Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
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50 free Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, TTYD to its fans, is the second entry in the Paper Mario series and the one many players still rank as its best. It sends a flat, hand-drawn Mario to the rough harbour town of Rogueport, where a hunt for seven Crystal Stars becomes a fight against the X-Nauts and something far older. This quiz covers the whole journey: the partners who join along the way, the villains and chapter bosses, the towns and side quests, the timing-led battle system, and the facts behind how the adventure was made, followed up and eventually remade. It is written for anyone who has finished the story at least once, on the original disc or the remake. The questions run from ones any Mario fan can reason out to details only completionists remember.
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Q 01Which character in The Thousand-Year Door recounts his own quest to rescue Princess Eclair of the Waffle Kingdom?
Luigi
Luigi set off after opening a letter that begged Mario for help, because his brother had already left for Rogueport. His story builds to a duel with the Chestnut King at Hatesong Tower.
Q 02In The Thousand-Year Door, each toll of the Creepy Steeple bell turns residents of Twilight Town into which animals?
Pigs
Pigs replace the villagers one bell toll at a time, a curse cast by a monster living in the steeple. It lifts only when Mario beats him and claims the Ruby Star.
Q 03Where is the X-Naut Fortress, the base where Princess Peach is held captive in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
On the Moon
On the Moon, in a five-story base dug deep beneath the surface. Peach only learns where she is late in the story, when the fortress computer finally tells her.
Q 04Which item does Princess Peach get from a Rogueport merchant and mail to Mario at the start of The Thousand-Year Door?
A treasure map
A treasure map, kept in a box said to open only for someone pure of heart. It points Mario to seven Crystal Stars and to a sealed doorway in the ruins beneath the town.
Q 05Which console received a full remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door two decades after the original?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch players got the remake on May 23, 2024, with redrawn graphics and a rearranged soundtrack. It also added two secret bosses that the first release never had.
Q 06Which console, also home to Super Smash Bros. Melee, first hosted Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
GameCube
GameCube owners in Japan got the game first, in July 2004, with North America following in October. It is the only sequel that kept the first Paper Mario's battle system.
Q 07Battles in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door are fought before a cheering, item-throwing crowd in which setting?
A theater stage
A theater stage hosts every fight, and its scenery can topple onto the fighters. The crowd grows as Mario levels up, and its cheers refill his Star Power.
Q 08In The Thousand-Year Door's nod to Murder on the Orient Express, the penguin Pennington fills which sleuth's role?
Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is the part he plays, investigating thefts and threats aboard a luxury train. Mario does the real solving while the penguin treats him as an apprentice and takes the credit.
Q 09Bowser's playable interludes in The Thousand-Year Door rework the ground, underwater and castle music of which game?
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. supplies the side-scrolling level style for Bowser's scenes, in which he hunts the Crystal Stars himself. He usually turns up one chapter after Mario has left.
Q 10In an interlude of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, what does Bowser mistake for Princess Peach in Petalburg?
A poster
A poster of the princess, owned by a local Koopa Troopa, is all Bowser finds after tramping across Petal Meadows. He tries talking to it before the truth sinks in.
Q 11Which University of Goom archaeology student becomes Mario's first partner in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
Goombella
Goombella joins after Mario rescues her from a gang of X-Nauts moments after he lands in Rogueport. Her Tattle ability reads out an enemy's health and other stats.
Q 12Which timid Koopa from Petalburg joins Mario in The Thousand-Year Door, hoping to avenge his father?
Koops
Koops gets a surprise once the dragon is beaten: his father, Koopley, walks out of her gut alive after ten years inside. Mario can hold his shell in place before releasing it.
Q 13In The Thousand-Year Door, which wind spirit and retired actress joins Mario once he returns her lost necklace?
Flurrie
Q 21Which demon, sealed for a millennium, possesses Princess Peach at the climax of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
The Shadow Queen
The Shadow Queen refuses to take orders from the villain who frees her and blasts him with lightning on the spot. She stays invincible until the Crystal Stars carry the world's cheers to Mario.
Q 22Which leader of the X-Nauts plots to revive a sealed demon in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
Grodus
Grodus is left as nothing but a head when the demon he sets free refuses to obey him. He appears to be some kind of machine, though the game never explains where he came from.
Q 23Which villain pilots the robot Magnus von Grapple and later poses as the sailor Four-Eyes in The Thousand-Year Door?
Lord Crump
Flurrie refuses to be seen without the necklace, so Mario has to win it back from a trio of villainous sisters. Her gusts then blow away fake walls to reveal secret passages.
Q 14Which fire-wielding partner in The Thousand-Year Door joins Mario after he finds a bomb she is blamed for losing?
Vivian
Vivian leaves her bullying older sisters because Mario treats her more kindly than they do. At the time he has lost his name and body, so she has no idea he is the enemy they were sent after.
Q 15Which Bob-omb sailor in The Thousand-Year Door agrees to sail again after Mario delivers his late wife's letter?
Bobbery
Bobbery had sworn off the sea because his wife, Scarlette, fell ill and died while he was away on a voyage. A friend kept her last letter back, unable to hand it over while he was grieving.
Q 16Which masked thief, who also runs a Rogueport badge shop, is the only optional partner in The Thousand-Year Door?
Ms. Mowz
Ms. Mowz joins only if Mario answers her anonymous request to track down a badge she cannot find. She was the first Paper Mario partner a player could finish the story without.
Q 17What decides the colour of the baby Yoshi who hatches as Mario's partner in The Thousand-Year Door?
Time taken before hatching
Time taken before hatching sets the colour: the egg cycles through schemes every few minutes after joining Mario. Whichever one it lands on then stays for the rest of the game.
Q 18Which elderly scholar in Rogueport tells Mario where each Crystal Star is hidden in The Thousand-Year Door?
Professor Frankly
Professor Frankly once taught Kolorado, the explorer from the first Paper Mario. Mario has to call on him every time a new Crystal Star turns up.
Q 19Which X-Naut supercomputer falls for Princess Peach and lets her e-mail Mario in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
TEC-XX
TEC-XX was designed to be flawless, but a glitch leaves him feeling love and he ends up rebelling against his makers. His watchful camera eye recalls HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Q 20Which elderly Magikoopa on a broomstick accompanies Bowser throughout Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
Kammy Koopa
Kammy Koopa is described as the brains behind Bowser, a role she first played as the secondary villain of the original Paper Mario. Bowser insults her to her face all the same.
Lord Crump fights Mario four times, twice from the cockpit of his personal robot. His sailor disguise lasts until Mario wins a Crystal Star on Keelhaul Key, when he drops it to demand the prize.
Q 24Which red dragon terrorises Petalburg and guards the first Crystal Star in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
Hooktail
Hooktail gobbles up spectators in the middle of the fight to win back her health. Two more dragons from her family turn up later in the adventure as bosses.
Q 25Which ghost of Creepy Steeple steals Mario's name and body in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
Doopliss
Doopliss can only be beaten once Mario says his name, and he has removed a letter from the on-screen keyboard to stop that. A parrot living in the steeple gives the secret away.
Q 26Which pirate spirit guards the Sapphire Star aboard his ship, the Black Skull, in The Thousand-Year Door?
Cortez
Cortez hands over the gem once beaten, then lends his ship to help Mario fight off an X-Naut assault. His speech is peppered with Spanish words and phrases.
Q 27Which Glitz Pit champion in The Thousand-Year Door, a parody of wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, loses his title to Mario?
Rawk Hawk
Rawk Hawk is a classic wrestling heel: he has Mario locked in a disused locker room before their title match. The Crystal Star on his belt also turns out to be a fake.
Q 28Which fight promoter in The Thousand-Year Door secretly uses a Crystal Star to drain Glitz Pit fighters' strength?
Grubba
Grubba uses his machine to become the hulking Macho Grubba once Mario exposes him. A champion wrestler in his youth, he is over 60 and suspiciously fit.
Q 29Which ring name does Mario fight under as he climbs the Glitz Pit rankings in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door?
The Great Gonzales
The Great Gonzales starts in the minor league at Rank 20 and works his way up to the title match. Mario's Yoshi partner later fights in the same arena as The Great Gonzales Jr.
Q 30Wearing the L Emblem and W Emblem badges together in The Thousand-Year Door dresses Mario as which character?
Waluigi
Waluigi's purple cap and black overalls appear only when the two badges are worn together. On its own, each badge copies a different character's colours.