Ocarina of Time Trivia
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92 free Ocarina of Time trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Ocarina of Time trivia questions with answers. Ocarina of Time is still the highest-rated game on Metacritic, and this quiz treats it with the seriousness it deserves. Forty-two questions cover the 1998 Nintendo 64 original: Link's start in the Kokiri Forest, the Great Deku Tree and Navi, the three Spiritual Stones, the seven-year sleep, Sheik and the Sages, the twelve ocarina songs, Epona and Lon Lon Ranch, the Gorons, Zoras and Gerudo, and the final battle with Ganon. There is plenty on the making of it too: Miyamoto's first-person idea, the Super Mario 64 engine, Z-targeting, the 32-megabyte cartridge, Ura Zelda and Master Quest, the Fire Temple chant that was removed, Ganondorf's blood turning green, the GameCube bonus disc and the 2011 3DS remake. Easy questions ask which console it launched on; the hard ones want the development budget and Famitsu's score. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the game, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01What is the name of the horse Link can win at Lon Lon Ranch in Ocarina of Time?
Epona
Epona only lets Link near once he plays the song he learned at the ranch as a child; as an adult he wins her from Ingo in a race, then escapes by jumping the ranch wall.
Q 02Ocarina of Time was the first Zelda game to feature what?
3D graphics
3D graphics were new to Zelda, and lining Link up with an enemy in 3D space proved so awkward that the team invented a lock-on system to solve it.
Q 03Who produced Ocarina of Time?
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto produced and supervised Ocarina of Time rather than directing it himself, as he had his previous big game, handing day-to-day control to a team of directors.
Q 04Who composed the soundtrack of Ocarina of Time?
Koji Kondo
Koji Kondo wrote the score under an odd constraint: every melody Link plays had to work with just the five notes an ocarina's buttons allow, which he called a major challenge.
Q 05Which Ocarina of Time director became Zelda's long-time producer?
Eiji Aonuma
Eiji Aonuma designed its dungeons; he was invited onto the team after directing Marvelous, a 1996 adventure game inspired by an earlier Zelda.
Q 06Ocarina of Time's lock-on targeting system is named after which controller button?
Z
Z-targeting began with a plain marker on the locked-on enemy; the team redrew it as a fairy, nicknamed the 'Fairy Navigation System', and that is how Navi was born.
Q 07Which ocarina song does a windmill man teach adult Link?
Song of Storms
The Song of Storms is a time loop: the windmill man teaches it to adult Link while cursing the kid who played it years before, and that kid turns out to be Link himself, playing what he has just been taught.
Q 08Which area serves as the central hub of Ocarina of Time's world?
Hyrule Field
Hyrule Field links every region, with a ranch at its centre; cross it after dark as a child and skeletal Stalchildren claw up from the ground until sunrise.
Q 09Kakariko Village sits at the foot of which peak?
Death Mountain
Death Mountain looms over Kakariko Village; its trail is pelted by falling rock whenever Link nears the summit, so he needs a sturdy shield to climb it.
Q 10In Ocarina of Time, which desert-dwelling race consists almost entirely of women?
The Gerudo
The Gerudo see only one man born every hundred years, and their law makes him king, which is how Ganondorf came to rule them.
Q 11In Ocarina of Time, which temple features a fight against Dark Link?
The Water Temple
The Water Temple pits Link against Dark Link, a shadow that rises from his own reflection in a misty, flooded room and copies his sword moves.
Q 12Why do the other forest children tease Link at the start of Ocarina of Time?
He has no fairy
He has no fairy because he is not really one of the forest folk: his dying Hylian mother left him in the forest as a baby, a secret Link learns only as an adult.
Q 13Who instructs Navi to become Link's guide in Ocarina of Time?
The Great Deku Tree
Q 21Which of these characters is one of the Sages Link awakens as an adult?
Darunia
Darunia, the Goron chief, marches off alone to face the dragon Volvagia; once Link finishes the fight for him, he awakens as one of the Sages.
Q 22When the Triforce splits in Ocarina of Time, which of its pieces does Ganondorf keep?
Power
Power is all Ganondorf gets: his unbalanced heart makes the Triforce split, and Wisdom and Courage pass to Zelda and Link, so he must capture them both to complete it.
Q 23How does Ocarina of Time end for Link?
Zelda sends him back to his childhood
Zelda sends him back to his childhood to relive the years he lost; Nintendo's official timeline later treated the two eras this leaves behind as separate branches of the series.
The Great Deku Tree, guardian of the Kokiri, sends Navi to wake Link; cursed by Ganondorf, he gives Link the Kokiri's Emerald before he dies.
Q 14Which sleepy Lon Lon Ranch owner must young Link wake with a crowing Cucco?
Talon
Talon nods off on a milk run to the castle until Link's Cucco crows him awake; years later his hand Ingo has seized the ranch and Talon is found asleep in a village house.
Q 15Zelda's caretaker Impa belongs to which people?
The Sheikah
Impa is one of the Sheikah, the shadow folk sworn to guard Hyrule's royal family; Kakariko was once their private village until she opened it to ordinary people.
Q 16Which tunic protects adult Link from the scorching heat inside a volcano's crater?
Goron Tunic
The red Goron Tunic keeps Link alive in the crater's heat; he gets it free from the Goron chief's young son, who was named Link in his honour, or can buy one for 200 Rupees.
Q 17Which Spiritual Stone does Link earn by clearing Dodongo's Cavern?
Goron's Ruby
The Goron's Ruby is the reward: the cavern is where the Gorons quarry the rocks they eat, so clearing it ends their hunger and their chief hands over the stone.
Q 18Which childhood friend gives Link his first ocarina as he leaves the forest?
Saria
Saria gives Link the Fairy Ocarina as a keepsake when he leaves home; the treasured royal ocarina of the title only replaces it once Zelda flees the castle.
Q 19How many years pass while Link sleeps in the Sacred Realm?
Seven
Seven years pass because Link was too young to be the Hero of Time when he drew the sword, so his spirit was sealed until he grew up; Ganondorf used the gap to conquer Hyrule.
Q 20Which mysterious guide, who teaches adult Link his warp songs, turns out to be Princess Zelda in disguise?
Sheik
Sheik drops the disguise only once every Sage is awake, and it costs her at once: the moment she appears as Zelda, Ganondorf captures her and whisks her to his castle.
Q 24Which boss does Link face in the first dungeon of Ocarina of Time?
Queen Gohma
Queen Gohma, a one-eyed armoured spider planted as a curse on the forest's guardian, is the first boss; Link stuns her through the eye, then finishes her with his sword.
Q 25Ocarina of Time originally ran on the engine of which game?
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 lent Ocarina of Time its engine at first, but the team rebuilt it so heavily that the game's producer came to regard the two as different engines.
Q 26From which point of view was Ocarina of Time originally meant to be played?
First-person
First-person was the early plan, and the whole adventure was first pictured inside the rooms of a single castle; the roaming third-person view came later.
Q 27Ocarina of Time's sword combat was modelled on which genre of screen action?
Samurai dramas
Samurai dramas were the model: the staff watched a live sword-fight show at Toei Kyoto Studio Park, where a hero circled by ninja gave them the idea of locking on to one enemy at a time.
Q 28Later revisions of Ocarina of Time recoloured Ganondorf's blood from crimson to what?
Green
Green replaced crimson as the colour of Ganondorf's blood in later cartridge runs, a change made alongside glitch fixes; the GameCube re-release was built from that revised version.
Q 29The music in which dungeon was altered to remove a sample of an Islamic prayer chant?
The Fire Temple
The Fire Temple's chant broke Nintendo's own rule against real religious material, so it was swapped out, as was a crescent-and-star emblem; it was not, as often told, a response to complaints.
Q 30Which shooter was one of only three N64 games to outsell Ocarina of Time?
GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007, a film tie-in, sold just over eight million copies to Ocarina of Time's 7.6 million, leaving Zelda only fourth on the console behind it and two Mario games.