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50 free Fullmetal Alchemist trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist ran nine years in Monthly Shōnen Gangan and spawned two very different anime, two films, light novels and a live-action trilogy. This Fullmetal Alchemist trivia covers the Elric brothers' failed transmutation, the State Military, Xing's alkahestry, the homunculi named for the seven deadly sins, and the production details behind Brotherhood and the 2003 series. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who wrote and illustrated the Fullmetal Alchemist manga?
Hiromu Arakawa
Arakawa grew up on a dairy farm and draws herself as a bespectacled cow in her author notes.
Q 02In which magazine was the manga serialized from 2001 to 2010?
Monthly Shōnen Gangan
Gangan is the anthology of a video game giant, which is why the publisher of Final Fantasy owns this series.
Q 03How many tankōbon volumes collect the complete manga?
27
Arakawa originally expected the story to fit in 21 volumes before it grew by six more.
Q 04Which company publishes the manga in Japan?
Square Enix
The series sits alongside Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest as one of the company's best-selling properties.
Q 05In which fictional country is the story mainly set?
Amestris
Its politics and look are modeled on Europe around the turn of the 20th century.
Q 06What is the name of the rule that a transmutation must obey?
Law of Equivalent Exchange
Arakawa said the idea came from watching her farming parents work hard for everything they ate.
Q 07In the botched attempt to revive their mother, which limb did Edward lose?
His left leg
Alphonse lost his whole body in the same moment, which is why Ed pays a second price moments later.
Q 08Edward bound Alphonse's soul to what object?
A suit of armor
The bond makes Al nearly invulnerable but leaves him unable to eat, sleep or feel.
Q 09What is the rural hometown of the Elric brothers?
Resembool
The brothers burn down their family house there so they can never turn back.
Q 10Which town is known for manufacturing automail prosthetics?
Rush Valley
Winry later works there as a sought-after engineer with a loyal customer base.
Q 11Who trained the Elric brothers in alchemy?
Izumi Curtis
She too attempted human transmutation, trying to revive her stillborn child, and paid with organs.
Q 12Which colonel invited Edward to become a State Alchemist?
Roy Mustang
Ed passed the exam at 12, making him the youngest State Alchemist in the country's history.
Q 13Which grandmother raised Winry after her parents were killed in the war?
Pinako Rockbell
Arakawa used Pinako taking in the orphaned Elrics to explore society's duty to orphans.
Q 21What is the name of Xing's own medical form of alchemy?
Alkahestry
Practitioners throw kunai to create two linked circles and work at a distance.
Q 22Who commands the northern Fort Briggs?
Olivier Armstrong
She is the elder sister of the flamboyant Major Alex Louis Armstrong.
Q 23Father's Promised Day transmutation can only be triggered during what event?
A solar eclipse
The sun stands for man and the moon for woman, so the eclipse represents a perfect being.
In which ancient country was the being later called Father created?
Q 14Scar hunts State Alchemists to avenge the genocide of which people?
The Ishbalans
The war began when an Amestrian soldier shot a child, an act later revealed to be a shapeshifting homunculus in disguise.
Q 15Which homunculus murders Maes Hughes?
Envy
The killer frames an innocent lieutenant, whom Mustang then secretly smuggles out of the country.
Q 16In the manga, King Bradley is secretly which homunculus?
Wrath
In the 2003 anime Bradley was a different sin entirely, and this one was Izumi's lost child.
Q 17Which homunculus turns out to be Selim Bradley?
Pride
He is the first homunculus Father made and fights as a shadow bristling with eyes and mouths.
Q 18Which homunculus is nicknamed the "Ultimate Shield"?
Greed
His counterpart Bradley is the Ultimate Eye, which is why the two are framed as opposites.
Q 19The "Ultimate Shield" hardens his skin by rearranging which element?
Carbon
He turns the carbon in his flesh into a diamond-hard coating, the same chemistry as graphite to diamond.
Q 20Which Xingese prince willingly hands his body over to a homunculus?
Lin Yao
He is the twelfth prince of Xing and ends the series as its new emperor.
Xerxes
He was first a shapeless creature in a flask, made from the blood of a slave boy he named Van Hohenheim.
Q 25Which framed lieutenant has her death faked so she can be smuggled abroad?
Maria Ross
She ends up in Xing under the care of Fu, Lin's bodyguard, until the Promised Day.
Q 26Who discovers that King Bradley's young son is a homunculus?
Riza Hawkeye
Hawkeye passes the secret to Mustang in coded conversation while being watched.
Q 27What does Edward give up to fully restore Alphonse at the story's end?
His ability to use alchemy
He offers up his own Gate, reasoning he never needed alchemy when he had friends.
Q 28Which childhood friend does Edward eventually marry?
Winry Rockbell
The epilogue shows the couple with two children in a family photograph.
Q 29Which animation studio produced both FMA anime series?
Bones
Bones president Masahiko Minami greenlit the adaptation after staff brought him the manga.
Q 30How many episodes does Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood have?
64
Four OVAs were also bundled with the Japanese Blu-ray and DVD volumes.