Who could have predicted way back in 1981 that a stocky Italian plumber would become the world's most famous video game character? Following his first appearance in arcade classic Donkey Kong nearly 40 years ago, Mario quickly rose through the ranks of Space Invaders, Pac-Men and Pong paddles to become the sort of ubiquitous mascot almost anyone can recognise, even people who have never played a video game.
But how well you you know Nintendo's mascot? Find out by taking our little quiz.
We'll start with a very easy one...
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Lots of fun. Apparently, I'm not as smart about Mario as I thought! Got a 70%!
Turns out I know more about Mario than I thought I did. I got a 90%! I enjoyed testing my knowledge.
7/10
I probably would have done higher if I didn't guess what dungarees amd what a Sommelier was, haha.
7/10? Surprised I know so little about the red plumber.
Mari-who?
7/10. Not bad, considering I haven't made an effort to know anything about Mario.
Now I want a Mario sommelier game.
I've lived through nipplegate. I know mario like few others know him.
6 out of 10!!! Guess I'm not as smart as i thought i was. I seriously thought i would do better.
I had no idea Mario was in his mid-20's. I also completely forgot there was a Mario and Sonic Olympics Game on the Switch.
I also never heard the term "dungarees" before as I thought they were just called suspenders. I'm an idiot lol.
7 out of 10 for me.
@Purgatorium
And a "Super Mario Psychologist"
Only thing i didn't know was the existence of Mario Clash.
Mario is mid-20’s?!?!?!
Got a 9 out of 10 here. The number of Switch games kinda got me lol.
6/10 here. This was fun to do... though I read Mario vs. Luigi as Mario and Luigi (I can't be the only one who made this mistake).
6/10, that was real fun, love a challenging quiz!
Mario is younger than me?! Mamma mia...
I got 10/10
But there actually was a game called "Mario Vs. Luigi" - it was the multiplayer mode of NSMB DS!
Serious 6/10 lol
Those quiz are fun!! Do some more haha love it.
I remember when Mario was a carpenter named Jump man.
I also remember his one heel turn when he kidnapped Donkey Kong.
Got 8 out of 10.
@The-Chosen-one Same
I got a 6 out of 10 but to be honest I'm quite impressed with that as I was never really a Mario fan until the Wii days but now he's my mate and he just hasnt opened up to me as much as I was hoping.
Great diversion, let's see more of these. I've known Mario since before the NES and sadly, I got a 5/10! BOOOOO!!!! HISSSS!!! The shame....
8/10, got the age question wrong and forgot about Mario & Sonic 2020 in the number of Switch games with Mario in the name.
MORE PLEASE. THESE ARE FUN ^^
I got the age and number of games wrong. I'm happy with that lol.
9/10, forgot about Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo Olympic Games
Damn that Mario & Sonic game nobody remembers XD
Who the hell is Mario?
Jump up super star
8/10
Had a good run until the final two questions.
7/10 Great quiz!!
6/10 and I dislike Mario immensely. Like the quiz tho. Can we have more of these for other characters? I'd nail the ones for Capt Falcon, Samus Aran and Fox McCloud (my true Nintendo mascots). A donkey Kong one would be fun and difficult too, I can think of a fair few tricky ones that would throw people.
Mistook his hands for Mickey Mouse's hands indeed, don't know what "umpire", "sommelier", or "dungarees" means, and I guessed he was 37. I mean, he had a moustache since before I was born, at the very least he must have been older than me...
I got 8/10 on the quiz
I achieved a god-awful score that I'm not even going to mention here, even though I did get some of the more niche questions right. Guess I'm not a quiz person...
This was more of a vocabulary quiz than a Mario quiz
Well written quiz - thanks Gavin!
@dartmonkey I liked the "X Wrong !" in the wrong answer window. It's like a comical slap in the face. It made me chuckle.
I got a 5 out of ten boys & girls! Not bad! (that's kinda bad ☹)
@thanosREXXX ThannosReXX-icle I knew you'd screw it up! (😋😂 Just messing with ya.) I didn't do good either.
8/10. Choked on the age question...
10/10 (screenshot to prove it - https://i.imgur.com/ndxVgw6.png)
1. Obvious answer
2. I was there from the beginning
3. I don't know what a "Sommelier" is, but I know he was the other professions, so, process of elimination.
4. Played the first game a LOT.
5. Obvious answer.
6. Took a guess, but vaguely remember this range being mentioned before.
7. I played "Clash" on the Virtual Boy at a store kiosk back when it first released, and I owned the Typing and Baseball games. So, process of elimination.
8. I own all of the Switch games with 'Mario' in the title, so I just named off what I owned.
9. If you've played the game, you'd know.
10. This has been "Common Knowledge" for basically forever now.
8/10. I got his age and number of Switch titles with his name in it wrong. He's in his mid-20s, really? I always figured the mid-30s, even back in the NES era.
I had to Google what a Sommelier is after the fact, and it's a wine steward, "a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine." (Wikipedia.) Mario spent most of his career stomping baddies, how about a new game where he stomps grapes?
I got a 10/10. Neat!
@WoomyNNYes Yeah... I kinda gambled aka stumbled my way through them. Already got the first "easy" question wrong. Who the f*** looks at a characters hands all the time? Bah...
@Lawnachaun A sommelier is, for lack of a better English translation, a wine master. He's the steward that takes care of your professional wine drinking when you're in a local that serves such beverages...
On a side note: you better upload your proof to a better image uploader, because imgur is not only notoriously bad, it also doesn't play nice with Nintendo Life's script or whatever's happening there, which means that probably half if not more of Nintendo Life's users won't be able to see your picture, instead seeing this when they click on it:

I always use PostImage. Never had a problem uploading and/or making pictures viewable for everybody, regardless of region or browser...
9/10. How did I forget Super Mario Odyssey for question 7.
8/10. I got the Mario Day and the official Mario titles questions wrong. Overall, I honestly did a little better at this quiz than expected.
10/10. I seem to have done better than some.
I got 8 out of 10. I looked up "Sommelier" before answering question 3 because I didn't know what the hell that was. I don't know if that counts as cheating.
I scored a 9/10
the only question that threw me off was the one saying that one of his hidden talents is a Sommelier. i got the question right, but its just too hard to picture Mario as a Sommelier. it would be interesting to see Mario as one. Just Imagine Mario, Bowser, and their friends in a wine test contest.
unfortunately i got question 9 wrong but only because i never played Super Mario Galaxy.
4/10 I'm quite pathetic.
that mario galaxy one was easy super mario galaxy is my was my favorite game when i was a little. Was one of my first games i ever played.
@IANVARIVS I got the same score to.
8/1₽ surprised I did that good
I got 7/10 correct. I would've got the color of his dungarees correct had I thought first, cause I sorta knew the answer but I chose the wrong one
I'm pretty sure the name "Jumpman" was never officially used outside of an instruction card that wasn't on most DK cabinets anyways
I come here every day to learn new obscure words and well, today didn't disappoint. My score, on the other (5-finger) hand...
They say he's more famous than Mickey Mouse, you know...
That statement is a bridge to far......... Whoever THEY are.
Almost ashamed to say I only got 3 correct.
Disappointed with myself as I pride myself on being a mario fan since the late 80's
I am rather hung over from celebrating ve day yesterday with the neighbours (socially distant of course) so I'm using that as my excuse
9/10. Counted 6 Mario games so I answered 7. Forgot about Mario & Sonic and Mario + Rabbids.
That was fun - I'm genuinely shocked by Mario's age.
I enjoyed this NL! Please more of these!!
10 out of 10, bit dang some of those were hard and just guesses...
8/10.
I thought there were 10 Mario games on Switch, and that Super Mario Bros. 3 was the best selling Mario game. Both wrong.
Was Mario 1 really sold when it was a pack in?
5 out of 10 which if I'm honest is quite good considering i have 2 Mario games on my Switch and one of them I regret buying (Odyssey).
Not my favourite franchise.
I prefer Zelda 10x more.
7/10
I struggled a bit with the wording on some of the questions (what the heck is a dungaree )
I'm happy with my 8/10
I'm an "Adequate Mario" with my score of 5.
9 out of 10.
Only one I got wrong was the current number of Switch games with Mario in the title.
I misread as "Mario vs. Luigi" as "Mario & Luigi", DAMMIT!
I didn't know what dungarees were, they're called overalls or coveralls where I'm from
I got 9 out of 10. I messed up on the last one.
I got 8/10 because I thought Mario had 6 fingers and 2 thumbs.
10/10 I can’t believe I managed to remember all the Switch games with Mario in the title, aha.
6 out of 10...hmm, could have been better. The first question was a trick one: I really thought he had cartoon hands. As for his age: In the past they said he was middle-aged, thus 35. But they might have changed that.
4 out of 10. I should have got more them questions weren't difficult.
6 out of 10. I don't even know what a sommelier is?
Mario is in his 20’s?????
10/10 Good thing too, would probably have to change my @ otherwise.
I got 9 out of 10, because at the question with "how many retail games on the switch have the word mario in it" i thought paper mario the origami king was included too but i was wrong lol
Changed the number of games with 'Mario' in the name question due to today's release
You forgot about paper mario origami king, it is retail and has mario’s name in the title
That's been added now along with MK Live: Home Circuit.
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