Q 01/05

Which real Japanese island inspired Sinnoh, the first Pokémon region with snow-covered routes?

A) Kyushu

B) Hokkaido

C) Shikoku

D) Honshu

Answer · why

B) Hokkaido

Hokkaido gives Sinnoh its cold northern feel: a snowy mountain range splits the region in half, and three great lakes form a triangle across it.

Q 02/05

Which Generation IV Pokémon changes form by possessing an oven, a washing machine, a fridge, a fan or a lawnmower?

A) Probopass

B) Bronzong

C) Dusknoir

D) Rotom

Answer · why

D) Rotom

Rotom has a body of plasma that slips inside machines to control them, and the first appliance developed for it to inhabit was an electric fan.

Q 03/05

Which balloon-like Ghost-type Pokémon from Sinnoh is said to tug children away to the afterlife?

A) Drifloon

B) Mismagius

C) Banette

D) Dusknoir

Answer · why

A) Drifloon

Drifloon is easily shaken off and dislikes heavy children, yet one writer at The Verge still named it the best Pokémon of all time.

Q 04/05

Which Sinnoh League Champion, a travelling archaeologist, is ranked among the hardest bosses in video game history?

A) Diantha

B) Iris

C) Cynthia

D) Geeta

Answer · why

C) Cynthia

Cynthia later turns up unannounced in Pokémon Black and White, a rematch so tough and so unexpected that fans compare it to a jump scare.

Q 05/05

Which Pokémon debuted in a 2005 film before its games arrived, then joined Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a fighter?

A) Greninja

B) Lucario

C) Incineroar

D) Mewtwo

Answer · why

B) Lucario

Lucario starred in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew a year before Diamond and Pearl, and its attacks in Smash grow stronger as it takes damage.