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60 free Asterix trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Asterix trivia for anyone who grew up on the little Gaulish village that still holds out against the invaders. Since Pilote magazine in October 1959, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's comic has sold close to 400 million albums in more than 110 languages, spawned 18 films and a theme park, and even lent its name to France's first satellite. This quiz covers the creators (including the six fingers Uderzo was born with and Goscinny's Argentine childhood), the village and its cast (Obelix and his cauldron, Getafix and his golden sickle, Vitalstatistix on his shield, the gagged bard, the long-suffering pirates), the running jokes and the multilingual name puns, the sales figures and publishing feuds, Anthea Bell's English translations, the animated and live-action films, and the later albums by Ferri, Conrad and Fabcaro. Easy questions suit anyone who has read one album; the expert tier is for people who know their Impedimenta from their Bacteria. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its albums and its characters, and the supporting sentence is attached to each question.
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Q 01In which magazine did Asterix first appear, on 29 October 1959?
Pilote
Goscinny and Uderzo had earlier had success with Oumpah-pah in Tintin magazine.
Q 02Who wrote the Asterix stories until his death in 1977?
René Goscinny
Uderzo, the illustrator, then took over the writing himself until he sold the rights in 2009.
Q 03In what year is the Asterix series set?
50 BC
The famous introduction explains that Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely.
Q 04What are the four Roman camps surrounding the Gaulish village called?
Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium
Their garrisons, the introduction notes, do not have an easy life.
Q 05What is the name of the village druid in the original French editions?
Panoramix
He is Getafix in English and Miraculix in German; only Asterix and Obelix keep their names across languages.
Q 06The '-ix' ending of Gaulish names in the series echoes which real chieftain's name?
Vercingetorix
The Gaulish suffix -rix meant 'king', like Latin rex; Orgetorix and Dumnorix are other examples.
Q 07Why does Obelix have permanent superhuman strength?
He fell into the cauldron of magic potion as a baby
Getafix refuses to let him drink any more, and Asterix and Obelix All at Sea reveals why: he would turn to granite.
Q 08What is Obelix's job?
Menhir deliveryman
He carves and carries the standing stones on his back, and his name may echo both 'obelisk' and the typographic obelus.
Q 09What is Obelix's catchphrase?
'These Romans are crazy!'
In Italian it became 'Sono pazzi questi romani', a joke expansion of the abbreviation SPQR.
Q 10What is the name of Obelix's dog in the original French?
Idéfix
From idée fixe, an obsession; the English 'Dogmatix' keeps the meaning and adds a pun on 'dog'.
Q 11In which album does Obelix's dog first appear, trailing the heroes all the way round Gaul?
Asterix and the Banquet
He is only named in the following book, Asterix and Cleopatra.
Q 12What is the name of the village chief?
Vitalstatistix
He travels on a shield carried by two bearers, and falling off it is a running gag.
Q 13Which character is usually tied up and gagged at the feast that ends most albums?
Cacofonix the bard
In Asterix and the Normans it was the blacksmith who ended up tied up instead.
Q 21What is Dubbelosix, a Gaulish druid-spy in Asterix and the Black Gold, a reference to?
James Bond's codename 007
Other names are pidgin puns, like the Spanish chief Huevos y Bacon.
Q 22Roughly how many copies had Asterix albums sold by 2025?
393 million
That makes it the best-selling European comic series and the fourth best-selling comic series in the world.
Q 23Which manga is the only comic series to outsell Asterix in collected-volume format?
One Piece
Asterix ranks fourth among all comic series worldwide when strips and periodicals are counted.
Q 14From Asterix and the Magic Carpet onward, what does the bard's singing cause?
Thunderstorms, even indoors
It plays on an old French saying that bad singing brings rain.
Q 15Which Asterix running-gag characters, first seen in Asterix the Gladiator, parody the Belgian comic Barbe Rouge?
The pirates
Their ship is sunk in almost every album; the parody has become better known than the original.
Q 16What is the name of the village chief's wife?
Impedimenta
She thinks him unambitious; her name is Bonemine in French.
Q 17How old is Geriatrix said to be in Asterix at the Olympic Games?
93
Drunk, he says he feels ten years younger, to which Asterix replies that makes him 83 and it's time he was in bed.
Q 18The village fishmonger Unhygienix insists his fish are transported from where?
Lutetia
Even though he owns a fishing boat and lives by the sea, so the fish are always off, and fights ensue.
Q 19What does the name Asterix derive from?
The asterisk, from the Greek for 'star'
In Icelandic he is Ástríkur, 'rich of love'; the Turks first called him Bücür, 'shorty'.
Q 20In the English translations, Roman names end in -us and British names often end in what?
-ax or -os, punning on taxes
Examples include the chief Mykingdomforanos, the druid Valuaddedtax and the mercenary Selectivemploymentax.
Q 24Into how many languages and dialects had Asterix been translated as of 2009?
111
Some albums exist in Latin and Ancient Greek with teachers' guides, and one was done in Mirandese for Portugal.
Q 25How many copies did the first album, Asterix the Gaul, sell in its year of publication?
6,000
By the ninth volume in 1967, a new album sold 1.2 million copies in two days.
Q 26Which team took over the series in 2013?
Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad
Fabcaro replaced Ferri as writer for volumes 40 and 41.
Q 27Which publisher bought the Asterix rights from Uderzo in December 2008?
Hachette
Dargaud, the original publisher, had lost the rights to the first 24 albums after a long lawsuit in 1998.
Q 28Which real place in Brittany is the unnamed village rumoured to be based on?
Erquy
The village lies in Armorica, the Gaulish name for the region.
Q 29For volumes 4 through 29, what pattern did the settings of the albums follow?
Even-numbered abroad, odd-numbered in Gaul
Later books used science-fiction elements too, including aliens in Asterix and the Falling Sky.
Q 30Where did the writer of Asterix spend his childhood?
Argentina
Born in Paris to Polish-Jewish immigrants, he attended French schools in Buenos Aires and later met Morris in New York.