Doraemon Trivia
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50 free Doraemon trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Doraemon (often spelled Doremon by fans in India and across South Asia) is the robot cat who arrived from the 22nd century to rescue a hopeless schoolboy, and he has been doing it since 1969. He is a national icon in Japan, a childhood fixture from Hanoi to Hyderabad, and the star of more than forty feature films. These 50 questions cover the whole story: how the cat lost his ears and his colour, the gadgets he pulls from his belly, the boy he looks after, Shizuka and the neighbourhood bullies, the two schoolboys who drew him under one pen name, the three television series and the voices behind them, the annual films and their records, and the ambassador, museum and broadcast milestones that made him a world figure. Play it in the browser or print it for a quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave knowing a little more than you came with.
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Q 01Which colour was the robot cat Doraemon when he left the factory, before he turned blue?
Yellow
Yellow was Doraemon's factory coat: in the 1995 origin film a robot mouse gnaws off his ears, he drinks a sadness potion by mistake and cries for three days until the yellow comes away.
Q 02Doraemon flies into a rage whenever his missing ears get him mistaken for which animal?
A raccoon dog
A raccoon dog, or tanuki, is what strangers take the earless Doraemon for, and he explodes every time; the American dub changed the animal to a seal.
Q 03Where does Doraemon keep the future gadgets he pulls out each time Nobita lands in trouble?
A four-dimensional pocket
A four-dimensional pocket on his belly holds every gadget, and a spare kept in his closet opens onto the same space, so Nobita can raid it whenever Doraemon is out.
Q 04Which Japanese sweet is Doraemon's favourite food?
Dorayaki
Dorayaki is two small pancakes around red bean paste; the English digital manga at first renamed it 'fudgy pudgy pie', and the American TV dub went with 'yummy buns'.
Q 05Which pink Doraemon gadget lets you step straight to wherever the person turning its knob is thinking of?
Anywhere Door
The Anywhere Door opens onto any place its user pictures, and alongside the Take-copter and the Time Machine it is one of the gadgets that recur most often in the series.
Q 06The Take-copter, the tiny propeller hat Doraemon hands out so friends can fly, is named after which material?
Bamboo
Bamboo is 'take' in Japanese: the gadget copies the taketombo, a traditional bamboo propeller toy, here worn on the head to lift its wearer into the air.
Q 07Where in Nobita's bedroom is the entrance to the time machine he and Doraemon ride into the past?
His desk drawer
His desk drawer hides the Time Machine, and it is how the whole story starts: one New Year's Day Doraemon climbs out of it with Sewashi to warn Nobita about his bleak future.
Q 08Which arm of Japan's government appointed Doraemon the nation's first 'anime ambassador' in 2008?
The Foreign Ministry
The Foreign Ministry made the appointment hoping the robot cat would help people abroad understand anime and deepen their interest in Japanese culture.
Q 09Sewashi, who sends Doraemon back to help Nobita, is short of spending money because his family inherited what?
Debts
Debts were all that remained of a company the grown-up Nobita founded and lost, and they were still unpaid generations later, which is why Sewashi sent his robot back to fix things.
Q 10What does Doraemon's sister Dorami wear on her head in place of ears?
A red bow
A red bow sits where Dorami's ears would be, and it is no mere decoration: the series' guidebooks call it a ribbon-shaped sound collector, so the bow does her hearing.
Q 11In the series' own logic, what makes the robots Doraemon and Dorami brother and sister?
They shared one can of oil
They shared one can of oil, and the can explains more than kinship: it had separated, so Doraemon got the thin top half and Dorami the rich dregs, which is why she is the better robot.
Q 12Doraemon is rated at 129.3 horsepower, so how much can his younger sister Dorami produce?
10,000
10,000 horsepower makes Dorami by far the stronger robot, yet a story about swapping her in for good ends with Nobita keeping her brother.
Q 13Pulling which part of Doraemon shuts the robot down?
His tail
His tail is Doraemon's main switch: a single pull shuts down every function, which leaves a robot built to mind children with an off button any child can reach.
Q 21Which manga master handed Fujimoto and Abiko his old room at Tokyo's Tokiwa-sō apartments when he moved out?
Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka had already praised their Ben Hur drawings on a visit to his Takarazuka home, and the pair first called themselves 'Tezuka Fujio' in his honour.
Q 22Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko, the duo behind Doraemon, met as schoolboys in Takaoka, a city in which prefecture?
Toyama
Toyama Prefecture is where the two met, when Abiko transferred into Fujimoto's class and a sketch in a notebook at break got them talking; by high school a newspaper was running their strip.
Q 23Doraemon's round shape came to his creator when he tripped over which toy of his daughter's?
A roly-poly doll
Q 14Which city near Tokyo, home to the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, made Doraemon an official resident in 2012?
Kawasaki
Kawasaki granted Doraemon residency exactly one hundred years before his birth date, a year after the museum devoted to his creator opened in the city.
Q 15Which publisher launched Doraemon in six of its children's monthly magazines at once in December 1969?
Shogakukan
Shogakukan ran the strip in six of its monthlies at once, from preschool titles up to a fourth-grade magazine, which is why Doraemon's first chapter exists in six different versions.
Q 16Which singer's 2018 tribute song, titled simply 'Doraemon', served as the anime's opening theme from 2019 to 2024?
Gen Hoshino
Gen Hoshino wrote it as a tribute for the 2018 film Nobita's Treasure Island, and its interlude quotes the melody of 'Boku Doraemon', a theme from the 1979 anime.
Q 17Which Indian children's channel, launched in 2004, switched to all-animation following the success of Doraemon?
Hungama TV
Hungama TV opened with live-action shows as well, but Doraemon's success after its 2005 Indian premiere pushed the channel, now owned by JioStar, to go fully animated.
Q 18Doraemon's manga found particular success in which country, with a record-breaking 40 million copies sold there by 2006?
Vietnam
Vietnam's first edition appeared in 1992, years before a licence was signed; the rights were only settled in 1996, and a Doraemon scholarship fund for poor pupils followed.
Q 19After the duo credited with Doraemon broke up, its creator's former partner signed as Fujiko Fujio plus which letter?
A
A, for Abiko: Motoo Abiko signed as Fujiko Fujio A from 1988 until his death in 2022, while Doraemon's creator Hiroshi Fujimoto first put his F at the end too, then moved it to the middle a year later.
Q 20Which rule did Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko, the duo behind Doraemon, keep for their entire partnership?
Splitting all income equally
Splitting all income equally held even for solo hits: Fujimoto drew Doraemon alone, yet its fees were shared down the middle until the two went their separate ways.
A roly-poly doll, the kind that rights itself when knocked over, crossed in his mind with a cat, and by his own telling the two together became Doraemon.
Q 24What does the 'dora' in Doraemon's name come from?
A word for a stray cat
A word for a stray cat, 'dora neko', gives the name its first half, so his favourite snack echoes the name rather than explaining it; '-emon' is an old-fashioned ending for men's names.
Q 25Which network aired the first, short-lived Doraemon anime in 1973?
Nippon TV
Nippon TV ran 26 episodes from April to September 1973, then the small studio behind them folded, and only part of the run is known to survive, found years later in a film lab's archive.
Q 26Which network has carried Doraemon since April 1979 and relaunched it with an all-new voice cast in 2005?
TV Asahi
TV Asahi now owns the studio that animates the show, and in 2014 it struck the deal that brought Doraemon to American television.
Q 27Which actress voiced Doraemon for 26 years from 1979 and later played Danganronpa's Monokuma?
Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobuyo Ōyama kept recording Doraemon through cancer treatment in 2001, retired from the role with the rest of the cast in March 2005, and titled her memoir I Was Doraemon.
Q 28Which actress has voiced Doraemon since April 2005, after her mentor Kazuya Tatekabe urged her to audition?
Wasabi Mizuta
Wasabi Mizuta burst into tears when she won the part, then feared being fired amid the backlash over the cast change until the go-ahead for 2006's Nobita's Dinosaur told her she was staying.
Q 29Which studio has animated Doraemon for television since 1979 and made its more than forty feature films?
Shin-Ei Animation
Shin-Ei Animation took its name in 1976 when founder Daikichirō Kusube cut ties with Tokyo Movie, and every Doraemon feature it has made is released through Toho.
Q 30In the first Doraemon feature film, 1980's Nobita's Dinosaur, which creature hatches from the fossil egg Nobita finds?
A Futabasaurus
A Futabasaurus named Piisuke soon outgrows Nobita's room and has to be hidden in a lake, and the story was remade in 2006 as the first film of the rebooted series.