Ocarina of Time Trivia
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42 free Ocarina of Time trivia questions with answers. Ocarina of Time is still the highest-rated game on Metacritic, and this quiz treats it with the seriousness it deserves. Forty-two questions cover the 1998 Nintendo 64 original: Link's start in the Kokiri Forest, the Great Deku Tree and Navi, the three Spiritual Stones, the seven-year sleep, Sheik and the Sages, the twelve ocarina songs, Epona and Lon Lon Ranch, the Gorons, Zoras and Gerudo, and the final battle with Ganon. There is plenty on the making of it too: Miyamoto's first-person idea, the Super Mario 64 engine, Z-targeting, the 32-megabyte cartridge, Ura Zelda and Master Quest, the Fire Temple chant that was removed, Ganondorf's blood turning green, the GameCube bonus disc and the 2011 3DS remake. Easy questions ask which console it launched on; the hard ones want the development budget and Famitsu's score. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the game, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Ocarina of Time launched in 1998 on which Nintendo console?
N64
Ocarina of Time shipped on the N64 (Nintendo 64) in November 1998 in Japan and North America, with PAL regions following in December 1998.
Q 02Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game to feature what?
3D graphics
Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda with 3D graphics: a polygonal world rendered in real time, replacing the 2D sprites of A Link to the Past.
Q 03Who produced Ocarina of Time?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto, co-creator of the Zelda series, produced Ocarina of Time, overseeing a team of directors that included Eiji Aonuma and Yoshiaki Koizumi.
Q 04Who composed the soundtrack?
Koji Kondo
Koji Kondo, Nintendo's longtime Zelda composer, wrote the Ocarina of Time score, including every ocarina melody such as Zelda's Lullaby.
Q 05How many directors led the development of Ocarina of Time?
Five
Five directors are credited on Ocarina of Time: Eiji Aonuma, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toru Osawa, Yoichi Yamada and Toshio Iwawaki.
Q 06The game's lock-on targeting system is named after which controller button?
Z
'Z-targeting' and context-sensitive buttons became standard in 3D action games afterwards.
Q 07How many melodies does Link learn on the ocarina over the course of the game?
Twelve
Link learns twelve ocarina songs: six everyday melodies such as Zelda's Lullaby and Epona's Song, plus six warp songs such as the Minuet of Forest.
Q 08Which area serves as the central hub of the game's world?
Hyrule Field
Hyrule Field is the hub connecting every region of the game, with Lon Lon Ranch, home of Epona and Lon Lon Milk, at its center.
Q 09Kakariko Village sits at the foot of which peak?
Death Mountain
Death Mountain rises directly above Kakariko Village; the trail from the village climbs to Goron City, home of the rock-eating Gorons.
Q 10Which race, living in the western desert, consists mostly of women?
The Gerudo
Ganondorf is their king, the rare male born to them.
Q 11Which temple features a fight against Dark Link?
The Water Temple
The Water Temple, beneath Lake Hylia, pits Link against his shadow, Dark Link; its Iron Boots and shifting water levels became a byword for tedious design.
Q 12Where does Link live at the start of the game?
The Kokiri Forest
Link grows up in the Kokiri Forest among the childlike Kokiri, alongside his friend Saria, under the protection of the Great Deku Tree.
Q 13Who instructs the fairy Navi to become Link's guide?
The Great Deku Tree
The Great Deku Tree, guardian of the Kokiri, sends Navi to wake Link; cursed by Ganondorf, he gives Link the Kokiri's Emerald before he dies.
Q 21Which of these characters is one of the Sages Link awakens as an adult?
Darunia
Darunia, the Goron chief, awakens as the Sage of Fire, joining Saria, Ruto, Impa and Nabooru, Ganondorf's former second-in-command.
Q 22The game's final boss is a boar-like beast known by what name?
Ganon
The name harks back to the original 1986 game, where the villain was simply Ganon.
Q 23How does the game end for Link?
Zelda sends him back to his childhood
The split timeline this creates has fuelled fan arguments ever since.
Q 14Malon, who Link befriends early on, is the daughter of which ranch owner?
Talon
Talon, the sleepy owner of Lon Lon Ranch, is Malon's father; his hand Ingo later seizes the ranch, and Malon's melody, Epona's Song, wins Epona's trust.
Q 15Zelda's caretaker Impa belongs to which people?
The Sheikah
Impa is a Sheikah, the shadow folk who served Hyrule's royal family; their eye-and-tear symbol appears throughout Kakariko Village, which Impa opened to commoners.
Q 16Which tunic protects adult Link from the heat of Death Mountain Crater?
Goron Tunic
The red Goron Tunic shields Link from the crater's heat; Darunia's son hands it over in Goron City, and the Goron shop sells it for 200 Rupees.
Q 17How many Spiritual Stones must Link collect to enter the Sacred Realm?
Three
Three Spiritual Stones open the Door of Time: the Kokiri's Emerald, the Goron's Ruby and the Zora's Sapphire, placed before the altar with the Song of Time.
Q 18Who gives Link the Ocarina of Time itself?
Zelda
Saria gives him a humbler fairy ocarina earlier in the game.
Q 19How many years pass while Link sleeps in the Sacred Realm?
Seven
He awakens as an adult and is met by Rauru, the first of the Sages.
Q 20Sheik turns out to be whom in disguise?
Zelda
The reveal also makes the disguised character the seventh Sage.
Q 24Which boss does Link face inside the Great Deku Tree?
Queen Gohma
Queen Gohma, a giant one-eyed arachnid parasite, is the first boss, fought inside the Great Deku Tree; Link stuns her eye with the Fairy Slingshot and finishes her with the Kokiri Sword.
Q 25Ocarina of Time originally ran on the engine of which game?
Super Mario 64
Ocarina of Time began on the Super Mario 64 engine, though it was modified so heavily that Miyamoto considered the finished engines different.
Q 26From which perspective did Miyamoto initially intend the game to be played?
First-person
Miyamoto first planned a first-person view to show off the landscape, but it was dropped partly so players could see the young Link on screen.
Q 27Ocarina of Time shipped on an N64 cartridge of what size?
32 MB
Ocarina of Time shipped on a 32 MB (256-megabit) cartridge, among the largest N64 cartridges of its day.
Q 28Later revisions of the game recoloured Ganondorf's blood from crimson to what?
Green
Later N64 cartridge revisions changed Ganondorf's blood from red to green and fixed assorted glitches; the 2003 GameCube re-release was built from this revised version.
Q 29The music in which dungeon was altered to remove a sample of an Islamic prayer chant?
The Fire Temple
The Fire Temple's theme originally sampled an Islamic prayer chant; later revisions replaced it with a version without the vocal sample to avoid religious references.
Q 30Roughly how many copies of the original cartridge version were sold worldwide?
7.6 million
The N64 cartridge sold about 7.6 million copies worldwide, the fourth best-selling game on the console behind Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and GoldenEye 007.