Persona 5 Royal Answers Guide: Classroom Answers

In Persona 5 Royal, the knowledge stat is one of the most important stats in the entire game as it will help you with growing your relationships with your confidants and getting good marks in your exams. One of the best ways to level it up is by answering the questions given to you in your classes by your teachers correctly as well as the exam questions.

Due to this being the upgraded version of the original game, some questions have changed and new questions have been added. This guide will show you the right answers for each question throughout the game.

Persona 5 – April’s Questions and Answers

4/12

Question: Tell me what the Devil’s Dictionary defines as the Hider factor in the progress of the human race.

Answer: Villains

4/19

Question: Between A and B… which line seems longer…?

Answer: They’re the same

4/23

Question: Between music, theater, and chariot racing, which sport did Nero win when he participated in the Olympics?

Answer: All of them

4/25

The teacher gives Ann a question and you help her.

Question: What’s the phrase mean to convey? “My country right or wrong”?

Answer 1: You unquestionably support it.

Answer 2: You have a duty to correct it.

4/27

Question: Do you know the name of the theorem named after this number?

Answer: Four color theorem

4/30

Question 1: First off, the “wunder” part probably means…?

Answer 1: Wonder

Question 2:  Next, the “kind” part. That’s probably…

Answer 2: Child

Question 3: Yeah, that’s gotta be it. “Kind” means child… or at least a young guy, in your case.

Answer 3: A prodigy

Persona 5 – May’s Questions and Answers

5/7

Question: So what’s the literal translation of the phrase “femme fatale?”

Answer: Fatal woman

5/10

Question: You know the time period Yoshitsune was active in, don’t you?

Answer: The Heian period

EXAMS START

5/11

Question 1: What historical figure inspired “favoring the magistrate?”

Answer 1: Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Question 2: Yoshitsune had a brother, right. Oh, I think his name was… 

Answer 2: Minamoto no Yoritomo

Question 3: But they ended up coming into conflict. And in the end when they had to oppose each other…

Answer 3: Yoritomo won

Question 4: That’s probably because people tend to sympathize less with people in power, and sympathize more with…

Answer 4: The weak

5/12

Question 1: Which brain function is responsible for the phenomenon of seeing an illusion in this figure?

Answer 2: Cognition

Question 2: Which of the following maps can you paint without any adjacent areas being the same color?

Answer 2: Both

5/13

Question 1: Name the book that defined “male factor” as the chief factor in the progress of the human race.

Answer 1: The Devil’s Dictionary

Question 2: What character archetype refers to a mysterious and seductive woman, typically with ulterior motives?

Answer 2: Femme Fatale

EXAMS END

5/16

Question: What do we call the phenomenon where believing in a treatment’s power is enough to improve your condition/

Answer: The Placebo effect

5/19

Question: Which famous artist of the Edo period is said to have moved residence over 100 times?

Answer: Katsushika Hokusai

5/21

Question: The golden ratio is 1:1.618 but do you know the silver ratio?

Answer: 1:414

5/23

Question 1: If we think about what these words have in common, then maybe “syn” means…

Answer 1: Together

Question 2: And “aisthesis,” huh? That’s like the word aethetics. I wonder if it means…

Answer 2: Senses

Question 3: So that means the full word basically means…

Answer 3: Senses coming together

5/26

Question: Do you know which author Leblanc borrowed from?

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

5/31

Question: Do you know which peg-legged, parrot toting historical figure’s appearance became visual shorthand for pirates?

Answer: John Silver

Persona 5 – June’s Questions and Answers

6/4

Question: What do you think the name for the phenomenon is?

Answer: The halo effect

6/7

Question: The red king crab is biologically related to the hermit crab. So how is it different from a crab…? Do you know?

Answer: The number of legs

6/8

Question: Where does totalitarianism take things a step further than authoritarianism?

Answer: Controlling Public Thought

6/13

Asking about washing your hair with copper.

Question: … What color do you think it turns?

Answer: Green

6/15

Question: Between paper bills and coins, which one is issued by the government?

Answer: Coins

6/20

Ann is asking for help.

Question: One of these has minor metals in it, right?

Answer: Smartphone

6/23

Question: Now do you know what this woman’s position was?

Answer: A pope

6/27

Question: Which of these animals is involved in an English idiom about the weather?

Answer: Dogs

6/29

Referring to a piece that is used in the game of Shogi.

Question: What do you think it says on the back of this piece?

Answer: Gold

Personal 5 – July’s Questions and Answers

7/1

Question: What’s the meaning of the original Chinese phrase that these dumplings’ name came from?

Answer: Barbarian’s Head

7/4 

Question: Two people are responsible for July and August having 31 days. Do you know who those people are?

Answer: Julius and Augustus

7/7

Ann is asking for help.

Question 1: So Tanabata’s about gods crossing a starry sky to reunite once every year. It might have something to do with…?

Answer 1: The Milky Way

Question 2: Traditional food

Answer 2: Soumen’s noodles

7/9

Question: Do you know what shape it is?

Answer: A triangle

7/11

Question 1: What is long-term memory, anyway?

Answer 1: Memories that last a long time

Question 2: Markus mentioned something about the amount of memories you could store, right? Something like…

Answer 2: Infinite

Question 3: If you have theoretically infinite space for them… Theoretically, you’d be able to retain them for…

Answer 3: Forever

7/12

Question: Do you know what he did/

Answer: Thievery

EXAMS START

7/13

Question 1: If angle C is 28 degrees, and angles A and D are 88 degrees, what is the angle of B and E?

Answer 1: 64 degrees

Question 2: I think this came up in class. They were invented by the campus’s guy from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, right?

Answer 2: Zhuge Liang

Question 3: And they were offering something to quell the river…

Answer 3: Barbarians’ heads

Question 4: This master strategist came with the baozi to…

Answer 4: To offer them instead of heads

7/14

Question 1: What is the name and genus of this organism?

Answer 1: Red King Crab (Paralithodes)

Question 2: What happened when the government issued paper and hard currencies in Japan for the first time?

Answer 2: It caused confusion in the economy

7/15

Question 1: What is the English equivalent of the Norwegian idiom “raining witches?”

Answer 1: Raining cats and dogs

Question 2: Which of the following is another name for spikenard noodles traditionally eaten in Tanabata?

Answer 2: Demon guts

EXAMS END

Persona 5 – September’s Questions and Answers

9/3

Question: Each hand in this famous statue means something, but… do you know what the right represents?

Answer: Prosperity

9/6

Question: Do you know the name of that phenomenon where the second hand looks like it’s stopped moving?

Answer: Chronostasis

9/14

Question: What does a pawn shop offer that a secondhand shop doesn’t?

Answer: Mone loans for collateral

9/17

Question: What’s one of the supposed origins for the phrase “cat got your tongue?”

Answer: Cats eating human tongues

9/21

Question: Robot comes from a word in Czech… but where in Europe is the Czech Republic located?

Answer: Central Europe

9/24

Question: How many white and black shapes are there respectively on a soccer ball?

Answer: 20 white, 12 black

9/28

Question 1: So “PVS,” referring to when you mistakenly think your phone is going off… What’s the P?

Answer 1: Phantom

Question 2: The next part is the V part. That means it’d be “phantom…” what?

Answer 2: Vibration

Question 3: Last is the S. So if we have “phantom vibration” so far…?

Answer 3: Syndrome

9/29

Question: But the fishermen of Nagaragawa are actually civil servants as well. So, tell me which sector they belong to.

Answer: Imperial Household Agency

Persona 5 – October’s Questions and Answers

10/3

Question: If we use “three watermelons in the sun” to visualize a certain matter’s size against the universe’s, what are the melons?

Answer: Stars

10/6

Asking about the Guillotine.

Question: Now, do you know who invented this instrument?

Answer: Joseph-Ignace Guillotine

10/11

Question: Which name was most commonly ascribed to shape B?

Answer: Bouba

EXAMS START

10/17

Question 1: Counting both black and white surfaces, how many surfaces are there in total on a soccer ball?

Answer 1: 32 surfaces

Question 2: Didn’t the teacher say that the number of colors used to be different? Do you remember?

Answer 2: It used to be one color

Question 3: Oh yeah, I remember. I think she said that unlike now, soccer games were broadcast with… 

Answer 3: Black and white picture

10/18

Question 1: Who conducted executions using this device?

Answer 1: Charles-Henri Sanson

Question 2: What is the reason that most people can not become a commercial fisherman of Nagarasawa?

Answer 2: It’s a hereditary profession

10/19

Question 1: What is the meaning of “robota,” the etymological root of “robot?”

Answer: Slave labor

Question 2: Which of the following describes the density of the stars in outer space?

Answer 2: 3 bees in all of Europe

EXAMS END

10/22

Question: Now, tell me the total count for each column in this magic square.

Answer: 15

10/24

Question: From a psychological standpoint, what’s a key reason our memories can differ from reality?

Answer: Memory Bias

Persona 5 – November’s Questions and Answers

11/2

Question: Can you tell me the meaning of the word “wack” in Thieves’ Cant?

Answer: A share of stolen goods

11/4

Question: Clubs is a club, diamond is a gem, so what does a spade represent?

Answer: A sword

11/8

Question: Tell me how old you have to be to listen in on a trial.

Answer: Any age

11/10

Question: Do you know why it’s missing the character for crow?

Answer: Crow eyes are hard to see

11/12

Question: I wonder. Do you know why voices sound so different over the phone?

Answer: Because the voice is synthetic.

11/14

Asking about the sun rising over Mt. Fuji

Question: Tell me why that is.

Answer: Because of high altitude

11/15

Talking about Nezumi Kozo

Question: He was to be paraded through the city and punished in a very particular way. How was he punished?

Answer: His head was put on display

11/17

Question: Do you know the name for this graph? Your hint is “snails”…

Answer: Cochleoid

Persona 5 – December’s Questions and Answers:

EXAMS START

12/20

Question 1: Choose the graph which is named after the Chinese yoyo known as diabolo.

Answer 1: D

Question 2: He was a really famous thief in the Edo period, right? How much money did he steal, in the end?

Answer 2: Over one billion yen

Question 3: As a result he was sentenced to…

Answer 3: Having his head displayed

Question 4: Criminals, especially famous criminals, were mostly paraded around for …

Answer 4: A performance

12/21

Question 1: Which suit of cards represents the Holy Grail?

Answer 1: Hearts

Question 2: According to Japanese judicial law, what is possible for even an infant to do in court?

Answer 2: Attend

12/22

Question 1: What country refers to a person who controls politics behind the scenes as a “prime minister in black?”

Answer 1: Japan

Question 2: The Japanese word “dokyuu” translates to “massive.” What English word inspired the initial “do” in dokyuu?

Answer 2: Dreadnought

EXAMS END

Persona 5 – January’s Questions and Answers

1/11

Ann is asking for help.

Question 1: What’s this phrase supposed to illustrate about the gods of Shinto?

Answer 1: How numerous they are

Question 2: What’s the phrase again? The one about how many gods there are in Shinto?

Answer 2: The Eight Million Gods

1/14

Question: Where do you think the fictional land of “Ihatov” is modeled after?

Answer: Iwate

1/18

Question: What did the word awful originally mean?

Answer: Impressive

1/20

Question: Do you know what she’s stepping on?

Answer: A snake

1/24

Asking about the word “sweet.”

Question 1: What does that mean when describing a person?

Answer 1: Kind-hearted

Question 2: So what kind of connotation would “salty” have in that context?

Answer 2: Negative

Question 3: So with all of that in mind, “salty” probably means …

Answer 3: Resentful

1/27

Question: How far did this study suggest personal happiness can spread?

Answer: To friends of friends of friends