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50 free Luigi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Luigi started life in 1983 as a green palette swap of Mario for a second player, and spent decades in his brother's shadow before Nintendo handed him a haunted mansion, a vacuum cleaner and, in 2013, an entire year of his own. Along the way he became the better jumper, the worse coward and the owner of what Polygon called an inferiority complex unparalleled in gaming. These 50 questions cover the whole green career: Mario Bros. and Joust, The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 2, the games that left him out, the voices from Charles Martinet to Kevin Afghani, Danny Wells, John Leguizamo and Charlie Day, Luigi's Mansion and Professor E. Gadd, the Poltergust 3000 and Game Boy Horror, King Boo and the Portrificationizer, Dark Moon, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Gooigi, Mr. L in Super Paper Mario, New Super Luigi U, Dr. Luigi, the Chicago train painted green and the theories about where his name came from. Easy questions stick to the basics; the hard tier asks about the Japanese Mario Kart 64 voice and the 1986 anime's odd colour scheme. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a Mario night.
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Q 01Who created Luigi?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto: his team needed a character for a second player, and with memory tight they simply gave Mario's graphics a different set of colours.
Q 02How does Nintendo officially describe Mario and Luigi's relationship?
Twins, with Luigi the younger
Twins, with Luigi the younger: he is nonetheless the taller of the two, a look the Western version of Super Mario Bros. 2 gave him after years as Mario's exact double.
Q 03Which Mario-series heroine is usually portrayed as Luigi's love interest?
Daisy
Daisy: the tomboyish ruler of Sarasaland made her debut in Super Mario Land as a princess for Mario to rescue, yet it is his brother she is usually paired with.
Q 04Which 1982 arcade game inspired the two-player mode of Mario Bros., the game that introduced Luigi?
Joust
Joust: its second player rode a stork alongside the first, free to help or hinder, and Luigi was Nintendo's answer to that second rider.
Q 05One theory says Luigi's name comes from the Japanese word 'ruiji', meaning what?
Similar
Similar: apt for a hero who began as a recoloured copy of his brother, though Nintendo has never confirmed the origin, and another story credits a pizza parlour called Mario & Luigi's.
Q 06Who voiced Luigi in Nintendo's games for three decades until 2023?
Charles Martinet
Charles Martinet: he was Mario, Wario and Waluigi as well, and when he gave up the roles Nintendo kept him on with the new title of Mario Ambassador.
Q 07Which game introduced Kevin Afghani's Luigi?
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Super Mario Bros. Wonder: fans had spent weeks guessing who the new voice of both brothers would be, and Afghani only confirmed he had the roles a week before the game went on sale.
Q 08Who voices Luigi in the animated Super Mario Bros. movie released in 2023?
Charlie Day
Charlie Day: his Luigi spends most of the film as Bowser's prisoner waiting for Mario to come, the reverse of the Luigi's Mansion games, where Luigi does the rescuing.
Q 09Who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film?
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo: his Luigi is far younger than Bob Hoskins's Mario, who has raised him like a son since their parents died.
Q 10Danny Wells's Luigi starred beside which wrestler's Mario in a 1989 television show?
Lou Albano
Lou Albano: he and Wells played the plumbers in live-action sketches and voiced them in the cartoons, and Wells died during Nintendo's own Year of Luigi.
Q 11A 2013 Nintendo mockumentary hailed Luigi as a legend of which street sport?
Parkour
Parkour: in 'Finding Luigi', free-runners praise a legend who has mysteriously quit the scene, and two film-makers set out to track him down.
Q 12What did Nintendo's 2013 'Year of Luigi' celebrate?
His 30th anniversary
His 30th anniversary: Nintendo also happened to have two big Luigi games in the works at once, and plenty of its staff had been keen to make games with him in the lead.
Q 13Which Nintendo CEO announced the Year of Luigi while wearing Luigi's cap?
Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata: he said Luigi had spent too long as a supporting act to his brother, and for the year a Mii of Iwata dressed in green was sent out to players' handhelds as well.
Q 21Which ghost created the mansion Luigi 'wins' in a contest he never entered?
King Boo
King Boo: the prize was bait, his revenge for all the Boos the brothers had beaten over the years, and for the last fight he hides inside a huge imitation of Bowser.
Q 22In the first Luigi's Mansion, where does Luigi finally find his missing brother?
Trapped inside a painting
Trapped inside a painting: Luigi carries the canvas out of the mansion, and Mario is only freed when the machine that turns ghosts into portraits is run in reverse.
Q 23In the first Luigi's Mansion, what does a frightened Luigi do in time with the music in dark rooms?
Hum nervously
Q 14Which US city's elevated train was rebranded for the Year of Luigi in 2013?
Chicago
Chicago: the city's elevated railway is nicknamed the 'L', so for a day its Brown Line ran green as the 'Luigi Line', with a costumed Luigi on board to meet riders.
Q 15At the end of the first Luigi's Mansion, what decides how grand Luigi's new house will be?
The treasure he collected
The treasure he collected: the haunted mansion fades away as an illusion, but the money and jewels Luigi vacuumed up were real, and they pay for a home graded from rank A down to H.
Q 16Which Mario & Luigi RPG was part of the 2013 Year of Luigi line-up?
Dream Team
Dream Team: its makers wanted to fill the screen with dozens of Luigis at once, and setting much of the game inside his sleeping head was their excuse to do it.
Q 17Luigi's Mansion was a launch title for which console in 2001?
GameCube
GameCube: the game grew out of a demo made to show what the new machine's graphics could do, and was kept short on purpose, to be finished in a few hours and played again.
Q 18Which professor equips Luigi with ghost-hunting gear in Luigi's Mansion?
E. Gadd
E. Gadd: the elderly Elvin Gadd bursts in to save Luigi from his first ghost, fails to catch it, and hands over his equipment on learning that Mario, lost somewhere inside, is Luigi's brother.
Q 19What does Luigi use to capture ghosts in the first Luigi's Mansion?
Poltergust 3000
Poltergust 3000: it is a souped-up household vacuum cleaner, and once Luigi finds the right medals it can also hurl flame or ice at the ghosts that plain suction cannot beat.
Q 20In Luigi's Mansion, Luigi's Game Boy Horror is modelled on which real handheld?
The Game Boy Color
The Game Boy Color: a newer Game Boy was already on sale, but the designers chose the older one as more recognisable, and so nobody would think the game linked up with the new handheld.
Hum nervously: once a room's ghosts are caught and the lights come on, his mood lifts and he cheerfully whistles the same tune instead.
Q 24Finishing the first Luigi's Mansion unlocks which harder second mode?
Hidden Mansion
Hidden Mansion: Luigi's vacuum is stronger but so are the ghosts, and in European copies of the game the whole building is flipped into its own mirror image.
Q 25Waluigi, Luigi's lanky arch-rival, made his debut in a game about which sport?
Tennis
Tennis: Camelot, the studio making Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, designed him as a rival for Luigi and a partner for Wario.
Q 26Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013) was released for which system?
3DS
3DS: a fitting home, since Nintendo had built a working 3D version of the first game back in 2001 and shelved it because the special screen would have cost more than the console.
Q 27Which studio developed Luigi's Mansion 3?
Next Level Games
Next Level Games: the Vancouver studio had also made Dark Moon, and little more than a year after the third game came out Nintendo bought the company outright.
Q 28Gooigi, Luigi's gooey green double, falls apart the moment he touches fire or what else?
Water
Water: being made of goo, he can ooze through grates and stroll across spikes that would stop Luigi, but a single splash is enough to dissolve him.
Q 29What is the haunted hotel in Luigi's Mansion 3 called?
The Last Resort
The Last Resort: the free holiday there is a trap, and Luigi has to win back the lift buttons one by one to work his way up its seventeen floors.
Q 30Which award did Luigi's Mansion 3 win at The Game Awards 2019?
Best Family
Best Family: a second player can drop in at any moment as Luigi's double, Gooigi, and up to eight can hunt ghosts together in its multiplayer modes.