God of War Trivia
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50 free God of War trivia questions with answers. Boy. This quiz covers the whole God of War series, from the 2005 PlayStation 2 original through the Greek trilogy, the PSP side games and Ascension, to the 2018 reboot, Ragnarök, Valhalla, Sons of Sparta and the Laufey game announced for 2027. Fifty questions run through Kratos's tragedy and the ashes that made him the Ghost of Sparta, Pandora's Box, the Sisters of Fate, the Leviathan Axe, Atreus, Mímir, Baldur, Freya, Thor and Odin, plus the studios, directors, composers, voice actors, sales records and awards behind it all. The easy questions ask what Kratos's chained blades are called and who plays him in the Norse games; the hard ones want the mobile phone game that never came to PlayStation, the game engine named after Santa Monica's first title, the number of Game Awards Ragnarök won and the actor first cast as Kratos in the Amazon series. It suits players who platinumed every entry and anyone who has only met Kratos through memes. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the franchise, the individual games and Kratos, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01The Greek games put Kratos on a path of vengeance; the Norse games put him on a path of?
Redemption
Redemption arrives in Ragnarök's last scene: a hidden mural shows Kratos as a golden statue ringed by worshippers, the opposite of the destroyer he feared he would always be.
Q 02Which Sony developer made the six main God of War games released from 2005 to 2022?
Santa Monica Studio
Santa Monica Studio has not been in Santa Monica since 2014, when Sony moved it to bigger offices in Playa Vista, Los Angeles, and kept the name anyway.
Q 03Who created God of War and directed the 2005 original?
David Jaffe
David Jaffe got the idea from playing Capcom's demon-slaying Onimusha, and summed up his pitch as 'let's do that with Greek mythology'.
Q 04On which console did the first God of War launch in March 2005?
PS2
PS2 also got God of War II in 2007, even though the PS3 was already out; Sony executive Phil Harrison asked the team why it wasn't on the new console.
Q 05Which god does Kratos serve, and ultimately kill, in the original God of War?
Ares
Ares tricked his servant into slaughtering his own wife and daughter during a temple raid, which is why Kratos spends the game hunting the god he once swore to serve.
Q 06What are the chained blades that Kratos wields throughout the original God of War called?
Blades of Chaos
Blades of Chaos return in the 2018 game, when Kratos digs them up from beneath his own house; he had buried them to hide his bloody past from his son.
Q 07Why is Kratos known as the 'Ghost of Sparta'?
His skin was whitened by his family's ashes
His skin was whitened by his family's ashes through a curse: after he killed them in a temple raid, a village oracle bound their remains to him so his deed would be visible to all.
Q 08In God of War, Kratos's red tattoo is a tribute to whom?
His brother Deimos
His brother Deimos was born with the mark, so the gods, warned that a marked warrior would destroy Olympus, abducted him as a boy; Kratos copied the birthmark in red to honour him.
Q 09Which actor, also Mace Windu's voice in Star Wars animation, voiced Kratos throughout the Greek era, from 2005 to 2013?
Terrence C. Carson
Terrence C. Carson lost the part in 2018 because the studio wanted one performer for both voice and motion capture, and he was much shorter than Kratos.
Q 10Who voices Kratos in the Norse-era games, having previously played Teal'c in Stargate SG-1?
Christopher Judge
Christopher Judge later blamed himself for Ragnarök's delay: unable to walk in 2019, he needed back, knee and double hip surgery, and the studio waited for him to recover.
Q 11Who narrates the original 2005 God of War?
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt, who won her Oscar playing a man in The Year of Living Dangerously, narrates the Greek-era games in the voice of an ancient storyteller.
Q 12Where does most of the original God of War take place?
Pandora's Temple on the back of Cronos
Pandora's Temple rides on the back of Cronos because Zeus chained it there as punishment for the Titan's part in the Great War, leaving him to crawl the desert under it forever.
Q 13Which monster does Kratos slay for Poseidon at the start of the original God of War?
The Hydra
Q 21In God of War: Ascension, who imprisons Kratos for breaking his blood oath?
The three Furies
The three Furies hold him inside a living prison: Aegaeon the Hecatonchires, the first to break a blood oath to Zeus, was turned into the jail itself as punishment.
Q 22Which Titan rescues the dying Kratos from the Underworld in God of War II?
Gaia
Gaia tells him she once raised the young Zeus herself; one game later she lets Kratos fall from Olympus, calling him a mere pawn in the Titans' revenge.
Q 23Sons of Sparta (2026), about a teenage Kratos in Spartan training, took God of War into which genre?
Metroidvania
Metroidvania in 2D, and with no chained blades: the story is set years before Kratos gets them, so he fights with a plain Spartan spear and shield.
The Hydra dies with its main head impaled on a ship's mast; Kratos then climbs down its throat to take a key from the captain it swallowed.
Q 14In God of War II, whom must Kratos find to undo his death at the hands of Zeus?
The Sisters of Fate
The Sisters of Fate refuse to change his death, so Kratos kills all three and uses their Loom to return to the moment Zeus struck him down.
Q 15Who sacrifices herself to save Zeus at the end of God of War II?
Athena
Athena throws herself onto the blade meant for Zeus, and with her dying words tells Kratos why Zeus feared him: Kratos is his son.
Q 16Which God of War game was a 2D side-scroller for Java mobile phones that never came to PlayStation?
Betrayal
Betrayal has Kratos framed for killing Hera's pet Argos; when Zeus sends the messenger Ceryx, son of Hermes, to call off his rampage, Kratos kills him too.
Q 17Which handheld hosted God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008) and Ghost of Sparta (2010)?
PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable processors had been capped by Sony to save battery; Chains of Olympus was the first game to run one at full speed, after a firmware update lifted the limit.
Q 18What is the name of Kratos's mother, whom he finds in Atlantis in God of War: Ghost of Sparta?
Callisto
Callisto is about to name his father when she is turned into a beast that Kratos is forced to kill; as she dies, she thanks him.
Q 19Which god kills Kratos's brother in God of War: Ghost of Sparta?
Thanatos
Thanatos kills the brother in revenge, because Kratos had earlier slain the death god's daughter, Erinys; the grieving Kratos then destroys Thanatos himself.
Q 20In which God of War game does Kratos finally kill Zeus?
God of War III
God of War III ends the feud without weapons: Kratos throws his blades aside and beats Zeus to death with his bare hands.
Q 24What is Kratos's main weapon in God of War (2018) and Ragnarök?
The Leviathan Axe
The Leviathan Axe was forged by the dwarf brothers Brok and Sindri, who regretted making Thor's hammer and built its equal; it belonged to Kratos's wife before him.
Q 25What is the name of Kratos's son, introduced in God of War (2018)?
Atreus
Atreus was Kratos's choice, in memory of a Spartan comrade who stayed kind through war; the boy's mother had called him Loki.
Q 26What is Faye's dying wish in God of War?
To have her ashes spread from the highest peak
To have her ashes spread from the highest peak sounds simple, but that peak stands in Jötunheim, the homeland she had kept secret from her husband and son.
Q 27Which Æsir god hunts Kratos and his son through God of War (2018)?
Baldur
Baldur cannot feel pain, pleasure or anything else, the price of a protective spell cast by his mother Freya; a mistletoe arrowhead finally breaks it.
Q 28What is unusual about how God of War (2018) is presented?
It is one continuous shot with no cuts
It is one continuous shot with no cuts, from title screen to credits, an idea about 40 percent of the team opposed at first because of the extra work it demanded.
Q 29Who was creative director of God of War (2018), the Norse reimagining of Kratos's story?
Cory Barlog
Cory Barlog kept it in the family: his father, the novelist J. M. Barlog, wrote the game's official novelisation, published by Titan Books later in 2018.
Q 30Which PS4 exclusive broke God of War's launch sales record only five months after it was set in 2018?
Marvel's Spider-Man
Marvel's Spider-Man sold 3.3 million in three days to God of War's 3.1 million, and it came from Insomniac, a studio Sony did not own until it bought it a year later.