Resident Evil Trivia
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95 free Resident Evil trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free Resident Evil trivia questions with answers. Resident Evil defined survival horror in 1996 and has sold more than 200 million games since. This quiz walks the whole franchise: why Biohazard became Resident Evil in America, the Sweet Home inspiration, the Spencer Mansion and its Shining-inspired backdrops, S.T.A.R.S. and Wesker's betrayal, Umbrella and Raccoon City, Leon's very bad first day, the scrapped RE 1.5, Nemesis and his Terminator roots, RE4's over-the-shoulder revolution, RE5's Africa, RE7's Louisiana, Village's Duke and Lady Dimitrescu, and Requiem's new heroine. The films get their turn too: Paul W. S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich's Alice, the Hive and the Red Queen, the $1.2 billion gross, the reboots and the Netflix series with Lance Reddick. Easy questions suit anyone who has played a remake; harder ones will test the fans who remember tank controls and ink ribbons. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, characters and films, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01What is the Resident Evil series called in Japan?
Biohazard
Biohazard is the Japanese title; for the West, the publisher's US office ran a staff contest for a new name, and Resident Evil won as a pun on the mansion where the first game is set.
Q 02Which company makes Resident Evil?
Capcom
Capcom, the Osaka company behind Street Fighter, expected the 1996 original to sell around 200,000 copies; it sold millions and grew into the firm's best-selling series.
Q 03Who directed the first Resident Evil game in 1996?
Shinji Mikami
Shinji Mikami got the job because he hated being scared: his producer reasoned that someone afraid of nothing could never understand what frightens other people.
Q 04The first Resident Evil was based on which 1989 haunted-mansion horror game from the same publisher?
Sweet Home
Sweet Home, itself adapted from a Japanese horror film, gave Resident Evil its mansion setting and its tight item limits, which force players to choose what to carry.
Q 05Why couldn't Resident Evil keep its Japanese title in the United States?
Others already used the name
Others already used the name, among them a video game and a New York band, so the US staff held a naming contest; the winner was a name their own PR man voted against as 'super-cheesy'.
Q 06What is the name of the fictional Midwestern town where S.T.A.R.S. is based?
Raccoon City
Raccoon City, the fictional Midwestern home of the S.T.A.R.S. unit, is overrun by the T-virus outbreak of Resident Evil 2 and 3 and destroyed by a missile strike at the end of the third game.
Q 07What does S.T.A.R.S. stand for?
Special Tactics and Rescue Service
Special Tactics and Rescue Service: when its Bravo team vanishes in July 1998, Alpha team goes looking and is chased by a pack of monstrous dogs into the mansion where the first game unfolds.
Q 08Which horror director shot a live-action Japanese TV advert for Resident Evil 2?
George A. Romero
George A. Romero's advert, shown only in Japan, impressed the studio enough to hire him to write and direct the first Resident Evil film, but his script was then rejected.
Q 09On which console was Resident Evil first released in 1996?
PlayStation
PlayStation got Resident Evil first, in March 1996; the project had started life in 1993 as a Super NES game before moving to Sony's new console the following year.
Q 10Who is the S.T.A.R.S. captain revealed as a traitor in the first Resident Evil?
Albert Wesker
Albert Wesker, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team captain, is revealed as a double agent for the company behind the mansion and is impaled by the Tyrant he unleashes, surviving only through an experimental virus.
Q 11What is the name of the pharmaceutical company behind the T-virus?
Umbrella Corporation
Umbrella Corporation, co-founded by Oswell E. Spencer, developed the T-virus whose leak caused the 1998 mansion incident and the outbreak that consumed the city two months later.
Q 12In Resident Evil 2, Leon Kennedy arrives in the doomed city on what occasion?
His first day at work
His first day at work is the occasion: Leon Kennedy turns up late for his first shift and finds the town already overrun, meeting Claire Redfield on the way in.
Q 13What was the 'Zapping System' introduced in Resident Evil 2?
Q 21Which game finally kills the traitorous ex-S.T.A.R.S. captain, at the hands of Chris and Sheva?
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 ends with Chris and Sheva firing rocket launchers at the mutated captain in a volcano after he tries to spread the Uroboros virus worldwide.
Q 22Resident Evil 7 was the earliest main game to use which perspective?
First-person
First-person was new for a numbered entry when Resident Evil 7 arrived in January 2017, with Ethan Winters searching for his missing wife Mia in the Baker family's derelict plantation house.
Q 23In which US state is Resident Evil 7 set?
Louisiana
Louisiana is the setting: the Bakers of fictional Dulvey were an ordinary family until a tanker ran aground nearby and they took in a girl from the wreck, the bioweapon Eveline.
Two characters facing different puzzles and encounters
Two characters facing different puzzles and encounters: what Leon or Claire does in one scenario changes the other's, an idea the director pushed through though a colleague thought it too much work.
Q 14The scrapped early version of Resident Evil 2 is commonly known by what name?
Resident Evil 1.5
Resident Evil 1.5 was scrapped in 1997 as it neared release because its makers were unhappy with it; the rebuilt game dropped its biker heroine Elza Walker for Claire Redfield.
Q 15The relentless Nemesis in Resident Evil 3 was inspired by which movie villain?
The T-1000 from Terminator 2
The T-1000 from Terminator 2 was the model: the designers wanted an enemy that never lets up, so even when Jill beats or escapes Nemesis, he comes back to hunt her again.
Q 16Resident Evil 4 popularised which camera perspective, later used by Gears of War and The Last of Us?
Over-the-shoulder
Over-the-shoulder is the perspective Resident Evil 4 popularised in 2005, placing the camera behind Leon's shoulder with laser-sight aiming; Gears of War adopted the view the following year.
Q 17In Resident Evil 4, Leon must rescue the president's daughter from a cult in which country?
Spain
Spain is the setting: Leon tracks Ashley Graham to a rural village whose people aren't zombies but parasite hosts, who talk to each other, wield weapons and attack as a group.
Q 18Which parasite controls the villagers and cultists in Resident Evil 4?
Las Plagas
Las Plagas, ancient parasites revived by the Los Illuminados cult, control the villagers Leon fights in Resident Evil 4; Leon and Ashley are implanted too and must purge the eggs with a radiation device.
Q 19Which hooded dealer does Leon buy from and sell to throughout Resident Evil 4?
The Merchant
The Merchant, a hooded figure who greets Leon with "What're ya buyin'?", sells, buys and upgrades his weapons at stops along the way; in the 2005 original the two share a voice actor.
Q 20Resident Evil 5 is set in Kijuju, a fictional region of which continent?
Africa
Africa is the setting: Kijuju is a fictional West African region where an agent sent to stop a bioweapon sale finds the townspeople already infected and turned into violent Majini.
Q 24Which game introduced Resident Evil's timed bonus mode The Mercenaries?
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis introduced The Mercenaries in 1999 as "Operation: Mad Jackal", a timed dash across the ruined city as Carlos, Mikhail or Nikolai; the mode returned in Resident Evil 4.
Q 25What is Lady Dimitrescu's first name?
Alcina
Alcina Dimitrescu shares her castle with daughters Bela, Cassandra and Daniela; after fans kept asking, the game's makers confirmed she stands 2.9 m (about 9 ft 6 in) in her hat and heels.
Q 26Who provided Lady Dimitrescu's voice and motion capture?
Maggie Robertson
Maggie Robertson, who doesn't play games herself, auditioned on the strength of a character description alone and went on to win Best Performance at The Game Awards 2021.
Q 27In Resident Evil Village, who sells the player weapons and cooks hunted animals?
The Duke
The Duke, a huge trader who travels with his cart, sells and upgrades weapons and cooks the animals Ethan hunts into lasting boosts; near the end he carries Ethan to the final battle himself.
Q 28What happens to Ethan Winters at the end of Village?
He sacrifices himself to destroy a fungal colony
He sacrifices himself to destroy a fungal colony: already dying, Ethan stays behind to detonate a bomb on the Megamycete while Chris gets Mia and baby Rose to safety.
Q 29Resident Evil Zero, the 2002 prequel, pairs Rebecca Chambers with which convict?
Billy Coen
Billy Coen, a former Marine officer condemned to death, gets free when his prison transport crashes, then teams up with Rebecca Chambers aboard a train full of zombies.
Q 30Code: Veronica was released in 2000 for which console?
Dreamcast
Dreamcast got Code: Veronica in early 2000 as a Sega exclusive; Claire, then her brother, fight through Rockfort Island's prison and an Antarctic base, and the expanded Code: Veronica X followed in 2001.