Specific
Galaxy Trivia
Game Mechanics
Characters
Prankster Comets
Bosses
100

This is the first galaxy you visit, but you can't visit it again after completing the first mission within it until way later in the game.

Options:
A) Good Egg Galaxy
B) Gateway Galaxy
C) Loopdeloop Galaxy

What is:
B) Gateway Galaxy?

100

This type of jump is designed to help the player cross gaps with ease.

Options:
A) Triple Jump
B) Spin Jump
C) Long Jump

What is:
C) Long Jump?

100

This Character stands at the front of the Comet Observatory, which is the Hubworld of the game.


Options:
A) Rosalina
B) Captain Toad
C) Luigi

Who is:
A) Rosalina?

100

This type of Prankster Comet forces Mario to race a starry blue clone of himself. These races can often be made trivial by making certain massive skips.

Options:
A) Daredevil Comet
B) Speedy Comet
C) Cosmic Comet

What is:
C) Cosmic Comet?

100

This boss in the first Mario Galaxy game requires you to break it out of its egg in order to start the fight.

Options:
A) Peewee Piranha
B) Dino Piranha
C) Major Burrows

Who is:
B) Dino Piranha

(Peewee Piranha is from the second game)

200

Of these galaxies, this galaxy does NOT feature the spring mushroom.

A) Buoy Base Galaxy
B) Toy Time Galaxy
C) Chompworks Galaxy

What is:

A) Buoy Base Galaxy?

200

This jump requires the Player to move mario back and forth in quick succession before pressing the jump button:

A) Backflip
B) Side Flip
C) Spin Jump

What is:
B) Side Flip?

200

This Character is ONLY featured in ONE of the two Mario Galaxy games.

Options:
A) Bowser Jr.
B) Nabbit
C) Yoshi

Who is:

C) Yoshi?

(Nabbit wasn't even conceptualized as a character until the Wii U era!)

200

This Type of Prankster Comet only appears after you have beaten the Final Boss:

Options:
A) Cosmic Comet
B) Daredevil Comet
C) Purple Coin Comet

What is:
C) Purple Coin Comet?

200

This boss involves the player grabbing Bomb Boos and spinning them around to hit the body of the boss.

Options:
A) Bouldergeist
B) Big Bad Bugaboom
C) Giga Lakitu

Who is:
A) Bouldergeist?

300

Of these galaxies, this galaxy does NOT feature a motion control mechanic as the MAIN level gimmick.

A) Wild Glide Galaxy
B) Rolling Masterpiece Galaxy
C) Honeyhive Galaxy

What is:
C) Honeyhive Galaxy?

300
In the First Mario Galaxy Game, you can reshuffle the prankster comets in play by talking to the purple Luma in the Comet Observatory and giving him this amount of Star Bits:

Options:
A) 30 Star Bits
B) 20 Star Bits
C) 10 Star Bits

What is:
B) 20 Star Bits?

300

In both Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, the bosses at the end of each dome/world alternate between Bowser and his son, Bowser Jr. who often uses machines or other enemies to fight Mario, rather than fighting Mario himself. Bowser and Bowser Jr. are fought in this order in the games.

Options:
A) Bowser First, and alternating every dome/world
B) Bowser Jr First, and alternating every two domes/worlds.
C) Bowser Jr. First, and alternating every dome/world.

What is:

C) Bowser Jr. First, and alternating every world?

400

This Galaxy involves parts of the stage becoming intangible before a line hits them, causing them to become tangible again.

A) Sand Spiral Galaxy
B) Matter Splatter Galaxy
C) Drip Drop Galaxy

What is:
B) Matter Splatter Galaxy?

400

This NPC (Non-Player Character) type is the character that gives one of the most commonly complained about minigame star mission types, found in Battlerock Galaxy and Dreadnought Galaxy, as well as a similar minigame in Galaxy 2 found in Rightside Down Galaxy and Upside Dizzy Galaxy.

Options:
A) The Chimp
B) Guppy
C) Gearmo

Who is:

C) Gearmo?

(The minigames I am referring to are the garbage exploding minigame in Galaxy 1, and the box burning minigame in Galaxy 2.)

400

This type of Comet causes ONLY SPECIFIC enemies to speed up.

Options:
A) Fast Foe Comet
B) Double Time Comet
C) Speedy Comet

What is:
A) Fast Foe Comet?

(Speedy Comet instead gives you a time limit to beat the level by, and Double Time increases the speed of Stage elements as well (and is only featured in Galaxy 2))

400

This Boss is the third of the Mario Galaxy 1 Bosses to be re-fought in Boss Blitz Galaxy in Mario Galaxy 2.

Options:
A) King Kaliente
B) Major Burrows
C) Bouldergeist

Who is:
B) Major Burrows?

500

This Galaxy ONLY has a purple coin mission. No other star missions are present on this stage.

Options:
A) Gateway Galaxy
B) Snow Cap Galaxy
C) Grand Finale Galaxy

What is:
C) Grand Finale Galaxy?

500

In Beach Bowl Galaxy, the tree at the start allows Mario to perform a glitch by ground pounding on the leaves. That glitch does this function:

A) Launching Mario across the stage.
B) Causing Mario to rapidly ground pound in place for about a second.
C) Causing Mario to phase through the ground and fall into the death plane of the stage.

What is:
B) Causing Mario to rapidly ground pound in place for about a second?

(Fun fact: I discovered this glitch after revisiting the stage years later!)

500

The Coach Penguin, first featured in Mario Galaxy 1, appears in 4 levels between the two Mario Galaxy games. These two levels are the first and last time you see him in the two games if you are playing the levels in chronological order.


A) Loopdeloop Galaxy & Cosmic Cove Galaxy
B) Loopdeloop Galaxy & Loopdeswoop Galaxy
C) Beach Bowl Galaxy & Cosmic Cove Galaxy

What is:
A) Loopdeloop Galaxy & Cosmic Cove Galaxy?

The order is:
1 - Loopdeloop Galaxy
2 - Beach Bowl Galaxy
3 - Loopdeswoop Galaxy
4 - Cosmic Cove Galaxy (Galaxy 2)

500

Of these Purple Coin Comets, this one does NOT involve Mario navigating the map on one or several MOVING platforms.

Options:
A) Dreadnought Galaxy
B) Space Junk Galaxy
C) Battlerock Galaxy

What is:

B) Space Junk Galaxy?

(Space Junk Galaxy does have Mario jumping between several platforms, but they appear and disappear rather than moving around the map)

500

This Boss from these three bosses is NOT actually a real Boss.

Options:
A) Snow Bowser
B) Sorbetti
C) Whomp King

Who is:
A) Snow Bowser?

(Snow Bowser is actually a statue found in the first and second missions in Freezy Flake Galaxy, but it is a stage element that blocks the player's path, not a moving boss that attacks.)

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