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50 free BioShock trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
BioShock sent players to the bottom of the ocean in 2007 and into one of gaming's most admired settings: Rapture, a city built by a tycoon who wanted no government, no church and no limits, and which then tore itself apart. Its twist is still argued over, and its blend of shooting, strange powers and storytelling shaped a generation of games. This quiz leans on the first game: the story and its characters, the powers and weapons, the machines that sell them (the Circus of Values gets its own questions), and the people who made it. It also covers BioShock 2 and its add-on, BioShock Infinite and its city in the clouds, and the life of the series beyond the games, from film plans to museum shows. It is written for anyone who has ridden the bathysphere down, whether you finished the game at launch or met it later through the remastered collection. Questions open with what every player remembers and move on to deeper lore, and each answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01After the plane crash that opens BioShock, what kind of building does Jack swim to and find a bathysphere inside?
A lighthouse
A lighthouse hides the bathysphere that carries Jack down to Rapture, and BioShock Infinite later revisits the very same spot.
Q 02In BioShock, Andrew Ryan orders Jack to beat him to death in his office with which piece of sporting equipment?
A golf club
A golf club is the weapon, and Ryan uses a hypnotic trigger phrase to make Jack swing it, proving his killer was never in control.
Q 03ADAM, the gene-altering substance that ruins Rapture in BioShock, is produced by which kind of marine creature?
Sea slugs
Sea slugs secrete ADAM, and Rapture's scientists implanted them in orphaned girls to produce the addictive substance in bulk.
Q 04Andrew Ryan, founder of BioShock's Rapture, has a name that is a partial anagram of which 20th-century novelist?
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand preached rational self-interest, a creed BioShock's writers found perfect for a villain, so Rapture is built on it.
Q 05Playtesters distrusted Atlas, the radio guide in BioShock, so developers swapped his Southern drawl for which accent?
Irish
Irish was judged more trustworthy after one tester likened the first voice to a lecherous Colonel Sanders.
Q 06Which anthology series nods to BioShock's mind-control trigger phrase in Playtest, its episode about a horror game?
Black Mirror
Black Mirror has a game operator slip the polite request into her instructions as the hero walks towards a door.
Q 07On which holiday in 1958 did Atlas's followers launch the assault that plunged BioShock's Rapture into civil war?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve 1958 was the night, and by the time Jack arrives in 1960 the fighting has left the city a war-torn ruin.
Q 08BioShock Infinite's flying city was launched at the 1893 World's Fair, an exposition held in which American city?
Chicago
Chicago hosted the 1893 fair, where in the game's story the American government launched the airborne city to great fanfare.
Q 09A barbershop quartet in BioShock Infinite's 1912 setting sings God Only Knows, a hit for which 1960s band?
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys released it in 1966, and Infinite explains such covers through rifts in time that leak music from the future.
Q 10Which American museum institution featured BioShock in its exhibition The Art of Video Games after a public vote?
The Smithsonian
The Smithsonian opened the show at its American Art Museum in 2012, and BioShock was among the games the public voted in.
Q 11In BioShock, the friendly radio voice Atlas turns out to be which supposedly dead con man and crime boss?
Frank Fontaine
Frank Fontaine faked his death in a police shootout, then posed as a working-class hero the poor of Rapture could rally behind.
Q 12BioShock was conceived as a spiritual successor to which 1999 sci-fi horror game from the same studio?
System Shock 2
System Shock 2 sold too poorly for a publisher to fund a direct sequel, so its makers reworked the ideas in a new setting.
Q 13Which architectural style, modelled on the towers of New York City, defines the look of BioShock's Rapture?
Art Deco
Q 21Which glowing blue substance powers plasmids in BioShock, filling the role that mana plays in fantasy games?
EVE
EVE is itself a byproduct of ADAM, and Jack tops it up with hypodermic injections or the odd drink found lying around.
Q 22BioShock's hacking minigame has Jack link two points on a grid before time runs out by laying down what?
Pipes
Pipes must carry a flowing liquid from one side to the other, and a failed attempt costs Jack health or sets off an alarm.
Q 23Which collectible recordings, left behind by Rapture's citizens, deliver most of the backstory in BioShock?
Audio diaries
Audio diaries play on a recorder called the Accu-Vox, and a handful that are vital to the plot start by themselves when picked up.
Art Deco suited the artists for a practical reason too: its large, simple shapes were easy to build with few polygons.
Q 14What name does BioShock give Rapture's deranged citizens, disfigured by their addiction to gene-altering ADAM?
Splicers
Splicers fought on both sides of Rapture's civil war as plasmid-enhanced soldiers before ADAM abuse left them insane.
Q 15What does Andrew Ryan reveal Jack's true relationship to him to be when the two finally meet in BioShock?
His son
His son, sold as an embryo by Ryan's mistress and aged rapidly into an adult, was built to slip past the city's genetic locks.
Q 16Which humble tool is the first weapon Jack picks up in BioShock and his only melee attack for the whole game?
A wrench
A wrench is the game's only melee weapon, and gene tonics rather than upgrade stations are what make it deadlier.
Q 17Which BioShock scientist urges Jack to rescue the Little Sisters and gives him a plasmid that cures them?
Brigid Tenenbaum
Brigid Tenenbaum later rescues Jack from security drones and undoes the mental conditioning that forced him to obey.
Q 18Which unhinged artist rules BioShock's Fort Frolic and sends Jack to kill and photograph his former disciples?
Sander Cohen
Sander Cohen has each photograph mounted in a four-panel artwork, then descends his staircase to applaud and attacks only if provoked.
Q 19Which BioShock level holds both Rapture's main power plant and Andrew Ryan's private office?
Hephaestus
Hephaestus draws its power from volcanic vents on the ocean floor, which is why rebels fought so hard to seize it.
Q 20Which BioShock devices revive Jack at half health whenever he dies, a safety net a later patch let players disable?
Vita-Chambers
Vita-Chambers leave enemies as wounded as they were, so a stubborn player can wear anything down, and fans asked for the off switch as a challenge.
Q 24What does successfully hacking a Circus of Values vending machine do for Jack in the original BioShock?
Lowers its prices
A successful hack lowers its prices and can unlock items the machine otherwise keeps off the menu, and the Vending Expert tonic cuts costs further.
Q 25Which BioShock creative director also recorded the laughing voice of the Circus of Values vending machines?
Ken Levine
Ken Levine moved to Los Angeles to write screenplays before he ever made games, then joined Looking Glass Studios through a magazine job ad.
Q 26Which BioShock vending machines sell plasmids and gene tonics in exchange for ADAM rather than dollars?
Gatherer's Garden
Gatherer's Garden machines were built by Ryan Industries, and they helped make injecting new powers an everyday habit in Rapture.
Q 27In BioShock, the gifts Jack earns for rescuing Little Sisters are left for him clutched by which kind of toy?
A teddy bear
A teddy bear holding a present appears for every three girls Jack saves, sent in thanks by the scientist who begged him to spare them.
Q 28Which plasmid is the first that Jack acquires in BioShock, during the opening level Welcome to Rapture?
Electro Bolt
Electro Bolt stuns enemies for a follow-up blow and turns any pool of water into a trap for everything standing in it.
Q 29In BioShock 2's multiplayer, what does a Circus of Values machine hacked by an enemy drop on its next user?
A small bomb
A small bomb falls from the machine, and a red light is the sign that a rival has rigged it.
Q 30In BioShock's bleak ending, earned by harvesting Little Sisters, what do Jack and his followers seize on the surface?
A nuclear submarine
A nuclear submarine armed with warheads falls to Jack's mutated army, while the scientist narrating the ending condemns him.