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50 free Borderlands 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Borderlands 2 turned a cult loot shooter into one of the best-loved games of its generation. Its mix of comic-book chaos, a villain players love to hate and endless randomly built guns still pulls people back to Pandora years later. This quiz covers the whole game: the story and its twists, the playable Vault Hunters and the townsfolk of Sanctuary, bosses and raid bosses, and the people who made and voiced it. Loot hunters get their own questions on legendary, Pearlescent and Seraph gear, red text, weapon parts and the gun makers. It suits anyone from a first-playthrough fan to a veteran who has farmed every boss. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories about Pandora even when you miss.
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Q 01Which robot, the last of its product line, finds the stranded Vault Hunters as Borderlands 2 opens?
Claptrap
Claptrap won Character of the Year at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards for this outing. He later stakes that very trophy in the crossover game Poker Night 2.
Q 02Which Borderlands 2 bandit flies into a rage and attacks friend and foe once his helmet is shot off?
Goliath
A raging Goliath levels up as it kills and drops better loot, so players often let one rampage through its own allies first.
Q 03Which Borderlands 2 gun maker's weapons are thrown like grenades and explode on every reload?
Tediore
Tediore was designed as the throwaway brand, with artists borrowing from disposable razors and lighters. A fresh copy of the gun digistructs in your hands after each toss.
Q 04Which returning hero of the first game is unmasked as the Firehawk early in Borderlands 2?
Lilith
Lilith adopted the Firehawk alias to draw Bloodshot bandits away from Sanctuary. Her message lures the Vault Hunters to Frostburn Canyon in search of a missing ally.
Q 05Butt Stallion, the pony Handsome Jack brags about buying in Borderlands 2, is made entirely of what?
Diamonds
Diamonds make up the whole pony, which Jack insists is a living animal and not a statue. He nearly named her after the Vault Hunters with an insult instead.
Q 06Which legendary Borderlands 2 shield adds heavy bonus damage to every shot while its charge is full?
The Bee
The Bee stings to match its red text, 'Float like a butterfly...', the first half of Muhammad Ali's famous boast. It drops from Hunter Hellquist in Arid Nexus.
Q 07Which playable Borderlands 2 Vault Hunter speaks mostly in haiku and shows emoticons on a blank faceplate?
Zer0
Zer0 is named for the '0' that flashes on the faceplate after a kill. Managers wanted the faceless design changed, but the art director refused.
Q 08Which element, new in Borderlands 2, coats enemies so that all other damage types hurt them more?
Slag
Slag doubles the damage a coated enemy takes from other sources, and triples it on the hardest playthrough. In the story it is a by-product of refining the mineral Jack mines.
Q 09Bunkers & Badasses, the tabletop game Tiny Tina runs in Borderlands 2, spoofs which real game?
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons gets the full parody treatment, with Tina as game master rewriting the world on a whim. The story is really about her refusing to accept a friend's death.
Q 10Which resistance leader, rescued early by the Vault Hunters, does Jack later kill in Borderlands 2?
Roland
Roland's death was a deliberate choice by the writers to raise the stakes of the story. A later expansion built around a tabletop game centres on one teenager's grief for him.
Q 11Which guide of the Vault Hunters turns out to be Handsome Jack's imprisoned daughter in Borderlands 2?
Angel
Angel is a Siren whose powers Jack exploits to charge the Vault Key, and she asks the Vault Hunters to end her life to stop him.
Q 12Which monster does Jack release from Pandora's second Vault as the final boss of Borderlands 2?
The Warrior
The Warrior obeys whoever releases it, which is why Jack wants the Vault opened at any cost. After the fight, the heroes finish it off with an orbital strike from his own station.
Q 13Which space station, visible in the sky from any outdoor area, is Handsome Jack's base in Borderlands 2?
Helios
Helios is styled as a giant letter H and fires 'moonshot' bombardments and supply drops at the planet below.
Q 21Which cyborg hunter is the first friendly human that the Vault Hunters meet in Borderlands 2?
Sir Hammerlock
Sir Hammerlock lost his limbs to a thresher he calls Old Slappy. He is stranded on the Southern Shelf studying the local wildlife when the heroes arrive.
Q 22Which Sanctuary bar owner in Borderlands 2 hands over rare guns to players who leave big enough tips?
Mad Moxxi
Mad Moxxi rewards generous tippers with the Good Touch and the Bad Touch, and may slip into a thick Southern accent she begs you to keep quiet.
Q 23Which mechanic, the sister of Scooter, builds the Vault Hunters a Bandit Technical in Borderlands 2?
Ellie
Ellie moved out to The Dust because she was fed up with her mother urging her to slim down. She salvages wrecked bandit vehicles to build the four-seater truck.
Q 14Which mineral that flourished after the first Vault opened is a second currency in Borderlands 2?
Eridium
Eridium bars buy backpack, bank and ammo upgrades from Crazy Earl's black market, where ordinary cash is refused. Jack also uses the mineral to force-charge the Vault Key.
Q 15Which resistance group do the Vault Hunters join in Sanctuary to fight Handsome Jack in Borderlands 2?
Crimson Raiders
The Crimson Raiders were forged from stranded soldiers of the Crimson Lance, the corporate army players fought in the first game.
Q 16Which returning sniper loses his pet bird Bloodwing to Handsome Jack's experiments in Borderlands 2?
Mordecai
Mordecai's bird is mutated, fought as a boss and then killed by Jack, a moment written to turn the joking villain into a serious threat.
Q 17Which cyborg enforcer ambushes the Vault Hunters at a derailed Hyperion train in Borderlands 2?
Wilhelm
Wilhelm is himself the trap: the power core he drops lets Jack lower Sanctuary's shields. He later returned as a playable character in The Pre-Sequel.
Q 18Handsome Jack's name in Borderlands 2 began as a placeholder nod to which British sci-fi show?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who's Captain Jack Harkness lent the villain a name that was only meant to be temporary, and it stuck all the way to release.
Q 19What is the class of Salvador, the Borderlands 2 hero who can wield two weapons at once?
Gunzerker
Gunzerker Salvador is the only Borderlands 2 hero known to be born and raised on Pandora. While his Action Skill is running he can pair any two weapons in the game.
Q 20Which Action Skill lets Maya the Siren suspend a Borderlands 2 enemy helplessly inside a sphere of energy?
Phaselock
Phaselock shunts its target into another dimension for a few seconds. Enemies that cannot be lifted simply take a burst of damage instead.
Q 24Which sheriff of Lynchwood, Handsome Jack's girlfriend, is an optional boss in Borderlands 2?
Nisha
Nisha enforces more than 200 laws of her own in Lynchwood, each punishable by death. She became a playable character in The Pre-Sequel.
Q 25What is the name of the robot that Gaige the Mechromancer summons as her Action Skill in Borderlands 2?
Deathtrap
Deathtrap was built by Gaige as a school science fair project, first labelled the Mechanized Anti-Bully Deterrent.
Q 26Which Psycho became the sixth playable character of Borderlands 2 and fights mainly with a buzz axe?
Krieg
Krieg hears a sane inner voice, the last trace of the man he was before being experimented on. His Buzz Axe Rampage heals him with every kill.
Q 27Which actor, later the voice of Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn, plays Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2?
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch landed her first voice acting role as Tina after her brother, a writer on the game, suggested she audition.
Q 28Which studio boss voices the black-market dealer Crazy Earl in Borderlands 2?
Randy Pitchford
Randy Pitchford, co-founder of the game's developer, lends the trader his own voice. Earl only takes payment in a rare mineral, never cash.
Q 29Captain Scarlett's pirate add-on for Borderlands 2 introduced which new hovering vehicle?
Sandskiff
The Sandskiff glides over the dunes around Oasis, where Scarlett hunts Captain Blade's lost treasure while openly promising to betray the player.
Q 30Handsome Jack's manner in Borderlands 2 was first based on a talk-show interview with which actor?
Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion came across as charming and funny but slightly arrogant on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which was exactly the tone the writer wanted for his villain.