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48 free Hard House of the Dragon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This is hard House of the Dragon trivia. It assumes you know who Rhaenyra, Daemon and Alicent are and what the Dance of the Dragons is, and asks instead about the details: which of Jaehaerys's sons fathered Viserys, whose crown Erryk Cargyll carried to Dragonstone, which Small Council seat Tyland Lannister took, and which daughter of Jaehaerys turns out to be Hugh Hammer's mother. It also covers the dragons and their riders through season three (Moondancer, Silverwing, Tessarion, the Red Sowing), the making of the show (Sapochnik's Emmy, the Bryan Cogman concept it grew from, the Spanish and Derbyshire locations, the Arri cameras, the near-$200 million budget) and the public falling-out between George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal. If you want the basics first, start with our main House of the Dragon trivia quiz. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the series, its seasons and its characters, and each explanation adds one more detail worth knowing.
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Q 01How many years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen does House of the Dragon begin?
172
The opening text sets the series 172 years before the death of the Mad King and the birth of Daenerys, opening at the Great Council of 101 AC, roughly a century after Aegon's Conquest.
Q 02Which dragon was King Viserys I the last rider of, before it died?
Balerion
Balerion, the Black Dread, had carried Aegon the Conqueror himself.
Q 03Viserys was the firstborn son of which of Jaehaerys's sons?
Baelon
Rhaenys, daughter of the elder son Aemon, was passed over for him at the Great Council of 101.
Q 04What is Caraxes, Daemon's dragon, also called?
The Blood Wyrm
Caraxes is called the Blood Wyrm, the lean red dragon Daemon has ridden since his youth; Meleys is the Red Queen and Vermithor the Bronze Fury.
Q 05Rhaenys was the only child of Aemon Targaryen and which half-sister of Jaehaerys?
Jocelyn
Jocelyn was a Baratheon, which is why Rhaenys is called the Queen Who Never Was with Storm's End at her back.
Q 06What office does Mysaria hold in Rhaenyra's court in season two?
Mistress of Whisperers
Rhaenyra names Mysaria her Mistress of Whisperers in season two, running her spies in King's Landing; Larys Strong holds the equivalent post on Aegon's council.
Q 07The Kingsguard knight who later became Aegon's Hand hails from which region of Westeros?
The Dornish Marches
Criston Cole, son of the steward of Blackhaven in the Dornish Marches, was named to the Kingsguard by Viserys and later replaced Otto Hightower as Aegon II's Hand.
Q 08Whom did Harrold Westerling replace as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard?
Ryam Redwyne
Ser Harrold Westerling took over from the ailing Ser Ryam Redwyne as Lord Commander in the first episode; Westerling later resigned rather than serve Aegon II.
Q 09Jefferson Hall plays which pair of identical twins?
Jason and Tyland Lannister
Jefferson Hall plays both Lannister twins, Jason and Tyland; Tyland sits on the Small Council as Master of Ships and later Aegon's Master of Coin.
Q 10Which Small Council member did Tyland Lannister replace as Aegon's Master of Coin?
Lyman Beesbury
Beesbury was killed at the council table for protesting the plot to crown Aegon.
Q 11Aegon II's dragon is called what?
Sunfyre
Aegon II rides Sunfyre, the golden dragon called the most beautiful ever seen in Westeros; his sister-wife Helaena rides Dreamfyre.
Q 12Where did young Aemond sneak out by night to claim the dragon Vhagar?
Driftmark
Aemond claimed Vhagar on Driftmark the night of Laena Velaryon's funeral, mounting the old she-dragon alone; the brawl with his nephews that cost him an eye followed.
Q 13Baela Targaryen rides which dragon?
Moondancer
Baela rides Moondancer, the young she-dragon on which she scouts Criston Cole's army before Rook's Rest; her twin Rhaena tracks the wild Sheepstealer in the Vale.
Q 21Which Game of Thrones episode had earned Miguel Sapochnik an Emmy before he became co-showrunner?
Battle of the Bastards
Miguel Sapochnik won the 2016 Emmy for directing Battle of the Bastards; he co-ran House of the Dragon's first season with Condal, then stepped down but remained an executive producer.
Q 22The series reworked a rejected spin-off concept from which Game of Thrones writer?
Bryan Cogman
Bryan Cogman's Targaryen prequel pitch was shelved in 2019 and its concept reworked into House of the Dragon; Benioff and Weiss declined involvement in any successor projects.
Q 23The Anarchy that inspired the show was fought between Empress Matilda and which rival?
Stephen of Blois
Q 14Which Grand Maester does Orwyle replace?
Mellos
Orwyle replaces Grand Maester Mellos, who dies during the decade-long time skip, and keeps the post on Aegon II's Small Council.
Q 15Alyn of Hull saved his father Corlys's life where?
In the Stepstones
Corlys says Alyn of Hull pulled him from the sea in the Stepstones when he lay wounded; Alyn serves as a sailor and shipwright in the Velaryon fleet at Hull.
Q 16Ulf White claims which dragon?
Silverwing
Ulf White claims Silverwing, the she-dragon once ridden by Good Queen Alysanne, in the Red Sowing; he boasts of being a Targaryen bastard half-brother to Viserys and Daemon.
Q 17Who plays Alys Rivers, the witch of Harrenhal?
Gayle Rankin
Gayle Rankin, previously Sheila the She-Wolf in GLOW, plays Alys Rivers, the Harrenhal healer whose visions haunt Daemon through season two.
Q 18Which actor joined season three as Ormund Hightower, Lord of Oldtown?
James Norton
James Norton, star of Happy Valley and Grantchester, was cast for season three as Ormund Hightower, Lord of Oldtown, who marches the Hightower army north for the Greens.
Q 19Who are the Winter Wolves?
Aging Northern men who expect to die in combat
Roderick Dustin, Lord of Barrowton, leads them.
Q 20Daeron Targaryen, Alicent's youngest son, rides which dragon?
Tessarion
Daeron Targaryen, Alicent's youngest son, was sent to Oldtown as a boy and rides Tessarion, the she-dragon called the Blue Queen in Fire & Blood.
Stephen of Blois, a nephew of Henry I, took the English throne in 1135 over Matilda, Henry's only surviving legitimate child, starting the civil war Martin used as the model for the Dance.
Q 24Which Game of Thrones director joined season two as executive producer and director?
Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor, who directed Game of Thrones episodes including Baelor and Beyond the Wall, joined season two as an executive producer and directed its premiere.
Q 25Which two Spanish locations doubled for King's Landing in season one?
Cáceres and Trujillo
Cáceres, whose medieval old town stood in for the streets of King's Landing, and nearby Trujillo, with its Moorish castle, were both filmed in Extremadura for season one.
Q 26Which Derbyshire village provided locations including Cave Dale and Eldon Hill Quarry?
Castleton
Castleton, in the Peak District, provided Cave Dale and Eldon Hill Quarry for season one; Cornwall's Holywell Bay and Kynance Cove also featured.
Q 27Where did the show shoot its main stage work for its first two seasons?
Leavesden
The series' main stage work was shot at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire, the former Harry Potter base, for both seasons one and two.
Q 28Why could the show keep filming through the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike?
Its largely British cast works under Equity rules
Season two wrapped by September 29, 2023.
Q 29In which episode does the opening title sequence with Djawadi's Game of Thrones theme first appear?
The second
The opening title sequence, set to Djawadi's Game of Thrones theme, first appears in the second episode, The Rogue Prince; the premiere ran without one.
Q 30Which conlanger returned to build out High Valyrian for the series?
David J. Peterson
David J. Peterson, who created Dothraki and High Valyrian for Game of Thrones, returned to expand High Valyrian for the series, which uses far more of the language.