Final Fantasy VI
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
50 free Final Fantasy VI trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Final Fantasy VI is the game many fans still call the best in the series. Square's 1994 Super NES epic swapped the usual castles and crystals for steam and steel, gave the spotlight to a whole ensemble instead of a single hero, and let its villain get much further than villains usually do. This quiz covers the lot: Terra, Locke, Celes and the rest of the cast, Kefka's worst deeds, the towns and wildernesses of both halves of the story, Espers and the combat system, the famous score, and the developers and translators behind it all. A few questions dig into how the game changed on its way to the West and in later re-releases. It is written for anyone who has played the game, whether on an original cartridge or a modern remaster. Start with the famous moments, then see how far your memory of the details goes.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01In Final Fantasy VI, Sabin can famously suplex which ghostly vehicle into the ground?
A train
A train carrying the dead to the afterlife, the Phantom Train, can be flipped by his wrestling move. Fans love the scene so much that Square Enix reanimated it for the Pixel Remaster after complaints.
Q 02Final Fantasy VI first went on sale in North America under which series number?
Three
Three was the number on the box because only two earlier entries had been released in North America. Every later version, apart from straight re-releases, went back to the Japanese numbering.
Q 03To trap a gambler with an airship in Final Fantasy VI, Celes poses as the lead in what kind of show?
An opera
An opera needs a stand-in because the gambler plans to kidnap its diva, Maria, and Celes looks just like her. IGN counted the impromptu performance among the game's most memorable scenes.
Q 04Final Fantasy VI's Kefka had his crazy personality modelled on which DC Comics character?
The Joker
The Joker was the model for a villain the artist wanted to be completely insane. Early sketches tried several outfits on Kefka, all inspired by circus clowns.
Q 05Which 17-minute piece with an organ cadenza accompanies Final Fantasy VI's final battle?
Dancing Mad
Dancing Mad builds variations on Kefka's own theme as the fight climbs toward his godlike final form. Its composer later arranged the piece for his rock band.
Q 06What must players do on Final Fantasy VI's Floating Continent to keep the ninja Shadow alive?
Wait for him
Wait for him at the airship until the timer has almost run out and Shadow leaps aboard; leave early and he is gone for good. The writers originally intended him to die there.
Q 07What colour is Terra's hair in Final Fantasy VI itself, though promotional art shows her blonde?
Green
Green was the pixel artist's demand: so many characters in the concept paintings were blonde that Terra would have been hard to tell apart. The painter kept her blonde in his own art anyway.
Q 08Final Fantasy VI's foot soldiers Biggs and Wedge are named after characters from which film series?
Star Wars
Star Wars supplied both names: Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles. The pair made their debut here and have returned as comic relief in many later games in the series.
Q 09CNET called which sound made by Final Fantasy VI's Kefka one of gaming's greatest sound effects?
His laugh
His laugh became the villain's signature. One music professor calls it quasi-musical and praises how much personality the sound engineers packed into so limited an effect.
Q 10Nearing a castle in Final Fantasy VI, what does Kefka make soldiers dust off in mid-desert?
His boots
His boots were an off-the-cuff idea from the writer, who found a plain march to the castle too boring. The gag was meant to suggest the villain was not entirely sane.
Q 11Which composer felt he could quit game music with no regrets after scoring Final Fantasy VI?
Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu felt he had reached his main goal with a score that gives every major character a theme. His own favourite among the cast was the young painter Relm.
Q 12Which artist was given complete creative freedom to design Final Fantasy VI's Kefka?
Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano worked from only brief character outlines. It was his last game as the series' main designer, though he went on designing the logos of later entries.
Q 13Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi gave up directing Final Fantasy VI to serve in which role instead?
Producer
Q 21What is the Empire's Esper-powered war technology called in Final Fantasy VI?
Magitek
Magitek draws on captured Espers to power walking armour and to give soldiers spells. Kefka was its first human test subject, and the flawed process broke his mind.
Q 22What are the spell-teaching remains of dead Espers called in Final Fantasy VI?
Magicite
Magicite lets almost any hero learn magic, and some shards add a stat bonus at each level-up. Dying Espers in the Empire's laboratory take this form by choice to aid the party.
Q 23Which combat system, built on action bars that refill by speed, does Final Fantasy VI use?
Active Time Battle
Producer was the job left to him after his promotion to executive vice president. He split the directing between two younger colleagues and supervised their work.
Q 14Which rebel group recruits Terra to fight the Empire near the start of Final Fantasy VI?
The Returners
The Returners are led by Banon and secretly supplied by King Edgar, who poses as the Empire's ally. Their plan is to win the Espers over to their side.
Q 15What device does the Empire use to control Terra's mind at the start of Final Fantasy VI?
A slave crown
A slave crown kept her obedient through the raid that opens the game. Once it comes off, she remembers little beyond her own name.
Q 16What is the name of the airship the party flies in the first half of Final Fantasy VI?
The Blackjack
The Blackjack is the only known airship anywhere until Kefka's cataclysm destroys it. Its owner then raises a dead friend's ship from her tomb to fly again.
Q 17How did Final Fantasy VI's twins Edgar and Sabin settle which of them would take Figaro's throne?
A coin toss
A coin toss freed Sabin to leave the court, but Edgar had rigged it with a two-headed coin so his brother would go free. The same trick coin later wins the party an airship.
Q 18Which Esper does Locke hunt for in Final Fantasy VI for the sake of his lost love Rachel?
Phoenix
Phoenix revives Rachel only long enough for her to tell him to move on, with her blessing for Celes. Guilt over her death is why the thief is so driven to protect women.
Q 19What is the name of the Doberman that follows the ninja Shadow everywhere in Final Fantasy VI?
Interceptor
Interceptor trusts almost nobody, yet takes to the young painter Relm at once, an early hint about his master's past. Nintendo Power once praised him as a wonder dog.
Q 20What name is given to the shattered, post-apocalyptic second half of Final Fantasy VI?
World of Ruin
World of Ruin follows the World of Balance. The writers split the story in two because they were tired of heroes who always save the planet at the last moment.
Active Time Battle debuted in Final Fantasy IV and became the series' traditional system. Here up to four heroes fight at once, each with a special command of their own.
Q 24Final Fantasy VI's rare Desperation Attacks were an early form of which later series staple?
Limit Breaks
Limit Breaks made the idea famous in the very next game, and it has returned as Trances and Overdrives. Here the move appears only by chance when a hero's health is low.
Q 25Which command lets Final Fantasy VI's Celes absorb most enemy spells cast before her next turn?
Runic
Runic was first planned for Locke, who began life as a dark, mysterious swordsman with a magic-sealing blade. When he became an ordinary thief, the skill passed to Celes.
Q 26On which monster-filled wilderness was Final Fantasy VI's feral child Gau raised by animals?
The Veldt
The Veldt gathers monsters from every corner of the map, which is how Gau learns his Rages: he leaps into a pack and returns having picked up its attacks.
Q 27In Final Fantasy VI's second half, Terra stops fighting to care for whom in Mobliz?
Orphaned children
Orphaned children see her as a mother, and defending them from a demon is what brings her back to the party. Next Generation magazine suggested the episode might be the series' finest hour.
Q 28In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka ends a siege by poisoning the water of which kingdom, home of Cyan?
Doma
Doma falls in moments, and Cyan's wife and child are among the dead. Kefka acted as soon as a more honourable general was called away, and is later jailed for it during a sham peace.
Q 29Final Fantasy VI opens in which mining town, where Terra is sent to seize a frozen Esper?
Narshe
Narshe's frozen Esper reacts to Terra, killing her escorts and knocking her out. The town's moogles then help Locke get her to safety through the mines.
Q 30Whom does Final Fantasy VI's Kefka betray and kill to take the statues' power for himself?
Gestahl
Gestahl, the Emperor, wanted only enough power to rule, while Kefka wanted all of it. Struck down by the statues, the old ruler is kicked off the edge of the Floating Continent.