Q 01/05

Warhammer 40,000's first edition needed which third person at the table?

A) A gamesmaster

B) A scorekeeper

C) A timekeeper

D) A banker

Answer · why

A) A gamesmaster

A gamesmaster refereed the fight, because the 1987 rulebook was half role-playing game: forces were often rolled up on random tables, and it suited sm...

Q 02/05

Games Workshop, the maker of Warhammer 40,000, is headquartered in which English city?

A) London

B) Nottingham

C) Leeds

D) Manchester

Answer · why

B) Nottingham

Nottingham is home because of a takeover in reverse: the firm began in London, but in the 1980s its Nottinghamshire miniatures arm took control and mo...

Q 03/05

Which Chaos God of Warhammer 40,000 is hailed with the cry 'Blood for the Blood God'?

A) Khorne

B) Nurgle

C) Tzeentch

D) Slaanesh

Answer · why

A) Khorne

Khorne's followers finish the cry with 'Skulls for the Skull Throne!'; he despises sorcery, so his armies charge into close combat and field no psyker...

Q 04/05

Which word for a subgenre of speculative fiction derives from Warhammer 40,000's tagline?

A) Cyberpunk

B) Noblebright

C) Dieselpunk

D) Grimdark

Answer · why

D) Grimdark

Grimdark squeezes the tagline 'In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war' into one word; first recorded in the 2000s, it now labels bl...

Q 05/05

Which Games Workshop division publishes the setting's novels?

A) Black Library

B) Forge World

C) Black Flame

D) Solaris Books

Answer · why

A) Black Library

Black Library began in 1997 as a small team producing Inferno!, a magazine of short stories; its success led to novels two years later and a list that...