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1

Which Stand lets Jolyne Cujoh unravel her own body into lengths of thread?

Stone Free turns Jolyne's body into string that she can also wind tightly into a powerful humanoid fighter. Official English releases rename it Stone Ocean, after the story arc itself.

2

Which gift from Jotaro Kujo hides the Arrow fragment that awakens Jolyne Cujoh's Stand?

A pendant from her estranged father pricks Jolyne's finger before she is sent to prison, and the sliver of Arrow inside gives her a Stand before he even visits.

3

Jolyne Cujoh is jailed in Stone Ocean after taking the fall for her boyfriend over what incident?

A fatal car accident puts Jolyne behind bars: after a pedestrian is run over, her boyfriend persuades her to hide it, and she alone is convicted and given 15 years.

4

Enrico Pucci, the villain of Stone Ocean, hides in plain sight in which job at the prison?

Chaplain is Pucci's cover at Green Dolphin Street Prison, letting the disciple of Dio move freely among the inmates while he secretly hands out Stands.

5

Emporio finally kills Enrico Pucci by using Weather Report to flood the air with which gas?

Oxygen at a lethal concentration poisons and paralyzes Pucci, leaving him unable to switch off his own time acceleration before the boy lands the final blow.

6

Weather Report's hidden ability Heavy Weather uses rainbows to turn people into which creatures?

Snails overrun Orlando once Weather regains his memories, because the rainbows carry subliminal messages that slowly transform anyone who sees them.

7

Which streaming service released the Stone Ocean anime worldwide before its Japanese TV airing?

Netflix released the episodes in three batches, and the first twelve debuted as its most watched title among viewers in Japan.

8

Enrico Pucci's Stand Whitesnake steals memories and Stand powers from victims in what form?

Compact discs let Whitesnake do more than steal: slotted into someone else, one can pass on a Stand, a memory or even a direct order.

9

Jolyne Cujoh of Stone Ocean was the first lead of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to be what?

A woman had never led the series before: in 1985 Araki gave up on serializing a heroine-led manga, fearing readers would reject one, then decided times had changed.

10

Which Yes song, the ending theme of JoJo's first anime season, closes Stone Ocean's final episode?

Roundabout returns only for episode 38, a full-circle nod to where the anime began; every other Stone Ocean episode ends on a much newer pop song.

11

Which time-stopping Stand is stolen from Jotaro Kujo in Stone Ocean, leaving him in a coma?

Star Platinum is taken along with Jotaro's memories, and getting both back to her unconscious father becomes Jolyne's mission for most of the story.

12

Which final Stand of Enrico Pucci speeds up time until the universe ends and begins anew?

Made in Heaven accelerates time for everything except living beings. In the original magazine serialization the Stand went by a different name, Stairway to Heaven.

13

After Enrico Pucci fuses with the Green Baby, his Stand evolves into which gravity-reversing form?

C-Moon flips gravity in the area around Pucci, and anything the Stand touches has its own gravity reversed until it turns inside out.

14

Which Stand lets Narciso Anasui phase into objects and people to rearrange their insides?

Diver Down can also hide inside an ally's body to soak up the damage meant for them, then release that stored energy outward as a counterattack.

15

Which Stand lets Emporio Alniño live in a ghost room by materializing objects that no longer exist?

Burning Down the House calls up the 'ghosts' of things from an older version of the prison building, giving the boy a hidden room he shares with Weather Report and Anasui.

16

Which Stand in Stone Ocean is itself a sentient colony of plankton that befriends Jolyne Cujoh?

Foo Fighters was created to guard stolen Stands, but after losing to Jolyne it switches sides out of gratitude and takes over the body of a dead inmate.

17

Which Stand lets the nearly blind sniper Johngalli A. ricochet rifle bullets toward his targets?

Manhattan Transfer redirects each shot in mid-air, while its user, a former soldier and devoted follower of Dio with cataracts, aims by reading wind currents.

18

Thunder McQueen's Stand makes victims share his own injuries and is named after which AC/DC song?

Highway to Hell belongs to a prison janitor whose every self-inflicted injury is shared by his target; the 1979 track opens the AC/DC album of the same name.

19

Which Stand automatically collects the debt when a target of the inmate Miraschon loses a bet?

Marilyn Manson, the Debt Collector, acts on its own the moment a wager is lost; its user is an armed robber whom Pucci turns into one of his pawns.

20

Which Stand, given to a gangster in Stone Ocean, revives any organism as an invisible zombie?

Limp Bizkit can even bring its own user back as an unseen zombie; the gangster receives it from Pucci as part of the scheme to create the Green Baby.

21

Which Stone Ocean Stand acts servile toward its target while dissolving them with acidic saliva?

Yo-Yo Ma is automatic and nearly indestructible; its user is a former police officer kept in the Ultra Security House Unit for his own safety.

22

Which Stand lets Ungalo, a son of Dio, summon fictional characters who swap souls with real people?

Bohemian Rhapsody runs wild across the entire world, a revenge its drug-addicted user gladly takes for his own miserable life.

23

Ermes Costello's Stand Kiss duplicates any object once she places what on it?

A sticker printed with a pair of lips creates the copy; peel it off and the two objects slam back together, leaving the original damaged.

24

Which cellmate of Jolyne Cujoh uses the Stand Goo Goo Dolls to shrink people near her?

Gwess plans to break out by shrinking Jolyne and using her as a scout; once beaten, she tries to win back trust by acting like a servant.

25

Which Stone Ocean inmate uses the Stand Jumpin' Jack Flash to cancel gravity on whatever he touches?

Lang Rangler, jailed for hijacking a tanker, fights Jolyne and Weather Report on Pucci's orders, making anything he or his victims touch weightless.

26

Kenzou's Stand Dragon's Dream points to lucky and unlucky spots according to which practice?

Feng shui guides the Stand, which stays neutral: its readings are visible to both the elderly cult leader and whoever he is fighting.

27

Rikiel's Stand Sky High controls a colony of rod-shaped cryptids that drain what from victims?

Body heat is what the rods steal; their user is a once-anxious son of Dio whose panic attacks vanish when Pucci awakens his Stand.

28

Donatello Versus uses his Stand Under World to trap Jolyne and Ermes inside the memory of what?

A plane crash dug up from the ground is the trap: the Stand unearths memories of past events and forces its victims to relive them.

29

The meteor-summoning Stand Planet Waves shares its name with a 1974 album by which singer?

Bob Dylan released Planet Waves in January 1974; in the manga the name goes to a prison guard's Stand that pulls small meteors down from the sky.

30

Which chief guard of Green Dolphin Street Prison wields the memory-crippling Stand Jail House Lock?

Miuccia Miuller, nicknamed Miu Miu, leaves her victims unable to hold more than three pieces of information at once, each new fact pushing out the oldest.

31

Green, Green Grass of Home shrinks anyone nearing the Green Baby, echoing which classic puzzle?

The dichotomy paradox, one of Zeno's, says you must always cross half the remaining distance first; the Stand enforces it by shrinking intruders as they close in.

32

Green Dolphin Street Prison, where Jolyne Cujoh serves her sentence, goes by which nickname?

The Aquarium is the nickname of the maximum-security prison near Port St. Lucie, Florida, where most of the story unfolds.

33

Emporio Alniño, the boy born inside the Stone Ocean prison, always wears the uniform of which sport?

Baseball is Emporio's look from cap to jersey, an outfit that resembles the uniform of the Chicago Cubs.

34

In the new universe that ends Stone Ocean, Jolyne Cujoh's counterpart goes by which name?

Irene is driving with her fiancé Anakiss to ask her father's blessing when Emporio, the only one who remembers the old world, meets her in the rain.

35

Ermes Costello got herself jailed to take revenge on which gangster who killed her sister?

Sports Maxx was locked up only for tax evasion and extortion, since his murder of her sister could never be proven, so Ermes followed him inside.

36

Dio's three illegitimate sons in Stone Ocean are half-brothers of which earlier JoJo hero?

Giorno Giovanna, the lead of Golden Wind, is Dio's son too; Ungalo, Rikiel and Donatello Versus are drawn by fate to an Orlando hospital, where Pucci recruits them.

37

The Green Baby of Stone Ocean is a homunculus grown from which part of Dio's remains?

A bone Dio once gave Pucci absorbs the souls of thirty-six prisoners before it awakens as the baby, which Pucci then fuses with to evolve his Stand.

38

Jotaro Kujo once read and destroyed which item of Dio's that Enrico Pucci needs for his plan?

A diary held Dio's written steps for his grand design; with the book gone, Pucci has to steal Jotaro's memories to learn what it said.

39

What animal carries Jotaro Kujo's recovered Stand from Jolyne to the Speedwagon Foundation?

A pigeon sent by the foundation flies the Stand disc out of the prison, though Jotaro's stolen memories stay behind in Whitesnake's hands.

40

Prison chief Loccobarocco of Stone Ocean speaks in public through a puppet of which animal?

An alligator puppet named Charlotte does the harsh talking, while the chief himself keeps up a show of politely conversing with her.

41

The amnesiac inmate Weather Report is revealed to be which relative of Enrico Pucci?

Twin brother is the truth Pucci buried by taking Weather's memories: the baby was stolen from a clinic nursery and raised under another name.

42

Stone Ocean ran from December 1999 to April 2003 in which Shueisha manga magazine?

Weekly Shōnen Jump carried all of Stone Ocean; the next part of JoJo began there too before moving to the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2005.

43

Which part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, set in a new continuity, directly follows Stone Ocean?

Steel Ball Run restarts the saga in a separate continuity after Stone Ocean's universe-resetting finale, swapping the prison for a cross-country horse race in 1890.

44

Which studio animated Stone Ocean, as it had every earlier season of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?

David Production animated all 38 episodes with Warner Bros. Japan producing, and series composer Yugo Kanno returned to write the score.

45

Which voice actress plays Jolyne Cujoh in the Japanese version of the Stone Ocean anime?

Fairouz Ai became a fan after buying Stone Ocean by mistake, thinking it was the first part of the series, and calls Jolyne her favorite character.

46

Distant Dreamer, the ending theme for most Stone Ocean anime episodes, is by which Welsh singer?

Duffy, whose 2008 debut album Rockferry topped the UK chart, supplies the closing song for 37 of the anime's 38 episodes.

47

Jolyne Cujoh starred in a 2013 one-shot manga made with which Italian fashion house?

Gucci teamed up with Araki for Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci, published in the fashion magazine Spur, and put his artwork of her in its store displays.

48

Enrico Pucci leaves the prison for which Florida site, where a new moon will complete his plan?

Cape Canaveral is where the chase ends: Jolyne's group, fresh from a prison break, catches Pucci at the Kennedy Space Center for the final battle.

49

Which Stone Ocean Stand spreads across wet surfaces and makes its victims wildly aggressive?

Survivor sends a small electrical signal through the water that sharpens perception and rage in everyone except its own user, an inmate planted in the Ultra Security House Unit.

50

Donatello Versus was jailed over shoes that fell from the sky, echoing which children's novel?

Holes begins the same way for Stanley Yelnats; Versus ran away from home at thirteen, was blamed for the theft, and came out with a deep hatred of society.

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