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50 free Spyro trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Spyro the Dragon glided onto the PlayStation in 1998 and quickly became one of the console's best-loved mascots. A small purple dragon with a big attitude, he ran, flamed and glided through bright open worlds packed with gems, portals and secrets, and the original games are still treasured by the players who grew up with them. This quiz covers the whole series. It starts with the original trilogy and its heroes, villains, homeworlds, stolen dragon eggs and other collectibles, then moves on to the voice cast, the music, the handheld spin-offs, The Legend of Spyro reboot and the modern remakes. There are stories from behind the scenes too, including how the character got his name and his look. It is written for anyone who has ever hunted for the last gem in a level, and for newer fans who met Spyro through the remakes. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the set for a games night.
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Q 01Spyro the Dragon is famously purple, but which color was he at first until developers feared he would be hard to see?
Green
Green was the first choice, but the team worried Spyro would vanish against the grass he runs across, so he was repainted purple.
Q 02Stewart Copeland, who composed the music for the first Spyro the Dragon games, was the drummer of which rock band?
The Police
The Police drummer played through early builds of each level to find its mood, using invincibility cheats so he could get through them faster.
Q 03Tom Kenny, who became the voice of Spyro in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, is best known for voicing which cartoon character?
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants and Spyro share a voice: Kenny played the dragon until 2002, then came back in 2018 to re-record every line for the Reignited Trilogy.
Q 04The villain Ripto in Spyro 2 got his name from the way 'Spyro' looks when written in which language?
Japanese
Japanese katakana for Spyro's name inspired it, and the warlock came back as the villain of several later games, Enter the Dragonfly among them.
Q 05Which name did Spyro the Dragon nearly have until worries about a Disney film featuring a dragon ruled it out?
Pete
Pete sat too close to Disney's Pete's Dragon, and the next idea, Pyro, was judged too mature, so the team settled on Spyro.
Q 06Which board sport does Spyro take up in minigames found in Spyro: Year of the Dragon?
Skateboarding
Skateboarding joined races and gunfights among the minigames, which were split off from the main levels into smaller zones of their own.
Q 07Which villain turns the dragons to crystal in the first Spyro the Dragon after they mock him on television?
Gnasty Gnorc
Gnasty Gnorc, half gnome and half orc, had been banished to a junkyard that he renamed Gnasty's World.
Q 08Which star of The Lord of the Rings films voiced Spyro in The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning?
Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood played the purple dragon in all three Legend of Spyro games, a reboot of the series that leaned harder on combat than on platforming.
Q 09A playable demo of which fellow PlayStation mascot's game was hidden inside the original Spyro the Dragon?
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot: Warped could be sampled from Spyro's disc, and Spyro's demo sat on Crash's, because the two studios worked across the hall from each other and swapped builds.
Q 10Spyro the Dragon's camera and controls were tuned with help from Matt Whiting, an engineer from which organization?
NASA
NASA flight-control specialist Matt Whiting steadied the camera after early versions, which tilted with every jump like a rocking boat, left playtesters feeling sick.
Q 11What is the name of the dragonfly who follows Spyro the Dragon and changes color as Spyro takes damage?
Sparx
Sparx works as a living health meter: each hit changes his color, and after too many he vanishes, leaving Spyro one mistake from losing a life.
Q 12Which creatures does Spyro the Dragon's dragonfly sidekick eat to win back lost health in the original game?
Butterflies
Butterflies flutter out when Spyro attacks the harmless animals that roam most levels, giving his hungry sidekick something to chase.
Q 13Which animals were shown protesting against Spyro the Dragon in the first game's advertising campaign and spoof website?
Sheep
Sheep fronted the ads to protest at being flamed by Spyro; an actor in an animatronic costume played their spokesman, Toasty, and the site was called sheepagainstspyro.com.
Q 21Spyro the Dragon was the second game from which studio, whose first release, the shooter Disruptor, had sold poorly?
Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games won another chance because critics had liked Disruptor, and the new game's producer urged a family-friendly follow-up to fill a gap in the PlayStation's library.
Q 22Which fantasy land is Spyro pulled into through a portal in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage while setting off on vacation?
Avalar
Avalar's residents had summoned a dragon on purpose: they needed help against a warlock they had let in by accident a week earlier, so Spyro's break at Dragon Shores had to wait.
Q 23What kind of mythical creature is Elora, who summons Spyro for help in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage?
Faun
Q 14What kind of animal is Moneybags, who demands gems from Spyro to open the way forward in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage?
Bear
A bear with an eye for profit, Moneybags also sells Spyro new moves, but once Ripto is beaten every gem he extorted is handed back.
Q 15What kind of animal is Hunter, the athletic friend who first helps Spyro in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage?
Cheetah
Cheetah speed and long legs make Hunter a useful ally, and A Hero's Tail gives him playable sections fought with a bow.
Q 16What carries Spyro between the homeworlds of the original Spyro the Dragon once he has found enough collectibles?
A hot air balloon
A hot air balloon run by a friendly balloonist is the only way onward, and each pilot refuses to take off until Spyro has met a target for that world.
Q 17In the original Spyro the Dragon, which attack is the only way to beat enemies wearing metal armor?
A horn charge
A horn charge gets through because the armor is fireproof; bigger enemies turn the rule around and must be flamed, since they flatten Spyro if he rams them.
Q 18Which series, played by placing collectible figures on a portal, began with a 2011 game subtitled Spyro's Adventure?
Skylanders
Skylanders figures carry a tag that the Portal of Power reads, and Spyro was one of 32 heroes players could drop into the first game.
Q 19After Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the original Spyro developers moved on to create which PlayStation 2 platform series?
Ratchet & Clank
Ratchet & Clank was already being prototyped in 2000, before Year of the Dragon was finished, because the team felt it had nothing new left to do with Spyro.
Q 20Which studio rebuilt the first three Spyro games as the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, using a tool it nicknamed Spyro-scope?
Toys for Bob
Toys for Bob had no original source code to work from, so its Spyro-scope tool read the old games' level geometry and enemy paths to match each level's layout.
A faun, Elora is the one who thinks of calling in a dragon, and the game's epilogue shows her and Spyro missing their chance to kiss.
Q 24Which of these moves was beyond Spyro until Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, where Moneybags sells him the lesson?
Swimming
Swimming fixed a real weakness: in the first game simply touching water hurt Spyro, and from here on he could dive for sunken treasure and hidden tunnels.
Q 25Which season is missing from the names of the three homeworlds in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage?
Spring
Spring is skipped: the three hubs are Summer Forest, Autumn Plains and Winter Tundra, and Ripto seizes a castle in each.
Q 26Which theme links the names of the four homeworlds that Spyro explores in Spyro: Year of the Dragon?
Times of day
Times of day track Spyro's progress, from a sunrise hub through Midday Gardens and Evening Lake to Midnight Mountain.
Q 27Which apprentice steals the dragon eggs at the start of Spyro: Year of the Dragon but later changes sides?
Bianca
Bianca turns on the Sorceress once she learns what her mistress plans to do with the hatchlings, and helps Spyro win the final fight.
Q 28In Spyro: Year of the Dragon, what does the Sorceress hope to gain from a spell using baby dragons' wings?
Immortality
Immortality was the goal, which is why she stole the eggs; she had earlier banished the dragons without realizing they were the source of her land's fading magic.
Q 29Which playable ally in Spyro: Year of the Dragon is a monkey who was later lined up for a cancelled spin-off?
Agent 9
Agent 9 was to star in a James Bond-style parody of his own, but the project was dropped and reworked into another Spyro game that was never released either.
Q 30What kind of animal is Sheila, the double-jumping ally who joins Spyro in Spyro: Year of the Dragon?
Kangaroo
A kangaroo with a double jump, Sheila is one of four extra playable characters, each unlocked by paying off Moneybags.