50 free Digimon trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Digimon began in 1997 as a boys' answer to the Tamagotchi and became an anime that a generation of kids swears was better than Pokémon. This Digimon trivia quiz covers the whole franchise: the Digital Monster virtual pet and its sales, Digimon Adventure and its eight DigiDestined, the Crests, villains from Devimon to the Dark Masters, Adventure 02 and the Digimon Emperor, Chiaki J. Konaka's darker Tamers, Frontier's Spirit Evolution, and the later chapters, from Adventure tri. and Last Evolution Kizuna to the 2020 reboot and Ghost Game. There are also questions on Digimon: The Movie, the Saban dub on Fox Kids, Kōji Wada's 'Butter-Fly', the video games and the people behind the designs. It suits anime nights, 90s-kids parties or a Digimon card game session. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01Digimon began in 1997 as a virtual pet intended as the masculine counterpart to what?
Tamagotchi
WiZ and Bandai built it; the name is short for Digital Monster.
Q 02What is 'Digimon' short for?
Digital Monsters
The creatures live in a digital world that grew out of Earth's communication networks.
Q 03How many units of the original 1997 Digital Monster pet had sold worldwide by March 2004?
14 million
By 2005 the figure passed 24 million; the toy was banned in some Asian schools for being noisy and violent.
Q 04Which designer created the first Digimon, drawing on American comics to make them look 'cool'?
Kenji Watanabe
By 2000 there were 279 different Digimon.
Q 05How much had the franchise generated in sales by 2000?
Over $500 million
The Digimon World game on PlayStation in January 1999 helped it gain momentum.
Q 06What is the term for a Digimon changing into a stronger form?
Digivolution
When two Digimon merge into one it is called Jogress, or DNA Digivolution in the dub.
Q 07What is the gadget, modelled on the virtual pets, that lets children empower their partner Digimon?
A Digivice
Later series introduced variants like the D-3, D-Power and D-Tector.
Q 08Which studio has produced the Digimon anime series since 1999?
Toei Animation
Digimon Adventure started life as a short film that was turned into a series.
Q 09On what 1999 date are the seven children sent to the Digital World at the start of Digimon Adventure?
August 1
August 1 is celebrated by fans as 'Odaiba Day'.
Q 10From which Tokyo district do the original DigiDestined come?
Odaiba
Digimon Tamers, by contrast, is set in Shinjuku.
Q 11Which villain hunts the DigiDestined early on using black gears to corrupt other Digimon?
Devimon
Etemon and Myotismon follow, then the Dark Masters and Apocalymon.
Q 12What artifacts do the children retrieve so their partners can reach the Ultimate level?
Crests
Apocalymon destroys them, but the kids realise the Crests' power was inside them all along.
Q 13Who is revealed to be the eighth DigiDestined child?
Kari, Tai's sister
Her partner Gatomon had been serving Myotismon.
Q 14What are the Dark Masters?
Q 21Which future Oscar-nominated director made the 1999 Digimon Adventure short film?
Mamoru Hosoda
It premiered in Japanese cinemas the day before the TV series began.
Q 22In Digimon Adventure 02, who is the Digimon Emperor revealed to be?
Ken Ichijoji
He is redeemed and joins the team with his partner Wormmon.
Q 23What new type of device in Adventure 02 lets the kids enter the Digital World through any computer?
The D-3
D-Terminals hold the Digi-Eggs used for Armor Digivolution.
Which Digimon does Arukenimon create from Control Spires in Adventure 02?
Four Megas who carved up the Digital World
The mastermind behind them is Apocalymon.
Q 15How many episodes did the original Digimon Adventure run on Fuji TV?
54
The 2020 reboot ran 67.
Q 16Who sang 'Butter-Fly', the opening theme of Digimon Adventure?
Kōji Wada
He was nicknamed the 'Immortal Butterfly Anisong Singer' and died of cancer in 2016.
Q 17Which song by Ayumi Miyazaki plays during Digivolutions in Digimon Adventure?
Brave Heart
'I Wish' and 'Keep On', the ending themes, were sung by AiM, Mimi's voice actress.
Q 18Which company produced the English dub of Digimon Adventure that premiered on Fox Kids in 1999?
Saban
Disney's purchase of Saban later moved the show onto Disney-owned channels.
Q 19How did the DigiDestined characters get their names, according to the show's creators?
From kanji related to luck
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru designed the children.
Q 20Which magazine named Digimon the 'Worst Pokémon/Net Crossbreeding Attempt' of 2000?
Entertainment Weekly
Later critics praised its more realistic child characters compared with the Pokémon anime.
BlackWarGreymon
He destroys the Destiny Stones hoping to summon Azulongmon.
Q 25In Digimon Tamers, what does Takato find that turns his reader into a D-Power?
A Blue Card
His partner Guilmon was his own drawing brought to life.
Q 26Which Serial Experiments Lain writer, known for Lovecraftian touches, was head writer of Digimon Tamers?
Chiaki J. Konaka
Tamers is set in Shinjuku and treats Digimon as a card game within its own world.
Q 27In Tamers, what is Hypnos?
An intelligence agency
Henry's father and the 'Monster Makers' created the prototypes that became Digimon.
Q 28What makes Frontier different from the earlier series?
The kids become the monsters themselves
The kids are summoned by a text message telling them to board a train at Shibuya Station.
Q 29How many Legendary Warriors, tied to elements from fire to darkness, are there in Frontier?
Ten
Each left a Human and a Beast Spirit, twenty in all.
Q 30Digimon: The Movie (2000) stitched together how many Japanese short films?
Three
It grossed over $16 million on a $5 million budget.