Narnia Trivia
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99 free Narnia trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Narnia trivia questions with answers. Narnia started as a picture in a teenager's head of a faun carrying parcels through snow, and ended as 120 million books in 47 languages. Along the way it picked up an argument about reading order that has never been settled, a lion that Lewis insisted was not an allegory, and a talking mouse he thought was the point of the whole thing. This quiz runs 99 questions across all seven books, from the wardrobe and the Stone Table to Charn, the Dawn Treader, Puddleglum and the ape Shift, plus C. S. Lewis himself (Belfast, Jack, the Inklings, the Kilns evacuees) and every screen version: the BBC serials, the Walden Media films with Liam Neeson and Tilda Swinton, and Netflix's coming Greta Gerwig film. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know what an immram is. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a school book club, a family quiz or a literature round at pub trivia.
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Q 01How many books make up The Chronicles of Narnia?
Seven
Seven books make up the Chronicles, published between 1950 and 1956; Aslan is the only character who appears in all seven.
Q 02Who illustrated the original Narnia books in the 1950s?
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Baynes got the job because Lewis admired her drawings for his friend Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham; she went on to illustrate every one of the Narnia books.
Q 03Which Narnia book is set entirely during the Pevensies' reign as kings and queens, with heroes born in that world?
The Horse and His Boy
The Horse and His Boy follows the runaway Shasta and the talking horse Bree north out of Calormen; the Pevensies appear only as the grown-up rulers of Narnia.
Q 04Which Narnia book was published first, in 1950?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe came out in London on 16 October 1950; by then Lewis had already finished writing three of its sequels.
Q 05Which book, the last one Lewis wrote, tells the story of Narnia's creation?
The Magician's Nephew
The Magician's Nephew, completed in 1954 and published in 1955, tells of Narnia's creation; HarperCollins moved it to first place when it renumbered the series in 1994.
Q 06For which Narnia book did Lewis win the 1956 Carnegie Medal?
The Last Battle
The Last Battle won the Carnegie Medal for 1956; Lewis wrote to his illustrator, 'is it not rather our medal?', sure that her drawings had counted as much as his text.
Q 07What are Prince Caspian's people, the descendants of pirates from our world who conquered Narnia, called?
Telmarines
Telmarines trace their line to shipwrecked pirates who blundered through a cave into another world; Aslan tells Caspian the story and offers his people the way back.
Q 08What picture did Lewis say his first Narnia story grew from?
A faun carrying parcels in the snow
A faun carrying parcels in the snow, umbrella in hand, had been in his head since he was about sixteen; he was about forty before he tried to make a story of it.
Q 09Roughly how many copies have the Narnia books sold worldwide?
120 million
The seven books have sold roughly 120 million copies in nearly fifty languages, making them by far Lewis's best-selling work.
Q 10Why are the Pevensie children sent to stay at the Professor's country house?
To escape air raids on London
To escape air raids on London during the war; Lewis began the tale in 1939, weeks after three evacuee schoolgirls came to stay in his own house near Oxford.
Q 11What sweet does the White Witch use to tempt Edmund?
Turkish delight
The Witch conjures enchanted Turkish delight for Edmund, and promises to make him a prince if he brings his brother and sisters to her.
Q 12By what title is King Edmund known after the Pevensies are crowned at Cair Paravel?
The Just
The Just: the boy who had sold out his family for sweets grows into the grave, quiet king 'great in council and judgement'.
Q 13Which of the four Pevensies is absent from Aslan's country in the final Narnia book?
Susan
Susan is missing because, as Peter puts it, she is 'no longer a friend of Narnia': she has come to treat it all as a game they played as children.
Q 21What summons the Pevensies back to Narnia in Prince Caspian?
Susan's horn
Caspian blows Susan's horn, left behind when she returned to England, and it pulls the four Pevensies off a railway platform into a Narnia where 1,300 years have passed.
Q 22Who is the priggish cousin who joins Edmund and Lucy in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
Eustace Scrubb
Eustace Clarence Scrubb, the Pevensies' self-important cousin, is pulled into Narnia with Edmund and Lucy through a painting of a ship.
Q 23What is Eustace turned into in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
A dragon
Eustace becomes a dragon after sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy thoughts; Aslan later peels away the scales to restore him.
Q 14How long has the White Witch's winter lasted when the children arrive?
A hundred years
The Witch's winter has lasted a hundred years, always winter and never Christmas, until Father Christmas arrives with gifts as her spell breaks.
Q 15What is the White Witch's own name, the one she gives when Digory wakes her from an enchanted sleep?
Jadis
Jadis is the last queen of Charn, a world she emptied herself by speaking the Deplorable Word, which destroyed every living thing in it except the speaker.
Q 16On what does the White Witch kill Aslan?
The Stone Table
Aslan is slain on the Stone Table, having offered himself in Edmund's place under the Deep Magic; the Table cracks when he rises.
Q 17Whose son is Aslan?
The Emperor-Over-the-Sea
Aslan is the son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea, and it is the Emperor's own law, the Deep Magic, that the Witch invokes to claim the traitor Edmund's life.
Q 18What is the name of the school that Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole attend?
Experiment House
Experiment House is the permissive co-educational school where Eustace and Jill are bullied; its Head is eventually made an Inspector and then shunted off into Parliament.
Q 19Which Scottish actor plays the faun Mr Tumnus in the 2005 Narnia film?
James McAvoy
James McAvoy was known mainly for television when he played the faun; within months of the film's release he won the first BAFTA Rising Star award.
Q 20Which wolf does Peter kill to save Susan?
Maugrim
Peter kills Maugrim, captain of the Witch's secret police, and Aslan knights him Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane for it.
Q 24What are the crew of the Dawn Treader searching for?
The seven lords banished by Miraz
The seven lords banished by Miraz were friends of Caspian's father, sent to explore the Eastern Seas so that they would never return; Caspian swore at his coronation to find them.
Q 25Which Marsh-wiggle guides Eustace and Jill on their search for Prince Rilian?
Puddleglum
Puddleglum breaks the Witch's spell underground by stamping out her enchanted fire with his bare webbed foot, though he knows how badly it will burn.
Q 26Which was the first published Narnia book with none of the Pevensie children in it?
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair (1953) hands the story to Eustace and Jill; decades have passed in Narnia though under a year in England, so Caspian, a young king last time, is now an old man.
Q 27What is the true identity of Shasta, the runaway raised by a Calormene fisherman?
Cor, heir to Archenland
Cor, heir to Archenland, was stolen as a baby because of a prophecy that he would save the kingdom from its deadliest danger, and grew up in Calormen knowing none of it.
Q 28Which honour-obsessed talking mouse sails into Aslan's country at the end of Dawn Treader?
Reepicheep
Reepicheep, the chivalrous chief mouse, paddles his coracle over the last wave into Aslan's country; Lewis said the book's theme was 'the spiritual life (specially in Reepicheep)'.
Q 29In the final Narnia book, which animal tricks a donkey into impersonating Aslan?
Shift the ape
Shift the ape dresses the donkey Puzzle in a lion skin and passes him off as Aslan, opening Narnia to the Calormenes in Tirian's reign.
Q 30The Professor who hosts the Pevensies is revealed in a later book to be which character?
Digory Kirke
Digory Kirke grew a tree from a Narnian apple, and when a storm blew it down he had its wood made into a wardrobe, which is why that wardrobe opens into Narnia.