Destiny 2 Trivia
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This Destiny 2 trivia quiz has 70 free questions with answers and spans the whole franchise, from Destiny's 2014 launch and the Vault of Glass through The Taken King, Rise of Iron, the Red War, Forsaken, Beyond Light, The Witch Queen, Lightfall and The Final Shape. Expect questions on Bungie's history (Halo, the Activision split, the Sony deal), the voice cast behind Ghost, Cayde-6 and Zavala, the three Guardian classes, the enemy races, iconic exotics like Gjallarhorn and the Ace of Spades, and the lore of the Traveler, the Hive and the Witness. It is built for Guardians who have put real hours in, but the easier questions are fair game for anyone who has watched a friend play. Difficulty is mixed, so casual players and raid sherpas can both find something to argue about. Every answer was checked against a reference page (Wikipedia's articles on the games, expansions and characters), so if you get one wrong, you can trust the explanation.
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Q 01In what year was the original Destiny released for PlayStation and Xbox consoles?
2014
Destiny launched on September 9, 2014, arriving on both the previous and current PlayStation and Xbox generations on the same day.
Q 02Destiny was Bungie's first new console franchise since which series?
Halo
Halo: Combat Evolved opened the series in 2001, and Bungie's final entry, Halo: Reach, shipped in 2010 before the studio turned to Destiny.
Q 03How long was the publishing agreement Bungie signed with Activision in 2010?
Ten years
Ten years: the contract signed in April 2010 was a decade-long deal, and Bungie left it early to publish Destiny itself.
Q 04In which year did Bungie announce it was splitting from Activision to self-publish Destiny?
2019
Bungie announced the split in January 2019 and published Shadowkeep itself that October, its first self-released expansion.
Q 05How much did Sony Interactive Entertainment pay to acquire Bungie in 2022?
$3.6 billion
Sony announced the $3.6 billion purchase in January 2022, with about $1.2 billion of it earmarked for retaining Bungie staff.
Q 06Which company acquired Bungie in 2000?
Microsoft
Microsoft bought Bungie in June 2000 and kept its flagship shooter series when the studio went independent again in October 2007.
Q 07In which US city was Bungie originally based?
Chicago
Bungie was founded in Chicago in 1991; Alex Seropian and Jason Jones had met in an artificial intelligence course at the University of Chicago.
Q 08Which actor originally voiced the player's Ghost in the first Destiny?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage voiced Ghost at launch; his flat delivery drew heavy criticism after the alpha, and his lines were later re-recorded by a different actor.
Q 09Who replaced the original Ghost actor for The Taken King and re-recorded all of Ghost's earlier lines?
Nolan North
Nolan North took over as Ghost with The Taken King in 2015, re-recording every earlier line, and said he avoided listening to the old takes.
Q 10According to a much-mocked line from Destiny's alpha test, where did "that wizard" come from?
The Moon
The Moon: Ghost's alpha line 'That wizard came from the Moon' was cut before release, but Bungie embraced the joke and later sold a charity T-shirt of it.
Q 11Which actor voiced Cayde-6 for the majority of the character's appearances?
Nathan Fillion
Nathan Fillion voiced Cayde-6 from the character's debut, having earlier played Edward Buck for Bungie in ODST; a scheduling clash kept him out of Forsaken.
Q 12Which actor voiced Commander Zavala from Destiny's launch until his death in 2023?
Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick voiced Zavala from launch until his death in March 2023; he was also Sylens in the Horizon games and Martin Hatch in Quantum Break.
Q 13Who took over as the voice of Commander Zavala for The Final Shape?
Keith David
Keith David was announced as Zavala's new voice at Bungie's August 2023 showcase and carried the role through The Final Shape's June 2024 release.
Q 21Cayde-6 was murdered with which of his own hand cannons?
Ace of Spades
Ace of Spades: Cayde's exotic hand cannon was recovered during the Forsaken campaign and became an exotic quest reward for players.
Q 22Cayde-6's killer was later resurrected as an amnesiac Lightbearer known by what name?
Crow
Crow debuted in Season of the Hunt in late 2020, working for Spider on the Tangled Shore before revealing himself to the Vanguard.
Q 23What was the name of Cayde-6's Ghost, whose destruction meant he could not be revived?
Sundance
Sundance, Cayde's Ghost, was shot by one of the Scorn Barons during the Prison of Elders breakout; without a Ghost, Cayde could not be revived.
Q 14Which actress voices Ikora Rey, one of the Vanguard leaders?
Gina Torres
Gina Torres voices Ikora Rey; the same cast list has Lauren Cohan as the Stranger and Claudia Black as Eververse vendor Tess Everis.
Q 15Which British actor voiced the Speaker, the Traveler's representative in the Tower?
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy voiced the masked Speaker, the Traveler's emissary in the Tower, who was captured by Dominus Ghaul's forces during Destiny 2's opening campaign.
Q 16Which Guardian class has the Nova Bomb super?
Warlock
Warlock: the class Bungie pitched as a 'space wizard' wields the Void Nova Bomb super, a thrown sphere of energy with variant upgrades.
Q 17Titans were partly inspired by Stormtroopers and which of Bungie's own earlier characters?
Master Chief
Master Chief, the armoured hero of Bungie's earlier shooter series, and Imperial Stormtroopers were the stated models; Titans play as 'space gladiator' tanks favouring heavy weapons and melee.
Q 18How many shots did Destiny's original Golden Gun super fire by default?
Three
Three: the original Golden Gun gave a Hunter three flaming shots, and the Achlyophage Symbiote exotic helmet was needed to add a fourth.
Q 19Cayde-6, Banshee-44 and the Stranger all belong to which race of humanoid machines?
Exo
The number in an Exo's name counts their reboots, so Cayde had been reset six times before the events of the games.
Q 20Who killed Cayde-6 at the start of Forsaken?
Uldren Sov
Uldren Sov, the Awoken prince, shot Cayde with Cayde's own gun in the Prison of Elders, then fled to the Tangled Shore.
Q 24Bungie's in-game tribute after Cayde-6's death was a coupon players collected from which Tower booth?
The ramen shop
The ramen shop: after Forsaken's opening, players could pick up Cayde's spicy ramen coupon at the Tower's noodle stand, a quiet memorial to his favourite food.
Q 25Destiny's first raid, the Vault of Glass, is set on which planet?
Venus
Venus hosts the Vault of Glass, which opened one week after Destiny's launch; its final boss is Atheon, Time's Conflux.
Q 26The antagonist of The Dark Below is the son of which Hive god?
Oryx
Oryx, the Taken King, came to avenge his slain son, and his defeat in the King's Fall raid closed The Taken King's story.
Q 27The Dreadnaught, the Hive ship explored in The Taken King, sits within the rings of which planet?
Saturn
Saturn: the Dreadnaught parked among Saturn's rings, and its patrol zone included a Court arena where players summoned bosses with runes.
Q 28Which of the original Hive siblings carries the title "God of War"?
Xivu Arath
Xivu Arath is the Hive God of War; she began as the Krill sister Xi Ro, alongside siblings Aurash and Sathona, on the world Fundament.
Q 29Eris Morn first appeared as the sole survivor of a fireteam that had tried to take on which enemy?
Crota
Crota: Eris Morn's six-Guardian fireteam, led by Eriana-3, descended into the Hellmouth to kill the Hive prince, and she alone escaped, years later and without her Ghost.
Q 30Which Destiny expansion introduced the Prison of Elders arena and Trials of Osiris?
House of Wolves
House of Wolves, released in May 2015, also added the Vestian Outpost social space in the Reef and the sidearm weapon class.