Inazuma Eleven
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50 free Inazuma Eleven trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Inazuma Eleven turns school football into something closer to a superhero story. A goalkeeper called Mark Evans drags a failing club at Raimon Junior High back to life, and soon every match is settled by hissatsu techniques: shots that bend the laws of physics, saves backed by towering spirits, and combination attacks that get stranger the further the story goes. This quiz follows the whole franchise. There are questions on the original trilogy and its rival schools, on the hissatsu techniques and the players who use them, on the GO era and Victory Road, and on the games, anime and manga behind it all. A few of the funnier moments from the early episodes are in here too. It is written for fans who grew up with the first games or the TV series, and for newer players who arrived with Victory Road. Characters go by their English names, with the Japanese originals mentioned where that helps.
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Q 01Which birds rise from the pitch and fly with the ball in Royal Academy's three-player shot in Inazuma Eleven?
Penguins
Penguins give Emperor Penguin No. 2 its name. The move is a safer reworking of an earlier shot that put a heavy strain on the body of whoever used it.
Q 02Inazuma Eleven takes its title from a legendary Raimon team; what does the Japanese word inazuma mean in English?
Lightning
Lightning is the meaning, so the title reads as Lightning Eleven: a name first carried by the Raimon side of forty years earlier, coached by Mark Evans's grandfather.
Q 03Which Japanese studio, also behind Professor Layton and Yo-kai Watch, created the Inazuma Eleven series?
Level-5
Level-5 built a whole franchise around the first game within months, with a manga and a TV anime both starting in the same year, 2008.
Q 04On which portable console did the first Inazuma Eleven game launch in Japan in August 2008?
Nintendo DS
Nintendo DS owners ran their team with the stylus, dragging players around the pitch and tapping to pass between teammates.
Q 05In Inazuma Eleven 2, what do the mysterious players who wreck Raimon Junior High claim to be?
Aliens
Aliens is the story they tell, and the only way to stop them is to beat them at football, so Raimon tours Japan in a van recruiting new players.
Q 06What does Inazuma Eleven hero Mark Evans always wear on his head and call his trademark?
An orange headband
An orange headband is his trademark, and the colour stays with him: as an adult he comes back to coach Raimon in an orange shirt.
Q 07Which signature shot does Axel Blaze use to score Raimon's first goal against Royal Academy in Inazuma Eleven?
Fire Tornado
Fire Tornado has the striker spin through the air with his legs wrapped in flame. Followed up on Kevin Dragonfly's shot, it becomes the combination Dragon Tornado.
Q 08Which goalkeeping technique from his grandfather's notes does Mark Evans first use to stop Royal Academy's Death Zone?
God Hand
God Hand conjures a huge hand of energy, and a watching detective recognises it as one of the legendary techniques of the original Inazuma Eleven.
Q 09Which team drinks a strength-boosting potion before meeting Raimon in the Football Frontier final in Inazuma Eleven?
Zeus
Zeus were running away with the match until, in the game, manager Nelly Raimon swapped their spiked drinks for plain water at half-time.
Q 10In Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, what relation is the gifted Raimon striker Harper Evans to original hero Mark Evans?
His son
His son: Harper Evans is a forward rather than a goalkeeper, and his mother is Nelly, the chairman's daughter who once managed his father's team.
Q 11Which goggle-wearing Royal Academy captain in Inazuma Eleven is the older brother of Raimon manager Celia Hills?
Jude Sharp
Jude Sharp was adopted into a wealthy family at six, and struck a deal to win three straight national titles so that his sister could live with him again.
Q 12Which Inazuma Eleven 2 recruit turns from defender to striker by taking on the identity of his late brother Aiden?
Shawn Froste
Shawn Froste keeps his brother's white scarf, which lets him slip into the aggressive striker's identity. The two sides finally merge during the match against The Genesis.
Q 13Which Royal Academy commander has the brake fluid drained from Raimon's bus before a final in Inazuma Eleven?
Ray Dark
Q 21Which punching save does Mark Evans only master in Inazuma Eleven after taking surfing lessons from Hurley Kane?
Fist of Justice
Fist of Justice relies on the same move surfers use to avoid a wipeout, and his grandfather conceived it as an unfinished technique that keeps on evolving.
Q 22Which former rival captain plays for South Korea against Inazuma Japan in the Asian final?
Byron Love
Byron Love, known as Aphrodi in Japan, tells a puzzled Mark Evans that he is simply Korean, and he brings two former Alius Academy captains into the side with him.
Q 23Which old friend of manager Silvia Woods joins Raimon in Inazuma Eleven after years of letting her think he was dead?
Erik Eagle
Ray Dark tried again at the match itself, sending steel girders crashing down towards Raimon, and a detective arrested him on the spot.
Q 14What kind of restaurant does Seymour Hillman run before agreeing to coach Raimon in Inazuma Eleven?
A ramen shop
A ramen shop called Rairaiken is his living, but forty years earlier he was goalkeeper and captain of the original Inazuma Eleven.
Q 15Which organisation, led by a disguised Axel Blaze as Holy Emperor, fixes youth match scores in Inazuma Eleven GO?
Fifth Sector
Fifth Sector sends each school a score order before kick-off, and plants its own trained players, called SEEDs, in the teams to keep them obedient.
Q 16Which Inazuma Eleven GO hero took up football after Axel Blaze's ball saved him from falling planks as a child?
Arion Sherwind
Arion Sherwind was a small boy in Okinawa trying to rescue a puppy when the striker's shot knocked the planks aside, and he later chose Raimon because of it.
Q 17In the first Inazuma Eleven game, hissatsu techniques come in four types: Shoot, Dribble, Block and which other?
Catch
Catch techniques belong to the goalkeeper, and like every hissatsu in the games they use up a player's TP, short for Technical Points.
Q 18Which school club did defender Nathan Swift leave to help Mark Evans's understaffed football team in Inazuma Eleven?
Athletics
Athletics lost a sprinter when Nathan Swift agreed to make up the numbers against Royal Academy, and a younger clubmate later begged him to come back to the track.
Q 19Where is the timid defender Jack Wallside found hiding before Raimon first face Royal Academy in Inazuma Eleven?
In a locker
In a locker, and he had a hard time getting back out. Early on, the huge defender also kept asking to visit the bathroom before kick-off to hide his nerves.
Q 20Which hangout do Raimon visit to scout the Otaku team in the first season of the Inazuma Eleven anime?
A maid cafe
A maid cafe is the Otaku team's hangout. Its players want the tournament prize money so they can fly to America and buy a limited-edition figurine.
Erik Eagle was told after a childhood accident that he would never play again, so he had his father say he had died; treatment in America proved the doctors wrong.
Q 24Which transfer student joins Raimon in Inazuma Eleven as a spy for Royal Academy, then decides to stay for real?
Bobby Shearer
Bobby Shearer was only meant to hang around and report back, but watching how hard Raimon worked changed his mind and he threw in his lot with them.
Q 25Which Alius Academy team, captained by Janus, flattens Raimon Junior High at the start of Inazuma Eleven 2?
Gemini Storm
Gemini Storm beat Raimon twice before losing 2-1 at the third attempt, and they turn out to be only the second-rank team, with stronger sides waiting behind them.
Q 26Which team coached by Mark Evans's supposedly dead grandfather meets Inazuma Japan in Inazuma Eleven 3's world final?
Little Gigantes
Little Gigantes were the outsiders nobody expected to go far in the tournament, and Nelly Raimon had spent time as their manager before the final.
Q 27Which historical figure's aura is fused with Raimon defender Gabriel Garcia in Inazuma Eleven GO Chrono Stone?
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is drawn here as a timid girl in large square glasses who gives the visitors home-made sweets. Two attempts to fuse her aura with another player fail before she finds her courage.
Q 28Which knight of the Round Table names the Fighting Spirit summoned by striker Victor Blade in Inazuma Eleven GO?
Lancelot
Lancelot is billed as a Sword Saint in the Japanese name of the spirit, and Victor Blade is introduced as an enemy who attacks Raimon's second team on day one.
Q 29In Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, what stopped hero Destin Billows from playing football when he was a child?
A heart condition
A heart condition made him collapse in the middle of a match, so he guides his new school's team as a tactician, calling the plays for the others.
Q 30Which animation studio, best known for the Pokémon anime, produced the original Inazuma Eleven TV series?
OLM
OLM also animated the GO sequels, the Ares and Orion series and the crossover film, keeping the whole franchise under one roof.