70 free Hunter X Hunter trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
61 free Hunter x Hunter trivia questions with answers. Hunter x Hunter rewards the kind of fan who remembers which finger Kurapika's Judgment Chain is on and how many times Tonpa has failed the exam. This quiz covers the manga and both anime series: the Hunter Exam, Zoldyck family, Heavens Arena, Yorknew City, Greed Island, the Chimera Ant arc, the chairman election and the Dark Continent, plus Nen theory, the Phantom Troupe's numbers and abilities, Togashi's hiatuses and the two films. The questions start easy (who draws the series, where Gon grew up, Killua's Nen type) and climb to genuinely hard ones about Kastro's Nen mismatch, Biscuit's gem, Palm's crystal ball and the 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour short. Every answer was checked against a documented source and the citation is shown under each explanation, so a Discord argument about who won the popularity polls can be settled on the spot. Play it solo, or use it as a Hunter x Hunter round for an anime club or a night with friends who have all seen the 2011 series twice.
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Q 01Who writes and draws Hunter x Hunter?
Yoshihiro Togashi
Togashi had already finished YuYu Hakusho and Level E before starting the series in 1998.
Q 02Hunter x Hunter has been serialized since March 1998 in which magazine?
Weekly Shonen Jump
The same Shueisha magazine that ran Dragon Ball, One Piece and Naruto.
Q 03Togashi is married to the creator of which other famous manga?
Sailor Moon
Naoko Takeuchi married him in January 1999 and helped apply screentone to the first volume of Hunter x Hunter.
Q 04Which earlier Togashi series, about a teenage spirit detective, won the Shogakukan Manga Award?
YuYu Hakusho
It ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1990 to 1994; Togashi has said the stress of that serialization is one reason he guards his health now.
Q 05How is the '×' in the title Hunter × Hunter pronounced?
It is silent
Togashi came up with the doubled title while watching the variety show Downtown, whose hosts repeat phrases for comic effect.
Q 06Which of Togashi's own hobbies inspired the premise of a manga about Hunters?
Collecting objects
The working title was literally '(something) Hunter' before the doubled name stuck.
Q 07The manga's longest hiatus ended on October 24, 2022. How long had it lasted?
3 years 11 months
Togashi revealed that back and hip problems had stopped him sitting for two years, so he drew the returning chapters lying down.
Q 08Where does Gon Freecss grow up before leaving to take the Hunter Exam?
Whale Island
He is raised there by Mito, technically Ging's cousin, whom he calls his aunt and considers his real mother.
Q 09Who tells young Gon that his father Ging is alive and a famous Hunter?
Kite
Kite, Ging's own student, saved Gon from a foxbear three years before the story starts while searching for Ging as his final test.
Q 10Roughly what is the success rate of the annual Hunter Exam?
Less than 1 in 100,000
Tonpa the 'Rookie Crusher' has taken it 35 times without passing, mostly because he is busy sabotaging first-timers.
Q 11Which of Gon's friends fails the Hunter Exam after killing another applicant?
Killua Zoldyck
He passes the following year by eliminating every other applicant in the very first trial.
Q 12Kurapika is the sole survivor of which clan, whose scarlet eyes the Phantom Troupe stole?
The Kurta
Togashi has said Kurapika's design was inspired by the Ohmu of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
Q 13Why does Leorio want the money that comes with a Hunter licence?
To become a doctor and treat the poor for free
Q 21Which of Kurapika's chains stabs an enemy's heart and issues a command that kills them if disobeyed?
The pinky chain
The thumb chain heals, the ring finger dowses, the middle finger holds Chain Jail and the index finger's syringe steals abilities.
Q 22Hisoka's favorite ability gives his aura the properties of both rubber and gum. What is it called?
Bungee Gum
His other trick, Texture Surprise, can make a handkerchief look like skin, which is how he hides wounds and fakes deaths.
Q 23In the manga, how do Hisoka's sentences typically end?
With a playing-card suit symbol
He lost a friend to a curable illness neither of them could afford to treat.
Q 14Which basic Nen technique shuts off the flow of aura entirely, hiding your presence?
Zetsu
Ten keeps aura in the body, Ren produces more of it, and Hatsu is a user's personal application.
Q 15Nen users are classified into how many types based on their Hatsu?
6
Enhancers, Emitters, Manipulators, Transmuters, Conjurers and Specialists; a water-divination test reveals which one you are.
Q 16What is Gon's Nen type?
Enhancement
His signature attack, Jajanken, borrows its rock-paper-scissors framing from the Japanese name for the game.
Q 17Killua transmutes his aura into which form?
Electricity
A childhood of torture-training left him tolerant of electric shocks; his Godspeed ability turns that into blinding speed.
Q 18What did Illumi secretly plant in Killua's brain to force him to flee any fight he might not win?
A needle
Killua removes it himself during the Chimera Ant arc, which is why he can finally stand and fight Rammot.
Q 19Kurapika's Nen type is Conjuration, but what does he temporarily become when his eyes turn scarlet?
A Specialist
In that state Emperor Time lets him use every Nen type at 100 percent, at the cost of an hour of his life for every second it is active.
Q 20What price did Kurapika pledge to make his Chain Jail unbreakable against the Phantom Troupe?
His own life if he uses it on anyone else
This 'Nen contract' with self-imposed restrictions is the series' explanation for why limits make an ability stronger.
The magician motif runs through everything about him, including his taste for a fight so strong it arouses him.
Q 24What number does Hisoka hold in the Phantom Troupe, a slot he took only for a shot at fighting Chrollo?
4
The number was previously held by Omokage, the invented villain of the film Phantom Rouge, and later passes to a Zoldyck sibling.
Q 25How many members does the Phantom Troupe's roster hold at any one time?
13
Each carries a numbered tattoo of a twelve-legged spider, and anyone who kills a member may take their place.
Q 26Chrollo and most of the original Troupe grew up in which lawless slum?
Meteor City
The gang started out as children doing live voice-over dubs of foreign TV shows, and turned violent after one of them was abducted and murdered.
Q 27Where does Chrollo Lucilfer store the Nen abilities he steals with Skill Hunter?
In a conjured book
Despite leading the Troupe he ranks only seventh among its members in raw physical strength.
Q 28Which Troupe member, the strongest in raw physical power, is killed by Kurapika's Judgment Chain?
Uvogin
Bullets, sniper rounds and anti-tank rockets bounced off him; refusing to answer Kurapika's questions is what killed him.
Q 29Which Troupe member reads memories by touch and can fire them into others' heads as bullets?
Pakunoda
She dies by deliberately breaking Kurapika's restrictions to pass Chrollo's captors' identities to the rest of the Spiders.
Q 30Shizuku conjures a Nen vacuum cleaner that sucks up almost anything. What does she call it?
Blinky
It cannot suck up living things or Nen objects, a rule that matters when the Troupe cleans up bodies.