Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
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50 free Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans threw out much of the Gundam rulebook. Its heroes are child soldiers who seize control of the security firm that used them as cannon fodder, rename themselves Tekkadan and take an escort job that drags them into interplanetary politics. There are no beam sabers and few miracles here: the fighting is brutal and close-range, and every victory comes at a price. This quiz covers both seasons. Expect questions on Mikazuki Augus and his Gundam Barbatos, Orga Itsuka and the boys who follow him, Kudelia's campaign for independence, McGillis Fareed's ambitions inside Gjallarhorn, and the machines, factions and technology of the setting. A few questions go behind the scenes to the director, the writer, the voice cast and the theme songs. It is written for fans who have finished the series, but the opening questions are gentle enough for anyone who remembers the main story. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a detail or two even where you had to guess.
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Q 01Which real Canadian city, capital of the Arbrau bloc, hosts the climactic battle of Iron-Blooded Orphans season one?
Edmonton
Edmonton was used as real location reference, so its landmarks are recognizable in the backgrounds of the final episodes. In the story it is where Arbrau's parliament sits.
Q 02Which weapon, with a pile bunker hidden in its tip, is the Gundam Barbatos's trademark in Iron-Blooded Orphans?
A mace
A mace is the first weapon Barbatos is seen using, as it pummels an enemy commander's mobile suit during the attack on the CGS base. Its final form carries a larger version.
Q 03What does Tekkadan, the name Orga Itsuka gives his band of orphaned mercenaries, mean in Japanese?
Iron Flower
Iron Flower was Orga's image for the boys: like a flower made of iron, they cannot be destroyed however hard people try to crush them. They take the name after ousting the adults who ran CGS.
Q 04What nickname does Mikazuki Augus give McGillis Fareed after the officer hands sweets to two young girls?
Chocolate Man
Chocolate Man is Mikazuki's name for him because McGillis handed over chocolates as an apology for nearly running the girls over. Gaelio Bauduin gets 'Gali-Gali', much to his outrage.
Q 05Which Japanese studio behind the long-running Gundam franchise produced Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans?
Sunrise
Sunrise counts Iron-Blooded Orphans as the fourteenth mainline Gundam series. It was the first to air in a Sunday late-afternoon slot since Gundam AGE.
Q 06Before Mikazuki Augus first pilots it, what job is the Gundam Barbatos doing at the CGS base on Mars?
Supplying electricity
Supplying electricity was all the relic did for years: the CGS president who found it ran the base off its still-working engines. It had no cockpit until one was fitted in a hurry.
Q 07Which former Power Rangers actor voices Tekkadan's leader Orga Itsuka in the English dub of Iron-Blooded Orphans?
Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch played Adam Park, the second Black Ranger, before turning to voice work. His anime leads include Ichigo in Bleach and Lelouch in Code Geass.
Q 08Gjallarhorn, the military power in Iron-Blooded Orphans, is named after a Norse horn that heralds which event?
Ragnarok
Ragnarok begins, in Norse myth, when the god Heimdallr blows the horn so loudly that it is heard in all worlds. The anime's version was founded to end a war that nearly wiped out humanity.
Q 09Which plum-like fruit, usually sweet but now and then horribly bitter, does Mikazuki Augus snack on constantly?
Mars palms
Mars palms come with a gamble: most taste sweet, but a rare one is repulsively bitter. Mikazuki eats them out of habit all the same.
Q 10Which rock band, whose members perform in wolf masks, recorded the first Iron-Blooded Orphans opening theme?
Man with a Mission
Man with a Mission opened the series with Raise Your Flag, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. The band came back for the 2022 Special Edition with a new song, Blaze.
Q 11What does the given name of Mikazuki Augus, pilot of the Gundam Barbatos, mean in Japanese?
Crescent moon
Crescent moon is what Mikazuki means, though his friends simply call him Mika. Orga Itsuka's name, in turn, roughly translates as 'Someday, I will'.
Q 12What name is given to the interplanetary war fought some 300 years before Iron-Blooded Orphans begins?
Calamity War
The Calamity War nearly drove humanity to extinction, and the Gundam frames were built to end it. Peace was marked by a brand-new calendar.
Q 13Which grocery store worker joins Tekkadan as its cook and later bears the son of Mikazuki Augus?
Atra Mixta
Q 21Iron-Blooded Orphans opens in year 323 of which calendar era, begun when a ruinous interplanetary war ended?
Post Disaster
Post Disaster years are written P.D., so the story begins in P.D. 323. The count starts from the peace imposed by a newly formed Gjallarhorn.
Q 22Which Martian city, governed from Earth by Arbrau, does Kudelia Aina Bernstein hope to make independent?
Chryse
Chryse is autonomous only on paper: it depends on Earth economically, and many of its people live in poverty. Kudelia's own father is its prime minister.
Q 23The 72 Gundam frames in Iron-Blooded Orphans are named after demons from which book of the Lesser Key of Solomon?
Ars Goetia
Atra Mixta quits her shop job to cook for the crew when they leave Mars. She had been a homeless runaway when Mikazuki first offered her food and found her that job.
Q 14Which Tekkadan strategist is killed on Millennium Island moments after throwing Orga Itsuka clear of an attack?
Biscuit Griffon
Biscuit Griffon's hat is laid on his body bag so the others can identify him, and Takaki later wears it in his memory. He had joined up to pay for his twin sisters' schooling.
Q 15Teiwaz, the mafia-like conglomerate that takes Tekkadan under its wing, operates around which planet?
Jupiter
Jupiter is orbited by Saisei, the giant cruiser that serves as Teiwaz's headquarters and holds a small town. The group takes its name from a Germanic rune.
Q 16On which Adult Swim programming block did the English dub of Iron-Blooded Orphans premiere on American television?
Toonami
Toonami made it the first Gundam series on American television since Syfy aired Gundam 00 in 2008 and 2009. The dub was produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
Q 17What is the final form of Barbatos called, rebuilt with parts of a defeated mobile armor in Iron-Blooded Orphans?
Lupus Rex
Lupus Rex means King of the Wolves. The rebuild gave Barbatos huge clawed forearms and its beaten foe's bladed tail, all tuned for Mikazuki's fierce close-range style.
Q 18Which Japanese toy company sells the Gunpla model kits of Barbatos and other Iron-Blooded Orphans mobile suits?
Bandai
Bandai showed High Grade and 1/100 scale kits of Barbatos at the 2015 press conference that announced the series, months before the first episode aired.
Q 19What does the illiterate child soldier Mikazuki Augus hope to become once he has learned to read?
A farmer
A farmer is his goal, modeled on a comrade's grandmother, and he later tries planting crops on her land. Every seedling withers, but he keeps experimenting.
Q 20Which green mobile suit, armed with a rifle and axe, fills Gjallarhorn's ranks in Iron-Blooded Orphans?
Graze
The Graze was inspired by a rare older frame from the era of the Gundams, simplified so it could be built in numbers. Tekkadan salvages one from its first battle and puts its own pilot in it.
Ars Goetia lists 72 demons, and Barbatos is the eighth, matching the Gundam's model number ASW-G-08. Only 26 of the frames are confirmed to survive in working order.
Q 24Which drink do Orga Itsuka and Naze Turbine share in the oath ceremony that makes them sworn brothers?
Sake
Sake shared between two leaders binds their groups as family, a Japanese custom kept by the otherwise Italian-flavored Teiwaz. From then on Orga calls Naze his big brother.
Q 25What term describes the trafficked boys enslaved as disposable laborers and soldiers in Iron-Blooded Orphans?
Human Debris
Human Debris in Tekkadan are freed after the mutiny, yet stay on out of gratitude and because regular jobs would be almost impossible to get. A pact to end the practice is signed in the epilogue.
Q 26Which implant interface lets Mikazuki Augus control the Gundam Barbatos as if it were his own body?
Alaya-Vijnana System
The Alaya-Vijnana System feeds combat data straight into the brain through spinal implants the boys call Whiskers. Mikazuki survived three of the risky surgeries.
Q 27What name is given to the power plants that drive mobile suits in Iron-Blooded Orphans, two to each Gundam frame?
Ahab Reactor
Ahab Reactor pairs are hard to keep running in sync, which is why Gundam frames are so rare. Gjallarhorn guards a monopoly on building the units.
Q 28Which bird-like mobile armor, run by an artificial intelligence, is dug up on Mars in Iron-Blooded Orphans season two?
Hashmal
Hashmal was programmed to kill as many people as possible. Beating it leaves Mikazuki paralyzed down his right side whenever he is unplugged from Barbatos.
Q 29Which thick-plated green Gundam does Tekkadan capture from space pirates and rebuild for one of its own pilots?
Gusion
Gusion was so heavily plated that it burned through fuel and could not fight for long. Stripped down and given lighter plating, it returns as a nimbler machine able to fight under gravity.
Q 30Under which alias does a masked McGillis Fareed secretly supply Tekkadan on its journey to Earth?
Montag
Montag fronts a trading company whose resources he puts at Tekkadan's disposal. Only Mikazuki, Orga and one other comrade are let in on who is behind the mask.