Question 1

On the night Shino arrives at the inn, what is the last available room she is given?

Accepted Answer

The room where the innkeeper forced abortions on her prostitutes

Question 2

How did Shino become pregnant?

Accepted Answer

By a young lord in the household where she worked

Question 3

What was the inn before Hisayo converted it?

Accepted Answer

A brothel she owned and ran

Question 4

Who assisted Hisayo in forcing the abortions on her workers?

Accepted Answer

Tokuji, a helper at the inn

Question 5

What everyday objects in the inn hold the remains of the aborted children?

Accepted Answer

Daruma dolls

Question 6

Why do the Zashiki-warashi finally let the Medicine Seller destroy them?

Accepted Answer

Being born would kill the child of the one person kind to them

Question 7

Into what stretch of sea does the merchant ship drift in the Umibozu arc?

Accepted Answer

The Dragon's Triangle

Question 8

Kayo knows the Medicine Seller from an earlier incident. Whose household did she serve in?

Accepted Answer

The Sakai house

Question 9

What does the ayakashi Umizato demand of each passenger?

Accepted Answer

That they reveal their deepest fear

Question 10

What is the name of Genkei's sister, and how much younger was she?

Accepted Answer

Oyo, five years younger

Question 11

At what age did Genkei leave his sister to become a Buddhist ascetic?

Accepted Answer

Fifteen

Question 12

What was Genkei originally chosen to do for his island village?

Accepted Answer

Be sealed alive in a hollow boat and set adrift as a sacrifice

Question 13

When the hollow boat is dragged onto the deck, what is inside?

Accepted Answer

Nothing, it has been empty for fifty years

Question 14

Which passenger is a young samurai carrying a famous sword named Kanesada?

Accepted Answer

Hyoe Sasaki

Question 15

What crime does Ocho confess to at the start of the Noppera-bo arc?

Accepted Answer

Slaughtering her husband's entire family

Question 16

According to Ocho, who actually committed the killings?

Accepted Answer

A man wearing a fox mask

Question 17

Why did Ocho endure years of abuse from her husband's household?

Accepted Answer

To satisfy her mother, who wanted her in a samurai family

Question 18

What does the Medicine Seller finally reveal that Ocho killed?

Accepted Answer

Herself, the self she suffocated to please others

Question 19

How does the Noppera-bo arc end for Ocho?

Accepted Answer

She returns to her kitchen, then defies her husband and walks out

Question 20

Lady Ruri is the sole heir to what?

Accepted Answer

The Fuenokouji school of incense

Question 21

How does the Medicine Seller come to be inside the mansion for the competition?

Accepted Answer

He takes the place of the fourth suitor, who never arrives

Question 22

The contest is a game of Genjiko. What do the scent combinations correspond to?

Accepted Answer

Chapters of The Tale of Genji

Question 23

What are the suitors actually competing for, rather than Ruri's hand?

Accepted Answer

The Todaiji, a piece of wood said to grant great power

Question 24

What are the occupations of the three suitors who attend?

Accepted Answer

A courtier, a samurai, and a merchant

Question 25

What is the central twist of the Nue arc?

Accepted Answer

The suitors were already dead; the contest made them realize it

Question 26

What is the Todaiji revealed to be in truth?

Accepted Answer

A rotting, worthless piece of wood

Question 27

In the Bakeneko arc, how did the passengers come to be aboard the new train?

Accepted Answer

They each won their ticket

Question 28

Who is the first person killed once the passengers are sealed in the car?

Accepted Answer

The mayor, Jyutaro Fukuda

Question 29

What did Kiyoshi Moriya do to the column Setsuko Ichikawa had written?

Accepted Answer

Burned it

Question 30

What combined to create the bakeneko mononoke?

Accepted Answer

Setsuko's hatred merging with the spirits of cats killed on the rails

The Ultimate Mononoke Trivia Quiz

2) How did Shino become pregnant?

3) What was the inn before Hisayo converted it?

4) Who assisted Hisayo in forcing the abortions on her workers?

5) What everyday objects in the inn hold the remains of the aborted children?

6) Why do the Zashiki-warashi finally let the Medicine Seller destroy them?

7) Into what stretch of sea does the merchant ship drift in the Umibozu arc?

8) Kayo knows the Medicine Seller from an earlier incident. Whose household did she serve in?

9) What does the ayakashi Umizato demand of each passenger?

10) What is the name of Genkei's sister, and how much younger was she?

11) At what age did Genkei leave his sister to become a Buddhist ascetic?

12) What was Genkei originally chosen to do for his island village?

13) When the hollow boat is dragged onto the deck, what is inside?

14) Which passenger is a young samurai carrying a famous sword named Kanesada?

15) What crime does Ocho confess to at the start of the Noppera-bo arc?

16) According to Ocho, who actually committed the killings?

17) Why did Ocho endure years of abuse from her husband's household?

18) What does the Medicine Seller finally reveal that Ocho killed?

19) How does the Noppera-bo arc end for Ocho?

20) Lady Ruri is the sole heir to what?

21) How does the Medicine Seller come to be inside the mansion for the competition?

22) The contest is a game of Genjiko. What do the scent combinations correspond to?

23) What are the suitors actually competing for, rather than Ruri's hand?

24) What are the occupations of the three suitors who attend?

25) What is the central twist of the Nue arc?

26) What is the Todaiji revealed to be in truth?

27) In the Bakeneko arc, how did the passengers come to be aboard the new train?

28) Who is the first person killed once the passengers are sealed in the car?

29) What did Kiyoshi Moriya do to the column Setsuko Ichikawa had written?

30) What combined to create the bakeneko mononoke?