50 free Resident Evil trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
Capcom could not secure the name in the US because of a DOS game and a New York punk band that already used it.
Q 02Which company makes Resident Evil?
Capcom
With over 213 million copies sold, it is Capcom's best-selling franchise.
Q 03Who directed the first Resident Evil game in 1996?
Shinji Mikami
He also directed the first Dino Crisis and later founded Tango Gameworks.
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
The New York hardcore band Biohazard was one of the obstacles.
Q 06What is the name of the fictional Midwestern town where S.T.A.R.S. is based?
Raccoon City
It is a fictional Midwestern city effectively controlled by the Umbrella Corporation.
Q 07What does S.T.A.R.S. stand for?
Special Tactics and Rescue Service
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are its most famous members.
Q 08Which two characters can you play in the original 1996 game?
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine
They explore the Spencer Mansion in the Arklay Mountains.
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
It had earlier been prototyped as a Super NES game and then a first-person 3D game.
Q 11The 2002 remake of the first game was released on which console?
GameCube
The prequel Resident Evil Zero arrived on the same system that year, and the remake outsold the original within a year.
Q 12Who is the villainous S.T.A.R.S. captain revealed as a traitor in the first game?
Albert Wesker
He was killed by his own Tyrant prototype, though not for good.
Q 13What is the name of the pharmaceutical company behind the T-virus?
Umbrella Corporation
Its research caused both the Spencer Mansion incident and the fall of Raccoon City.
Q 21Resident Evil 4 was originally a 2005 exclusive for which console?
GameCube
It was one of the 'Capcom Five', and later sold 15.2 million copies across formats.
Q 22From whom does Leon buy and sell items in Resident Evil 4?
The Merchant
Village's equivalent is called the Duke.
Q 23Resident Evil 5 is set in Kijuju, a fictional region of which continent?
Africa
Chris Redfield teams up with Sheva Alomar and confronts Wesker.
Q 24Which game finally kills the traitorous ex-S.T.A.R.S. captain, at the hands of Chris and Sheva?
Q 14In Resident Evil 2, rookie cop Leon Kennedy arrives in town on what occasion?
His first day at work
He is late, which turns out to be lucky.
Q 15What was the 'Zapping System' introduced in Resident Evil 2?
Two characters facing different puzzles and encounters
Leon and Claire's scenarios intertwine.
Q 16The scrapped early version of the second game is commonly known as what?
Resident Evil 1.5
Mikami cancelled it at two-thirds done; Hideki Kamiya directed the finished game.
Q 17Ada Wong was originally conceived under what name for the RE2 prototype?
Linda
She was rewritten from researcher to spy to tie the story to the first game.
Q 18The 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 19Resident Evil 4 popularised which camera perspective, later used by Gears of War and The Last of Us?
Over-the-shoulder
It broke with the series' fixed angles for action-horror gameplay.
Q 20In Resident Evil 4, Leon must rescue the president's daughter from a cult in which country?
Spain
The villagers are called Los Ganados, Spanish for 'the cattle'.
Resident Evil 5
He was trying to trigger an extinction event.
Q 25Resident Evil 7 was the earliest main game to use which perspective?
First-person
Ethan Winters searches for his missing wife in a Louisiana plantation.
Q 26In which US state is Resident Evil 7 set?
Louisiana
The Baker family's derelict plantation is in fictional Dulvey.
Q 27Which is the second best-selling game in the franchise, with 15.4M units by mid-2025?
Resident Evil 7
Its VR mode helped make it a PlayStation VR showcase.
Q 28What is Lady Dimitrescu's first name?
Alcina
She lives with her three daughters in Castle Dimitrescu and became a viral sensation before Village even launched.
Q 29Who provided Lady Dimitrescu's voice and motion capture?
Maggie Robertson
Her look was based on Polish model Helena Mankowska.
Q 30In Resident Evil Village, who sells the player weapons and cooks hunted animals?
The Duke
The game sold over 10.5 million units by November 2024.