Elden Ring Trivia
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167 free Elden Ring trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
58 free Elden Ring trivia questions with answers. Elden Ring sold 30 million copies and collected more than 300 Game of the Year awards, and its lore is dense enough to keep players arguing years later. This quiz covers the whole thing: the Shattering and Queen Marika, the demigod shardbearers, Ranni's scheme, Malenia and the legend of Let Me Solo Her, Torrent and Melina, the six endings, plus the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, the Nightreign co-op spin-off, the Game Awards stage-crasher and the A24 film. Easy questions cover things every Tarnished knows; the hard ones dig into Radahn's horse, Ranni's doll and who owns FromSoftware. It works for a Discord night, a stream quiz or a solo lore check. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the game, its expansions, its characters and its studio. If it could not be cited, it was cut.
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Q 01Elden Ring launched in February 2022 on PlayStation, Xbox and which third platform?
Windows PC
Windows PC was the third launch platform on February 25, 2022; Nintendo players were left out until a Switch 2 version finally arrived in August 2026.
Q 02Which fantasy novelist provided the worldbuilding for Elden Ring?
George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin wrote only the ancient history: the studio kept him away from the in-game story so he could invent freely, without the limits its cryptic storytelling puts on a writer.
Q 03Elden Ring belongs to which subgenre, named after an earlier series by the same studio?
Soulslike
Soulslike games are named for FromSoftware's Demon's Souls and Dark Souls: their high difficulty and environmental storytelling were imitated so widely that the style became a genre of its own.
Q 04Which Game Awards category did Elden Ring win in both 2020 and 2021?
Most Anticipated Game
Most Anticipated Game went to Elden Ring two years running; the other three trophies followed in 2022, once the game was out.
Q 05Which academy of sorcery in Liurnia is ruled by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon?
Raya Lucaria
Raya Lucaria is the academy that rises from Liurnia's lake; a magical barrier seals its gate, so nobody gets in without first finding an Academy Glintstone Key.
Q 06In Elden Ring's opening, White Mask Varré mocks the player for lacking what?
A maiden
A maiden is what Varré says you lack: without one, a Tarnished has no guide and cannot turn runes into strength, which is exactly the bargain Melina soon offers.
Q 07Which queen shattered the Elden Ring, triggering the war called the Shattering?
Marika
Queen Marika the Eternal shattered the Elden Ring after her son Godwyn was murdered, and her demigod children then warred over its Great Runes.
Q 08Which armoured knight on horseback patrols the road just outside Elden Ring's tutorial area?
Tree Sentinel
Tree Sentinel is in view the moment a new player steps outside, and he is optional: the wise move is to slip past and return stronger, yet he drew more attempts than all but two bosses.
Q 09Which giant tortoise in a bishop's mitre teaches spells at the Church of Vows?
Miriel
Miriel, Pastor of Vows, teaches both sorceries and incantations, and his church also grants absolution, turning any character a player has angered back into a friend.
Q 10What is the name of the hub where players gather to plan repairing the Elden Ring?
Roundtable Hold
Roundtable Hold cannot be walked to: it lies outside the map itself, so a player first arrives by invitation while resting and afterwards returns only by fast travel.
Q 11Which attribute governs a character's maximum health in Elden Ring?
Vigor
Vigor governs maximum HP, and raising it has a side effect: the character also shrugs off more fire damage.
Q 12What are the checkpoints in Elden Ring called?
Sites of grace
Sites of grace are Elden Ring's checkpoints: resting at one refills flasks and respawns most enemies, and the last one rested at is where the player returns after death.
Q 13In Elden Ring, what are the obtainable enchantments that grant weapons new capabilities called?
Ashes of War
Ashes of War can be put on a weapon and taken off again at no cost, so one favourite sword can swap its special skill and damage type to suit each new fight.
Q 21What is Elden Ring's default ending called, in which the Tarnished simply takes the throne?
Age of Fracture
Age of Fracture needs no questline: the Tarnished mends the Elden Ring as it is and becomes Elden Lord, while four of the five other endings each need a character's quest finished first.
Q 22Which boss guards the mountaintop forge where the burning of the Erdtree begins?
The Fire Giant
The Fire Giant must fall before the forge can be reached; attackers go for the wrapped left leg that is his weak point until, at half health, he tears off the foot himself.
Q 23Besides its top prize, which other Steam Award did players vote to Elden Ring for 2022?
Best Game You Suck At
Q 14Where can spirit summons be used?
Near Rebirth Monuments
Spirit summons work only near Rebirth Monuments, stone obelisks that stand in open areas and nearly every boss arena, so a spirit helper cannot be called in every fight.
Q 15What item does a host use to attract more invaders?
Taunter's Tongue
The Taunter's Tongue opens a host's world to invaders even when no co-op partner is present, shortens the wait between invasions and lets a second invader join in.
Q 16What is Godrick's gruesome practice, from which he takes his title?
Grafting severed body parts onto himself
Grafting severed body parts onto himself is Godrick's form of biological augmentation; halfway through his boss fight he grafts a dead dragon's head onto his arm and uses it as a flamethrower.
Q 17Which boss guards the front gate of Stormveil Castle?
Margit the Fell Omen
Margit the Fell Omen bars the approach to Stormveil Castle, but nothing forces the fight at once: he is optional, so a struggling player can leave, explore and return stronger.
Q 18Which scheming servant is found stomping on Godrick's severed head after his defeat?
Gatekeeper Gostoc
Gatekeeper Gostoc first steers visitors away from the main gate toward a hole in the wall; once his master is dead he stamps on the body, cursing Godrick for having pushed him about.
Q 19Which demigod guards the way into the Erdtree and declares that it will admit no one?
Morgott the Grace-Given
Morgott the Grace-Given was imprisoned beneath the capital for being born an Omen, yet he still loved the Golden Order and defended the city against his fellow demigods in the Shattering.
Q 20Which two foes are the final bosses fought inside the Erdtree?
Radagon and the Elden Beast
Radagon comes first and the Elden Beast appears the moment he falls, with no rest between: dying to the Elden Beast means beating Radagon all over again.
Best Game You Suck At went to Elden Ring in the same public vote that named it Game of the Year: Steam users crowned it their favourite while admitting it was beating them.
Q 24What is Malenia's title once she is overcome by the rot in her second phase?
Goddess of Rot
Malenia becomes 'Goddess of Rot' once her first health bar is emptied: she gives in to the Scarlet Rot that her brother's Unalloyed Gold had held back, and rises again with most of her health.
Q 25Roughly how many times had players fought Malenia by March 2023?
329 million
329 million attempts on Malenia were logged in the game's first year, more than on any other boss; fans worked out that she had been killing about ten players every second.
Q 26What did the famous player 'Let Me Solo Her' wear on their head?
A jar
Let Me Solo Her wore only a jar on his head, fighting otherwise naked with two katanas, and beat Malenia for strangers over a thousand times; Bandai Namco sent him a gift for it.
Q 27What is the name of Radahn's tiny horse?
Leonard
Radahn's horse is Leonard, a scrawny steed he loved so much that he learned gravity magic so his giant body would not crush it.
Q 28Who gives the opening speech at the Radahn Festival?
Witch-Hunter Jerren
Witch-Hunter Jerren, an old comrade of Radahn, presides over the festival meant to give the rot-maddened general an honourable death; afterwards he sets out to hunt the sorceress Sellen.
Q 29Who are Ranni's parents?
Radagon and Rennala
Radagon and Rennala's marriage ended a war between the Golden Order and Liurnia's Carian royals; when he later abandoned her for another throne, Rennala lost her mind.
Q 30Which event did Ranni orchestrate to kill Godwyn the Golden?
The Night of the Black Knives
Ranni orchestrated the Night of the Black Knives, whose assassins killed Godwyn with half of the stolen Rune of Death; she used the other half to kill her own body and live on in a doll.