80 Don Quixote Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What literary genre is Don Quixote chiefly satirizing?
Answer
chivalric romances
What Spanish social rank is Alonso Quijano described as?
Answer
hidalgo
What was the original language of Don Quixote?
Answer
Early Modern Spanish
Which French artist is famous for illustrating Don Quixote in the 19th century?
Answer
Gustave Doré
What does Don Quixote mistake for an army in Part I?
Answer
Flocks of sheep
What is the nationality of Sancho Panza?
Answer
Spanish
What is the full English title of the novel Don Quixote?
Answer
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
What alias does Samson Carrasco use when he defeats Don Quixote?
Answer
Knight of the White Moon
In which year did Miguel de Cervantes die?
Answer
1616
What is the name of the barber who accompanies the priest in Don Quixote?
Answer
Maese Nicolás
How many parts does Don Quixote consist of?
Answer
two
Who accompanies Don Quixote as his squire?
Answer
Sancho Panza
What name does Don Quixote give to his imagined lady?
Answer
Dulcinea del Toboso
What object does Don Quixote mistake for the helmet of Mambrino?
Answer
a barber's basin
What is the name of Sancho Panza's donkey?
Answer
Dapple
What is the name of the fictional Moorish historian credited as the original author of Don Quixote?
Answer
Cide Hamete Benengeli
Which character tricks Don Quixote into believing Dulcinea is enchanted?
Answer
Sancho Panza
What is the name of the bachelor who disguises as a knight to bring Don Quixote home?
Answer
Samson Carrasco
What is the real name of the woman Don Quixote calls Dulcinea?
Answer
Aldonza Lorenzo
What pseudonym was used by the author of a spurious second part of Don Quixote?
Answer
Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda
In which century was the first part of Don Quixote published?
Answer
17th century
What is the nationality of Don Quixote's author?
Answer
Spanish
What objects does Don Quixote famously mistake for giants?
Answer
Windmills
From which region of Spain does Don Quixote hail?
Answer
La Mancha
What is the name of Don Quixote's horse?
Answer
Rocinante
Who wrote the novel Don Quixote?
Answer
Miguel de Cervantes