q 29Windhelm's Dark Elf refugees are confined to a cramped slum called what?
The Gray Quarter
It was previously the Snow Quarter; the Dunmer fled Morrowind after the eruption of Red Mountain, and Ulfric turns a blind eye to their plight.
Q 30Which Whiterun citizen famously asks whether you get to the Cloud District very often?
Nazeem
He owns Chillfurrow Farm and claims to advise the Jarl, but never sets foot in Dragonsreach and sleeps at The Drunken Huntsman.