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50 free Kamen Rider trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kamen Rider has been on Japanese television, on and off, for more than half a century. Each year brings a new masked hero with a new belt, a new gimmick and a new set of rivals, and the catalogue now runs from cold-war cyborgs to time travellers, detectives, ghosts and gamers. This quiz covers the whole run. There are questions on the original 1971 show and the people who made it, on the lead heroes and the secondary Riders who steal their scenes, on the villains, the collectible gimmicks and the motifs behind the suits, and on the actors who went on to bigger things. A few questions follow the franchise abroad, to its American adaptations and its big-screen reboots. The opening questions suit anyone who has caught a few episodes or knows the pose. The later ones are for viewers who can tell their eras apart and remember who wore the second belt. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a miss still leaves you knowing more than before.
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Q 01Which manga artist, also the creator of Cyborg 009, dreamed up the bug-eyed hero Kamen Rider?
Shotaro Ishinomori
Shotaro Ishinomori holds the Guinness World Record for most comics published by one author, more than 128,000 pages. A producer asked him to design a masked hero in 1970.
Q 02Takeshi Hongo, the original Kamen Rider who debuted in 1971, has a helmet modelled on which insect?
A grasshopper
A grasshopper became the motif when the hero was redesigned in planning. The show had started out as an adaptation of an earlier manga called Skull Man.
Q 03Which evil organisation kidnaps student Takeshi Hongo and rebuilds him as the first Kamen Rider?
Shocker
Shocker meant to brainwash Hongo as well, but he escaped just before that final step and turned his new strength against his makers.
Q 04Which word do Kamen Rider heroes shout while striking a pose to trigger their transformation belts?
Henshin
Henshin means 'transformation', and the first show's popularity set off what Japan called the Henshin Boom of superhero television in the early 1970s.
Q 05Which Neon Genesis Evangelion creator wrote and directed the 2023 reboot film Shin Kamen Rider?
Hideaki Anno
Hideaki Anno made it his third reimagining of a classic Japanese screen hero, after Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, to mark the franchise's 50th anniversary.
Q 06Saban's Masked Rider, a 1995 American take on Kamen Rider, began as a spin-off of which series?
Power Rangers
Power Rangers featured the hero in its three-part episode 'A Friend in Need' before his own show began. The solo series reused footage from Kamen Rider Black RX.
Q 07Which Japanese studio, whose producer proposed a 'Masked Hero Project' in 1970, makes Kamen Rider?
Toei
Toei watched the 1971 original turn into a merchandise phenomenon. About 3.8 million toy transformation belts were sold in roughly two years.
Q 08For more than twenty years, Kamen Rider shared a Sunday-morning hour on TV Asahi with which team-based hero franchise?
Super Sentai
Super Sentai filled the other half-hour of the block, named Super Hero Time, giving Japanese children a full hour of costumed heroes every Sunday morning.
Q 09Kamen Rider Drive, police officer Shinnosuke Tomari, broke tradition by riding what instead of a motorcycle?
A car
A car named Tridoron is his main machine, a first for the hero of the franchise. Entertainment news called the switch a shock.
Q 10The heroes of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, a series with a video-game motif, mostly share which profession?
Doctors
Doctors fill the Rider ranks here: an intern, an elite surgeon, an unlicensed 'dark doctor' and a coroner, all treating patients infected by a living computer virus.
Q 11Which actor, the original Kamen Rider, was thrown from his motorcycle while filming episode 10?
Hiroshi Fujioka
Hiroshi Fujioka was hurt so badly that most of the staff wanted his character killed off. The producer refused, and a second hero covered for him until he returned.
Q 12Which Kamen Rider Kuuga star lent his name to an 'effect' where handsome leads attract mothers?
Joe Odagiri
Joe Odagiri played the adventurer Yusuke Godai, and producers found the show drawing women around 30. The next series cast three good-looking leads to repeat the trick.
Q 13Which Rurouni Kenshin film star first played unlucky Ryotaro Nogami in Kamen Rider Den-O?
Takeru Satoh
Q 21Kamen Rider Quiz, a riddle-loving guest hero from the year 2040, appears in which time-travel series?
Zi-O
Zi-O brings him back to 2019 to search for his missing father. His riddle-based fighting style is later copied by a rival Rider's futuristic form.
Q 22Which Kamen Rider, a self-styled prophet with a book of prophecies, declares 'Rejoice!' at each new upgrade?
Woz
Woz carries the Ohma Advent Calendar, a book that details his master's rise to power, and he can trap a target by ripping out its pages.
Q 23What are the monsters called that the villainous Time Jackers create, each based on a past Kamen Rider hero?
Another Riders
Another Riders are beaten with a Ride Watch that matches the copied hero, or with a stronger form. Unchecked, they replace the originals in history.
Takeru Satoh was diagnosed with a collapsed lung during the shoot and has since recovered. He credits the show's popularity to its comedic timing.
Q 14Kamen Rider Den-O's hero travels through time aboard the DenLiner, which is what kind of vehicle?
A train
A train that runs through time carries him between eras with Momotaros, a hot-headed spirit from the future who possesses him to fight.
Q 15Kamen Rider Build's main form, made by pairing two Fullbottles, combines a tank with which animal?
A rabbit
A rabbit and a tank make up his main form. Each Fullbottle holds the essence of a living or non-living thing, taken from defeated monsters called Smash and then purified.
Q 16Kamen Rider's eras follow Japan's imperial reigns: which one opened with the 30th series, Kamen Rider Zero-One?
Reiwa
Reiwa opened with Kamen Rider Zero-One, a story about artificial intelligence in which hacked androids called Humagears are turned against humanity.
Q 17What is the original Kamen Rider's motorcycle called, a machine redesigned for a 2023 film reboot?
Cyclone
Cyclone had to be rebuilt on a modern bike for the film, because its designer found the original machine's silhouette impossible to recreate faithfully.
Q 18Which Kamen Rider, an amnesiac photographer, travels through nine worlds of earlier heroes?
Decade
Decade marked the tenth anniversary of the franchise's Heisei era, which is where the name comes from, and closed the first phase of that era.
Q 19In Kamen Rider W, criminals become monsters using Gaia Memories, which resemble what everyday gadgets?
USB flash drives
USB flash drives inspired the Gaia Memories, which a wealthy family sells to criminals. Unrestrained use can drive a user insane or even kill them.
Q 20Which freelance photographer, saved from brainwashing by the first Kamen Rider, becomes Kamen Rider 2?
Hayato Ichimonji
Hayato Ichimonji took over protecting Japan when his rescuer left to fight abroad, a twist written to cover for a lead actor who had been injured.
Q 24Which Kamen Rider, a resistance soldier from 2068, goes back in time to kill a future tyrant?
Geiz
Geiz wears armour themed on a digital watch. He sets out to kill the schoolboy fated to become a tyrant, then ends up fighting at his side.
Q 25Which Kamen Rider series, set at Amanogawa High School, marked the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight?
Fourze
Fourze marked 50 years since Yuri Gagarin's flight and the franchise's own 40th birthday. Its catchphrase: 'Switch on youth 'cause we're going into space!'
Q 26Kamen Rider Super-1's Kazuya Oki volunteers for cybernetic surgery in the United States to do which job?
Astronaut
Astronaut was the plan: his rebuilt body could survive in outer space without a bulky suit. An attack on the base ended the mission before he could leave Earth.
Q 27In Kamen Rider Black, the Gorgom cult turns the hero's stepbrother Nobuhiko into which rival 'Century King'?
Shadow Moon
Shadow Moon and the hero were both born during a solar eclipse, so the cult named them after a darkened sun and moon and fated them to fight for its throne.
Q 28Which Kamen Rider, student Shiro Kazami, is rebuilt by two earlier heroes after being mortally wounded?
V3
V3 carries 26 special powers, most of them revealed one at a time across the series. His war begins when the group Destron murders his family.
Q 29Which Kamen Rider is Joji Yuki, a scientist who turns against his former masters in the evil group Destron?
Riderman
Riderman joins the series hero near the end of the war on Destron, then sacrifices himself to save Japan and is named Kamen Rider 4 in tribute.
Q 30In Kamen Rider Stronger, cyborg Yuriko Misaki fights beside the hero under which name?
Tackle
Tackle, in full Electro-Wave Human Tackle, was built by the same villains as the hero. She later sacrifices herself to protect him in battle with the Delza Army.