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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
He took the job after leaving the slow-moving production of Dune, wanting a faster project after his brother's death.
Q 02Who plays Rick Deckard?
Harrison Ford
Steven Spielberg, then finishing Raiders of the Lost Ark, strongly praised his work when the producers were deciding.
Q 03Which novel is the film adapted from?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick died shortly before the film's release, but he saw an effects reel and said it looked exactly like his interior world.
Q 04In which year is the original film set?
2019
Elon Musk timed the Cybertruck's debut to coincide with the film's November 2019 setting.
Q 05Who supervised the film's special effects together with Richard Yuricich?
Douglas Trumbull
Many of the techniques had been developed on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and some shots were exposed 16 times over.
Q 06Which company manufactures the replicants in the 1982 film?
Tyrell
Its towering headquarters echoes the Stadtkrone Tower in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
Q 07Who plays Roy Batty, leader of the escaped replicants?
Rutger Hauer
Scott cast him without ever meeting him, on the strength of his Paul Verhoeven films.
Q 08What is the name of the procedure used to tell replicants from humans?
Voight-Kampff test
It measures blush response, heart rate and eye movement while asking questions about empathy; the novel spells it 'Voigt-Kampff'.
Q 09Which replicant shoots the blade runner Holden during his test?
Leon
He fires on the second question of the interview.
Q 10What model number are the fugitive replicants Deckard is sent to retire?
Nexus-6
K, the hero of the sequel, is a Nexus-9.
Q 11How long is the built-in lifespan of the film's replicants?
Four years
Screenwriter David Peoples added the premature-ageing twist, which Dick called a 'first-class piece of work'.
Q 12Whose memories were implanted in Rachael to give her an 'emotional cushion'?
Tyrell's niece
She tries to prove she is human with a family photograph before Deckard tells her the truth.
Q 13Who plays Rachael?
Sean Young
Screenwriter Hampton Fancher originally wrote the role for his then girlfriend Barbara Hershey.
Q 21Which actor rewrote the 'tears in rain' speech himself the night before filming it?
Rutger Hauer
He cut the scripted 'opera talk' down and added the line about moments being lost in time.
Q 22How many words long is the 'tears in rain' monologue?
42
Critic Mark Rowlands called it 'perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history'.
Q 23Which cosmic landmark does Roy mention seeing C-beams glitter near?
The Tannhäuser Gate
The 'attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion' come from the same speech.
Q 14Which actress plays Pris, the 'basic pleasure model'?
Daryl Hannah
Debbie Harry turned the role down.
Q 15What is the hobby of Gaff, the officer played by Edward James Olmos?
Origami
He leaves a paper unicorn outside Deckard's apartment in the final scene.
Q 16What is 'Cityspeak', which Gaff uses in the noodle-bar scene?
A street patois of several languages
Olmos drew on many ethnic sources; his first line is partly Hungarian.
Q 17What clue found in Leon's hotel room leads Deckard to Zhora?
A synthetic snake scale
Zhora works at a strip club, and Deckard shoots her after a chase.
Q 18What is the job of J. F. Sebastian, who shelters Pris and Roy?
Genetic designer
He suffers from a premature-ageing disorder, so his life is short like the replicants'.
Q 19How does Roy kill his maker in the penthouse scene?
He crushes his eyes and skull
He kisses his maker first, after demanding more life and being told it is impossible.
Q 20What does Deckard find on the floor as he leaves with Rachael at the end?
An origami unicorn
Combined with Deckard's unicorn dream in the Director's Cut, many read it as proof he is a replicant himself.
Q 24Which Greek composer wrote the film's synthesizer score?
Vangelis
He came to it fresh from his Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire; the official soundtrack album was delayed for over a decade.
Q 25Which actor did screenwriter Hampton Fancher have in mind when writing Deckard's dialogue?
Robert Mitchum
Producers also spent months in talks with Dustin Hoffman before he departed over differences in vision.
Q 26Where did the title 'Blade Runner' actually come from?
A William S. Burroughs treatment of an Alan E. Nourse novel
Scott liked the name and producer Michael Deeley bought the rights to the titles.
Q 27Which historic downtown Los Angeles landmark served as a filming location?
The Bradbury Building
Other locations included the Ennis-Brown House and the 2nd Street Tunnel.
Q 28What are the film's flying police cars called?
Spinners
Designer Syd Mead's drawings became 25 vehicles; two ended up at Disney World and were later destroyed.
Q 29Which artist did the director hire as concept designer for the film's look?
Syd Mead
Moebius was offered a job but declined to work on an animated film, a choice he later regretted.
Q 30Which Edward Hopper painting did Scott cite as a mood source?
Nighthawks
He also mentioned 'Hong Kong on a very bad day' and the industrial north-east of England.