Final Fantasy Trivia
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This Final Fantasy trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and covers all sixteen numbered games plus the spin-offs, remakes, film and crossovers. It opens with the origin story - the 1987 Famicom game that was supposed to be Square's last, why it is called Final Fantasy at all, and the artist who invented chocobos and moogles - then works through the classics: Kefka and the opera in VI, Cloud, Sephiroth, Aerith and Materia in VII, Squall's Junction system, Zidane's medieval Gaia, Tidus and blitzball, the failed launch and triumphant rebirth of XIV, Noctis's road trip and Clive's Eikons. You will also meet the people behind the games - Hironobu Sakaguchi, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoshitaka Amano, Tetsuya Nomura, Naoki Yoshida - and the wider universe: Tactics and Ivalice, Dissidia, Kingdom Hearts, The Spirits Within and the VII Remake trilogy. About a third of the questions are easy warm-ups for anyone who has summoned Bahamut; the rest are for people who know what 'Kupo' means. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01The first Final Fantasy debuted in 1987 on which console?
Famicom (NES)
The Famicom (NES) original took until 1990 to reach North America, by which time Japan was already playing its second sequel.
Q 02Which mercenary with an oversized Buster Sword is the hero of Final Fantasy VII?
Cloud Strife
Cloud Strife inherited the Buster Sword from his dying friend Zack, who told him he would be his living legacy.
Q 03What was the first Final Fantasy's working title before trademark worries forced a change?
Fighting Fantasy
Fighting Fantasy was already the name of a gamebook series, so 'Final' was swapped in; the series' creator later said any title that shortened to FF would have done.
Q 04In the original Final Fantasy, the four heroes are known collectively as what?
The Warriors of Light
The Warriors of Light arrive as blank slates: before the adventure starts, the player decides which four classes make up the party and is locked into that choice.
Q 05Which pink-haired former sergeant is the heroine of Final Fantasy XIII?
Lightning
Lightning is a name she chose: born Claire Farron, the ex-sergeant sets out to save her sister Serah after the state declares the girl its enemy.
Q 06In which Final Fantasy game did chocobos first appear?
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy II introduced the big yellow birds as a way to cross the map without random battles; they have turned up in nearly every game since and become the series mascot.
Q 07The Moogle's Japanese name, mōguri, is thought to blend the words for which two animals?
Bat and mole
Bat and mole is the pairing their creator recalls: Moogles sport small bat-like wings, and the first ones, in the series' third game, were cave-dwellers guarding a wizard.
Q 08Which Final Fantasy game introduced the Active Time Battle system?
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV brought it in after its designer watched a Formula One race, saw cars pass one another at different speeds and decided faster characters should get more turns.
Q 09Final Fantasy VI first reached North America in 1994 under which number?
III
III was the number on the box: several earlier games had never left Japan, so Square renumbered the ones it did release to hide the gaps.
Q 10Which numbered Final Fantasy has the main series' largest permanent playable cast, at fourteen?
VI
Final Fantasy VI was written so that every character is the protagonist; after the world is ruined the cast is scattered, and the player chooses whom to gather again.
Q 11Which clown-faced villain of Final Fantasy VI starts out as the Emperor's court mage?
Kefka
Kefka murders his own Emperor, seizes godlike power and actually wrecks the world, leaving the scattered heroes to regroup in its ruins.
Q 12Final Fantasy VII was originally in development for which console before Square switched to Sony?
Super Nintendo
Super Nintendo plans were shelved while the team helped finish Chrono Trigger; the game then outgrew cartridges, and Square moved it and every other project to the CD-based PlayStation.
Q 13In Final Fantasy VII, what is the processed form of the planet's Lifestream that Shinra exploits for energy called?
Mako
Mako is the planet's lifeblood in liquid form, sucked up by Shinra's reactors; left to harden, it becomes Materia, the orbs that grant magic.
Q 21In Final Fantasy IX, the thief Zidane Tribal kidnaps which princess?
Garnet Til Alexandros XVII
Garnet Til Alexandros XVII was no unwilling captive: she was already planning to flee the castle when Zidane's troupe of thieves turned up to snatch her.
Q 22Final Fantasy X was the first game in the series to feature what?
Voice acting
Voice acting changed the writing itself: with actors carrying the emotion, the scenario writer kept the plot simpler, and faces were animated to lip-sync with the speech.
Q 23In Final Fantasy X, Tidus is a star player of which fictional sport?
Blitzball
Q 14Which item revives a knocked-out party member in most Final Fantasy games?
Phoenix Down
Phoenix Down is a tuft of the legendary bird's soft feathers; thrown at an undead enemy, the same reviving tuft can hurt it or kill it outright.
Q 15Sephiroth's enormous sword is named after which famous Japanese swordsmith?
Masamune
Masamune, working around 1300, is widely called Japan's greatest swordsmith; old lore made Muramasa his pupil, but scholars dismiss it, since that smith's surviving blades are far too recent.
Q 16Sephiroth's powers come from being injected as a fetus with cells from which alien?
Jenova
Jenova's cells made him superhuman; when Sephiroth learned how he had been created, he burned the town of Nibelheim to the ground.
Q 17In Final Fantasy VII, Aerith is revealed to be the last surviving member of which ancient race?
The Cetra
The Cetra could commune with the planet, and Shinra hunts Aerith in the belief that the last of them can lead it to a Promised Land brimming with energy.
Q 18Tetsuya Nomura, who once drew monsters for Final Fantasy V, went on to direct which 2005 Final Fantasy VII film?
Advent Children
Advent Children, a sequel to the game, was his first film as a director; he also redrew for the screen the heroes he had designed for the 1997 original.
Q 19What did Final Fantasy VIII do before any other game in the series?
Use realistic body proportions
To use realistic body proportions, VIII dropped the squat, big-headed figures of every earlier game; it also gave the series its first vocal theme song, Faye Wong's 'Eyes on Me'.
Q 20What is the collectible card minigame in Final Fantasy VIII called?
Triple Triad
Triple Triad outlived its own game: it returned years later, cards and all, as an attraction of the Gold Saucer theme park in Final Fantasy XIV.
Blitzball is played underwater inside a huge floating sphere; Tidus is swept out of a championship match, and out of his own world, when a monster attacks the stadium.
Q 24Which numbered Final Fantasy was the first to get a direct sequel, in 2003?
X
X was followed by X-2, the series' first direct sequel, in which its summoner heroine returns as a sphere hunter leading an all-female cast.
Q 25Final Fantasy XI (2002) was the first MMORPG shared between Windows PCs and which console?
PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2 was where it launched: the series' creator had pushed Square to make an online game after being impressed by the western hit EverQuest.
Q 26Which subtitle did the 2013 release of Final Fantasy XIV carry?
A Realm Reborn
A Realm Reborn replaced a failed 2010 original and wrote that failure into the plot: the old game ended with a caged dragon god bursting from a falling moon and laying waste to the world, which the new game then rebuilt.
Q 27In which fictional region is Final Fantasy XIV set?
Eorzea
Eorzea is where every player begins, in one of its rival city-states, decided by their starting class: forest Gridania, desert Ul'dah or seafaring Limsa Lominsa.
Q 28Final Fantasy XV began life in 2006 as a PlayStation 3 spin-off under what title?
Versus XIII
Versus XIII sat in development for six years before it was promoted to a numbered game, handed to a new director and rebuilt for newer consoles.
Q 29Who are Noctis's travelling companions in Final Fantasy XV?
Gladiolus, Ignis and Prompto
Gladiolus, Ignis and Prompto ride with him on a road trip in the royal car, the Regalia, pitching camp at night, where Ignis cooks meals that strengthen the party.
Q 30In Final Fantasy XVI, what are the summoned monsters called that humans known as Dominants can host?
Eikons
Eikons are fought as well as hosted: the hero battles each giant in turn and, once its Dominant is beaten, adds that monster's powers to his own.