The Little Prince Trivia
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59 free The Little Prince trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Little Prince trivia quiz follows the fable from the narrator's first drawing to the last night in the desert. The story questions cover the boa constrictor that grown-ups mistook for a hat, asteroid B-612 and its three volcanoes, the baobabs, the vain flower under her glass globe, the six planets and their lonely grown-ups, the 1,440 sunsets, the fox's secret, the merchant's thirst pill and the well found at dawn. The rest is about the man and the book. There are questions on the 1935 crash in the desert that the story grew from, the New York exile where it was written, the friend it is dedicated to, the manuscript at the Morgan Library, the 140 million copies, the 600 translations, the 50-franc note, the airport in Lyon, and the P-38 Lightning that vanished over the Mediterranean in 1944. Gene Wilder's fox and Jeff Bridges's aviator get a look in too. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the novella, its author and the 2015 film, and each explanation adds one detail worth passing on. It works for readers of any age, book clubs, French classes and anyone who still remembers what the fox said.
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Q 01On Earth, a three-petalled flower tells the little prince that men are hard to find because they lack what?
Roots
Roots: the wind blows them about, she explains, which makes life very hard for them, and she believes only six or seven exist, having once watched a caravan pass by.
Q 02The little prince arranges to return home on what occasion?
The anniversary of his landing
The anniversary of his landing: on that night his own planet stands right above the spot where he came down a year before, and the narrator realises the boy had been walking back to it when they met.
Q 03In The Little Prince, what did grown-ups think the narrator's first childhood drawing showed?
A hat
A hat: it was really a boa constrictor digesting an elephant, and when a second drawing of the inside fared no better, the grown-ups told him to drop art for sums and grammar.
Q 04In The Little Prince, where does the narrator's plane come down?
The Sahara desert
The Sahara desert: the author knew the setting at first hand, having been lost in the North African desert in 1935, hallucinating and close to death, and he poured the memory into the book.
Q 05What animal does the little prince ask the narrator to draw?
A sheep
A sheep: after three attempts are turned down as too sickly, too horned and too old, the narrator draws a crate and says the sheep is inside, which delights the prince.
Q 06What is the name of the little prince's home asteroid?
B-612
B-612. A real asteroid found in 1993 was later named Bésixdouze, French for B-six-twelve, because its catalogue number, 46610, is B612 when written in hexadecimal.
Q 07Roughly how big is the little prince's home planet?
The size of a house
The size of a house. The narrator works it out when the prince laughs at the idea of tying up his new pet: at home, he says, nobody can go very far straight ahead.
Q 08Why was the astronomer who discovered the little prince's asteroid ignored at first?
He wore traditional Turkish clothing
He wore traditional Turkish clothing. When the astronomer gave the same talk again in 1920 in an elegant European suit, everybody accepted it, the book's jab at grown-ups who judge by appearances.
Q 09Which weekly chore does the little prince do on his volcanoes?
Sweeping
Sweeping. He cleans all three out like chimneys every week, even the extinct one, so that they burn gently instead of erupting, and the two active ones are handy for heating his breakfast.
Q 10Which trees does the prince constantly pull up before they can overrun his tiny planet?
Baobabs
Baobabs. The narrator draws a planet overrun by three of them, the fate of a lazy man who put off his weeding, and says he drew that warning with more urgency than any other picture in the book.
Q 11What kind of flower grows on the prince's asteroid and becomes the love of his life?
A rose
A rose. She coughs and exaggerates her ailments so that the prince will fuss over her, and on Earth he is crushed to find a garden of five thousand flowers just like her.
Q 12What shields the little prince's flower from wind and cold?
A glass globe and a screen
A glass globe and a screen. On the morning he leaves she refuses the globe, telling him the cool night air will do her good and that she has claws of her own.
Q 13The little prince's vain flower is thought to be modelled on the author's wife, from which country?
El Salvador
Q 21According to the fox, one can only see rightly with what?
The heart
The heart. 'What is essential is invisible to the eye,' the fox says as his parting secret, and then tells the prince that the time he has wasted on his flower is what makes her so important.
Q 22In The Little Prince, a merchant on Earth sells a once-a-week pill that cures what?
Thirst
Thirst. One pill a week saves fifty-three minutes of drinking, the merchant boasts, and the prince decides he would spend that time walking slowly towards a spring of fresh water.
Q 23According to the railway switchman, who are the only passengers who ever look out of the train windows?
The children
El Salvador. Consuelo Suncín was a Salvadoran writer and artist, and a memoir of their stormy 13-year marriage appeared under her name in 2000, two decades after her death.
Q 14Who lives on the first planet the little prince visits?
A king
A king. With no subjects until the prince arrives, he gives only orders that would be obeyed anyway, such as telling the sun to set at sunset, and he hastily names the departing prince his ambassador.
Q 15What does the conceited man on the second planet tell the little prince to do for him?
Clap his hands
Clap his hands. Each round of applause earns the prince a modest salute from the conceited man, a game he finds more fun than the first planet for about five minutes.
Q 16In The Little Prince, why does the tippler say he drinks?
To forget the shame of drinking
To forget the shame of drinking. Pressed on what he is ashamed of, the tippler admits it is the drinking itself, then shuts himself up in silence and leaves the prince puzzled.
Q 17In The Little Prince, a day on the lamplighter's planet lasts how long?
One minute
One minute. That gives the planet 1,440 sunsets every twenty-four hours, and its lamplighter, still obeying an order from slower days, has to light and put out his lamp without a moment's rest.
Q 18Which grown-up advises the little prince to visit Earth?
The geographer
The geographer. He refuses to record the prince's flower because flowers are 'ephemeral', a word that gives the prince his first pang of regret at having left her all alone.
Q 19What is the first creature the little prince meets after landing on Earth?
A snake
A snake. It offers to help the prince if he ever grows too homesick for his own planet, and at the end of the book its bite is what sends him back.
Q 20On Earth, what does the fox ask the little prince to do?
Tame him
Tame him. To tame, the fox explains, means to establish ties, so that each becomes unique in all the world to the other, and one is responsible forever for what one has tamed.
The children. They press their noses to the glass while the grown-ups sleep or yawn, and the prince says only they know what they are looking for, which the switchman calls lucky.
Q 24According to the little prince, what makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides what?
A well
A well. On their eighth day stranded, with the water gone, he and the narrator walk through the night and find one at daybreak, its old pulley singing as they haul up the bucket.
Q 25What does the little prince tell the narrator to look at to be reminded of his laughter?
The stars
The stars. He will be living and laughing on one of them, he says, so all of them will seem to laugh like little bells; the next morning his body is nowhere to be found.
Q 26The Little Prince is dedicated to which friend of the author, 'when he was a little boy'?
Léon Werth
Léon Werth. Saint-Exupéry asks his young readers to forgive a dedication to a grown-up, pleading that this one is his best friend and is hungry and cold in wartime France, where the Jewish writer had taken refuge in the Jura.
Q 27How is the little prince believed to have escaped from his own planet?
With a flock of wild birds
With a flock of wild birds. The narrator can only say he believes the prince took advantage of their migration; that morning the boy tidied his planet and watered his flower one last time, close to tears.
Q 28Which New York institution has held the handwritten manuscript of The Little Prince since 1968?
The Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum. Leaving to rejoin the war, Saint-Exupéry dropped the manuscript on a friend's hall table in a rumpled paper bag, saying it was all he had to give; the Morgan bought it from her.
Q 29In The Little Prince, grown-ups never ask what a new friend's voice sounds like because they love only what?
Numbers
Numbers. About a new friend they ask only his age, his weight and what his father earns, the narrator says, which is why he gives them the asteroid's number instead of describing the prince's laugh.
Q 30The Little Prince is the most translated book in the world after which religious text?
The Bible
The Bible. Translators have often carried the tale into rare and endangered languages with very few speakers, and its total is one that no other work of fiction comes near.