50 free Ocarina of Time trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
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
It reached Japan and North America in November and PAL regions the following month.
Q 02Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game to feature what?
3D graphics
The world was rendered mostly in real-time polygons, a huge leap from A Link to the Past.
Q 03Who produced Ocarina of Time?
Shigeru Miyamoto
The series co-creator oversaw five directors, including Eiji Aonuma and Yoshiaki Koizumi.
Q 04Who composed the soundtrack?
Koji Kondo
The series composer wrote every ocarina melody as well as the score.
Q 05How many directors led the development of Ocarina of Time?
Five
Eiji Aonuma, who later ran the whole series, was among them.
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
They solve music puzzles and teleport him to places he has already visited.
Q 08Which area serves as the central hub of the game's world?
Hyrule Field
Lon Lon Ranch sits in the middle of it, famous for its horses and milk.
Q 09Kakariko Village sits at the foot of which peak?
Death Mountain
The mountain is home to 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 dungeon is located in Lake Hylia?
The Water Temple
The lake is a fishing spot; the dungeon's iron boots became a byword for tedious design.
Q 12Where does Link live at the start of the game?
The Kokiri Forest
His friend Saria is a Kokiri, and the forest is guarded by the Great Deku Tree.
Q 13Who instructs the fairy Navi to become Link's guide?
The Great Deku Tree
The cursed tree gives Link the Spiritual Stone of the Forest before dying.
Malon, who Link befriends early on, is the daughter of which ranch owner?
Q 21Sheik turns out to be whom in disguise?
Zelda
The reveal also makes the disguised character the seventh Sage.
Q 22Which of these characters is one of the Sages Link awakens as an adult?
Darunia
The Goron chief joins Saria, Ruto, Impa and Nabooru, Ganondorf's own subordinate.
Q 23In the final battle Ganondorf transforms into a boar-like beast called what?
Ganon
The name harks back to the original 1986 game, where the villain was simply Ganon.
Q 24How does the game end for Link?
Talon
Her song is the key to winning Epona's trust later on.
Q 15Zelda's caretaker Impa belongs to which people?
The Sheikah
The shadow folk's symbol, an eye with a tear, appears throughout Kakariko.
Q 16Ganondorf is the king of which people?
The Gerudo
Zelda believes he is after the Triforce, the relic that grants godlike power.
Q 17How many Spiritual Stones must Link collect to enter the Sacred Realm?
Three
Forest, fire and water: one each from the Kokiri, Gorons and Zoras.
Q 18Who gives Link the Ocarina of Time itself?
Zelda
Saria gives him a humbler fairy ocarina earlier in the game.
Q 19What happens when young Link pulls the Master Sword from its pedestal?
He is incapacitated as Ganondorf enters the Sacred Realm
The villain follows him in and seizes the Triforce of Power.
Q 20How 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.
Zelda sends him back to his childhood
The split timeline this creates has fuelled fan arguments ever since.
Q 25Ocarina of Time was developed alongside which two other games starting in 1994?
Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64
The EAD team numbered more than 200 and the budget passed $12 million.
Q 26Roughly how much did Ocarina of Time cost to develop?
More than $12 million
That was a huge sum for a 1990s game, with a staff of over 200.
Q 27Ocarina of Time originally ran on the engine of which game?
Super Mario 64
It was modified so heavily that Miyamoto considers the finished engines different.
Q 28From which perspective did Miyamoto initially intend the game to be played?
First-person
The idea was dropped, partly so players could see Link on screen.
Q 29The cartridge was originally targeted at 16 MB but was increased to what?
32 MB
That made it one of the largest N64 cartridges of its day.
Q 30Later revisions of the game recoloured Ganondorf's blood from crimson to what?
Green
The same revisions fixed glitches and altered the Fire Temple music.