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60 free Joan of Arc trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Joan of Arc trivia quiz follows the Maid from the village where she first heard voices to the marketplace where she was burned, and on to the retrial that cleared her and the canonization five centuries later. It covers her family and the divided France she was born into, the saints she said appeared to her, the garrison commander who twice sent her home, the examinations by theologians and by matrons, the relief of Orléans and the Loire campaign, the coronation of Charles VII, the failed assault on Paris, her capture in a sortie, the leap from a tower window, the ransom the English paid, the trial run by a partisan bishop, the abjuration and the relapse, and her death. The easy questions cover the outline: which war she fought in, the city she saved, how she died and when she became a saint. The harder half is for readers who know the trial transcripts: how her surname was actually spelled, the church where her sword was found, the feast day on which fighting paused, the mercenary she let a town execute, the sum paid for her, how many clergy sat on her trial, the tower she jumped from, the pope who declared her mission divine, and the far-flung religion that still reveres her. Every answer was checked against Joan of Arc's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our Hundred Years' War, medieval history and Henry V quizzes next.
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Q 01About how old was Joan when she was executed?
Nineteen
Her exact birth date is unknown and her own statements about her age were vague.
Q 02In which village in north-east France was Joan born around 1412?
Domrémy
It sits in the Meuse valley and is now in the Vosges department.
Q 03Which long conflict between England and France was Joan born into?
The Hundred Years' War
It had begun in 1337 over English lands in France and English claims to the French crown.
Q 04What was the name of Joan's mother, who later petitioned the pope to clear her daughter's name?
Isabelle Romée
Joan's father was Jacques d'Arc, a peasant farmer with about 50 acres who also collected the village taxes.
Q 05How many siblings did Joan have?
Four
Two of her brothers, Jean and Pierre, joined their mother's petition for a retrial in 1454.
Q 06How did Joan usually sign the letters she dictated?
Jehanne
She may never have heard herself called 'Jeanne d'Arc'; the first record of that name dates from 1455, 24 years after her death.
Q 07How was her father's surname recorded at her trial?
Tart
'Darc' without an apostrophe was the usual spelling; there was no standard form before the sixteenth century.
Q 08Which saint did Joan say first appeared to her, with angels, in her family's garden when she was about thirteen?
Michael
He was a patron of the area around her village and seen as a defender of France; the visions often came when church bells rang.
Q 09Besides the archangel, Joan said two female martyr saints spoke to her. Which pair?
Margaret and Catherine
They were probably Margaret of Antioch and Catherine of Alexandria, the two best known in her region.
Q 10A prophecy in Joan of Arc's youth that a banner-carrying maiden would save France was attributed to whom?
Merlin
Another, based on the visions of Marie Robine of Avignon, promised an armed maiden would save France.
Q 11Which garrison commander at Vaucouleurs twice refused Joan an escort before finally relenting in 1429?
Robert de Baudricourt
Two of his own soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, had by then become her supporters.
Q 12Which sick nobleman summoned Joan to Nancy for a cure, only to be scolded over his mistress?
The Duke of Lorraine
She offered no cures at all.
Q 13How many soldiers escorted Joan on her journey to meet the Dauphin?
Six
Before setting out she put on men's clothes provided by her escorts, and never went back to women's dress by choice.
Q 21What was the name of the main English stronghold at the siege, stormed on 7 May 1429?
Les Tourelles
Joan was hit by an arrow between neck and shoulder in the trench there but came back for the final assault.
Q 22How many days after Joan's arrival did the English abandon the siege?
Nine
They withdrew on 8 May, a date the city has celebrated every year since 1429.
Q 23Who commanded the Loire campaign alongside Joan and regularly took her advice?
The Duke of Alençon
After the failed attack on Paris she was never allowed to serve with him again.
Q 14At which royal residence did Joan first meet the Dauphin Charles in early 1429?
Chinon
She was about seventeen; he was twenty-six.
Q 15To which city was Joan sent to be examined by theologians before being trusted with a mission?
Poitiers
They called her a good Catholic and said sending her to the besieged city would test whether her inspiration was divine.
Q 16Which royal mother-in-law directed the women who examined Joan and confirmed her virginity?
Yolande of Aragon
The point was to prove she could be the prophesied maiden and had not consorted with the Devil.
Q 17From under the altar of which church did Joan have her sword brought to her?
Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois
The Dauphin also commissioned plate armour for her, and she designed her own banner.
Q 18From which town did Joan set out in late April 1429 with the army carrying supplies to Orléans?
Blois
Orléans was the last obstacle before an assault on the rest of the Dauphin's territory.
Q 19Which commander, known as 'the Bastard' and later Count of Dunois, got Joan into the besieged city?
Jean of Orléans
She was at first treated as a morale-raising figurehead and given no formal command.
Q 20On which feast day, 5 May 1429, did no fighting take place at the siege?
Ascension Thursday
Joan used the pause to dictate another letter to the English, tied to a bolt and fired by a crossbowman.
Q 24At which town in June 1429 did a stone split Joan's helmet as she climbed a siege ladder?
Jargeau
The town fell the same day; many English who surrendered were killed.
Q 25At which battle on 18 June 1429 was the English army routed after Joan urged pursuit?
Patay
Hidden English archers were spotted and scattered by the vanguard; the English commander escaped with a handful of men.
Q 26Which English commander escaped the rout with a small band while many other leaders were captured?
Sir John Fastolf
He had marched from Paris and linked up with the Meung garrison, unnoticed by the French.
Q 27Which town alone resisted Joan of Arc's march to the coronation, surrendering after she filled the moat?
Troyes
It had a small English and Burgundian garrison; the treaty signed there in 1420 had disinherited the Dauphin.
Q 28In which city was Charles VII consecrated king on 17 July 1429, with Joan given a place of honour?
Reims
It was the traditional coronation site of French kings and had been in Burgundian hands.
Q 29Where on her body was Joan of Arc wounded by a crossbow bolt during the 1429 assault on Paris?
The leg
She lay in a trench beneath the walls until rescued after dark; the king called off the attack next morning.
Q 30Outside which besieged town was Joan captured by Burgundian troops on 23 May 1430?
Compiègne
She had set out with volunteers without documented royal permission, as the king was observing a truce.