Q 01/05

Spyro the Dragon is famously purple, but which color was he at first until developers feared he would be hard to see?

A) Red

B) Green

C) Blue

D) Orange

Answer · why

B) Green

Green was the first choice, but the team worried Spyro would vanish against the grass he runs across, so he was repainted purple.

Q 02/05

Stewart Copeland, who composed the music for the first Spyro the Dragon games, was the drummer of which rock band?

A) The Police

B) Dire Straits

C) Genesis

D) Talking Heads

Answer · why

A) The Police

The Police drummer played through early builds of each level to find its mood, using invincibility cheats so he could get through them faster.

Q 03/05

Tom Kenny, who became the voice of Spyro in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, is best known for voicing which cartoon character?

A) Timmy Turner

B) Courage the Cowardly Dog

C) Jimmy Neutron

D) SpongeBob SquarePants

Answer · why

D) SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants and Spyro share a voice: Kenny played the dragon until 2002, then came back in 2018 to re-record every line for the Reignited Tr...

Q 04/05

The villain Ripto in Spyro 2 got his name from the way 'Spyro' looks when written in which language?

A) Korean

B) Russian

C) Japanese

D) Cantonese

Answer · why

C) Japanese

Japanese katakana for Spyro's name inspired it, and the warlock came back as the villain of several later games, Enter the Dragonfly among them.

Q 05/05

Which name did Spyro the Dragon nearly have until worries about a Disney film featuring a dragon ruled it out?

A) Pete

B) Elliott

C) Mushu

D) Figment

Answer · why

A) Pete

Pete sat too close to Disney's Pete's Dragon, and the next idea, Pyro, was judged too mature, so the team settled on Spyro.