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50 free Payday 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Payday 2 turned four masked robbers and a getaway van into one of the longest-running co-op shooters around. Released in 2013 and updated for a decade, it kept adding heists, playable characters and crossovers with films, so even veterans forget half of what is in it. This quiz covers the lot: where the original crew came from, who hires them and who betrays them, the best-known jobs from first-day drug cooks to the story's final score, the special units that ruin a quiet run, and the stealth and progression rules every new player has to learn. A few questions step outside the game to the actors, the developers and the business behind it. It is written for anyone who has spent an evening waiting on a drill: the kind of lore and tips the loading screens drip-feed between heists, gathered in one place. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still pays off on the next run.
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Q 01Damion Poitier, the face and voice of Chains in Payday 2, was the first actor to play which Marvel villain on film?
Thanos
Thanos made his first Marvel Cinematic Universe appearance as an uncredited Poitier in The Avengers. Josh Brolin took over the role in later films.
Q 02Which Quentin Tarantino film inspired a Payday 2 jewelry store heist whose two days are played in reverse order?
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs tells its story out of order, so the heist does too: day two is played before day one. The robbery is set in Los Angeles rather than the gang's usual turf.
Q 03Which film hitman joined Payday 2 as a playable heister in 2014, described as an old military comrade of Chains?
John Wick
John Wick was the first heister added after launch, promoting the Keanu Reeves action film released that year. He brought the Hitman perk deck with him.
Q 04Which Breaking Bad actor plays the Dentist, the Payday 2 contractor who offers to help free Hoxton from custody?
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito's Dentist starts out as a middleman for wealthy clients and ends up as the main villain of the story. He recruits Dallas during a dental check-up.
Q 05Which zombie shooter does Payday 2's No Mercy hospital heist nod to, with a chance cameo by a survivor named Bill?
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead survivor Bill can wander into the hospital elevator as a brief cameo. The job began life as a 2012 crossover add-on for Payday: The Heist.
Q 06Which nickname do police use for the Payday gang, inspired by the painted masks Dallas, Hoxton and Chains wear?
The Clowns
The Clowns is the name law enforcers give the crew, because every heister wears a stylized clown mask. Dallas has his painted like the American flag.
Q 07Which American city is the Payday gang's new base in Payday 2, with every early contract pinned to a map of it?
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. hosts the gang's new heisting spree two years after the first game. Its police answer the alarms first, followed by FBI teams and then GenSec's private security contractors.
Q 08Which Al Pacino gangster became a playable Payday 2 heister, arriving alongside a heist set at his own mansion?
Tony Montana
Tony Montana joined as the crew's Kingpin in a Scarface crossover. The voice belongs to André Sogliuzzo, who had already played the character in an earlier Scarface video game.
Q 09Jacket, the silent Payday 2 heister who communicates only through a tape recorder, crossed over from which indie game?
Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami's rooster-masked killer joined the crew in March 2015, released alongside that game's sequel. The FBI has no recording of his voice, only his dictaphone.
Q 10Which famous building do the heisters raid in Payday 2's final story heist?
The White House
The White House holds the unused pardons that let the gang walk away from everything it has done. Afterwards everyone except Dallas throws their mask away.
Q 11Bodhi, the thrill-seeking Payday 2 heister who arrived with a skydiving heist, was borrowed from which action film?
Point Break
Point Break's 2015 remake supplied Bodhi along with two heists. One of them, Birth of Sky, has the crew parachute out of a plane after pallets of stolen cash.
Q 12Which Sons of Anarchy actor plays Rust, the biker who turns on his own motorcycle club to join the Payday 2 crew?
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman supplies both the voice and the face of Rust. In stealth, Rust may ask a guard's dispatcher whether they have seen Hellboy, another of the actor's roles.
Q 13Ethan and Hila, a married couple added to Payday 2 as playable heisters in 2017, run which real YouTube channel?
H3h3Productions
Q 21Which console received Payday 2 in 2018, with the hacker Joy as a heister who was at first exclusive to it?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch owners got Joy first; PC players waited until August 2018, when she arrived for free. She was the last playable heister added to the game.
Q 22Which publisher released Payday 2 in August 2013, giving developer Overkill its first boxed retail release?
505 Games
505 Games had to work with retailers to ship extra copies after strong first-week sales caused shortages. Digital copies still went out on PlayStation Network, Xbox Live and Steam as planned.
Q 23Which Swedish company, already the owner of Overkill, acquired the full rights to the Payday franchise in May 2016?
Starbreeze Studios
H3h3Productions hosts Ethan and Hila Klein were written in as broadcasters drained of money by legal bills, which is how Bain tempts them into robbing vaults.
Q 14Jimmy, the Payday 2 heister and contractor played by Sharlto Copley, crossed over from which 2016 action film?
Hardcore Henry
Hardcore Henry gave Payday 2 two heists and Jimmy, the crew's Maniac. Unlike most guest heisters, he is played and voiced by his original film actor.
Q 15Which comedy video game crossed over with Payday 2 in a heist where the crew chases drug-carrying farm animals?
Goat Simulator
Goat Simulator inspired a two-day job for Vlad in which the gang rounds up goats that have bags of cocaine hidden in their stomachs.
Q 16Which real DJ plays himself in a Payday 2 heist, performing an arena concert while the crew robs the vault below?
Alesso
Alesso wrote a track titled Payday for the heist. His closing pyrotechnics give the crew cover to blast their way toward the vaults beneath the arena.
Q 17Which original Payday heister is a bankrupt Swedish software developer, voiced by Overkill co-founder Ulf Andersson?
Wolf
Wolf ran a successful software firm until its only client starved it of payments, leaving him homeless and ready to rob banks. Until the age of 30 he had been a law-abiding family man.
Q 18Which burglar, once Hoxton's apprentice, became the first playable female heister in Payday 2 in December 2014?
Clover
Clover once tried to con Hoxton, who spotted the trick and took her on as his student instead. Her alias and her mask both show off her Irish pride.
Q 19Sydney, the Australian anarchist who joined the Payday 2 crew in 2016, actually hails from which other Australian city?
Melbourne
Melbourne is where Kelli King ran with a youth gang called the Dingos before she took another city's name as her alias. She also designs masks for the rest of the crew.
Q 20Hoxton, the original Payday heister whose jailbreak drives much of Payday 2's story, comes from which country?
England
England is home for Hoxton, who comes from Sheffield. Overkill planned a Cockney accent for him but kept the Yorkshire one of his voice actor, Pete Gold.
Starbreeze Studios announced the purchase together with a promise that future loot safes would be free to open, an answer to the row over paid drills.
Q 24Payday 3, the 2023 sequel to Payday 2, moves the retired gang's comeback heists to which city?
New York
New York is where the crew returns to work after a conspiracy freezes its assets and forces it out of retirement, guided by a new operator called Shade.
Q 25Which Payday 2 composer also voices Bain, the operator who talks the crew through every heist over the radio?
Simon Viklund
Simon Viklund helped found Overkill and drew on the 1995 film Heat for the first game's music. Born Wiklund, he changed the spelling because people abroad kept mispronouncing it.
Q 26What subtitle did Payday 2 carry when its enhanced console version reached PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2015?
Crimewave Edition
Crimewave Edition bundled sharper graphics with content PC players already had. Overkill said the older PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 could not handle further updates.
Q 27Which Payday 2 community event caused a fan backlash in October 2015 by introducing paid safe drills?
Crimefest
Crimefest 2015 added safes of weapon skins that needed drills bought with real money, and some skins changed weapon stats. Adding the drills to free card drops five days later did not calm the anger.
Q 28Which criminal ally of the Payday gang is unmasked in Payday 2 as the rat who sold Hoxton out to the FBI?
Hector
Hector gave Hoxton up to the FBI in exchange for protection. The crew learns the truth from the bureau's own files, then raids his safehouse and kills him.
Q 29Vlad, the volatile Payday 2 contractor behind jobs like Four Stores and Mallcrasher, is a mobster from which country?
Ukraine
Ukraine is Vlad's homeland, and the underworld knows him simply as the Ukrainian. He begins the story newly freed after eight years in prison, sold out by a friend.
Q 30What is the day job of the Elephant, the Payday 2 contractor behind the Big Oil and Framing Frame heists?
A politician
A politician in the middle of an election race, the Elephant hires the crew to smear his rivals. Actor Bokeem Woodbine voices the Republican congressman.