Q 01/05

Which zombie film grew out of an episode of the sitcom Spaced that was inspired by Resident Evil 2?

A) Night of the Living Dead

B) Shaun of the Dead

C) Dawn of the Dead

D) 28 Days Later

Answer · why

B) Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead began when director Edgar Wright made a Spaced episode in which a character, hooked on the game, hallucinates a zombie invasion.

Q 02/05

Which horror film director shot a live-action Japanese TV commercial for the original Resident Evil 2?

A) Guillermo del Toro

B) Wes Craven

C) George A. Romero

D) John Carpenter

Answer · why

C) George A. Romero

George A. Romero, whose zombie films had inspired the series, shot the advert on location at Lincoln Heights Jail with young Hollywood actors as the t...

Q 03/05

Which Hollywood actress did an artist use as the model for scientist Annette in the original Resident Evil 2?

A) Jodie Foster

B) Sigourney Weaver

C) Meg Ryan

D) Sharon Stone

Answer · why

A) Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster was the reference for Annette, while the same artist, Isao Ohishi, drew hero Leon S. Kennedy after his own pet dog.

Q 04/05

Which time-travel film sequel partly inspired the overlapping hero scenarios of the original Resident Evil 2?

A) Terminator 2: Judgment Day

B) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

C) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

D) Back to the Future Part II

Answer · why

D) Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II revisits its predecessor's events from a new angle, the idea behind the game's Zapping System, where one hero's actions cha...

Q 05/05

In a joke bonus mode of Resident Evil 2, the player controls a knife-wielding block of which food?

A) Cheese

B) Tofu

C) Butter

D) Spam

Answer · why

B) Tofu

Tofu stars in The Tofu Survivor, which sends the block through a gauntlet of enemies armed only with knives; the mode dates back to the 1998 original.