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50 free Doraemon trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Doraemon (often spelled Doremon by fans in India and across South Asia) is the robot cat who arrived from the 22nd century to rescue a hopeless schoolboy, and he has been doing it since 1969. He is a national icon in Japan, a childhood fixture from Hanoi to Hyderabad, and the star of more than forty feature films. These 50 questions cover the whole story: how the cat lost his ears and his colour, the gadgets he pulls from his belly, the boy he looks after, Shizuka and the neighbourhood bullies, the two schoolboys who drew him under one pen name, the three television series and the voices behind them, the annual films and their records, and the ambassador, museum and broadcast milestones that made him a world figure. Play it in the browser or print it for a quiz night. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you leave knowing a little more than you came with.
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Q 01Which colour did the robot cat Doraemon leave the factory painted, before a crying fit washed it off?
Yellow
Yellow was Doraemon's factory coat; in his 1974 backstory mice chewed off his ears and he wept until the paint came away, leaving the blue base coat and a lifelong fear of mice.
Q 02Doraemon flies into a rage whenever his missing ears get him mistaken for which animal?
A raccoon dog
A raccoon dog, or tanuki, is what strangers take the earless Doraemon for, and the mix-up is one of the series' longest-running gags, alongside his panic at the sight of any mouse.
Q 03Where does Doraemon keep the future gadgets he pulls out each time Nobita lands in trouble?
A four-dimensional pocket
A four-dimensional pocket on his belly holds every tool Doraemon brings from the future, and the stories use those gadgets to paint a hopeful picture of technology in children's lives.
Q 04Which Japanese sweet, two small pancakes around red bean paste, is Doraemon's favourite food?
Dorayaki
Dorayaki means roughly 'gong cake', after the gong a legendary samurai supposedly cooked on, and the first English manga renamed it 'fudgy pudgy pie'.
Q 05Which pink Doraemon gadget lets you step straight to wherever the person turning its knob is thinking of?
Anywhere Door
The Anywhere Door opens onto any place its user pictures, and alongside the Take-copter and the Time Machine it is one of the gadgets that recur most often in the series.
Q 06The Take-copter, the tiny propeller hat Doraemon hands out so friends can fly, is named after which material?
Bamboo
Bamboo is 'take' in Japanese, and the Take-copter is a bamboo headpiece that lifts its wearer into the air; it is the gadget that turns up most often in the whole series.
Q 07Where in Nobita's bedroom is the entrance to the time machine he and Doraemon ride into the past?
His desk drawer
His desk drawer hides the Time Machine, a nod to Nobita's wish to control time, a craving the stories return to again and again through gadgets that stop, rewind or skip it.
Q 08Which arm of Japan's government appointed Doraemon the nation's first 'anime ambassador' in 2008?
The Foreign Ministry
The Foreign Ministry made the appointment hoping the robot cat would help people abroad understand anime and deepen their interest in Japanese culture.
Q 09Sewashi, who sends Doraemon back to help Nobita, is short of spending money because his family inherited what?
Debts
Debts Nobita ran up left his descendants in poverty, so Sewashi shipped a factory-reject robot to the 20th century to fix the family's fortunes at the source.
Q 10What does Doraemon's sister Dorami wear in place of ears, so as not to remind him of what he lost?
A red bow
A red bow replaced Dorami's ears so Doraemon would not dwell on his own, and like Nobita's mother she is terrified of cockroaches.
Q 11What makes Doraemon and Dorami brother and sister in the series' own logic, rather than any common design?
They shared one can of oil
They shared one can of oil, half each, when Dorami was made, and that is the entire basis of the siblinghood; she lives in 22nd-century Tokyo with Sewashi.
Q 12Doraemon is rated at a modest 129.3 horsepower; his more advanced sister Dorami can produce how much?
10,000
10,000 horsepower makes Dorami by far the stronger robot, yet when Nobita tried to swap her in for her brother he found she would not tolerate his antics.
Q 13Pulling which part of Doraemon shuts the robot down, while pressing his nose programs a task?
His tail
Q 21Which manga master handed Fujimoto and Abiko his old room at Tokyo's Tokiwa-sō apartments when he moved out?
Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka had already praised their Ben Hur drawings on a visit to his Takarazuka home, and the pair first called themselves 'Tezuka Fujio' in his honour.
Q 22Fujimoto and Abiko, creators of Doraemon, grew up in which prefecture, where a Takaoka library keeps the volumes?
Toyama
Toyama Prefecture is where Abiko transferred into Fujimoto's Takaoka primary school and caught him drawing in a notebook, the start of a lifelong team.
Q 23Tripping over his daughter's toy was one of three events that sparked Doraemon for its creator; which was another?
Hearing cats fighting
His tail is Doraemon's off switch, part of a spec sheet that also includes the nose button, and a few stories show him dangerously close to breaking down for good.
Q 14Which city near Tokyo, home to the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum, made Doraemon an official resident in 2012?
Kawasaki
Kawasaki granted Doraemon residency exactly one hundred years before his birth date, a year after the museum devoted to his creator opened in the city.
Q 15Doraemon debuted in December 1969 in how many children's monthly magazines at once, each aimed at a different age?
Six
Six magazines ran the manga at once, from a preschool title up to a fourth-grade monthly, and two more for fifth- and sixth-graders joined in 1973.
Q 16Which singer's 2018 tribute song, titled simply 'Doraemon', served as the anime's opening theme from 2019 to 2024?
Gen Hoshino
Gen Hoshino wrote the song as a tribute, and it first played over 2018's Nobita's Treasure Island, which drew 4.6 million admissions, more than any Doraemon film before it.
Q 17Which Indian children's channel, launched in 2004, switched to all-animation following the success of Doraemon?
Hungama TV
Hungama TV opened with live-action shows as well, but Doraemon's success after its 2005 Indian premiere pushed the channel, now owned by JioStar, to go fully animated.
Q 18Doraemon's manga found particular success in which country, with a record-breaking 40 million copies sold there by 2006?
Vietnam
Vietnam bought 40 million copies by 2006 and embraced Doraemon so thoroughly that in 1993 its cultural authorities praised the manga's effect on children, youth and adults alike.
Q 19Which letter did Motoo Abiko add to the shared pen name after the duo behind Doraemon split in 1987?
A
A, as in Fujiko Fujio A, was Abiko's signature from 1988 until his death in 2022, while his partner Hiroshi Fujimoto kept Doraemon under the name Fujiko F. Fujio.
Q 20Which rule did Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko, the duo behind Doraemon, keep for their entire partnership?
Splitting all income equally
Splitting all income equally, expenses too, was the pair's rule from their first schoolboy collaboration in Takaoka, and it survived even as their styles drifted apart.
Hearing cats fighting in his neighbourhood was the third spark; the first was wishing a machine existed that would dream up manga ideas for him.
Q 24What does the 'dora' in Doraemon's name come from, ahead of the old-fashioned male-name suffix '-emon'?
A word for a stray cat
A word for a stray cat, 'dora neko', gives the name its first half, so the gong in his favourite snack's name is a red herring; '-emon' is the ending in names like Ishikawa Goemon.
Q 25Which network aired the first, short-lived Doraemon anime in 1973, most of whose master tapes are now lost?
Nippon TV
Nippon TV ran 26 episodes from April to September 1973, and the studio's 1981 bankruptcy scattered the masters; no episode survives online or on home video.
Q 26Which network has carried Doraemon since April 1979 and relaunched it with an all-new voice cast in 2005?
TV Asahi
TV Asahi now owns the studio that animates the show, and in 2014 it struck the deal that brought Doraemon to American television.
Q 27Which actress voiced Doraemon for 26 years from 1979 and later played Danganronpa's Monokuma?
Nobuyo Ōyama
Nobuyo Ōyama kept recording Doraemon through cancer treatment in 2001, retired from the role with the rest of the cast in March 2005, and titled her memoir I Was Doraemon.
Q 28Which actress has voiced Doraemon since April 2005, after her mentor Kazuya Tatekabe urged her to audition?
Wasabi Mizuta
Wasabi Mizuta burst into tears when she won the part, then feared being fired amid the backlash over the cast change until the go-ahead for 2006's Nobita's Dinosaur told her she was staying.
Q 29Which studio has animated Doraemon for television since 1979 and made its more than forty feature films?
Shin-Ei Animation
Shin-Ei Animation took its name in 1976 when founder Daikichirō Kusube cut ties with Tokyo Movie, and every Doraemon feature it has made is released through Toho.
Q 30In the first Doraemon feature film, 1980's Nobita's Dinosaur, which creature hatches from the fossil egg Nobita finds?
A Futabasaurus
A Futabasaurus named Piisuke soon outgrows Nobita's room, and the film became 1980's highest-grossing animated release before a 2006 remake opened the rebooted series.