Uncharted Trivia
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50 free Uncharted trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Uncharted trivia quiz covers the whole Naughty Dog series and everything around it. It asks about the treasures and lost cities of each game, from El Dorado and Shambhala to Iram of the Pillars and Henry Avery's Libertalia, the villains, the locations the team researched on foot, and the voice cast who ad-libbed their way into the characters. There are questions on Uncharted: Golden Abyss on the Vita, The Lost Legacy without Drake, the Nathan Drake Collection, sales records and Game of the Year hauls. The last stretch turns to the 2022 film: Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, the directors who came and went, the Magellan treasure, and the Nathan Fillion fan film that got everyone talking. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has played the games, a third are medium, and the rest are for players who know which studio made Golden Abyss. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the developer interviews it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Which studio developed the main Uncharted games?
Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog could have made another Jak and Daxter; its co-president said more powerful hardware meant it was time to move from stylised cartoon heroes to human characters in the modern day.
Q 02Who is credited as the creator of the Uncharted franchise?
Amy Hennig
Amy Hennig headed the writing of the first three games and had begun the fourth when she left the studio in 2014; the lead actor later said eight months of his work on it was thrown out.
Q 03Nathan Drake's ring carries the Latin motto 'Sic Parvis Magna', which the games translate how?
Greatness from small beginnings
Greatness from small beginnings is how Nate renders it for Elena in the first game. The ring is also dated a day after Sir Francis Drake's recorded death, and its engraved coordinates are how Nate found the coffin.
Q 04What is Nathan Drake's real birth surname, revealed in A Thief's End?
Morgan
Morgan was the name of his late mother, Cassandra. As a boy on the run from the police he took the name Drake to honour her theory that the Elizabethan sea captain had left descendants.
Q 05Which actor voices and motion-captures Nathan Drake?
Nolan North
Nolan North also turns up in the 2022 film, lounging on a beach as the drenched young Drake explains he fell out of a plane, and replies that something like that happened to him once.
Q 06Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was released in 2007 for which console?
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3 Trophies arrived after the game did: a 2008 patch matched them to the medals the game already awarded, but players had to start a new save to earn any.
Q 07What lost treasure does Drake hunt in Drake's Fortune?
El Dorado
El Dorado is no city of gold here but a golden idol, and the idol a sarcophagus: the mummy inside carries an airborne infection that turned the Spanish colonists who opened it into monsters.
Q 08Elena Fisher, who eventually marries Drake, has what job?
Investigative journalist
Investigative journalist is her job by the second game. In the first she hosts a cable TV show, and Drake and Sully ditch her at a dock, afraid her filming will bring rivals after the treasure.
Q 09In which service did Victor 'Sully' Sullivan learn to navigate by the stars?
The U.S. Navy
The U.S. Navy comes up in Drake's Deception, when he offers to find a lost city from its constellations. In the first game he survives a gunshot because the old diary he is carrying stops the bullet.
Q 10In which country did Sullivan first meet the young Nathan Drake?
Colombia
Colombia, in Cartagena: a teenage Nate is cornered at gunpoint while robbing a museum, and Sully, who had been working with the armed crew, rescues the boy and takes him on as his protégé.
Q 11Which actress voices Chloe in the Uncharted games?
Claudia Black
Claudia Black, the Australian star of Farscape, called Chloe 'Indiana Jones with nice hair', and said her chemistry with the actor playing Drake partly decided who the character became.
Q 12The second Uncharted game sends Drake after the Cintamani Stone and which mythical city?
Shambhala
Shambhala, which the game equates with Shangri-La, hides a twist: the fabled Stone is no sapphire but a giant orb of fossilised resin from a Tree of Life whose sap gives drinkers monstrous strength.
Q 13The second Uncharted game follows the trail of which explorer's lost fleet?
Marco Polo
Marco Polo's 1292 voyage home is real history: he left China with 14 ships and some 600 passengers, and only 18 of them reached Persia alive. The game invents what became of the rest.
Q 21Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was its studio's first game built specifically for which console?
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 4 power still had limits: the team aimed for 60 frames a second throughout, then locked the story mode at 30 after deciding that a steady frame rate beat a faster, uneven one.
Q 22The second Uncharted game opens with a wounded Drake waking up inside what?
A train hanging off a cliff
A train hanging off a cliff is the first thing players see, as a bleeding Drake climbs out of the wreck. The story then jumps back months to show how he got there, and catches up with that scene much later.
Q 23In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Nate bets Elena he can beat her high score on which real 1996 game?
Q 14Which Uncharted game was the first to include online multiplayer?
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves added co-op for three and five-a-side matches, and players first got in through a beta code packed with early copies of another Sony game, Infamous.
Q 15Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception centres on the search for which lost city?
Iram of the Pillars
Iram of the Pillars, the 'Atlantis of the Sands', hides a trap in the game: a vessel sunk in its cisterns has laced the water with a hallucinogen, which the villains want as a weapon of fear.
Q 16Who is the villain of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, a former employer of Sullivan?
Katherine Marlowe
Katherine Marlowe leads a secret society, the Hermetic Order. She ends the game sinking into the sand as the lost city collapses around her, and takes Drake's treasured ring down with her.
Q 17The plot of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception drew inspiration from the life of which real archaeologist and soldier?
T. E. Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence dug in Syria as an archaeologist before he became 'Lawrence of Arabia', and he talked of going back to hunt for a lost city under the sands, which is the thread the game picks up.
Q 18In Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Drake leaves retirement to help which presumed-dead relative?
His brother
His brother Sam, shot and presumed dead in a prison break 15 years earlier, turns up claiming a drug lord freed him and wants paying in treasure. It is a lie told to lure Nate out of retirement.
Q 19Whose long-lost treasure is the target in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End?
Henry Avery's
Henry Avery's haul is real history: he plundered a Mughal treasure fleet and then vanished from all records. The game imagines he founded a pirate colony with it and poisoned his fellow founders.
Q 20Which pair took over Uncharted 4 after its original directors left in 2014?
Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley
Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley had just led The Last of Us when they took over mid-development. Straley left the studio the year after the game shipped, and his next game was not revealed until 2025.
Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot was the studio's own first hit, yet the request to use it was first refused, and the team had started building a stand-in retro game before a late deal. The stake in the scene is the washing-up.
Q 24What artefact is the goal of the 2017 Chloe-led Uncharted expansion?
The Tusk of Ganesh
The Tusk of Ganesh comes with a story the game leans on: the god let an axe cut it off, because the weapon was a gift from his father Shiva and defeating it would have shamed him.
Q 25The 2017 Chloe-led Uncharted expansion is set mainly in which country?
India
India is personal ground for Chloe: her father, a treasure hunter of Indian descent, was killed by bandits while chasing the same relic, and a trinket of his is all she has left of him.
Q 26Uncharted: Golden Abyss was a launch title for which handheld?
PlayStation Vita
PlayStation Vita owners alone got to play it: the makers of the main games weighed adding it to the 2015 remastered trilogy, then decided the three console games were enough to set up the fourth.
Q 27Which developer made Uncharted: Golden Abyss?
Bend Studio
Bend Studio, the Oregon team behind Syphon Filter, borrowed the main series' motion-capture stage and its returning lead actors, so the handheld spin-off was performed by the same cast as the console games.
Q 28Where is Uncharted: Golden Abyss set?
Central America
Central America, in the jungles of Panama, hides the city of Quivira, whose gold is real but deadly: uranium deposits made it radioactive, and that is what wiped out the people who lived there.
Q 29Which studio handled the 2015 remaster Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection?
Bluepoint Games
Bluepoint Games spent 15 months on it, and the case for the job was simple: by the series' makers' count, about four in five owners of the newer console had never played an Uncharted game.
Q 30Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection was given away free in 2020 as part of which Sony initiative?
Play at Home
Play at Home was Sony's answer to the first COVID-19 lockdowns: from 15 April to 5 May 2020 anyone could claim the trilogy free, offered as thanks for staying indoors.