Super Mario
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
9correct to beat the crowd
161 free Super Mario trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Super Mario trivia questions with answers. From his humble beginnings as Jumpman in a 1981 arcade cabinet to his latest adventure in the Flower Kingdom, Mario is the most iconic character in gaming history. This quiz covers 40+ years of the franchise: classic games, beloved characters like Yoshi and Bowser, legendary power-ups, Koji Kondo's unforgettable music, the 2023 blockbuster movie, and deep cuts that will challenge even the most dedicated fans.
30 of 161 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Under which name did English-language manuals first introduce Princess Peach in 1985?
Princess Toadstool
Princess Toadstool was the West's name for her from the first game's manual; in Japan she was always Peach, and Western releases only began to catch up in 1993 with Yoshi's Safari.
Q 02What power-up makes Mario grow bigger in the original Super Mario Bros.?
Super Mushroom
The Super Mushroom turns small Mario into Super Mario, twice his height and able to smash bricks; a hit from an enemy then shrinks him back instead of costing a life.
Q 03What color is Luigi's hat and shirt?
Green
Green was all that set Luigi apart when he debuted in 1983's Mario Bros. as a straight palette swap of his brother; he only later gained a look and a personality of his own.
Q 04In Super Mario Bros., what does Mario grab at the end of a castle bridge to drop Bowser into the lava?
An axe
An axe waits at the far end of every castle bridge; touching it cuts the supports and sends Bowser into the lava, so Mario can win without landing a single hit on him.
Q 05Which small brown enemies are the first you encounter in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.?
Goombas
Goombas, designed to resemble shiitake mushrooms, were added late in development; their walk was animated by flipping a single image back and forth to save memory.
Q 06Which company created Super Mario?
Nintendo
Mario has become the company's mascot, and games featuring him have sold hundreds of millions of copies across every Nintendo console.
Q 07What does Mario collect 100 of to earn an extra life?
Coins
Coins by the hundred earn an extra life in the original game, a rule most sequels kept; Super Mario 64 changed the prize, handing over a Power Star for 100 coins in a single course.
Q 08What profession is Mario officially described as?
Plumber
Mario is a plumber. He started out as a carpenter because Donkey Kong is set on a construction site; the switch to plumber came with 1983's Mario Bros., set in sewers.
Q 09In Super Mario Bros., what happens when Mario touches a Super Star?
He becomes invincible
He becomes invincible for a few seconds and knocks out any enemy he touches; a fall into a pit or a clock that runs out still costs him a life, though.
Q 10In Super Mario Bros. 3, what flying vessels do the Koopalings use to invade the Mushroom World?
Airships
Airships end each of the first seven worlds; Mario boards one, reaches the Koopaling's cabin and recovers the magic wand stolen from that world's king.
Q 11Which actor voiced Mario in the 2023 animated Mario movie?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt's casting was greeted with scepticism, yet the film went on to gross about $1.36 billion, the first movie based on a video game to pass the billion-dollar mark.
Q 12In Super Mario 64, what loops endlessly under Mario's feet until he has collected 70 Power Stars?
A staircase
A staircase guards the final Bowser fight and never ends until Mario has 70 stars; it feels endless partly because its music is a Shepard scale, an illusion of a pitch that keeps rising.
Q 13What is the name of the ghost enemy in Super Mario that stops moving when Mario looks at it?
Boo
Boo owes its two moods to a Nintendo designer's wife: Miyamoto said she was normally very quiet, but one day exploded over all the time her husband was spending at work.
Q 21Which name did Donkey Kong's 1981 arcade instructions give the hero later called Mario?
Jumpman
Jumpman was the name in the English instructions; Miyamoto's own choice had been Mr. Video, and he later joked that a hero called that might have disappeared off the face of the earth.
Q 22Mario was dressed in overalls in 1981 so that players could see which part of him move?
His arms
His arms would have blurred into a one-colour body on so few pixels, so Miyamoto gave him overalls over a contrasting shirt; the mustache, likewise, saved him from drawing a mouth.
Q 23In Super Mario Galaxy, what celestial object serves as the hub world?
Comet Observatory
Q 14In his 1981 arcade debut, what does Mario leap over as a giant ape rolls them down the girders?
Barrels
Barrels are the first stage's hazard, sent down the sloping girders one after another; Mario can also grab a hammer and smash them for extra points.
Q 15Which mushroom-headed character tells Mario 'our princess is in another castle' in Super Mario Bros.?
Toad
Toad delivers the line after each of the first seven castles; it inspired a 2008 song of the same name by The Mountain Goats and Kaki King.
Q 16What is the name of Mario's hat-shaped companion in Super Mario Odyssey?
Cappy
Cappy is a sentient hat from the Cap Kingdom who becomes Mario's companion in Super Mario Odyssey (2017). Mario can throw Cappy to capture and control enemies and objects.
Q 17Which item, introduced in 1988, turns Mario into Raccoon Mario, complete with tail and ears?
Super Leaf
The Super Leaf, introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3, turns Mario into Raccoon Mario; after a running start he can take off and then float gently down.
Q 18What is the name of the realm that Mario calls home in most Super Mario games?
Mushroom Kingdom
The Mushroom Kingdom is ruled from Peach's castle by a princess rather than a king: the Mushroom King named in the first game's English manual has never appeared in the games.
Q 19Who composed the iconic main theme music for Super Mario Bros.?
Koji Kondo
Koji Kondo found this theme the hardest of the game's six to write: he scrapped every draft that did not fit the rhythm of Mario's running and jumping, then started again.
Q 20Which Mario Kart item hunts down whoever is in first place, no matter who throws it?
Spiny Shell
The Spiny Shell, better known as the blue shell, arrived in Mario Kart 64 to keep races close to the end; Mario Kart 8 later added a way to fight back, the Super Horn, which can destroy it.
The Comet Observatory sits stranded when Mario arrives, because Bowser has stolen the Power Stars that drive it; as he wins them back, it regains the strength to fly across space again.
Q 24Which was the first Mario game to sell 60 million copies?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe began as a 2017 re-release of a Wii U game that had sold about 8.5 million copies, yet on Switch it passed 60 million by the end of 2023.
Q 25Who was the voice of Mario for Nintendo from the early 1990s until 2023?
Charles Martinet
Charles Martinet crashed the audition as the crew was packing up, was asked to play an Italian from Brooklyn, and kept talking in a soft, friendly voice until the tape ran out.
Q 26Which is the final world of Super Mario Bros. 3?
Dark Land
Dark Land opens with a nasty surprise: each rescued king has come with a letter from the princess, but the seventh brings one from Bowser, boasting that he has kidnapped her.
Q 27What can Mario do in the Tanooki Suit that the plain Raccoon form cannot?
Become a statue
Become a statue: for a few seconds he turns to stone that enemies cannot hurt, and doing it in mid-air slams him down on whatever is underneath.
Q 28The Mario Kart series launched in 1992 on which console?
Super NES
Super NES owners got it thanks to another racer: the game began as a two-player take on the solo F-Zero, and Mario's cast was only added a few months into development.
Q 29Which real-world metropolis inspired the Metro Kingdom's capital in Super Mario Odyssey?
New York
New York is the model for the capital, a city of realistic-looking humans; the developers chose that look so the place would feel different from anything players expected of a Mario game.
Q 30In the Super Smash Bros. series, which Smash Ball move has Mario send a widening wall of flame across the stage?
Mario Finale
Mario Finale fires twin streams of fire that spread as they travel, dragging rival fighters along with them towards the edge of the screen; it has been his big move since Brawl.