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50 free Final Fantasy VII trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Final Fantasy VII is the game that turned Japanese role-playing games into a worldwide phenomenon. It started life as a 2D Super Nintendo project set in New York in 1999, was abandoned on the Nintendo 64 when a single Behemoth monster tanked the frame rate, and landed on the PlayStation with a budget that made it the most expensive game of its era and a marketing campaign that ran ads during The Simpsons. These 50 questions cover the world and the making of it: Cloud Strife and the lie about SOLDIER, AVALANCHE and Shinra, the Cetra, Jenova and Meteor, the Turks and the Gold Saucer-era cast of Barret, Tifa, Red XIII, Cait Sith, Cid, Yuffie and Vincent. Production questions range from Sakaguchi, Kitase, Uematsu and Nomura to the Musashi-Kojiro rivalry behind Cloud and Sephiroth, the Aeris translation error, the Honey Bee Inn that Sony wanted cut, the trapezoidal PC box, and the Stravinsky piece behind One-Winged Angel. Easy questions stick to the main cast and the console; the hardest ask about the sole translator, the detective in the first draft and a NES bootleg. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a retro gaming night.
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Q 01In which year was Final Fantasy VII released?
1997
It came out in Japan on January 31 and in North America that September.
Q 02On which console was Final Fantasy VII originally released?
PlayStation
The CD-ROM format won out over cartridges after tests on Nintendo's hardware failed.
Q 03Who is the game's main protagonist, a mercenary with a giant sword?
Cloud Strife
His original design had slicked-back black hair before the spiky blond look was settled on.
Q 04Cloud claims to be a former 1st Class member of which elite Shinra fighting force?
SOLDIER
He was actually an infantryman who was never accepted; the memories were his friend Zack's.
Q 05What is the name of the eco-terrorist group Cloud joins at the start of the game?
AVALANCHE
It is led by Barret Wallace and aims to bring down Shinra so the Planet can recover.
Q 06In which city is the Shinra Electric Power Company headquartered?
Midgar
The game's epilogue shows its ruins covered in greenery 500 years later.
Q 07What is the name of the flow of spiritual energy that gives life to the Planet?
The Lifestream
Sakaguchi chose life as a theme after his mother died during development of Final Fantasy III.
Q 08Which carefree flower merchant is one of the last surviving Cetra?
Aerith Gainsborough
Her name was meant as a blend of "air" and "earth"; the original English release called her Aeris.
Q 09Who is the brazen but fatherly leader of the eco-terrorist group?
Barret Wallace
He and Tifa are the first two party members to fight alongside Cloud.
Q 10Which martial artist is Cloud's childhood friend?
Tifa Lockhart
She was created as a second heroine once the team decided to kill Aerith.
Q 11Which party member is an intelligent feline from a tribe that protects the planet?
Red XIII
He appears in the epilogue with two cubs looking over the ruins of Midgar.
Q 12Which Shinra staff member secretly controls the robotic cat Cait Sith?
Reeve Tuesti
Cait Sith is a fortune-teller who rides a giant stuffed moogle.
Q 13Which optional party member is a young ninja and skilled Materia thief?
Yuffie Kisaragi
She and Vincent were meant to be central but were made optional due to time constraints.
What is the name of the covert branch of Shinra's security forces?
Q 21What are the character-specific super moves charged by taking enemy hits called?
Limit Breaks
Tetsuya Nomura designed them as an evolution of Final Fantasy VI's Desperation Attacks.
Q 22How many years after the main story is the epilogue with Red XIII set?
500
The ruins are covered in greenery, showing the Planet has healed.
Q 23For which console was the game originally planned as a 2D title?
Super Nintendo
The team shelved an early prototype to help finish Chrono Trigger.
Q 24Which monster's 2,000 polygons choked the Nintendo 64 test version?
The Turks
The mobile prequel Before Crisis follows their activities six years before the game.
Q 15What is the name of the hostile alien life-form from which Sephiroth was created?
Jenova
It landed on the Planet 2,000 years earlier and nearly wiped out the Cetra with a virus.
Q 16Which member of Shinra's elite force was Aerith's first love and a key figure in Cloud's backstory?
Zack Fair
Scenario writer Kazushige Nojima created him to resolve Cloud's split personality.
Q 17Which spell does Sephiroth intend to cast with the Black Materia?
Meteor
He plans to absorb the Lifestream as it rushes to heal the wound and become a god.
Q 18Which mad Shinra scientist is revealed to be Sephiroth's biological father?
Hojo
He also experimented on Cloud and Zack for four years with Jenova cells and Mako.
Q 19In which town did Sephiroth learn of his origins and go insane five years before the game?
Nibelheim
The OVA Last Order, bundled with Advent Children DVDs, retells the town's destruction.
Q 20Who takes over the megacorporation after Sephiroth kills the President?
Rufus Shinra
He seemingly dies when Weapon attacks the Shinra building late in the game.
Behemoth
The game would also have needed an estimated thirty 64DD discs to run.
Q 25How many 64DD discs was it estimated the game would have needed on Nintendo's hardware?
30
CD-ROM storage was a major reason production moved to Sony's console.
Q 26Which other 1995 game did the team pause development to help finish?
Chrono Trigger
Discussions resumed in 1995 once it was done.
Q 27Who was the game's producer and the series' creator?
Hironobu Sakaguchi
He wrote the initial plot and proposed the Materia system for deeper character customisation.
Q 28Who directed the game?
Yoshinori Kitase
He had been one of the directors of Final Fantasy VI and wanted Aerith's death to feel sudden and empty.
Q 29Who composed the game's score?
Nobuo Uematsu
He had been sole composer on the six previous entries and treated this one like a film score.
Q 30Who was the game's main character designer?
Tetsuya Nomura
He won the job with handwritten, illustrated proposals and suggested killing off the heroine.