Smite Trivia
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This Smite trivia quiz has 46 free questions with answers about Hi-Rez's third-person MOBA, from its 2011 PAX East reveal and 2012 closed beta to Smite 2 going free-to-play in 2025. It covers the game itself (Conquest, Joust, Assault, Arena and Slash, the titan and the phoenixes, the five classes, ranked entry rules and TrueSkill matchmaking), the pantheons and the gods, including why one goddess was renamed and why another got a new outfit, and the esports story from the $2.6 million first Smite World Championship in Atlanta to the franchised Smite Pro League. It is written for people who have actually queued for a Conquest match, so most questions turn on things you would know from playing or watching: how many minutes before a surrender vote, what the Bull Demon King does, who won three world titles. A few history and business questions will stretch even long-time players. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and its cited sources before publishing. Play it, share your score, and see who on your team really knows the gods.
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Q 01Unlike most MOBAs, which are played top-down, Smite is played from which perspective?
Third-person
Third-person view puts the camera right behind the god, a setup that plays naturally on a controller and eased the game's move from PC to consoles.
Q 02In most Smite modes, what must a team destroy in the enemy base to win?
The titan
The titan is a giant warrior waiting in each base, and it can't even be attacked until at least one of the phoenixes guarding it has been destroyed.
Q 03What is Smite's default and largest game mode, played on a three-lane map?
Conquest
Conquest threads a jungle between its lanes, where monster camps drop buffs when killed, so teams usually send one player to roam it rather than hold a lane.
Q 04Which pantheon supplies the most playable gods in the original Smite?
Greek
Greek figures outnumber every other pantheon by a wide margin, and the game treats the word god loosely: the monsters Medusa and Cerberus and the mortal hero Achilles are all on the list.
Q 05Which fantasy hero shooter did Smite's developer release in 2018?
Paladins
Paladins was already in the works when Blizzard unveiled its own hero shooter, its makers say, and the team spent years fending off comparisons between the two.
Q 06Smite's Norse assassin Ratatoskr is what kind of animal?
A squirrel
A squirrel: in Norse myth Ratatoskr scurries up and down the world tree Yggdrasil, carrying insults between the eagle at the top and the dragon Nidhogg at its roots.
Q 07Which Smite god class is built for tanking and starting fights?
Guardian
Guardian gods tend to deal little damage themselves: they soak up hits and pin enemies in place so that teammates can finish the kill, which is why they usually play support.
Q 08Apollo and Medusa belong to which Smite class?
Hunter
Hunter is the game's name for the role other MOBAs call a marksman: these gods deal most of their damage with basic attacks, which makes them unusually dependent on their items.
Q 09Which Smite mode pits two teams of three on a single-lane map?
Joust
Joust starts its gods at level 3 rather than level 1, so on its single short lane the three-a-side fighting starts almost at once.
Q 10In Smite's Joust mode, what does killing the Bull Demon King do for a team?
Disables an enemy structure
Disables an enemy structure: the first tower or phoenix still defending stops attacking for a while, and the whole team also gets a health and mana regeneration buff.
Q 11In which Smite mode is every player assigned a random god instead of choosing one?
Assault
Assault gives nobody a choice of god, and with no trips back to base to heal or shop, dying is the only way to spend gold on new items.
Q 12Smite's Arena mode has no lanes or towers, so what does each team defend instead?
A portal
A portal sits in front of each base, and every enemy minion that walks into it burns one of the team's 500 tickets; the first side to hit zero loses.
Q 13In Smite's Arena, what can a team spawn after collectively killing ten enemy gods?
Minotaurs
Minotaurs march with the minion waves, and each one that gets through costs the enemy fifteen tickets, three times the price of a god's death.
Q 21Which three Hindu deities were playable in Smite's beta when Hindu leaders objected in June 2012?
Kali, Agni and Vamana
Kali, Agni and Vamana were the only Hindu gods in the game that June; Kali's outfit drew particular objection, and the studio later reworked her look.
Q 22Who led the 2012 objection to Hindu gods being playable in Smite?
Rajan Zed
Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, asked for the gods to be removed; the studio's Todd Harris replied that Smite would add "even more deities, not fewer".
Q 23Which studio, founded by Erez Goren and Todd Harris in 2005, developed and published Smite?
Hi-Rez
Q 14Smite's Slash mode, added in 2022, takes its name from which two discontinued modes?
Siege and Clash
Siege and Clash were both retired in 2022 to make way for Slash, which kept Siege's juggernauts, lumbering monsters that deal bonus damage to enemy structures.
Q 15Which boss eventually spawns in the middle jungle of Smite's Slash mode?
Apophis
Apophis is named after the giant serpent of Egyptian myth that attacked the sun god's boat every night; in Slash it takes over the camp at the centre of the map partway through a match.
Q 16In Smite, Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte make up which pantheon?
Voodoo
Voodoo is a pantheon of two, and they are a couple: Maman Brigitte is the consort of Baron Samedi, the rum-loving spirit of the dead whom the game sells as the life of the party.
Q 17In Smite's Ranked Leagues, what do players earn from wins to climb the divisions?
Tribute Points
Tribute Points lift a player into the next division once they pass 100, but the ladder runs both ways: lose enough games on zero and you can drop back down.
Q 18In Smite, Cu Chulainn and the Morrigan belong to which pantheon?
Celtic
Celtic myth gives the game Cu Chulainn, the Irish hero whose battle frenzy warps him into a monster; in Smite, building up his rage triggers the same berserk transformation.
Q 19In 2021, Smite gave its Egyptian goddess Isis which new name?
Eset
Eset is an ancient Egyptian spelling of the same goddess's name; the studio switched because videos and streams that mentioned her risked being demonetised.
Q 20In Smite, the Cthulhu Mythos characters are grouped into which in-game pantheon?
The Great Old Ones
The Great Old Ones are the roster's one pantheon lifted from modern horror fiction rather than from religion, myth or legend, and Cthulhu, added in 2020, is its only member.
Hi-Rez Studios revived the Tribes series of jetpack shooters with Tribes: Ascend in 2012, two years before Smite's release, and in 2015 gave the older Tribes games away as free downloads.
Q 24Smite's developer has its headquarters in Alpharetta, a suburb of which US city?
Atlanta
Atlanta became home to the pro league as well in 2019, when the regional leagues were scrapped for a single league played in person at the studio's Alpharetta base.
Q 25When Smite's developer set up separate in-house studios in August 2018, which one took over the game?
Titan Forge Games
Titan Forge Games took Smite while two sister studios each took another of the company's live games, so that every title had a studio of its own.
Q 26Cthulhu, who joined Smite in 2020, was created by which horror writer?
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft introduced the tentacled cosmic being in a 1928 short story, and the studio built it a brand-new pantheon rather than squeeze it in among the ancient gods.
Q 27Which king of Uruk, hero of a Mesopotamian epic, joined Smite as a warrior in 2021?
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh goes looking for eternal life in the epic after his friend Enkidu dies, and fails; the game lets him send enemies flying with a drop kick instead.
Q 28Which console got Smite first, in August 2015?
Xbox One
Xbox One got Smite's full release nine months ahead of PlayStation 4, and the 2016 World Championship added a separate tournament for the Xbox version.
Q 29In 2013, Smite's developer partnered with which company to publish the game in China?
Tencent
Tencent, the Chinese internet giant, became the game's publisher in China, and the two firms said they were working together to keep its Chinese gods authentic to their culture.
Q 30Which goddess do new players control in Smite's basic tutorial?
Neith
Neith, an Egyptian goddess of war and weaving, is the character the tutorial hands to newcomers, and they get to keep her: she is one of the starter characters every new account owns for free.