The Elder Scrolls Online
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50 free The Elder Scrolls Online trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Elder Scrolls Online took one of gaming's best-loved fantasy worlds and opened it to thousands of players at once. Since 2014 it has grown from a shaky launch into one of the biggest online role-playing games around, with a new corner of Tamriel to explore almost every year and a story that reaches back a thousand years before Skyrim. This quiz covers ESO from every angle. There are questions on the main story and its Daedric villain, the three alliances and their war for the throne, the classes, skills and crafting lines, and the Chapters and DLC that followed. Others test the famous voice cast, the systems players use every day, and how the game was made and remade. It is pitched for anyone who has spent time in the game, from new arrivals to veterans, and it works well as a ready-made round for a guild trivia night. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a piece of lore worth retelling.
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Q 01Which Monty Python star voices Sir Cadwell, the cheerfully mad lost soul in The Elder Scrolls Online?
John Cleese
John Cleese plays Sir Cadwell as a man who fears no one, not even a Daedric Prince, and whose almanac later guides players through the other alliances' stories.
Q 02Which Elder Scrolls tradition does The Elder Scrolls Online continue in the way every new character starts the story?
As a prisoner
As a prisoner, like the heroes of earlier games, though this captive is already dead: a soulless husk enslaved in a Daedric Prince's realm.
Q 03Which company became the ultimate owner of The Elder Scrolls Online in 2021 by acquiring Bethesda's parent company?
Microsoft
Microsoft completed its purchase in March 2021, putting the game under the same roof as Xbox even as it kept running on PlayStation.
Q 04In which central province of Tamriel, the setting of Oblivion, do The Elder Scrolls Online's three alliances wage war?
Cyrodiil
Cyrodiil is one vast player-versus-player battlefield, where alliances storm keeps and steal each other's Elder Scrolls like flags.
Q 05What did The Elder Scrolls Online drop in March 2015 when it relaunched as Tamriel Unlimited?
The monthly subscription
The monthly subscription gave way to a buy-once model with an optional membership, and the game's reviews improved markedly after the switch.
Q 06Which Harry Potter film actor voiced the Prophet, the blind guide of The Elder Scrolls Online's main quest?
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon, Dumbledore from the third Harry Potter film onward, voiced the blind old man who guides players on the quest to recover their stolen souls.
Q 07What does Molag Bal send down across Tamriel to pull the mortal world into his realm in The Elder Scrolls Online?
Dark Anchors
Dark Anchors, also known as Dolmens, are enormous hooks on great chains that bite into the ground until players band together to destroy them.
Q 08Which island, the setting of 2002's The Elder Scrolls III, did The Elder Scrolls Online revisit in its first Chapter?
Vvardenfell
Vvardenfell returned in 2017's Morrowind Chapter, an expansion later folded into the base game for every player.
Q 09Which Daedric Prince rules Apocrypha, the realm whose runes and tomes power The Elder Scrolls Online's Arcanist class?
Hermaeus Mora
Hermaeus Mora is the keeper of forbidden knowledge, and Arcanists channel his realm's ancient runes and lost tomes to attack, heal or defend.
Q 10Which Elder Scrolls Online Chapter, set on the High Elves' home island, won GLAAD's Outstanding Video Game award?
Summerset
Summerset took the prize at the 30th GLAAD Media Awards, and the same expansion added jewelry crafting to the game.
Q 11What premium currency, bought with real money, is spent in The Elder Scrolls Online's in-game store?
Crowns
Crowns cannot be earned by playing: they are bought outright or arrive as a stipend with the game's optional membership.
Q 12Which bleak realm of Oblivion, ruled by Molag Bal, do new characters escape at the start of The Elder Scrolls Online?
Coldharbour
Coldharbour is also where the main story ends: the player storms Molag Bal's own stronghold there to win back their stolen soul.
Q 13Which alliance in The Elder Scrolls Online unites the Nords, Dark Elves and Argonians under Jorunn the Skald-King?
Ebonheart Pact
Q 21Which collectibles, hidden across The Elder Scrolls Online, grant one skill point for every three absorbed?
Skyshards
Skyshards are optional, except for one that the main story's opening quest has the player absorb in order to return to Tamriel.
Q 22What is the name of The Elder Scrolls Online's optional paid membership, which includes a bottomless Craft Bag?
ESO Plus
ESO Plus began in 2015 at the same price as the old compulsory fee, and its Craft Bag holds unlimited crafting materials for a whole account.
Q 23Which Elder Scrolls Online Chapter, set in the homeland of the Khajiit, brought dragons back to the skies of Tamriel?
Elsweyr
Elsweyr freed a whole rage of dragons from the Halls of Colossus, opening a war against them that ran through four releases in 2019.
The Ebonheart Pact was formed reluctantly: its three peoples share an ancestral hatred but banded together to protect their borders.
Q 14Which developer, founded in 2007 to build massively multiplayer games, released ESO as its first project?
ZeniMax Online Studios
ZeniMax Online Studios, based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, spent seven years building the game before its 2014 launch.
Q 15Which animal appears on the banner of the Daggerfall Covenant, the Breton-led alliance in The Elder Scrolls Online?
A lion
A lion stands for the Covenant of Bretons, Redguards and Orcs, whose High King Emeric is voiced by Bill Nighy.
Q 16In which era of Tamriel's history, about a thousand years before Skyrim, is The Elder Scrolls Online set?
Second Era
The Second Era setting falls at a time when the imperial throne sits empty, which is why three alliances are free to fight over it.
Q 17Which 1970s television star voices Azura, the Daedric Prince of Dusk and Dawn, in The Elder Scrolls Online?
Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter, television's Wonder Woman, also voiced characters in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim; her husband ran the parent company of the games' publisher.
Q 18Which British actor voices Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince who steals the player's soul in The Elder Scrolls Online?
Malcolm McDowell
Malcolm McDowell had already voiced President Eden in Fallout 3 before taking on the game's primary antagonist.
Q 19Which British film actress voices Queen Ayrenn, leader of the Aldmeri Dominion, in The Elder Scrolls Online?
Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale voices the High Elf queen, who spent her years as a princess exploring Tamriel before taking the throne.
Q 20Which monuments let players fast-travel around Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls Online, at no charge from one to another?
Wayshrines
Wayshrines are free to hop between, but recalling to one from the wilderness costs coin, and more of it when done in quick succession.
Q 24What do characters in The Elder Scrolls Online earn in place of new levels once they reach level 50?
Champion Points
Champion Points replaced an older Veteran Rank ladder and are spent on perks in three constellations: the Warrior, the Mage and the Thief.
Q 25Which deck-building card game arrived in The Elder Scrolls Online with the High Isle Chapter?
Tales of Tribute
Tales of Tribute is a two-player game that began, in the lore, on the Systres islands before becoming popular all over Tamriel.
Q 26Which Elder Scrolls Online Chapter pits players against Mehrunes Dagon, the Daedric Prince who invades in Oblivion?
Blackwood
Blackwood stretches from the city of Leyawiin into the bogs of the Argonian homeland, some 800 years before the Prince's famous invasion.
Q 27Which monuments in The Elder Scrolls Online grant a lasting blessing named for a constellation such as The Lover?
Mundus Stones
Mundus Stones allow only one blessing at a time, so switching to a new sign means giving up the old one.
Q 28Which guild of dungeon-delving adventurers recruits players in the taverns of The Elder Scrolls Online?
The Undaunted
The Undaunted have a skill line built for group play, levelled by clearing dungeons and by daily contracts known as pledges.
Q 29Which crafting skill line in The Elder Scrolls Online requires a learned recipe for every item it makes?
Provisioning
Provisioning turns ingredients into cooked food and brewed drinks, whereas the other crafts can make items as soon as the materials are to hand.
Q 30Which nature-themed class of frost magic and summoned beasts joined The Elder Scrolls Online with the Morrowind Chapter?
Warden
Warden magic is framed as storytelling: the in-game description calls its members defenders of the Green whose nature stories become magical reality.