Q 01/05

After the plane crash that opens BioShock, what kind of building does Jack swim to and find a bathysphere inside?

A) A weather station

B) A lighthouse

C) A naval fort

D) A radio mast

Answer · why

B) A lighthouse

A lighthouse hides the bathysphere that carries Jack down to Rapture, and BioShock Infinite later revisits the very same spot.

Q 02/05

In BioShock, Andrew Ryan orders Jack to beat him to death in his office with which piece of sporting equipment?

A) A golf club

B) A cricket bat

C) A baseball bat

D) A hockey stick

Answer · why

A) A golf club

A golf club is the weapon, and Ryan uses a hypnotic trigger phrase to make Jack swing it, proving his killer was never in control.

Q 03/05

ADAM, the gene-altering substance that ruins Rapture in BioShock, is produced by which kind of marine creature?

A) Jellyfish

B) Sea urchins

C) Sea slugs

D) Moray eels

Answer · why

C) Sea slugs

Sea slugs secrete ADAM, and Rapture's scientists implanted them in orphaned girls to produce the addictive substance in bulk.

Q 04/05

Andrew Ryan, founder of BioShock's Rapture, has a name that is a partial anagram of which 20th-century novelist?

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Ayn Rand

Answer · why

D) Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand preached rational self-interest, a creed BioShock's writers found perfect for a villain, so Rapture is built on it.

Q 05/05

Playtesters distrusted Atlas, the radio guide in BioShock, so developers swapped his Southern drawl for which accent?

A) Scottish

B) Irish

C) Welsh

D) Australian

Answer · why

B) Irish

Irish was judged more trustworthy after one tester likened the first voice to a lecherous Colonel Sanders.