81 Impossible Your Lie in April Trivia Questions

C. Keiko

On the walk home, Watari gets a text from Keiko and immediately ditches Kousei and Tsubaki, who wonder how many girls that makes.

B. Bremen Town Musicians

Watching Kaori play with the kids in the park, Kousei calls them the Bremen Town Musicians, the fairy tale band of animals who become street musicians.

A. Triple Crown

Tsubaki, cleaning up after practice, announces that this is her last middle school summer and the Triple Crown is hers. Batting average, home runs and runs batted in, all at once.

C. Accompanist

An announcer explains that preliminary rounds are usually solo Bach or Paganini, but this contest has an accompanist for every performer, which is rare. That rule is why Kaori later needs Kousei.

D. Guarneri

The announcer says the winner gets to play a Guarneri owned by the sponsors at a future recital. Kousei, half listening, mangles the name into Paganini. Stradivarius is the trap answer.

B. Elohim Essaim

Backstage, Kaori repeats Elohim, Essaim and asks for a blessing. It is her pre-performance ritual, a phrase from a magic chant rather than a prayer from a mass.

A. Kazama

Before the round, audience members say Kazama-sensei will lead the judging panel, and later a fellow judge agrees with him by name.

B. Beethoven

When Kousei says he cannot play, Kaori tells him to try anyway, and suggests biting a stick like Beethoven. Beethoven reportedly did this to feel vibrations through his jaw as he lost his hearing.

D. Caramel waffles

Episode 3 opens with the order arriving: caramel waffles with apples and nuts. Kaori eats like this for the whole series, which is half the joke.

B. Mozart

A little girl named Megu plays the café piano and says she just learned it in class. Kaori recognises it as Mozart.

A. Again

After the music collapses on stage, Kaori turns to Kousei and says one word, again, and they restart the piece together. It is the moment Kousei starts playing for someone else.

A. Shortstop

Saito complains he is just a grunt on the high school team and says he would be tearing it up if they let him play shortstop.

A. Kashiwagi

Kashiwagi tells Tsubaki her eyes are cloudy, and says it twice in the episode. It is how she points out that Tsubaki is not seeing her own feelings for Kousei.

B. Glasses

Kaori drags Kousei off the bridge into the river. When they climb out, she notices his glasses are gone.

A. Flowers

When Kousei shows up empty handed, Kaori scolds him for bringing no gift, because Watari brought her flowers.

D. Hopscotch

Kousei finds Kaori outside the hospital doing hop, skip, jump moves and asks what she is up to. Hopscotch, while she waits for him.

B. Kousei's

Kousei tries to back out of the Maihou, but Kaori has already signed him up, paying with his own wallet.

D. Egg sandwiches

Tsubaki scolds Kousei for skipping meals and collapsing. He admits he only felt better after eating the egg sandwiches she brought him, all five of them.

D. Loneliness

During Emi's performance, Kousei reads her colours and hears her anger and her loneliness. Chopin's Étude is the piece she pours it into.

A. Watari

Watari, after losing his own tournament, shrugs it off with the line that stars only shine against the night. Kousei takes it more seriously than Watari meant it.

C. Candy apple

At the festival, Hiroko offers a candy apple and Kousei almost cries, admitting he has never had one. His childhood with his mother left no room for festivals.

A. Miike

Miike, who won the competition, is the final act of the junior high division. When Kaori is late and the organisers want to swap the order, he refuses outright.

C. Fig tart

Her friends bring cakes to the hospital, and Kaori picks the fig tart for herself.

C. Her head

Kaori explains her bandaged head as a fall: she stumbled, hit her head and there was blood everywhere. It is the cover story for something more serious.

B. Kashiwagi

Kousei rushes to Tsubaki because Kashiwagi phoned to say she was in trouble. She was not. Kousei realises Kashiwagi pulled a prank to push them together.

A. Yukata

Saito texts Tsubaki asking her to the festival, and when she arrives she is complimented on her yukata.

A. Up a tree

Hiroko tells Nagi that a boy carried her home when she fainted. Kousei asks the obvious question: what was a pianist doing up in a tree?

B. Manager

Saito tells Tsubaki there is someone he likes: an upperclassman who manages the baseball team.

C. Ice cream

Tsubaki describes Saito as premium ice cream, a fancy small serving she felt out of place next to. It is her way of saying he was never quite hers.

D. Sweet potato

After Nagi storms out, Kousei brings her a sweet potato as a peace offering. She protests, then eats it. He even names the variety, Beniazuma.

D. Miyuki

During Kaori's day out, a lost child announcement plays and the girl they help, Miyuki, is reunited with her mother.

C. Glico

On the stairs, the two play the rock-paper-scissors step game where you spell out the word for each hand, like P-I-N-E-A-P-P-L-E and G-L-I-C-O. The game is named after the Glico candy brand.

C. 13

On the stairs, the two play the step game where the winner of each rock-paper-scissors round spells out a word, like P-I-N-E-A-P-P-L-E or G-L-I-C-O. The game is named after the Glico candy brand.

B. Muddy water

Watari tells Kousei to go and see Kaori, and says he would drink muddy water for a girl he liked.

C. Oboe

Nagi complains that a boy named Kimoto has dedicated his oboe performance at the culture festival to her, and she is not impressed.

C. Jackass

Other patients ask if Kousei is Kaori's boyfriend. Not at all, she says. He is a jackass.

A. Bach

The night before the Eastern Japan competition, Kousei is obsessing over the required Bach piece.

D. B

Asked about her mock exam, Tsubaki proudly says she got a B. Her friends cannot believe it.

A. A plane

On the phone at night, Kaori spots a plane flying through the stars and they both watch it. It is a quiet scene after a painful one.

C. February 18

Kaori tells Kousei she is having surgery on February 18, and that she will fight as hard as she can.

C. Red bean bun

Also in the letter, she asks Kousei whether snow looks just like cherry blossom petals.

A. Cherry blossom petals

Also in the letter, she asks Kousei whether snow looks just like cherry blossom petals. April, again.

A. Diving board

Listing Tsubaki's childhood crimes, Kousei mentions her pushing him off a ten-metre diving board in third grade.

C. Gray

Kazama leads the judges in episode 2, but his hair colour is only something you see on screen. He is grey haired.

B. 8

Kaori reveals she has done her homework on Kousei: the Human Metronome, who played with an orchestra at eight.

C. Baby's head

In a flashback, Kousei's mother tells him the piano is him, and to touch it as if caressing a baby's head.

D. Hashimoto

Competitors grumble that Kousei always wins because his mother studied directly under Dr. Hashimoto.

C. Sarasate

Before Kaori plays, Kousei explains the piece: Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, dedicated to the violinist Sarasate.

C. Anton Rubinstein

Kaori quotes Anton Rubinstein: begin the piece in your mind before your fingers touch the keys.

D. Black

Emi, watching him at the Maihou, notes that he still has the same annoying black-rimmed glasses.

B. Germany

Takeshi is invited to a competition in Germany and turns it down to enter the Maihou, so he can face Kousei.

D. Charlie Brown

Kaori quotes Charlie Brown on leaning your head on your arms when you are down, because arms like to feel useful.

C. Moo Moo

Kaori rattles off what she knows about Kousei: egg sandwiches, Moo Moo brand milk and a secret sweet tooth.

C. Takayanagi

Takeshi's teacher is Takayanagi, whom Ochiai calls shallow even while praising his student.

D. 5

Emi tells how, at five, she went to a recital to cheer on a friend and heard Kousei play for under four minutes. That was enough to decide her future.

B. Schuberstein Competition

The episode opens with Takeshi's invitation to the Schuberstein Competition in Germany, which he later turns down.

A. Ochiai

Takayanagi greets Ochiai and asks how her student Igawa is doing. Emi Igawa is Ochiai's pupil.

C. Jungle gym

In a flashback, a small Emi climbs to the top of the jungle gym and shouts that she will be a pianist.

C. Long sleeves

Other parents whisper that Kousei is covered in bruises, which is why he always wears long sleeves. It is the clearest hint of how harsh his mother's lessons were.

D. Nagai Memorial Competition

Young Kousei hands over his certificate: first place at the Nagai Memorial Competition.

D. Yuriko

Emi's teacher introduces herself to a young Emi as Ochiai Yuriko.

A. Sunflowers

Emi says the only sound she could make was her own, but Kousei's sounded like sunflowers. That is why he was her inspiration.

B. Stage left

Kousei explains that his mother always watched from the entrance on stage left, a spot where he could see her.

D. Mr. Mediocre

Hiroko greets Kousei with Mr. Mediocre, then makes him call her Hiroko instead of Ms. Seto.

A. Koharu

Hiroko's daughter is Koharu, who is offered milk while the adults talk.

C. Takahiko

Hiroko asks whether Takahiko, Kousei's father, is still away on business. He works abroad for most of the series.

B. Rachmaninoff

Hiroko recognises the piece: Rachmaninoff's arrangement of Love's Sorrow, which Kousei's mother Saki played all the time.

C. Love's Joy

Kreisler wrote Love's Joy and Love's Sorrow as a pair for violin. Kousei's mother played the Sorrow half.

A. Hiroko

Ochiai is surprised Hiroko is mentoring Kousei, since Hiroko never went near the Arima house after Saki died.

B. Milk

As a boy Kousei cried for a milk popsicle, and years later he still picks milk flavour every time.

D. Kurumigaoka

Nagi introduces herself as a first-year in the music course at Kurumigaoka Junior High, a prestigious school.

A. November

A classmate reminds Nagi that the school festival is in November and they need to get ready.

C. Sacred

Kousei suggests changing her pedalling, and Nagi refuses: the score is absolute, sacred, and players are its servants.

D. Aizato

Kousei calls her Aizato in episode 18, and she reminds him she introduced herself as Aiza Nagi. He admits he misheard her. She is Takeshi's little sister.

B. December

Takeshi tells Kousei the Eastern Japan Piano Competition begins in December, and that he will beat him there.

D. Die-cast robot

In a flashback, a small Takeshi brags that piano is easy, and that if he wins he gets a die-cast robot.

C. Class Giraffe

Small Takeshi introduces himself as Take of Class Giraffe, coming for Class Elephant next.

A. Katagiri

When something goes wrong in Kaori's room, a nurse calls for Dr. Katagiri, her doctor.

D. February

Hiroko reminds Kousei that the finals are in February and there is not much time.

A. Marcie

Under sedation, Kaori quotes Marcie from Peanuts: we all need someone to kiss us goodbye.

C. Contact lenses

In the letter, Kaori says she did whatever she wanted so she would not take regrets to heaven, including wearing contact lenses, which terrified her.