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, and launched on October 10, 2007.
Q 02Which puzzle game was one of the three brand-new titles in the 2007 compilation that launched TF2?
Portal
Portal was one of the box's three new games, beside Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two; the compilation launched on October 10, 2007.
Q 03What does RED, one of the two teams in TF2, stand for?
Reliable Excavation and Demolition
Reliable Excavation and Demolition is the red team's cover company, a demolition firm in the game's lore; its rival is a construction firm with a blue logo.
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, split into three offense, three defense and three support roles, and all nine have been playable since the 2007 launch.
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 default kit is a scattergun, a pistol and a baseball bat, and he captures points at double speed.
Q 07'Rocket jumping' at the cost of some health is a signature move of which class?
Soldier
The Soldier is the jingoistic Midwesterner whose default kit is a rocket launcher, a shotgun and a shovel; firing a rocket at his own feet launches him skyward.
Q 08Which class's flamethrower can fire blasts of compressed air that repel enemies and projectiles?
Pyro
The Pyro is a pyromaniac of unknown gender and origin hidden inside a fire-retardant suit; the flamethrower's airblast reflects rockets and extinguishes burning teammates.
Q 09Which class hails from Ullapool, Scotland, and can 'sticky jump' with his own bombs?
Demoman
The Demoman is a one-eyed Scot from Ullapool who carries a grenade launcher and a sticky bomb launcher, and canonically drinks heavily.
Q 10Which class is the slowest in the game and refers to his minigun as 'Sasha'?
Heavy
The Heavy is the slowest and largest class; his other default weapons are a shotgun and his fists, and he was the first class to star in a promotional short.
Q 11Which class deploys sentry guns, dispensers and teleporters?
Engineer
The Engineer is the team's Texan builder; his wrench both fights and upgrades the sentry guns, dispensers and teleporters he places.
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; deploying it grants roughly eight seconds of invulnerability to both healer and patient.
Q 13Which class comes from Stuttgart, Germany?
Medic
The Medic is the game's German doctor from Stuttgart; his default loadout is a syringe gun, the Medi Gun and a bonesaw.
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 the bread monsters; the fifteen-minute short Expiration Date premiered the day before as its lead-in.
Q 22Which cooperative mode, revealed on August 15, 2012, pits players against waves of robots?
Mann vs. Machine
Mann vs. Machine launched on August 15, 2012 as the game's cooperative mode, with a team defending against waves of robots across maps like Coal Town and Decoy.
Q 23Who is the Australian adventurer and CEO of Mann Co.?
Saxton Hale
Saxton Hale is the mustachioed Australian who runs Mann Co., the company that sells the game's weapons and hats; he wrestles wildlife in the comics.
Q 14The throwable jar weapon 'Jarate' belongs to which class?
Sniper
The Sniper throws the Jarate jar as a secondary weapon; the marksman was 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 Spy, a French operative, cloaks with an invisibility watch and disguises with a cigarette case; his butterfly knife instantly kills an enemy stabbed from behind.
Q 16Who voices the Administrator, the announcer who barks objectives over the loudspeakers?
Ellen McLain
Ellen McLain voices the Administrator; she is also the voice of GLaDOS in the puzzle game that shipped in the same box.
Q 17Which actress voices Miss Pauling, the Administrator's assistant?
Ashly Burch
Ashly Burch voices Miss Pauling; she is also Aloy in the Horizon games and Tiny Tina in the Borderlands series.
Q 18In which month and year did Team Fortress 2 go free-to-play?
June 2011
Team Fortress 2 went free-to-play in June 2011 alongside the Über Update, after in-game cosmetic sales had shown they could fund the game.
Q 19How many videos make up the 'Meet the Team' promotional series?
Ten
Ten videos were made, one for each class plus Meet the Sandvich; the series ran from May 2007 to its finale on June 27, 2012.
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.
Q 24In Payload mode, which team must push the explosive cart along the track?
BLU
BLU is the attacking team in Payload and must push the cart into the RED base; the mode arrived with the 2008 Gold Rush Update, which also added the first unlockable weapons.
Q 25In TF2's Capture the Flag mode, what object stands in for the flag?
An intelligence briefcase
An intelligence briefcase is the flag: each team guards one in a basement room, and the classic map for the mode is 2Fort.
Q 26How many control points does a King of the Hill map contain?
One
One control point sits in the middle of a King of the Hill map; a team wins by holding it until its three-minute timer runs out.
Q 27Extremely rare hats with particle effects attached are known as what?
Unusuals
Unusuals are the rarest hat quality, each carrying a particle effect such as Burning Flames; most enter the game by being uncrated and they dominate the trading economy.
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, along with his book the Bombinomicon, is a recurring antagonist of the 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, the Saturday Evening Post cover artist, was cited with Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell in Valve's 2007 paper on the game's illustrative look.