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50 free Borderlands 3 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Borderlands 3 sent a new crew of Vault Hunters far beyond Pandora, chasing the Calypso Twins from planet to planet. It had the strongest launch sales in the series, and its mix of comic-book art, ridiculous guns and running jokes gives fans plenty to argue about. This quiz covers the playable characters and their skills, the villains and bosses, returning favourites from earlier entries, the planets you visit, the gear and endgame systems, the story add-ons and seasonal events, and how the game was made, marketed and sold. It suits anyone who has finished the campaign, and the harder questions will test players with hundreds of hours in the endgame. Expect spoilers for the main story.
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Q 01Which rapper voices Balex, an AI trapped inside a teddy bear's body in Borderlands 3?
Ice-T
Ice-T was no stranger to shooters, having already voiced the character Aaron Griffin in Gears of War 3.
Q 02Which famous duo lent their likenesses to Pain and Terror, a pair of villains in Borderlands 3?
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller appear as Pain and Terror, with Penn Jillette also voicing Pain. Gearbox co-founder Randy Pitchford once worked as a professional magician in Hollywood himself.
Q 03In Borderlands 3, the robot Claptrap finally receives an upgrade that lets him do what?
Climb stairs
Claptrap can finally climb stairs in Borderlands 3, and in the ship's cargo bay he is assembling a new friend from the salvaged parts of dead Claptrap units.
Q 04Borderlands Science, a tile-matching mini-game in Borderlands 3, helps real researchers study what?
The gut microbiome
The gut microbiome is the target: the puzzles are built from its DNA sequences, and a 2024 paper found the crowd's answers beat state-of-the-art software.
Q 05Roughly how many guns did Gearbox boast that Borderlands 3's procedural arsenal could produce?
1 billion
Over 1 billion guns was the marketing line, dwarfing the 17 million that earned the first Borderlands a Guinness World Record. All of them still share just six types of ammo.
Q 06Which masked enemy poses like a religious icon on the Borderlands 3 cover, a grenade for its heart?
Psycho
The Psycho stands in a pose traditionally used for Jesus in art, with the grenade standing in for the Sacred Heart.
Q 07Which starship serves as the Crimson Raiders' hub for travelling between planets in Borderlands 3?
Sanctuary III
Sanctuary III has three decks, including crew quarters with a cabin for each Vault Hunter and a shooting range tucked below the gun shop.
Q 08What is the name of the bandit cult that worships the Calypso Twins as gods in Borderlands 3?
Children of the Vault
Children of the Vault recruits came from the remnants of Pandora's many bandit factions, united after the defeat of Handsome Jack left a power vacuum.
Q 09Which company's PC store sold Borderlands 3 exclusively for six months before it reached Steam?
Epic Games
Epic Games paid publisher 2K $146 million for the deal, a figure that only came out in documents from its court fight with Apple.
Q 10Which battle royale game added part of Pandora to its map shortly before Borderlands 3 launched?
Fortnite
Fortnite ran the crossover in its tenth season, letting players wear Claptrap as back bling while exploring a small patch of Pandora on the main map.
Q 11Which Borderlands 3 Vault Hunter, a semi-retired hitman, can equip two action skills at once?
Zane
Zane is the only one of the four who can run two at a time, picking from a deployable Barrier, a SNTNL drone and a holographic Digi-Clone.
Q 12What is the name of the bipedal mech that the Gunner Moze pilots in Borderlands 3?
Iron Bear
Iron Bear has hardpoints for railguns, miniguns, grenade launchers, flamethrowers and homing rockets, and a later add-on introduced a miniature Iron Cub.
Q 13Which class name belongs to FL4K, the wandering robot among Borderlands 3's playable Vault Hunters?
Beastmaster
Beastmaster FL4K can vanish from sight with the Fade Away skill or send dive-bombing Rakks at enemies with Rakk Attack.
Q 21Amara, Borderlands 3's playable Siren, fights by summoning ethereal versions of which body part?
Fists
Fists define her fighting style: Phaseslam pounds the ground, Phasegrasp locks an enemy in place, and her cabin on the ship even has a punching bag.
Q 22Who, known as the first Vault Hunter, is revealed as the Calypso Twins' father in Borderlands 3?
Typhon DeLeon
Typhon DeLeon raised the twins on a lost alien homeworld to keep them safe, but they came to see it as a prison and grew bitter and power-hungry.
Q 23Which executive joins the Calypso Twins to launch a hostile takeover of Atlas in Borderlands 3?
Katagawa Jr.
Katagawa Jr. fights with holographic clones that snipe from the corners of his arena, then teleports in close for a sword slash.
Q 14Borderlands 3's playable Operative, a gadget-loving hitman, was born into which Pandoran family?
Flynt
Flynt is an infamous name on Pandora: a bandit lord called Baron Flynt was thought to hold the final piece of the Vault Key in the first Borderlands.
Q 15Moze, the Gunner of Borderlands 3, is a former soldier in the army of which weapons manufacturer?
Vladof
Vladof is the army Moze left behind: she specializes in mechanized combat and can digistruct a walking tank in the middle of a firefight.
Q 16Which pet of the robot FL4K has its own litter box in the Vault Hunter's cabin in Borderlands 3?
Spiderant
The Spiderant is one of the pets FL4K can bring into battle, along with a Skag and a Jabber, and a later add-on let an ION Loader join them.
Q 17Which YouTube comedian, known online as ProZD, provides the voice of FL4K in Borderlands 3?
SungWon Cho
SungWon Cho later voiced Ratatoskr in God of War Ragnarök and Senshi in the anime Delicious in Dungeon.
Q 18Which ally reveals in Borderlands 3 that she secretly inherited Siren powers from the late Angel?
Tannis
Tannis had kept the secret with Lilith, though she had already used the powers to drain the Graveward's energy before Tyreen could absorb it.
Q 19Which returning hero dies shielding her apprentice from the Calypso Twins in Borderlands 3?
Maya
Maya steps in when her apprentice is overpowered, and Troy kills her by draining her life force. Her deleted funeral scene was later released with the Director's Cut add-on.
Q 20Which apprentice from Athenas inherits Siren powers when Troy Calypso dies in Borderlands 3?
Ava
Ava receives the powers Troy had stolen from her mentor, having joined the Crimson Raiders after helping to recover a piece of the Promethean Vault Key.
Q 24Which hero of Tales from the Borderlands runs the Atlas corporation by the time of Borderlands 3?
Rhys
Rhys hands over the last part of the Promethean Vault Key once the attack on his company is beaten back. Ray Chase took over the role from Troy Baker.
Q 25Which sister of Sir Hammerlock betrays him and sides with the Calypso Twins in Borderlands 3?
Aurelia
Aurelia was a playable Vault Hunter in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel before she returned in Borderlands 3 as a boss.
Q 26What symbol is left branded on Pandora's moon after Lilith sacrifices herself in Borderlands 3?
A Firehawk
A Firehawk sigil is all her sacrifice leaves behind, and the credits show her allies and the Vault Hunters looking up at it in tribute.
Q 27Which celestial body turns out to be the key that opens the Great Vault in Borderlands 3?
Elpis
Elpis, the moon of Pandora, is itself the key, and Troy manages to activate it before the Vault Hunters can stop him.
Q 28Which lost homeworld of the Eridians do the Vault Hunters visit late in Borderlands 3?
Nekrotafeyo
Nekrotafeyo holds the machine the Eridians built to recapture the monster sealed inside Pandora, a device powered by four Vault Keys.
Q 29Which monster imprisoned in the Great Vault merges with Tyreen at the end of Borderlands 3?
The Destroyer
The Destroyer could consume the entire universe, so the Eridians sacrificed their whole civilization to trap it. It was also the final foe of the original Borderlands.
Q 30Which beast is held inside the Promethean Vault, the first one opened in Borderlands 3?
The Rampager
The Rampager has three forms, the last of them dragon-like, and Tyreen absorbs its power as soon as the Vault Hunters have beaten it.