Wheel of Time Trivia
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66 free Wheel of Time trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Wheel of Time trivia for readers who have made the long journey from Emond's Field to Tarmon Gai'don, and for viewers who met Moiraine, Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene and Nynaeve through the Prime Video series. The quiz covers the world Robert Jordan built - the One Power and its two halves, the Ajahs of the White Tower, the Aiel and their Three-fold Land, the Seanchan, the Ogier and the thirteen Forsaken - and the story beats from The Eye of the World to A Memory of Light. It also digs into the history behind the books: Jordan's real name and his Vietnam service, the Conan novels he wrote first, how Harriet McDougal chose Brandon Sanderson to finish the series, the strange 2015 'Winter Dragon' pilot, and the casting, filming and cancellation of the Amazon show. Questions run from easy to expert, so casual viewers and readers who know their cuendillar from their ter'angreal will both find a challenge. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which innkeeper's daughter leaves Emond's Field with Rand, Mat and Perrin at the start of the story?
Egwene al'Vere
Egwene al'Vere, whose family keeps the Winespring Inn, joins her three friends when an Aes Sedai leads them out of the village; she and Perrin are later cut off from the others while fleeing a cursed city.
Q 02Which author completed The Wheel of Time's final three volumes after its creator's death?
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson got the call from the author's widow and editor in 2007; working from the notes and finished scenes left behind, he found one planned book had to become three.
Q 03Which Wheel of Time novel did its creator finish last?
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams appeared in 2005; soon afterwards its author learned he was gravely ill and began leaving notes and recordings so that another writer could finish the story.
Q 04What is the title of the first Wheel of Time novel?
The Eye of the World
The Eye of the World was reissued in 2002 as two books for younger readers, with larger type, illustrations and a newly written prologue.
Q 05Which travelling gleeman flees Emond's Field alongside Rand, Mat and Perrin?
Thom Merrilin
Thom Merrilin, once court bard to the Queen of Andor, stays behind to fight off a pursuer so Rand and Mat can escape; they believe him dead until he turns up alive in the next book.
Q 06What is the title of the final Wheel of Time novel?
A Memory of Light
A Memory of Light was meant to be the title of one last book; the unfinished story proved too large to print as a single volume, so it became three and the name went to the last.
Q 07Which novel was the first of the three volumes that completed The Wheel of Time after its creator died?
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm was published in October 2009, two years after the author's death, and was built from the notes, recordings and finished passages he left behind.
Q 08Which American publisher brought out every volume of The Wheel of Time?
Tor Books
Tor Books, founded by Tom Doherty in 1980, published every volume in the United States, while Orbit handled Britain; Doherty himself gave the eulogy at the author's funeral in 2007.
Q 09What is the title of the Wheel of Time prequel novel, expanded from a 1998 novella?
New Spring
New Spring grew out of Jordan's 1998 novella for the Legends anthology and became a novel in 2004; he planned two more prequels but put them off to finish the main series and never wrote them.
Q 10What is the Wheel of Time's World of Dreams called in the Old Tongue?
Tel'aran'rhiod
Tel'aran'rhiod is the Old Tongue name for the World of Dreams; a wound taken there is still there on waking, and anyone who dies there dies in the waking world too.
Q 11What is the male half of the One Power called?
Saidin
Saidin is the male half; the Dark One tainted it at the moment of his sealing, which is why male channelers go insane.
Q 12People around whom the Pattern bends, such as Rand, Mat and Perrin, are called what?
Ta'veren
Ta'veren are made, not born: the Wheel spins them out to pull the Pattern back on course when it drifts, and they stop being ta'veren once that purpose is served.
Q 13What title is held by the leader of the Aes Sedai?
The Amyrlin Seat
The Amyrlin Seat is raised for life, yet she can be deposed: Siuan Sanche, who holds the office as the story opens, is later stripped of it, and the Tower splits in two.
Q 21The thirteen Forsaken sealed away with the Dark One call themselves by what name?
The Chosen
The Chosen is what the Forsaken call themselves; Forsaken is the name the rest of the world gave them, and they scheme against one another for the Dark One's favour.
Q 22Rand al'Thor is the reincarnation of which Dragon from the Age of Legends?
Lews Therin Telamon
Lews Therin Telamon, the Dragon, led the sealing of the Bore; the Dark One's counterstroke drove him mad, he killed his family and himself, and the Breaking of the World followed.
Q 23The Seven Seals on the Dark One's prison are made of which supposedly unbreakable substance?
Cuendillar
Q 14In which city does the White Tower stand?
Tar Valon
Tar Valon covers an island in the River Erinin and is ruled by the Aes Sedai themselves; Ogier stonemasons built much of it.
Q 15Which of the seven Ajahs of the White Tower hunts down male channelers and cuts them off from the One Power?
Red Ajah
Red Ajah sisters hunt men who can channel and gentle them, the Ajah's way of preventing another Breaking of the World; by long custom they bond no protector of their own.
Q 16Which secret Ajah does the White Tower officially deny exists?
Black Ajah
The Black Ajah is the hidden sisterhood of Darkfriends inside the White Tower; in the TV series Liandrin Guirale is revealed as one despite wearing Red.
Q 17An Aes Sedai's magically bonded male protector is called what?
Warder
Warder and Aes Sedai share a bond that lends him strength and stamina and lets each sense the other; if she dies he usually loses the will to live and often dies seeking vengeance.
Q 18Emond's Field, home village of Rand, Mat and Perrin, lies in which region of Andor?
The Two Rivers
The Two Rivers is a remote corner of Andor, so isolated that most of its people barely know they are the Queen's subjects.
Q 19Which brutal humanoid Shadowspawn, eaters of any meat including humans, attack Emond's Field?
Trollocs
Trollocs, bred from men and animals in the Age of Legends, raid Emond's Field on Winternight; they eat any meat, human included, and fight in fists led by officers of the Shadow.
Q 20Which eyeless Shadowspawn can vanish into shadow and are reluctant to cross running water?
Myrddraal
Myrddraal, also called Fades or Halfmen, are eyeless, melt into shadow and fear running water; even a mortally wounded one does not fully die until the sun sets.
Cuendillar, or heartstone, is said to grow only stronger under any force used against it, yet the Seven Seals weaken as the Dark One's prison fails; the last are broken during the Last Battle.
Q 24Which weapon of the One Power erases its target from existence backwards through time?
Balefire
Balefire burns a thread out of the Pattern backwards in time, undoing its target's recent deeds; in the War of the Shadow its heavy use began to unravel the Pattern, so both sides gave it up.
Q 25Rand claims which crystal sword, a powerful sa'angreal, from the Stone of Tear?
Callandor
Callandor, the Sword That Is Not a Sword, hung in the Heart of the Stone until Rand took it; the Forsaken Be'lal had lured him there hoping to seize it himself.
Q 26At Falme, Mat summons legendary heroes back from the dead with which artifact?
The Horn of Valere
The Horn of Valere calls the Heroes of the Horn back from the dead; at Falme they answer Mat's call and drive the invading Seanchan back to the sea.
Q 27In which cursed, abandoned city does Mat steal the dagger that poisons him?
Shadar Logoth
Shadar Logoth's ruby-hilted dagger carries the city's own evil, born of its ruthless war on the Shadow yet separate from the Dark One's; Aes Sedai later sever Mat's tie to it.
Q 28Perrin learns from Elyas Machera that he can communicate telepathically with which animals?
Wolves
Wolves accept Perrin as a wolfbrother; when Whitecloaks kill the wolf Hopper, he kills two of them and is taken prisoner.
Q 29What was Perrin Aybara's trade in Emond's Field?
Blacksmith
Blacksmith's apprentice to Haral Luhhan from about the age of twelve, Perrin late in the series forges his own war hammer, Mah'alleinir, as he accepts that he must lead.
Q 30Lan Mandragoran is the uncrowned king of which nation, lost to the Shadow in his childhood?
Malkier
Malkier, a Borderland nation, fell to the Blight when Lan was an infant; he grew up as its uncrowned king and eventually marries Nynaeve.