60 free Throne of Glass trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
54 free Throne of Glass trivia questions with answers. This Throne of Glass quiz is for readers who followed Celaena Sardothien out of the salt mines of Endovier and all the way to the throne of Terrasen. Fifty-four questions cover the whole series, from The Assassin's Blade novellas through Kingdom of Ash: the King's Champion competition, Chaol and Dorian, Nehemia, Fleetfoot, Rowan and the cadre, Manon Blackbeak and her wyvern Abraxos, Lysandra, Elide and Lorcan, Maeve and Erawan, the three Wyrdkeys, and the geography of Erilea from Rifthold to Doranelle. It also covers the books as objects: the FictionPress draft called Queen of Glass that Maas started at sixteen, the Cinderella premise, the Bloomsbury deal, the prequel e-novellas, the tandem-read debate over Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn, the Hulu adaptation that never happened, and the crossover cameo that ties this world to A Court of Thorns and Roses and Crescent City. The early questions are ones any fan will get; the late ones are for people who have reread the series more than once. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the Throne of Glass Wiki, and each question carries its source. Major endgame twists are kept light.
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Q 01Who wrote the Throne of Glass series?
Sarah J. Maas
She began the story at sixteen and by 2024 had sold more than 75 million books across Throne of Glass, ACOTAR, and Crescent City.
Q 02What is Celaena Sardothien's profession when the first book opens?
Assassin
She is eighteen and has already spent a year in the salt mines when Prince Dorian arrives with his offer.
Q 03Where has Celaena been enslaved for a year before the series begins?
The salt mines of Endovier
The camp sits on Adarlan's border with Terrasen, and the average slave there survives about a month.
Q 04What title is at stake in the competition Celaena enters in the first book?
King's Champion
Winning would mean serving the king for six years, after which she would finally be free.
Q 05Which fairy tale did Maas cite as the seed of the first book?
Cinderella
Watching the heroine flee the ball, Maas thought the music was far too dark, and reimagined the runaway as an assassin who had come to kill the prince.
Q 06Under what title did the story first appear online on FictionPress?
Queen of Glass
It became one of the most popular stories on the site before Maas pulled it down to pursue publication.
Q 07How old was Maas when she began writing what became Throne of Glass?
Sixteen
That was 2002, a full decade before Bloomsbury published the finished novel in August 2012.
Q 08Which publisher bought Throne of Glass in 2010?
Bloomsbury
The same house went on to publish ACOTAR and Crescent City, and it made Throne of Glass the first of its children's novels featured on NetGalley.
Q 09Which book closed the Throne of Glass series in October 2018?
Kingdom of Ash
At 992 pages it is by far the longest entry, more than double the page count of the first book.
Q 10Which title collects the prequel novellas about Celaena and Sam Cortland?
The Assassin's Blade
Four of its five stories were released as e-books between January and July 2012 to build buzz before the first novel came out.
Q 11Which two books overlap in time so closely that fans built 'tandem read' guides for them?
Empire of Storms and Tower of Dawn
The guides tell you which chapter of each book to read next so the two storylines unfold side by side.
Q 12Which streamer optioned the series for TV in 2016 under the working title Queen of Shadows?
Hulu
The Mark Gordon Company was attached and Kira Snyder of The 100 was to write it, but nothing was made and the rights reverted to Maas.
Q 13Which Throne of Glass novel did Utah's school board remove from all public schools in 2024?
Empire of Storms
Q 21Rowan Whitethorn first appears in which book of the series?
Heir of Fire
He is more than three centuries old and spends the first months of their training treating Aelin with cold annoyance.
Q 22What animal does Rowan shift into?
A white-tailed hawk
Even in bird form he can still wield his wind and ice magic; in the FictionPress draft his name was Raonn.
Q 23Manon Blackbeak's wyvern was originally used as what in the training pits?
A bait beast
Manon named the scarred runt Abraxos after the serpent who holds the world in his coils, and he turned out to love wildflowers.
Five ACOTAR books were pulled at the same time, making Maas six of the thirteen titles on the list.
Q 14Embers of Memory, the official two-player card game, is set during which book?
Kingdom of Ash
Osprey Games released it in 2019; players help Aelin survive Maeve's captivity by diving through her memories.
Q 15Which two characters did Maas name as inspirations for Celaena's personality?
Éowyn and Velma Kelly
Maas said Velma's arrogance and fierceness made her want to write a woman who never apologized for loving herself.
Q 16Which novel's release put the series on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first time?
Crown of Midnight
The second book arrived in August 2013, a year after the debut, and PopSugar ranked it the number two YA book of that year.
Q 17Which website premiered the Throne of Glass book trailer in May 2012?
MTV.com
Publishers Weekly had already previewed the book that February, and CAA picked up the film option rights.
Q 18What is Celaena Sardothien's true name?
Aelin Ashryver Galathynius
She was the Princess of Terrasen until age eight, when her parents were murdered and she was pulled from a river by Arobynn Hamel.
Q 19Aelin is the rightful queen of which realm?
Terrasen
It was the first kingdom the King of Adarlan conquered, and its capital Orynth once held the greatest library in Erilea.
Q 20What position does Chaol Westfall hold when Celaena first meets him?
Captain of the Guard
Maas wrote him as a man who saw the world in black and white, and Celaena as the wrench thrown into it.
Q 24What is the name of Manon Blackbeak's personal coven?
The Thirteen
Her cousin Asterin was its Second for a century, with Sorrel as Third.
Q 25Along with the Blackbeaks, which two clans make up the Ironteeth witches?
Bluebloods and Yellowlegs
All three clans share retractable iron teeth and nails and a clear eyelid for flying, and Maas drew on Baba Yaga for them.
Q 26Manon Blackbeak's sword has what name?
Wind-Cleaver
She loses her grip on it in the wyvern pit and it lands beside the bait beast who becomes Abraxos.
Q 27Which princess of Eyllwe becomes Celaena's closest friend in the glass castle?
Nehemia Ytger
She hid how well she spoke the common tongue so courtiers would talk freely around her, and she named Celaena 'Elentiya'.
Q 28Who gives Celaena the dog Fleetfoot?
Dorian Havilliard
The pup was going to be put down for her antisocial temperament; she arrived as a Yulemas gift along with three pounds of candy.
Q 29Sam Cortland was murdered on the orders of Arobynn Hamel by which Rifthold crime figure?
Rourke Farran
Celaena's attempt at revenge on Farran and his master Jayne is the betrayal that lands her in Endovier.
Q 30Arobynn Hamel is known by what title in Rifthold?
King of the Assassins
When he found Aelin's left-hand swordwork lacking, he made her choose between breaking her right hand herself or letting him do it.