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50 free Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet took the series into a fully open Paldea, a sun-baked region modelled on Spain and Portugal, and let players tackle its three storylines however they liked. The games broke Nintendo's launch records while also drawing the harshest reviews the mainline series had ever seen. This quiz covers the whole of Generation IX: the starters and the ride Legendaries, Nemona, Arven and the academy, the Gym Leaders and the League, Team Star's squads, Terastallization and Tera Raids, the Paradox Pokémon of Area Zero, and the Teal Mask and Indigo Disk expansions, plus the launch, the sales and the anime tie-ins. It suits anyone who finished the game once and wants to see how much stuck, as well as trivia hosts who need verified questions on a recent Pokémon title.
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Q 01Koraidon and Miraidon, the Legendaries that serve as the player's ride, are relatives of which ordinary Paldean Pokémon?
Cyclizar
Cyclizar has carried riders since ancient times, and 10,000-year-old murals show people on its back. Koraidon is its past-era relative and Miraidon its far-off descendant.
Q 02Besides giving a Pokémon a crystalline look and a jewel on its head, what does Terastallizing actually do in battle?
Changes its type
Terastallizing changes its type to a hidden Tera Type, which can differ from the Pokémon's normal typing. Tera Blast then becomes a move of that type.
Q 03Two weeks after launch, how did Nintendo respond to Scarlet and Violet's bugs and frame-rate drops?
A public apology
A public apology came on 1 December 2022 alongside update 1.1.0, which fixed some bugs; players who asked for refunds were granted them in most cases.
Q 04Which singer's 'Celestial', the first Pokémon game track with lyrics, plays over the Scarlet and Violet end credits?
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran, a fan since childhood, wrote 'Celestial' for the games, and its video shows a Snorlax saving him from a car accident. Oddly, the song is left off the official soundtrack.
Q 05Tinkaton swings its 220-pound hammer at rocks to knock which Flying-type Pokémon out of Paldea's sky?
Corviknight
Corviknight is the target, which is why Paldea's Flying Taxis use Squawkabilly instead. The hammer is bigger than Tinkaton's whole body, and it sleeps on it like a bed.
Q 06What could players do with Paldea's eight Gyms in Scarlet and Violet that no earlier mainline Pokémon game had allowed?
Fight them in any order
Players can fight them in any order because Paldea is the series' first open world, and wild levels never scale to your progress, so the 'wrong' Gym first is brutal.
Q 07Scarlet's Paradox Pokémon are primeval versions of today's species; what are Pokémon Violet's Paradox Pokémon instead?
Beings from the far future
Beings from the far future, such as the robotic Iron Valiant, fill Violet's Area Zero, while Scarlet's are feathered beasts like Roaring Moon.
Q 08Scarlet and Violet are the first Pokémon games with version-exclusive professors; what are the two called?
Sada and Turo
Sada and Turo take their names from the Spanish 'pasada' and 'futuro', and whichever you get turns out to be Arven's long-absent parent.
Q 09Scarlet's school is Naranja Academy and Violet's is Uva Academy, names borrowed from which two fruits?
Orange and grape
Orange and grape match each version's colour scheme; the two schools are otherwise identical, and at 805 years old the academy is the oldest in Paldea.
Q 10Team Star's five squads, Segin, Schedar, Navi, Ruchbah and Caph, are named after stars in which constellation?
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia is also the alias of the gang's hidden big boss, who hacks your Rotom Phone to launch Operation Starfall against the squads.
Q 11Gimmighoul evolves into Gholdengo only once its Trainer is carrying how many Gimmighoul Coins?
999
All 999 coins are consumed on the spot, and once the total is reached the evolution cannot be cancelled. Roaming Gimmighoul flee when touched, leaving coins behind.
Q 12Primeape finally gained an evolution, Annihilape, which it reaches only after using which move twenty times?
Rage Fist
Rage Fist must be used twenty times before a level-up, after which Annihilape's fury literally outgrows its body. Only it and Primeape can learn the move.
Q 13Quaxly's final evolution Quaquaval, Paldea's flamboyant 'Dancer Pokémon', pairs Water with which second type?
Fighting
Fighting joins Water at Quaquaval, Quaxly's final form; Quaxly's crest is a visual pun on the ducktail hairstyle, and Quaquaval fans out water feathers in battle.
Q 21Which Top Champion and League chairwoman awaits on the League building's rooftop, closing every match with her Glimmora?
Geeta
Geeta also chairs the academy's school board and inspects Gyms by battling their leaders, several of whom admit she makes them uneasy.
Q 22When the player picks a starter in Scarlet and Violet, rival Nemona deliberately chooses which one to keep things fair?
The one weak to yours
The one weak to yours is her pick: a Champion-ranked Trainer who moved to Paldea at seven, she raises a fresh team so you can become her equal.
Q 23Arven hunts the five Herba Mystica partly to heal which badly injured pet, hurt by something in Area Zero?
Mabosstiff
Q 14Which Levincia Gym Leader livestreams her own Gym Test, sending challengers around the city to find Director Clavell?
Iono
Iono, the 'Supercharged Streamer', rates her viewers' reactions above winning and keeps broadcasting right through the Gym battle itself.
Q 15Which Ice-type Gym Leader on Glaseado Mountain was a world-class pro snowboarder until an injury ended his career?
Grusha
Grusha was the second-best snowboarder in the world, winning six straight Paldean majors before a crash forced him to retire to the Gym.
Q 16Which Cascarrafa Gym Leader, a seafood chef, dashes off to an auction and leaves his wallet for the player to return?
Kofu
Kofu then makes buying rare Hoenn wakame at the Porto Marinada auction your impromptu Gym Test, handing over 50,000 Pokédollars to bid with.
Q 17Which weary businessman serves as both Medali's Normal-type Gym Leader and a Flying-type member of Paldea's Elite Four?
Larry
Larry is the first Trainer to hold two posts in the same League at once, and his creed is that 'simplicity is strongest'.
Q 18Ryme, Montenevera's Ghost-type Gym Leader, has also spent four decades as a world-famous what?
Rapper
A rapper known as the 'MC of RIP', she is said to bring the dead to their feet, which is why she took up Ghost types.
Q 19Which member of Paldea's Elite Four is a small child who specialises in Steel types and nicknames her Tinkaton 'Tinkie'?
Poppy
Poppy is far younger than every Gym Leader and Elite Four member yet ranks among Paldea's strongest, calling her Copperajah 'Rajah'.
Q 20Which Dragon-type Elite Four member also teaches art at the academy and inspired Brassius's 'Surrendering Sunflora'?
Hassel
Hassel ran away from a long line of Dragon Trainers to chase a dream of making music before landing both jobs in Paldea.
Mabosstiff was mauled in Area Zero, where Arven's absent parent runs a lab, and the fifth herb finally brings it back to full health.
Q 24In what form does Arven serve the Herba Mystica that gradually restore the player's weakened Koraidon or Miraidon?
As sandwiches
As sandwiches, made at a picnic table; all five together also cure his pet, which leaves Arven ecstatic.
Q 25Dondozo, the 'False Dragon Titan', is steered from inside its own mouth by which small sushi-shaped Pokémon?
Tatsugiri
Tatsugiri shelters in Dondozo's mouth, and its Commander Ability powers up the giant catfish whenever the two are sent out together.
Q 26Which Paradox pair, Donphan's ancient and futuristic relatives, escaped Area Zero to become the Quaking Earth Titan?
Great Tusk and Iron Treads
Great Tusk and Iron Treads are version-split, the tusked beast in Scarlet and the rolling tank in Violet, and this is the only Titan that is itself a Paradox Pokémon.
Q 27Roaring Moon, a Scarlet Paradox Pokémon named after a beast in the Scarlet Book, is the ancient kin of which Dragon?
Salamence
Salamence in its Mega-Evolved form is the model, so Roaring Moon is effectively a Mega Salamence that never needed a stone.
Q 28On which date did Scarlet and Violet, the first ninth-generation Pokémon games, launch worldwide on the Switch?
18 November 2022
18 November 2022 was launch day, a week after a Splatoon 3 Splatfest themed on the three starter types had warmed up the crowd.
Q 29Miraidon, Pokémon Violet's mascot, shares Koraidon's Dragon typing but pairs it with which second type?
Electric
Electric suits a futuristic mech: the Violet Book's 'Iron Serpent' folds its back legs to expose jet engines in its Drive Mode.
Q 30Of the record haul Scarlet and Violet sold in their first three days, roughly how many copies were bought in Japan?
About 4 million
About 4 million, 4.05 million exactly, out of more than 10 million worldwide, which made them Japan's best-selling games of 2022.