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50 free Cuphead trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
He is the second player's character in co-op and can be used as an alternate skin in single-player.
Q 02Which company developed and published Cuphead?
Studio MDHR
MDHR is short for the surname of founders Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.
Q 03What game were the brothers playing at the Devil's Casino when they lost their souls?
Craps
Cuphead accepts the Devil's all-or-nothing wager and rolls snake eyes.
Q 04What does the Devil demand the brothers collect from his runaway debtors by midnight?
Soul contracts
Their guardian warns them the debtors will not hand the contracts over willingly, hence the boss fights.
Q 05Which elderly guardian's potion lets the brothers fire energy from their fingers?
Elder Kettle
In the streaming series he is voiced by Joe Hanna and the family lives in a teapot-shaped cottage.
Q 06Who is the Devil's right-hand man, who fights the brothers in a casino-themed battle?
King Dice
He attacks because the brothers' success made him lose a bet; a Whose Line comedian voices him in the TV series.
Q 07What is the name of the island where the game is set?
Inkwell Isle
It is divided into sectors, each with its own bosses and secret areas on the overworld map.
Q 08What is the in-game shop where players buy weapons and Charms called?
Porkrind's Emporium
Porkrind was runner-up for Best Shopkeeper in Giant Bomb's 2017 awards.
Q 09Objects that can be parried in Cuphead are marked in what colour?
Pink
Parrying charges the super meter, and in co-op you can parry a fallen partner's soul to revive them.
Q 10The super meter is represented by a row of how many playing cards?
Five
Spending one card fires an EX attack; a full meter unleashes a Super Art.
Q 11How do players earn each of the three Super Arts?
Parrying ghosts in a mausoleum
You must stop a horde of ghosts from reaching an urn in the centre of the screen.
Q 12What are the three difficulty modes for most boss fights?
Simple, regular and expert
Beating a boss on regular is required to progress; the last two bosses have no simple mode.
Q 13Some boss battles have the brothers piloting what?
Aeroplanes
Those stages play like side-scrolling shoot 'em ups rather than platform fights.
Q 21Cuphead was released on September 29, 2017 as a timed exclusive for Windows and which console?
Xbox One
It supported Xbox Play Anywhere; the Switch port came in April 2019 and PS4 in July 2020.
Q 22Which platform received Cuphead last, in July 2020?
PlayStation 4
Microsoft itself approached the developers about the Nintendo Switch port a year earlier.
Q 23Which car company shipped a version of Cuphead's first level in its vehicles' software in 2019?
Tesla
Elon Musk announced it personally; only the first level was playable.
Roughly how many copies had Cuphead sold by July 2020?
Q 14Which cartooning style from the golden age of American cartoons inspired Cuphead's look?
Rubber hose
Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios 'the magnetic north' of his art style.
Q 15Cuphead's design descends from a teacup-headed character in a 1936 propaganda cartoon from which country?
Japan
The film is Evil Mickey Attacks Japan; the brothers also tried a kappa in a top hat and fork-headed characters first.
Q 16Which 2010 indie hit convinced the Moldenhauer brothers to try making Cuphead again?
Super Meat Boy
They had attempted a similar game in 2000 but lacked the tools.
Q 17What did the Moldenhauers do to finance the game's completion?
Remortgaged their house
Development began in 2010 in XNA and switched to Unity in 2014, run from homes in Oakville, Ontario and Regina, Saskatchewan.
Q 18Cuphead's animation runs at what frame rate, beneath 60-fps gameplay?
24 frames per second
Twenty-four is the standard for American film; the backgrounds were painted in watercolour and coloured in Photoshop.
Q 19Who composed Cuphead's big-band soundtrack?
Kristofer Maddigan
The score has 51 tracks recorded with jazz and big band musicians using vintage recording methods.
Q 20Selected Tunes from Cuphead made history in 2019 by topping which Billboard chart?
Jazz Albums
It earned a Guinness World Record as the first video game to reach number one on a Billboard chart.
6 million
It passed one million within two weeks of launch and four million by mid-2019.
Q 25What is the title of Cuphead's 2022 DLC expansion?
The Delicious Last Course
Revealed at E3 2018 for 2019, it slipped to avoid crunch and then to the pandemic, finally landing on June 30, 2022.
Q 26Which third playable character does the 2022 expansion add?
Ms. Chalice
She has a double jump, an invincible roll and a parry dash, and swaps in via a special charm.
Q 27What item lets the expansion's ghostly heroine trade places with one of the brothers?
The Astral Cookie
Eating it turns the brother into a spirit and gives the ghostly heroine a temporary living body.
Q 28Who is the DLC's villain, a baker who wants to bake a living soul into a dessert?
Chef Saltbaker
His dessert was supposed to give the ghostly heroine a permanent body; he ends up sentenced to community service.
Q 29What is the name of the special dessert at the centre of the expansion's plot?
The Wondertart
The heroine refuses to let anyone sacrifice a soul for it and stays a spirit, at least for now.
Q 30At which trade show was Cuphead first shown to the public, at Microsoft's press event in 2014?
E3
It was estimated to be about 40 percent complete and was not yet playable.