Zelda Adventure Quiz

The quiz board, with the questions, categories, and the map from The Legend of Zelda.

### Game(s)

All the games in the Zelda series up to *A Link Between Worlds*

### Social platform(s)

Miiverse

The **Zelda Adventure Quiz** was created by Nintendoer, was hosted on his Miiverse profile and in the Legend of Zelda Series Community, and comprised questions on all the games in the Zelda series up to *A Link Between Worlds*. It featured 128 themed questions and ran for 32 days, from November 19, 2014 to December 23, 2014. The contestants in the quiz competed for the highest total score across all of the categories and questions. A sequel event called 2nd Quest was held in 2017.

## Rules

Questions were given out four per day. As many people as wished to could answer the questions within 24 hours of them being posted. However, the first four people to answer questions for a particular day were allowed to select one question each for the next day. As the quiz progressed, more difficult questions became available to select. The answers to all of the previous day's questions were posted after one day.

The layout of the quiz board was superimposed onto of a drawing of the map from the original *Legend of Zelda*. Nintendoer drew the map in *Art Academy: SketchPad* for the event, and updated it each day with each contestant's scores and the expended/available questions. Each question represented one tile on the map, or one screen in the game.

## Question Categories

The questions were categorized by game into sixteen categories:

* *The Legend of Zelda*
* *Zelda II: The Adventure of Link*
* *A Link to the Past*
* *Link's Awakening*
* *Ocarina of Time*
* Other (multiple games or the whole series)
* *Majora's Mask*
* *Oracle of Ages* and *Oracle of Seasons*
* *Four Swords* and *Four Swords Adventures*
* *The Wind Waker*
* *The Minish Cap*
* *Twilight Princess*
* *Phantom Hourglass* and *Spirit Tracks*
* *Skyward Sword*
* *A Link Between Worlds*
* Non-Canon

Within the sixteen game categories, there were eight levels of difficulty. Questions were worth the same number of points as their difficulty, with the exception of the "Other" category and questions on tiles where dungeons were in *The Legend of Zelda*, in which all point values were doubled.

A bonus day of questions was also posted, with questions that Nintendoer had left out of the quiz. These questions were just for fun and not worth any points in the competition.

## Contestants and Results

* Matthew: 538
* Jacob: 382
* Mario: 304
* Cliff: 301
* Francesco: 300
* Gamergirl: 219
* Sciz: 218
* Blake: 184
* Aaron: 151
* TAG: 147
* Connor: 140
* Danil: 111
* Etta: 97
* Ethan: 96
* Frog: 73
* John: 63
* JP10: 38
* Johnny: 34
* Ren: 29
* Steve: 22
* Elijah: 12
* Rodri: 11
* N: 10
* Garrett: 5
* Wonderdog: 5
* Day: 4
* The Pov: 3
* Shy Guy: 1

In addition to those listed, there were some participants that did not sign up to have their score recorded by Nintendoer.

## Reception

The feedback after the quiz concluded was strongly positive, with an abundance of smiling Miis. The participants showered praise upon the quiz's concept and implementation, identifying very few complaints:

*"This was a very well-organized competition, and I'm sure it took no small amount of brainpower to make it happen."*

 —NoFaceFred

*"Big thanks to Nintendoer for putting on this extravaganza!"*

 —Cliff

*"This was incredibly fun!! I think you should definitely do more in the future! I loved the amount of effort you put forth and dedication for all 32 days"*

 —GamerGirl

### Daily Posts

* Day 1 (OoT-1, ZII, TP-1, and MM-1)
* Day 2 (Other-2, SS-2, SS-1, and OoT-2)
* Day 3 (TP-2, PH/ST-1, MM-2, and WW-2)
* Day 4 (SS-3, ALBW-2, Other-3, and OoT-3)
* Day 5 (Non-Canon-2, ALBW-3, WW-1, and LoZ-3)
* Day 6 (SS-4, Other-4, OoT-4, and LA-1)
* Day 7 (MM-4, Other-1, TP-4, FS/A-1)
* Day 8 (MM-3, OoX-1, WW-3, and ALBW-1)
* Day 9 (Other-5, PH/ST-5, TP-3, and Non-Canon-3)
* Day 10 (SS-5, TP-5, PH/ST-4, and ALBW-4)
* Day 11 (WW-5, ALttP-2, LoZ-5, and MC-4)
* Day 12 (SS-6, ZII-2, ALttP-6, and ALBW-5)
* Day 13 (OoX-5, WW-4 (4 points, MM-6, and Non-Canon-6)
* Day 14 (ALBW-6, PH/ST-6, Non-Canon-1, and MM-5)
* Day 15 (OoT-5, PH/ST-2, LoZ-6, and LA-6)
* Day 16 (SS-7, ZII-6, LoZ-7, and MC-6)
* Day 17 (MM-7, ALttP-3, OoT-6, and TP-6)
* Day 18 (WW-7, Non-Canon-4, LA-4, and ZII-3)
* Day 19 (Non-Canon-7, PH/ST-7, OoX-4, and LA-5)
* Day 20 (SS-8, WW-8, Otyher-6, and LoZ-1)
* Day 21 (ALBW-7, MC-3, MM-8, and MC-2)
* Day 22 (WW-6, ZII-4, ZII-7, and LoZ-4)
* Day 23 (ALBW-8, PH/ST-3, Other-7, and OoX-8)
* Day 24 (OoT-8, FS/A-4, PH/ST-8, Non-Canon-5)
* Day 25 (OoX-3, ALttP-4, LA-3, and LA-7)
* Day 26 (Non-Canon-8, TP-8, ZII-5, and OoT-7)
* Day 27 (MC-1, MC-5, TP-7, and LA-2)
* Day 28 (OoX-2, FS/A-5, LA-8, and MC-7)
* Day 29 (OoX-6, LoZ-2, ALttP-5, and ALttP-7)
* Day 30 (OoX-7, ALttP-1, LoZ-8, and FS/A-3)
* Day 31 (ALttP-8, FS/A-2, MC-8, and FS/A-7
* Day 32 (ZII-8, FS/A-6, FS/A-8, and Other-8)
* Bonus Day

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