Resident Evil 2
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50 free Resident Evil 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Resident Evil 2 turned a cult horror hit into a blockbuster. Capcom's 1998 sequel sent a rookie cop and a college student into the zombie-filled streets of Raccoon City, and its 2019 remake rebuilt the nightmare for a new generation of players. This quiz covers both versions: the story and characters, the monsters that hunt you through the police station, the bonus modes, the troubled development of the original, and the remake's release, including its 1-Shot Demo. It is written for fans who have finished every scenario as well as players who only know the remake. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up some behind-the-scenes stories along the way.
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Q 01Which zombie film grew out of an episode of the sitcom Spaced that was inspired by Resident Evil 2?
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead began when director Edgar Wright made a Spaced episode in which a character, hooked on the game, hallucinates a zombie invasion.
Q 02Which horror film director shot a live-action Japanese TV commercial for the original Resident Evil 2?
George A. Romero
George A. Romero, whose zombie films had inspired the series, shot the advert on location at Lincoln Heights Jail with young Hollywood actors as the two heroes.
Q 03Which Hollywood actress did an artist use as the model for scientist Annette in the original Resident Evil 2?
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster was the reference for Annette, while the same artist, Isao Ohishi, drew hero Leon S. Kennedy after his own pet dog.
Q 04Which time-travel film sequel partly inspired the overlapping hero scenarios of the original Resident Evil 2?
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II revisits its predecessor's events from a new angle, the idea behind the game's Zapping System, where one hero's actions change the other's playthrough.
Q 05In a joke bonus mode of Resident Evil 2, the player controls a knife-wielding block of which food?
Tofu
Tofu stars in The Tofu Survivor, which sends the block through a gauntlet of enemies armed only with knives; the mode dates back to the 1998 original.
Q 06Which hulking Tyrant does Umbrella air-drop into the police station to stalk players in Resident Evil 2?
Mr. X
Mr. X cannot be killed in the 2019 remake, only briefly stunned, so players must slip away as he follows them from room to room.
Q 07The pre-rendered cutscenes of the original Resident Evil 2 began as stop-motion footage of which objects?
Action figures
Action figures were animated in stop-motion and then rebuilt with computer graphics; Ada Wong appears in none of these scenes because her model was not finished in time.
Q 08The entire English voice cast of the original Resident Evil 2 was recruited from which country?
Canada
Canada supplied every voice, including Alyson Court as Claire Redfield, and the lines were recorded before the cutscenes were even finished.
Q 09Which hard limit did Capcom build into the 1-Shot Demo of the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?
A 30-minute timer
A 30-minute timer ended the 1-Shot Demo for good once it ran out, which drew complaints, so the same slice of the game later returned as the untimed R.P.D. Demo.
Q 10Artist Isao Ohishi modelled Leon S. Kennedy of Resident Evil 2 on his own pet dog of which breed?
Bloodhound
Bloodhound was the unlikely reference for the hero, who started out as a veteran officer before the rewritten story made him a rookie.
Q 11Claire Redfield arrives in Raccoon City in Resident Evil 2 to search for which missing person?
Her brother
Her brother Chris, a hero of the first game, has already left town to investigate Umbrella in Europe, so she never finds him here.
Q 12What brings Leon S. Kennedy to Raccoon City on the night the outbreak of Resident Evil 2 begins?
His first day on duty
His first day on duty as a Raccoon police officer turns into a fight for survival, and the manual says he showed up late after a row with his girlfriend.
Q 13How do Leon, Claire and young Sherry finally flee the self-destructing laboratory at the end of Resident Evil 2?
On a train
Q 21Which director of the first game stepped back to produce the original Resident Evil 2?
Shinji Mikami
Shinji Mikami scrapped the first version of the sequel when it was about two-thirds done because he judged it dull, a build fans now know as Resident Evil 1.5.
Q 22Which Umbrella scientist is the father of Sherry, the girl Claire Redfield protects in Resident Evil 2?
William Birkin
William Birkin spends the game hunting his own daughter after he mutates, drawn to her genetic make-up, and implants her with an embryo.
Q 23Which Umbrella special forces agent, nicknamed the Grim Reaper, stars in The 4th Survivor mode of Resident Evil 2?
HUNK
On a train is the way out, but the giant mutated final boss follows the heroes aboard for one last fight before it is destroyed.
Q 14Which giant mutated animal attacks the heroes in the sewers beneath Raccoon City in Resident Evil 2?
An alligator
An alligator grown huge is the boss of the sewers, which the heroes cross on the way from the police station to Umbrella's underground laboratory.
Q 15Which camera view replaced the fixed angles of the original game in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?
Over-the-shoulder
Over-the-shoulder aiming let players move while shooting, so the designers had to hide enemies with lighting, smoke and room layout instead of camera cuts.
Q 16Which consumable item must players spend at typewriters to save their progress in the original Resident Evil 2?
Ink ribbons
Ink ribbons are in short supply, so every save is a gamble; most players of the 2019 remake can save freely instead.
Q 17What nickname describes the original Resident Evil 2 scheme in which pressing up always walks the hero forward?
Tank controls
Tank controls rotate the character with left and right regardless of the camera, a scheme the 2019 remake swapped for free movement.
Q 18Which Umbrella creation does a scientist inject into himself, becoming the mutating monster of Resident Evil 2?
G-virus
G-virus was his life's work, and he used it on himself when Umbrella's own soldiers came to seize it, then killed almost the whole squad.
Q 19How long after the mansion incident of the first game does the Raccoon City outbreak of Resident Evil 2 occur?
Two months
Two months separate the stories, putting the outbreak at the end of September 1998, after a leaked virus has reached the city's drinking water.
Q 20Who directed the original Resident Evil 2 and went on to direct Devil May Cry and Bayonetta?
Hideki Kamiya
Hideki Kamiya clashed so often with his producer over the sequel's direction that the producer stepped back and asked only to see a new build once a month.
HUNK earned the nickname as the lone survivor of mission after mission, and here he is the only member of his unit to come through the mission alive.
Q 24Which Resident Evil 2 monster is the form a human zombie takes as its T-virus infection progresses further?
Licker
Licker creatures were an accident of the infection rather than a designed weapon, though their combat potential later led Umbrella to develop them on purpose.
Q 25Which starting item does Claire Redfield carry in the original Resident Evil 2 in place of Leon's lighter?
A lockpick
A lockpick and a lighter are the only things that set the two heroes apart, unlike the first game, whose leads had different abilities.
Q 26Which European country temporarily banned Resident Evil 2 in 1999 and seized thousands of unsold copies?
Italy
Italy acted after a civil rights group attacked the game's realistic violence, and its finance police seized over 5,500 copies before the ban was overturned.
Q 27Why did Capcom make the North American release of Resident Evil 2 harder than the Japanese version?
To discourage rentals
To discourage rentals, the Western version was tuned to take longer, so that players could not finish it during a short hire and skip buying it.
Q 28Which Nintendo 64 shooter beat Resident Evil 2 to Console Action Game of the Year at the inaugural AIAS awards?
GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 took home the most awards that night, including the overall title of the year, while the zombie sequel went home without a win.
Q 29In the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake, Ada Wong first tells Leon she is an agent of which organisation?
FBI
FBI is only her cover story: a scientist later exposes her as a mercenary out to sell the virus sample to the highest bidder.
Q 30Which wounded police lieutenant shows Leon a secret passage out of the station in the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake?
Marvin Branagh
Marvin Branagh has already been bitten when he helps and later succumbs to the infection; music producer Patrick Levar's face was scanned for the character.