Q 01/05

A study found that warming up with Super Monkey Ball on GameCube improved the work of which professionals?

A) Airline pilots

B) Surgeons

C) Racing drivers

D) Crane operators

Answer · why

B) Surgeons

Surgeons who played for 20 minutes before a surgical drill finished slightly faster and made fewer mistakes than colleagues who went in cold.

Q 02/05

Which GameCube launch game sold more copies in its opening week than Super Mario 64 had managed?

A) Wave Race: Blue Storm

B) Super Monkey Ball

C) Luigi's Mansion

D) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

Answer · why

C) Luigi's Mansion

Luigi's Mansion sends Mario's brother ghost-hunting with a modified vacuum cleaner, and it became the console's most successful launch title.

Q 03/05

Which former console rival of Nintendo developed the GameCube racer F-Zero GX through its Amusement Vision studio?

A) Sega

B) Atari

C) NEC

D) SNK

Answer · why

A) Sega

Sega had been Nintendo's great competitor in the console wars, and the racer was the first significant game collaboration between the two.

Q 04/05

Which GameCube life simulator hides playable NES games in its village for players to collect and enjoy at home?

A) Harvest Moon

B) The Sims Bustin' Out

C) Chibi-Robo

D) Animal Crossing

Answer · why

D) Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing also runs on the console's internal clock, so its days, weeks, months and years pass in real time.

Q 05/05

Which mascot, once Mario's fiercest rival, made his Nintendo console debut in a GameCube port subtitled Battle?

A) Crash Bandicoot

B) Spyro the Dragon

C) Conker the Squirrel

D) Sonic the Hedgehog

Answer · why

D) Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog arrived in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, which went on to become the best-selling third-party game on the system.