This TF2 trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers Team Fortress 2 from its roots as a 1996 Quake mod and years on the vaporware lists, through the Orange Box launch, the Meet the Team shorts, the Mann-Conomy and hats, Mann vs. Machine, Scream Fortress and the bot crisis that sparked #FixTF2. The nine mercenaries all get their turn: who double jumps, who rocket jumps, who carries Jarate, who says the Hippocratic Oath is optional. It is written for people who have logged real hours on 2Fort and Dustbowl, with easy openers for anyone who has watched the shorts and harder ones on release dates, voice actors, updates and lore. Use it for a Discord quiz night, a LAN party or bragging rights among your loadout-obsessed friends. Every answer was checked against encyclopedic sources before it went live, and each question explains itself as soon as you pick.
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Q 01Team Fortress 2 was released in October 2007 as part of which Valve compilation?
The Orange Box
The same box shipped Half-Life 2, both Episodes and a little puzzle game called Portal.
Q 02Which puzzle game was one of the three brand-new titles in the 2007 compilation that launched TF2?
Portal
The compilation launched on October 10, 2007, and later reached PlayStation 3, Mac and Linux.
Q 03What does RED, one of the two teams in TF2, stand for?
Reliable Excavation and Demolition
Their rivals BLU are Builders League United; both are fronts run by the feuding Mann brothers.
Q 04What does BLU stand for?
Builders League United
The two companies were founded by identical twins Redmond and Blutarch Mann.
Q 05How many playable classes does Team Fortress 2 have?
Nine
Players pick a class after joining either RED or BLU.
Q 06Which class, a baseball fan from Boston, can double jump and counts twice when capturing points?
Scout
His default kit is a scattergun, a pistol and a baseball bat.
Q 07'Rocket jumping' at the cost of some health is a signature move of which class?
Soldier
The jingoistic Midwesterner carries a rocket launcher, a shotgun and a shovel by default.
Q 08Which class's flamethrower can fire blasts of compressed air that repel enemies and projectiles?
Pyro
The character is described as a pyromaniac of unknown gender and origin, hidden inside a fire-retardant suit.
Q 09Which class hails from Ullapool, Scotland, and can 'sticky jump' with his own bombs?
Demoman
He also carries a grenade launcher and, canonically, a drinking problem.
Q 10Which class is the slowest in the game and refers to his minigun as 'Sasha'?
Heavy
The large Russian's other default weapons are a shotgun and his fists, and he stars in the first Meet the Team short.
Q 11Which class deploys sentry guns, dispensers and teleporters?
Engineer
The 'good ol' boy' from Bee Cave, Texas, uses his wrench both to fight and to repair his buildings.
Q 12What is the name of the invulnerability meter that the Medi Gun builds while healing teammates?
ÜberCharge
Filling it grants a few seconds of temporary invulnerability to the healer and target.
Q 13Which class is a German doctor from Stuttgart with little regard for the Hippocratic Oath?
Medic
His default loadout is a syringe gun, the Medi Gun and a bonesaw.
The throwable jar weapon 'Jarate' belongs to which class?
Q 21The 2014 TF2 short 'Expiration Date' followed which promotional series?
Meet the Team
It was released as a lead-in to that year's Love and War update, which added taunts and the bread monsters.
Q 22Which cooperative mode, revealed on August 15, 2012, pits players against waves of robots?
Mann vs. Machine
The robot army belongs to Gray Mann, the third Mann brother.
Q 23Who is the Australian adventurer and CEO of Mann Co.?
Saxton Hale
The company sells the game's weapons and hats and stars in the comics.
Sniper
The marksman was born in New Zealand and raised in the Australian outback, and carries a kukri for close work.
Q 15Which class carries an invisibility device and can disguise himself as any player?
Spy
The French operative's butterfly knife instantly finishes an enemy stabbed from behind.
Q 16Who voices the Administrator, the announcer who barks objectives over the loudspeakers?
Ellen McLain
She is also the voice of GLaDOS in another game that shipped in the very same box.
Q 17Which actress voices Miss Pauling, the Administrator's assistant?
Ashly Burch
Burch is also known for Chloe in Life Is Strange and Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn.
Q 18In which month and year did Team Fortress 2 go free-to-play?
June 2011
The Mann-Conomy Update of 2010 had already added a real-money store, which made the switch possible.
Q 19How many videos make up the 'Meet the Team' promotional series?
Ten
The series began in May 2007 with the Heavy and ended on June 27, 2012.
Q 20Which of the promotional class videos leaked onto YouTube several days before its intended release?
Meet the Spy
Valve released it early in response.
Q 24Redmond and Blutarch, the identical-twin founders of RED and BLU, share which surname?
Mann
Their brother Gray later emerges as a third competitor after doing away with the pair.
Q 25In Payload mode, which team must push the explosive cart along the track?
BLU
The mode arrived with the 2008 Gold Rush update, the first to add unlockable weapons.
Q 26In TF2's Capture the Flag mode, what object stands in for the flag?
An intelligence briefcase
The classic map for it is 2Fort, itself a remake of a Quake-era Team Fortress level.
Q 27How many control points does a King of the Hill map contain?
One
It sits in the middle of the map, and a team wins by holding it until its timer runs out.
Q 28Extremely rare hats with particle effects attached are known as what?
Unusuals
They can only be obtained by opening crates or trading with other players.
Q 29What is the name of TF2's yearly Halloween event?
Scream Fortress
Its recurring bosses include the wizard Merasmus, the Horseless Headless Horsemann and the eyeball Monoculus.
Q 30Which wizard, along with his book the Bombinomicon, is a recurring antagonist of the Halloween events?
Merasmus
In the lore he is also the Soldier's long-suffering roommate.