The Pendragon Adventure
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50 free The Pendragon Adventure trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Pendragon Adventure follows Bobby Pendragon, an ordinary teenager from suburban Connecticut who learns that he is a Traveler: one of a small band charged with protecting ten territories scattered across time and space. Over ten books he chases the shapeshifting Saint Dane from world to world, and each world poses its own moral puzzle, from a mining tribe kept in misery to a society that has vanished into its own daydreams. This quiz covers the whole series. Expect questions on the territories and the people who live on them, the Travelers and their helpers back home, Saint Dane's disguises and schemes, the gadgets and creatures Bobby meets along the way, and the turning points that decide each book. A few questions look at how the series was written and published, and at the author's other work. It is written for readers who grew up with the books and want to see how much has stuck, and for anyone rereading the series who wants a checkpoint. Most questions can be answered from the main story; a handful are for readers who remember the small print.
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Q 01In The Never War, which real disaster must Bobby Pendragon let happen so the Nazis lose World War II?
The Hindenburg fire
The Hindenburg fire has to go ahead: a computer in the far future shows that saving the airship would hand the Nazis the first atomic bomb.
Q 02The Pendragon Adventure's author co-created which Nickelodeon horror anthology of campfire tales?
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Afraid of the Dark? was filmed mostly in Montreal, and its co-creator produced all 91 episodes years ahead of writing Bobby's story.
Q 03In The Pendragon Adventure, what are the tunnels behind a carved star that carry Travelers between territories called?
Flumes
Flumes wake when a Traveler calls out a destination: the rock walls turn to clear crystal and a jumble of musical notes fills the tunnel.
Q 04Saint Dane, the shapeshifting villain of The Pendragon Adventure, often makes his escape as which bird?
A raven
A raven is one of his regular shapes, along with a cloud of smoke, while his usual human form is tall with icy blue eyes and long grey hair.
Q 05In the Pendragon book The Reality Bug, which virtual-reality system has lured people out of real life?
Lifelight
Lifelight fills giant pyramids with jump simulators, where phaders run the fantasies and vedders care for the bodies of the people inside.
Q 06Which uncle of Bobby Pendragon, a veteran Traveler, takes him from home on the night of a big game?
Press Tilton
Press Tilton is the lead Traveler and starts Bobby's training, though he later admits that the two of them are not blood relatives at all.
Q 07In The Pendragon Adventure, which word names everything that exists: every time, place, person and territory?
Halla
Halla is the whole of existence, and Saint Dane means to tear it apart so that he can rebuild it to his own design.
Q 08On Eelong in The Pendragon Adventure, which upright-walking cats rule the treetops and keep humans as pets?
Klees
Klees treat humans as pets and livestock, and theirs is the only non-human species to supply a Traveler.
Q 09Which territory with three suns is the first that Bobby Pendragon visits after leaving Second Earth?
Denduron
Denduron is a medieval world where the Milago mine for their Bedoowan rulers, and Bobby's first ride there is a sled run off a mountain.
Q 10In The Pendragon Adventure, what are the helpers called who keep a Traveler's journals safe on the home territory?
Acolytes
Acolytes also leave local clothing and supplies where a Traveler arrives, so that the newcomer can blend in straight away.
Q 11Which American writer and television producer created Bobby Pendragon and wrote all ten books of his adventure?
D. J. MacHale
D. J. MacHale wrote the ten books himself but handed the three prequels to other writers, Carla Jablonski and Walter Sorrells.
Q 12Which book opens The Pendragon Adventure, pitting the Milago miners against their Bedoowan rulers?
The Merchant of Death
The Merchant of Death features a Milago trader, Figgis, who secretly sells explosives to his own people and is not what he seems.
Q 13Bobby Pendragon is pulled away from home just as he is due to star in a state semi-final in which sport?
Basketball
Q 21Bobby Pendragon grows up in which Connecticut suburb, within commuting reach of New York City?
Stony Brook
Stony Brook is an invention of the author, who grew up in the real Connecticut town of Greenwich.
Q 22Which humanoid robots police Quillan in The Pendragon Adventure and later fill the ranks of Saint Dane's armies?
Dados
Dados start out as the security force of Quillan's ruling corporation, and Saint Dane later mass-produces them on Third Earth.
Q 23Which unstable explosive, dug from the mines of the Milago, nearly destroys two tribes in the first Pendragon book?
Tak
Tak returns to haunt the series: when Bobby digs it up again to fight an invading army, he dooms the very territory he had first saved.
Basketball comes back in The Reality Bug, where Bobby's perfect fantasy includes starring in a game for his hometown high school team.
Q 14In The Pendragon Adventure, which yellow-eyed beasts does Saint Dane post as guards wherever the Travelers arrive?
Quigs
Quigs take a different shape on each territory: snakes on Zadaa, swarming bees on Ibara and robotic spiders on Quillan.
Q 15Which Pendragon territory is covered entirely by ocean, so that its people live on huge floating habitats?
Cloral
Cloral's habitats each have a job, such as farming or manufacturing, and sharks attack Bobby as he swims out of the cavern where he arrives.
Q 16Which warrior Traveler, the daughter of Osa, starts The Pendragon Adventure openly scornful of Bobby?
Loor
Loor comes from the desert territory of Zadaa and warms to Bobby only once he proves himself; she later helps train him to fight.
Q 17Which First Earth Traveler in The Pendragon Adventure is bell captain of a grand Manhattan hotel in 1937?
Gunny
Gunny got the nickname because he simply could not fire a gun, however hard he tried.
Q 18Which young aquaneer saves Bobby Pendragon from a shark attack and then learns that he is a Traveler too?
Vo Spader
Vo Spader inherits the role from his father, who is found dead aboard a runaway habitat whose people had eaten poisoned crops.
Q 19Which science-minded best friend of Bobby Pendragon invents the shape-changing Forge with former bully Andy Mitchell?
Mark Dimond
Mark Dimond is being used: Andy Mitchell is Saint Dane in disguise, and Forge technology ends up inside the villain's robot soldiers.
Q 20In The Pendragon Adventure, which small object opens into a tiny portal to deliver Bobby's journals to his friends?
A ring
A ring made of the same stone as the travel tunnels does the job: name a territory and it grows into a miniature tunnel for the pages.
Q 24On which Pendragon territory does Saint Dane claim his first victory, as its people flock back to their fantasies?
Veelox
Veelox is lost at the end of The Reality Bug, when the villain, posing as a program director, has the fantasy machine switched back on.
Q 25The abandoned subway station where Bobby Pendragon first leaves Second Earth is in which New York City borough?
The Bronx
The Bronx station hides a door carved with a star, and the first thing Bobby does behind it is shout the name of another world.
Q 26On Eelong in the Pendragon series, what name is given to the humans who are kept as pets and livestock?
Gars
Gars tend to be smaller than Earth's humans and most are denied any schooling, though a hidden settlement of free ones shows how capable they are.
Q 27In the final Pendragon book, the Travelers learn they are spirits created by which force of positive energy?
Solara
Solara is fed by the spirit of everyone who dies, and Saint Dane's victories split it in two, weakening the good half and feeding its opposite.
Q 28Which Traveler from Quillan betrays the others in The Pendragon Adventure by defecting to Saint Dane's side?
Nevva Winter
Nevva Winter exposes the rebels' secret archive to the robot police, crushing the uprising that Bobby had just inspired on Quillan.
Q 29Which Bedoowan knight is secretly a Traveler and later helps train Bobby Pendragon as a warrior on Zadaa?
Alder
Alder is clumsy for a knight but loyal to the end: he is killed in the ninth book while trying to stop a massacre of protesters in New York.
Q 30In the second Pendragon book, which legendary sunken city holds the cure for an ocean world's poisoned crops?
Faar
Faar collapses under Saint Dane's attack, then rises to the surface when the Travelers press a control that a dying council elder could not reach.