Q 01/05

Which birds rise from the pitch and fly with the ball in Royal Academy's three-player shot in Inazuma Eleven?

A) Seagulls

B) Penguins

C) Falcons

D) Ravens

Answer · why

B) Penguins

Penguins give Emperor Penguin No. 2 its name. The move is a safer reworking of an earlier shot that put a heavy strain on the body of whoever used it.

Q 02/05

Inazuma Eleven takes its title from a legendary Raimon team; what does the Japanese word inazuma mean in English?

A) Lightning

B) Whirlwind

C) Wildfire

D) Earthquake

Answer · why

A) Lightning

Lightning is the meaning, so the title reads as Lightning Eleven: a name first carried by the Raimon side of forty years earlier, coached by Mark Evan...

Q 03/05

Which Japanese studio, also behind Professor Layton and Yo-kai Watch, created the Inazuma Eleven series?

A) Game Freak

B) Capcom

C) Level-5

D) Atlus

Answer · why

C) Level-5

Level-5 built a whole franchise around the first game within months, with a manga and a TV anime both starting in the same year, 2008.

Q 04/05

On which portable console did the first Inazuma Eleven game launch in Japan in August 2008?

A) Game Boy Advance

B) PlayStation Portable

C) PlayStation Vita

D) Nintendo DS

Answer · why

D) Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS owners ran their team with the stylus, dragging players around the pitch and tapping to pass between teammates.

Q 05/05

In Inazuma Eleven 2, what do the mysterious players who wreck Raimon Junior High claim to be?

A) Aliens

B) Wizards

C) Ghosts

D) Demons

Answer · why

A) Aliens

Aliens is the story they tell, and the only way to stop them is to beat them at football, so Raimon tours Japan in a van recruiting new players.

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