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One Piece Trivia Quiz
One Piece follows Monkey D. Luffy, a cheerful young pirate whose body turned to rubber after he ate a Devil Fruit. With his Straw Hat crew, he sails the Grand Line in search of the legendary treasure called the One Piece, which would make him King of the Pirates.
Q1. Who created One Piece?
Answer: Eiichiro Oda. Oda has written and drawn the manga in Weekly Shōnen Jump since 22 July 1997. He draws everything that moves himself and leaves backgrounds to his staff, working from about five in the morning until two the next morning with short breaks only for meals.
Q2. Which Devil Fruit turned Luffy's body to rubber?
Answer: The Gum-Gum Fruit. Oda based Devil Fruits on the gadgets in Doraemon, reflecting his own daily life and fantasies, and said the Gum-Gum Fruit was inspired by his laziness. Every Devil Fruit user loses the ability to swim, which makes a pirate's life rather risky.
Q3. Which cartoon first made Oda want to draw a pirate manga?
Answer: Vicky the Viking. He watched the animated series as a child. Reading pirate biographies later led him to borrow traits from real pirates, and his biggest influence overall is Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, one of his favourite manga.
Q4. Who plays Luffy in Netflix's live-action series?
Answer: Iñaki Godoy. The series was codenamed Project Roger and premiered on 31 August 2023 to positive reviews from fans and critics, with Oda as an executive producer. Mackenyu plays Zoro, Emily Rudd Nami, Jacob Romero Gibson Usopp and Taz Skylar Sanji.
Q5. How many copies of the manga were in circulation by March 2026?
Answer: Over 600 million. That makes it the best-selling manga series ever and the best-selling comic series in volume format. It set the Guinness World Record for most copies published of a comic series by a single author in 2015 and updated it in 2022.
Q6. What were Oda's two 1996 one-shots that led to One Piece called?
Answer: Romance Dawn. Both featured Luffy, and the title was later reused for the first chapter and volume. Oda wrote them while working as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki. The first appeared in Akamaru Jump in August 1996 and the second in Weekly Shōnen Jump that September.
Q7. How many times did Weekly Shōnen Jump reject One Piece before agreeing to publish it?
Answer: Three. Original editor Takanori Asada revealed this. Editor-in-chief Kazuhiko Torishima thought it "incomplete" and the team argued for two hours, but he approved it because Asada was so "annoyingly earnest" that a colleague warned rejection would crush them both.
Q8. Marshall D. Teach is named after which real pirate?
Answer: Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. Reading pirate biographies led Oda to give many characters traits of real pirates. The series also blurs who counts as a pirate: some are selfish criminals, others are simply people who refuse to submit to the authoritarian World Government.
Q9. Zoro's move "Onigiri" is written as "demon cut" but sounds like which food?
Answer: Rice ball. Several of Zoro's techniques look fearsome on the page but sound like foods when read aloud. A Toei animation director said dropping these kanji jokes from the anime "might have cut down the laughs by about half".
Q10. How long did Oda originally plan One Piece to run?
Answer: Five years. He said in 2006 he had already planned the ending but enjoyed the story too much to finish it so soon. In 2016 he estimated it was 65 percent done, and in 2019 he said he would change the ending if fans managed to predict it.
Q11. Which volume holds the record for the highest initial print run?
Answer: Volume 67. It had a first printing of 4.05 million copies in 2012. Volume 60 was the first book to sell over two million copies in its opening week in Oricon's rankings. One Piece is the only manga to keep initial prints above 3 million for more than ten years.
Q12. In March 2026, what did Oda do with his written statement about the truth of the treasure?
Answer: Locked it in a box and sent it to the bottom of the ocean. It will stay there until the story ends, although some fans began planning to retrieve it early. Oda has said the One Piece is a real physical object and that a Wizard of Oz-style "the journey was the treasure" ending is a cliché he wants to avoid.
Q13. Which other manga creator collaborated with Oda on the crossover Cross Epoch?
Answer: Akira Toriyama. The one-shot combining One Piece and Dragon Ball appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2006. Oda also made a crossover with Toriko's creator, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, called Taste of the Devil Fruit, in 2011.
Q14. Which Greek athlete struck Luffy's "Gear Second" pose before winning Olympic gold in Tokyo?
Answer: Miltiadis Tentoglou. He did it before winning the men's long jump at the 2020 Games. One Piece has also had themed nights with the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Q15. For how long was One Piece Japan's best-selling manga each year without a break?
Answer: 11 years (2008–2018). It slipped to second in 2019 but stayed the best-selling manga by volume. Since Oricon's chart began in 2008, One Piece volumes have ranked first in its weekly comic chart every year, and every one of the first 105 volumes sold over a million copies.
Q16. After which disaster did Oda help set up ten Straw Hat statues around Kumamoto Prefecture?
Answer: The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. Luffy was unveiled first, outside the prefectural government office in November 2018, and Jinbe was the last, in July 2022. The statues were part of an effort to help the prefecture recover.
Q17. A fruit-fly gene that splits into several parts was named partly after which character?
Answer: Buggy. The gene, Baramicin, encodes a protein that is split into multiple pieces, and its name takes partial inspiration from Buggy. Scientists have also named an amoeba genus Alabasta, a spider after Inazuma and in 2026 a beetle genus Luffy for its stretched-out shape.
Q18. In which country did the Straw Hat flag become a prominent protest symbol before its 80th Independence Day in 2025?
Answer: Indonesia. Protesters used it to express discontent with democratic backsliding, and authorities called it a threat to national unity, with reports of flags being confiscated. The same flag later appeared in protests in Nepal, the Philippines, France and Madagascar.
Q19. What is the 2027 Wit Studio anime remake for Netflix called?
Answer: The One Piece. Announced at Jump Festa '24 for the original anime's 25th anniversary, it restarts from the East Blue arc, with a first seven-episode season due in February 2027. Toei's original anime premiered in October 1999 and passed 1,000 episodes in November 2021.
Q20. Which composers created the score for the One Piece anime?
Answer: Kohei Tanaka and Shiro Hamaguchi. Theme songs and character songs have filled 51 singles, along with eight compilation albums and seventeen soundtrack CDs. For the Wano Country arc, the group Sakuramen collaborated with Tanaka on new music.
One Piece quiz answers and explanations
Every question from the quiz above with its correct answer, the story behind it, and where the fact comes from.
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Who created One Piece?
Answer: Eiichiro Oda. Oda has written and drawn the manga in Weekly Shōnen Jump since 22 July 1997. He draws everything that moves himself and leaves backgrounds to his staff, working from about five in the morning until two the next morning with short breaks only for meals.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which Devil Fruit turned Luffy's body to rubber?
Answer: The Gum-Gum Fruit. Oda based Devil Fruits on the gadgets in Doraemon, reflecting his own daily life and fantasies, and said the Gum-Gum Fruit was inspired by his laziness. Every Devil Fruit user loses the ability to swim, which makes a pirate's life rather risky.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which cartoon first made Oda want to draw a pirate manga?
Answer: Vicky the Viking. He watched the animated series as a child. Reading pirate biographies later led him to borrow traits from real pirates, and his biggest influence overall is Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, one of his favourite manga.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Who plays Luffy in Netflix's live-action series?
Answer: Iñaki Godoy. The series was codenamed Project Roger and premiered on 31 August 2023 to positive reviews from fans and critics, with Oda as an executive producer. Mackenyu plays Zoro, Emily Rudd Nami, Jacob Romero Gibson Usopp and Taz Skylar Sanji.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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How many copies of the manga were in circulation by March 2026?
Answer: Over 600 million. That makes it the best-selling manga series ever and the best-selling comic series in volume format. It set the Guinness World Record for most copies published of a comic series by a single author in 2015 and updated it in 2022.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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What were Oda's two 1996 one-shots that led to One Piece called?
Answer: Romance Dawn. Both featured Luffy, and the title was later reused for the first chapter and volume. Oda wrote them while working as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki. The first appeared in Akamaru Jump in August 1996 and the second in Weekly Shōnen Jump that September.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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How many times did Weekly Shōnen Jump reject One Piece before agreeing to publish it?
Answer: Three. Original editor Takanori Asada revealed this. Editor-in-chief Kazuhiko Torishima thought it "incomplete" and the team argued for two hours, but he approved it because Asada was so "annoyingly earnest" that a colleague warned rejection would crush them both.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Marshall D. Teach is named after which real pirate?
Answer: Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. Reading pirate biographies led Oda to give many characters traits of real pirates. The series also blurs who counts as a pirate: some are selfish criminals, others are simply people who refuse to submit to the authoritarian World Government.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Zoro's move "Onigiri" is written as "demon cut" but sounds like which food?
Answer: Rice ball. Several of Zoro's techniques look fearsome on the page but sound like foods when read aloud. A Toei animation director said dropping these kanji jokes from the anime "might have cut down the laughs by about half".
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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How long did Oda originally plan One Piece to run?
Answer: Five years. He said in 2006 he had already planned the ending but enjoyed the story too much to finish it so soon. In 2016 he estimated it was 65 percent done, and in 2019 he said he would change the ending if fans managed to predict it.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which volume holds the record for the highest initial print run?
Answer: Volume 67. It had a first printing of 4.05 million copies in 2012. Volume 60 was the first book to sell over two million copies in its opening week in Oricon's rankings. One Piece is the only manga to keep initial prints above 3 million for more than ten years.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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In March 2026, what did Oda do with his written statement about the truth of the treasure?
Answer: Locked it in a box and sent it to the bottom of the ocean. It will stay there until the story ends, although some fans began planning to retrieve it early. Oda has said the One Piece is a real physical object and that a Wizard of Oz-style "the journey was the treasure" ending is a cliché he wants to avoid.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which other manga creator collaborated with Oda on the crossover Cross Epoch?
Answer: Akira Toriyama. The one-shot combining One Piece and Dragon Ball appeared in Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2006. Oda also made a crossover with Toriko's creator, Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, called Taste of the Devil Fruit, in 2011.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which Greek athlete struck Luffy's "Gear Second" pose before winning Olympic gold in Tokyo?
Answer: Miltiadis Tentoglou. He did it before winning the men's long jump at the 2020 Games. One Piece has also had themed nights with the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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For how long was One Piece Japan's best-selling manga each year without a break?
Answer: 11 years (2008–2018). It slipped to second in 2019 but stayed the best-selling manga by volume. Since Oricon's chart began in 2008, One Piece volumes have ranked first in its weekly comic chart every year, and every one of the first 105 volumes sold over a million copies.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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After which disaster did Oda help set up ten Straw Hat statues around Kumamoto Prefecture?
Answer: The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. Luffy was unveiled first, outside the prefectural government office in November 2018, and Jinbe was the last, in July 2022. The statues were part of an effort to help the prefecture recover.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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A fruit-fly gene that splits into several parts was named partly after which character?
Answer: Buggy. The gene, Baramicin, encodes a protein that is split into multiple pieces, and its name takes partial inspiration from Buggy. Scientists have also named an amoeba genus Alabasta, a spider after Inazuma and in 2026 a beetle genus Luffy for its stretched-out shape.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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In which country did the Straw Hat flag become a prominent protest symbol before its 80th Independence Day in 2025?
Answer: Indonesia. Protesters used it to express discontent with democratic backsliding, and authorities called it a threat to national unity, with reports of flags being confiscated. The same flag later appeared in protests in Nepal, the Philippines, France and Madagascar.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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What is the 2027 Wit Studio anime remake for Netflix called?
Answer: The One Piece. Announced at Jump Festa '24 for the original anime's 25th anniversary, it restarts from the East Blue arc, with a first seven-episode season due in February 2027. Toei's original anime premiered in October 1999 and passed 1,000 episodes in November 2021.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
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Which composers created the score for the One Piece anime?
Answer: Kohei Tanaka and Shiro Hamaguchi. Theme songs and character songs have filled 51 singles, along with eight compilation albums and seventeen soundtrack CDs. For the Wano Country arc, the group Sakuramen collaborated with Tanaka on new music.
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
One Piece by the numbers
- Created by
- Eiichiro Oda
- Serialized since
- 22 July 1997, Weekly Shōnen Jump
- Volumes (July 2026)
- 115
- Copies in circulation (2026)
- over 600 million
- Anime premiere
- 20 October 1999 (Toei)
- 1,000th anime episode
- November 2021
- Record first print run
- 4.05 million (volume 67)
- Netflix live-action
- from 2023
Source: Wikipedia: One Piece
About the One Piece quiz
One Piece has run for nearly thirty years, so its trivia covers both a huge story and a long history. Oda first planned it to last five years. Jump rejected it several times, the Devil Fruits started with Doraemon, and the series later turned up at the Olympics, in genetics and on protest flags. Those connections to the real world make a better test than listing the Straw Hats' bounties.
Questions cover the Straw Hat crew — Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Sanji and the rest — plus Devil Fruit powers, the seas of the Grand Line, and the many allies and enemies met along the way.
What this One Piece quiz covers
The quiz covers Luffy and the Straw Hats, but most questions are about the real story of One Piece: the cartoon and the real pirates that inspired Oda, the three rejections, the Doraemon idea behind Devil Fruits, the food puns, the five-year plan that became decades, the sales records, the live-action and anime remakes and the series' impact far outside manga. Each answer below explains the story behind it and links to the source.
How to play
Tap an answer to see the right one straight away, with the story behind it, and check your score at the end. Play Again resets the quiz.
One Piece quiz — frequently asked questions
The series is huge. How much do I need to know?
Less than you might think. Only a few questions need story knowledge. Most are about Oda, how the manga was published and what it became.
Is it about the anime or the manga?
Mostly the manga, with questions on the anime's music, the Netflix live-action series and the upcoming remake.
Do I need to know every Devil Fruit?
No. Only Luffy's fruit appears, in an easy question.