50 free Mass Effect trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Mass Effect trivia questions with answers. Mass Effect is the space opera BioWare built for people who wanted their choices to matter, and this quiz assumes you kept your save files. Forty-two questions cover the original trilogy from Eden Prime to the Crucible: Commander Shepard and the two actors who voice them, the Normandy and its pilot, Garrus, Tali, Liara, Wrex, Mordin, Legion and Miranda, the Illusive Man and Cerberus, Saren and Sovereign, the Collectors and the suicide mission, the genophage, the Reapers' 50,000-year cycle, and the ending that had fans raising money for charity in protest. Andromeda, the Legendary Edition and the planned Amazon series get their turn too. Easy questions ask who develops the games and what the Reapers are; hard ones want Liara's age, the astronaut Shepard is named after, the DLC left out of the remaster and why. It suits anyone from a first-time Legendary Edition player to someone who has romanced every squadmate twice. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games and characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which studio developed the Mass Effect games?
BioWare
The series began as a 2003 pitch codenamed SFX to the studio's co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk.
Q 02The first Mass Effect (2007) launched exclusively on which console?
Xbox 360
It reached Windows in 2008 and did not appear on PlayStation 3 until 2012.
Q 03Who is the player character throughout the original trilogy?
Commander Shepard
The gender, class, first name and face are all up to the player.
Q 04Which real-life astronaut gave the trilogy's protagonist their surname?
Alan Shepard
The developers wanted an all-American surname and looked at the Mercury Seven; the first American in space fit the first human Spectre.
Q 05Which two actors voice the male and female versions of Shepard?
Mark Meer and Jennifer Hale
The default male face was modelled on Dutch model Mark Vanderloo.
Q 06Whose face was the default male Shepard modelled after?
Mark Vanderloo
The Dutch model's likeness appears on the box art, though the voice belongs to someone else.
Q 07What is the name of the elite agent force Shepard becomes the first human member of?
Spectres
The name is short for Special Tactics and Reconnaissance, and agents answer only to the Council.
Q 08Who voices Jeff 'Joker' Moreau, pilot of the Normandy?
Seth Green
Keith David voices Captain Anderson alongside him in all three games.
Q 09The rogue Spectre hunted in the first game, Saren Arterius, belongs to which species?
Turian
He has been indoctrinated by the Reaper Sovereign, which he believes is merely a ship.
Q 10The first game opens with a mission to recover a Prothean beacon from which human colony?
Eden Prime
The beacon gives Shepard a vision of war and death that drives the whole trilogy.
Q 11According to the lore, how often do the Reapers return to purge advanced organic life?
Every 50,000 years
The Protheans were the previous cycle's victims, and their ruins are found on Mars.
Q 12In the setting's backstory, humanity discovers that which real moon is actually a mass relay?
Charon
The discovery in 2148 follows finding a Prothean outpost on Mars.
Q 13What is the six-wheeled vehicle used to explore planets in the first game called?
Mako
Its bouncy handling became a running joke; the Nomad replaced it in Andromeda.
Q 21Garrus Vakarian belongs to which species?
Turian
He starts as a frustrated C-Sec officer and becomes the vigilante Archangel on Omega by the second game.
Q 22In Mass Effect 2, Garrus is found leading a vigilante group on which crime-ridden station?
Omega
His team is wiped out through betrayal, and he takes a rocket to the face shortly after Shepard arrives.
Q 23Tali's people, the quarians, were driven from their homeworld by which race of their own creation?
The geth
The homeworld is Rannoch, and the quarians live aboard the Migrant Fleet in the meantime.
Q 14On Virmire, Shepard must choose to save only one of which two squadmates?
Ashley or Kaidan
The survivor carries into the next two games, one of the trilogy's most consequential imported choices.
Q 15The morality system in the trilogy uses which two labels?
Paragon and Renegade
It evolved from the light and dark side system in BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic.
Q 16Which insectoid race is abducting entire human colonies in Mass Effect 2?
The Collectors
They live beyond the Omega-4 Relay, from which no ship has ever returned.
Q 17What is the operation that brings Shepard back to life at the start of Mass Effect 2?
Lazarus Project
Miranda Lawson leads the cell that does the rebuilding.
Q 18Which actor voices the Illusive Man?
Martin Sheen
The comics reveal his real name is Jack Harper, a veteran of the First Contact War with the turians.
Q 19The Illusive Man leads which pro-human organisation?
Cerberus
The group first appeared as a minor villain in the first game before funding Shepard in the second.
Q 20Miranda Lawson was modelled on and voiced by which actress?
Yvonne Strahovski
She used her natural Australian accent for the role.
Q 24When Tali's face was finally revealed in Mass Effect 3, fans criticised it for being based on what?
A stock photo
The image was replaced with a new one in the Legendary Edition remaster.
Q 25How old is Liara T'Soni when she first appears, despite being a young adult by asari standards?
106
Asari live for around a thousand years, and she is still in the Maiden stage.
Q 26Liara is the estranged daughter of which powerful asari matriarch, who serves Saren in the first game?
Benezia
Shepard confronts her mother on Noveria, where she reveals she has been indoctrinated by Sovereign.
Q 27The genophage is an artificial plague that near-sterilised which species?
Krogan
Urdnot Wrex eventually leads his people and can see it cured in the third game.
Q 28Which salarian scientist helped strengthen the genophage and later tries to cure it?
Mordin Solus
His face was inspired by Clint Eastwood, and he is missing one horn.
Q 29In Mass Effect 2, Mordin sings an altered version of a song by which duo?
Gilbert and Sullivan
His take on the Major-General's Song is often ranked among the trilogy's best moments.
Q 30The geth squadmate Legion is given its name by whom?
EDI
The ship's AI borrows it from the biblical story of the Gerasene demoniac, a nod to the many programs inside one platform.