🎮 Nintendo Now Trivia Questions & Answers
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30 Nintendo Now trivia questions
Q1. Which Mario Kart entry is the best-selling game on Nintendo Switch?
Answer: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
💡 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe passed 71 million copies sold, making it Switch's undisputed top seller.
Q2. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, who runs the island shop and hands out loans?
Answer: Tom Nook
💡 Tom Nook's loans are interest-free, but you still have to pay off every last Bell.
Q3. What's the name of Mario's living hat companion in Super Mario Odyssey?
Answer: Cappy
💡 Cappy lets Mario throw him to control enemies and objects across every kingdom.
Q4. Name the Switch play mode where the kickstand props the console upright, undocked.
Answer: Tabletop mode
💡 Both Joy-Con still have to be detached for tabletop mode to work.
Q5. What racing mechanic, introduced in Mario Kart 8, flips karts onto walls and ceilings?
Answer: Anti-gravity
💡 Anti-gravity sections light up kart wheels and let you bump rivals for a speed boost.
Q6. Splatoon's Turf War mode is won by covering the most ground in what?
Answer: Ink
💡 Turf War score is based purely on covered territory, not on how many rivals you splat.
Q7. In Splatoon, what do Inklings turn into to swim quickly through their own ink?
Answer: Squids
💡 Swimming as a squid also hides Inklings from enemies and refills their ink tank.
Q8. Which Kingdom Hearts hero became Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's very final DLC fighter?
Answer: Sora
💡 Sora joined in 2021 after years of fan requests, closing out Ultimate's whole DLC roster.
Q9. What new feature let Animal Crossing: New Horizons players reshape their island's land?
Answer: Terraforming
💡 Terraforming let players carve rivers, cliffs, and paths exactly where they wanted.
Q10. In Breath of the Wild, what's the name of the area where Link first wakes up?
Answer: The Great Plateau
💡 Players can actually glide off the Great Plateau's edge into all of Hyrule immediately.
Q11. Which region do players explore in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet?
Answer: Paldea
💡 Paldea's rolling hills and coastline were inspired by the Iberian Peninsula.
Q12. In Smash Ultimate's story mode, which fighter alone dodges Galeem's opening attack?
Answer: Kirby
💡 He escapes on his Warp Star while every other fighter is engulfed in light.
Q13. Which kingdom does Mario touch down in first during Super Mario Odyssey?
Answer: Cap Kingdom
💡 It's Cappy's home turf, and where Mario first learns to throw his new hat.
Q14. Which Tears of the Kingdom ability combines items to buff a weapon or arrow?
Answer: Fuse
💡 Fusing a Keese eyeball onto an arrow turns it into a homing shot.
Q15. Which legendary Pokémon graces the box art of Pokémon Violet?
Answer: Miraidon
💡 Its counterpart Koraidon fronts the Scarlet box art instead.
Q16. Which rival race in Splatoon later became a playable option alongside Inklings?
Answer: Octolings
💡 Octolings became playable starting with Splatoon 2's Octo Expansion DLC.
Q17. About how many fighters launched in Smash Ultimate's base roster, before any DLC?
Answer: 74
💡 That made the base roster the biggest in Smash Bros. history at the time.
Q18. Which Tears of the Kingdom ability lets Link build machines by fusing objects together?
Answer: Ultrahand
💡 Ultrahand can glue together carts, rafts, and even makeshift flying machines.
Q19. Tears of the Kingdom added a vast set of underground caverns known collectively as what?
Answer: The Depths
💡 The Depths mirror the surface map but sit in near-total darkness far below Hyrule.
Q20. Name the fire-type starter Pokémon offered in Scarlet and Violet.
Answer: Fuecoco
💡 Fuecoco is famously laid-back for a fire-type, lounging around even mid-battle.
Q21. Which Nintendo hybrid console launched as the Switch's successor in June 2025?
Answer: Nintendo Switch 2
💡 Switch 2's Joy-Con 2 controllers attach magnetically and can even work like a mouse.
Q22. Which two beings serve as the final bosses of Smash Ultimate's World of Light?
Answer: Galeem and Dharkon
💡 Their light and dark armies devour every fighter but Kirby to open the story.
Q23. Which Tears of the Kingdom ability lets Link rise straight up through a ceiling?
Answer: Ascend
💡 It only works when there's open space directly above the ceiling he targets.
Q24. Which Tears of the Kingdom ability reverses an object's recent movement in time?
Answer: Recall
💡 Players can Recall a falling boulder to ride it right back up a cliff.
Q25. Which Breath of the Wild Champion calls down lightning by snapping her fingers?
Answer: Urbosa
💡 She's the Gerudo Chief who once mentored Zelda's own mother.
Q26. In Splatoon 3, what's it called when Salmonids overrun a battle stage for 48 hours?
Answer: Big Run
💡 It plays like Salmon Run, but on a map normally used for ranked battles.
Q27. In Smash Ultimate's World of Light, what are the AI stand-ins for characters called?
Answer: Spirits
💡 Defeating one lets you recruit it to boost your own fighter's stats.
Q28. What's Splatoon 3's four-player co-op mode battling hordes of Salmonids called?
Answer: Salmon Run Next Wave
💡 Teams collect Golden Eggs from downed Salmonids before time runs out.
Q29. In what year did Splatoon 3 launch on Nintendo Switch?
Answer: 2022
💡 Splatoon 3 sold 3.45 million copies in Japan in just three days, a record pace there.
Q30. As of a 2026 sales report, where does Animal Crossing: New Horizons rank among Switch games?
Answer: Second
💡 It trails only Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with nearly 50 million copies sold itself.
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