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70 free Halo trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Halo trivia questions with answers. These Halo trivia questions cover the whole franchise, from the game Steve Jobs unveiled at Macworld in 1999 as a Mac strategy title to Halo Infinite and the move to PlayStation. The Bungie years get the biggest share: the Xbox launch, the Pillar of Autumn and Installation 04, Halo 2's cliffhanger and 'I Love Bees', the Arbiter's secret, Halo 3's Forge and $170 million opening day, ODST's noir New Mombasa, Reach's Noble Team and the Gregorian chant Marty O'Donnell sang himself. Then come 343 Industries and Halo Studios - the Didact, Fireteam Osiris, the Banished and Zeta Halo, the Master Chief Collection's launch troubles - alongside the wider universe: the Flood, the Covenant castes, Cortana's seven-year lifespan, the Fall of Reach novel written in seven weeks, Halo Wars, Red vs. Blue, the Paramount+ series and Pablo Schreiber's face reveal. Difficulty runs from easy questions any campaign player will get to details for people who read the terminals. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Halo: Combat Evolved launched on November 15, 2001, as an exclusive launch title for which console?
Xbox
It sold alongside half of every Xbox sold, and its green palette was matched to the console's design.
Q 02Halo was first announced in July 1999 at which event, before Microsoft bought its developer?
Macworld Expo
The name was finalised only days before the announcement; the game had started life as a real-time strategy title.
Q 03Bungie, Halo's original developer, was founded in 1991 in which city?
Chicago
Microsoft moved the studio to Redmond after acquiring it in 2000, giving it about 14 months to finish Halo before the Xbox launched.
Q 04Which Bungie Mac series, featuring the AI Durandal, was the studio's best-known shooter before Halo?
Marathon
Bungie later signed with Activision to make Destiny and was bought by Sony in 2022.
Q 05What is Master Chief's service designation?
John-117
He is a Spartan-II, kidnapped and trained from childhood by the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Q 06Which former DJ voices Master Chief in the games as a man of few words in the Clint Eastwood mould?
Steve Downes
Cutscenes deliberately never show his face, though the first game teases it as he removes his helmet.
Q 07Master Chief's distinctive two-prong visor was inspired by what kind of helmet?
BMX helmets
Older Spartans were given tank-like utilitarian armour to contrast with the sleeker newer characters.
Q 08Cortana was created from the cloned brain of which scientist, founder of the SPARTAN-II program?
Dr. Catherine Halsey
Halsey let Cortana choose which Spartan to accompany, and she picked the Master Chief.
Q 09AIs like Cortana are said to have what natural lifespan before 'rampancy' sets in?
Seven years
Her decline drives the plot of Halo 4; Microsoft named its real-world digital assistant after her.
Q 10Which actress voices Cortana in the games and reprised the role in the Paramount+ series?
Jen Taylor
Taylor was also the voice of Microsoft's Cortana assistant in the US.
Q 11What is the name of the human warship that escapes to the ringworld at the start of Halo: Combat Evolved?
Pillar of Autumn
Captain Jacob Keyes hands Cortana to the Chief so the Covenant cannot learn Earth's location.
Q 12What is the parasitic enemy that the Halo rings were built to contain?
The Flood
Its most evolved coordinating form is the Gravemind, introduced in Halo 2.
Q 13What is the name of the ring's AI caretaker in the first Halo, later the namesake of 343 Industries?
343 Guilty Spark
The studio started with about a dozen people under Bonnie Ross and rebranded as Halo Studios in October 2024.
Q 21Halo 3: ODST is set in which ruined East African city?
New Mombasa
Joseph Staten wrote it as a film-noir detective story, and Marty O'Donnell swapped his choirs for jazz.
Q 22Which cooperative survival mode, pitting players against waves of enemies, debuted in Halo 3: ODST?
Firefight
ODST began as a smaller expansion titled Halo 3: Recon after a Peter Jackson project was scrapped.
Q 23Halo: Reach casts the player as which member of the squad defending the doomed colony?
Noble Six
It was Bungie's final Halo game and grossed $200 million on launch day, a franchise record at the time.
Q 14How much did Halo 2 gross on its first day in November 2004, then the biggest entertainment launch ever?
$125 million
It stayed the most-played game on Xbox Live until Gears of War arrived nearly two years later.
Q 15Halo 2's marketing included which early alternate reality game built around real-world puzzles?
I Love Bees
The game's cliffhanger ending was forced by a troubled development that also cut a more ambitious multiplayer mode.
Q 16In Halo 2, players also control the Arbiter, a disgraced Covenant Elite. What is his name?
Thel 'Vadam
Bungie kept the switch to a former enemy's perspective a closely guarded secret before release.
Q 17What was the Arbiter originally going to be called, before concerns about a US-versus-Islam reading?
Dervish
Keith David voices him in Halo 2, 3 and 5; a different Arbiter appears in Halo Wars.
Q 18Which map-editing tool debuted in Halo 3, letting players place weapons and vehicles on multiplayer maps?
Forge
Halo 3 also introduced saved films that could be reviewed from any angle.
Q 19How much did Halo 3 gross in the US in its first 24 hours in September 2007?
$170 million
Microsoft spent $40 million marketing it, and it hit $300 million in its first week.
Q 20In what month and year did Bungie announce it had split from Microsoft to become independent again?
October 2007
The deal obliged Bungie to ship a set number of further Halo games, which became ODST and Reach.
Q 24Halo: Reach grossed how much on its launch day in September 2010, a franchise record at the time?
$200 million
It was Bungie's final Halo game, built as a prequel because the studio was tired of Master Chief.
Q 25Which game was 343 Industries' first original entry, launching its 'Reclaimer Saga' in 2012?
Halo 4
It introduced the Prometheans and grossed $220 million on launch day.
Q 26Halo 4 introduced which new enemy type, robotic warriors of the Forerunners?
Prometheans
Its episodic Spartan Ops mode released ten episodes, each with a cinematic and five missions.
Q 27In Halo 5: Guardians, which Spartan leads Fireteam Osiris in the hunt for Master Chief?
Jameson Locke
Halo 5 was the first mainline entry to drop split-screen play entirely, and added the 24-player Warzone mode.
Q 28Halo 5's large-format 24-player mode was called what?
Warzone
The Halo World Championship for Halo 5 offered a crowd-funded $2.5 million prize pool, the biggest ever for a console esport.
Q 29Halo Infinite's campaign pits Master Chief against which mercenary faction on Zeta Halo?
The Banished
The Banished first appeared as the villains of Halo Wars 2, led by the Brute Atriox.
Q 30Which new piece of equipment in Halo Infinite lets Chief pull himself toward enemies and grab items?
The Grappleshot
The semi-open-world campaign lets players call in vehicles from captured FOBs using earned Valor.