Blade Runner Trivia
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50 free Blade Runner trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Blade Runner trivia quiz covers Ridley Scott's 1982 film in depth: the plot (Deckard, Rachael, Roy Batty and the four Nexus-6 fugitives), the casting stories (Dustin Hoffman spent months in talks; the screenwriter wrote Deckard for Robert Mitchum), the production (fifty nights of rain, the T-shirt war, the Bradbury Building), Vangelis's score, and the seven different versions that exist because of studio interference. It also asks about the tears-in-rain monologue Rutger Hauer rewrote the night before he filmed it, and the unicorn that keeps the Deckard-is-a-replicant argument alive. The quiz then goes to Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and to Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049: K, Joi, Luv, Niander Wallace, the Budapest shoot, and the two Oscars it won. Questions run from easy (who plays Deckard) to expert (which studio-preview cut had scenes no other version has). Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who directed the 1982 film Blade Runner?
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott signed on after leaving a slow-moving Dune adaptation, wanting faster work to take his mind off the death of his brother Frank.
Q 02Who plays Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford called the shoot a long slog and clashed with his director, yet he came back to play Deckard again 35 years later in Blade Runner 2049.
Q 03Which Philip K. Dick novel was adapted into Blade Runner?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? appeared in 1968; Philip K. Dick died months before the film opened, but he had been shown a reel of its effects and said the world looked exactly as he had imagined it.
Q 04Which Tesla debuted in Los Angeles in November 2019, Blade Runner's setting?
Cybertruck
Cybertruck: Musk had promised a pickup that looked like something out of Blade Runner, and at the launch its supposedly unbreakable windows shattered when a metal ball was thrown at them.
Q 05Which effects pioneer of 2001: A Space Odyssey supervised Blade Runner's special effects with Richard Yuricich?
Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Trumbull set the effects up knowing he would leave about halfway through to direct his own film, Brainstorm, so David Dryer stepped in to see them finished.
Q 06Which corporation manufactures the replicants in the original 1982 Blade Runner?
Tyrell
Tyrell Corporation sells them under the motto 'More human than human'; its towering headquarters was a miniature whose shots were lined up using stills from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Q 07In Blade Runner, what slur does police captain Bryant use for replicants?
Skin-jobs
Skin-jobs is Bryant's word for the fugitives he orders Deckard to hunt, and the same slur resurfaced decades later in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica for its human-looking Cylons.
Q 08In Blade Runner, which test is used to tell replicants from humans?
Voight-Kampff test
The Voight-Kampff test tracks blush response, heart rate and eye movement during questions meant to provoke empathy; on Rachael it takes far longer than usual, because she believes she is human.
Q 09In Blade Runner's opening scene, which replicant shoots the blade runner Holden during his test?
Leon
Leon answers a question about his mother with 'Let me tell you about my mother' and fires, which is why Deckard is hauled back from retirement to finish Holden's job.
Q 10Which replicant model are the fugitives Deckard is sent to retire in Blade Runner?
Nexus-6
Nexus-6 is the model in both the film and the novel; when Google named an Android phone the Nexus One in 2010, Philip K. Dick's estate objected that the name traded on his androids.
Q 11How long is the built-in lifespan of the replicants hunted in Blade Runner?
Four years
Four years is all they get: their makers feared replicants would develop emotions of their own over time, so an early death was designed in.
Q 12In Blade Runner, whose memories were implanted in Rachael to give her an 'emotional cushion'?
Tyrell's niece
Tyrell's niece supplied the memories: when Rachael brings Deckard a family photo to prove she is human, he tells her where her childhood really came from, and she leaves in tears.
Q 13Who plays the replicant Rachael in Blade Runner?
Sean Young
Sean Young, then little known, won the part after several screen tests; screenwriter Hampton Fancher had written Rachael for his girlfriend of the time, Barbara Hershey.
Q 21Which Blade Runner actor rewrote his 'tears in rain' speech the night before filming it?
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer thought the scripted speech was 'opera talk', so the night before he cut most of it and added the closing image of moments lost like tears in rain, without telling the director.
Q 22In Blade Runner's 'tears in rain' speech, attack ships burn off whose shoulder?
Orion
Orion: the whole speech runs to just 42 words, because the actor delivering it cut swathes from the scripted version and added the closing line himself.
Q 23In Blade Runner's 'tears in rain' speech, C-beams glitter in the dark near which place?
The Tannhäuser Gate
Q 14Which actress plays the replicant Pris in Blade Runner?
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah performed some of Pris's gymnastic stunts herself, in a role that Debbie Harry of Blondie had turned down.
Q 15Which actor plays Gaff, the detective who brings Deckard in at the start of Blade Runner?
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos came back to the part 35 years later for a single scene in Blade Runner 2049, in which the hero questions an aged Gaff in a retirement home.
Q 16In Blade Runner, what is the 'Cityspeak' that Gaff talks?
A street patois of several languages
A street patois of several languages, 'gutter talk' mixing Japanese, Spanish and German: Deckard knows the lingo perfectly well but pretends he needs it translated, just to make Gaff's job harder.
Q 17In Blade Runner, what clue from a replicant's hotel room leads Deckard to Zhora?
A synthetic snake scale
A synthetic snake scale leads Deckard to Taffey Lewis's club, where Zhora performs with an artificial snake; she flees through the crowded streets before he shoots her.
Q 18In Blade Runner, what is the job of J. F. Sebastian, who shelters Pris and Roy?
Genetic designer
Genetic designer for the replicants' maker: Sebastian's own Methuselah syndrome ages him too fast, so he looks far older than he is and shares his creations' short life.
Q 19In Blade Runner, how does Roy Batty kill his maker in the penthouse scene?
He crushes his eyes and skull
He crushes his eyes and skull, moments after kissing him: Roy had come to demand more life, and his maker had told him it could not be done.
Q 20What does Deckard find on the floor as he leaves with Rachael at the end of Blade Runner?
An origami unicorn
An origami unicorn, left by Gaff: in later cuts Deckard daydreams of a unicorn, so the paper figure hints that Gaff knows his private thoughts, as if they were implants.
The Tannhäuser Gate is never explained in the film, which has not stopped later science-fiction stories from borrowing the name as a nod to the speech.
Q 24Which composer wrote Blade Runner's synthesizer score?
Vangelis
Vangelis improvised it at his London studio while watching tapes of the film, yet his own recordings were not released as an album until 1994, twelve years later.
Q 25Which actor did screenwriter Hampton Fancher have in mind when writing Deckard's dialogue for Blade Runner?
Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum was the Deckard in Fancher's head; the filmmakers courted Dustin Hoffman instead, but the talks dragged and the two sides parted ways before the part was finally cast.
Q 26Blade Runner took its title from a film treatment by which Beat Generation writer?
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs wrote 'Blade Runner (a movie)' as a treatment of Alan Nourse's novel about smugglers of medical supplies; the filmmakers liked the name and bought the rights, taking nothing else from either.
Q 27Which downtown Los Angeles landmark played J. F. Sebastian's home in Blade Runner?
The Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building was nearly 90 years old when it played a home of the future: the 1893 office block also stages the film's climax, while Union Station plays the police station.
Q 28What are the flying police cars in Blade Runner called?
Spinners
Spinners lift straight off the ground, hover and cruise like jump jets, and the design proved so influential that a repainted one sits parked on a street in Back to the Future Part II.
Q 29Which artist was hired as concept designer for Blade Runner's futuristic look?
Syd Mead
Syd Mead was first asked only for Deckard's car, but he kept drawing the streets and buildings around it until he had designed the city, then invented the credit 'visual futurist' for himself.
Q 30Which Edward Hopper painting was a model for the mood of Blade Runner?
Nighthawks
Nighthawks: the director said he was constantly waving a reproduction of the painting under the noses of his production team to show the look and mood he was after.