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50 free Luigi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Luigi started life in 1983 as a green palette swap of Mario for a second player, and spent decades in his brother's shadow before Nintendo handed him a haunted mansion, a vacuum cleaner and, in 2013, an entire year of his own. Along the way he became the better jumper, the worse coward and the owner of what Polygon called an inferiority complex unparalleled in gaming. These 50 questions cover the whole green career: Mario Bros. and Joust, The Lost Levels and Super Mario Bros. 2, the games that left him out, the voices from Charles Martinet to Kevin Afghani, Danny Wells, John Leguizamo and Charlie Day, Luigi's Mansion and Professor E. Gadd, the Poltergust 3000 and Game Boy Horror, King Boo and the Portrificationizer, Dark Moon, Luigi's Mansion 3 and Gooigi, Mr. L in Super Paper Mario, New Super Luigi U, Dr. Luigi, the Chicago train painted green and the theories about where his name came from. Easy questions stick to the basics; the hard tier asks about the Japanese Mario Kart 64 voice and the 1986 anime's odd colour scheme. 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 Mario night.
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Q 01Who created Luigi?
Shigeru Miyamoto
He drew on the 1982 arcade game Joust when designing the two-player Mario Bros.
Q 02In which year did Luigi first appear?
1983
He was the character controlled by the second player in an arcade game.
Q 03Luigi was originally created as what, in design terms?
A palette swap of Mario
Only later did he grow taller, jump higher and get a personality.
Q 04Which 1982 arcade game inspired Miyamoto's two-player Mario Bros. and thus Luigi?
Joust
He swapped Mario's colours to make the second player's character.
Q 05One theory says Luigi's name comes from the Japanese word 'ruiji', meaning what?
Similar
Another theory credits a pizza parlour near Nintendo of America called Mario & Luigi's.
Q 06Who voiced Luigi from 1992 until 2023?
Charles Martinet
He also voiced Mario, Wario and Waluigi.
Q 07Who took over as Luigi's voice actor in 2023?
Kevin Afghani
He also succeeded to the role of Mario.
Q 08Who voices Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)?
Charlie Day
In the film he is captured by Bowser's forces early on.
Q 09Who played Luigi in the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film?
John Leguizamo
The film made him much younger than Mario rather than his twin, and gave him a romance with Daisy.
Q 10Who portrayed Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!?
Danny Wells
He died in November 2013, during the Year of Luigi.
Q 11Which DiC cartoon episode featured Luigi without Mario appearing at all?
Life's Ruff
Luigi appeared in all 91 episodes of the three animated series.
Q 12Nintendo declared which year the 'Year of Luigi'?
2013
It marked his 30th anniversary and ran until March 2014.
Q 13Which Nintendo CEO announced the Year of Luigi while wearing Luigi's cap?
Satoru Iwata
He made the announcement in a February 2013 Nintendo Direct.
Q 14Which US city's elevated train was rebranded for the Year of Luigi in 2013?
Q 21Which ghost created the mansion Luigi 'wins' in a contest he never entered?
King Boo
He built it to shelter the portrait ghosts E. Gadd had once captured.
Q 22What is E. Gadd's machine that turns ghosts into paintings called?
Ghost Portrificationizer
Portrait ghosts are restored to their paintings after each area.
Q 23Roughly how many copies did the first Luigi's Mansion sell?
3.3 million
That made it the fifth-best-selling game on its console.
Q 24Completing the first ghost-hunting adventure unlocks which harder mode?
Chicago
Its Clark/Lake station also got the green treatment, promoting New Super Luigi U.
Q 15What was the green-themed arcade remix hidden inside Super Mario 3D World called?
Luigi Bros.
It was unlockable as part of the 30th anniversary celebration.
Q 16Which Mario & Luigi RPG was part of the 2013 Year of Luigi line-up?
Dream Team
Nintendo declared the year partly because it and Dark Moon were in development at once.
Q 17Luigi's Mansion was a launch title for which console in 2001?
GameCube
It was the first Mario-franchise game on the system.
Q 18Which professor equips Luigi with ghost-hunting gear in Luigi's Mansion?
E. Gadd
Elvin Gadd first tries to fend off a ghost with his vacuum cleaner himself, unsuccessfully.
Q 19What is the name of the vacuum cleaner Luigi uses in the first Luigi's Mansion?
Poltergust 3000
The sequels upgraded it to the 5000 and then the G-00.
Q 20What is Luigi's map-and-communication device in the first haunted-house title modelled on?
The Game Boy Color
It is called the Game Boy Horror and beeps when a Boo is near.
Hidden Mansion
In Europe the mansion is mirrored and the ghosts trickier.
Q 25Which studio co-developed the 2018 3DS remake of the first mansion game?
Grezzo
Grezzo also handled the 3DS Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask remakes.
Q 26Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (2013) was released for which system?
3DS
It was one of the headline games of the Year of Luigi.
Q 27Which studio developed Luigi's Mansion 3?
Next Level Games
Nintendo later bought the Vancouver studio outright.
Q 28What is Luigi's green ectoplasmic doppelgänger called?
Gooigi
He can squeeze through grates but dissolves in water or fire.
Q 29How many floors does the haunted hotel in Luigi's Mansion 3 have?
17
Each has its own theme, and Luigi needs elevator buttons to reach them.
Q 30Which award did Luigi's Mansion 3 win at The Game Awards 2019?
Best Family
It has sold more than 14m copies.