Jaiden Animations
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40 free Jaiden Animations trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jaiden Animations turned stories about awkward childhood moments, family holidays and a very demanding pet bird into one of the most watched animation channels on YouTube. Since 2014 she has moved from short personal sketches to long, lovingly animated accounts of video game challenges, and her audience has grown with her. This quiz covers the whole story: her early life and first steps as an animator, the Pokémon Nuzlocke runs that became fan favourites, the friends and fellow creators who turn up in her videos, the contests she has won, and the prizes and charity drives along the way. It is written for fans who have watched the channel for years, and for newer viewers who want to see how much they have picked up. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing a little more about the person behind the drawings.
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Q 01Jaiden Animations won MrBeast's 2024 contest among 50 YouTubers by outlasting her rivals inside what?
A glass cube
A glass cube held all fifty creators while challenges whittled them down. Jaiden survived to the last five, then won the final bluffing game over a briefcase holding $1,000,000.
Q 02Jaiden Animations drew whose gaming chair into her YouTube Rewind 2018 scene after he was left out?
PewDiePie
PewDiePie was then the most-subscribed YouTuber, yet the official recap skipped him. Viewers cheered Jaiden's quiet tribute even as the video itself became the most disliked on the site.
Q 03Ari, the pet bird who stars in many Jaiden Animations videos, is which kind of small parrot?
Green-cheeked conure
Green-cheeked conure is Ari's species, and Jaiden calls the bird a brat who screams for attention and flings fruit. Ari came from a breeder in 2016 and soon won over her doubtful mother.
Q 04Jaiden Animations' 2019 video about attempting her first Nuzlocke challenge followed her through which Pokémon game?
Ruby
Ruby was her pick, the very game in which student Nick Franco first invented the challenge's rules in 2010. She had long said she was too busy to try one.
Q 05In Jaiden Animations' first Nuzlocke video, which starter Pokémon did she choose and nickname Teriyaki?
Torchic
Torchic earned the name Teriyaki after rescuing Professor Birch from a wild Poochyena. The fire chick stayed in her party for the whole run and was one of only two team members to survive it.
Q 06Jaiden Animations' 2020 video about setting a speedrun world record featured a sequel from which Nintendo DS series?
Cooking Mama
Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends had never been speedrun, so her run for every gold medal set the record by default. Runs of the game multiplied soon after her video went up.
Q 07Jaiden Animations won the Animated category in December 2020 at which ceremony for online video creators?
Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards nominations had started for her two years earlier. The 2020 ceremony was socially distanced, so its hosts handed out the prizes from a party bus touring Los Angeles.
Q 08Which story-time animator, known offline as James Rallison, often joins Jaiden Animations in the Animation Squad?
TheOdd1sOut
TheOdd1sOut and Jaiden both belong to the Animation Squad, a group of animators who often make videos together. He went on to co-create the Netflix cartoon Oddballs.
Q 09In her 2022 video Being Not Straight, Jaiden Animations came out as asexual and which other orientation?
Aromantic
Aromantic and asexual, often shortened to aro-ace, was how she described herself. YouTube later ranked the video among its top trending uploads of the year.
Q 10Jaiden Animations was born in the United States, but both of her parents come from which country?
Canada
Canada is where both of her parents are from, and her mother is of Japanese descent. The family often headed north to visit while she was growing up.
Q 11Jaiden Animations pledged to spend her $1,000,000 MrBeast prize sending some of her subscribers where?
Art school
Art school was her promise, since the prize was meant to be given away to subscribers. Animating her own account of the contest then took her until the following month.
Q 12Jaiden Animations grew up in which desert US state before revealing in 2018 that she had moved to California?
Arizona
Arizona was home throughout her childhood and a brief spell studying animation at college. She says fans often ask whether her bird Ari is named after the state, and the answer is no.
Q 13Which gaming YouTuber, real name Jacob Rabon, became Jaiden Animations' housemate and frequent video collaborator?
Alpharad
Q 21What is the name of Jaiden Animations' second pet bird, first revealed during her 2020 charity livestream?
Tofu
Tofu was unveiled hours into the stream, because Jaiden held back the surprise so that more viewers could arrive first. The bird had quietly joined the household the previous autumn.
Q 22In her first Nuzlocke video, Jaiden Animations named which bird Pokémon after her real-life pet Ari?
Taillow
Taillow got the name after she read that the species is aggressive and screams when hungry, much like her pet. It evolved into Swellow and survived to the end of the run.
Q 23Which Nintendo DS dinosaur-battling game did Jaiden Animations champion in her video The Most Underrated Game Ever?
Fossil Fighters
Alpharad, best known for Super Smash Bros. videos, moved with Jaiden to the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles around late 2022. YouTube Gaming later crowned the Pokémon challenge runner its Nuzlocke King.
Q 14Before launching her own channel in 2014, Jaiden Animations made animations for which gaming YouTuber?
iHasCupquake
iHasCupquake noticed fan art that a teenage Jaiden had sent in and offered her animation work. Jaiden started her own channel at the age of 16.
Q 15Which English musician recorded the 2018 song Empty with Jaiden Animations, drawing on her own health struggles?
Boyinaband
Boyinaband, real name David Brown, made the track with Jaiden about her experience of eating disorders. He was already known for the viral school-system critique Don't Stay in School.
Q 16Jaiden Animations raised over $73,000 for charity to play which character in a Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl tournament?
CatDog
CatDog was the fighter her donors helped choose after she posted a video asking for support. The 2021 charity invitational was run with the esports organisation Panda Global.
Q 17The 2019 MrBeast airsoft tournament in which Jaiden Animations fired a winning shot promoted which video game?
Apex Legends
Apex Legends had just launched, and publisher Electronic Arts sponsored the real-life battle royale among YouTubers to promote it. Winning a round earned her team $100,000.
Q 18Jaiden Animations' Nuzlocke videos use a challenge named after a Nuzleaf drawn like a character from which TV drama?
Lost
Lost supplied half the name: creator Nick Franco's webcomic drew a Nuzleaf to resemble John Locke. Under his rules a Pokémon that faints counts as dead and can never be used again.
Q 19Jaiden Animations joined #HopeFromHome, a 2020 COVID-19 relief livestream started by which gaming YouTuber?
Jacksepticeye
Jacksepticeye launched the World Health Day fundraiser, and Jaiden streamed for four hours with prizes for fans. She used the broadcast to reveal her second pet bird.
Q 20Jaiden Animations passed 10 million subscribers in June 2021, qualifying for which YouTube Creator Award?
Diamond
Diamond is the Creator Award for 10 million subscribers, a crystal play button set in silver-plated metal. Jaiden marked the milestone by thanking her team for keeping her inspired.
Fossil Fighters has players dig up dinosaur bones and revive them as battling vivosaurs. Jaiden's 2020 playthrough mixed animation with game footage and lingered on its odd sense of humour.
Q 24Jaiden Animations' video The best pokemon game you never played praised an entry in which Pokémon spin-off series?
Ranger
Ranger was the series and Shadows of Almia the entry she loved. Its players befriend wild Pokémon by circling them with the Nintendo DS stylus instead of battling them.
Q 25Which life-sim series did Jaiden Animations revisit in a 2020 video arguing its first game was much darker?
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing's original game was the one she went back to, setting it against the gentler New Horizons. She had grown up on the later Wild World and New Leaf instead.
Q 26Jaiden Animations' two-player Nuzlocke video, made with a close friend, was played on which pair of Pokémon games?
HeartGold and SoulSilver
HeartGold and SoulSilver hosted the run, a Soul Link in which the two players' Pokémon are paired, so losing one removes its partner too. The encounters were randomised as well.
Q 27In 2023, Jaiden Animations began streaming on a multilingual Minecraft server created by which streamer?
Quackity
Quackity built the QSMP server around live automated translation so that creators speaking different languages could play together. Jaiden and fellow member Roier were paired there to raise an egg named Bobby.
Q 28Jaiden Animations was a contestant on YIAY Time: The Game Show, a 2021 YouTube Original hosted by which comedian?
Jacksfilms
Jacksfilms spun the show out of Yesterday I Asked You, his long-running series in which he reads out his audience's best answers to a question.
Q 29In Jaiden Animations' 2020 Platinum Nuzlocke video, which Pokémon did she catch and gloomily name Failure?
Shinx
Shinx had been her first target, but her starter Turt knocked one out by accident. Hoping for a Shellos in Floaroma Town, she met another instead and caught it under that rueful name.
Q 30Jaiden Animations donated to which 2019 environmental fundraiser launched by MrBeast and Mark Rober?
Team Trees
Team Trees promised one tree planted for every dollar given and reached its target of 20 million before 2020 began. The Arbor Day Foundation handled the planting.