King's Quest 1: Quest For The Crown Quiz

Answer: Knight

Graham starts this game as a knight. The king is Edward. King Edward calls upon the bravest knight in all of Daventry to recover the three missing magic treasures of Daventry. if Graham succeeds, he becomes king.

Answer: Magic Sword

The quest is to recover three treasures: a magic chest that never runs out of money, a magic mirror that shows the future, and a magic shield that protects the bearer from all harm. There is no magic sword in this game.

Answer: Wear his cap

If Graham walk into the moat, he will struggle to make it to the surface before the moat monsters eat him. Then one of them pops up out of the water smiling (but not laughing. These creatures are incapable of laughing) and wearing Graham's adventurer's cap. The first death ever in an adventure game remains one of my favorite adventure game deaths to this day.

Answer: A dagger

On the screen west of the castle, Graham finds a dagger hidden under a big rock. The player just has to be careful that Graham is standing in the right spot, or the rock will roll towards Graham and crush him.

Answer: Witch

The witch has her own screens inside her house and the screen below her house. No other bad guys can appear on her screens. However, the dwarf, ogre, and sorcerer can all appear on the same screens. The sorcerer freezes Graham if he catches him. This spell does not directly kill Graham since it will wear off, but it leaves him vulnerable to the dwarf and ogre.

The dwarf steals from Graham, and unlike in future games, you cannot get back any stolen possessions in "King's Quest 1." So if the dwarf steals anything important, like one of the magic treasures, the game is unwinnable.

The ogre just kills Graham. King's Quest 1 has more random monsters than any other pure adventure game (the Quest For Glory games do not count as they are adventure/RPG games).

Answer: Wolf

On the screen east of the well, a wolf sometimes appears. This is probably the worst random monster in the game as it moves very quickly, attacks Graham even if he has the goat, and cannot be fooled by the ring of invisibility. Fortunately, it just appears on this one screen.

Answer: Dragon

When Graham finds the mirror, he finds that a dragon is guarding it. He can defeat the dragon in several different ways.

Answer: Three Billy Goats Gruff

To get past the troll and earn points, Graham uses a carrot to get a goat to follow him. The goat pushes the troll off the bridge and then runs away. Part of the appeal of "King's Quest" is that much of it is based on fairy tales making it a series of games the whole family can enjoy.

Answer: Ifnkovhgroghprm

The gnome in "King's Quest" is Rumplestiltskin, but he is from the backward realm so he spells his name using the backwards alphabet. In the original "King's Quest," the only acceptable answer was "Ifnkovhgroghprm." "King's Quest" creator Roberta Williams says she got more fan letters about this one puzzle than any other puzzle, due to the fact that it is unclear how anyone was supposed to figure out that it was a backwards alphabet and not just "Rumplestiltskin" backwards. So in the remake, she made "Nikstlitselpmur" an acceptable answer.

Answer: The giant chases him around until it collapses from exhaustion

The way to get the maximum points here is the most difficult and least logical way. It would make sense to use the slingshot to kill the giant, but you get less points for that. Most of the time King's Quest tries to encourage non-violent solutions, although you get points for pushing the witch into the cauldron and the way to defeat the troll with maximum points is violence. You can use the Fairy Godmother's magical protection against the giant, but that scores even fewer points than the slingshot.

In the remakes you can't have the shield at this point in the game.

Answer: Condor

After Graham gets the first two treasures, he goes to the place from which he left the dragon's cave after he got the mirror. From there, a condor picks him up and takes him to the other side of a dangerous river.

Answer: Mushroom

Graham needs to eat a mushroom that shrinks him tremendously so he will be small enough to fit through the tiny exit or he will be trapped in the cave forever. The other items are also useful in the cave but are not necessary and should not be used if the player is going for maximum score.

Answer: Cheese

All of these treasure can be used, but the cheese is the only one that will get you points. Giving away the other treasures loses points.

Answer: Fiddle

Everyone in the Graham family is a very talented musician. When he plays the fiddle, the leprechauns dance like crazy and make themselves disappear, leaving the shield behind. He can also use the four-leaf clover, but that gets the player less points.

Answer: Edward dies and Graham becomes king

At the beginning of the game, Edward promises Graham that if he brings back the treasures, Edward will make him the heir to the throne since Edward had no children. By the time Graham completes his quest, it's too late for Edward. Melancholy had already overwhelmed the old man's heart too much. He collapses to his death soon after Graham returns the treasures, but he makes Graham king.

The ending states that despite the loss of the "beloved" King Edward, Daventry thrived for many years under Graham. This is proven false in "King's Quest 3", when Daventry suffers worse hardships than it ever did under Edward.