With the current craze of trivia games, I
thought it might be interesting to see how
folks would do in such a game if the questions
all related to the AD&D® game. To
that end, I have compiled the following
questions and answers. All answers were
determined strictly by the rules in the
Dungeon Masters Guide, Players Handbook,
Unearthed Arcana, Deities & Demigods,
Monster Manual I, Monster Manual II, the
FIEND FOLIO® Tome, and a few adventure
modules - with a DRAGON® Magazine or
two thrown in besides. The above references
are abbreviated in the answers
section.

The questions may be used for quizzes,
or written on 3" x 5" index cards, with
the answers on the back, for use in your
favorite trivia game. It's all in fun, so
don't feel bad if you don't know all the
answers. In fact, many of the questions
are pretty obscure -- but potentially
important.

Questions 

1. What is the fastest normal ship, sailed
or oared, listed in the DMG?
Answer.

2. The clerics of which Greek deity are
permitted to ride horses?
Answer.

3. Which pantheons from the original
edition of the DEITIES & DEMIGODS
Cyclopedia were dropped in later editions?
Answer.

4. A 12th-level human bard with an
intelligence of 15 may know how many
languages, besides common and his
alignment tongue?
Answer.

5. What is the maximum number of
psionic disciplines possible for a character
to use at 1st level?
Answer.

6. A character with 1 gp can buy the
largest number of which of the following
items?
    (a) chickens
    (b) wax candles
    (c) songbirds
    (d) caps
Answer.

7. If initiative is simultaneous and all
other factors are equal, which of the following
weapons strikes first in combat?
    (a) 5' spear
    (b) hammer
    (c) scimitar
    (d) short sword
Answer.

8. What is the percentage chance of a
4th-level half-orc thief with a 15 dexterity
successfully reading languages?
Answer.

9. What is the level title of an 11th-level
assassin?
Answer.

10. What is the maximum possible damage
inflicted by a 6th-level thief (with a
strength of 15) when striking from behind
with a broad sword against a hill giant
wearing chain mail armor?
Answer.

11. How many spells (total) may a 10th-level
illusionist with an 18 intelligence cast
per day, without the use of scrolls or other
devices?
Answer.

12. What is the normal maximum possible
strength of a female tallfellow halfling
fighter?
Answer.

13. A cavalier with a constitution of 17 is
killed for the 17th time. Can she be
brought back to life?
Answer.

14. When may a 1st-level magic-user
strike more than once per round with a
normal weapon in melee combat, without
the use of magic or hurled weapons?
Answer.

15. Must the victim of a lamia?s charm be
able to understand the lamia?s language in
order for there to be effective communication
between them?
Answer.

16. What is the in-flight maneuverability
class of a ki-rin?
Answer.

17. In which hardbound book, module,
game accessory, or magazine did cooshees
first appear?
Answer.

18. How many hit points of magic missile
damage can be absorbed by a brooch of
shielding?
Answer.

19. How many successful hits would be
necessary for a giant lizard to kill a fighter
who has 57 hp, assuming the giant lizard
always hits and does the maximum possible
damage each time?
Answer.

20. Can an illusionist utilize a magical
staff?
Answer.

21. At what level may a character ignore
the fear aura of a small adult blue dragon?
Answer.

22. Would a nonmagical blunt silver
weapon be harmful to a Type IV demon?
Answer.

23. What is the maximum possible hit point
total for a half-orc fighter/assassin,
levels 6/6, with maximum normal
constitution?
Answer.

24. The breath weapon of which of the
following creatures causes the most hit
points of damage?
    (a) small, adult dragon turtle
    (b) average, adult white dragon
    (c) chimera of maximum hit points
    (d) small, old lung wang
    (e) large, adult mist dragon
Answer.

25. What is the strength-point cost of the
psionic discipline telekinesis if used by a
githyanki?
Answer.

26. A character using the psionic discipline
of hypnosis may affect 15 levels/hit
dice of creatures at which level of
mastery?
Answer.

27. What is the greatest number of
creatures which can be affected by a
prismatic spray spell?
Answer.

28. How many wights could be affected
by a mass charm spell cast by a 16th-level
magic-user?
Answer.

29. What material component is required
for the casting of the first application
of the Otiluke's freezing sphere spell
(a globe of matter at absolute zero)?
Answer.

30. What maximum distance may a
druid travel using a transport via plants
spell?
Answer.

31. Can a Great Druid cast an anti-animal
shell spell that will keep out
mountain dwarves?
Answer.

32. What is the range of the raise dead
spell?
Answer.

33. What is the saving-throw bonus
against cold for a cleric under the protection
of a resist cold spell?
Answer.

34. What is the material component for
the casting of a destroy water spell?
Answer.

35. Does a two-handed sword have a
better chance to hit a man with no armor
than it would a man with padded armor?
Answer.

36. What are the damage ranges for a
bec de corbin against small and large
creatures?
Answer.

37. What character classes are possible
for a female deep gnome character with
maximum abilities?
Answer.

38. What is the minimum possible intelligence
for a valley elf character, as
normally rolled?
Answer.

39. Who wrote the original DEITIES &
DEMIGODS Cyclopedia?
Answer.

40. Will the deity Druaga ever grant a
resurrection spell to one of his faithful
clerics? Why?
Answer.

41. Which deity do stone giants
worship?
Answer.

42. Which knight found the Holy Grail?
    (a) King Arthur
    (b) Sir Galahad
    (c) Sir Gawain
    (d) Sir Lancelot du Lake
Answer.

43. The clerics of which mythos must
shave all of their body hair?
Answer.

44. How many planes of alignment are
listed in the DEITIES & DEMIGODS?
Answer.

45. What is the effect of drawing the
star from a deck of many things?
Answer.

46. What is the airspeed, in inches, of a
5' x 7' carpet of flying?
Answer.

47. Which magical wand, rod, or staff
emits a green beam when activated?
Answer.

48. What would be the ego score of the
following device: long sword, +3, lawful
good, with an intelligence of 16, able to
detect magic, locate objects, and heal, and
also able to speak common, orcish, and
gold dragon?
Answer.

49. What sort of damage can an enraged
storm giant do against an earthen rampart,
using only its fists?
Answer.

50. What is the weight of the largest sized
bag of holding when full?
Answer.

51. What is the rarest type of potion that
can be found?
Answer.

52. Which alignment has the best loyalty
adjustments?
    (a) chaotic good
    (b) true neutral
    (c) lawful evil
    (d) neutral evil
Answer.

53. How many magic scarabs are listed
in Unearthed Arcana?
Answer.

54. Of which monster type was
Acererak the very first example
mentioned?
Answer.

55. In the White Plume Mountain AD&D
module (S2), what was Wave?
Answer.

56. What is the name of the only sword
on the list of artifacts in the DMG, and
what type of sword was it?
Answer.

57. What is the minimum intelligence
score for a magic sword with the power of
speech?
Answer.

58. Can an 11th-level magic-user cast a
guards and wards spell?
Answer.

59. What is the range of a drow elf's
infravision?
Answer.

60. In what year was the DMG first
published?
Answer.

61. In which issue of DRAGON Magazine
was Kim Mohan first listed as Editor-in-
Chief?
Answer.

62. How many different dragon types
are listed in the two Monster Manuals <I, II> and
the FIEND FOLIO® Tome, excluding Tiamat
and Bahamut?
Answer.

63. In which AD&D game adventure can
one journey to the dwarven fortress of
Kandelspire?
Anwer.

64. What is the greatest amount of gold
pieces possible for a 1st-level fighter to
gain at the start of the game?
Answer.

65. In which adventure do PCs
get a chance to meet Blibdoolpoolp,
face to lobster face?
Answer.

66. With which other demon lord is the
patron demon of gnolls at war?
Answer.

67. The casting of which spell may cause
the loss of a point of the caster's
constitution?
Answer.

68. At which level may a barbarian use a
protection scroll?
Answer.

69. What is the effect of an amethyst
chromatic orb if the target fails its saving
throw?
Answer.

70. What is the base movement rate of a
human fighter wearing bronze plate mail?
Answer.

71. What is the cost of the materials
needed to make a travelling spell book?
Answer.

72. What is the effect of a black egg of
desire?
Answer.

73. How many different cantrips are
available to a magic-user?
Answer.

74. How much does a blowgun and 20
needles cost?
Answer.

75. What is another name for the
duergar?
Answer.

76. What is the weight of a suit of
human-sized field plate?
Answer.

77. What is the movement rate of a
medium warhorse wearing leather
barding?
Answer.

78. What is the maximum number of
cantrips a 1st-level magic-user of 18 intelligence
may know?
Answer. 

79. How many spells (maximum) can a
1st-level illusionist know?
Answer.

80. What saving throw bonus is gained
by the recipient of Serten's spell immunity
against the spell, command?
Answer.

81. What is the armor class of studded
leather with a large shield against sling
bullets?
Answer.

82. List three of the four primary
functions of a thief-acrobat.
Answer.

83. Does a ranger get bonuses to damage
when attacking tasloi?
Answer.

84. Is a cleric permitted to use a whip?
Answer.

85. What is the chance that the casting
of a spell directly from a spell book will
destroy the book?
Answer.

86. What type of magic sword might be
named "Replier"?
Answer.

87. Dumathoin is a deity to which race?
Answer.

88. A lochaber axe is a member of the:
    (a) spear family
    (b) pole cleaver family
    (c) axe family
    (d) none of the above
Answer.

89. Which deva is described as having
milky white skin, with silvery hair and
colorless eyes?
Answer.

90. Is Hutijin a pit fiend?
Answer.

91. Is a tanystropheus carnivorous,
herbivorous, or omnivorous?
Answer.

92. How many hit dice does an African
elephant have?
Answer.

93. In which module were svirfneblin
first encountered?
Answer.

94. Can one summon a lacedon with a
monster summoning III spell?
Answer.

95. According to the charts in the DMG,
at what dungeon level could one first
encounter a carrion crawler?
Answer.

96. What befalls a scarab of protection
after it absorbs 12 life-energy draining
attacks?
Answer.

97. What is the maximum number of
missiles to be found on a necklace of
missiles?
Answer.

98. Which instrument of the bards entitles
a 14h-level bard to add 30% to his
charming ability, as well as cast control
winds, transmute rock to mud, and wall of
fire?
Answer.

99. What percentage of eyes of petrification
work as the gaze of a basilisk?
Answer.

100. Name the only monster whose
alignment is listed as "Lawful good"
in the FIEND FOLIO Tome.
Answer.

The answers to these questions are on
page 88 of this issue.