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49 free Narnia trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 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 49 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 drew the pen-and-ink illustrations for all seven original Narnia books, having earlier illustrated Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham.
Q 03Which is the only Narnia book whose protagonists are not children from our world?
The Horse and His Boy
The Horse and His Boy follows Shasta and the talking horse Bree fleeing Calormen during the Pevensies' reign; none of its heroes come from our world.
Q 04Which book was published first, in 1950?
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published in London on 16 October 1950, the first of the seven Narnia books to appear.
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, the seventh and final Narnia book, won the Carnegie Medal for 1956, the year it was published.
Q 07Who first called the series 'The Chronicles of Narnia', in 1951?
Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger Lancelyn Green, a fellow children's author and friend of Lewis, coined the series title in 1951 after reading the draft of The Silver Chair, then called Night under Narnia.
Q 08What image did Lewis say the whole series began with?
A faun carrying parcels in the snow
He said the picture dated back to when he was 16, in 1914; that faun became Mr Tumnus.
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 10What are the four Pevensie children called?
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy
The four Pevensies are Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, evacuated from wartime London to the country house where Lucy finds the wardrobe.
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 12What are the Pevensies' royal titles once crowned at Cair Paravel?
Peter the Magnificent, Susan the Gentle, Edmund the Just, Lucy the Valiant
They are crowned Peter the Magnificent, Susan the Gentle, Edmund the Just and Lucy the Valiant, with Peter as High King over the others.
Q 13Which of the four Pevensies is absent from Aslan's country in the final book?
Q 21What summons the Pevensies back to Narnia in Prince Caspian?
Susan's horn
Caspian blows Susan's horn, the Queen's ancient gift, pulling the four Pevensies off a railway platform and back to a Narnia 1,300 years on.
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.
Susan
Susan, 'no longer a friend of Narnia', is the only Pevensie missing; Lewis told a young reader there was 'plenty of time for her to mend'.
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 real name, and where does she come from?
Jadis, from the dead world of Charn
Digory wakes her from a magical sleep in The Magician's Nephew and brings her, disastrously, to Victorian London.
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, also rendered Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, the unseen sovereign whose Deep Magic governs Narnia.
Q 18What is the name of the school Eustace and Jill attend in The Silver Chair?
Experiment House
Experiment House is the permissive co-educational school where Eustace and Jill are bullied in The Silver Chair; its Head is eventually shunted off into Parliament.
Q 19Who is the first creature Lucy meets in Narnia?
Mr Tumnus the Faun
Mr Tumnus the Faun, met by the lamp-post, invites Lucy to tea meaning to hand her to the Witch, then repents and sends her home.
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 ship sails east toward Aslan's country at the edge of the world.
Q 25Which gloomy Marsh-wiggle guides Eustace and Jill on their search for Prince Rilian?
Puddleglum
Puddleglum, the lugubrious Marsh-wiggle, guides Eustace and Jill north into giant country and Underland to find Rilian, missing for ten years.
Q 26Which was the first published Narnia book with none of the Pevensie children in it?
The Silver Chair
The Silver Chair (1953) is the first published Narnia book without the Pevensies: Eustace and Jill Pole take over, fifty Narnian years after Dawn Treader.
Q 27What is Shasta's true identity, revealed in The Horse and His Boy?
Cor, heir to Archenland
Shasta is Prince Cor, elder twin of Corin and heir to King Lune of Archenland, kidnapped as a baby and raised by a Calormene fisherman.
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 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
The Professor is Digory Kirke, the boy of The Magician's Nephew; Lewis's timeline puts him at twelve in 1900 and fifty-two when the Pevensies arrive in 1940.