Borderlands Trivia
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108 free Borderlands trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Borderlands trivia questions with answers. Borderlands turned the loot pile into a genre: 87 bazillion guns, a comic-book art style everyone mistakes for cel shading, and the most quotable villain in shooters. This quiz covers the whole series from the 2009 original through Borderlands 2, The Pre-Sequel, Tales from the Borderlands, Borderlands 3, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands and Borderlands 4, plus the Eli Roth film that bombed in 2024. The easy questions ask which planet the games take place on and who Handsome Jack works for. The hard ones want the original 'Halo meets Diablo' pitch, the Guinness-certified gun count, which studio made The Pre-Sequel, who replaced Claptrap's original voice actor and what Claptrap finally learned to do on Elpis. Made for anyone who has ever gunzerked, mechromanced or thrown a Tediore. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, characters and studio, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01The Vault Hunters' hub in Borderlands 3 is a spaceship named what?
Sanctuary III
It flies between planets where new Vaults have been found.
Q 02Which studio created the Borderlands series?
Gearbox
Gearbox scrapped the first game's darker, realistic look late in development and redrew everything in a comic-book style to make it stand out.
Q 03In Borderlands' colour-coded loot, which colour marks legendary gear?
Orange
Orange marks legendary loot: because guns are generated at random, a colour code rising from common white through green, blue and purple tells players at a glance what a drop is worth.
Q 04In Borderlands, the long-vanished alien race whose ruins litter Pandora is called what?
The Eridians
The Eridians built the Vaults less as treasure chests than as prisons: the first one opened held a monster they had locked away to save the universe.
Q 05Guinness World Records counted roughly how many possible guns in the first Borderlands?
17 million
About 17 million, or 17.75 million by the Guinness count, a total possible only because the game builds each gun at random instead of having them designed one by one.
Q 06The Borderlands art style is frequently mistaken for what technique?
Cel shading
Cel shading is the usual guess, but the comic-book look comes from hand-drawn textures, with the bold outlines added by the game engine.
Q 07How was the first Borderlands pitched internally around 2005?
Halo meets Diablo
Halo meets Diablo meant a shooter overflowing with loot, and it set off what the team called a religious debate over whether the game was a shooter or a role-playing game at heart; the shooter won.
Q 08In the first Borderlands, which corporation returns to claim the planet and its Vault?
Atlas
Atlas sends its private army to seize the Vault Key; its commander opens the Vault herself and is the first to die for it.
Q 09In the first Borderlands, what monster emerges when the Vault is finally opened?
The Destroyer
The Destroyer bursts out and wipes out the soldiers who opened the Vault; it had been sealed inside long ago to stop it destroying the universe.
Q 10Which of these characters is one of the four playable heroes in the first Borderlands?
Mordecai
Mordecai is the first game's sniper, who sends his pet bird of prey Bloodwing swooping at enemies; the other three choices became playable in later games.
Q 11In Borderlands, Lilith is one of a few women with mysterious powers, known as what?
Sirens
Sirens can feed their power into a Vault Key, which is why Handsome Jack captures Lilith in Borderlands 2 and forces her to charge his.
Q 12The first Borderlands opens with the heroes arriving at which dusty town?
Fyrestone
Fyrestone is where a Claptrap robot greets the new arrivals and leads them to the town doctor, who hands out their first job.
Q 13Roughly how many copies had the first Borderlands sold by 2011?
4.5 million
It was an unexpected success for Gearbox and spawned four DLC packs.
Q 21Which two characters were added to Borderlands 2 as DLC Vault Hunters?
Gaige and Krieg
Gaige and Krieg arrived after launch: she is a girl with a flying killer robot, he a Psycho, one of the series' stock masked enemies turned playable hero.
Q 22Who voices the explosives-obsessed Tiny Tina in the Borderlands games?
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch landed the part after her brother, a writer on Borderlands 2, created the character with her in mind.
Q 23What giant creature does Handsome Jack summon from the Vault at the climax of Borderlands 2?
The Warrior
The Warrior obeys whoever releases it, which is why Jack spends the game charging the Vault Key; when he finally sets it on the Vault Hunters, they kill it.
Q 14Which of these was one of the four DLC packs for the first Borderlands?
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned turns on a doctor hired to keep a company town's workers alive, who did the job too well and turned them into zombies.
Q 15In Borderlands 2, Handsome Jack is the boss of which corporation?
Hyperion
Hyperion's boss began as a lowly programmer there, then seized the company's space station and took the top job by force.
Q 16In Borderlands 2, Handsome Jack's pony Butt Stallion is made of what?
Diamonds
Diamonds: the pony began as one of Jack's taunts about how rich he is, but she kept turning up, and Tiny Tina later made her queen of her fantasy game.
Q 17In Borderlands 2, the Guardian Angel who guides the Vault Hunters turns out to be whom?
Handsome Jack's daughter
Handsome Jack's daughter, Angel, is kept wired into a chamber to charge the Vault Key, and asks the heroes to shut it down even though it will kill her.
Q 18Which hero does Handsome Jack kill late in Borderlands 2?
Roland
Roland is killed in front of the player moments after Angel's death, and Jack then seizes Lilith to finish charging the Vault Key in her place.
Q 19What is the name of the resistance base city in Borderlands 2?
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is built on top of an old mining ship, so when Jack bombards it the whole city lifts off and is teleported to safety.
Q 20Salvador, one of the Borderlands 2 Vault Hunters, is described by what class name?
Gunzerker
Gunzerker is the name of his class because his action skill lets him briefly dual-wield any two guns, one blazing in each hand.
Q 24Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel was primarily developed by which studio?
2K Australia
2K Australia led development, which is why the moon's residents talk like Australians and the missions joke about cricket and Waltzing Matilda.
Q 25Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel swaps Pandora for which low-gravity setting?
Elpis
Elpis is Pandora's moon, where an airless surface and weak gravity mean oxygen kits, long floating jumps and ground-slam attacks from above.
Q 26Which new weapon type did Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel introduce?
Laser guns
Laser guns came in several kinds, from steady beams to railguns, and arrived with a cryo element that freezes enemies so they shatter when killed.
Q 27Nisha, a playable hero in The Pre-Sequel, first appeared in Borderlands 2 as what?
Jack's girlfriend, sheriff of Lynchwood
As Jack's girlfriend and sheriff of Lynchwood, Nisha rules the town by her own deadly laws until the player beats her in a high-noon showdown.
Q 28What ability does Claptrap gain in The Pre-Sequel that he had famously lacked?
Climbing stairs
Climbing stairs comes with the combat upgrade that turns him into the playable Fragtrap; staircases had been the little robot's nemesis in the earlier games.
Q 29Who voiced Claptrap in the first four Borderlands games before a falling-out with Randy Pitchford?
David Eddings
Jim Foronda has voiced the robot since Borderlands 2 VR.
Q 30Which studio made the episodic Borderlands adventure spin-off that began in 2014?
Telltale Games
Telltale Games reused the choice-driven episode format of its Walking Dead series; when the studio collapsed in 2018 the game vanished from sale until 2K republished it in 2021.