Borderlands Trivia
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110 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
2K publishes it; Take-Two completed its purchase of the studio in June 2024.
Q 03What is the name of the treasure-filled alien structures the games' heroes hunt?
Vaults
Gearbox compared discovering new loot to opening a Pandora's box, which is how the planet got its name.
Q 04The long-extinct alien race whose artifacts litter the games' home planet are called what?
The Eridians
The mineral Eridium is named after them.
Q 05Guinness credited the first Borderlands with how many possible guns?
Over 17 million
The stats are procedurally generated and colour-coded from white through purple to orange.
Q 06The Borderlands art style is frequently mistaken for what technique?
Cel shading
Gearbox describes it as a comic-book rendering approach; the original was more realistic before a secret prototype changed course.
Q 07How was the first Borderlands pitched internally around 2005?
Halo meets Diablo
Randy Pitchford was a fan of both roguelikes and first-person shooters.
Q 08In the first Borderlands, which corporation returns to claim the planet and its Vault?
Atlas
Dahl had abandoned the planet at the start of the game.
Q 09What monster emerges when the first Vault is opened?
The Destroyer
Pushing it back inside let Eridium flourish through Pandora's crust, setting up the sequel.
Q 10Which of these is one of the four original Vault Hunters?
Mordecai
The other three were Roland, Lilith and Brick; the rest listed are Borderlands 2 characters.
Q 11Lilith belongs to a race of women with alien powers known as what?
Sirens
Maya, Amara and Vex are Sirens too, as are the villains of the third game.
Q 12What is the name of the town where the first game begins?
Fyrestone
It is where the Guardian Angel first speaks to the Vault Hunters and where Dr Zed and a Claptrap help them.
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 14Which of these was one of the four DLC packs for the first Borderlands?
Q 21Salvador, one of the Borderlands 2 Vault Hunters, is described by what class name?
Gunzerker
He can dual-wield any two guns; Gaige the Mechromancer and Krieg the Psycho came as DLC characters.
Q 22Which two characters were added to Borderlands 2 as DLC Vault Hunters?
Gaige and Krieg
Cherami Leigh voices Gaige and Jason Douglas voices Krieg.
Q 23Who voices the explosives-obsessed Tiny Tina?
Ashly Burch
She is the sister of the game's lead writer.
Q 24What giant creature does Handsome Jack summon from the Vault at the climax of Borderlands 2?
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
The others were Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx and Claptrap's New Robot Revolution.
Q 15Handsome Jack is the CEO of which corporation?
Hyperion
He rules Pandora from the Helios space station in Borderlands 2.
Q 16Who wrote the Borderlands 2 script, said to be seven times longer than the original's?
Anthony Burch
He said Handsome Jack was a charismatic 'douche' who mirrored his own personality.
Q 17Who voices Handsome Jack?
Dameon Clarke
Jack was originally going to be a Vault Hunter 'frenemy' before becoming an outright villain.
Q 18The Guardian Angel who guides the Vault Hunters turns out to be whom?
Handsome Jack's daughter
Jack keeps her enslaved to charge the Vault Key; the Vault Hunters kill her as an act of mercy.
Q 19Which original Vault Hunter does Handsome Jack kill in Borderlands 2?
Roland
He shoots him in Angel's chamber, then captures Lilith to finish charging the Vault Key.
Q 20What is the name of the resistance base city in Borderlands 2?
Sanctuary
By Borderlands 3 the Crimson Raiders operate from a spaceship instead.
The Warrior
He wanted to use it to control Pandora and beyond.
Q 25Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel was primarily developed by which studio?
2K Australia
Gearbox assisted; the game was later bundled into The Handsome Collection.
Q 26The Pre-Sequel takes place mostly on which body?
Pandora's moon, Elpis
The low gravity meant oxygen kits and ground-slam attacks.
Q 27Which new weapon type did The Pre-Sequel introduce?
Laser guns
It also added a cryogenic element that could freeze enemies solid.
Q 28In The Pre-Sequel, Nisha the Lawbringer had earlier appeared in Borderlands 2 as what?
Jack's girlfriend, sheriff of Lynchwood
Wilhelm, another Pre-Sequel hero, becomes the cyborg boss you fight in Borderlands 2.
Q 29What ability does Claptrap gain in The Pre-Sequel that he had famously lacked?
Climbing stairs
The little wheeled robot is the series mascot and its 'beloved/behated' comic relief.
Q 30Who 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.