Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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50 free Animal Crossing: New Horizons trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons reached the Nintendo Switch in March 2020, just as much of the world was told to stay indoors. It became the place where people met friends, threw parties and tended gardens while real life was on pause, and tens of millions of players happily took on a loan from a raccoon in a sweater vest. This quiz covers the whole island: the shopkeepers and visitors who turn up through the week, the tools and creatures of daily play, seasonal events, the big free updates and the paid expansion, plus how the game was developed and the records it set. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still teaches you something. It is pitched for anyone who has spent an evening fishing off the pier, from players who only remember the first few days to veterans with a fully decorated island. Questions run from easy openers to a handful of real deep cuts.
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Q 01Which shooter launched the same day as Animal Crossing: New Horizons in March 2020, inspiring crossover fan art?
Doom Eternal
Doom Eternal also arrived on March 20, 2020, and fans of both games drew its armoured Doomguy and the gentle Isabelle as best friends.
Q 02Which US presidential candidate's 2020 campaign made official yard signs for Animal Crossing: New Horizons islands?
Joe Biden
Joe Biden's campaign released the digital signs for decorating islands, and later that year Nintendo issued guidelines banning political activity in the game.
Q 03Which flightless bird runs the airport in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, its crew named after the Wright brothers?
Dodo
Dodo brothers Orville and Wilbur run the island airline: Orville works the reception desk while Wilbur, the elder of the two, is the pilot.
Q 04Which vegetable does Daisy Mae sell every Sunday in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to fuel the 'stalk market'?
Turnips
Turnips bought from her spoil the following Sunday, so players have one week of twice-daily price changes in which to sell at a profit.
Q 05Blathers, the owl who curates the museum in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, is disgusted by which of his own exhibits?
Bugs
Bugs repel Blathers: he accepts each donation reluctantly and describes the species with open contempt, despite running the whole museum.
Q 06Activists from which city protested inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons before Chinese stores pulled the game?
Hong Kong
Hong Kong activists including Joshua Wong protested on their islands, and the game then vanished from Chinese online stores such as Taobao, where it had been a grey-market import.
Q 07Which musician's concert rolls the credits in Animal Crossing: New Horizons once an island earns three stars?
K.K. Slider
K.K. Slider, a guitar-playing white dog, has appeared in every Animal Crossing game and is modelled on Nintendo composer Kazumi Totaka.
Q 08In which country did Animal Crossing: New Horizons become the best-selling video game of all time in 2022?
Japan
Japan saw it pass the first Pokémon games for the record in November 2022; as early as August 2020 it had climbed to second place behind them.
Q 09Tom Nook, called a raccoon in English versions of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, is based on which creature of folklore?
Tanuki
Tanuki are raccoon dogs, and his original name, Tanukichi, wears the origin openly, though overseas players mostly know him as the raccoon who holds their home loan.
Q 10Animal Crossing: New Horizons popularised which genre term, later given to farm sims like Stardew Valley?
Cozy games
Cozy games boomed after the 2020 lockdowns: one industry writer found only a handful of the dozens of Steam titles sold under that tag predated the island sim.
Q 11What does Tom Nook give new arrivals to live in at the start of Animal Crossing: New Horizons instead of a house?
A tent
A tent is the first home on the island; Tom Nook later arranges upgrades and expansions to a proper house, with the loan amount rising each time.
Q 12What can fall from a shaken tree in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and leave the player with a swollen eye?
A wasp nest
A wasp nest releases a swarm that chases the player, and a second sting before the first is treated with medicine makes them faint and wake up outside their house.
Q 13Which of these is one of the five possible native fruits an island starts with in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Pears
Q 21Which award did Animal Crossing: New Horizons win at The Game Awards 2020, where it also contended for Game of the Year?
Best Family
Best Family was its win that night, and months later it collected two trophies at the BAFTA Games Awards, one of them for multiplayer.
Q 22Development of Animal Crossing: New Horizons began in 2012, right after its predecessor launched on which console?
The 3DS
The 3DS hit New Leaf came out in 2012 and work on its successor began soon after, long before the Switch itself had even been thought of.
Q 23Nintendo of America's Doug Bowser said Animal Crossing: New Horizons was delayed to 2020 mainly to avoid what?
Staff crunch
Pears share the list with apples, cherries, oranges and peaches; whichever is native sells for 100 Bells apiece, while the other four fetch 500.
Q 14What must players wear to dive for sea creatures in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a feature added in mid-2020?
A wet suit
A wet suit came with the first wave of the free summer update, which introduced swimming, diving and a whole new class of museum donations.
Q 15Which Super Mario item added to Animal Crossing: New Horizons lets players teleport between two spots on an island?
Warp pipes
Warp pipes arrived for the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.: two placed on an island link up, but with three or more the exit is picked at random.
Q 16Which shop do the twins Timmy and Tommy run in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Nook's Cranny
Nook's Cranny plays on the phrase 'nook and cranny'; it was Tom Nook's own first store in earlier games before the twins took the name for theirs.
Q 17Mabel and Sable, who run the Able Sisters tailor shop in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, are which kind of animal?
Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs with opposite temperaments: shy Sable sews in the background and opens up slowly, while her younger sister Mabel greets the customers.
Q 18Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the first game in the series to match its seasons to which detail about the player?
Their hemisphere
Their hemisphere decides it, so a southern island gets its weather and seasonal wildlife on the opposite calendar from a northern one.
Q 19What washes up on the beach in Animal Crossing: New Horizons the day after a player wishes during a meteor shower?
Star fragments
Star fragments go into recipes such as the star wand, which Celeste the owl teaches the first time a player speaks to her on one of her night visits.
Q 20Which game is the only Nintendo Switch title to have outsold Animal Crossing: New Horizons worldwide?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe stayed ahead even as the island sim passed 50 million copies, a total greater than every earlier Animal Crossing game combined.
Staff crunch was the worry: Bowser cited a healthy work-life balance for employees, though the delay wiped more than $1 billion off Nintendo's market value.
Q 24On which platform did Gary Whitta livestream Animal Talking, a talk show staged inside Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Twitch
Twitch carried the show from a set built in the basement of Whitta's in-game house, and one episode drew 339,000 individual viewers.
Q 25Which café did the 2.0 update add to the museum in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, serving coffee at 200 Bells a cup?
The Roost
The Roost belongs to Brewster, a pigeon barista whom players must first find on a far-off island before the museum closes for a day of construction.
Q 26Which character sings while ferrying players to remote islands for 1,000 Nook Miles in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Kapp'n
Kapp'n arrived in the 2.0 update and waits at the pier once an island has hosted its first concert; skip his song mid-voyage and he says how disappointed he is.
Q 27Which married alpacas pose for wedding photos on Harv's Island each June in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Reese and Cyrus
Reese and Cyrus want a new themed shoot each day of Wedding Season, and Cyrus swaps the heart crystals players earn for more wedding furniture.
Q 28What must a diving player hand to Pascal the sea otter in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to earn mermaid-themed rewards?
A scallop
A scallop is his price: he trades it for a mermaid recipe, a piece of mermaid clothing or a pearl, then swims off to crack it open and eat it.
Q 29What does the washed-up seagull Gulliver ask players to dig out of the beach in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Communicator parts
Communicator parts, five in all, lie under small spouting holes in the sand like clams, and he needs them to call the crew of the ship he fell from.
Q 30Which fox sells paintings and statues, some of them forgeries, from a boat in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?
Redd
Redd first turns up once a player has donated 60 items to the museum, mooring his Treasure Trawler at a hidden beach on the north shore.