Mario Movie Trivia
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46 free Mario Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Thirty years after a live-action Super Mario Bros. flopped so badly that Nintendo swore off Hollywood, Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie became the first video game film to make a billion dollars. This quiz covers all three Mario movies: the 2023 animated hit, with Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black and Seth Rogen; the notorious 1993 film with Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper as President Koopa in Dinohattan; and 2026's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which added Yoshi, Bowser Jr., Rosalina and Fox McCloud. Easy questions ask who voices Bowser and what Bowser sings about. Harder ones cover the Teen Titans Go! directors, the accent Chris Pratt dropped for sounding too much like Tony Soprano, which Nintendo composer worked with Brian Tyler, where the animation was done, the film's Rotten Tomatoes score against its CinemaScore, and which cast members of the 1993 film drank between takes. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the three films, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Made for families who saw it in theatres, Nintendo fans and movie-night quiz hosts.
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Q 01Which animation studio produced The Super Mario Bros. Movie with Nintendo?
Illumination
Its founder met Mario's creator through the Super Nintendo World theme park project.
Q 02Who voices Mario in the 2023 film?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt voices Mario, but not as he first tried it: an early, heavier New York accent was rejected and softened into the voice heard in the film.
Q 03Who voices Bowser in the 2023 Mario movie?
Jack Black
Jack Black, the Tenacious D frontman, did more than growl: having Bowser sing a love song was his idea, and he co-wrote the ballad himself.
Q 04Which actress voices Princess Peach in the 2023 Mario movie?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy voices a Peach who needs no rescuing: she rules the Mushroom Kingdom, trains Mario herself and leads the mission to recruit the Kongs.
Q 05Who voices Luigi in the 2023 Mario movie?
Charlie Day
Charlie Day, star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, voices Luigi, Mario's nervous younger brother who is captured by Bowser's forces early in the film.
Q 06Seth Rogen voices which character in the 2023 Mario movie?
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is Seth Rogen's role: the Kong heir first fights Mario in a packed arena, then ends up his reluctant partner against Bowser.
Q 07Keegan-Michael Key voices which character in the 2023 Mario movie?
Toad
Keegan-Michael Key voices Toad, the eager mushroom who guides Mario to Peach's castle and joins the quest to the Jungle Kingdom.
Q 08Sebastian Maniscalco voices which bullying ex-boss of the brothers in the 2023 Mario movie?
Spike
Spike comes from the 1985 game Wrecking Crew; the film makes him the boss the brothers walked out on to start their own business, and he never lets them forget it.
Q 09In the 2023 Mario movie, longtime game voice Charles Martinet cameos as the brothers' father and which other character?
Giuseppe
Giuseppe is a wink to players: he looks like the hero of the 1981 arcade original and speaks in the classic game voice Martinet made famous.
Q 10Which animated series did Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic make before directing the 2023 Mario movie?
Teen Titans Go!
Teen Titans Go! made the pair's name, and word of their Mario job got out in 2021 through an animator's LinkedIn profile before any announcement.
Q 11Where does Luigi end up after the Warp Pipe separates the brothers in the 2023 Mario movie?
The Dark Lands
The Dark Lands are Bowser's own territory, so Luigi does not stay free for long: he is caught and locked up while his brother is still looking for him.
Q 12What power-up does Mario use to beat the Kong prince in their fight?
A Cat Suit
Mario grabs a Cat Suit mid-fight, and its claws and pounces let him beat the far stronger Kong prince; the Tanooki Suit only appears later, at Bowser's wedding.
Q 13On which iconic course does Bowser's army ambush the heroes' go-karts?
Rainbow Road
The kart chase runs along Rainbow Road, where a Koopa General's blue shell blows out the track and sends Mario and the Kong prince plunging into the sea.
Q 21The 2023 Mario movie was animated at its studio's branch in which city?
Paris
Paris, not Hollywood or Kyoto: the film's American studio does its animating in France, at the former Mac Guff workshop behind the Despicable Me films.
Q 22Which film was the only 2023 release to out-gross the Mario movie worldwide?
Barbie
Barbie overtook it at the start of September 2023, ending the plumbers' months as the year's biggest film worldwide.
Q 23What box-office milestone did the film achieve before any other video game adaptation?
Grossing $1 billion
It became the highest-grossing video game film after just one week, earning a Guinness World Record.
Q 14What does Toad hide in Peach's wedding bouquet?
An Ice Flower
Peach pulls the hidden Ice Flower from her bouquet and uses its powers to freeze Bowser at the altar, stalling the ceremony.
Q 15What does Bowser threaten to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom with if Peach refuses to marry him?
A Super Star
A Super Star is what Bowser carries off in the opening scene, and it ends up beating him: the brothers grab it, turn invincible and flatten his army.
Q 16How is Bowser dealt with at the end of the 2023 Mario movie?
Shrunk with a Mini Mushroom and jarred
Shrunk with a Mini Mushroom and jarred: Peach feeds him the blue mushroom and Toad seals the tiny, squeaky-voiced Koopa King in a jar.
Q 17Which New York borough are Mario and Luigi from in the 2023 Mario movie?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is home base for Super Mario Bros. Plumbing, and its TV commercial pays off late on: glimpsing it mid-battle is what gets a beaten Mario back on his feet.
Q 18Lumalee, the cheerfully gloomy blue star in Bowser's dungeon, is voiced by the young daughter of whom?
One of the directors
One of the directors: Juliet Jelenic, daughter of Michael Jelenic, voiced the doom-loving Luma and returned to the role in the 2026 sequel.
Q 19Composer Brian Tyler worked closely with which longtime Nintendo composer on the score?
Koji Kondo
Brian Tyler consulted Koji Kondo, composer of the original 1985 Super Mario Bros. theme, and wove Kondo's game leitmotifs into the orchestral score.
Q 20What is the title of the love song Bowser sings at the piano in the 2023 Mario movie?
Peaches
Peaches outgrew its scene: the joke ballad climbed to number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, the first time the actor singing it had charted there on his own.
Q 24Which later film beat the 2023 Mario film's US opening-weekend record for a video game adaptation?
A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie opened to about $163 million in April 2025 against Mario's $146 million, a debut spread thinner because Mario had opened on a Wednesday.
Q 25In which country did the 2023 Mario movie become the highest-grossing film ever released there?
Mexico
Mexico made it the country's biggest film ever in May 2023; Japan actually spent more on it, about $100 million to Mexico's $85 million, yet there it fell far short of the record.
Q 26Which Saturday Night Live alumnus voices Cranky Kong in the 2023 Mario movie?
Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen voices the Jungle Kingdom's king, written here as the hard-to-please father of its star fighter, who wants nothing more than his respect.
Q 27Which studio's leaked emails showed it trying to secure the Mario film rights from Nintendo?
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures was exposed by its own 2014 hack: the stolen emails had a producer telling the studio chief he had landed an animated Mario film, yet no Sony film ever followed.
Q 28Which two men are credited as producers of the 2023 Mario movie?
Chris Meledandri and Shigeru Miyamoto
Chris Meledandri and Shigeru Miyamoto shared the job by design: Mario's creator wanted a film expert in charge, and found the studio founder's creative process close to his own.
Q 29At which awards did the 2023 Mario movie get three nominations, one in a brand-new box-office category?
The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes created Cinematic and Box Office Achievement that year, and Mario lost it to the one 2023 film that had out-earned it.
Q 30Who played Mario in the 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros.?
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins played Mario; he later named the film the worst job of his career, and Dustin Hoffman had lobbied for the part before him.