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40 free Mobile Legends trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is the game a billion phones have downloaded and that most of the Western games press has never played. Its heroes come from Javanese sea legend and Burmese kings as readily as from Castlevania, its developer has been sued by the makers of League of Legends and bought by the owners of TikTok, and its world championship final out-drew every other mobile esports event in history. These 40 questions cover the game itself first: the three lanes and what they are named for, the two jungle bosses, hero roles, ranked tiers, pre-match loadouts, equipment and the currencies. Then the heroes and their crossover skins, the studio's history and ownership, and the esports side: the M-Series world championships, the Mid Season Cup and the records they keep breaking. Every answer comes with a one-line explanation that adds something. Play it to see how well you really know the map, or use it for a guild night, a stream segment or a classroom of players who refuse to talk about anything else.
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Q 01In what fictional world, divided into regions like the Moniyan Empire, do Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's heroes fight?
Land of Dawn
The Land of Dawn is the continent every piece of Mobile Legends lore shares, split into eight regions including the Moniyan Empire, the Abyss and the elven Azrya Woodlands.
Q 02Which studio sued Moonton in July 2017, claiming Mobile Legends copied its PC hit League of Legends?
Riot Games
Riot Games never got the game taken down: a US court ruled the case belonged in Chinese courts, and the two sides settled every dispute in 2024. Riot had already forced the early relaunch that renamed '5v5 MOBA' to 'Bang Bang'.
Q 03Which company, best known for TikTok, agreed to buy Moonton in 2021 in a deal valued at about four billion dollars?
ByteDance
ByteDance won a bidding contest for Moonton in 2021 and ran the studio at arm's length through its Nuverse games unit, before agreeing to sell it on in 2026.
Q 04Which country banned Mobile Legends in June 2020, with other Chinese-origin apps, after deadly border clashes?
India
India's ban never emptied the servers: players kept logging in through VPNs, and the game officially returned in April 2024 under a new name and a different publisher.
Q 05Which tank hero's ultimate turns him into a speeding car, a nod that later earned him an official Optimus Prime skin?
Johnson
Johnson transforms into a car and drives across the map, and his Autobot-style quips became literal when the 2021 Transformers collaboration gave him the Optimus Prime skin.
Q 06Which fighter hero marked boxer Manny Pacquiao becoming Mobile Legends' Philippine brand ambassador?
Paquito
Paquito arrived in January 2021 as a boxer modelled on Pacquiao, and in 2023 he became the first-ever Finals MVP skin when M5 winner FlapTzy picked him as his signature hero.
Q 07By what names are the three lanes of Mobile Legends' map known, reflecting what each laner farms there?
Gold, EXP and Mid
Gold, EXP and Mid name the lanes by their reward, and the gold and EXP lanes swap between top and bottom depending on whether a team starts on the blue or the red side.
Q 08Which Saudi firm, owned by the kingdom's Public Investment Fund, agreed in 2026 to buy Moonton for six billion dollars?
Savvy Games Group
Savvy Games Group already owned ESL, FACEIT, Scopely and the Pokémon Go studio Niantic's games arm before the Moonton deal, which cut the game loose from its Chinese parent.
Q 09Which support hero, whose ultimate lets her possess an ally, got the Hello Kitty skin in the 2022 Sanrio collaboration?
Angela
Angela was the first hero able to attach herself to a teammate with her ultimate, and the doll-carrying support was paired with Hello Kitty while Cinnamoroll and Pompompurin went to other heroes.
Q 10Which jungle boss, once slain, marches down a lane to push for the team that killed it?
Lord
The Lord replaces the early jungle objective after roughly eight minutes, and once killed he respawns as an allied super-unit that pushes the lane with the fewest turrets left standing.
Q 11Which early objective, the first boss of every match, spawns beside the EXP lane and rewards the team that slays it?
Turtle
The Turtle pays the whole team a little more each time it dies, and if the last one is still alive past eight minutes it is replaced by the game's big boss.
Q 12How many playable heroes did Mobile Legends offer at launch, before the roster grew past 130?
10
Just 10 heroes were selectable at launch; the roster reached 70 by November 2018 and passed 130 in 2026, with a new hero arriving roughly every season.
Q 13Which mage hero is based on Nyai Roro Kidul, the Javanese Queen of the Southern Sea?
Kadita
Kadita is Moonton's take on Nyai Roro Kidul, the sea goddess of Java's south coast, one of several heroes drawn from Southeast Asian legend to court the region's players.
Q 21Which panda tank hero was the obvious pick for the Po skin in the 2022 Kung Fu Panda collaboration?
Akai
Akai as Po joined General Kai for Thamuz and the peacock villain Shen for Ling, and failed talks with the rights holders had kept the Kung Fu Panda skins off sale ever since, as of 2026.
Q 22Which ninja assassin got the Kakashi Hatake skin in the 2025 Naruto Shippuden crossover, alongside Naruto for Lukas?
Hayabusa
Hayabusa's shadow-dash kit made him Kakashi, and the same event replaced in-game turrets with a Gamakichi statue before a 2026 second phase added Itachi and Minato.
Q 23Which thief hero and his monkey sidekick Dexter star in Moonton's first animated series, released in 2021?
Claude
Q 14Which Mactan chieftain, who defeated Ferdinand Magellan's men in 1521, became a Mobile Legends fighter hero?
Lapu-Lapu
Lapu-Lapu was among the first heroes Moonton built from Southeast Asian history, joining figures from Burmese, Javanese and Malay legend added to win over the region's players.
Q 15Which fighter hero is modelled on Kyansittha, the 11th-century king of Myanmar's Pagan dynasty?
Minsitthar
Minsitthar carries Kyansittha's name in Burmese form and was part of Moonton's push to give each Southeast Asian country a hero pulled from its own history.
Q 16Which fighter hero is the Malay strongman of legend said to have hurled the slab known as the Singapore Stone?
Badang
Badang appears in the Malay Annals as a villager granted superhuman strength, and one folk tale credits him with throwing the boulder whose surviving fragment is the Singapore Stone.
Q 17Which hero was licensed from Is Yuniarto's Indonesian comic Garudayana and is loosely based on a Mahabharata figure?
Gatotkaca
Gatotkaca came from a June 2017 deal with comic artist Is Yuniarto, and his voice line 'Om Telolet Om' riffs on an Indonesian bus-horn meme.
Q 18Which mage hero got the Master Yoda skin in the July 2021 Star Wars collaboration, while Argus became Darth Vader?
Cyclops
Cyclops as Yoda and Argus as Vader were followed by an Obi-Wan Kenobi skin that December, and the whole set was sold only in Southeast Asia and Japan before a 2024 re-release.
Q 19Which fighter hero received the Iori Yagami skin when The King of Fighters crossover skins arrived in 2019?
Chou
Chou, a martial artist whose kit nods to Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, was paired with Iori Yagami, and the KOF skins brought their own ability effects and voice-overs, unlocked through a bingo event.
Q 20Which fighter hero wore Yuji Itadori in the Jujutsu Kaisen crossover and Eren Yeager in Attack on Titan's a year later?
Yin
Yin's ultimate seals one enemy inside a private domain that nobody else can enter, and his Itadori skin was later updated so that Sukuna appears whenever it fires.
Claude and Dexter steal an artifact in the show, which premiered on WeTV and Iflix before airing on TV9 in Malaysia, NET in Indonesia and ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Channel in the Philippines.
Q 24Which fighter hero was called Dante when the game launched as Mobile Legends: 5v5 MOBA?
Alucard
Alucard's name is Dracula spelled backwards, a trick borrowed from Castlevania, and the Dante he launched as was lifted from Devil May Cry.
Q 25Which tier tops Mobile Legends' ranked ladder, above Legend, and is itself split into named sub-tiers?
Mythic
Mythic replaces the star system with a score and is divided into Mythical Honor, Mythical Glory and Mythical Immortal, at the far end of a ladder whose bottom rung is simply called Warrior.
Q 26How many turrets must a team defend in a standard Mobile Legends match, counting every lane?
9
Nine turrets guard each base, and the ones deeper in a lane stay invincible until the turret in front of them falls, so no lane can simply be skipped.
Q 27Which mode squeezes the whole fight into a single lane, with heroes handed out at random rather than picked?
Brawl
Brawl starts everyone at level 4 and only lets heroes shop inside the base, which is why players grind it to repair a battered Credit Score or clear daily tasks.
Q 28Which eight-player auto battler mode, added in 2020, was removed in 2025 and relaunched as a standalone 'Go Go' app?
Magic Chess
Magic Chess pits a player's 'little commander' against seven rivals, and the spin-off app was given its own world championship, the GO1, announced in November 2025.
Q 29Which currency, earned just by finishing matches, buys heroes but can never buy a skin?
Battle Points
Battle Points cannot be converted into Diamonds, the paid currency skins require, and a weekly cap on earning them rises and falls with a player's Credit Score.
Q 30How many pieces of equipment can a hero hold at once, before any new purchase must replace one?
6
Six slots is the cap, and selling within the opening quarter-minute refunds the full price, after which most items return only 60% and boots a mere 20%.