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50 free Dragon Ball Z trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Dragon Ball Z ran for 291 episodes between 1989 and 1996 and turned a martial-arts adventure into the model for modern action anime. Its heroes die and come back, its villains end up as family, and one shouted line about a power level became a famous internet meme. This DBZ quiz covers the whole run: the Saiyan arrival, the fight with Frieza, the Cell Games and the Buu saga, along with the transformations, signature attacks and name puns that fans love to argue about. It also goes behind the scenes, with questions on the manga, the films, the Japanese and English voice casts and the edits made for American television. The opening questions suit anyone who watched after school. The later ones are for viewers who know their filler episodes and their dub history, so the hard and expert rounds earn the name. Every answer comes with a short explanation, which means even a miss teaches you something.
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Q 01Goku of Dragon Ball Z shares his name with the monkey hero of which classic Chinese novel?
Journey to the West
Journey to the West stars Sun Wukong, whose name is read 'Son Goku' in Japanese. The monkey tail, the staff and the flying cloud all came along with it.
Q 02Goku's Kamehameha wave in Dragon Ball Z is named after the first ruler of which island kingdom?
Hawaii
Hawaii's Kamehameha the Great lent the attack its name after the creator's wife suggested it as one that would be easy to remember. The author named every other technique himself.
Q 03Dragon Ball Z's Buu, Bibidi and Babidi take their names from a song in which Disney film?
Cinderella
Cinderella features the song 'Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo', which splits into the three names. Buu's genie-like look came from Arabian Nights adaptations the author watched as a child.
Q 04Which film star's glare was the model for Goku's Super Saiyan stare in Dragon Ball Z?
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was the reference: designer Tadayoshi Yamamuro said the first Super Saiyan's slanting pose and scowl were 'all Bruce Lee'. The manga's piercing eyes copied his glare too.
Q 05In Dragon Ball Z, what device does Vegeta crush after reading Goku's power level as 'over 9,000'?
Scouter
Scouter readings became a meme thanks to this line, yet the original Japanese script says 'over 8,000'. The English dub's higher figure is the one that went viral.
Q 06In Dragon Ball Z, what birth name was Goku given before being sent to Earth as a baby?
Kakarot
Kakarot is a pun on 'carrot', in line with the series' habit of naming every Saiyan after a vegetable. Goku first hears the name from Raditz.
Q 07In which special room can Dragon Ball Z's heroes squeeze a year of training into a single day?
Hyperbolic Time Chamber
The Hyperbolic Time Chamber is where Gohan first turned Super Saiyan beside Goku, and where Vegeta and Trunks pushed past that level before facing Cell.
Q 08Which showboating martial arts champion wrongly gets the credit for defeating Cell in Dragon Ball Z?
Mr. Satan
Mr. Satan claimed the win and the media believed him, turning a fraud into a world hero. Early English dubs renamed him Hercule.
Q 09In Dragon Ball Z, on which planet does Goku first turn Super Saiyan after Frieza kills Krillin?
Namek
Namek does not survive the fight: Goku escapes as the planet explodes around him. The transformation turns his hair blond and his eyes green.
Q 10Why did the author of Dragon Ball Z's manga give Super Saiyan Goku blond hair?
To save his assistant time
To save his assistant time: the helper had been spending a lot of it blacking in Goku's hair, and the blond form was easier to draw.
Q 11How is Raditz, the alien warrior who lands on Earth to open Dragon Ball Z, related to Goku?
His older brother
His older brother arrives to recruit him into conquering planets, and Goku only wins by pinning Raditz in place while Piccolo blasts through them both.
Q 12Which healing item, grown by the cat Korin, instantly restores wounded fighters in Dragon Ball Z?
Senzu beans
Senzu beans are so reliable that Goku handed one to Cell before Gohan's turn in the Cell Games, a decision fans consider infamous.
Q 13What must a Saiyan with a tail see to transform into a rampaging Great Ape in Dragon Ball Z?
A full moon
Q 21In Dragon Ball Z, which son first meets Goku when his father returns from the afterlife for one day?
Goten
Goten grew up without him because Goku chose to stay in the afterlife after the Cell Games. Their first meeting comes at the World Martial Arts Tournament.
Q 22In Dragon Ball Z, what will kill Goku unless he takes the medicine Trunks brings from the future?
A heart virus
A heart virus is due to kill Goku six months before his friends are wiped out. Thanks to the medicine he survives when it strikes him in the middle of a fight.
Q 23In Dragon Ball Z, which attack does Piccolo fire through both Goku and Raditz to end their fight?
Special Beam Cannon
A full moon triggers the change, so Vegeta creates an artificial one to force it during his first fight with Goku.
Q 14Which manga artist, already famous for Dr. Slump, created the series that Dragon Ball Z adapts?
Akira Toriyama
Akira Toriyama also drew the character designs for the Dragon Quest games and Chrono Trigger. Dr. Slump had already made him a household name in Japan.
Q 15Which Cartoon Network block turned reruns of a cancelled Dragon Ball Z dub into an American hit?
Toonami
Toonami began airing the shelved dub in August 1998, and the 1999 premiere of new episodes became the highest-rated program Cartoon Network had shown up to then.
Q 16Which artificial human, built to kill Goku, ends Dragon Ball Z married to Krillin with a daughter?
Android 18
Android 18 was spared when Krillin smashed the remote that could shut her down, having fallen for her. Seven years on they are married with a daughter, Marron.
Q 17In Dragon Ball Z, which attack does Goku charge with energy from all of Earth to finish Kid Buu?
Spirit Bomb
The Spirit Bomb finally got its kill here: an earlier one, thrown by Krillin, only wounded Vegeta, and another failed to finish Frieza.
Q 18In Dragon Ball Z, which technique does Goku bring home from his year on the planet Yardrat?
Instant Transmission
Instant Transmission is what Goku brings home from a year in space, and he later uses it to carry a self-destructing Cell away from Earth at the cost of his own life.
Q 19Whose afterlife planet is blown up when Goku teleports an exploding Cell there in Dragon Ball Z?
King Kai
King Kai is killed along with everyone else there, on the planet where Goku once trained after running the million-kilometre Snake Way.
Q 20In Dragon Ball Z, which member of Frieza's five-man mercenary squad can swap bodies with a foe?
Ginyu
Ginyu steals Goku's body mid-fight, cannot control its power, and ends the saga trapped as a frog after Goku throws one into the path of his next swap.
The Special Beam Cannon kills Goku along with his enemy, since he was holding Raditz still. In 2013 Japanese schoolgirls turned the attack into a photo meme.
Q 24Which Dragon Ball Z movie villain, the 'Legendary Super Saiyan', was born on the same day as Goku?
Broly
Broly was invented for the films by screenwriter Takao Koyama and proved so popular that the series' creator rebuilt him as an official character for a 2018 movie.
Q 25In Dragon Ball Z, which fused warrior do Goku and Vegeta become by wearing matching Potara earrings?
Vegito
Vegito completely overwhelms Buu, though Vegeta agreed to the merger only reluctantly. The pair's dance-fused form in the films goes by a different name, Gogeta.
Q 26Which Dragon Ball Z classmate blackmails Gohan into teaching her to fly after learning his secret?
Videl
Videl was already fighting crime in the city on her own, and the flying lessons lead to marriage: by the end of the series she and Gohan have a daughter.
Q 27What superhero name does Gohan adopt, with help from Bulma, to fight crime in Dragon Ball Z?
Great Saiyaman
The Great Saiyaman disguise does not last: a classmate soon works out who he is and uses the secret as blackmail to get what she wants.
Q 28In Dragon Ball Z, what does Chi-Chi make Goku and Piccolo earn even though both of them can fly?
A driver's license
A driver's license each: the detour is filler that appears only in the anime, and it pairs the hero with the rival who once killed him.
Q 29In Dragon Ball Z, which scientist designed Cell from the cells of Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and Frieza?
Dr. Gero
Dr. Gero left the job to a machine: his supercomputer grew Cell in an underground complex beneath his secret laboratory.
Q 30Which 2009 series re-edited DBZ in high definition and cut most filler to follow the manga closely?
Dragon Ball Kai
Dragon Ball Z Kai was made for the show's 20th anniversary, and 'Kai' means updated or altered. In Japan it aired simply as Dragon Ball Kai, and it exists because the manga's author declined to write a brand-new story.