Skyrim Trivia
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143 free Skyrim trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
55 free Skyrim trivia questions with answers. Skyrim has been re-released on almost everything with a screen, and fifteen years on millions of people are still walking the Seven Thousand Steps. This quiz is for them. Fifty questions cover the game's story and world (Alduin, Paarthurnax, the nine holds and their jarls, the guilds and Daedric artifacts), the three add-ons, and the real-world side: development at Bethesda, Jeremy Soule's barbarian choir, the voice cast, the patches, the memes, the mods that got their creators hired, and the sales figures. It starts with things any Dragonborn knows (which shout you show the Greybeards, who asks about the Cloud District) and works up to questions for people who have read every loading screen: how many masks unlock Konahrik, which Daedric Prince taught Miraak, and what Bethesda last shipped on a Nintendo console before the Switch port. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia article on the game or the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, and each question shows its source. Good for a gaming quiz night round or for settling arguments in the Bannered Mare.
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Q 01Bethesda marketed Skyrim's worldwide launch date with which run of repeated numbers?
11-11-11
11-11-11 stood for 11 November 2011, the date shown on the first trailer; a leaked Xbox 360 copy still reached torrent sites days early, playable on modded consoles.
Q 02Which studio developed Skyrim?
Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda Game Studios developed Skyrim with a team of roughly 100 people under director Todd Howard; its parent Bethesda Softworks published it.
Q 03Which technology, forked from the Fallout 3 codebase, powers Skyrim?
Creation Engine
Creation Engine grew out of the Fallout 3 code so Skyrim could draw distant mountains in detail; its snow is placed by a system that works out where flakes would really settle.
Q 04Skyrim is set how many years after the events of Oblivion?
201
Skyrim is set in 4E 201, 201 years after the Oblivion Crisis of 3E 433; in between, the Empire lost the Great War and signed the White-Gold Concordat.
Q 05What is the name of the World-Eater, the dragon prophesied to destroy the world?
Alduin
His name breaks into Al-Du-In, 'Destroyer-Devour-Master' in the dragon tongue, and he calls himself the First-Born of Akatosh.
Q 06How many playable races does Skyrim offer at character creation?
10
Skyrim offers 10 playable races: Altmer, Argonian, Bosmer, Breton, Dunmer, Imperial, Khajiit, Nord, Orc and Redguard; race sets starting skills and a racial power but never locks out quests.
Q 07Skyrim's 18 skills are divided evenly among which three schools?
Combat, magic and stealth
Skyrim's 18 skills fall evenly into combat, magic and stealth, six each; characters level by raising skills, and the class system of earlier Elder Scrolls games was dropped.
Q 08Dawnstar, a mining port on Skyrim's northern coast, is the capital of which hold?
The Pale
The Pale is ruled from Dawnstar, whose people are losing sleep to shared nightmares; the priest Erandur asks the Dragonborn to help end them at a ruined temple above the town.
Q 09Which deified human general do the Nords worship as a ninth god, in defiance of the White-Gold Concordat?
Talos
Talos, the deified Tiber Septim, is the Nords' ninth divine; the Thalmor forced the ban on his worship into the White-Gold Concordat, and it helped ignite Ulfric's rebellion.
Q 10Who is the last known dragon, secretly protected by the Greybeards atop the Throat of the World?
Paarthurnax
Paarthurnax once served the dragons' tyranny, then turned and helped mortals overthrow it; the Blades still demand that the Dragonborn kill him for his old crimes.
Q 11What is the name of the pacifist discipline practised by the Greybeards, founded by Jurgen Windcaller?
The Way of the Voice
The Way of the Voice, founded by Jurgen Windcaller, holds that the Thu'um should serve worship rather than war; Ulfric Stormcloak trained in it with the Greybeards, which is why he can Shout.
Q 12How many words of power make up a complete dragon shout?
Three
A complete shout has three words of power; each is unlocked by spending an absorbed dragon soul, and holding the shout button longer releases more of the three.
Q 13Which shout, forcing a dragon to land by making it comprehend mortality, must the Dragonborn learn to fight Alduin?
Dragonrend
Q 21In Skyrim's Hearthfire add-on, which dug-up material joins quarried stone and sawn logs as a basic building supply?
Clay
Clay can be dug up or bought, like the lumber; once a house stands on one of the three plots, the Dragonborn's spouse and up to two adopted children can move in.
Q 22The Dragonborn add-on takes place on which island belonging to the province of Morrowind?
Solstheim
Solstheim once belonged to Skyrim: after Red Mountain erupted, the island was handed over as a new homeland for the Dark Elves, who settled at Raven Rock.
Q 23Which Daedric Prince taught Miraak, the First Dragonborn, to control dragons?
Hermaeus Mora
Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of knowledge, taught Miraak to control dragons; Miraak slaughtered his winged overlords, the dragons razed his temple, and Mora spirited him away to his own realm.
Dragonrend is unknown even to the Greybeards, so Arngeir cannot teach it; the Dragonborn reads an Elder Scroll at the Time-Wound and learns it by watching the ancient Nord heroes use it.
Q 14Which captured dragon buys his freedom by carrying the Dragonborn to the portal to the Nord afterlife?
Odahviing
Odahviing is lured into a trap in Whiterun's palace and bargains his way out; once the main quest ends, he comes whenever the Dragonborn shouts his name.
Q 15Which composer wrote Skyrim's score, having also scored Morrowind and Oblivion?
Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule had already scored Morrowind and Oblivion; for Skyrim he rebuilt the series' main theme around a chanting male choir, after Todd Howard asked for it sung by barbarians.
Q 16Which Academy Award nominee voiced Esbern, the Blades loremaster?
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow voiced Esbern and also narrated the game's first trailer in character, warning that the Elder Scrolls had foretold the dragons' return.
Q 17Which actor voiced Arngeir, the spokesman of the Greybeards?
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer voiced Arngeir, the only Greybeard who can speak safely: the others' voices are so powerful that he does all the talking for them.
Q 18Which Japanese magazine gave Skyrim a perfect 40/40, the first Western-developed game to earn it?
Famitsu
Famitsu's four editors each gave Skyrim 10/10 for a 40/40, the first perfect score for a Western-developed game; reviewers elsewhere criticised the 'floaty' melee combat.
Q 19Roughly how many copies of Skyrim did Todd Howard say had been sold by June 2023?
60 million
60 million copies by June 2023 put Skyrim among the ten best-selling games ever at that point; Todd Howard put it down to people simply still playing it twelve years on.
Q 20Which of Skyrim's three add-ons revolves around a battle between vampire hunters and Clan Volkihar?
Dawnguard
Dawnguard pits the vampire-hunting Dawnguard against Clan Volkihar; it adds the Soul Cairn and the Forgotten Vale, and PS3 performance problems delayed it there by eight months.
Q 24Which city, built on a giant natural stone arch, is Skyrim's capital and the seat of its High King?
Solitude
Solitude is where Jarl Elisif the Fair rules in place of her late husband, High King Torygg, and where the Imperial Legion keeps its headquarters for the war.
Q 25Which city is built inside an ancient Dwemer city, with much of it carved into the surrounding rock?
Markarth
Markarth fills a ruined Dwemer city in the Reach; its Silver-Blood family owns Cidhna Mine, the prison where the Dragonborn is thrown after looking too closely into a market murder.
Q 26The Thieves Guild inhabits the sewers beneath which city?
Riften
Riften's sewers hide the Thieves Guild's own tavern, the Ragged Flagon, where its fence buys the stolen goods that honest shopkeepers refuse to touch.
Q 27Which family, headed by Maven, owns a meadery and has ties to the Dark Brotherhood?
Black-Briar
The Black-Briar family, led by Maven, owns the meadery that carries its name; if the Imperials take control of her hold in the civil war, Maven replaces Laila Law-Giver as jarl.
Q 28Windhelm's Dark Elf refugees are confined to a cramped slum called what?
The Gray Quarter
The Gray Quarter, formerly the Snow Quarter, filled with Dark Elves after Red Mountain erupted, because Windhelm was the first city they reached on the way out of Morrowind.
Q 29In Skyrim, which Whiterun citizen, who claims to advise the Jarl, famously asks whether you get to the Cloud District very often?
Nazeem
Nazeem owns Chillfurrow Farm and claims to advise the Jarl, but never sets foot in Dragonsreach and sleeps at The Drunken Huntsman.
Q 30Which mead hall in Whiterun serves as headquarters of the Companions?
Jorrvaskr
Jorrvaskr is older than Whiterun itself: the mead hall was raised beside the Skyforge, and the city is said to have grown up around it.