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
It launched on September 9 for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One at once, and was the developer's first new console franchise in over a decade.
Q 02Destiny was Bungie's first new console franchise since which series?
Halo
Bungie built its own Tiger Engine for Destiny, but that engine was itself based on the one used for most Halo games.
Q 03How long was the publishing agreement Bungie signed with Activision in 2010?
Ten years
The deal did not run its full course: Bungie announced it was ending the partnership and taking over Destiny publishing in January 2019.
Q 04In which year did Bungie announce it was splitting from Activision to self-publish Destiny?
2019
Shadowkeep, released that October, became the first expansion Bungie published on its own.
Q 05How much did Sony Interactive Entertainment pay to acquire Bungie in 2022?
$3.6 billion
Sony expected at least $1.2 billion of that sum to go toward retaining Bungie's existing employees, and the studio remained multi-platform.
Q 06Which company acquired Bungie in 2000, making Halo a launch title for its new console?
Microsoft
Bungie went independent again in October 2007, but Microsoft kept the Halo intellectual property.
Q 07In which US city was Bungie originally based?
Chicago
Founder Alex Seropian met programmer Jason Jones in an artificial intelligence course at the University of Chicago; the studio is now in Bellevue, Washington.
Q 08Which actor originally voiced the player's Ghost in the 2014 base game?
Peter Dinklage
His restrained delivery drew heavy criticism after the alpha, and Bungie later sold a charity shirt poking fun at his most infamous line.
Q 09Who replaced the original Ghost actor for The Taken King and re-recorded all of Ghost's earlier lines?
Nolan North
He said he deliberately avoided listening to the old recordings so no preconceived notions would shape his performance.
Q 10According to a much-mocked line from Destiny's alpha test, where did "that wizard" come from?
The Moon
Bungie revised Ghost's dialogue for the beta and again before release, but the line lived on as a community meme.
Q 11Which actor voiced Cayde-6 for the majority of the character's appearances?
Nathan Fillion
The developer gifted him a commemorative prop of the character's signature hand cannon; he had earlier voiced roles in several of the studio's previous games.
Q 12Which actor voiced Commander Zavala from Destiny's launch until his death in 2023?
Lance Reddick
He also gave his voice and likeness to Sylens in the Horizon games and Martin Hatch in Quantum Break.
Q 13After Reddick's death, who took over as the voice of Zavala for The Final Shape?
Keith David
The recast came only months before the expansion shipped in June 2024, and he stayed on for later content.
Q 21Cayde-6 was murdered with his own signature hand cannon. What is it called?
Ace of Spades
The Guardian recovers the weapon during the campaign, and it became an exotic players could earn for themselves.
Q 22Cayde-6's killer was later resurrected as an amnesiac Lightbearer known by what name?
Crow
He debuted in Beyond Light's Season of the Hunt and eventually succeeded Cayde as Hunter Vanguard after The Final Shape.
Q 23What was the name of Cayde-6's Ghost, whose destruction meant he could not be revived?
Sundance
Cayde also kept a pet chicken named Colonel, and despite being a robot he was fond of eating ramen.
Q 14Which actress voices Ikora Rey, one of the three Vanguard leaders?
Gina Torres
The same original cast list has Lauren Cohan as the Exo 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
The Speaker is captured and killed by the Consul during the Red War, but delivers a posthumous voiceover as Destiny 2's campaign ends.
Q 16Which class is described by Bungie as a kind of "space wizard" and has the Nova Bomb super?
Warlock
The Nova Bomb is a sphere of Void energy that can be thrown in different ways depending on the chosen upgrades.
Q 17Titans were partly inspired by Stormtroopers and which of Bungie's own earlier characters?
Master Chief
Titans are pitched as "space gladiators" or tanks, favouring heavy weapons, melee and tough resistance.
Q 18How many shots does the Hunter's Golden Gun super fire in its base magazine?
Three
The Gunslinger tree also gives Hunters a throwing knife and an upgrade to a triple jump.
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
The killer, driven mad by a partial Taken infection, was hunting for his supposedly dead sister, Queen Mara Sov.
Q 24Bungie's in-game tribute after Cayde-6's death was a coupon players collected from which Tower booth?
The ramen shop
The coupon carried Cayde's written musings on his favourite food, the Last City and its residents.
Q 25Destiny's first raid, the Vault of Glass, is set on which planet?
Venus
It opened on September 16, 2014, one week after launch, and its final boss is Atheon, Time's Conflux.
Q 26Crota, the antagonist of The Dark Below, is the son of which Hive god?
Oryx
The father came for revenge in The Taken King, whose story ends with his corpse hurtling toward Saturn.
Q 27The Dreadnaught, the Hive ship explored in The Taken King, sits within the rings of which planet?
Saturn
Bungie pitched it as "an inscrutable loot-filled fortress", and its Court of Oryx let players summon bosses with runes.
Q 28Which of the three original Hive siblings carries the title "God of War"?
Xivu Arath
The three began life as Krill on the planet Fundament, a world with an inescapable gravity well.
Q 29Eris Morn first appeared as the sole survivor of a fireteam that had tried to take on which enemy?
Crota
She emerged from hiding to warn the Tower of the Hive prince's return, and later interacted with the Pyramid beneath the Moon in Shadowkeep.
Q 30Which Destiny expansion introduced the Prison of Elders arena and Trials of Osiris?
House of Wolves
The same expansion added the Vestian Outpost social space and the sidearm weapon class.