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This JJBA trivia quiz has 70 free questions with answers on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, from Jonathan Joestar and the Stone Mask in Phantom Blood to Jodio and the Lava Rock in The JoJoLands. It covers all nine parts of Hirohiko Araki's manga, the David Production anime, the 1993 OVA, the live-action film and the video games, plus the odd corners of the franchise like Rohan at the Louvre and Gucci. The easy questions are for anyone who has finished the anime: whose Stand is Star Platinum, where Stardust Crusaders is heading, what Killer Queen does. The harder ones go after details only a real JoJo fan remembers: Gyro Zeppeli's real name, which Sex Pistols number is missing, what Made in Heaven was called during serialization, which battle Stroheim died at, and the novel Araki borrowed the two-family rivalry from. There is a mix of manga lore, production trivia and Stand mechanics, so it works whether you came in through the anime or the tankōbon. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you answer, so if you disagree with a call, you can see exactly where it came from.
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Q 01Who writes and illustrates JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
Hirohiko Araki
Hirohiko Araki, born in Sendai in 1960, has written and drawn every part of JoJo since the series began in January 1987.
Q 02In which magazine was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure originally serialized from 1987 to 2004?
Weekly Shōnen Jump
JoJo ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2004, then moved in 2005 to the monthly seinen magazine Ultra Jump, home of Steel Ball Run and its successors.
Q 03What are Stands, the powers at the centre of JoJo battles from Part 3 onward?
Psycho-spiritual manifestations of a person's fighting spirit
Stands are psycho-spiritual manifestations of a person's fighting spirit, introduced in Stardust Crusaders; Araki said he wanted to draw the invisible heart and soul, making fights mental rather than physical.
Q 04In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, what is the sunlight-based breathing martial art used by Jonathan and Joseph Joestar called?
Hamon
Hamon, also translated as the Ripple, focuses bodily energy into sunlight through controlled breathing, which is why it works so well on vampires.
Q 05Mainline members of JoJo's Joestar family share a star-shaped birthmark where on their bodies?
Above the left shoulder blade
Above the left shoulder blade; each part's hero also has a name that can be shortened to 'JoJo', from Jonathan Joestar to Jodio Joestar.
Q 06What is the title of Part 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
Phantom Blood
Phantom Blood, set in 1880s England, introduces Jonathan Joestar and his adopted brother Dio Brando and runs just five volumes.
Q 07Dio Brando becomes a vampire in Part 1 by using what ancient artefact?
A Stone Mask
Dio dons the Stone Mask, an Aztec artefact that turns its wearer into a vampire; Battle Tendency reveals the mask was made by the Pillar Men.
Q 08In Battle Tendency, Joseph Joestar fights the Pillar Men. Who is their leader?
Kars
He is finally blasted into space by a volcanic eruption, where his immortal body freezes solid, unable to die.
Q 09The Pillar Men are seeking which object, which will turn them into invincible superbeings?
The Red Stone of Aja
The Red Stone of Aja, focused through the Stone Mask, would make the Pillar Men immune to sunlight; Lisa Lisa guards the flawless Super Aja in Venice.
Q 10In Stardust Crusaders, the heroes must travel from Japan to which country to defeat DIO?
Egypt
The Crusaders travel from Japan to Egypt, where DIO waits in Cairo, racing a 50-day limit before Holy Kujo's Stand kills her.
Q 11What is the name of Jotaro's Stand?
Star Platinum
Jotaro's Star Platinum has incredible strength, speed and precision, and in the fight with DIO it learns to stop time for a few seconds.
Q 12Araki modelled Jotaro, including his poses and catchphrases, on which American actor?
Clint Eastwood
Araki based Jotaro on Clint Eastwood, borrowing the actor's laconic manner and gunslinger poses; Jotaro's 'yare yare daze' grumble carries the same Eastwood cool.
Q 13Which Stand does DIO wield in Stardust Crusaders?
The World
DIO's Stand The World stops time, at first for a few seconds and later for up to nine; Jotaro's Star Platinum develops the same power.
Q 21Diamond Is Unbreakable is set in 1999 in which fictional Japanese town?
Morioh
Morioh, a fictional town in S City, M Prefecture, is Josuke Higashikata's home; it returns in JoJolion, damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, in a second continuity.
Q 22Crazy Diamond can restore objects and mend injuries, but which of these is beyond it?
Fixing its own user's wounds
It can turn lemonade back into water, sugar and lemons, but it can neither revive the dead nor mend its own user.
Q 23What is the power of Yoshikage Kira's Stand, Killer Queen?
Turning any object into a bomb
Q 14Joseph Joestar's Stand Hermit Purple, like most Stands in Part 3, is named after what?
A tarot card
Hermit Purple takes its name from The Hermit tarot card, like the other Crusaders' Stands; Joseph uses its vines for spirit photography through cameras and TV sets.
Q 15Iggy, the Stand-using member of the Stardust Crusaders, is what kind of animal?
A Boston Terrier
Iggy is a Boston Terrier, a New York stray who dodged animal control for years; the group keeps him calm with coffee-flavoured chewing gum.
Q 16Hol Horse's Stand, Emperor, takes the form of what object?
A revolver
Emperor manifests as a revolver in Hol Horse's hand; the bullets it fires are part of the Stand, so Hol Horse can steer them in mid-air.
Q 17Muhammad Avdol's Stand Magician's Red manipulates fire, usually shaped like which symbol?
An ankh
Its signature attack, Crossfire Hurricane, hurls several flaming ankhs at once.
Q 18Noriaki Kakyoin's long-range Stand attack, a blast of green energy, is called what?
Emerald Splash
Emerald Splash fires a spray of green energy shards from Hierophant Green, Kakyoin's Stand, which can also shrink and control people from inside their bodies.
Q 19Jean Pierre Polnareff's Stand Silver Chariot is an armoured knight wielding what weapon?
A rapier
Silver Chariot fences with a rapier at blinding speed; shedding its armour makes it faster yet at the cost of defence, and Polnareff's look inspired Street Fighter's Guile.
Q 20Which vampire, DIO's last creation, kills both Avdol and Iggy in DIO's mansion?
Vanilla Ice
Vanilla Ice, whose Stand Cream devours anything in its path, kills Avdol and Iggy; Polnareff then forces him into sunlight, where the vampire crumbles.
Turning any object into a bomb leaves no trace, which is how the mild-mannered office worker has hidden his murders for years.
Q 24Rohan Kishibe's Stand, Heaven's Door, does what to a person?
Peels them open like a book to read their memories
The prickly mangaka draws the series Pink Dark Boy and stars in his own spin-off, Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe.
Q 25Koichi Hirose's Stand Echoes has how many distinct forms, or Acts?
Three
Echoes has three Acts; Koichi can summon only one at a time, and Act 3, which talks and crushes targets with 'Freeze', has a personality of its own.
Q 26Okuyasu Nijimura's Stand The Hand does what to whatever it swipes?
Erases the space it occupies
It is a devastating power that Okuyasu, not the sharpest member of the cast, rarely uses to its full potential.
Q 27Golden Wind is set in 2001 in which Italian city?
Naples
Naples is where Giorno, conceived while DIO was using Jonathan's body, aims to become a mafia boss and stop drugs being sold to children.
Q 28What is the name of Giorno Giovanna's Stand, which gives life to non-living things?
Gold Experience
Gold Experience can turn a briefcase into frogs or a tree; pierced by the Arrow it becomes Gold Experience Requiem, which resets any action to zero and traps Diavolo in endless deaths.
Q 29In JoJo's Golden Wind, Bruno Bucciarati's Stand Sticky Fingers can put what on any object it touches?
A zipper
A zipper: he can unzip a wall and walk straight through the opening, or take himself apart to dodge attacks.
Q 30Guido Mista's Stand Sex Pistols consists of six numbered bullet-shaped beings. Which number is missing?
#4
Despite being Italian, Mista is tetraphobic and treats the number the way many East Asian cultures do, as bad luck.