Blade Runner Quiz: Ridley Scott's 2019 Los Angeles

A 1968 novel asked whether androids dream of electric sheep, and Ridley Scott turned it into a 1982 classic, as this Blade Runner quiz explores. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on Rick Deckard, Roy Batty's tears in rain, the Tyrell pyramid, the Bradbury Building, Vangelis's score, the Voight-Kampff test and Blade Runner 2049.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Year
In which year is the original Blade Runner set?
Book
Which novel inspired Blade Runner?
Hero
Who plays Rick Deckard?
Batty
Which actor played replicant leader Roy Batty?
Test
What test detects replicants?
Building
Which historic Los Angeles building houses J. F. Sebastian's apartment?
Tyrell
What shape is the Tyrell Corporation headquarters?
Music
Who composed the synthesizer score?
Car
What are the flying police cars called?
Sequel
Who directed Blade Runner 2049?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: In which year is the original Blade Runner set?
Answer: 2019
The story takes place in November 2019.
Q2: Which novel inspired Blade Runner?
Answer: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick published it in 1968.
Q3: Who plays Rick Deckard?
Answer: Harrison Ford
Deckard is a blade runner who hunts replicants.
Q4: Which actor played replicant leader Roy Batty?
Answer: Rutger Hauer
Hauer partly rewrote the famous tears in rain speech.
Q5: What test detects replicants?
Answer: The Voight-Kampff test
It measures emotional responses to questions.
Q6: Which historic Los Angeles building houses J. F. Sebastian's apartment?
Answer: The Bradbury Building
Its iron-railed atrium appears in the climax.
Q7: What shape is the Tyrell Corporation headquarters?
Answer: A giant pyramid
It looms over the city like an ancient temple.
Q8: Who composed the synthesizer score?
Answer: Vangelis
Vangelis also scored Chariots of Fire.
Q9: What are the flying police cars called?
Answer: Spinners
They lift vertically and cruise between towers.
Q10: Who directed Blade Runner 2049?
Answer: Denis Villeneuve
The 2017 sequel starred Ryan Gosling with Harrison Ford.

Blade Runner Quiz – A Neon Future Los Angeles

Blade Runner, released in 1982 and directed by Ridley Scott, adapts Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It is set in a rainy, crowded Los Angeles in November 2019.

Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a blade runner who hunts replicants, artificial humans identified with the Voight-Kampff test. Rutger Hauer's Roy Batty delivers the famous tears in rain speech. Locations include the Bradbury Building, and the Tyrell Corporation rules from a giant pyramid.

Vangelis composed the electronic score, and flying spinners glide between neon towers. Denis Villeneuve directed the sequel, Blade Runner 2049, in 2017.

What This Quiz Teaches

Science-fiction fans will enjoy these questions.

When and where the film is set
Which book inspired it
Who the main characters are
Which locations appear
Who made the sequel

Did You Know?

Several cuts of the film exist, including a 2007 Final Cut.
Union Station stood in for the police headquarters.
Sean Young played Rachael.
The film was not a big hit at first.
Its look influenced the cyberpunk genre.