50 free Princess Peach trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Princess Peach has appeared in more video games than any other female character, and for most of them she has been waiting in a castle. But the details around that running joke are rich: she was Princess Toadstool in the West for over a decade, she got her float jump from a Japanese game that had nothing to do with Mario, and she has carried a frying pan, a parasol, a talking umbrella and, in one Ubisoft crossover, a shotgun. These 50 questions cover her whole history. The easy tier covers the kingdom, the Toads, Bowser, the pink dress and her 2023 film voice. The middle asks about Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario 64's cake, Sunshine's Bowser Jr. mix-up, Smash Bros. turnips, Super Princess Peach's emotion powers and the Odyssey scene where she turns down both suitors. The hard end goes to Yoshi's Safari, the Nelsonic Game Watch, the rejected Walupeach, the Ocarina of Time painting, the Guinness-record amiibo and why Miyamoto said her skirt kept her out of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Every answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation. Play it solo or print it for a Nintendo night.
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Q 01Under what name was Peach introduced in the West in the 1985 Super Mario Bros.?
Princess Toadstool
In Japan she was always Peach; the Toadstool name came from the English-language manual.
Q 02Who created Princess Peach?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Miyamoto drew her first, then had Yoichi Kotabe redraw her with cat-like eyes, stubborn but a little cute.
Q 03Who voices Peach in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Jessica DiCicco voiced Baby Peach in the same film; Taylor-Joy returned for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Q 04Which character was Mario's love interest before Peach, in 1981's Donkey Kong?
Pauline
Miyamoto had wanted Olive Oyl but could not get the Popeye licence, so Pauline was created instead.
Q 05Which 1993 game was the first Western release to use the name Peach?
Yoshi's Safari
Wario Land still called her Toadstool a year later; Mario Kart 64 made Peach standard in the West from 1996.
Q 06From which 1996 game onward has the name Peach been used in all Western releases?
Mario Kart 64
In Super Mario 64 the same year she signed her letter with both names, Princess Toadstool, Peach.
Q 07Why did Miyamoto say Peach's name came to him?
He associated girls with pink
Princesses made him think of girls, and girls made him think of pink.
Q 08What unique ability did Peach have as a playable character in Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)?
Floating over obstacles
Kotaku's Peter Tieryas called her the best character in the game because of it.
Q 09Super Mario Bros. 2 was adapted from which Japanese game, where Peach's slot belonged to Lina?
Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic
Nintendo repurposed it for Western audiences after judging the Japanese sequel too hard.
Q 10What does Peach say she has baked for Mario in the letter that opens Super Mario 64?
A cake
Her castle is the game's hub, and she emerges from its stained-glass window once Bowser is beaten.
Q 11Where does Super Mario Sunshine's holiday with Peach and the Toads take place?
Isle Delfino
Shadow Mario pollutes the island with paint and frames Mario for it before kidnapping Peach.
Q 12Why did Miyamoto say Peach was left out of New Super Mario Bros. Wii's four-player mode?
Her skirt would need special programming
The director of New Super Mario Bros. U later said he wanted every character to have Mario's exact moves.
Q 13Which 2013 Wii U game made Peach playable in the mainline series for the first time in 25 years?
Super Mario 3D World
Q 21In Princess Peach: Showtime!, which venue must she save?
Sparkle Theatre
The villain is Grape, leader of the Sour Bunch, and the guardian Stella lends Peach her transformations.
Q 22Who is the antagonist of Princess Peach: Showtime!?
Grape
It was the first game to star Peach since Super Princess Peach, nearly two decades earlier.
Q 23When was Princess Peach: Showtime! released on Nintendo Switch?
March 2024
Her box-art face was redrawn to look angrier and more determined after the 2023 film.
Which of these is NOT one of the Showtime! transformations?
Producer Yoshiaki Koizumi pushed for her, hoping players could play alongside girlfriends or wives.
Q 14How does Peach become playable in Super Mario Run (2016)?
By completing World Tour mode
The World Tour story still opens with Bowser kidnapping her, which the New York Times called retrograde.
Q 15What does Bowser want to do with Peach in Super Mario Odyssey?
Marry her
He keeps her on his flying boat in a wedding dress while Mario chases them around the world.
Q 16How does Peach respond when Bowser and Mario compete for her affections at the end of Odyssey?
She rejects both and travels alone
GamesRadar+ said Nintendo was playing him from the start, and clearly recognising its female fanbase.
Q 17Which 1990 Nelsonic Game Watch title was the first to star her as the sole playable character?
Princess Toadstool's Castle Run
It was based on Super Mario Bros. 2; Super Princess Peach on the DS did not arrive until 2005.
Q 18What is the name of Peach's talking umbrella in Super Princess Peach?
Perry
She can stomp enemies or attack with Perry, and her Vibe meter governs four emotions.
Q 19Which emotion power restores Peach's health in Super Princess Peach?
Calm
Joy lifts her in a cyclone, gloom floods the screen with tears and rage sets her on fire.
Q 20Where is Super Princess Peach set?
Vibe Island
Bowser uses the Vibe Scepter to capture Mario and Luigi, reversing the usual plot.
Firefighter Peach
The full list also includes Kung Fu, Detective, Mermaid and Mighty Peach.
Q 25What does Peach throw at opponents in Super Smash Bros.?
Turnips
The vegetable-pulling comes straight from Super Mario Bros. 2; she debuted in Melee.
Q 26What is the name of her Final Smash in Smash Bros., which puts opponents to sleep?
Peach Blossom
It was introduced in Brawl and inspired by her sleep spell in Super Mario RPG.
Q 27Which Smash Bros. game marked Peach's debut as a fighter?
Melee
She has appeared in every entry since.
Q 28Which two kitchen-and-garden items has Peach wielded as weapons in Super Mario RPG?
A frying pan and a parasol
The parasol-as-weapon idea from that 1996 RPG stuck, and she floats down with it in Smash Ultimate.
Q 29What was Peach called in the original 1996 release of Super Mario RPG?
Princess Toadstool
The 2023 Switch remake renamed her Princess Peach.
Q 30What was the name of the rejected evil version of Peach pitched after Waluigi's debut?
Walupeach
Miyamoto turned it down before seeing the design, saying it would be just like Doronjo from Yatterman.