Basic Ocarina Trivia Quiz

Answer: Navi

This little white sphere (of doom) follows you around, and around, and around, and sometimes (VERY rarely), she proves to be a useful companion. When I, knowing basic Hebrew and the books of the TaNaKh, first saw the name of this fairy, I saw an immediate connection to the Hebrew word... "Navi"- meaning prophet.

In my personal experience, Navi has gotten a little annoying, and her prophetic presentations need some work. In fact, my funniest story about Navi was during Dodongo's Cavern. Link was in the main room with a bomb-flower in his hand.

However, right before the bomb-flower was about to explode, Navi decided to lecture about "the dangers of lava". In the middle of this useful lesson, the bomb-flower exploded and Link went careening into a chasm of lava.

Answer: The Great Deku Tree

The Kokiris are people with a very interesting background and story. Most notably, they NEVER grow up. Their leader is Mido. Mido is not very nice, and is jealous of Link because he is the favorite of Saria and the Great Deku Tree. That brings us to Saria.

She is a little girl with green hair who is also Link's friend, a helpful clue-giver, the generous giver of the Fairy Ocarina, and the Sage of Forest. The Deku Tree is a very old and feeble tree, who IS the first dungeon himself and the keeper of the Kokiri Emerald. Sadly, after you defeat Queen Gohma, the monster living inside of him, the Great Deku Tree dies (oh how the mighty have fallen) and he entrusts you with the Kokiri Emerald. Only after you defeat the monster in the Forest Temple, does a new Deku Tree, the very adorable Deku Sprout (awwwwwwwwww), start growing.

Answer: Ganondorf

Sadly, the Deku Tree was as good as dead when you began, but your efforts were not in vain! He rewards you with the Kokiri Emerald, a valuable spiritual stone, and some useful information. Ganon/Ganondorf is a Gerudo King. The special thing about the Gerudos is that they're all female. So what is Ganondorf? Why is he male? I'll tell you. Once every 100 years, a Gerudo gives birth to a male child who becomes their king, but another problem! If all the Gerudos are girls, then where do the babies come from? Are they magically sent from the 3 goddesses? No again! A Gossip Stone (those stones that jiggle and tell time when you hit them with your sword) near the Temple of Time reveals that the naughty thieves sometimes come to Hyrule in search of boyfriends.

Answer: Impa

Oh baby! Finally out of that horrid, green prison. Goodbye Kokiris! Now you are in Hyrule Field! This horrible place is home to peahats (evil helicopter creatures), and at night, the dreaded stalchildren. Make the hard trek across the field to the barrel-o-laughs in the marketplace (whose gate is sadly only open during the day). Sprint across the cobblestones of this horrid cornucopia of purveyors, dodging lovers and chickens, and run into the safety of Hyrule Castle. Impa is the only Sheikah left. Impa waits hand and foot on her little pink pumpkin; Zelda, and she plays music by blowing into her hands (a useful skill that EVERYBODY should learn)! This is how she teaches you "Zelda's Lullaby", the song passed down to every generation of the royal family. Impa lives in Kakariko Village.

She has strange tenants in her house. She lives in the large house next to the Skulltula House with the cow. Oh, and she's also the Sage of Shadow. She gets to rule over a creepy graveyard with invisible walls and undead people! And she does it all in REALLY creepy form-fitting clothes (the carpenters should have tried to become Sheikahs).

Answer: Kakariko Village

This lovely hamlet is one of my favorite places! It's got mysterious wells full of dead people and invisible walls, a graveyard with a creepy grave-keeper, ghosts, zombies, spider-people, and a cow, and it also has a cucco-lady alergic to cuccos, a strange windmill, a construction site... and a cow! I really do love Kakariko Village, despite all its annoying monsters and such and such. It's really full of fun loving computer generated people and beautiful synthetic scenery. Let's describe some of the sites:

DEAD PEOPLE: Graveyard, Shadow Temple, Well, Under Graves. There are funny ReDeads (zombies), and Gibdos (mummies) which you freeze with the "Sun's Song".

INVISIBLE WALLS: Go to the Shadow Temple and the Well, to be annoyed out of your wits by walls that aren't really there, or invisible walls, or even holes in the floor (my favorite)!

GRAVEYARD W/ GRAVE-KEEPER: The grave-keeper's name is Dampe. When you're an adult, you enter the graveyard to find him dead! His grave is the new one, so pull it out and drop in the hole (like any respectable person within reasonable sanity would do). Race Dampe for the highly coveted "Hookshot" and a "Piece of Heart". As a kid, you can play the "Heart Pounding, Grave-Digging, Tour", where you tell Dampe to dig up part of his graveyard for rupees and a "Piece of Heart"! In the graveyard is the entrance to the Shadow Temple (warp song required). Under one grave is a fairy fountain. Under another is a ReDead that you kill and then play the "Sun's Song" in order to get a "Piece of Heart". Under the big grave at the top, you play "Zelda's Lullaby" to enter the grave. Kill ReDeads, a.k.a. Zelda's relatives, and learn the "sun's song". Plant a magic bean in the soft soil to redeem a "Piece of Heart" as an adult.

GHOSTS: Bottle Poes for healing or hurting power (right on)! You can also sell them!

SPIDER PEOPLE: In a house in the Village live some "spider people". Kill Gold Skulltulas to redeem prizes!

COW: There is a beautiful cow in someone's house (with a "Piece of Heart" next to it). Fly down on the Owl's wings as a child to go inside and get it!

CUCCO LADY: Round up her cuccos for a bottle! Hatch the hypo-allergenic "pocket cucco" as an adult, and trade for Cojiro, her brother's adorable blue cucco.

STRANGE WINDMILL: Use the boomerang or drop in from Dampe's grave for fabulous cash prizes, and a "Piece of Heart"! Listen to strange music on our very own music box. As an adult, learn the "Song of Storms". Play it as a child to drain the well.

CONSTRUCTION SITE: See topless chubby construction workers all day as a kid (if that's really your style). As an adult, this disorganized pile of bricks is transmogrified to become a more stylish archery establishment!

As an adult, part of the marketplace moves to Kakariko. Yes, that includes: archery, the potion shop, brothers tossing balls, and most of all, the terrible annoying LOVERS! "Oh! You are more beautiful than princess Zelda (who is a 7-year-old girl)!" "Ah! you are more handsome than the King of Hyrule (who is a middle-aged man!)

Answer: Dodongos

Up, up, up the mountain pass! We're gonna see the Gorons! We're gonna see the Gorons! Hike up to their city and visit Darunia. Play "Saria's Song", watch his little jig, and get the Goron Bracelet... now what? I was too busy listening to Darunia's catchy phrases, like "Hot, hot, hot". Lucky there's this question to help me a bit! Yep! The Gorons eat rocks. I hear they're high in iron (hahaha). One even wants to eat their sacred "spiritual stone" (that's sacrelidge!). Luckily for them, Darunia is a fearless hero, so he sends you! Work your way across chasms of lava, past laser shooting... thingies (officially known as Beamos), and across more chasms of lava! On your way around there, you will meet some nasty little dinosaurs.

Instead, they shoot fire at you! Hit them on the tail for dramatic effects.

They're all the children of King Dodongo (and Queen Dodongo, I suppose). Defeat this rolly-polly dinosaur, and save the Gorons! To thank you, Darunia will make you his "sworn brother", and give you the Goron Ruby and a BIG HUG (awww)! And despite how much we all love "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it), evil rabbits, will never participate in any "Zelda" game that is currently in existence (if you see them, I'd appreciate it if you let me know).

Answer: Magic Beans

Good for you! You have defeated the boss of Dodongo's Cavern and saved the Gorons' gourmet rocks. Receive your big hug (or run away) from Darunia. Like it or not, this means that you're "sworn brothers". Now you can get hugs every day from your "brother from another mother". Well, to get as far away as possible from the very... passionate king, you must make your way up Zora's River. I don't know why this man sits by a fence eating/selling beans (giant not included) to the invisible public. You are his first customer, and will be his only customer because nobody wants to go to any god-forsaken river with octopi (octoroks on a more informative note) trying to eject rocks into their face. And the man, he might as well be selling Pork Fried Rice. All he cares about is food, and in my opinion pork fried rice is much more of a delicacy than beans. Well, aside from the fact that Magic Beans seem to be very delicious, you can find a better use for them. Find a nice place to plant your bean (i.e. a patch of soft soil).

There are only ten available, so be modest with your usage. Unlike in "Majora's Mask", you do not need to water your bean. Just wait a short 7 years, and it will have sprouted into a lean, mean, flying machine.

Answer: Princess Ruto

Princess Ruto is an interesting character. She's a conceited, spoiled princess, a hopeful, misguided lover, a powerful, self-assured woman, and a relatively unclothed fish-person. Now, as a selfish princess, she enjoys worrying her loving father, by running away into a... fish. Now, out of the goodness of your heart, you decide to go into a jellyfish infested fish to go retrieve her. Now, when you save her after a fall into a mysterious hole, how does she thank you? Does she smother you with hugs and kisses there? Of course not! Instead she makes you carry her royal heiness over the disgusting fish guts. How dainty! Now, being a misguided lover, she settles on Link as her future spouse after you rescue her from the Jabu Jabu. Being the only way to get her pretty sapphire, it's not too bad... Oh wait! When you finally collect all the Spiritual Stones, you get locked up in a chamber for seven years. Well, at least you keep Ruto waiting.

Then, when you run into her in the Water Temple, she's twice as angry, because her fiance decided to run away from her for seven years. Well, at least she gets locked up in a secret chamber, destined to be stuck with the same six people, standing up, for all of ETERNITY (or until you defeat Twinrova in the Spirit Temple...but goes back after that)! Now, being a self-assured woman, doesn't she preempt you after you save her? She has to be pretty influential, being of a different species and all, and keeping you from all the other girls, such as Saria, Malon, and Zelda.

She has the Zora's Sapphire, given to her by her mother. Ruto must give it to the man she marries (i.e. Link).

Answer: Epona

Hey! While you're back in the village, why don't you visit the local farm, Lon Lon Ranch? Take a load off, catch Cuccos, get milk, listen to Malon sing very loudly, see the evil farm worker, get mobbed by chickens, and ride horses. Epona is just about the only useful character in "Ocarina of Time".

She's much faster than Link and she may be summoned at your whimsical whim. This may be true, but if she does not come, she's probably stuck. Epona generally gets stuck on things like rocks or ridges, because she's taking the most direct route to you from where you left her. So go run somewhere else and get your horse.

Another of Epona's uses is archery. The bow is the only weapon you may use on Epona, although her feet do well on bushes and small monsters. Only on Epona may you hunt Big Poes because they're to fast to catch on foot, and then there is "Horseback Archery". That is THE funnest minigame in "Ocarina". You ride on Epona with your bow and try to shoot the targets as they go by. She also jumps. If you can get her to run towards a fence directly on with enough power she'll clear it with no problem, whether your racing Malon in Lon Lon Ranch, or riding around in Hyrule Field. Oh. And that thing about Cuccos, if you slash them with your sword frequently enough, they spaz and call their Cucco friends, who then proceed to attack you with their beaks of doom, taking one heart container with each hit.

Answer: You are still a little child

Back from the ranch yet? Well, make sure it's daytime and go down to the Hyrule Castle. Don't miss the cinematic moment! It will instantly change to night (or a sudden overcast of clouds, there's some dispute over that) and your mortal enemy will appear chasing your dear princess on horseback as she escapes with Impa. Pick up the ocarina that Zelda tosses into the river. Go to the Temple of Time, and play the "Song of Time". Link gets trapped, and changes in a few ways.

However sad this may make you, Link remains Link (he does not transmogrify into Zelda as one could logically conclude would happen to someone locked in a dark chamber for a good part of a decade) all throughout the game... although somebody doesn't.

After departing the Chamber of Sages, you see Sheik, who is not quite who he says he is, but Link's actual changes are enough to startle me. I've always wondered why his ears are pierced after his seven year slumber, and he's certainly not wearing the same clothes he had as a kid. My sources have told me that it was an old sheikah tradition, but I think wondering is just as fun. Also you can't use Deku Sticks anymore (oh wait! I never used them anyway)! Oh well! I hope you enjoyed the quiz!