Ready Player One

Question 1

What does OASIS stand for?

Answer 1

Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation

Question 2

What game does Parzival have to play against Acererak, and on what side of the arcade machine?

Answer 2

Joust. Williams Electronics, 1982. Left side of the machine

Question 3

How does Aech learn about the location of the copper key?

Answer 3

Aech determines the location by knowing that Parzival couldn’t have left the planet Ludus

Question 4

What was the order of main characters finding the copper key and clearing the first gate?

Answer 4

Parzival, Art3mis, Aech, Daito, Shoto

Question 5

What is the task to complete inside the first gate?

Answer 5

Complete a perfect reenactment of the movie “Wargames” as the protagonist David Lightman

Question 6

Who finds the Jade Key first?

Answer 6

Art3mis

Question 7

What power did Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding grant the user?

Answer 7

Once a day, its owner could write any avatar’s name on its surface, and the tablet would display that avatar’s location at that exact moment

Question 8

What game does Parzival have to get a perfect score of 3,333,360 points in to win the plus-one-life quarter?

Answer 8

Pac-Man

Question 9

Who gives Parzival the instruction manual of the game Zork as an extra clue to find the second key? And why?

Answer 9

Aech sends the manual to repay his debt toward Parzival from the beginning of the novel

Question 10

What is the task to complete inside the second gate?

Answer 10

Complete a perfectly recreated eight-level dungeon of the game “Black Tiger” in first person

Question 11

Who is the owner of the sixer number IOI-655321?

Answer 11

Nolan Sorrento

Question 12

What planet was the hiding place of the Jade Key?

Answer 12

Frobozz, a detailed re-creation of the game Zork

Question 13

Who is the captain being referred to in the phrase, “The captain conceals the Jade Key?”

Answer 13

Captain Crunch

Question 14

What robot does Parzival choose as a reward for completing the second gate?

Answer 14

Leopardon, from the Supaidaman series.

Question 15

What is the monogram etched into the handle of the crystal key?

Answer 15

A single calligraphic letter “A” from James Halliday’s first Dungeons and Dragons character sheet

Question 16

Under what brand title was OASIS launched?

Answer 16

Gregarious Simulation Systems

Question 17

What does Wade destroy before being arrested by IOI?

Answer 17

His computer to enter the Oasis

Question 18

What happens to Daito in the real world during his battle on the planet Frobozz?

Answer 18

The Sixers break into his apartment and murder him by throwing him off of his balcony

Question 19

What are Daito and Shoto’s real names?

Answer 19

Toshiro Yoshiaki and Akihide

Question 20

What was Wade’s plan on retrieving Sixer Database information?

Answer 20

He assumes a fake identity and masquerades as an indentured servant for IOI corporate headquarters and hacks into their private database

Question 21

What is the new identity Parzival gives himself before leaving Oklahoma City?

Answer 21

Bryce Lynch, a 22 year old man with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Question 22

What city does Wade travel too after his home in the stacks explodes?

Answer 22

Columbus

Question 23

What character’s death does Wade feel the most guilty for when his trailer explodes?

Answer 23

Mrs. Gilmore