Red Dead Redemption 2
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49 free Red Dead Redemption 2 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Red Dead Redemption 2 took Rockstar eight years and around 2,000 people to build, and it paid back the $370-plus million budget with a $725 million opening weekend, the biggest in entertainment history after Grand Theft Auto V. Set in 1899, it follows Arthur Morgan as Dutch van der Linde's gang unravels across five fictional states, from the bayous of Lemoyne to the mountains of Ambarino. These 49 questions range over the whole thing: Arthur, Dutch, Hosea, Micah and John, the Pinkertons and Leviticus Cornwall, the Grays and Braithwaites, Guarma, Saint Denis and Valentine, Dead Eye, Honor, cores and five finger filet, the high- and low-honor endings, the 1907 epilogue, Woody Jackson's three-tier score, Daniel Lanois's vocal tracks, the 100-hour-week controversy, Red Dead Online, the Stadia launch, the Trusted Reviews leak and the Pinkerton trademark fight. Easy questions stick to characters and mechanics; the hard tier asks about dates, budgets and lawsuits. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more fact. Play it solo or print it for a gaming quiz night.
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Q 01How does Red Dead Redemption 2's story relate to the first game?
Prequel
It is a prequel set in 1899, twelve years before the first game, and it shows the fall of the gang whose survivors John Marston is later forced to hunt down.
Q 02Which widow joins the gang in Red Dead Redemption 2's opening chapter and later becomes a bounty hunter?
Sadie Adler
Sadie Adler is found hiding in her home after O'Driscolls kill her husband, and by the 1907 epilogue she is the one hiring John Marston for bounty jobs.
Q 03Which outlaw gang does Arthur Morgan ride with in Red Dead Redemption 2?
The Van der Linde gang
The Van der Linde gang starts the story on the run after a botched ferry robbery in Blackwater, and the game follows it falling apart.
Q 04Which actor plays Arthur Morgan, the lead of Red Dead Redemption 2?
Roger Clark
Roger Clark said his main model for Arthur was Seven Samurai star Toshiro Mifune rather than Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, who he felt was too quiet.
Q 05Which actor returned from the first game to play gang leader Dutch in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Benjamin Byron Davis
Benjamin Byron Davis first played Dutch in 2010 as the last outlaw John Marston is sent to hunt down, then returned to show him as the leader his gang adored.
Q 06Who is Dutch's best friend and co-founder of the gang in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Hosea Matthews
Hosea Matthews met Dutch at a campfire on the road to Chicago, where he tried to con and rob him, only to find Dutch had already taken his money.
Q 07Which gang member turns out to be the Pinkertons' informant in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Micah Bell
Micah Bell had been passing the agents information since the gang's return from the Caribbean, and Dutch refuses to believe it when Arthur tells him.
Q 08Which disease is Arthur Morgan diagnosed with in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis reaches him through Thomas Downes, a sick farmer who coughs blood on him while Arthur is beating him over an unpaid loan.
Q 09Which oil magnate pays the Pinkertons to hunt the gang in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Leviticus Cornwall
Leviticus Cornwall turns on the gang after they rob his private train, and Dutch later shoots him dead on the dock at Annesburg.
Q 10Which two Pinkerton agents lead the hunt for the gang in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Andrew Milton and Edgar Ross
Andrew Milton and Edgar Ross first corner Arthur while he is teaching young Jack to fish, promising he will not hang if he hands over Dutch.
Q 11Which two feuding Lemoyne families does the gang play against each other in Red Dead Redemption 2?
The Grays and Braithwaites
The Grays and Braithwaites both see through it: one family ambushes the gang in Rhodes, the other kidnaps young Jack, and the gang burns the Braithwaite manor in reply.
Q 12Where does the gang wash up after their escape ship sinks in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Guarma
Guarma is a sugar-plantation island off Cuba, where the shipwrecked outlaws are dragged into a revolt against its ruler before they can sail home.
Q 13Which Red Dead Redemption 2 city is modelled on New Orleans?
Saint Denis
Q 21Which Red Dead Redemption 2 system tracks how the world judges the player's moral choices?
Honor
Honor rises when the player helps strangers and falls with theft and killing, and at high levels shops cut their prices while low levels bring better loot from bodies.
Q 22What can Arthur Morgan do in Red Dead Redemption 2 that John Marston cannot?
Swim
Swim is the one thing John cannot do: deep water drains his stamina and he soon drowns, a nod to the first game, where deep water killed him at once.
Q 23What do 'cores' govern in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Health and stamina regen
Health and stamina regen slows as each core empties, so Arthur has to eat and sleep, and dressing wrong for snow or desert heat drains the cores faster.
Saint Denis is where the gang's last big bank job collapses, leaving two members dead and the leaders fleeing the country by ship.
Q 14Which Red Dead Redemption 2 state is the snowy mountain wilderness where the story begins?
Ambarino
Ambarino is where the gang opens the game, holed up without food in the abandoned mining town of Colter after fleeing a botched robbery in Blackwater.
Q 15Which New Hanover livestock town hosts the gang's early jobs in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Valentine
Valentine's livestock auctions draw ranchers, gamblers and outlaws, and a street shootout there with a tycoon's hired guns forces the gang to flee south.
Q 16Why is Armadillo nearly a ghost town in Red Dead Redemption 2?
A cholera outbreak
A cholera outbreak has all but emptied a town that bustles in the first game, while Tumbleweed, that game's ghost town, is still lived in here.
Q 17Which West Elizabeth mountain town in Red Dead Redemption 2 is being remade as a resort for wealthy tourists?
Strawberry
Strawberry was little more than a logging camp until a new mayor from the East Coast arrived, obsessed with making it a cultural beacon, to the locals' bemusement.
Q 18Which actor plays the Native American chief Rains Fall in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Graham Greene
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated for Dances with Wolves, plays a peace-seeking chief who begs his son not to fight the Army, and the son is killed saving Arthur.
Q 19What does Dutch do to crime boss Angelo Bronte in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Feeds him to an alligator
Dutch drowns the mob boss in the swamp, then feeds him to an alligator, a killing that shocks Arthur and John and signals his own unravelling.
Q 20What is Red Dead Redemption 2's slow-motion targeting mechanic called?
Dead Eye
Dead Eye slows time so the player can mark targets, then fires every marked shot in one rapid burst, and later upgrades pick out enemies' vital organs.
Q 24Which knife game can the player bet money on in Red Dead Redemption 2?
Five finger filet
Five finger filet means stabbing a knife back and forth between your own spread fingers as fast as you dare, and the betting game returns from the first Red Dead Redemption.
Q 25Who is sent after the player once they commit enough crimes in Red Dead Redemption 2?
The U.S. Marshals
The U.S. Marshals are the top rung of the ladder: witnesses bring local lawmen first, and a player who escapes them is tracked by bounty hunters until the bounty is paid.
Q 26How does a good-hearted Arthur meet his end in Red Dead Redemption 2?
He dies watching the sunrise
He dies watching the sunrise, finished by illness and his wounds rather than an enemy, whereas an Arthur who has lived cruelly is killed by Micah with a gun or a knife.
Q 27What honest job does John Marston take in the epilogue?
Ranch hand
Ranch hand is the work John finds in 1907, eight years after Arthur's death, living under the false name Jim Milton until outlaws threatening the ranch drag him back to his guns.
Q 28What does John Marston carry off from Micah's mountain camp at the end of Red Dead Redemption 2?
The gang's stolen money
The gang's stolen money, left behind in Blackwater when the story opens, clears the bank loan on John's ranch, but the killing that won it sets federal agents on the trail to his door.
Q 29How did Rockstar divide work on Red Dead Redemption 2?
All studios as one
All studios as one team was the plan, because the game had outgrown any single one: some 2,000 people in all worked on it over eight years.
Q 30How were most of the cast's performances recorded for Red Dead Redemption 2?
In motion-capture suits
In motion-capture suits, with cameras fixed in front of their faces, the cast played whole scenes together like theatre in the round, so body and face were recorded at once.