World of Warcraft Trivia
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98 free World of Warcraft trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free World of Warcraft trivia questions with answers. World of Warcraft launched in November 2004, peaked at 12 million subscribers, and is still expanding two decades later. This quiz covers the whole run: the Warcraft strategy games it grew out of, the Horde and Alliance, every expansion from The Burning Crusade to The War Within, the accidental plague that epidemiologists studied, the raid video that made Leeroy Jenkins a Jeopardy! clue, the film that bombed everywhere but China, and the return of Classic. It starts with questions any player can answer (the planet, the factions, the developer) and works up to detail that will separate the raid leaders from the tourists: which expansion added the first hero class, what J. Allen Brack said at BlizzCon 2013, how many copies Battle for Azeroth sold on day one, and which South Park episode won an Emmy for its machinima. Free to use for a guild night or a gaming pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the game, its expansions and its notable incidents, and each question carries its source. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01World of Warcraft's November 2004 launch coincided with which milestone?
The Warcraft series turning ten
The Warcraft series turning ten: the first game came out in November 1994. For the online game's own twentieth birthday in 2024, the University of Washington's football team briefly became the 'University of Warcraft'.
Q 02On which fictional planet is World of Warcraft set?
Azeroth
Azeroth began as the name of a single kingdom in the first Warcraft game; the kingdom was later renamed Stormwind, and its old name grew to cover the whole planet.
Q 03In World of Warcraft, which two opposing factions must every player choose between?
Alliance and Horde
Alliance and Horde players could not even group up for the game's first seventeen years; only in 2022 did Blizzard let the two sides run dungeons and raids together.
Q 04Which two continents made up World of Warcraft's game world at launch?
Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms
Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms were once one landmass, until a magical implosion 10,000 years before the game sank most of it and left the Maelstrom, a permanent whirlpool, between them.
Q 05Which was the first game in the Warcraft series?
Orcs & Humans
Orcs & Humans was nearly a Warhammer game: Blizzard's co-founder wanted that licence, but no deal came together, so the team invented a fantasy world of its own.
Q 06How many subscribers did World of Warcraft have at its October 2010 peak?
12 million
12 million was the high-water mark: within five years more than half of those players had gone, leaving 5.6 million by mid-2015.
Q 07Which World of Warcraft class fights by shapeshifting into a bear or a cat?
Druid
Druid forms each have a job: a bear shields the group from damage, a cat claws enemies up close, and the same character can heal as well, so one druid can fill any of the three group roles.
Q 08Which was World of Warcraft's first expansion pack, released in January 2007?
The Burning Crusade
The Burning Crusade sent players through the Dark Portal, the very gateway the orcs had first invaded through, to fight on the orcs' own shattered homeworld.
Q 09Which two playable races did World of Warcraft's first expansion add?
Draenei and Blood Elves
Draenei and Blood Elves each handed their side a class it had been locked out of: until then shamans belonged to one faction and paladins to the other.
Q 10In World of Warcraft's first expansion, where were players finally able to ride flying mounts?
Only in Outland
Only in Outland: the original zones were never designed to be seen from above, so flying over them had to wait until a later expansion rebuilt them from the ground up.
Q 11Which villain made the Black Temple his stronghold in World of Warcraft's first expansion?
Illidan Stormrage
Illidan Stormrage died there at players' hands, yet nine years later the Legion expansion resurrected him to fight at their side.
Q 12Which fallen prince, wielder of the cursed sword Frostmourne, is the villain of World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King?
Arthas Menethil
Arthas Menethil took up Frostmourne to save his people from a plague; the sword took his soul instead, and he went home and murdered his father the king.
Q 13What was World of Warcraft's first 'hero class', introduced in Wrath of the Lich King?
Death Knight
Q 21Which leader ordered the burning of Teldrassil, the night elves' great tree, in the run-up to World of Warcraft's 2018 expansion?
Sylvanas Windrunner
Sylvanas Windrunner came to conquer the tree, not destroy it; then a dying night elf told her she was fighting a war on life itself that she could never win, and she gave the order to burn it.
Q 22Which two island realms did World of Warcraft's 2018 expansion add?
Kul Tiras and Zandalar
Kul Tiras and Zandalar: one is a kingdom of human sailors, the other the ancient homeland of the trolls, and each side in the war sails off to win over its navy.
Q 23Which World of Warcraft expansion, delayed by a month, launched in November 2020?
Death Knights start out as the Lich King's own champions and break free of him; at first you needed a level-55 character just to create one.
Q 14Which continent, home of the Lich King, did World of Warcraft's 2008 expansion add?
Northrend
Northrend is where Warcraft III left its story hanging, at the Frozen Throne atop Icecrown; the expansion let players storm Icecrown Citadel and end it themselves.
Q 15Which dragon's return reshaped the world in World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion?
Deathwing
Deathwing was once Neltharion the Earth-Warder, sworn to protect the land, before he went mad and burst up through it, flooding some old zones and splitting others with lava.
Q 16Which two races were added in World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion?
Worgen and Goblins
Worgen and Goblins: the worgen are the people of Gilneas, a human kingdom that shut itself behind a giant wall, only for a curse to spread inside and turn its citizens into wolf-beasts.
Q 17World of Warcraft: Cataclysm's record as the fastest-selling PC game fell in 2012 to which game?
Diablo III
Diablo III, another Blizzard game, sold over 3.5 million copies in a day, edging past Cataclysm's 3.3 million, so Blizzard only lost the record to itself.
Q 18Which World of Warcraft race was an April Fools' joke years before it became playable?
Pandaren
Pandaren grew out of panda art Blizzard's Samwise Didier drew for himself; Blizzard announced them as a fake Warcraft III race one April Fools' Day, then put a panda brewmaster in the game's expansion for real.
Q 19Which class did the Mists of Pandaria expansion add to World of Warcraft?
Monk
Monk: its Brewmaster tanks swig mystical brews mid-fight and 'stagger' heavy blows, taking the damage a little at a time instead of all at once.
Q 20Which hero class arrived in World of Warcraft with the Legion expansion in 2016?
Demon Hunter
Demon Hunters ritually blind themselves in exchange for spectral sight, then fight demons with the demons' own power, growing horns and wings along the way.
Shadowlands
Shadowlands slipped from October for extra polish and landed on 23 November, sixteen years to the day after the original game, then sold 3.7 million copies in a day.
Q 24Which feature did World of Warcraft's Midnight expansion add?
Player housing
Player housing sets homes in neighbourhoods of about 50 plots, and the game keeps making new neighbourhoods as they fill, so nobody has to fight for a plot.
Q 25World of Warcraft's 2005 Corrupted Blood plague began with a spell cast by which raid boss?
Hakkar the Soulflayer
Hakkar the Soulflayer's spell was meant to stay inside his Zul'Gurub raid, but players' pets carried it out into crowded cities, where it killed low-level characters in seconds.
Q 26Which US agency contacted Blizzard after the Corrupted Blood incident?
The CDC
The CDC phoned asking for the simulation data, a Blizzard producer recalled, and had to be told the plague was only a bug; epidemiologists wrote it up in medical journals anyway.
Q 27When voluntary quarantines failed to stop World of Warcraft's Corrupted Blood plague, what drastic step did Blizzard take?
Hard-resetting the servers
Hard-resetting the servers cleared the plague after players ignored the voluntary quarantines, and a later patch closed the loophole by making pets unable to catch it.
Q 28The famous Leeroy Jenkins video was posted in May 2005 by which guild?
Pals for Life
Pals for Life meant it as a joke: the guildmate who filmed it said in 2017 they thought it was obviously satire, and released a rehearsal take to prove it.
Q 29In which World of Warcraft dungeon area were Leeroy Jenkins's guildmates planning a careful attack when he charged in?
The Rookery, Upper Blackrock Spire
The Rookery in Upper Blackrock Spire is a room carpeted with dragon eggs, and his charge hatched them all at once and wiped out the group; his defence was 'At least I have chicken.'
Q 30Leeroy Jenkins later became a Legendary minion, able to attack the moment he arrives, in which Blizzard game?
Hearthstone
Hearthstone's Leeroy attacks the turn he is played but hands the opponent two whelps, just as his charge in the video woke a swarm of them.