Chrono Trigger
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50 free Chrono Trigger trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Chrono Trigger arrived on the Super Nintendo in 1995 and is regularly named among the best role-playing games ever made. A boy with spiky red hair bumps into a girl at a village fair, an experiment goes wrong, and soon a small band of friends is hopping between prehistory, the Middle Ages and a ruined future to stop the creature that will end the world. This quiz covers the whole journey: Crono and his companions, from the cursed knight Frog to the gentle robot Robo; the villains and side characters of every era; the weapons, spells and places fans remember; and the story behind the game, including the celebrated designers and composers who made it, its soundtrack, and the extras added for the Nintendo DS and later releases. It suits anyone who has finished the adventure once, with easier questions for players who remember the main story and tougher ones for fans who know Cyrus's last stand and Robo's side quests by heart. Every answer comes with a short explanation, and the questions can be printed for a quiz night.
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Q 01Which manga artist designed Chrono Trigger's heroes and monsters, having drawn Dragon Quest's cast?
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, drew the characters, monsters, vehicles and the look of every era. The staff studied his sketches so the sprites would match his light-hearted style.
Q 02Which Olympics used Chrono Trigger's 'Frog's Theme' and 'Robo's Theme' in the parade of nations?
Tokyo 2020
Tokyo 2020 brought its athletes into the stadium to 19 pieces of Japanese video game music, a soundtrack that had to last through a march of about two hours.
Q 03Which trait of Chrono Trigger's spiky-haired hero Crono did its writers want from the very start?
He never speaks
He never speaks: Crono gets through the adventure on facial expressions alone, a silent lead that one of the story's writers asked for at the outset.
Q 04Which invention of Lucca's misfires at the fair in Chrono Trigger, hurling Marle into the past?
A teleporter
A teleporter meant to move people a few steps across the fairground reacts with Marle's pendant and tears open a gate to the year 600 AD instead.
Q 05Which replay option, named by Chrono Trigger, lets players restart with their levels and equipment?
New Game Plus
New Game Plus carries levels, techniques and gear into a fresh run, but not money, and story items such as the Masamune sword must be found again.
Q 06Which Bible figures give Chrono Trigger's gurus Melchior, Gaspar and Belthasar their Western names?
The Wise Men
The Wise Men who brought gold, frankincense and myrrh lend the gurus their Western names. In Japan the trio are plain Gasch, Hash and Bosch.
Q 07In Japan, Chrono Trigger's villains Ozzie, Slash and Flea are named after which kind of thing?
Condiments
Condiments it is: the three are Vinegar, Soy Sauce and Mayonnaise in Japanese, the sort of joke the staff said would have been impossible in a Final Fantasy.
Q 08For which supposed crime does Guardia's chancellor condemn Crono early in Chrono Trigger?
Kidnapping Marle
Kidnapping Marle is the charge, though she had slipped away from her royal home by herself. She and Lucca help Crono escape prison, and all three flee through another gate in time.
Q 09Which programmer threatened to quit Square unless he could compose, then scored Chrono Trigger?
Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda was offered the job with the remark that it might even raise his salary. He went on to sleep in his studio for nights at a stretch to finish the score.
Q 10What is the default name of the Wings of Time, the craft Chrono Trigger's party finds in 2300 AD?
Epoch
Epoch is only a suggestion, since players may rename the ship when they get it. Unlike the gates, it can reach any era directly, and a villain's tinkering later lets it fly.
Q 11Which hub outside history, home to the old sage Gaspar, links the eras in Chrono Trigger?
The End of Time
The End of Time was added by the developers as a place to hand out hints, because they worried players would get stuck and reach for a walkthrough.
Q 12What was the human name of Chrono Trigger's Frog before Magus's spell transformed the young squire?
Glenn
Glenn served the knight Cyrus and saw Magus kill him before the curse fell. Avenging his friend shapes everything the amphibian swordsman does afterwards.
Q 13What is the real name of Marle, the runaway royal who meets Crono at the fair in Chrono Trigger?
Nadia
Nadia is a princess of Guardia, often at odds with her father the king, who slips out to the fair because she is bored of royal life.
Q 21What serial number identifies Robo, the robot Lucca repairs in the ruined future of Chrono Trigger?
R-66Y
R-66Y is one of a whole R-Series, and his brother robots turn on him and leave him badly damaged when the party meets them in a derelict factory.
Q 22What original name does Robo recover at his birthplace, the Geno Dome, in Chrono Trigger?
Prometheus
Prometheus was built to observe and study humans, a mission wiped from his memory until he walks back into the factory that made him.
Q 23Which rogue computer, Robo's maker, brands him a traitor for befriending humans in Chrono Trigger?
Mother Brain
Mother Brain wants a world of robots with no people in it, and turns Robo's old companion against him before he manages to shut her down.
Q 14What was the birth name of Chrono Trigger's Magus when he was the young prince of Zeal?
Janus
Janus was thrown through a gate as a boy when Lavos woke, and landed among the Mystics of the Middle Ages. He grew up plotting revenge and brooding over his lost sister, Schala.
Q 15Which time-travel puzzle makes Marle vanish in Chrono Trigger when 600 AD takes her for its queen?
The grandfather paradox
The grandfather paradox arises because the search for Queen Leene, Marle's ancestor, is called off once Marle turns up, so her own family line is cut short.
Q 16What does Chrono Trigger call the special moves its heroes pair into Double and Triple attacks?
Techs
Techs drain magic points, and each hero learns eight of their own. When the right partners have enough points, the menu offers the combined move automatically.
Q 17Which humanoid species, led by Azala, wages war on Ayla's prehistoric tribe in Chrono Trigger?
Reptites
Reptites are scaly rivals of the early humans, out to prove their own superiority. Their rule ends when Lavos falls from the sky onto their stronghold.
Q 18From which two of her tribe's words does Ayla coin the name Lavos in Chrono Trigger?
Fire and big
Fire and big are what 'La' and 'Vos' mean, Ayla says, as she watches the creature blaze down from space. The world-ending monster owes its name to a cavewoman.
Q 19Which flying fortress does Queen Zeal's ruined palace become when it rises into the sky in Chrono Trigger?
Black Omen
Black Omen hangs in the sky of every later era, even the ruined future, because the queen lives on inside it for thousands of years.
Q 20Which weapon does Magus swing in Chrono Trigger, where Crono carries a katana and Frog a broadsword?
A scythe
A scythe suits the dark sorcerer, who is also the only hero able to cast every kind of magic. He learns no two-person moves with the others.
Q 24Which task for a woman named Fiona keeps Chrono Trigger's Robo busy for four centuries?
Replanting a forest
Replanting a forest keeps Robo toiling for four hundred years, while his friends simply jump ahead to 1000 AD. He passes the time pondering who made the gates.
Q 25Which singing robot, built by Lucca, spars with visitors at Chrono Trigger's Millennial Fair?
Gato
Gato serenades his opponents before and after every bout and pays the winner in Silver Points. In Japan he goes by Gonzales.
Q 26Which self-styled Master of War awakens the party's magic in Chrono Trigger, though Robo gets none?
Spekkio
Spekkio changes shape as the party grows stronger, from a small frog-like creature upwards. He cannot teach Robo because the robot is not a living thing.
Q 27Which special attack does the knight Cyrus unleash on the Frog King in a Chrono Trigger flashback?
Nirvana Strike
Nirvana Strike wins Cyrus the Hero's Badge, but soon afterwards Magus kills him in the Denadoro Mountains. His ghost haunts the Northern Ruins until his old squire lays it to rest.
Q 28Which red prehistoric stone is needed to reforge the broken Masamune in Chrono Trigger?
Dreamstone
Dreamstone has vanished from the world by the Middle Ages, so the party must fetch a piece from prehistory. Marle's pendant is made of the same material.
Q 29Which item, given by the sage Gaspar, lets the party restore the fallen Crono to life in Chrono Trigger?
The Time Egg
The Time Egg, the 'Chrono Trigger' of the title, works only if the party also holds a lifelike doll of Crono, won at the fair, to swap into the instant he dies.
Q 30On which mountain of 2300 AD can Chrono Trigger's party bring the fallen Crono back to life?
Death Peak
Death Peak's summit is where an eclipse sends the party back into the frozen instant of Crono's fall, so that a double can be left in his place.