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50 free StarCraft trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
StarCraft launched in 1998 and never really left. Blizzard's story of Terrans, Zerg and Protoss fighting over a distant corner of the galaxy became one of the best-selling PC games ever made, a televised sport in South Korea and a long-running test for artificial intelligence research. This quiz covers the whole saga: the lore of the three races, the units and buildings every player learns first, the troubled development of the original game, the Brood War expansion, the StarCraft II trilogy, and the professional players who turned a strategy game into a career. It is pitched for anyone who has played a campaign or watched a tournament. Longtime fans will find deeper cuts on Protoss history, Zerg biology and the people who made the games, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Daniel Barry took a copy of StarCraft with him in 1999 on which kind of journey, a first for the game?
A Space Shuttle mission
A Space Shuttle mission carried the game into orbit: astronaut Barry flew on STS-96, the first shuttle flight to dock at the International Space Station.
Q 02Sarah Kerrigan of StarCraft was named after a star of which Olympic sport, a dig at a rival game's heroine?
Figure skating
Figure skating's Nancy Kerrigan was known for her feud with Tonya Harding, so the name answered Tanya Adams, a character in Westwood's Command & Conquer: Red Alert.
Q 03Which search engine added a 2012 Easter egg in which a StarCraft-style Zerg rush of letter O's destroyed the results?
Google let users fight back by clicking the attacking letters before they chewed through the whole page. The joke shows how far the swarm tactic's name had spread beyond the game.
Q 04Which branch of the United States military used StarCraft to teach newly active officers crisis planning under stress?
The Air Force
The Air Force built it into its Air and Space Basic Course, where the science fiction setting kept officers on tactics instead of nitpicking simulated hardware.
Q 05Which airline flew two planes painted with StarCraft II artwork of Jim Raynor to promote Wings of Liberty?
Korean Air
Korean Air carried the Raynor artwork on both domestic and international routes for six months under a co-marketing deal with Blizzard.
Q 06Which California university offered a student-run course on StarCraft theory and strategy in spring 2009?
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley ran it as an introductory class taught by students, more than a decade after the game's 1998 release had turned it into a serious competitive pursuit.
Q 07Which game genre traces its roots to Aeon of Strife, a fan-made StarCraft map where each player steered one hero?
MOBA games
MOBA games took shape when a modder called Eul rebuilt the map in a later Blizzard title as Defense of the Ancients, the forerunner of Dota 2.
Q 08Which Battlestar Galactica actress voices Sarah Kerrigan in StarCraft II, winning a Spike Video Game Award for the role?
Tricia Helfer
Tricia Helfer took over from Glynnis Talken Campbell, who had voiced Kerrigan in the 1998 original and Brood War.
Q 09Which Blizzard game supplied the engine for the first StarCraft demo, which critics mocked at E3 1996?
Warcraft II
Warcraft II showed through so clearly that the demo was written off as the same game in space, so Blizzard overhauled the whole project around three distinct species.
Q 10Which home console received the only console port of the original StarCraft in 2000, complete with split-screen co-op?
Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64 won out after Blizzard first considered the PlayStation. The port's Brood War missions only ran with the console's memory Expansion Pak plugged in.
Q 11Which AI lab built AlphaStar, the program that reached Grandmaster rank in StarCraft II in 2019?
DeepMind
DeepMind had already produced AlphaGo, the Go-playing program hailed as a milestone in 2016, before it turned its self-learning software on Blizzard's strategy game.
Q 12In which Asian capital did Blizzard announce StarCraft II in May 2007, nearly a decade after the original game?
Seoul
Seoul hosted the reveal at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, a nod to South Korea, where the first game had become a televised professional sport.
Q 13Which jungle planet is the Protoss homeworld, overrun by a Zerg invasion in the original StarCraft?
Aiur
Aiur fell so completely that its survivors had to seek refuge on Shakuras, home of the exiled Nerazim, which began the reunion of two long-estranged Protoss societies.
Q 21What name do the Protoss of StarCraft give the communal psionic bond and creed that most of them follow?
The Khala
The Khala was formulated by the mystic Khas to end long sectarian conflict between tribes, and those who refused it were exiled from the homeworld.
Q 22Which mobile Zerg creature raises the swarm's population limit in StarCraft, much as Terran depots do?
The Overlord
The Overlord descends from the Gargantis proximae, a spacefaring species the swarm absorbed for its sharp senses, and it also relays orders to lesser Zerg.
Q 23Which StarCraft cheat code for faster production is named after fans impatient at the game's delays?
Operation CWAL
Q 14Which living layer of biomass must most Zerg buildings be grown on in the StarCraft games?
Creep
Creep spreads outward around each Zerg colony, whose buildings resemble organs because every one of them is a living creature.
Q 15Which Protoss structures must be warped in to power most of the race's other StarCraft buildings?
Pylons
Pylons do double duty, since they also raise the Protoss population limit, and the probe that warps one in can walk away while it arrives.
Q 16Which gas is one of the two resources, alongside minerals, that every StarCraft race must gather?
Vespene
Vespene and minerals are shared by all three species, yet each one turns them into armies through a completely different production system.
Q 17Which Protoss hero sacrifices himself to kill the Zerg Overmind at the end of the original StarCraft?
Tassadar
Tassadar had been hunted by his own people as a heretic for working with the exiled Dark Templar before he struck the blow.
Q 18Sarah Kerrigan takes which title after the Zerg capture and infest her in the original StarCraft?
Queen of Blades
Queen of Blades is the name she gives herself; before her capture she was a Ghost, a psychic assassin and second-in-command of the rebel Sons of Korhal.
Q 19Which ancient race, whose name means Wanderers from Afar, shaped both the Protoss and the Zerg in StarCraft?
The Xel'Naga
The Xel'Naga were searching for two qualities, purity of form and purity of essence, and believed they had found one in each species.
Q 20Which Zerg worker in StarCraft turns itself into a building instead of constructing one from the outside?
The drone
The drone transforms itself rather than building externally, and finished Zerg structures then slowly regrow lost health without any repairs.
Operation CWAL stood for Can't Wait Any Longer; its members wrote stories about stealing the beta from Blizzard's headquarters, and earned a thank-you in the credits.
Q 24Which city in South Korea drew a record 120,000 fans to watch the 2005 StarCraft Proleague final?
Busan
Busan's turnout earned the Guinness World Records title for the largest audience at a game competition, one of four records the game was awarded.
Q 25Which Blizzard writer co-created the StarCraft universe and designed Sarah Kerrigan's original look?
Chris Metzen
Chris Metzen created Kerrigan with James Phinney for a single level, but the character grew on the developers, who gave her a far greater role.
Q 26Which online service powers StarCraft's multiplayer and, by Blizzard's count, grew 800 percent after launch?
Battle.net
Battle.net let up to eight players meet in one match, and a single product key could support eight spawned installs limited to multiplayer.
Q 27Which StarCraft player, nicknamed The Terran Emperor, built a fan club of more than half a million people?
BoxeR
BoxeR, real name Lim Yo-hwan, became a pop culture icon in South Korea, where top players are media celebrities with television contracts and sponsors.
Q 28Which Confederate capital does Arcturus Mengsk lure the Zerg onto in StarCraft, sacrificing Kerrigan there?
Tarsonis
Tarsonis fell to the swarm, and Mengsk gathered what was left of the Terran population into a new Dominion with himself crowned emperor.
Q 29In the original StarCraft's Zerg campaign, the player takes which role, a commander serving the Overmind?
A cerebrate
A cerebrate cannot be killed by conventional means in the story, which is why the Protoss came to need the powers of the outcast dark templar.
Q 30Which rival tied with StarCraft for PC Strategy Game of the Year at the first Interactive Achievement Awards?
Age of Empires
Age of Empires shared the strategy prize, but Blizzard's game also took Computer Entertainment Title of the Year at the ceremony now called the D.I.C.E. Awards.