Ace Attorney Trivia
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50 free Ace Attorney trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Ace Attorney started as a six-month experiment: Shinji Mikami told Shu Takumi to build whatever he wanted, and a seven-person team shipped a courtroom game for the Game Boy Advance in 2001 that Capcom now counts among its strongest properties. Along the way the series gave us a coffee-drinking masked prosecutor, a whip-wielding 18-year-old prodigy, a spirit medium whose favourite food changed from ramen to burgers in translation, and a detective named Herlock Sholmes for copyright reasons. These 50 questions cover the whole franchise: the original trilogy and its localization puns, Apollo Justice and the Perceive system, Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice, the Investigations spin-offs, The Great Ace Attorney, the Professor Layton crossover, and the live-action film and anime. Easy questions stick to Phoenix, Maya and Edgeworth; the expert tier asks about composers, voice actors and the name the localizers almost gave Phoenix. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick something up even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a game-night round.
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Q 01In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the accused actor Will Powers stars as which children's TV hero?
The Steel Samurai
The Steel Samurai's star is accused of spearing the actor who plays his archenemy, the Evil Magistrate, who is found dead in costume at the studio.
Q 02Phoenix Wright first became a playable fighter in which 2011 crossover game?
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has him scour the arena for evidence mid-fight, and enough good finds unlock a far stronger courtroom mode.
Q 03On which handheld did the first Ace Attorney title launch in Japan in 2001?
Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance hardware won the team over mid-project: the game had been planned for the Game Boy Color until they saw the new screen and early Mega Man Battle Network footage.
Q 04Phoenix's Japanese surname is a running pun meaning roughly what?
"I see"
"I see" is the everyday phrase his Japanese surname sounds like, so the English writers named him Wright to trade those jokes for "right" puns.
Q 05What is Maya Fey, Phoenix's assistant in the first three games?
A spirit medium
A spirit medium was a rewrite: Maya was always planned as Phoenix's partner, but at first as a trainee lawyer studying for the bar exam.
Q 06Which gameplay mechanic did Justice for All introduce to Ace Attorney?
Psyche-Locks
Psyche-Locks were added because the creator found the first game's investigations too basic; satisfied with the result, he gave the third game no new mechanic at all.
Q 07What object lets Phoenix see and break a witness's hidden secrets?
A magatama
A magatama is just a bead until it is charged with spiritual energy, and the one Phoenix carries eventually runs flat and has to be recharged years later.
Q 08Apollo Justice's Perceive system was compared to spotting what?
A poker tell
A poker tell is the model: Apollo feels a witness's tension through his bracelet, then studies them in close-up for the nervous twitch that gives a lie away.
Q 09What do Spirit of Justice's Divination Séances show the player?
A victim's final moments
A victim's final moments are conjured in a pool on the courtroom floor by a dancing royal priestess, and the defence must catch where her reading of the vision goes wrong.
Q 10Which Great Ace Attorney character's English name is borrowed from Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin stories?
Herlock Sholmes
Herlock Sholmes is the name Leblanc switched to once Conan Doyle objected to his borrowing Sherlock Holmes; in the game, the hero has to correct the detective's flawed deductions.
Q 11In Ace Attorney Investigations, teenage sidekick Kay Faraday proudly calls herself a great what?
Thief
Thief is the title Kay claims as the second Yatagarasu, a legendary figure who steals only to expose corrupt corporate dealings.
Q 12The Great Ace Attorney sends its student hero abroad to which setting?
Victorian-era England
Victorian-era England adds a jury to the trials: when it swings towards guilty, the player wins it back by setting two jurors' statements against each other.
Q 13Who is the protagonist of The Great Ace Attorney?
Ryunosuke Naruhodo
Ryunosuke Naruhodo, an ancestor of Phoenix, starts out as a university student, not a lawyer, who is put on trial for a murder he did not commit.
Q 21As a schoolboy, Phoenix was put on a class trial, accused of stealing what from Edgeworth?
Lunch money
Lunch money was the charge, and the classmate who spoke up for him was Edgeworth himself, the future prosecutor, who back then dreamed of being a defense attorney.
Q 22Who took charge of Ace Attorney's English localization from the second game onward?
Janet Hsu
Janet Hsu also stepped up to the microphone, recording the English courtroom shouts of one of the rival prosecutors.
Q 23Whose short story "The Psychological Test" inspired the creator of Ace Attorney?
Edogawa Ranpo
Edogawa Ranpo's tale has a perfect crime unravel through the culprit's own contradictory testimony, the very idea the courtroom gameplay was built on.
Q 14Which masked rival prosecutor debuts in Trials and Tribulations?
Godot
Godot wears the mask because he needs it: it is a visor that restores his damaged sight, though it cannot show him red on a white background.
Q 15What does Godot drink constantly in court?
Coffee
Coffee replaced the bourbon and cigarettes first planned for the hard-boiled Godot, which the team dropped as a bad influence on children.
Q 16Which fellow game director voiced Godot in Japanese?
Hideki Kamiya
Hideki Kamiya, a fan who had asked for a part, ad-libbed "Objection, baby!" in the booth; the take was liked but dropped, because the on-screen bubble only says "Objection!".
Q 17What weapon does Franziska von Karma use on witnesses, lawyers and the judge?
A whip
A whip summed up the creator's aim for a second-game cast that felt "100% out of this world", and he was surprised that nobody on the team called the idea ridiculous.
Q 18Which Ace Attorney prodigy became a prosecutor at 13?
Franziska von Karma
Franziska von Karma was created so a popular rival would not keep losing: once the writer learned how much players liked Edgeworth, he saved him for the end of the sequel.
Q 19In Ace Attorney's English localization, which city are the games mainly set in?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles here is an alternate-universe city where anti-Japanese laws were never passed, the localizers' answer to why Japanese culture is everywhere.
Q 20Maya's favourite food, ramen, became what in the English version?
Burgers
Burgers took over from ramen in the English script, and the games later square the two versions by having Maya love both.
Q 24Which boss gave Ace Attorney's creator six months to make any game he wanted?
Shinji Mikami
Shinji Mikami made the offer once Dino Crisis 2 had wrapped, and the young planner, who had joined the company hoping to make mysteries, spent it on a courtroom adventure.
Q 25Which prosecutor, nicknamed the "Rookie Killer", is Phoenix's very first courtroom opponent?
Winston Payne
Winston Payne earned the nickname by beating novice lawyers, yet he is the first opponent of two rookies, Phoenix and later Apollo, in their opening cases.
Q 26What does the original Japanese title Gyakuten Saiban literally mean?
"Turnabout Trial"
"Turnabout Trial" left its mark on the English games, where the word Turnabout runs through the case titles as a nod to the original name.
Q 27Which director made the 2012 live-action Ace Attorney film?
Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike was best known abroad for violent shockers such as Audition and Ichi the Killer, yet here he made a courtroom comedy-drama that opened at the Rotterdam film festival.
Q 28Which security guard at Global Studios has a crush on Edgeworth?
Wendy Oldbag
Wendy Oldbag was cut from the third game for lack of cartridge memory, then squeezed back in as a cameo once the team found just enough space.
Q 29Which studio produced the 2016 Ace Attorney anime?
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures was doing double duty that year: it also animated the cutscenes of Spirit of Justice, then the newest game in the series.
Q 30Which rookie attorney joins Phoenix in Dual Destinies, able to hear emotions in a witness's voice?
Athena Cykes
Athena Cykes charts those hidden feelings with Widget, a small gadget that hangs round her neck and projects what she hears for the whole court to see.