Breath of the Wild Trivia
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99 free Breath of the Wild trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Breath of the Wild trivia questions with answers. Breath of the Wild rebuilt Zelda from the ground up, and this quiz digs into every corner of it. Fifty questions cover the four Champions and their Divine Beasts, the Sheikah Slate runes, the Master Sword and its trials, the 900 Korok seeds and Hestu's infamous reward, Blood Moons, Lynels and the Yiga Clan, plus the two DLC packs, the Age of Calamity spin-off and the sequel Tears of the Kingdom. The easy end asks what a Blood Moon does and who piloted Vah Ruta; the hard end wants the shrine that hands out Magnesis, the number of rooms in the Trial of the Sword and the prehistoric Japanese period that inspired the Sheikah tech. There is a solid run of making-of questions too: the physics engine, the cut hookshot, why Link became right-handed and which real city Hyrule's map is based on. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the game, its sequel and spin-off, with the Zelda wiki used only for in-game numbers and locations, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Breath of the Wild went on sale the same day as which Nintendo console?
Switch
Switch: first planned as a 2015 Wii U game, it slipped twice and ended up launching on both consoles in March 2017, the very day Nintendo's new machine went on sale.
Q 02Breath of the Wild's designers first tested their ideas in a 2D prototype styled after which 8-bit game?
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: in a mock-up drawn like the NES original, a pixel Link chopped down a tree to cross a river and set a forest ablaze, proving the ideas before anything was built in 3D.
Q 03How long had Link been asleep when Breath of the Wild begins?
100 years
100 years: gravely wounded in the Great Calamity, Link was placed in a healing sleep that saved his life but wiped his memory, so he wakes a stranger to his own story.
Q 04Breath of the Wild opens with Link inside which chamber on the Great Plateau?
Shrine of Resurrection
Shrine of Resurrection: the healing chamber keeps a second secret, as the Champions' Ballad expansion sends Link back to find a whole Divine Beast hidden beneath it.
Q 05Which Champion was the Zora princess who piloted Vah Ruta?
Mipha
Mipha made Link a suit of Zora Armor, the gift a Zora princess traditionally crafts for the man she hopes to marry; her father hands it over long after her death.
Q 06Which Sheikah Slate rune stores the force of Link's blows in an object, then releases it all at once?
Stasis
Stasis locks an object in time while every hit adds stored energy, so a few hammer blows send a boulder, or a shrine's giant orb, flying once time resumes.
Q 07In Breath of the Wild, who has watched over the Master Sword while it waits for Link's return?
The Great Deku Tree
The Great Deku Tree took in the blade when Zelda brought it to his forest after Link fell, and he has kept watch over its pedestal ever since.
Q 08Breath of the Wild was the first mainline Zelda game to feature what in its cutscenes?
Voice acting
Voice acting came to the cutscenes but not to Link: the producer feared that if Link said something players disagreed with, their bond with him would be lost.
Q 09What is the vast underground region added in Tears of the Kingdom called?
The Depths
The Depths mirror the surface: each lightroot sits directly beneath a shrine and bears that shrine's name spelled backwards, so players find them by diving under shrines.
Q 10In Breath of the Wild, which Zora prince asks Link to help stop the endless rain over his domain?
Sidon
Sidon carries Link on his back around the reservoir so Link can hit the Divine Beast with shock arrows, which the Zora themselves cannot safely handle.
Q 11In Breath of the Wild, what happens when a Blood Moon rises at midnight?
Slain monsters return to life
Slain monsters return to life under a Blood Moon, and one hidden shrine rises only if Link stands on its pedestal that night wearing no clothes or gear at all.
Q 12How many Korok seeds are hidden across Hyrule in Breath of the Wild?
900
900 seeds, each the prize for a tiny puzzle: lift a lone rock on a hilltop, complete a circle of stones or pop a hidden balloon, and a Korok appears to hand one over.
Q 13In Breath of the Wild, what does the Old Man give Link so he can leave the Great Plateau?
The paraglider
Q 21Which other category did Breath of the Wild win at the 2017 ceremony where it took the top prize?
Best Game Direction
Best Game Direction went to Breath of the Wild at The Game Awards, but its celebrated painterly look lost the art direction prize to the hand-drawn cartoon Cuphead.
Q 22What was Breath of the Wild's first DLC pack, released in June 2017, called?
The Master Trials
The Master Trials sent Link into the Trial of the Sword, a survival gauntlet he enters stripped of every weapon, meal and piece of armor; clearing it wakes the Master Sword's full power.
Q 23Completing The Champions' Ballad DLC rewards Link with which vehicle?
Master Cycle Zero
The paraglider is the Old Man's price for the orbs from all four plateau shrines, and he hands it over on the roof of the ruined Temple of Time after revealing who he really is.
Q 14Unlike in earlier Zelda games, what happens to weapons and shields as Link uses them?
They degrade and eventually shatter
They degrade and eventually shatter, with one exception: the Master Sword never breaks, yet even it runs out of energy and must rest before Link can swing it again.
Q 15Breath of the Wild's director previously directed which Zelda?
Skyward Sword
Skyward Sword left some fans complaining that it was too linear, and the same director's next Zelda answered them with a world players can explore in any order.
Q 16Who produced Breath of the Wild?
Eiji Aonuma
Eiji Aonuma won his Nintendo job with the mechanical wooden dolls he had built at art college, which Shigeru Miyamoto loved when he saw them at the interview.
Q 17In Breath of the Wild, the Old Man on the Great Plateau turns out to be the spirit of whom?
King Rhoam
King Rhoam was Hyrule's last king and Zelda's father, killed when Ganon turned the kingdom's own Guardians against it; his spirit lingers to tell Link what happened.
Q 18In Breath of the Wild, the Divine Beast Vah Rudania keeps which mountain erupting?
Death Mountain
Death Mountain rains magma bombs while the beast stomps around its summit, which has shut the Gorons out of their mines; they keep driving it off with cannon fire, but it always comes back.
Q 19In Breath of the Wild, the Divine Beast Vah Medoh is built in the shape of which animal?
An eagle
An eagle in shape, Vah Medoh fires on anything that flies near it, so the Rito warrior Teba carries Link up on his back to blast its cannons with bomb arrows.
Q 20In Breath of the Wild, what does pulling the Master Sword drain from Link?
His hearts
His hearts drain away as he pulls, and the sword only comes free if Link has 13 full heart containers; the bonus hearts from food do not count.
Master Cycle Zero is a motorcycle that Link summons with a rune, his prize for beating the monk Maz Koshia at the end of the expansion's quest line.
Q 24Which studio, best known for Dynasty Warriors, developed the spin-off Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity?
Omega Force
Omega Force, a Koei Tecmo team, got the job after Breath of the Wild's own director and art director pitched its Great Calamity backstory as the setting for a Warriors game.
Q 25In Breath of the Wild, the timid young Goron Yunobo is a descendant of which warrior?
Daruk
He inherited Daruk's Protection, a shield of energy that Link exploits by firing Yunobo out of a cannon.
Q 26In Breath of the Wild, guards of the Yiga Clan can be lured out of position with which food?
Mighty Bananas
Mighty Bananas are the clan's weakness: drop a bunch inside their hideout and a guard will wander off his patrol to grab it, letting Link slip past unseen.
Q 27After Link hands over every last Korok seed in Hyrule, what does Hestu give him?
A useless golden trophy
A useless golden trophy called Hestu's Gift is all Link gets: it does nothing at all, though Hestu will now dance for him whenever he visits.
Q 28According to Breath of the Wild's director, what are Korok seeds actually?
Droppings
Droppings: he confirmed the long-running fan theory in a 2017 interview, laughing that the team thought it would be funny to carry the joke through the whole game.
Q 29How many shrines are scattered across Hyrule in Breath of the Wild's base game?
120
120 shrines each pay out one Spirit Orb, and every four orbs buy Link an extra heart or a bigger stamina wheel, so clearing them is how he grows stronger.
Q 30In Breath of the Wild, which Divine Beast whips up an endless sandstorm over the Gerudo Desert?
Vah Naboris
Vah Naboris hurls lightning at anything that comes near, so Link rides in on a sand seal, sheltered by the Gerudo chief's Thunder Helm, and blasts its feet with bomb arrows.