Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
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40 free Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is remembered above all for its character list. Released in 2007 for PlayStation 2 and Wii, it gathered heroes and villains from the original Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and the films, and treated each transformation as a fighter with its own moves. This quiz works through that roster: the Saiyans, the androids, Frieza's soldiers, the movie villains and the newcomers who had never been playable in the series before. A few questions cover the game itself, including its modes, its stages and the differences between the two console versions. It is written for anyone who spent hours on the character select screen, and for Dragon Ball fans who want to see how many of the fighters they can still place.
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Q 01Which fighter on Budokai Tenkaichi 3's roster is Goku's father, the hero of a 1990 TV special?
Bardock
Bardock is a low-level Saiyan soldier who foresees Frieza destroying his home planet and tries to stop it. His infant son Kakarot is sent to Earth, where he grows up as Goku.
Q 02Budokai Tenkaichi 3's English roster gives which name to Mr. Satan, who took credit for beating Cell?
Hercule
Hercule replaced the name Mr. Satan in Funimation's first English dub, and the game's English roster kept it. Viz's English manga uses the same name for the champion.
Q 03Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is Frieza's father, cut down on Earth by Future Trunks?
King Cold
King Cold lands on Earth with his rebuilt cyborg son to take revenge on Goku. A teenager who has travelled back from the future kills them both before Goku has even returned.
Q 04Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is Goku's wife and the daughter of the Ox-King?
Chi-Chi
Chi-Chi is one of the fighters this third game adds to the series roster. As a boy, Goku agreed to marry her only because he thought marriage was a kind of food.
Q 05Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter, born the same day as Goku, has a Legendary Super Saiyan form?
Broly
Broly is the villain of three 1990s Dragon Ball Z films, and his name is a pun on broccoli. Saiyans are traditionally named after vegetables.
Q 06Budokai Tenkaichi 3's night stages let Saiyans with tails turn into Great Apes by using what?
A full moon
A full moon hangs over the night version of several stages, and tailed Saiyans can use it to grow into Great Apes. Some Saiyans instead create their own Power Ball, even when the real thing is already overhead.
Q 07In Budokai Tenkaichi 3, adult Gohan can become which superhero disguise from his school days?
Great Saiyaman
Great Saiyaman is the superhero persona Gohan invents with Bulma's help to hide his identity at high school. His classmate Videl works out who he is and blackmails him into teaching her to fly.
Q 08Budokai Tenkaichi 3's guest fighter Arale Norimaki comes from which other Akira Toriyama manga?
Dr. Slump
Dr. Slump was Toriyama's hit comedy manga before Dragon Ball, running in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. Its heroine is a little robot girl built by the scientist Senbei Norimaki.
Q 09Which feature of Budokai Tenkaichi 3, a first for the series, was exclusive to the Wii version?
Online multiplayer
Online multiplayer came only to the Wii version, with a ranking system comparing players around the world. IGN's reviewers still complained that the Wi-Fi matches lagged.
Q 10Counting every transformation as its own fighter, Budokai Tenkaichi 3 has how many playable forms?
161
161 forms across 98 characters make up the roster. Each transformation, such as a Super Saiyan state, counts as a fighter with its own moves.
Q 11Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter is Goku's older brother, who arrives on Earth and kidnaps Gohan?
Raditz
Raditz orders Goku to kill 100 Earthlings within a day if he wants his son back. Goku teams up with Piccolo instead, and dies holding his sibling still for the finishing blow.
Q 12Which elderly Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter, inventor of the Kamehameha, has a Max Power form?
Master Roshi
Master Roshi is the lecherous Turtle Hermit who teaches martial arts from a small island. In his early appearances he wears a turtle's shell on his back and carries a walking stick.
Q 13Budokai Tenkaichi 3's Dragon World Tour has a random-fighter game named after which ex-bandit?
Yamcha
Q 21Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is the Namekian bodyguard who later fuses with Piccolo?
Nail
Nail guards Namek's Grand Elder and loses an arm fighting Frieza, whose power is roughly twelve times his own. Beaten, he asks Piccolo to merge with him so they stand a better chance against the tyrant.
Q 22Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is a kind Red Ribbon Army creation who befriends Goku as a boy?
Android 8
Android 8 is sent against Goku as a weapon, but he dislikes fighting and defects from the army instead. The boy suggests a friendlier name for him, Eighter in the anime.
Q 23Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is a Red Ribbon Army officer who can paralyse foes with telekinesis?
General Blue
Yamcha is always the final opponent of the Yamcha Game, which picks the player's character, customization and colour at random. He enters the story as a bandit and an early antagonist of Goku.
Q 14Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter is Goku's best friend, with six moxibustion burns on his forehead?
Krillin
Krillin fights nearly every villain beside Goku and often supplies the comic relief. Toriyama joked that the character, drawn without a nose, breathes through the pores of his skin.
Q 15Which horned Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter leads a five-man squad and can swap bodies with a foe?
Ginyu
Captain Ginyu wounds himself almost fatally before trading bodies with Goku, leaving the hero in the dying one. His squad's silly poses came from the sentai TV shows Toriyama watched with his children.
Q 16Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter is Frieza's older brother, the villain of two Dragon Ball Z films?
Cooler
Cooler travels to Earth with three henchmen to reclaim his family's honour after Goku defeats his sibling. He returns in the next film after his brain fuses with a sentient spaceship's computer.
Q 17Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter do Goku and Vegeta form by fusing with a pair of Potara earrings?
Vegito
Vegito appears when the two rivals each put on one matching earring, on opposite ears. Viz's English manga gives the same fighter the name Vegerot.
Q 18Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter invades Earth with Vegeta, then is killed by the prince for losing?
Nappa
Nappa sends out Saibamen as grunts to size up Earth's defenders before he fights them himself. Several of the heroes die in the battle, then he loses easily once Goku arrives.
Q 19Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 fighter is Goku's granddaughter and space companion in Dragon Ball GT?
Pan
Pan crosses the universe with Goku and Trunks to gather a scattered set of Dragon Balls. If the trio fail to collect them all within a year, the Earth will explode.
Q 20Which overweight samurai on Budokai Tenkaichi 3's roster cuts off Vegeta's tail as he fights Goku?
Yajirobe
Yajirobe mostly supports the heroes from the sidelines, but that one cut turns Vegeta back to normal. He first meets Goku by getting angry at the boy for stealing his fish.
General Blue is seemingly the army's most powerful member, yet he is condemned for failing to bring back the Dragon Balls. Given one duel to redeem himself, he is killed by a hitman using only his tongue.
Q 24Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer fought in the crew of Goku's father until Frieza's men destroyed it?
Fasha
Fasha is the only woman in that Saiyan team, and the game gives her a Great Ape form. Players unlock her by clearing one of the Dragon World Tour's modes on Level 3 difficulty.
Q 25Which winged Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer does King Piccolo create to hunt down tournament fighters?
Tambourine
Tambourine beats a weakened Goku so badly that the hero's Saiyan body bounces back far stronger. In their rematch Goku vaporises him with a Kamehameha.
Q 26Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer entered a tournament to buy water for his drought-hit village?
Nam
Nam loses to Goku, then learns the water he wanted was free all along and he only needed a way to carry it home. He leaves with a capsule that can hold a well's worth.
Q 27Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is the warlock whose mind control leaves an M on victims' foreheads?
Babidi
Babidi uses his enslaved warriors to gather energy for reviving Majin Buu. He keeps the monster in line only by threatening to seal him away again, and Buu eventually kills him.
Q 28Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer viciously beats Videl in the first round of the World Tournament?
Spopovich
Spopovich shrugs off every blow she lands, even an apparently broken neck, because a spell has taken over his mind. He had lost easily to her famous father at the previous tournament.
Q 29Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is a scientist's living brain hunting for Earth's strongest body?
Dr. Wheelo
Dr. Wheelo is the villain of the film The World's Strongest, his brain kept alive by technology after his body died. His assistant gathers the Dragon Balls to wish his lab free from a wall of ice.
Q 30Which Budokai Tenkaichi 3 newcomer is the fire-wielding Shadow Dragon of the Four-Star Dragon Ball?
Nuova Shenron
Nuova Shenron is one of seven Shadow Dragons born from misuse of the Dragon Balls. He sits out rather than gang up on Goku when his brother, the ice dragon, joins the fight.