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50 free Star Fox trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Star Fox put a squadron of talking foxes, frogs and birds into fighter cockpits and changed what a home console could draw. Three decades on, players still trade lines from the chatter of Fox's wingmen, and few are repeated as often as those of Peppy Hare, the veteran who talks the young leader through every mission. This quiz covers the whole series. It asks about the best-known things Peppy and his teammates say and do, the pilots on both sides, the planets they fight over, and the craft they fly and drive. It also goes behind the scenes: the unusual inspirations, the studios involved, the hardware tricks, the sequel that sat on a shelf for years, and the places Fox has turned up outside his own games. It suits anyone who grew up with the series, from players who only remember the first level to fans who know every route across the map. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so the famous lines come with the stories behind them.
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Q 01Peppy Hare's most famous Star Fox 64 line, now an internet meme, tells Fox to do which maneuver?
A barrel roll
A barrel roll makes the Arwing spin and deflect enemy laser fire. Pilots point out that the spin shown in the game is really an aileron roll.
Q 02Which company's search page spins when users type Peppy Hare's famous instruction from Star Fox 64?
Google added the hidden trick in November 2011 as a tribute to the Nintendo 64 game. The whole results page appears to turn a full circle on screen.
Q 03Star Fox 64 was the first game to support which Nintendo 64 add-on, bundled in its box?
Rumble Pak
The Rumble Pak brought force feedback to Nintendo consoles. It ran on two AAA batteries and plugged into the controller's memory cartridge slot.
Q 04Star Fox's creator, a fan of TV's Thunderbirds, built what to photograph for the first game's cover?
Puppets
Puppets of Fox and his team were built and photographed for the box art. Larger ones made for a promotional video were destroyed once filming ended.
Q 05Which Nintendo designer created Star Fox after regular visits to a fox shrine near the Kyoto office?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto often walked to the shrine, about fifteen minutes from the office. He chose furry heroes because a standard science fiction cast of humans and robots did not interest him.
Q 06Star Fox Adventures swapped dogfights for on-foot exploring that critics likened to which series?
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda was the clear model: Fox gets hearts for health, a currency to spend and puzzles to solve. Some fans complained that the game strayed too far from space shooting.
Q 07Fox McCloud of Star Fox has been a playable fighter in every entry of which crossover series?
Super Smash Bros.
Super Smash Bros. has included Fox since its first game, and he went on to be rated one of the strongest characters in competitive play.
Q 08Which British studio made Star Fox Adventures and was sold to Microsoft a day after its US release?
Rare
Rare was 49% owned by Nintendo while it made the game. Microsoft then paid $375 million for the studio, ending most of its work on Nintendo systems.
Q 09Which Star Wars starfighter did Star Fox's creator cite as the inspiration for the Arwing?
X-wing
X-wing fighters inspired the Arwing, the series creator has said. The name itself came from the ship looking like one big wing shaped like the letter A.
Q 10An Arwing that plays the Star Fox theme when touched is a furniture item in which life-sim series?
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: Wild World and City Folk both let players display the model Arwing at home. Another Arwing turns up as decoration in a market in Super Mario RPG.
Q 11Which Star Fox ace is missing for most of Star Fox Adventures, then returns to help defeat Andross?
Falco Lombardi
Falco Lombardi was left out of most of the game because he could not be worked into the plot in time. A web manga later explained where he had gone.
Q 12Slippy Toad, a childhood friend of Fox McCloud, fills which role on the Star Fox team?
Mechanic
Mechanic and inventor Slippy builds the team's hardware, including the Blue-Marine submarine. In Star Fox 64 he also scans bosses and shows their shield gauge on screen.
Q 13Star Fox missions are set in which planetary system, home to Corneria, Fortuna and Macbeth?
Lylat
Lylat even supplied the European title of Star Fox 64, which was sold there as Lylat Wars.
Q 21Which original Star Fox member betrayed Peppy Hare and Fox's father to the villain Andross?
Pigma Dengar
Pigma Dengar sold out his teammates and later joined the rival squadron sent after their successors. In Star Fox 64 dogfights he singles out Peppy, his old wingmate.
Q 22Peppy Hare succeeds which ailing commander as head of the Cornerian army before Star Fox Command?
General Pepper
General Pepper hired the Star Fox team for years, and Peppy once flew under his command. Peppy also pulled him from his doomed flagship in Star Fox: Assault.
Q 23Which blue vixen, sole survivor of the planet Cerinia, joins the team after Star Fox Adventures?
Krystal
Q 14Andross was exiled to which wasteland planet, where every route through Star Fox 64 ends?
Venom
Venom became a giant military base after Andross was banished there for nearly destroying Corneria with biological weapons. He declared himself emperor and invaded his neighbors.
Q 15Which chip built into the cartridge let the original Star Fox draw 3D graphics on the SNES?
Super FX
Super FX was so much faster than the console's own processor that its designers joked the SNES was just a box to hold the chip. Its codename, MARIO, is printed on it.
Q 16The original Star Fox was sold in Europe under which title to avoid a German company's similar name?
Starwing
Starwing was chosen because Star Fox sounded too close to a German firm called StarVox. Nintendo dropped the workaround with Star Fox Adventures and has used one name worldwide since.
Q 17Star Fox Adventures began as which unrelated Nintendo 64 project starring a hero named Sabre?
Dinosaur Planet
Dinosaur Planet was reworked after Nintendo noticed how much its hero resembled Fox McCloud. A build of the abandoned original leaked online in 2021.
Q 18Which rival of Fox McCloud leads the squadron Andross sends to wipe out the Star Fox team?
Wolf O'Donnell
Wolf O'Donnell took up the feud after an older rivalry with Fox's father. His team was planned for a shelved sequel and finally appeared in Star Fox 64.
Q 19Rather than serving in the Cornerian army, the members of the Star Fox team work as what?
Mercenaries
Mercenaries by trade, the team even bills its client. After the credits of Star Fox 64, the player's score appears as an invoice sent to Corneria's commander.
Q 20Star Fox Adventures and Star Fox: Assault were both released for which Nintendo home console?
GameCube
GameCube owners got an on-foot adventure and then a return to dogfighting. A follow-up for the Wii was worked on from about 2008 but never released.
Krystal was one of two playable leads in the game's earlier form but is playable only in the finished game's prologue. She joins as the team's telepath and replaces the retired Peppy as a pilot in Star Fox: Assault.
Q 24In Star Fox 64, what kind of help does the veteran wingman Peppy Hare give Fox during missions?
Gameplay tips
Gameplay tips are Peppy's job, since he is the veteran who once flew with Fox's father. The other wingmen scan bosses or scout for hidden routes instead.
Q 25Which tank debuted in Star Fox 64 and returned in Star Fox: Assault with tires instead of treads?
Landmaster
Landmaster tanks carried Fox through two missions of Star Fox 64. Star Fox Zero later let the tank transform into the Gravmaster for short bursts of flight.
Q 26Reaching the end of Star Fox 64 through Area 6 reveals Andross's true form as a floating what?
Brain
Brain is the true form seen only on this route. Players who arrive through Bolse instead destroy a robotic copy of him, and the real Andross survives.
Q 27The battle over Katina in Star Fox 64 closely resembles which 1990s alien-invasion blockbuster?
Independence Day
Independence Day also gave the level's allied pilot his name: Fox's old friend Bill Grey is named after an officer in the film, William Grey.
Q 28A Star Fox tech demo with a spinning Arwing was shown in 1995 for which ill-fated Nintendo console?
Virtual Boy
Virtual Boy demo footage was watched through 3D glasses handed out at two trade shows. No finished Star Fox game ever followed for the system.
Q 29The Kyoto shrine that inspired Star Fox, famous for its fox statues, is dedicated to which deity?
Inari
Inari is the kami of rice and business, and foxes are regarded as the deity's messengers. The shrine's long rows of gates inspired the arches that players fly through.
Q 30Star Fox's Cornerian troops are dogs, so which animals fill Andross's army, after a Japanese saying?
Monkeys
Monkeys and dogs are proverbial enemies in a Japanese expression. That is why Corneria's top officer is a hound while Andross is an ape.