The Land of Stories
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50 free The Land of Stories trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Land of Stories begins when twins Alex and Conner Bailey tumble into a world where every fairy tale is true and none of them ended at happily ever after. Across six novels Chris Colfer turns familiar heroes into rulers, outlaws and troublemakers, and gives a few famous villains a reason for what they did. This quiz follows the whole journey, from the hunt for the Wishing Spell to the final battle in Worlds Collide. Expect questions on the Bailey family, the friends and enemies the twins collect along the way, the classic worlds they visit, and a few on Chris Colfer and how the series was made. It is pitched for readers who have finished the series and want to test their memory, for classes and reading groups working through it, and for anyone revising before a reading quiz. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Chris Colfer wrote The Land of Stories while playing Kurt Hummel on which hit TV musical series?
Glee
Glee made Chris Colfer a star and won him a Golden Globe in 2011, the same year he signed the deal to write his first two children's novels.
Q 02In The Land of Stories, which storybook figure, able to open portals between worlds, is the Bailey twins' grandmother?
The Fairy Godmother
The Fairy Godmother is the twins' grandmother, which makes Alex and Conner part fairy. She leads the Fairy Council and sends them home at the end of the first book.
Q 03Which fairy-tale character is a wanted fugitive in The Land of Stories, secretly in love with Jack of beanstalk fame?
Goldilocks
Goldilocks is a tough, fearless outlaw who has been running from the law since three bears pressed charges against her. Jack later gives up his quiet life to go on the run with her.
Q 04Which storybook heroine, a self-absorbed young queen in The Land of Stories, has a flying ship built from her baskets?
Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood rules a kingdom named after her. In The Enchantress Returns she has her villagers build the airship so the twins can hunt for the pieces of a magic wand.
Q 05In The Land of Stories, which villain wants the Wishing Spell to free the man she loves from a magical prison?
The Evil Queen
The Evil Queen is recast as Evly, a heartbroken girl whose beloved Mira was imprisoned in the glass. Her wish works, but Mira dies in her arms moments after he is freed.
Q 06Ezmia, the villain of The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns, once cursed which fairy-tale princess?
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty was her victim, and the returning Enchantress now kidnaps Charlotte Bailey by mistake, believing she has seized her daughter Alex.
Q 07In The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide, the cursed Alex Bailey brings which landmark's stone lions to life?
The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is where Alex appears under a witch's curse and wakes the famous lion statues. The fight later spreads to Central Park and Times Square.
Q 08Which nursery-rhyme figure sits on the Fairy Council in The Land of Stories and is the twins' grandmother's best friend?
Mother Goose
Mother Goose crosses between worlds on a giant gander named Lester. In The Enchantress Returns she is sent to babysit the twins and lets slip who has taken their mother.
Q 09In the third Land of Stories novel, which country does Conner Bailey visit on a school trip to hear lost tales?
Germany
Germany is where three long-lost Brothers Grimm stories are unveiled in Berlin. One of them turns out to be a coded warning about an army marching on the fairy-tale world.
Q 10Which hero of British legend falls for Alex Bailey when a trap strands her in his story in The Land of Stories?
King Arthur
King Arthur is still a young man learning from Merlin when Alex lands in his world. He begs to leave with her, and later pulls the sword from the stone early so he can follow.
Q 11How did Alex and Conner Bailey's father die in the months before The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell begins?
A car accident
A car accident killed John Bailey shortly before the twins turned eleven. The stories he used to tell them turn out to be his own memories of the fairy-tale world.
Q 12In The Land of Stories, what job has Charlotte Bailey, the twins' mother, working double shifts to support the family?
Nurse
Nurse Charlotte Bailey works at a children's hospital, and it is there that she meets Dr. Bob, the surgeon she marries at the end of the second book.
Q 13Which character frees the captured twins in The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell after Conner agrees to kiss her?
Trollbella
Q 21Which fairy-tale villain dies shielding Alex Bailey from a curse in The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns?
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin steps in front of the curse out of guilt for serving the Enchantress. The book also makes him the estranged eighth brother of Snow White's seven companions.
Q 22Which prized possession of Ezmia, villain of The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns, completes the twins' wand?
Her pride
Her pride is the final piece, and the wand completes itself once Alex takes it. In the end Alex disarms Ezmia with an apology, which drains away her anger and her power.
Q 23Which prized possession of the giant do the twins climb a new beanstalk to fetch in The Land of Stories?
A magic harp
Trollbella is the troll king's daughter, and her crush on Conner never fades. By the second book she is queen and still trying to make him her king.
Q 14In The Land of Stories, a witch turns Prince Charlie Charming into the frog man Froggy as punishment for which flaw?
His vanity
His vanity cost him his human face, and at first he hides away alone out of shame. He later wins an election to become king of the Center Kingdom.
Q 15Fleeing the Troll and Goblin Territory in The Land of Stories, the twins grab which royal object for the Wishing Spell?
A crown
A crown shared by the troll and goblin kings turns out to be on the spell's list, though the twins had not been looking for it. Conner grabs it as the territory falls apart.
Q 16In The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell, what does the villain take from Alex Bailey to replace a smashed ingredient?
A single tear
A single tear from Alex stands in for the broken vial of fairy tears, and the spell still works. That is the first proof that the twins have fairy blood.
Q 17In The Land of Stories, which heroine, now only a spirit, tells the twins where the last Wishing Spell item lies?
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid explains that the item is the dagger she was once given to kill her prince. It now lies in the Thornbush Pit, and she asks the twins to destroy it afterwards.
Q 18What name do the fairy-tale characters of The Land of Stories use for the ordinary world where the Bailey twins grew up?
The Otherworld
The Otherworld is their word for our world. The twins' father was born in the fairy-tale world and used the Wishing Spell to cross over and stay with the woman he loved.
Q 19In which dangerous region of The Land of Stories do Alex and Conner Bailey land after falling through their book?
The Dwarf Forests
The Dwarf Forests are home to witches and a pack of wolves. Froggy finds the twins there, takes them to his house and hands them the journal that starts their quest.
Q 20In The Land of Stories, which relative of the Bailey twins is the Masked Man who recruits an army of literary villains?
Their uncle
Their uncle Lloyd is the man behind the mask, the youngest son of the twins' grandmother. When Alex first sees his face she is convinced he is their father, somehow back from the dead.
A magic harp named Harper is what the giant treasured most. She can talk, and she is not pleased to learn she is about to become part of a wand.
Q 24Which fairy-tale villain moves to the Bailey twins' world in The Land of Stories and runs a diner, the Storybook Grill?
Cinderella's stepmother
Cinderella's stepmother, Lady Iris, accepts Conner's offer of a fresh start at the end of the second book. She runs the diner with her daughters Petunia and Rosemary.
Q 25Which historical army, stuck in a portal for two centuries, invades the fairy-tale world in The Land of Stories?
The Grande Armée
The Grande Armée of Napoleon's France kidnaps the Brothers Grimm in 1811 to learn the way in. Its soldiers march into a portal and only come out two hundred years later.
Q 26Which creature does the Masked Man hatch to attack the Fairy Palace in The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning?
A dragon
A dragon hatches from an egg the Snow Queen trades away, and it is turned on the invading general himself. The twins' grandmother spends the last of her magic to destroy it.
Q 27In The Land of Stories, which nursery-rhyme character secretly talks to her lover, the Masked Man, through a mirror?
Little Bo Peep
Little Bo Peep wins an election for a throne while he sits in prison, yet she was the one who turned him in. She dies of a broken heart when he rejects her.
Q 28In The Land of Stories, which farm boy wins Alex Bailey's heart but is blackmailed into betraying the royal families?
Rook
Rook gives up the royals' hiding place to save his father and the other captured villagers. He makes amends in the final book, dying to shield Alex from a sniper's bullet.
Q 29What kind of creature is Cornelius, the plump companion who helps Alex Bailey with fairy duties in The Land of Stories?
Unicorn
A unicorn with a broken horn, Cornelius was shut out by the others of his kind. Alex chose him for being different, and his magic leads her to people who need help.
Q 30In The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning, three unpublished Brothers Grimm tales are unearthed from what?
A time capsule
A time capsule gives up three stories, and Conner already knows two of them because his father used to tell them. The third is a hidden warning.