Blade Runner 2049 Trivia
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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 01Which Blade Runner 2049 star accidentally punched Ryan Gosling in the face while filming a fight scene?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford says only one of his many punches landed; he then took a bottle of scotch to Gosling's dressing room, poured him a single glass and walked out with the rest.
Q 02In Blade Runner 2049, what is the name of Ryan Gosling's character, K, short for?
His serial number, KD6-3.7
His serial number, KD6-3.7: replicants are made, not born, so he has no name, and when Joi decides he must have been born after all, the first thing she does is give him a real one.
Q 03In Blade Runner 2049, what does K find buried beneath a dead tree at Sapper Morton's farm?
A replicant's skeleton
A replicant's skeleton: the bones show she died in childbirth, which was thought impossible, and Lt. Joshi orders K to destroy every trace for fear of a war between humans and replicants.
Q 04In Blade Runner 2049, which origami animal does the retired Gaff fold while K questions him?
A sheep
A sheep, perhaps a nod to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which inspired both films; it follows the chicken and the unicorn Gaff folded around Deckard in 1982.
Q 05In Blade Runner 2049, what does Niander Wallace want from the secret of replicant reproduction?
Faster interstellar colonisation
Faster interstellar colonisation: Wallace boasts of taking humanity to nine new worlds but says he can never assemble enough replicants to go further, so he wants ones that can breed.
Q 06Who plays the replicant maker Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049?
Jared Leto
Jared Leto wore opaque contact lenses, modelled on the eyes of his blind acting coach, so that he truly could not see on set; Villeneuve likened his entrance to 'seeing Jesus walking into a temple'.
Q 07Which late musician was Denis Villeneuve's first choice to play Niander Wallace in Blade Runner 2049?
David Bowie
David Bowie: Villeneuve felt 'there is so much David Bowie in the first Blade Runner' and was about to approach him when he read of the singer's death in January 2016, months before filming.
Q 08In Blade Runner 2049, what is the name of Niander Wallace's replicant enforcer, played by Sylvia Hoeks?
Luv
Luv: K tells her that being named by Wallace must make her special, and she later boasts to him, 'I'm the best one'.
Q 09Who plays Joi, K's holographic girlfriend, in Blade Runner 2049?
Ana de Armas
Ana de Armas was a television star in Spain but moved to Los Angeles speaking no English, so she spent four months in full-day classes before auditioning, and her team had to push to get her in the room.
Q 10In Blade Runner 2049, Deckard greets K with a line about toasted cheese from which adventure novel?
Treasure Island
Treasure Island: Deckard borrows the marooned Ben Gunn's plea for a piece of cheese, K names the book at once, and Deckard mutters, 'He reads. That's good.'
Q 11In Blade Runner 2049, which toy from K's implanted childhood memory turns out to be real?
A wooden horse
A wooden horse: K finds it wrapped in cloth inside an orphanage furnace, exactly where his memory says he hid it from the other children, and takes it as proof that the memory really happened.
Q 12In Blade Runner 2049, who is Dr. Ana Stelline?
A designer of replicant memories
A designer of replicant memories: sealed in a sterile chamber because of a weak immune system, she tells K that real memories are messy, since 'we recall with our feelings'.
Q 13In Blade Runner 2049, which word does K repeat again and again during his baseline test?
Interlinked
Q 21In the final scene of Blade Runner 2049, what is falling on K as he lies dying on the steps?
Snow
Snow: mortally wounded while freeing Deckard, K lies back on the steps and looks up at the falling flakes while Deckard goes inside to meet his child.
Q 22Which Vangelis cue, reworked for Blade Runner 2049, plays over K's death?
Tears in the Rain
Tears in the Rain: it first played as Roy Batty died in the 1982 film, and the sequel's co-writer pointed to it when asked if K really dies, surprised that anyone doubted it.
Q 23Which composer joined Blade Runner 2049 late in post-production, taking over from Jóhann Jóhannsson?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer joined about two months before release and, with Benjamin Wallfisch, wrote a new score after Villeneuve decided the film 'needed to go back to something closer to Vangelis'.
Interlinked: the test's lines come from Nabokov's novel Pale Fire, and Ryan Gosling helped rework the scene, borrowing a word-and-repeat drill that actors use to learn Shakespeare.
Q 14Which actress plays Lieutenant Joshi, K's LAPD superior, in Blade Runner 2049?
Robin Wright
Robin Wright's House of Cards schedule held up her casting and shaped the look: the hair team could not cut or colour her hair, so Joshi wears a slicked-back version of her bob from the series.
Q 15In Blade Runner 2049, where does K find Deckard hiding?
The radioactive ruins of Las Vegas
The radioactive ruins of Las Vegas: a radiation trace leads K to the dead city, where Deckard lives alone in an empty casino with only a dog and his whisky for company.
Q 16In Blade Runner 2049, which replicant from the original film is revealed to be the mother of Deckard's child?
Rachael
Rachael: she fled Los Angeles with Deckard at the end of the 1982 film, and the sequel reveals that she died giving birth, something no replicant was thought able to do.
Q 17In Blade Runner 2049, what does Niander Wallace offer Deckard in return for the child's whereabouts?
A copy of his lost love
A copy of his lost love: Deckard rejects the replica with four words, 'Her eyes were green', and Wallace has it shot on the spot before sending him away to be tortured.
Q 18In Blade Runner 2049, what name does Joi give K once she believes he was born rather than made?
Joe
Joe: 'a real boy needs a real name', Joi tells him, but a giant advert for the same product later calls K 'a good Joe', a hint that the name is a line she gives every customer.
Q 19Which Guardians of the Galaxy actor plays Sapper Morton, the replicant K retires as Blade Runner 2049 opens?
Dave Bautista
Dave Bautista also plays Sapper in the prequel short 2048: Nowhere to Run, where he beats off thugs attacking a mother and daughter and, in doing so, gives himself away as a replicant.
Q 20Which actor from the 1982 Blade Runner returns as Gaff in Blade Runner 2049?
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos, who invented Gaff's street slang Cityspeak for the 1982 film, had four scenes in the original and just one here, which he called 'a poignant little scene'.
Q 24In Blade Runner 2049, a few notes of which Prokofiev piece play whenever Joi is switched on?
Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf: its opening bars chime each time Joi starts up, including from the emanator, the portable projector K buys her so that she can leave the apartment with him.
Q 25In which country was Blade Runner 2049 mostly filmed?
Hungary
Hungary: the filmmakers scouted London first but found no stage space free, so they moved to studios outside Budapest that had recently housed The Martian.
Q 26In Blade Runner 2049, a hologram of which singer croons in Deckard's apartment?
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra: the hologram was a nod to the late Bud Yorkin, the producer who had held the Blade Runner rights and who directed Sinatra in Come Blow Your Horn.
Q 27Who was the cinematographer of Blade Runner 2049, on his third film with Denis Villeneuve?
Roger Deakins
Roger Deakins shot almost all of it with a single camera, turning down a line producer who expected him to need as many as nine units, because he thinks that way of working is sloppy.
Q 28Which two Academy Awards did Blade Runner 2049 win?
Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects
Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects, from five nominations: the camera prize went to a veteran who had been nominated thirteen times before and had gone home empty-handed every time.
Q 29The Los Angeles of Blade Runner 2049 drew on images of which smog-bound Asian capital?
Beijing
Beijing: the filmmakers also studied London's concrete landmarks, Bangladeshi shipyards and Saharan dust storms, wanting a future that felt possible from what is already happening today.
Q 30What single word did Denis Villeneuve give the costume and production designers of Blade Runner 2049 as their brief?
Brutal
Brutal: costume designer Renée April 'made it tougher' from there, banning zippers and plastic because 'we did not want to do something science-fiction'.