Q 01/05

Game Freak makes the Pokémon video games, but which company develops the Pokémon Trading Card Game?

A) Creatures Inc.

B) HAL Laboratory

C) Konami

D) Intelligent Systems

Answer · why

A) Creatures Inc.

Creatures Inc. was founded by Tsunekazu Ishihara, a designer of the card game who went on to run The Pokémon Company, which his studio owns jointly wi...

Q 02/05

Which games preceded Pokémon's first cards?

A) Gold and Silver

B) Red and Green

C) Ruby and Sapphire

D) Black and White

Answer · why

B) Red and Green

Red and Green came out in Japan in February 1996, nearly eight months before the cards. North America met the pair as Red and Blue in 1998, and waited...

Q 03/05

For Pokémon's 20th anniversary in 2016, a special reissue of the first Pikachu card was made of what?

A) Sterling silver

B) Crystal glass

C) Solid gold

D) Platinum

Answer · why

C) Solid gold

Solid gold, 24 karat: Guinness lists it as the most expensive Pokémon card ever sold at retail, though plain cardboard originals have since fetched fa...

Q 04/05

Which US company first published the Pokémon Trading Card Game in English?

A) Topps Company

B) Upper Deck Co.

C) Wizards of the Coast

D) Decipher Inc.

Answer · why

C) Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering, lost the licence in 2003 and sued Nintendo the day after its last agreement expired; the two...

Q 05/05

How many cards are in a Pokémon Trading Card Game deck?

A) 15

B) 30

C) 60

D) 120

Answer · why

C) 60

60 cards exactly, and running out of them is fatal: a player who has no card left to draw at the start of their turn loses the game on the spot.