The Elder Scrolls Trivia
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100 free The Elder Scrolls trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Elder Scrolls started in 1994 as a gladiator game that forgot to include any gladiators. Bethesda had already printed the boxes, so Arena shipped under a title that no longer fit, with a name its own designers admitted they did not understand. Thirty years and more than 90 million copies later, it is one of the defining role-playing series in gaming. This quiz covers the whole franchise, not just Skyrim. You will get questions on the early DOS games and the people who built them, Morrowind and Oblivion and their expansions, the spin-offs that flopped (Battlespire, Redguard) and the ones that did not (The Elder Scrolls Online), plus the novels, the card game, the mobile titles and the long wait for The Elder Scrolls VI. Lore questions cover the continent, its provinces and races, the Divines and the Daedra. Difficulty runs from easy (which province is Oblivion set in?) to expert (what was Daggerfall's working title?). Fifty questions, each checked against its source. Pick a race, roll a character and see how far you get.
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Q 01Which dragon, called the World-Eater, returns as the main antagonist of Skyrim?
Alduin
Alduin attacks the town of Helgen just as the player is about to be executed, so the villain's first act saves the hero's life.
Q 02On which fictional continent are the Elder Scrolls games set?
Tamriel
Tamriel is one of several continents in the lore, but its people have so little contact with the others that reliable knowledge of them is scarce.
Q 03Which 1994 game was the first in the Elder Scrolls series?
Arena
Arena missed its planned Christmas 1993 release and drew little attention at launch, but word of mouth among role-playing fans turned it into a cult hit.
Q 04In Daggerfall, how do characters gain levels?
By using skills
By using skills: a level comes only once a set of chosen skills has improved enough, so practice rather than kills drives progress.
Q 05Morrowind's main story takes place on which island?
Vvardenfell
Vvardenfell is one island of the province the game is named after, and the Blight storms that plague it blow out from Red Mountain, the volcano at its centre.
Q 06Which demigod, housed inside Red Mountain, is Morrowind's central antagonist?
Dagoth Ur
Dagoth Ur was once a trusted ally of the gods he now fights, and he stays immortal only while he is tied to an artifact called the Heart of Lorkhan.
Q 07Morrowind was the first Elder Scrolls game on a console, arriving in June 2002 on which system?
Xbox
Xbox players got the same huge world but none of the player-made mods, and the Construction Set used to build them came only with the PC version.
Q 08The Bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind let players become what?
A werewolf
A werewolf passes on a disease in combat, and the player has three days to find a cure before a forced change begins every night.
Q 09Oblivion takes place in which province of the Empire?
Cyrodiil
Cyrodiil is the Empire's heartland, and as the main quest goes on, gates to the demonic realm of Oblivion open all across it, shutting for good only when the quest is won.
Q 10Which actor voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII in Oblivion?
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart shared the cast with Sean Bean and Terence Stamp, but his Emperor is assassinated in the game's opening minutes.
Q 11What was Oblivion's first paid download, which drew player complaints about its price in April 2006?
Horse armor
Horse armor set off a storm of complaints, yet plenty of players bought it, and Bethesda went on to sell a run of further small add-ons for the game.
Q 12In Skyrim, released on 11 November 2011, what does the player absorb from slain dragons to unlock shouts?
Their souls
Their souls flow into the player when a dragon dies, and each one can then be spent to unlock a word of power learned from an ancient wall.
Q 13What kind of title was The Elder Scrolls: Legends?
A collectible card game
Q 21What does the spin-off Redguard force on players, unlike the main Elder Scrolls games?
A third-person camera
A third-person camera follows its fixed hero, and the game sold poorly, one of a run of misfires that left Bethesda close to going out of business in the late 1990s.
Q 22Who composed the music for Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim?
Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule scored all three, and his main theme for Skyrim is sung by a men's choir in the game's fictional dragon language rather than in English.
Q 23Which fanatical cult tries to open the gates to Oblivion in the fourth game?
Mythic Dawn
Mythic Dawn assassins kill the Emperor and his heirs as the game opens, and their leader Mankar Camoran later hides in a self-made realm he calls Paradise.
A collectible card game, Legends had its development halted in December 2019, and its servers were switched off in January 2025, so it can no longer be played.
Q 14Skyrim: Very Special Edition, a 2018 parody text adventure, ran on which device?
Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa really did get a voice-only version, while the same E3 2018 gag also promised ports for the Etch A Sketch, Motorola pagers and Samsung smart fridges.
Q 15The Dwemer are nicknamed Dwarves, but to which broader group of races do they belong?
Elves
Elves: often translated as Deep Elves, the Dwemer vanished long before the games begin, and nobody in the setting knows how or where they went.
Q 16The Elder Scrolls continent sits on which planet?
Nirn
Nirn has two moons, Masser and Secunda, and the phases they are in when a Khajiit is born decide which of many shapes it grows into.
Q 17Which race comes from the province of Black Marsh?
Argonians
Argonians met the Oblivion gates that opened in their swamps by charging through them, so fiercely that the invaders closed the gates themselves.
Q 18Which Imperial Battlemage traps Emperor Uriel Septim VII in another dimension and takes his throne?
Jagar Tharn
Jagar Tharn disguises himself as the Emperor by magic and rules in his place for a decade while the player hunts the scattered pieces of the Staff of Chaos.
Q 19Daggerfall restricts travel to High Rock and which other province?
Hammerfell
Hammerfell faces High Rock across the Iliac Bay, and the Emperor sends the player to the bay to lay the ghost of Daggerfall's dead king to rest.
Q 20Bethesda compared the size of Daggerfall's game world to which real place?
Great Britain
Great Britain is the comparison Bethesda made, and the map could be that big because most of it was generated by the computer rather than built by hand.
Q 24The Shivering Isles expansion is ruled by which Daedric Prince?
Sheogorath
Sheogorath, the Prince of Madness, turns out to be the other self of Jyggalag, the Prince of Order, whose Greymarch wipes out the realm at the end of every era.
Q 25The Elder Scrolls Online begins with the player imprisoned in which realm?
Coldharbour
Coldharbour holds the player in the Wailing Prison as a Soul Shriven, a husk whose soul has already been taken, and the first task is to break out.
Q 26Which Daedric Prince is the main antagonist of The Elder Scrolls Online's base story?
Molag Bal
Molag Bal schemes to pull the entire mortal world into his own realm, while three alliances are busy fighting each other over the empty Imperial throne.
Q 27Talos, the Ninth Divine, is the deified form of which emperor?
Tiber Septim
Tiber Septim was the general who founded the Third Empire, and the later ban on worshipping him as a god helps drive the rebellion in Skyrim's civil war.
Q 28Which studio was sued by Bethesda's parent company in 2011 over a card game it had named Scrolls?
Mojang
Mojang, the Minecraft studio, settled in 2012 by keeping the name but giving up the trademark, and years later relaunched the game for free as Caller's Bane.
Q 29Which order, once the Emperor's bodyguards, survives in Skyrim as a few dragon hunters in hiding?
The Blades
The Blades guard the Emperor in Oblivion, but by Skyrim the order has been outlawed and nearly wiped out, leaving a handful of survivors to aid the player.
Q 30Where is the final battle of Skyrim's main quest fought?
Sovngarde
Sovngarde is the Nord afterlife, where the World-Eater retreats to feed on the dead, and the player has to follow him through a portal to finish the fight.