70 free Wheel of Time trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Wheel of Time trivia for readers who have made the long journey from Emond's Field to Tarmon Gai'don, and for viewers who met Moiraine, Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve through the Prime Video series. The quiz covers the world Robert Jordan built - the One Power and its two halves, the Ajahs of the White Tower, the Aiel and their Three-fold Land, the Seanchan, the Ogier and the thirteen Forsaken - and the story beats from The Eye of the World to A Memory of Light. It also digs into the history behind the books: Jordan's real name and his Vietnam service, the Conan novels he wrote first, how Harriet McDougal chose Brandon Sanderson to finish the series, the strange 2015 'Winter Dragon' pilot, and the casting, filming and cancellation of the Amazon show. Questions run from easy to expert, so casual viewers and readers who know their cuendillar from their ter'angreal will both find a challenge. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who wrote the first eleven Wheel of Time novels?
Robert Jordan
He died in 2007 while working on what he intended to be the twelfth and final volume.
Q 02Which author completed the final three volumes after the original author's death?
Brandon Sanderson
He was a longtime fan of the series, and a eulogy he wrote for its creator helped persuade the widow to choose him.
Q 03How many main volumes does the finished series contain, not counting the prequel?
14
There is also a prequel novel and three companion books, and the eighth through fourteenth volumes each hit number one on the New York Times list.
Q 04What is the title of the first novel in the series?
The Eye of the World
It was released as a large paperback in January 1990 and later split into two illustrated volumes for younger readers.
Q 05In which year was the first book in the series published?
1990
The author had started writing it back in 1984 and reworked it heavily, at one point centring it on an older man who discovered his destiny late in life.
Q 06What is the title of the fourteenth and final novel?
A Memory of Light
It was the working title the original author had chosen for his planned single final volume, which grew into three books.
Q 07Which of these was the FIRST of the three co-written volumes that concluded the series?
The Gathering Storm
It came out in October 2009, with the other two following in 2010 and 2013.
Q 08How was the series originally planned, according to its co-author?
As a trilogy
Writing sped up once the author decided to make his characters younger and closer in tone to Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring.
Q 09Which publisher has released the series since 1990?
Tor Books
Its publisher, Tom Doherty, had earlier hired the author to write Conan novels because he could write quickly.
Q 10What is the title of the prequel novel, expanded from a 1998 novella?
New Spring
Fans grumbled at the detour, so the author shelved two further planned prequels to concentrate on finishing the main series.
Q 11Roughly how many copies had the series sold worldwide as of 2021?
90 million
That makes it one of the best-selling epic fantasy series since The Lord of the Rings.
Q 12The magical force that turns the Wheel and can be 'channeled' is called what?
The One Power
Only women can channel it safely; men who touch its tainted male half eventually go mad.
Q 13What is the male half of the One Power called?
Saidin
The Dark One tainted it at the moment of his sealing, which is why male channelers go insane.
People around whom the Pattern bends, such as Rand, Mat and Perrin, are called what?
Q 21Which brutal humanoid Shadowspawn, eaters of any meat including humans, attack Emond's Field?
Trollocs
They are led by the eyeless Myrddraal, which the villagers know as Fades.
Q 22Which eyeless creatures can vanish into shadow but will not cross running water?
Myrddraal
They are also called Fades or Halfmen and act as the officers of the Dark One's armies.
Q 23How many Forsaken were sealed away with the Dark One at the end of the Age of Legends?
13
They called themselves 'Those Chosen to Rule the World Forever' and compete to become the Dark One's nae'blis.
Rand al'Thor is the reincarnation of which Dragon from the Age of Legends?
Ta'veren
Even they can only push history as far as the Pattern being woven by the Wheel permits.
Q 15What title is held by the leader of the Aes Sedai?
The Amyrlin Seat
She rules from the White Tower; Siuan Sanche holds the office when the story begins.
Q 16In which city does the White Tower stand?
Tar Valon
It is one of four major city-states in the Westlands alongside Falme, Far Madding and Mayene.
Q 17Which of the seven Ajahs of the White Tower hunts down male channelers and cuts them off from the One Power?
Red Ajah
Its sisters are the only Aes Sedai who traditionally do not bond a male protector.
Q 18What is the secret eighth sisterhood whose members serve the Dark One while posing as ordinary sisters?
Black Ajah
In the TV series Liandrin Guirale is revealed to belong to it despite wearing red.
Q 19An Aes Sedai's magically bonded male protector is called what?
Warder
The bond gives him heightened senses, strength, stamina and resistance to injury.
Q 20Emond's Field, home village of Rand, Mat and Perrin, lies in which region of Andor?
The Two Rivers
The author deliberately modelled these opening chapters on the Shire in The Lord of the Rings.
Lews Therin Telamon
After the Dark One's counterstroke drove him mad, he killed his family and himself, and the Breaking of the World followed.
Q 25The Seven Seals on the Dark One's prison are made of which unbreakable substance?
Cuendillar
By the sixth book only three seals remain intact, and Egwene is eventually persuaded to break the last of them herself.
Q 26Which weapon of the One Power erases its target from existence backwards through time?
Balefire
It is the only thing that can permanently destroy a Darkhound, which otherwise regenerates from any wound.
Q 27Rand claims which crystal sword, a powerful sa'angreal, from the Stone of Tear?
Callandor
The Forsaken Be'lal lured him there, knowing only the Dragon Reborn could take it.
Q 28At Falme, Mat summons legendary heroes back from the dead by blowing what?
The Horn of Valere
The heroes drive off the invading Seanchan, and the artefact had earlier been guarded at the Eye of the World.
Q 29In which cursed, abandoned city does Mat steal the dagger that poisons him?
Shadar Logoth
The city's malevolent evil, Mashadar, is separate from the Dark One's, and the Aes Sedai in Tar Valon later cleanse Mat of the taint.
Q 30Perrin learns from Elyas Machera that he can communicate telepathically with which animals?
Wolves
Men with the gift are called wolfbrothers, and Perrin later kills two Whitecloaks who slaughtered one of the pack.