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50 free Blade Runner 2049 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Blade Runner 2049 arrived 35 years after the original and somehow lived up to it, and this quiz covers the whole of it: Sapper Morton's protein farm, the box under the dead tree, K's holographic girlfriend Joi, the baseline test, the orphanage furnace, the irradiated orange ruins of Las Vegas and the drowning of Luv in the surf. The early questions are ones any viewer can answer: who plays K, who returns as Deckard, what Wallace wants from replicant reproduction. Later ones go deeper: which musician was Villeneuve's first choice for Niander Wallace, why Jared Leto worked the set blind, where the film was actually shot, the composer replaced late in post-production, the four-hour cut nobody will see, the three prequel shorts and why a film this good lost tens of millions of dollars. Every answer has been checked against production reporting and the film's own record, and each question links to its source. Our Blade Runner trivia covers the 1982 original and Philip K. Dick's novel; this page is for the sequel.
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Q 01Who directed Blade Runner 2049?
Denis Villeneuve
He credits the original with inspiring him to make films, and hesitated to accept for fear of tarnishing its legacy.
Q 02Ryan Gosling's character K is short for what?
His serial number, KD6-3.7
He is a Nexus-9 replicant working as a blade runner for the LAPD, hunting older rogue models.
Q 03What does K find buried under the tree at Sapper Morton's farm?
The bones of a replicant who died giving birth
The bones prove that replicants can reproduce biologically, which Lt. Joshi fears will start a war.
Q 04What model of replicant was the deceased mother identified as?
An experimental Nexus-7
Wallace's DNA archives also reveal her romantic ties to former blade runner Rick Deckard.
Q 05What does Niander Wallace hope to gain from the secret of replicant reproduction?
Faster interstellar colonisation
His company took over replicant manufacture after Tyrell collapsed; he sends Luv to shadow K's investigation.
Q 06Who plays Niander Wallace?
Jared Leto
He wore custom opaque contact lenses to work the set completely blind; Villeneuve said his first entrance was 'like seeing Jesus walking into a temple'.
Q 07Which musician did Villeneuve want for Niander Wallace before his death in early 2016?
David Bowie
He was one of the franchise's core influences; Leto was chosen because he had a similar rock-star sensibility.
Q 08What is the name of Wallace's replicant enforcer, played by Sylvia Hoeks?
Luv
She kills Lt. Joshi, kidnaps Deckard and crushes Joi's emanator before K drowns her in the surf.
Q 09Who plays Joi, K's holographic AI girlfriend?
Ana de Armas
The Cuban-Spanish actress spent four months in speech training to master English before she auditioned several times for the role.
Q 10What date is carved into the tree trunk at the farm, matching K's childhood memory?
6.10.21
K's search finds two children born that day with identical DNA registered as opposite genders, one of whom supposedly died.
Q 11What toy from K's implanted memory turns out to be real?
A wooden horse
He finds it in the orphanage furnace exactly where he remembers hiding it; its origin later leads him to Las Vegas.
Q 12Who is Dr. Ana Stelline?
A designer of replicant memories
K deduces the toy-horse memory is hers; she lives in a sealed chamber because of a supposed immune disorder.
Q 13How long does Lt. Joshi give K to pass the baseline test after he fails it?
48 hours
Gosling helped rewrite the test's dialogue, suggesting a 'dropping in' technique from Shakespeare & Company to make it more aggressive.
Q 21How does K die?
From wounds suffered fighting Luv
Screenwriter Michael Green was surprised anyone doubted the death, pointing to the 'Tears in Rain' musical motif under the scene.
Q 22Which musical cue, reworked from Vangelis, plays over K's death?
Tears in the Rain
It calls back to Roy Batty's death in the original; a snatch of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf plays whenever Joi's emanator switches on.
Q 23Which composer was replaced by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch during post-production?
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Q 14Which actress plays Lt. Joshi, K's LAPD superior?
Robin Wright
Her House of Cards commitments briefly held up negotiations before she was confirmed.
Q 15Where does K find Deckard hiding?
The radioactive ruins of Las Vegas
The casino interiors were shot in the Budapest Stock Exchange's palace on Liberty Square, the film's largest set.
Q 16What was the name of the replicant woman who was the mother of Deckard's child?
Rachael
Sean Young's likeness from the 1982 film was digitally placed onto actress Loren Peta for the duplicate that Wallace offers Deckard.
Q 17What does Wallace offer Deckard in exchange for the child's whereabouts?
A duplicate of Rachael
Deckard refuses ('her eyes were green') and Wallace has Luv shoot the copy.
Q 18Who plays Freysa, leader of the Replicant Freedom Movement?
Hiam Abbass
She reveals to K that Rachael's child was a girl, not a boy, and urges him to kill Deckard.
Q 19Which Guardians of the Galaxy actor plays Sapper Morton, the replicant K retires in the opening scene?
Dave Bautista
He also stars in the prequel short 2048: Nowhere to Run, protecting a mother and daughter from thugs.
Q 20Besides Harrison Ford, which actor from the original film returns, as Gaff?
Edward James Olmos
He also voices Gaff in the anime short Black Out 2022; Sean Young appears only via archival footage and a body double.
Villeneuve, who had used him on Prisoners, Sicario and Arrival, felt the film needed something closer to the original Vangelis score.
Q 24Which Prokofiev piece plays whenever Joi's emanator is activated?
Peter and the Wolf
The rapper El-P said his music for the first trailer was 'rejected (or ignored)'.
Q 25In which country was Blade Runner 2049 mostly filmed?
Hungary
Korda and Origo Studios in Budapest were used, qualifying for a 25% government tax rebate; London had no free soundstage.
Q 26Which real Hungarian building doubled as the derelict Las Vegas casino?
The Budapest Stock Exchange palace
The set spread across at least three floors; abandoned Soviet-era power plants at Inota and Kelenföld were also used.
Q 27Who was the cinematographer, on his third collaboration with Villeneuve?
Roger Deakins
He refused a line producer's request for a nine-camera setup and shot the film on a single Arri Alexa XT Studio.
Q 28Which two Academy Awards did the film win?
Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects
Deakins finally won after 13 previous nominations; the film had five nominations in all.
Q 29Which London brutalist landmarks helped inspire the look of the film's Los Angeles?
The Barbican Estate and Trellick Tower
Other references were Beijing in smog, Bangladeshi shipyards and the foothills of southern Spain; Vegas drew on Sahara dust storms.
Q 30What single word did Villeneuve give the costume and production designers as their brief?
Brutal
Costume designer Renée April said there were no zippers or plastic: 'we did not want to do something science-fiction'.