Gears of War Trivia
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50 free Gears of War trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Gears of War started life as Unreal Warfare, an Epic Games multiplayer experiment, before Cliff Bleszinski rebuilt it around cover, chainsaw bayonets and a melancholy TV spot set to Gary Jules' "Mad World". The 2006 original became the fastest-selling Xbox 360 game, knocked Halo 2 off the top of Xbox Live, and gave Microsoft a second pillar franchise beside Master Chief. Microsoft bought the series outright in 2014 and handed it to a Vancouver studio that renamed itself The Coalition. These 50 questions cover the whole saga: the planet Sera, Emergence Day, Imulsion and the Pendulum Wars; Marcus, Dom, Cole Train and Baird; Queen Myrrah, RAAM and the Lambent; Horde and Beast modes; Judgment, Tactics and Gears Pop!; Kait Diaz's family secret in Gears 5; the PlayStation debut of Gears of War: Reloaded; and the upcoming prequel Gears of War: E-Day. Easy questions stick to Delta Squad and the Lancer; the expert tier asks about composers, the Carmine vote and the lawsuit over Cole Train's voice. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Which horror game's over-the-shoulder camera did the makers of Gears of War borrow?
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 supplied the view and the pacing, the lead designer told a 2007 conference. The cover system came from Kill Switch, a Namco shooter that had, he felt, the best cover of its day.
Q 02On which fictional planet is Gears of War set?
Sera
Sera had just ended a 79-year war between its human nations when the Locust burst from underground six weeks later. A quarter of the planet's people died in the first 26 hours.
Q 03Which missing family member does Dom search for across the first two Gears of War games?
His wife Maria
His wife Maria vanished after their two children died in the invasion. In Gears of War 2 he finds her in a Locust prison camp, too far gone to know him, and ends her suffering himself.
Q 04Which blind Locust monster in Gears of War hunts by sound and smell?
Berserker
Berserker hide shrugs off bullets and her ears catch any sprint, so players creep at a walk to stay unheard. Every one of them is female.
Q 05On which console did the first Gears of War launch in November 2006?
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 shipped with double its planned memory partly because of Gears: Epic sent Microsoft a picture of how the game would look with 256 MB, and won the argument for 512 MB.
Q 06Who was lead designer on the first three Gears of War games?
Cliff Bleszinski
Cliff Bleszinski said dashing from cover to cover was his take on Bionic Commando's grappling swings, turned on its side so players leap forward instead of up.
Q 07What is the name of Gears of War's chainsaw-bayonet assault rifle?
Lancer
Lancer chainsaw kills are instant. From Gears of War 2 on, when two players rev at each other the game locks them in a duel, and whoever mashes the button faster walks away.
Q 08What is Gears of War's timing mini-game that speeds up reloading called?
Active Reload
Active Reload rewards a well-timed second tap with a faster reload and harder-hitting rounds. Mistime it and the gun jams, leaving you stuck longer than if you had done nothing.
Q 09What does COG stand for in the Gears of War universe?
Coalition of Ordered Governments
Coalition of Ordered Governments forces won a decades-long war against the rival UIR by raiding an enemy base and stealing the plans for its superweapon. Marcus and Dom both fought in that raid.
Q 10Which flying swarms shred anyone who leaves the light in the first Gears of War?
Kryll
Kryll hunt only in darkness because ultraviolet light burns them up. To cross the city at night, the squad drives a vehicle fitted with a UV turret and burns a path through the swarm.
Q 11In Gears of War, Marcus was jailed for abandoning his post to try to save whom?
His father
His father, the scientist Adam Fenix, was trapped as the Locust overran their home city. Marcus got 40 years for leaving the line, and served four before an army short of soldiers took him back.
Q 12What is the liquid fuel pumped from underground in the world of Gears of War called?
Imulsion
Imulsion looked like the answer to an energy crisis, but Gears of War 3 reveals it was never just a fuel: it is a living parasite that infects and mutates whatever it touches.
Q 13What is the name of the orbital laser satellite system in Gears of War?
Hammer of Dawn
Q 21Which Delta Squad member leads Kilo Squad in the prequel Gears of War: Judgment?
Damon Baird
Damon Baird and his squad tell the story as testimony at their own military trial, each chapter one soldier's flashback. Their crime was taking an experimental missile and firing it without orders.
Q 22Which Polish studio co-developed Gears of War: Judgment with Epic?
People Can Fly
People Can Fly made Bulletstorm with Epic, which then bought the studio outright and renamed it Epic Games Poland. In 2015 it went independent again under its old name.
Q 23Which studio has developed the Gears games since Microsoft bought the franchise?
The Coalition
Hammer of Dawn strikes were ordered against humanity's own cities a year into the invasion, scorching much of the planet so the enemy could not hold it.
Q 14Which rapper voices the Stranded leader Aaron Griffin in Gears of War 3?
Ice-T
Ice-T did more than voice Griffin: he got his metal band Body Count back together to record a song for the game.
Q 15What is the name of the COG's last safe city, which is deliberately sunk in Gears of War 2?
Jacinto
Jacinto stood on granite the Locust could not dig through, which kept it safe for years. In the end the humans sank it themselves, to flood the enemy's tunnels.
Q 16In Gears of War 2, what is the Locust capital beneath Mount Kadar called?
Nexus
Nexus is where Delta Squad sets off a beacon to call the army's second wave down on it. The city is later drowned when the humans flood the tunnels from above.
Q 17What is the name of the secret island facility where Adam Fenix is held in Gears of War 3?
Azura
Azura is a luxury hotel-bunker built for the planet's elite and ringed by an artificial hurricane, so Delta Squad can only reach it by submarine.
Q 18Which co-op mode, pitting players against waves of Locust, debuted in Gears of War 2?
Horde
Horde pits up to five players against 50 ever-tougher waves. Gears of War 3 let them spend cash earned from kills on barriers, turrets and decoys between rounds.
Q 19In Gears of War 2, what giant creature do the Locust use to sink whole human cities?
Riftworm
Riftworm tunnelling had already dropped two cities into the ground. The beast then swallows Delta Squad whole, and they kill it from the inside.
Q 20On which TV show was Gears of War 3 first unveiled in April 2010?
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon lost its surprise: the guest slot slipped a few days, but an advert on the console's dashboard ran on the original night and announced the game anyway.
The Coalition was called Black Tusk Studios and was building an original game of its own when Microsoft bought the series in 2014. That game was dropped, never even named in public, and the studio renamed itself a year later.
Q 24In which Canadian city is the studio behind Gears 5 based?
Vancouver
Vancouver is where Microsoft set up the studio to create a big new series of its own. In 2014 it dropped that game to take over Gears instead.
Q 25Which former Epic producer came back to run Gears of War after Microsoft bought the series in 2014?
Rod Fergusson
Rod Fergusson had quit Epic in 2012 and spent the gap helping the delayed BioShock Infinite over the line. Microsoft's deal brought him straight back, this time to run the studio.
Q 26What are the violent storms that sweep the planet in Gears of War 4 called?
Windflares
Windflares began sweeping the planet after the weapon that ended the war also wiped out its fuel. Set 25 years on, the game lets the worst of them drag grenades and rockets off course mid-fight.
Q 27What is the name of Marcus's son, introduced in Gears of War 4?
JD
JD stands for James Dominic. The middle name honours Dom, Marcus's best friend, who blew up a fuel tank to save the squad in Gears of War 3 and died in the blast.
Q 28Which wrestler-turned-actor became a playable Marcus skin in Gears 5?
Dave Bautista
Dave Bautista had publicly asked to play Marcus in a film of the series. The game gave him the armour first, as a skin released days after launch.
Q 29Who turns out to be Kait's grandmother in Gears 5?
Queen Myrrah
Queen Myrrah was born human: the Locust were bred from her cells, which is why she could command them. She had a daughter with one of the scientists, who fled the lab with the baby; that girl grew up to be Kait's mother.
Q 30What is the name of the robot that accompanies Kait in Gears 5?
Jack
Jack spent the original trilogy mostly cutting open locked doors. The upgraded model built for Gears 5 can cloak the squad, stun enemies and throw up an energy shield.