Samurai Jack Trivia
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48 free Samurai Jack trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
The pitch was one sentence: 'Hey, remember David Carradine in Kung Fu? Wasn't that cool?' Cartoon Network greenlit 26 episodes before a pilot existed, and Genndy Tartakovsky made a cartoon that could go whole minutes without a word of dialogue. It won eight Primetime Emmys, stopped without an ending in 2004, and came back thirteen years later on Adult Swim to finish the story properly. This quiz covers all of it: the nameless prince and the three gods who forged his sword, Mako's Aku and Greg Baldwin's, the Scotsman's claymore and machine-gun leg, the Roman-numeral episode titles and the jump from LII to XCII, the Daughters of Aku, Ashi's fate, the Frank Miller comic and the Kurosawa films behind the look, the cancelled Brett Ratner film, the IDW comics and the 2020 game Tartakovsky declared canon. Early questions suit anyone who watched the original run; later ones ask for animation studios, award counts, cast replacements and the April Fools' night Rick and Morty stole Jack's slot. Fifty questions, every one sourced.
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Q 01Samurai Jack's fast-talking robot assassin Scaramouche was modelled on which Rat Pack entertainer?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Scaramouche, modelled on Sammy Davis Jr., spent season five trying to tell Aku that Jack had lost his sword, and Aku destroyed him on finding Jack armed again.
Q 02Which 1970s TV drama inspired Samurai Jack?
Kung Fu
Executive Mike Lazzo said 'Remember David Carradine in Kung Fu? Wasn't that cool?' was literally the whole pitch.
Q 03Which Frank Miller comic provided the premise of a nameless samurai in a dystopian future?
Ronin
Miller's 300 separately inspired the episode 'Jack and the Spartans'.
Q 04Jack's father received his magic katana from which trinity of gods?
Ra, Rama and Odin
Ra, Rama and Odin return Jack's lost sword in season five, but only once he lets go of the anger that had kept him from finding it.
Q 05How does the samurai come to be called 'Jack'?
Locals call him that as slang
Locals call him that as slang, so the prince first introduces himself as Jack to three dog archaeologists he vows to protect.
Q 06Who voices Samurai Jack?
Phil LaMarr
Phil LaMarr voices Jack, who in the 2017 season argues with a hallucination of himself over whether to keep fighting.
Q 07Who voiced Aku in Samurai Jack's first four seasons?
Mako
Mako died in 2006, yet his recorded narration returns in the 2017 finale, when Aku reprises it on a global television broadcast.
Q 08Greg Baldwin, Samurai Jack's season-five Aku, had earlier taken over which Avatar: The Last Airbender role?
Iroh
Iroh was already Baldwin's role, and Tartakovsky first wanted a completely different voice for Aku before auditions won Baldwin the part.
Q 09What does Samurai Jack's Scotsman use as a prosthetic leg?
A submachine gun
A submachine gun served as his leg in the original run, and the Scotsman first meets Jack as a rival on an endless bridge before bounty hunters force them to team up.
Q 10Who voices the Scotsman in Samurai Jack?
John DiMaggio
John DiMaggio returned in 2017, when Aku kills the elderly Scotsman, only for Celtic runes on his sword to bring him back as a young ghost.
Q 11Who voices Ashi in Samurai Jack's fifth season?
Tara Strong
Tara Strong voices Ashi, who turns the powers she inherited from Aku against him, using them to carry Jack back to the past.
Q 12What set Samurai Jack apart from most cartoons?
Sparse dialogue
Sparse dialogue was Tartakovsky's deliberate bet that a cartoon told with less talk would grip viewers more.
Q 13On April Fools' Day 2017, which show's surprise premiere aired on Adult Swim instead of a new Samurai Jack episode?
Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty's surprise premiere was a one-off, and fans had to wait until that summer for the rest of its third season.
Q 21Which Tartakovsky project did the burnt-out Samurai Jack crew take on instead of rushing out an ending?
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Star Wars: Clone Wars came next for the crew, and Jack's story waited more than twelve years for its ending in a fifth season.
Q 22Which director was hired for the abandoned live-action Samurai Jack film around 2002?
Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner was attached through New Line Cinema, but Tartakovsky later said 'the best thing happened to it — it died', because Hollywood wanted to change Jack.
Q 23In Samurai Jack's 'Jack Is Naked', who turns out to have stolen Jack's clothes?
An orphaned girl
Q 14In Samurai Jack's 'The Scotsman Saves Jack', which mythical creatures wipe out Jack's memory?
Sirens
Sirens' song erases Jack's memory, but loyalty to his wife lets the Scotsman resist it, and he drowns them out with his bagpipes.
Q 15In Samurai Jack's 'Tale of X-49', what does Aku kidnap to force the retired robot hitman back into action?
His pet dog
His pet dog, Lulu, was taken, so X-49 hunted Jack anyway, and as he shut down he asked Jack to take care of her.
Q 16In Samurai Jack's 'Aku's Fairy Tales', who keeps poking holes in Aku's self-flattering stories?
The children
The children keep pointing out the faults, and after Aku storms off in defeat they make up their own story in which Jack slays him.
Q 17In Samurai Jack's 'Jack and the Dragon', what does Jack find causing a dragon's village-choking stench?
A hatchling
A hatchling, a baby dragon breathing fire from its half-hatched egg, was the cause; Jack cut it loose, and though it set the village alight, the villagers cheered the end of the smell.
Q 18A season-five Samurai Jack chase honours which Sergio Leone western?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and its 'Ecstasy of Gold' inspired the sequence, which ends with Jack blowing up the temple walls and escaping downriver.
Q 19Which Japanese manga was among the inspirations for Samurai Jack?
Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub, about a disgraced executioner roaming with his toddler son, is cited as the origin of the violent-man-protects-a-child journey story.
Q 20In Samurai Jack's 'Jack and the Three Blind Archers', what does Jack destroy even though it could send him home?
A wishing well
A wishing well had granted the archers' wish to be the greatest warriors, then took their sight and enslaved them as its guards, so Jack wished its spirit destroyed.
An orphaned girl took them to sell for food, and Jack answered by giving her the tusks of a robot slug he had beaten, which she could sell instead.
Q 24On which programming block did Samurai Jack's fifth season premiere in March 2017?
Toonami
Toonami carried the revival after Adult Swim's Mike Lazzo asked Tartakovsky only what it would cost and when he could have it, and the deal was done within two weeks.
Q 25Set 50 years on, Samurai Jack's fifth season shows which time-travel side effect?
No ageing
No ageing, yet 50 years on Jack is broken, haunted by visions of the family he left behind.
Q 26In Samurai Jack's 'Jack in Space', what does Jack give up to protect scientists fleeing Earth?
A chance to return home
A chance to return home rode on the ship's lightspeed jump, but Jack left his escape pod to stop Aku's insect drones so the scientists could get away.
Q 27In Samurai Jack's 'Samurai vs. Samurai', what does Jack use to duel the braggart Da' Samurai?
Bamboo sticks
Bamboo sticks were all Da' Samurai earned, and after that lesson he gave up his blade and top knot to become a bartender at the tavern where they met.
Q 28In Samurai Jack's 'The Aku Infection', how does Jack become infected with Aku's evil?
Aku's cold spreads to him
Aku's cold spreads to him and starts turning him into Aku, until lizard monks help him remember everyone he has saved and he overcomes it.
Q 29In Samurai Jack's 'Jack and the Gangsters', what stops Jack from finishing off Aku?
His companions knock him out
His companions knock him out, the gangsters believing Aku would kill him, then claim they are going straight so Jack lets them keep the jewel.
Q 30In Samurai Jack's 'Jack vs. Aku', how does Jack beat Aku's cheating in their no-magic duel?
He hides fake swords
He hides fake swords all over, so the blade Aku's minion snatches and Aku tries to break is a fake, and Jack drives Aku off with the real one.