Xena: Warrior Princess Trivia
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99 free Xena: Warrior Princess trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Xena was written to die in her third Hercules episode. Instead she got her own show, outrated her parent series, ran six seasons in syndication from 1995 to 2001 and became one of the great cult hits of the decade, filmed in the hills outside Auckland with a Bulgarian folk choir on the theme. This quiz covers the making of the show (who was cast first, why season two suddenly had so many body-swap episodes, which Evil Dead producer created it), the characters (Gabrielle's staff and sais, Joxer the Mighty, Callisto's burned village, Ares in studded leather), the mythology the writers bent to their purposes, and the afterlife of the series, from the NBC reboot that never happened to the dwarf planet nicknamed Xena. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so it works as a fan test, a 90s TV round or a nostalgia trip.
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Q 01In which country was Xena: Warrior Princess filmed?
New Zealand
New Zealand. Shooting around Auckland also handed the show its star: when the first-choice actress fell ill, producers drafted in Lucy Lawless, a local who had played bit parts on Hercules.
Q 02Which group makes Gabrielle a princess after its dying heir passes her title on in season one of Xena?
The Amazons
The Amazons. Gabrielle shields the wounded princess Terreis from more arrows, and with her last breath Terreis hands over her 'right of caste', a title that later makes the farm girl a queen.
Q 03Which actor played Hercules in the series that introduced Xena as a villainous warlord?
Kevin Sorbo
Kevin Sorbo. His Hercules reformed the warlord Xena across three episodes, and the spin-off she earned went on to outlast his own show by more than a year.
Q 04Who played Gabrielle, Xena's companion?
Renee O'Connor
Renee O'Connor. She had played Princess Deianeira in the 1994 TV movie Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, and its producers remembered her when they needed a sidekick for their new heroine.
Q 05Which Xena co-creator and executive producer married the show's star, Lucy Lawless?
Robert Tapert
Robert Tapert. He produced the Evil Dead films with Sam Raimi, and Lawless had played two other parts on his Hercules before the first-choice Xena fell ill and the role became hers.
Q 06Which British actress was first choice for Xena before illness stopped her travelling?
Vanessa Angel
Vanessa Angel. She fell ill before she could fly out to the set, other actresses turned the part down, and it fell to local unknown Lucy Lawless, while Angel stayed with her own series, Weird Science.
Q 07Which future epic poet does Gabrielle coach at an Athens academy for bards, where he competes as Orion?
Homer
Homer. He enters the storytelling contest as Orion, a nervous young bard drilled by his father, and reveals his real name only after Gabrielle talks him into telling tales his own way.
Q 08What is Xena's trademark throwing weapon?
A chakram
A chakram. Xena throws the razor-edged ring so that it ricochets off whatever stands in the way, hits its target and still comes back to her hand.
Q 09In which ancient Greek city was Xena born?
Amphipolis
Amphipolis. Xena first took up arms to defend it from the warlord Cortese, a fight that cost her brother Lyceus his life and set her on the road to conquest.
Q 10Xena's companion Gabrielle grew up in which Greek village?
Potidaea
Potidaea. Xena saves the village from the warlord Draco in the first episode, and Gabrielle, bored at home and unwilling to marry the local man she is promised to, slips away to follow her.
Q 11Who played Joxer, the bumbling would-be warrior on Xena?
Ted Raimi
Ted Raimi. The younger brother of executive producer Sam Raimi made the cowardly braggart a regular, and from season two Joxer marches into trouble singing his own anthem, 'Joxer the Mighty'.
Q 12Which actor played Ares, the god of war, on Xena and Hercules?
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith. A third concussion in one rugby season ended his playing days, his wife put him up for an Elvis musical while he recovered, and he later said he owed the man who kicked him in the head a drink.
Q 13Who played Xena's nemesis Callisto?
Hudson Leick
Hudson Leick. When the two enemies swap bodies in season two, Leick takes over as the heroine, and she is billed as Xena for the whole of the following episode.
Q 21What was Xena's son, given to the centaurs after his father's death, called?
Solan
His father Borias died in combat against a warrior in Xena's own employ; Solan never learned she was his mother.
Q 22What did Gabrielle name the daughter she bore to the dark god Dahak?
Hope
Hope. Gabrielle chose the name insisting there must be some good in the baby, but the girl killed within hours of her birth and looked about ten years old only months later.
Q 23In Xena's season four finale, 'The Ides of March', what happens to Xena and Gabrielle?
They are crucified
They are crucified. The two die side by side on Roman crosses just as Brutus and his allies cut Caesar down, and a healer named Eli raises them when the next season opens.
Q 14What did Xena's army do to Callisto's home village of Cirra?
Burned it nearly to the ground
Burned it nearly to the ground. Xena never learned how the fire started but owns the deaths of the women and children, and Callisto, who lost her family in it, lives only to repay her.
Q 15Which future Lord of the Rings actor played both Cupid and Caesar on Xena?
Karl Urban
Karl Urban. His Caesar charms and then betrays the young pirate Xena, the wound that turns her into a warlord, and he doubled as a winged Cupid years before Éomer and Dr McCoy.
Q 16Which actor played Autolycus, the King of Thieves, on Hercules and Xena?
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell. The Evil Dead star spends much of 'The Quest' playing Xena, whose spirit borrows the thief's body to steal back her own.
Q 17Who composed the theme and incidental music for Xena: Warrior Princess?
Joseph LoDuca
Joseph LoDuca. The Detroit jazz guitarist broke into film by scoring a low-budget horror, The Evil Dead, and its makers kept him on for Hercules and Xena, which won him an Emmy in 2000.
Q 18Xena's theme music grew out of a traditional folk song from which country?
Bulgaria
Bulgaria. The tune is 'Kaval sviri', recorded by a Bulgarian women's choir, and the chant over Xena's opening titles is in Bulgarian too, telling of a woman who rides alone to battle the armies of a dark world.
Q 19What is the title of Xena's season three musical episode?
The Bitter Suite
The Bitter Suite. After a child's death turns them into enemies, Xena and Gabrielle tumble into the dreamworld of Illusia and can leave only by singing their way back to forgiveness.
Q 20Protests over the portrayal of which Hindu god led Xena's makers to pull the episode 'The Way' from syndication?
Krishna
Krishna. A Vaishnava group objected before 'The Way' had even aired; the producers apologised and withdrew it, then returned it months later, recut and followed by a message from the two stars.
Q 24How long do Xena and Gabrielle sleep after Ares buries them in an ice cave?
25 years
25 years. They had faked their deaths to hide baby Eve from the gods, and they wake to find their friend Joxer in his sixties and the child a grown woman.
Q 25Lucy Lawless plays herself in a 1999 Halloween episode of which animated series, kidnapped from a convention by a collector?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. In 'Desperately Xeeking Xena' Comic Book Guy, as the villain The Collector, carries her off to be his bride, and she plays along just long enough to clobber him.
Q 26What power is Xena granted after Eve's baptism?
To kill gods while her daughter lives
To kill gods while her daughter lives. Xena uses the gift to cut down most of Olympus when the gods come for Eve, and Ares gives up his own immortality to heal the dying Eve and Gabrielle.
Q 27On Xena, what does the shamaness Alti's trademark stare do to her target?
Makes them relive old pain
Makes them relive old pain. Under Alti's gaze Xena feels her legs being broken and her back snapping all over again, and as the shamaness grows stronger she can inflict wounds from a victim's future too.
Q 28What did Xena's scripts call Japan, to avoid using a modern name?
Jappa
Jappa. China had already become 'Chin' on the show, and Jappa is saved for the two-part finale, when Xena sails there to free a town from a soul-eating demon.
Q 29The Xena episode 'Been There, Done That' borrows its premise from which 1993 film?
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day. Only Xena notices the same day starting over, and she sees Joxer, Gabrielle and her own horse die on different mornings before she works out how to stop two feuding families and break the loop.
Q 30Which weapons does Xena's companion Gabrielle take up in season five in place of her fighting staff?
Sais
Sais. Gabrielle embraces non-violence in season four, abandons it to defend a paralysed Xena, and from early in season five fights with the paired sais.