Mario Kart: Double Dash
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50 free Mario Kart: Double Dash trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mario Kart: Double Dash arrived in 2003 with an idea no earlier game in the series had tried: two characters on every kart, one steering and one handling the items. It also brought sixteen new tracks, spread across four cups, that fans still argue about, from seaside sprints to castle corridors. This quiz is built around those tracks. It asks which course hides which hazard, where the shortcuts are, what sets each cup apart and how the unlockable extras are earned. Along the way it covers the drivers and their signature items, the battle arenas, and a little of how the game was made and received. It is written for anyone who spent evenings on a four-way split screen and wants to see how much of the course list stuck. The first questions are gentle; later ones reward players who cleared every cup at every speed.
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Q 01Which tiny oval course in Mario Kart: Double Dash is raced over seven laps instead of the usual three?
Baby Park
Baby Park takes only about ten seconds a lap, so its races run to seven. The director got the idea from watching short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Q 02In Mario Kart: Double Dash, what do the two characters sharing a kart do when a solo player presses Z?
Swap places
The pair swap places, trading the steering wheel for item duty at any moment in a race. Since a Double Item Box arms both riders, a swap also changes which item is used next.
Q 03Mario Kart: Double Dash, the fourth game in its series, was made for which Nintendo home console?
GameCube
GameCube owners got it in November 2003, seven years after Mario Kart 64, and it sold about a million copies in its first seven weeks.
Q 04Which course always comes last in the sixteen-race All Cup Tour of Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Rainbow Road
Rainbow Road always closes the tour and Luigi Circuit always opens it, while the fourteen courses in between are shuffled into a random order.
Q 05Which course in Mario Kart: Double Dash is laid out in the outline of the character it is named after?
Yoshi Circuit
Yoshi Circuit traces its namesake's whole body: racers start beneath the shoe, loop a tunnel around the nose and take a sharp hairpin at the tail.
Q 06Which leader-hunting item first gained wings and an explosive blast in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Spiny Shell
The Spiny Shell took flight because its wings were first drawn for a planned Paratroopa item called the Winged Shell. Developers then made it explode because a plain hit felt too weak.
Q 07Which special item belongs to Mario and Luigi in Mario Kart: Double Dash, in a red and a green version?
Fireballs
Fireballs split up after they are thrown and fan out along the track ahead, so a single throw can spin out several karts at once.
Q 08Which enemy sits beside the first U-turn of Luigi Circuit in Mario Kart: Double Dash, lunging at passing karts?
Chain Chomp
A Chain Chomp guards that corner, and the same beast turns up as a special item that tows a kart forward at high speed while bowling rivals aside.
Q 09Mario Kart: Double Dash is the second best-selling game on its console, behind which seven-million seller?
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Smash Bros. Melee sold just over 7.4 million copies to finish first, with Super Mario Sunshine third.
Q 10What launches racers high into the air partway through each lap of DK Mountain in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
A barrel cannon
A barrel cannon in the middle of the course blasts every kart up to the top of the peak, and racers cannot be hit by items while they are in the air.
Q 11Which special item do Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong share in Mario Kart: Double Dash, splitting into three when hit?
Giant Banana
The Giant Banana began as a joke: developers set an ordinary peel's scale to its maximum, liked the result and gave it rules of its own.
Q 12Which character holds the start lights and fishes fallen karts back onto the course in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Lakitu
Lakitu does both jobs from his cloud, and racers he pulls from the freezing water of one course are set back on the track inside a block of ice.
Q 13Which stone enemies try to flatten karts in the entrance halls of Bowser's Castle in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Thwomps
Q 21Which caged Special Cup course in Mario Kart: Double Dash is so long that a race lasts only two laps?
Wario Colosseum
Wario Colosseum is the longest course in the game, a tangle of metal ramps and corkscrews modelled on a stunt riders' globe of death.
Q 22What erupts from the ground on Dino Dino Jungle in Mario Kart: Double Dash, tossing karts into the air?
Geysers
Geysers line a crystal cave and the final stretch of the course, while a huge long-necked dinosaur stomps about in the middle of the road.
Q 23Which cup in Mario Kart: Double Dash contains Mushroom Bridge, Mario Circuit and Waluigi Stadium?
Flower Cup
The Flower Cup is the second of the four cups; winning it at 50cc unlocks a kart called the Bloom Coach, and at 100cc the Waluigi Racer.
Thwomps slam down along the first corridors, which racers enter through a doorway shaped like the castle's owner. Near the end, a statue of him shoots fireballs at passing karts.
Q 14Which enemies skate around the frozen rink of Sherbet Land in Mario Kart: Double Dash, spinning out karts they touch?
Shy Guys
Shy Guys on skates patrol the rink, and a shell or a Star can knock them apart. The Nintendo 64 course of the same name had penguins as its obstacles instead.
Q 15Which course in Mario Kart: Double Dash sends racers past a swimming pool and through a dining room of sliding tables?
Daisy Cruiser
Daisy Cruiser is a race around a luxury liner, where dropping through a hole in the floor leads to a launcher that shoots karts out through the ship's funnel.
Q 16Which course closes the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart: Double Dash, with a roaming tornado that sucks karts into the sky?
Dry Dry Desert
Dry Dry Desert also hides a sand pit with a hungry plant at the bottom, which swallows any kart that is dragged all the way in.
Q 17Which enemy is turned into a long bendy bus on Mushroom Bridge and Mushroom City in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Wiggler
Wiggler Wagons are articulated buses styled after the green caterpillar boss of Super Mario Sunshine, and hitting one flips a kart and scatters whatever it was carrying.
Q 18Which Super Mario Kart original must be unlocked in Mario Kart: Double Dash by winning the 100cc Special Cup?
Toad
Toad is the prize for that cup and comes with a kart of his own, after starting on the grid in all three earlier games.
Q 19The bumpy downhill half of DK Mountain in Mario Kart: Double Dash runs down the side of what?
An active volcano
An active volcano towers over the route, and boulders tumble down its lower slopes before racers cross a swaying rope bridge to the finish.
Q 20What name does Mario Kart: Double Dash give to the recording of a best run that a solo player can race against?
A ghost
A ghost replays the player's best run on a course, and each saved one takes up five blocks on a memory card. Beating a target time also unlocks a staff ghost to chase.
Q 24Which character made a debut in any video game as an unlockable driver in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Toadette
Toadette had never appeared anywhere before this game, where she shares the Golden Mushroom, a short burst of unlimited boosts, with her racing partner.
Q 25Which heavyweight shares with Petey Piranha the ability to draw almost any special item in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
King Boo
King Boo and his partner are unlocked together, and the only special items closed to them are Luigi's green flames and Birdo's Egg.
Q 26Which lightweight driver returned in Mario Kart: Double Dash for the first time since the original Super Mario Kart?
Koopa Troopa
Koopa Troopa had been left out of Mario Kart 64 and the handheld sequel, and came back with a winged partner and a special item of three shells at once.
Q 27What does winning the All Cup Tour on 150cc unlock in Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Mirror Mode
Mirror Mode flips every course left to right at 150cc speed, and winning the same sixteen-race tour again there unlocks the golden Parade Kart.
Q 28Which battle mode new to Mario Kart: Double Dash has players fight to hold one prized object until a timer runs out?
Shine Thief
Shine Thief sets everyone chasing a single Shine Sprite from Super Mario Sunshine, and a hit from any item makes the holder drop it for a rival to grab.
Q 29In Mario Kart: Double Dash, what colour must a drifting kart's sparks turn before letting go gives a mini-turbo?
Blue
Blue sparks come last: rocking the stick against the turn makes the sparks appear, then go orange, and only after one more push reach the shade that gives a boost.
Q 30Which elderly steward chauffeurs the cup winners in the golden Parade Kart of Mario Kart: Double Dash?
Toadsworth
Toadsworth takes the wheel for the victory parade, and once unlocked his golden car is the only kart that any pair of characters can use, whatever their weight.