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50 free MapleStory trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
MapleStory has been running since 2003, and few online games inspire as much nostalgia. Players who logged in after school remember the boat rides, the party quests, the first job advancement at level 10 and the long grind that followed. The side-scrolling world has kept growing ever since, adding new classes, new continents and a story that now stretches across more than one world. This quiz covers the whole game. There are questions on the playable characters, from the original Explorer jobs to the heroes who sealed the Black Mage and the Resistance fighters who came later. Others visit the towns of Victoria Island and Ossyria, the raid bosses that guilds queued up to fight, and Pink Bean, the oddest boss of them all. A good share looks back at the game as it was before the Big Bang update, and a few cover the studio, the publisher, the anime and the spin-off games. It suits returning players, current mains and anyone who wants to test a guild mate. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess teaches something about Maple World.
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Q 01MapleStory 2 traded the original's 2D look for blocky 3D worlds that reviewers likened to which game?
Minecraft
Minecraft was the comparison Polygon's Julia Lee drew for the sequel's blocky look. Its global servers opened in October 2018 and shut in May 2020, lasting under two years.
Q 02MapleStory Adventures, a spin-off that ran from 2011 to 2013, was built for which social network?
Facebook hosted the game, which passed three million monthly players within seven weeks of its open beta. Every strike on a monster spent energy from a pool that refilled in real time.
Q 03Which currency do MapleStory players earn from monsters and quests and spend in trades?
Mesos
Mesos drop from monsters and come as quest rewards. Many of the taxis, ships and teleport stones that link the game's towns charge a fare in them too.
Q 04Which low-level MapleStory monster is Kino, a main character of the 2007 anime series, based on?
Orange Mushroom
Orange Mushroom is the model for Kino, who gathers shiny stones as a present for his mother. His cousin Kiki, a Blue Mushroom, lives on Victoria Island.
Q 05MapleStory N, a blockchain version from 2025, was kept out of which country, the series' homeland?
South Korea
South Korea restricted play-to-earn games, so the country that created MapleStory was left out at launch. The game turns fixed-supply items into tokens that players can own and trade.
Q 06Which real warlord appears in fictional form as the enemy of MapleStory's Sengoku warrior classes?
Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga is the foe the Sengoku classes set out to stop. Two men from his real-life circle, Mori Ranmaru and Akechi Mitsuhide, turn up as raid bosses as well.
Q 07Which MapleStory store sells outfits, pets and other premium extras, most of them temporary?
Cash Shop
The Cash Shop takes real-world currency for avatars, digital pets and other virtual goods. By 2010 more than a million players of the global version had bought something there.
Q 08Which peaceful prairie town on Victoria Island is where MapleStory beginners go to become bowmen?
Henesys
Henesys is where archers are made, and Athena Pierce is said to be one of the last of the elves who settled it. The monsters to its south train players from level 10 to 30.
Q 09Nexon, the publisher of MapleStory, has kept its headquarters since 2005 in which Asian capital city?
Tokyo
Tokyo became Nexon's base in 2005, eleven years after Kim Jung-ju founded the company. It listed on the city's stock exchange in 2011, in Japan's biggest share offering of that year.
Q 10Which big cat does a Wild Hunter, one of MapleStory's Resistance classes, ride while firing a crossbow?
Jaguar
Jaguar mounts carry the Wild Hunter into battle, and players catch their own in the wild. The rarer breeds grant a small permanent bonus when captured.
Q 11Which MapleStory hero, one of six who sealed the Black Mage, is an elven archer wielding dual bowguns?
Mercedes
Mercedes fights with dual bowguns and begins her story in the past, in Elluel. Like the other heroes, she paid for the victory by being sealed away herself for centuries.
Q 12Which MapleStory raid boss began as a spirit sealed in a tree, corrupted by the greed of nearby miners?
Zakum
Zakum grew clever enough to control a mining town, made its people build a giant monument to it, then killed them all. Players prize the helmet it drops.
Q 13Which MapleStory stat, a measure of popularity, can other players raise or lower for a character?
Fame
Fame goes up or down at other players' say-so. In the Japanese version, only characters with 300 or more of it can sail back to the starter island.
Q 21Which of the five Explorer classes in MapleStory arrived later than the rest as an expansion job?
Pirate
Pirate was the latecomer, a cross between a warrior and an archer that leans on both strength and dexterity. At the second job it chooses between fighting with knuckles and firing guns.
Q 22Which of the four Resistance jobs in MapleStory goes into battle with an arm cannon?
Blaster
The Blaster wields the arm cannon, while its Resistance comrades favour a staff, a crossbow or a robotic suit. All of them train in a town run by the very cult they oppose.
Q 23Which Japanese studio produced the 25-episode MapleStory anime that aired in 2007 and 2008?
Madhouse
Q 14Which town, the most urban on MapleStory's Victoria Island, is where beginners train to become thieves?
Kerning City
Kerning City is ringed by half-built construction sites, and its subway is a popular training ground. In some versions its swamp hides Dyle, a huge alligator with a bird on its back.
Q 15Which coastal town of fishermen is the first stop for MapleStory players leaving Maple Island?
Lith Harbor
Lith Harbor greets every newcomer on the south-western corner of Victoria Island. The Big Bang patch later tied it to every other town on the island through a single crossroads.
Q 16Which MapleStory hero is a magician who found a dragon near his home and now fights alongside it?
Evan
Evan is a Dragon Master, a magician whose dragon fights at his side. His older brother Utah hands out quests and looks after a pig farm.
Q 17Which MapleStory hero is a thief who can copy the skills of Explorer classes and travels in an airship?
Phantom
Phantom mimics skills from Explorer characters, and his airship, the Lumiere, can travel anywhere. His storyline opens on board.
Q 18In which MapleStory trading area could players open their own small stores after buying a special permit?
Free Market
The Free Market let permit holders open miniature stores that admitted three customers at a time. Hired merchants, from teddy bears to robots, could mind the stall while the owner played on.
Q 19Which MapleStory town of living toys has a Clock Tower dungeon where the boss Papulatus hides?
Ludibrium
Ludibrium runs on the Time Sphere, an energy supply that Papulatus slipped through a dimensional crack to drain. That contamination is what turned the town's harmless toys into monsters.
Q 20Which power-hungry dragon, a MapleStory raid boss, hides in the Cave of Life after stealing a sacred egg?
Horntail
Horntail rebelled against the gentle Nine Spirits Dragon that shields Leafre, wounded it and made off with its egg. Beating him earns a necklace that boosts every stat.
Madhouse made the series, which follows a young warrior named Al on a quest to revive the World Tree. A 26th episode was released only on DVD.
Q 24Which studio developed the original MapleStory before Nexon bought the company in 2004?
Wizet
Wizet was set up in April 2001 and released MapleStory two years later. Its first leader, Seung-chan Lee, had been lead developer on an earlier Nexon game.
Q 25Regulators fined Nexon a record sum in 2024 for quietly changing the odds on which paid MapleStory item?
Cubes
Cubes are bought with real cash, and the regulator found that Nexon had lowered their odds over a decade without telling players. The fine came to about US$8.9 million.
Q 26Which MapleStory world, opened in North America in December 2015, switched off player trading?
Reboot
Reboot disabled trading and made equipment drops match the player's own class. Its monsters were tougher than usual but paid out more experience.
Q 27Which MapleStory hero, a warrior who starts out in Rien, builds combo counts by landing hits on monsters?
Aran
Aran has the Combo System, which turns a run of hits into buffs and powers skills that spend the count. The polearm-wielding hero wakes in Rien centuries after the war with no memories.
Q 28Which MapleStory class is the sixth hero, whose existence was erased when the Black Mage was sealed?
Shade
Shade is the hero nobody remembers, the price paid when the seal was cast. The class calls on spirits to help in battle.
Q 29Which MapleStory hero is a magician who also commands dark magic absorbed from the Black Mage?
Luminous
Luminous is by training a magician of light, so he fights with both forces. His story eventually brings him to Lania's house in Ellinia.
Q 30Which MapleStory class was split into two characters, Alpha and Beta, on the orders of the Black Mage?
Zero
Zero is the child of Rhinne, the Transcendent of Time, made from her tears. Splitting the child into a boy and a girl was meant to weaken them, and both were trapped in Mirror World.