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40 free Baccano! trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Baccano! tells three stories at once and refuses to put them in order. An elixir of immortality is passed around Manhattan by gangsters who think it is liquor, a cross-country train called the Flying Pussyfoot is hijacked by two gangs on the same night, and an heiress searches New York for her missing brother. The fun is in working out how the pieces connect. This quiz covers the anime and the light novels behind it, with the Flying Pussyfoot at the centre: who boards the train, what each gang wants, the monster story that comes true and how the night ends. It also asks about Isaac and Miria, the Gandor and Martillo families, the immortals and their rules, and the author, studio and English dub. It opens with questions any viewer can get and finishes with a few for readers of the novels. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess teaches you something about the series.
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Q 01The title of Baccano!, Ryohgo Narita's saga of Prohibition-era gangsters, is an Italian word meaning what?
Ruckus
Ruckus is what follows when thieves, mobsters and immortals who begin as strangers keep crossing paths, each collision pushing events further out of control.
Q 02In Baccano!, the transcontinental train the Flying Pussyfoot sets off for New York from which city?
Chicago
Chicago is where thieves, a bootlegging gang, a cult and a hitman's crew all climb aboard, despite a woman's warning that the train is cursed.
Q 03In Baccano!, which part of a museum do Isaac and Miria steal so that nobody can get inside?
The front door
The front door is typical of their oddly kind-hearted crimes; the pair wear so many costumes on jobs that witnesses take them for performers.
Q 04In Baccano!, what alias does the assassin Claire Stanfield earn from the blood-soaked state he leaves his victims in?
Vino
Vino, Italian for wine, describes victims left looking drenched in it; the Gandor brothers who grew up with him simply count him as their fourth brother.
Q 05In Baccano!, what is the monster called in Isaac and Miria's tale that eats passengers on trains?
The Rail Tracer
The Rail Tracer starts as a scary story told in the dining car, then turns real when someone aboard the Flying Pussyfoot takes on the monster's identity to slaughter the hijackers.
Q 06In Baccano!, the travellers who summon a demon at sea in 1711 to win eternal life share which profession?
Alchemists
Alchemists get more than they asked for: the demon hands over an elixir and the only way to end an immortal life, and trusts the formula to their leader alone.
Q 07In Baccano!, the tearful gang leader Jacuzzi Splot has a large tattoo of which object across his face?
A sword
A sword was inked for Nice Holystone's sake: he got it after she was badly scarred in an accident, and in the anime it is so that she would not feel alone.
Q 08In Baccano!, Nice Holystone, who wears her glasses over an eyepatch, is her gang's expert in making what?
Explosives
Explosives cost her an eye in a childhood accident with a homemade batch, yet she still carries some hidden under her clothes for emergencies.
Q 09In Baccano!, what does the hitman Ladd Russo lose to Claire Stanfield during the Flying Pussyfoot hijacking?
His left arm
His left arm is later replaced with a metal prosthetic fixed directly to the bone, and he ends the journey in custody for the killings on board.
Q 10In Baccano!, the Gandors seal Dallas Genoard in a barrel of cement and sink him in which body of water?
The Hudson River
The Hudson River holds him for years as punishment for killing Gandor men; being partly immortal he cannot die down there, and his sister has the bottom dredged to find him.
Q 11Baccano! author Ryohgo Narita also wrote which light novel series about a dullahan courier in Ikebukuro?
Durarara!!
Durarara!! reunited him with the same anime director, Takahiro Omori, and Isaac and Miria turn up in it for a cameo.
Q 12In Baccano!, which job on the Flying Pussyfoot lets the assassin Claire Stanfield reach his targets easily?
A conductor
A conductor crosses the country without drawing notice, and when a hijacker murders his retiring colleague, the uniform puts him in the right place to hunt the gangs down.
Q 13In Baccano!, the Lemures hijack the Flying Pussyfoot to seize the wife and daughter of which kind of official?
A senator
Q 21In Baccano!, how does Rachel of the Daily Days usually ride trains such as the Flying Pussyfoot?
As a stowaway
As a stowaway she never pays a fare, but once the hijacking is over she spends her reward money on enough tickets to cover every free ride she has taken.
Q 22In Baccano!, where did the runaway Claire Stanfield build the strength and agility he uses as a killer?
In a circus
In a circus he trained as an acrobat; Huey Laforet, who called him a genius, travelled to New York hoping to meet him and found he had already gone.
Q 23Which gangster film did Ryohgo Narita see before spending about ten days dreaming up Baccano!?
The Untouchables
A senator is the lever they need: the cult wants him to free its jailed leader, though what its members are really after is the secret of immortality.
Q 14In Baccano!, Ennis, whom Szilard Quates created from his own cells, is which kind of being?
A homunculus
A homunculus is where she ended up: in the author's early drafts she was a succubus and her creator a magician.
Q 15In Baccano!, what did Chane Laforet ask her father Huey to take away so she could never betray his secrets?
Her voice
Her voice was the price she chose for his trust, so she speaks to others through gestures and written notes while reaching him by telepathy.
Q 16In Baccano!, what does a newly promoted Martillo executive go out to buy with one of his fellow executives?
A hat
A hat marks the promotion, and the custom has no meaning at all: the family's boss simply tells the man in advance and sends a colleague along to help choose.
Q 17In Baccano!, Graham Specter, a devotee of Ladd Russo who loves dismantling things, always carries which large tool?
A wrench
A wrench never leaves the mechanic's side, and he rages when anything gets in his way; he first met his idol by attacking him over a wrecked car.
Q 18In Baccano!, the immortal Czeslaw Meyer, who has not aged since 1711, looks like which kind of person?
A young boy
A young boy to look at, he hunts other immortals out of fear; after Isaac and Miria promise to be his family, he ends up living with Ennis as her little brother.
Q 19In Baccano!, the Daily Days newspaper in Chinatown is really a cover for which other line of business?
Selling information
Selling information is the real trade, and the editorial office behind the reception desk is heavily armed because the receptionist once worked in military intelligence.
Q 20In Baccano!, Ladd Russo, Firo Prochainezo and Isaac Dian all end up locked in which island prison?
Alcatraz
Alcatraz gathers them for different reasons: one is framed for a bombing, one is finally caught for his thefts, and one is serving time for murder.
The Untouchables also shaped the English dub years later: its director studied Robert De Niro's Al Capone to get the gangster talk right.
Q 24How were the final three episodes of the Baccano! anime released after the first thirteen aired on television?
Direct to DVD
Direct to DVD is how the three extras arrived, opening with a mechanic's fury that somebody has badly hurt his hero.
Q 25Which company dubbed Baccano! into English after about 140 actors auditioned over six days?
Funimation
Funimation's dub director called it probably the longest casting process the company had held; he wanted newcomers who could handle period lingo and heavy European accents.
Q 26In episode one of Baccano!, what are Gustav St. Germain and Carol trying to choose from about twenty people?
A main character
A main character proves impossible to settle on, and by the final episode Carol concludes that the story they are piecing together has no beginning or ending either.
Q 27In Baccano!, the Gandor family profits from bootleg liquor and casinos but refuses to deal in what?
Drugs
Drugs are the one line the three brothers will not cross, which is why a rival family pushing a new narcotic onto their turf starts a war.
Q 28In Baccano!, which weapon does the cult leader Goose turn on Jacuzzi Splot before being pushed off the train?
A flamethrower
A flamethrower proves his undoing: when the timid gang leader shoves him off, its fuel tank hits the tracks and blows up.
Q 29In Baccano!, where does Claire Stanfield tell Chane Laforet to carve her answer to his marriage proposal?
Into the roof
Into the roof of the Flying Pussyfoot she cuts a promise to wait for him forever in Manhattan, though at that moment she means to kill him when he comes.
Q 30In Baccano!, which Martillo family secretary turns out to be the demon the immortals summoned in 1711?
Ronny Schiatto
Ronny Schiatto insists he is no demon, just a man from ancient times who learned too much, and he let the 1930 party drink the elixir because he could not guess what would follow.