Castle Crashers
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40 free Castle Crashers trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Castle Crashers turned a simple idea, four colour-coded knights hacking their way across a cartoon kingdom, into a co-op favourite that has sold more than 20 million copies. Its hand-drawn art, slapstick humour and couch multiplayer have kept players coming back since 2008. This quiz covers the whole game: the knights and their magic, the bosses and the princesses they guard, the animal orbs and what each one does, unlockable characters and their starting weapons, the minigames, and the story of how the game was made, revealed and re-released. It suits anyone who has played through the campaign with friends. The early questions stick to things most players remember; the later ones reward those who dug up every secret and unlocked every character.
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Q 01At the end of Castle Crashers, the last princess, her face hidden all game, turns out to be what?
A clown
A clown is the punchline: when the winning knight leans in for a kiss, she blankets the screen with penguins, weasels, kitties, hearts and rainbow beams.
Q 02Which Castle Crashers item turns a knight into a muscular giant able to open certain doors?
Sandwich
Sandwich power bulks the knight up, raising attack strength and letting the character shove aside heavy obstacles such as boulders.
Q 03Castle Crashers' Cyclops boss sinks into lava giving a thumbs-up, echoing the end of which film?
Terminator 2
Terminator 2 ends with the T-800 lowered into molten metal with one thumb raised, and the dying Cyclops copies the gesture as he goes under.
Q 04Which indie studio, whose mascot is a chicken, developed and published Castle Crashers?
The Behemoth
The Behemoth made it as the follow-up to Alien Hominid, and the studio reported in 2019 that sales had passed 20 million copies.
Q 05In Castle Crashers, the Red Knight's signature magic attacks enemies with what?
Lightning
Lightning is the Red Knight's speciality, while the other three starting knights are Green with poison, Blue with ice and Orange with fire.
Q 06Castle Crashers programmer Tom Fulp founded which website, whose users wrote much of its music?
Newgrounds
Newgrounds users supplied the soundtrack: the studio contracted more than twenty of them for tracks, then gave the album away free on the site days after launch.
Q 07Castle Crashers' Catfish boss coughs up what, which can stop the king's boat loading its cannon?
A hairball
A hairball is the half-cat boss's weapon: unless knights destroy it, the Gray Knights on the king's boat cannot load the cannonball that stuns the beast.
Q 08Proceeds from one 2011 Castle Crashers character pack went to research into which disease?
Breast cancer
Breast cancer research was the cause: the pack added the Pink Knight, and its proceeds were pledged to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Q 09Castle Crashers opens with a dark wizard kidnapping four princesses and stealing what?
A mystical crystal
A mystical crystal is the prize the wizard carries off from the king's party, and after the final battle the knights ride the recovered gem home across empty battlefields.
Q 10In co-op Castle Crashers, what decides which player wins the kiss from a rescued princess?
A duel to the death
A duel to the death settles it: after each rescue the knights turn on one another, and the last one standing collects the kiss.
Q 11Castle Crashers first launched in August 2008 as a download-only game for which console?
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 owners had it to themselves for two years, and it became the best-selling title of 2008 on the console's download service.
Q 12Which lead artist, who also drew Alien Hominid, created Castle Crashers' hand-drawn look?
Dan Paladin
Dan Paladin drew several partial versions of each character or backdrop before picking one to finish, and he also scored two tracks of the soundtrack himself.
Q 13Castle Crashers' lead artist named which older brawler as the primary inspiration for its art style?
River City Ransom
Q 21Which unlockable Castle Crashers character, earned in an arena, starts with a Wooden Spoon?
Peasant
Peasant is the spoon-wielder, unlocked by winning the arena that shares the character's name; finishing the story with that fighter then unlocks the Civilian.
Q 22Castle Crashers' Conehead, unlocked in the Volcano Arena, starts out armed with which weapon?
Light Saber
Light Saber in hand, the Conehead is one of more than 25 characters the game lets players unlock.
Q 23Completing Castle Crashers as the Red Knight unlocks which new playable character?
Skeleton
Skeleton is the Red Knight's reward, while the Green, Blue and Orange knights unlock the Royal Guard, the Industrialist and the Fire Demon.
River City Ransom was his model, above all for the faces its characters pull when they take a hit.
Q 14All You Can Quaff, a button-mashing minigame in Castle Crashers, is a contest to do what?
Eat the most food
Eat the most food and you win, despite the drink-themed name: players hammer the buttons to make their knights gobble faster than their rivals.
Q 15Castle Crashers on PlayStation 3 replaced All You Can Quaff with which sport as a minigame?
Volleyball
Volleyball for up to four players and four computer-controlled characters was the exclusive extra, though GameSpot's reviewer dismissed the mode as lousy.
Q 16Finishing Castle Crashers unlocks which mode, where enemies and bosses are ten times stronger?
Insane
Insane Mode also opens a special store selling powerful but expensive weapons and animal orbs, and the remastered edition later cut its prices.
Q 17Defeating which Castle Crashers boss frees the Blue Princess, the third of the four to be rescued?
Frost King
Frost King holds her in the Ice Castle; the Red and Green princesses are freed earlier, from the Barbarian Boss and the Cyclops.
Q 18Which Castle Crashers animal orb, dug up with the shovel, makes its owner gain experience faster?
Giraffey
Giraffey adds ten per cent to every experience gain, handy on the long climb to the level cap of 99.
Q 19Which Castle Crashers animal orb mauls weakened enemies but also turns on its own hurt owner?
BiPolar Bear
BiPolar Bear pounces on any enemy down to its last sliver of health, and gives the same treatment to players and allies left with 11 hit points or fewer.
Q 20Which Castle Crashers animal orb raises its owner's Defense while lowering Agility?
Snailburt
Snailburt trades five points of speed for five of armour in the original release, a penalty the remastered edition softened to two.
Q 24Castle Crashers' first new add-on in over a decade, released in 2025, added which character?
Paint Junior
Paint Junior arrived with the Painter Boss Paradise pack, which also redrew every official character and let players share custom skins.
Q 25Castle Crashers' first public demo, shown at Comic-Con in 2005, ran on which Nintendo console?
GameCube
GameCube hardware ran that early demo, yet no Nintendo release was announced, and the game did not reach a Nintendo system until 2019.
Q 26Castle Crashers was first revealed at Comic-Con in 2005 under which tongue-in-cheek working title?
Ye Olde Side-Scroller
Ye Olde Side-Scroller was the placeholder name on the 2005 demo, and the final title arrived a year later, when a downloadable console release was announced.
Q 27Castle Crashers launched in 2008 as part of which annual promotion for downloadable games?
Summer of Arcade
Summer of Arcade put it on sale in late August 2008, and by the end of 2010 the game had sold more than two million copies on that one console.
Q 28Castle Crashers' Windows and Mac version, released in 2012, was exclusive to which store?
Steam
Steam was the only place to buy the computer version, which later received the remastered upgrade as a free update.
Q 29Castle Crashers earned an Interactive Achievement Awards nomination for outstanding achievement in what?
Animation
Animation was the category; the game had already won an Excellence in Visual Art prize in 2007, more than a year before its release.
Q 30Castle Crashers' studio is based in which California city?
San Diego
San Diego has been the studio's home since its founders teamed up to bring the Flash game Alien Hominid to consoles.