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50 free Redwall trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Brian Jacques filled his Redwall books with mice in habits, feasts that run for pages and villains who never stop scheming, and readers have been arguing over their favourite characters ever since. The series runs to more than twenty novels set across many generations, so even devoted fans find the details slipping away. This quiz starts with the first novel: the young hero, the siege, the search for a legendary sword and the creatures who help along the way. From there it moves through the wider series, with the prequels, the best-known villains and the tribes and titles that return in book after book. A good share of the questions ask which animal a character is, since in these stories species matters. Others cover the author himself, how the first book came to be written and published, and the television adaptation. It is pitched for readers who grew up with the books, for families reading them aloud and for book clubs or classrooms finishing the first novel. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which one-eyed rat warlord lays siege to the abbey in the first Redwall novel by Brian Jacques?
Cluny the Scourge
Cluny the Scourge tries a battering ram, a tunnel and a siege tower before a captive finally opens the gate for him.
Q 02A teacher caned ten-year-old Brian Jacques, refusing to believe he wrote a story about a bird and which animal?
A crocodile
A crocodile had its teeth cleaned by the bird in the story. The teacher thought it too good for a ten-year-old and punished him for refusing to admit he had copied it.
Q 03In the first Redwall novel, what does Matthias drop on the invading warlord to end the final battle?
A giant bell
A giant bell, the abbey's own, crushes the warlord and cracks in the fall. It is later reshaped into two new ones.
Q 04The rich sounds, smells and tastes in Redwall come from Brian Jacques first writing it for which audience?
Blind schoolchildren
Blind schoolchildren at the Royal Wavertree School heard him read aloud, so he described sound, smell, taste and touch to help them picture each scene.
Q 05Brian Jacques met the first audience for Redwall while working a delivery round in which job?
Milkman
Milkman was only one of his trades: he had also been a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a bus driver and a stand-up entertainer.
Q 06Which name is shared by the woodland around Redwall Abbey and the second novel in the series?
Mossflower
Mossflower the novel is a prequel: it goes back generations to tell how Martin the Warrior freed the woods from a wildcat queen.
Q 07The Long Patrol, the fighting regiment of the Redwall books, is made up of which animals?
Hares
Hares of the Long Patrol serve as the army of a mountain fortress, and the regiment gives its name to the tenth Redwall novel.
Q 08Which streaming service bought the screen rights to the Redwall books in 2021, planning a film and a series?
Netflix
Netflix attached Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale to write the film, but he left at the end of 2022 and the adaptations were reported cancelled in 2026.
Q 09Redwall Abbey, home of the peaceful woodland mice, takes its colour and name from which building stone?
Sandstone
Sandstone, red in colour, gives the abbey its walls and its name. The building only goes up after a wildcat tyranny over the surrounding woods has been broken.
Q 10Constance, the powerful guardian who defends Redwall Abbey in the first novel, is which kind of animal?
Badger
Badger mother of the abbey, Constance was based by Brian Jacques on his own maternal grandmother.
Q 11In which English port city was Brian Jacques born, raised near the docks and later honoured by its university?
Liverpool
Liverpool stayed his home for life: he hosted a local BBC radio show there for twenty years and is buried in the city's Anfield Cemetery.
Q 12In the Redwall books, which word do the woodlanders use for enemies such as rats, weasels, stoats and foxes?
Vermin
Vermin are villains almost by birth in Redwall: with very few exceptions, a creature's species decides whether it is good or evil.
Q 13What name do the creatures of Redwall Abbey give to their babies and toddlers?
Dibbuns
Dibbuns is a word Brian Jacques made up himself, and it first appears in the fourth book, Mariel of Redwall.
Q 21Log-a-Log is the title handed down among the chiefs of which small, argumentative animals in the Redwall books?
Shrews
Shrews in Redwall quarrel constantly, yet their band guides Matthias to the lair of the great adder that holds the lost sword.
Q 22In the first Redwall novel, which wild birds living in the abbey roof once held the sword of Martin the Warrior?
Sparrows
Sparrows of the roof tribe are ruled by a violent king who attacks Matthias, but a young one named Warbeak befriends him and becomes their just queen.
Q 23Which self-styled Prince of Mousethieves did Brian Jacques say he based on himself as a boy around the docks?
Gonff
Gonff meets Martin the Warrior in a dungeon, jailed for stealing food from a wildcat's castle, and the two break out together.
Q 14Which volcanic mountain fortress in the Redwall world is the home of the army known as the Long Patrol?
Salamandastron
Salamandastron gives its name to the fifth Redwall novel, in which the weasel warlord Ferahgo the Assassin lays siege to it.
Q 15Which fieldmouse does Matthias marry after the siege of Redwall Abbey, later becoming the mother of Mattimeo?
Cornflower
Cornflower is no bystander: in Mattimeo she dresses up as a ghost to frighten the birds that have invaded the abbey.
Q 16At the start of the first Redwall novel, the clumsy young mouse Matthias holds which rank in the abbey order?
Novice
Novice Matthias never takes his vows: the dying abbot rules that he should not become a monk and names him Warrior of Redwall instead.
Q 17The image of Martin the Warrior that inspires the creatures of Redwall Abbey is what kind of artwork?
A tapestry
A tapestry so prized that villains keep stealing it: in Marlfox a fox carries the whole thing off and three young Redwallers chase it across the country.
Q 18In the Redwall series, the title Skipper is handed down among the leaders of which river animals?
Otters
Otters follow a Skipper in book after book, one of the titled tribal chiefs that let familiar roles return while the cast changes.
Q 19Which animal classic did the father of Brian Jacques read to him alongside adventures by Stevenson and Conan Doyle?
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is also one of the books Redwall is most often compared to, along with Watership Down and The Lord of the Rings.
Q 20The Redwall animated series, made in Canada, reached American viewers through which broadcaster?
PBS
PBS viewers saw Brian Jacques himself introduce each episode and answer children's questions at the end.
Q 24Which ancient mouse, the historian of Redwall Abbey, helps Matthias solve the riddles that lead to the lost sword?
Methuselah
Methuselah dies when the young fox Chickenhound, caught stealing in the abbey, accidentally kills him while making his escape.
Q 25Brian Jacques traced the lavish feasts that fill the Redwall books to a childhood shaped by what?
Wartime rationing
Wartime rationing left the young Jacques daydreaming over the dishes pictured in his aunt's Victorian recipe book.
Q 26In the novel Martin the Warrior, the young hero of Redwall legend begins the story as what?
A slave
A slave in Marshank, Martin is left out for the weather and the gulls by the stoat Badrang the Tyrant before others help him escape.
Q 27In the Redwall books, the famous sword of Martin the Warrior was reforged using metal from what?
A meteorite
A meteorite supplied the metal. Many characters believe the blade is magic, and villains keep trying to steal it for that reason.
Q 28Which war cry of the Long Patrol became the title of the nineteenth Redwall novel?
Eulalia
Eulalia is glossed as meaning victory, and the novel named after it arrived a year late, breaking the pattern of a new Redwall book every year.
Q 29Which masked fox, once known as Chickenhound, kidnaps the young of Redwall Abbey in the novel Mattimeo?
Slagar the Cruel
Slagar the Cruel was maimed by an adder after fleeing the abbey, and he blames Redwall for a crime it never committed against him.
Q 30Although it looks French, the surname of Redwall author Brian Jacques is pronounced like which of these?
Jakes
Jakes is how he said it, a sound echoed in Jakestown, the radio show he hosted for twenty years.