The History of RuneScape Quiz

How much do you know about the history of RuneScape? Let’s find out with a quiz that contains questions of varying difficulty, please DO NOT use the Internet or any other source to find any of the answers!

This quiz is mainly meant for people who want to test their knowledge before reading the trilogy as all answers can be found in there! If you are here without any intention of reading my books, that’s fine too! Everyone is welcome to give the quiz a try.

After you submit your answers, you will be asked to enter your RSN. This is optional, so feel free to skip that part. The third and final page of the quiz will then reveal your result and several quiz statistics that allow you to compare how well you did, such as the average score by all participants and the percentile of your score (e.g. top 60%).

Even though this quiz contains easy questions as well, there are some truly hard questions in there as well, so I don’t expect anyone to answer all questions correctly. Challenge accepted?

WARNING: Each correct answer wins you either one, two or three points (depending on difficulty), but you will also lose 0.5 point for every incorrect answer. If you do not know an answer and do not want to lose 0.5 points, then use the option “I don’t know” instead of guessing! The order of the questions is random and is different for each person, so don't bother trying to figure out if there are any patterns!

1. What was the original purpose of spirit gems?

2. Who was the first player to reach the maximum combat level (that existed at the time)?

3. What do Barbarian Outpost and Shipyard have in common?

4. Which of these was RuneScape's first clan?

5. Which of these four options shows the skills in chronological order by date of release?

6. For how long was free trade disabled in RuneScape?

7. What was RuneScape’s first holiday event?

8. What are the only four dragon-type items that existed in RuneScape 1?

9. Which of the following four statements is NOT correct?

10. Which statement about the fatigue system that existed from November of 2002 until March of 2004 is NOT correct?

11. What is the nickname of the controversial chat filter that was in the game for a couple of days in November of 2001?

12. Which quest added the Quarry to the Kharidian Desert as a place where training Mining would become highly popular in the next years?

13. Which of these combat skills did not give any Constitution/Hitpoints xp in RuneScape 1?

14. Which clan won the first edition of the Jagex Skilling Cup in 2009?

15. Who was the first player to have level 99 in all skills (that existed at the time)?

16. What was so special about the original player moderators in 2003 and 2004?

17. Who were the four original alpha testers until the release of RuneScape?

18. How many quests already existed when RuneScape was released?

19. Completion of which quest was until May of 2008 required to unlock the ability to craft law runes?

20. Which update introduced the concept of Earning Potential?

21. Which of these prayers did not exist in RuneScape 1?

22. When was RuneScape released?

23. Which PvP clan won the first edition of the Jagex PvP Clan Cup in 2009?

24. What was RuneScape’s first island (that had no bridge to the mainland)?

25. How many skills existed when RuneScape was released?

26. Which of these monsters currently (RuneScape 3) has the same combat level as when it was originally added to the game?

27. Which of these locations did not exist yet when RuneScape was released?

28. What is the name of the anti-bot software that was rolled out on Bot Nuke Day in 2011?

29. Which of these skills was NOT announced anywhere before its addition to the game and was released as a complete surprise?

30. Which player held a monopoly on the market of some runite items in 2001 and 2002 due to being the only player who could create those items by using the Smithing skill?

31. Which of these players was never rank one in the Overall hiscores?

32. What was the first combat item that exceeded a Grand Exchange value of one billion gp?

33. Which online games portal began advertising RuneScape in 2004?