Team Fortress 2 Trivia
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This TF2 trivia quiz has 98 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 Orange Box bundled Team Fortress 2 with Half-Life 2 and its two Episodes on October 10, 2007; the PlayStation 3 edition followed that December, ported by EA rather than Valve.
Q 02Which brand-new game shipped beside TF2 in the 2007 compilation that launched it?
Portal
Portal was one of the compilation's three new games, beside Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two; it grew out of Narbacular Drop, a student game whose entire team Valve hired to remake it.
Q 03What does RED, one of the two teams in TF2, stand for?
Reliable Excavation Demolition
Reliable Excavation Demolition is the demolition firm that fronts for the red team; in the lore it belongs to Redmond Mann, who hires its mercenaries to fight his brother's rival company.
Q 04What does BLU stand for?
Builders League United
Builders League United is the blue team's cover company, a construction firm whose feud with the red team's demolition company drives the game's lore.
Q 05How many playable classes does Team Fortress 2 have?
Nine
Nine classes ship in the game, three each for offense, defense and support; Valve's artists gave each a distinct silhouette because spotting an enemy's class at a glance matters so much in play.
Q 06Which class, a baseball fan from Boston, can double jump and counts twice when capturing points?
Scout
The Scout is the fastest class; his official bio says the youngest of eight Boston brothers taught himself to run so he could reach a fight before his siblings ended it.
Q 07'Rocket jumping' at the cost of some health is a signature move of which class?
Soldier
The Soldier fires a rocket at his own feet to fly; his official bio says every branch of the US military rejected him, so he bought his own ticket to Europe and fought World War II alone.
Q 08Which class can fire blasts of compressed air that repel enemies and reflect projectiles?
Pyro
The Pyro's flamethrower doubles as an air cannon: its airblast shoves enemies back, returns rockets to whoever fired them and puts out burning teammates.
Q 09Which class hails from Ullapool in Scotland and can 'sticky jump' across the map?
Demoman
The Demoman is a one-eyed Scot; his official bio says a terrible plan to kill the Loch Ness Monster at age six cost him his first set of adoptive parents.
Q 10Which TF2 class has named his primary weapon 'Sasha'?
Heavy
The Heavy is the slowest and largest class, and Sasha is his minigun; his 'Meet the Team' video, the first one released, reuses his audition script almost word for word.
Q 11Which TF2 class's official bio credits him with eleven science PhDs?
Engineer
The Engineer is the team's builder: his wrench both fights and upgrades the sentry guns, dispensers and teleporters he places, skills his bio credits to the PhDs and ten years in the oilfields.
Q 12What is the name of the invulnerability meter that the Medi Gun builds while healing teammates?
ÜberCharge
ÜberCharge is the meter the Medi Gun fills while healing; released, it makes healer and patient briefly invulnerable, and the healer can swing the beam to pass that shield to someone else.
Q 13Which class comes from Stuttgart, Germany?
Medic
The Medic was raised in Stuttgart when, his official bio jokes, the Hippocratic oath had been downgraded to a Hippocratic suggestion; healing is a side effect of his morbid curiosity.
Q 21Which 2014 update was the short 'Expiration Date' released to promote?
Love and War
Love and War arrived in June 2014 with new taunts and bread-themed items; the fifteen-minute short Expiration Date was made to promote it, and its plot about bread sent through a teleporter set up the jokes.
Q 22Which cooperative mode, added to TF2 in August 2012, pits players against waves of robots?
Mann vs. Machine
Mann vs. Machine is the co-op mode in which up to six players stop a robot horde from carrying a bomb into a Mann Co. site; the lore gives the army to Gray Mann, who built it to destroy the company.
Q 23Who is the Australian adventurer and CEO of Mann Co.?
Saxton Hale
Q 14The throwable jar weapon 'Jarate' belongs to which class?
Sniper
The Sniper's Jarate is a jar of his own urine: it began as a background gag in his 'Meet the Team' video before Valve turned it into a weapon that makes soaked enemies take extra damage.
Q 15Which TF2 class disables enemy buildings by attaching a sapper to them?
Spy
The Spy's Sapper shuts down a sentry gun, dispenser or teleporter and wears it down until it breaks unless its builder knocks the device off; his invisibility watch and disguises get him close enough to plant it.
Q 16Who voices TF2's Administrator, the announcer who barks objectives over the loudspeakers?
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain voices the Administrator; the same box also carries her as GLaDOS in its puzzle game and as the Combine's Overwatch announcer in Half-Life 2.
Q 17Which actress voices Miss Pauling, the Administrator's assistant?
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch voices Miss Pauling, as well as Aloy in the Horizon games; in the short Expiration Date her character races to bury incriminating bodies while the Scout works up the nerve to ask her out.
Q 18What did earlier buyers get when TF2 went free-to-play in 2011?
A hat
A hat named the Proof of Purchase went to everyone who had bought the game, as Valve's thank-you for their support; paying players also kept premium accounts with bigger backpacks and full trading.
Q 19Which video ended 'Meet the Team'?
Meet the Pyro
Meet the Pyro completed the ten-video series on June 27, 2012, five years after it began; it finally showed the world through the masked arsonist's eyes, a utopian fantasy land the game calls Pyroland.
Q 20Which of the promotional class videos leaked onto YouTube several days before its intended release?
Meet the Spy
Meet the Spy leaked onto YouTube in May 2009, days before its planned debut, so Valve published it early.
Saxton Hale runs Mann Co. because its founder, Zepheniah Mann, willed the company to his tracker, Barnabus Hale, and left his own sons only worthless land; Saxton is that tracker's descendant.
Q 24In TF2's Payload mode, which team must push the explosive cart along its track?
BLU
BLU is the attacking team in Payload: the bomb cart rolls only while BLU players stand beside it, speeds up with more of them, and slides back if left alone too long.
Q 25In TF2's Capture the Flag mode, what object stands in for the flag?
An intelligence briefcase
An intelligence briefcase is the flag; when its carrier drops it, the owning team cannot pick it up and must guard it where it lies until a one-minute timer sends it home.
Q 26What does a TF2 King of the Hill clock do when its team loses the point?
Pauses
Pauses is the rule: each team's three-minute clock runs only while that team holds the point, so a side seconds from victory can lose the hill and watch its rival's clock run down instead.
Q 27Extremely rare hats with particle effects attached are known as what?
Unusuals
Unusuals are hats with a particle effect such as Burning Flames attached; they cannot be found as ordinary drops, only unboxed from crates or traded for, which is what keeps them scarce.
Q 28What is the name of TF2's yearly Halloween event?
Scream Fortress
Scream Fortress is the yearly Halloween event; it brings haunted map variants, spell-casting and bosses such as the Horseless Headless Horsemann and the eyeball Monoculus.
Q 29Which wizard, owner of the Bombinomicon, is a recurring villain of TF2's Halloween events?
Merasmus
Merasmus is the wizard who debuted as a boss on Ghost Fort in the 2012 Halloween event; the lore makes him the rocket-jumping class's long-suffering roommate.
Q 30TF2's cartoon look drew on commercial illustrators including Norman Rockwell and whom?
J. C. Leyendecker
J. C. Leyendecker was named with Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell in Valve's 2007 paper on the game's look, which copied their habit of picking figures out with bright rim highlights instead of dark outlines.