Cuphead Trivia
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80 free Cuphead trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Cuphead looked like nothing else when it arrived in 2017: a run-and-gun boss rush drawn by hand in the rubber-hose style of 1930s cartoons, scored by a full big band, and hard enough that dying a hundred times was normal. This quiz covers the game and everything that grew from it: the craps game at the Devil's Casino, the soul contracts, King Dice, Elder Kettle's potion, Porkrind's Emporium, the pink parry, The Delicious Last Course with Ms. Chalice and Chef Saltbaker, and The Cuphead Show! on Netflix. Easy questions ask who Cuphead's brother is and how the brothers get into trouble. Harder ones cover the Moldenhauer brothers remortgaging their house, the 1936 Japanese cartoon that inspired the cup head, the animation running at 24 frames per second under 60-fps gameplay, the record-setting jazz album, and which console the game reached last. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the game, its creators and the series, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Made for players who finally beat the Devil, fans of the show, and anyone who loves old cartoons.
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Q 01What is the name of Cuphead's brother?
Mugman
Mugman is the second player's character in co-op and the cautious one of the pair: in the opening story he shouts for his brother to stop just before the fateful bet is lost.
Q 02Which company developed and published Cuphead?
Studio MDHR
Studio MDHR is short for Moldenhauer, the surname of brothers Chad and Jared, who began Cuphead as a side project and only later quit their day jobs to finish it.
Q 03What game were the brothers playing at the Devil's Casino when they lost their souls?
Craps
Craps was going their way until the Devil raised the stakes to all or nothing: Cuphead took the roll, threw snake eyes and lost both brothers' souls.
Q 04What does the Devil demand the brothers collect from his runaway debtors by midnight?
Soul contracts
Soul contracts are the Devil's proof that he owns each debtor; none of them hands one over willingly, which is why every debtor has to be beaten in a boss fight.
Q 05Whose potion lets Cuphead and his brother fire energy from their fingers?
Elder Kettle
Elder Kettle, the brothers' guardian, had warned them to stay away from the Devil's casino; once they are in debt, it is his potion that gives them their finger-gun shots.
Q 06Who is the Devil's right-hand man, who fights the brothers in a casino-themed battle?
King Dice
King Dice manages the Devil's casino and bars the door because the brothers' success has cost him a bet, making them beat a board of his henchmen before he fights.
Q 07What is the name of the island where Cuphead is set?
Inkwell Isle
Inkwell Isle is split into three sectors on the overworld map, and a fourth area, the Devil's casino, opens only once every debtor in them has been beaten.
Q 08What is the in-game shop where players buy weapons and Charms called?
Porkrind's Emporium
Porkrind's Emporium is the only place to spend coins, and most of those are tucked away in the handful of platforming levels, which gives players a reason not to skip them.
Q 09Objects that can be parried in Cuphead are marked in what colour?
Pink
Pink marks anything that can be slapped in mid-air: a parry charges the super meter, and in co-op slapping a fallen partner's rising spirit brings them back.
Q 10Cuphead's super meter fills up as a row of what?
Playing cards
Playing cards flip over as you land shots and parries: spend one for a stronger EX attack, or save all five for a Super Art that empties the meter.
Q 11How do players earn each of Cuphead's three Super Arts?
Parrying ghosts in a mausoleum
Parrying ghosts in a mausoleum keeps them away from an urn in the centre of the screen; survive every wave and the spirit freed from it hands over a Super Art.
Q 12What are the three difficulty modes for most Cuphead boss fights?
Simple, regular and expert
Simple, regular and expert are not equal: simple cuts whole phases out of a fight and doesn't count towards the finale, which opens only when every boss falls on regular.
Q 13Some Cuphead boss battles put the brothers at the controls of what?
Aeroplanes
Q 21Cuphead launched in 2017 as a timed exclusive on which console?
Xbox One
Xbox One was its only console until 2019, when Nintendo unveiled a Switch version of the prized exclusive and publicly thanked 'our friends at Microsoft'.
Q 22Which platform got Cuphead in July 2020, nearly three years after its launch?
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 was the version the studio had flatly ruled out in 2017; three years later it went on sale the same day it was announced, during a Summer Game Fest stream.
Q 23Which car company added a cut-down version of Cuphead to its dashboard screens in 2019?
Tesla
Tesla's version runs only while the car is parked and needs a USB controller, and the cars' limited storage meant just the opening section of the game was included.
Aeroplanes switch those fights from platforming to a side-scrolling shoot 'em up: the brothers fly freely around the screen instead of running and jumping.
Q 14Which cartooning style from the golden age of American cartoons inspired Cuphead's look?
Rubber hose
Rubber hose cartoons gave characters bendy limbs with no elbows or knees; Cuphead revived the look so successfully that later games such as Mouse: P.I. for Hire borrowed it too.
Q 15Cuphead's design descends from a teacup-headed character in a 1930s propaganda cartoon from which country?
Japan
Japan's cartoon has an army of evil Mickey Mouses fended off by defenders who include a teacup-headed man turning into a tank; the Moldenhauers tried drawing him and he stuck.
Q 16Which 2010 indie hit convinced the Moldenhauer brothers to try making Cuphead again?
Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy, built by a two-man team, showed that tiny studios could sell on consoles; the brothers' own attempt around 2000 had stalled for lack of tools.
Q 17What did the Moldenhauers do to finance Cuphead's completion?
Remortgaged their house
They remortgaged their house, or rather each brother's: both quit their jobs in 2015 and borrowed against their homes to expand the team and turn a small boss-only game into a full one.
Q 18Cuphead's animation runs at what frame rate, beneath 60-fps gameplay?
24 frames per second
24 frames per second was the film standard the 1930s animators drew to, so the team hand-drew at that rate while letting the game itself respond at 60 for tight controls.
Q 19Who composed Cuphead's big-band soundtrack?
Kristofer Maddigan
Kristofer Maddigan, a childhood friend of the Moldenhauers, had never scored a game and at first said no; the 'very small' job he finally took grew into nearly three hours of music.
Q 20Selected Tunes from Cuphead made history in 2019 by topping which Billboard chart?
Jazz Albums
Jazz Albums was the chart: the record knocked Michael Bublé's Love off number one, and Guinness lists it as the first video game soundtrack to top any US Billboard chart.
Q 24Roughly how many copies had the indie hit Cuphead sold by mid-2020?
6 million
6 million copies by July 2020, the first million inside two weeks: a success that, in Chad Moldenhauer's words, meant the family could 'keep making games for the rest of our lives'.
Q 25What is the title of Cuphead's 2022 DLC expansion?
The Delicious Last Course
The Delicious Last Course was announced in 2018 for the following year, then slipped repeatedly, first to spare the team another crunch and later because of the pandemic, arriving on June 30, 2022.
Q 26Which third playable character does Cuphead's 2022 expansion add?
Ms. Chalice
Ms. Chalice appeared in the main game only as the spirit who grants Super Arts; the expansion's whole plot is the brothers' attempt to bring her back to life for good.
Q 27In Cuphead's expansion, what item lets the ghostly heroine trade places with one of the brothers?
The Astral Cookie
The Astral Cookie is a Charm, so wearing it means giving up the others; in exchange the heroine brings a double jump, a dash that parries and one more hit point than the brothers.
Q 28Which seemingly kindly character turns out to be the villain of Cuphead's expansion?
Chef Saltbaker
Chef Saltbaker's miracle dessert secretly needs a living soul, so he kidnaps one of the heroes; once beaten he is sentenced to community service and reopens his bakery a reformed man.
Q 29What is the name of the special dessert at the centre of the Cuphead expansion's plot?
The Wondertart
The Wondertart is never actually baked: its secret ingredient is a living soul, so the heroine chooses to stay a spirit rather than let anyone be sacrificed for her.
Q 30At which trade show did Cuphead win over the crowd with a few seconds of footage in 2014?
E3
E3 gave it only moments in a montage of indie games, with nothing playable on the show floor, yet Polygon picked it among the five most interesting reveals of that conference.