Resident Evil Trivia
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99 free Resident Evil trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free Resident Evil trivia questions with answers. Resident Evil defined survival horror in 1996 and has sold more than 200 million games since. This quiz walks the whole franchise: why Biohazard became Resident Evil in America, the Sweet Home inspiration, the Spencer Mansion and its Shining-inspired backdrops, S.T.A.R.S. and Wesker's betrayal, Umbrella and Raccoon City, Leon's very bad first day, the scrapped RE 1.5, Nemesis and his Terminator roots, RE4's over-the-shoulder revolution, RE5's Africa, RE7's Louisiana, Village's Duke and Lady Dimitrescu, and Requiem's new heroine. The films get their turn too: Paul W. S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich's Alice, the Hive and the Red Queen, the $1.2 billion gross, the reboots and the Netflix series with Lance Reddick. Easy questions suit anyone who has played a remake; harder ones will test the fans who remember tank controls and ink ribbons. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, characters and films, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01What is the Resident Evil series called in Japan?
Biohazard
Biohazard is the Japanese title; the series launched under that name in March 1996, and the name Resident Evil was coined only for the Western release.
Q 02Which company makes Resident Evil?
Capcom
Capcom, the Osaka-based publisher of Street Fighter and Mega Man, has made every Resident Evil game since the 1996 original, its best-selling series.
Q 03Who directed the first Resident Evil game in 1996?
Shinji Mikami
Shinji Mikami directed the 1996 original, then the first Dino Crisis and Resident Evil 4, and later founded Tango Gameworks, maker of The Evil Within.
Q 04The original game was inspired by the limits of which earlier 1989 horror game from the same publisher?
Sweet Home
Sweet Home was itself based on a Japanese horror film, and its limited supplies inspired the scarce ammo.
Q 05Why could the Japanese title not be used in the United States?
A DOS game and a punk band already had it
"A DOS game and a punk band already had it": an earlier MS-DOS title and a New York hardcore band both used the name, so the publisher's US arm coined Resident Evil instead.
Q 06What is the name of the fictional Midwestern town where S.T.A.R.S. is based?
Raccoon City
Raccoon City, the fictional Midwestern home of the S.T.A.R.S. unit, is overrun by the T-virus outbreak of Resident Evil 2 and 3 and destroyed by a missile strike at the end of the third game.
Q 07What does S.T.A.R.S. stand for?
Special Tactics and Rescue Service
Special Tactics and Rescue Service is the expansion; the police department's elite unit is split into Alpha and Bravo teams, and its July 1998 mission into the Arklay Mountains opens the first game.
Q 08Which two characters can you play in the original 1996 game?
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are the two playable S.T.A.R.S. members, each exploring the Spencer Mansion in the Arklay Mountains with different inventory sizes and support characters.
Q 09The mansion's pre-rendered backdrops were partly inspired by the hotel in which horror film?
The Shining
The game used fixed camera angles and tank controls.
Q 10On which console was Resident Evil first released in 1996?
PlayStation
PlayStation got Resident Evil first, in March 1996; the project had begun as a Super NES remake of an earlier Famicom horror game before moving to Sony's new hardware with pre-rendered 3D backgrounds.
Q 11Who is the villainous S.T.A.R.S. captain revealed as a traitor in the first game?
Albert Wesker
Albert Wesker, the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team captain, is revealed as a double agent for the company behind the mansion and is impaled by the Tyrant he unleashes, surviving only through an experimental virus.
Q 12What is the name of the pharmaceutical company behind the T-virus?
Umbrella Corporation
Umbrella Corporation, founded by Oswell E. Spencer, developed the T-virus whose leak caused the 1998 mansion incident and the outbreak that consumed the city two months later.
Q 13In Resident Evil 2, rookie cop Leon Kennedy arrives in town on what occasion?
His first day at work
Q 21From whom does Leon buy and sell items in Resident Evil 4?
The Merchant
The Merchant, a hooded trader who greets Leon with "What're ya buyin'?", sells and upgrades weapons throughout Resident Evil 4 and buys the treasures Leon finds for pesetas.
Q 22Resident Evil 5 is set in Kijuju, a fictional region of which continent?
Africa
Africa is the setting: Kijuju is a fictional African region whose villagers are turned into Majini by a parasite, and its sun-bleached streets marked a sharp break from the series' dark corridors.
Q 23Which game finally kills the traitorous ex-S.T.A.R.S. captain, at the hands of Chris and Sheva?
Resident Evil 5
His first day at work is the occasion: Leon Kennedy turns up late for his first shift with the city police and finds the town already overrun, meeting Claire Redfield on the way in.
Q 14What was the 'Zapping System' introduced in Resident Evil 2?
Two characters facing different puzzles and encounters
"Two characters facing different puzzles and encounters" describes the Zapping System: Leon and Claire each have A and B scenarios, and choices in one, such as items taken, change the other.
Q 15The scrapped early version of the second game is commonly known as what?
Resident Evil 1.5
Resident Evil 1.5 is the fan name for the build scrapped in 1997 when it was roughly two-thirds complete; Hideki Kamiya directed both it and the rebuilt game released in January 1998.
Q 16Ada Wong was originally conceived under what name for the RE2 prototype?
Linda
Linda was the prototype's name for a scientist character; for the finished game she was rewritten as the spy Ada Wong, taking her name from a researcher's girlfriend mentioned in the first game's files.
Q 17The relentless Nemesis in Resident Evil 3 was inspired by which movie villain?
The T-1000 from Terminator 2
Jill Valentine escapes Raccoon City with the creature in pursuit.
Q 18Resident Evil 4 popularised which camera perspective, later used by Gears of War and The Last of Us?
Over-the-shoulder
Over-the-shoulder is the perspective Resident Evil 4 popularised in 2005, placing the camera behind Leon's shoulder with laser-sight aiming; Gears of War adopted the view the following year.
Q 19In Resident Evil 4, Leon must rescue the president's daughter from a cult in which country?
Spain
Spain is the setting: Leon tracks Ashley Graham to a rural village whose infected residents, Los Ganados, take their name from the Spanish for "the cattle".
Q 20Which parasite controls the villagers and cultists in Resident Evil 4?
Las Plagas
Las Plagas, ancient parasites revived by the Los Illuminados cult, control the villagers Leon fights in Resident Evil 4; Leon and Ashley are implanted too and must purge the eggs with a radiation device.
Resident Evil 5 ends with Chris and Sheva firing rocket launchers at the mutated captain in a volcano after he tries to spread the Uroboros virus worldwide.
Q 24Resident Evil 7 was the earliest main game to use which perspective?
First-person
First-person was new for a numbered entry when Resident Evil 7 arrived in January 2017, with Ethan Winters searching for his missing wife Mia in the Baker family's derelict plantation house.
Q 25In which US state is Resident Evil 7 set?
Louisiana
Louisiana is the setting: the Baker family's derelict plantation sits outside the fictional town of Dulvey, in bayou country the game renders with swamp, humidity and Southern Gothic decay.
Q 26Which game introduced the series' timed bonus mode The Mercenaries?
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis introduced The Mercenaries in 1999 as "Operation: Mad Jackal", a timed dash through the ruined city as Carlos, Mikhail or Nikolai; Resident Evil 4 later made the mode famous.
Q 27What is Lady Dimitrescu's first name?
Alcina
Alcina Dimitrescu, the 9-foot-6 vampire-like lady of Castle Dimitrescu, lives with her three daughters Bela, Cassandra and Daniela and became a viral sensation before Village launched in 2021.
Q 28Who provided Lady Dimitrescu's voice and motion capture?
Maggie Robertson
Maggie Robertson voiced and performed the motion capture for Lady Dimitrescu, winning The Game Awards' Best Performance in 2021; the character's look was modeled on Polish model Helena Mankowska.
Q 29In Resident Evil Village, who sells the player weapons and cooks hunted animals?
The Duke
The Duke, the enormous merchant who travels in a covered wagon, sells and upgrades weapons and cooks the animals Ethan hunts into permanent stat-boosting meals.
Q 30What happens to Ethan Winters at the end of Village?
He sacrifices himself to destroy a fungal colony
"He sacrifices himself to destroy a fungal colony" is Village's ending: Ethan, already dying, stays behind with a bomb to obliterate the Megamycete while Chris escapes with baby Rose.