Portal 2 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jump out of the window

After initially waking, the player was told to look up, look down, look at a piece of art and listen to some classical music. The player was then told to go to sleep, at which point the screen faded to black. As the player's character woke up for the second time it was clear that a long time had passed.

The room was decayed and a British voice behind the door was asking Chell to open the door. If the player did not initially co-operate, the voice tried to communicate in very weak Spanish and he also tried to use reverse psychology on the player. Upon opening the door, it was realized that the voice actually came from a personality core named Wheatley.

Answer: To activate a switch that read "Escape Pod".

Wheatley expressed some initial fear at the prospect of passing through GLaDOS' lair, but upon seeing her inanimate mechanical remains, Wheatley was comfortable with going through there. After making it to the breaker room, Wheatley and the player had to look for a switch that read "Escape Pod". No such switch was to be found. Wheatley, however, did not initially realize that by lifting the elevator in the breaker room he was re-activating almost every single switch.

The huge shock came when GLaDOS was re-animated by the activated power.

Answer: Horrible person

In almost every single one of GLaDOS' test chambers, GLaDOS found a way to make fun of almost every aspect of the player's character, Chell. GLaDOS less-than-subtly hinted at how fat Chell had become, how Chell was an orphan and how Chell would inevitably die. The taunting and manipulation continued until Wheatley and Chell finally made it into GLaDOS' chamber.

Answer: GLaDOS' security turrets and GLaDOS' neuro-toxin

To sabotage the security turrets, the player had to remove the prototype turret and replace it with one of the discarded ones being launched towards the incinerator. Upon replacing it, the faulty turrets were allowed through production whereas the functional ones were sent to the incinerator. To sabotage the neuro-toxin, the player had to set up a portal in the path of a laser beam and then set up the second portal on the conveniently located platforms moving above and around the hoses connected to the neuro-toxin generator. Those laser beams cut through the hoses and destroyed the neuro-toxin generator, allowing Wheatley and Chell safe passage all the way to GLaDOS' lair.

Answer: A potato battery

Before reaching GLaDOS' lair, Wheatley and the player went through a room where "Bring Your Daughter to Work Day" had occurred. Wheatley commented about how almost every single science display there was an un-inventive potato battery. He then commented about a baking soda volcano and how it had "labourer written all over it." Despite his criticisms, he did not make a single comment regarding a potato battery that happened to power a device that looked shockingly similar to the Flux Capacitor from "Back to the Future".

After defeating GLaDOS, Wheatley decided to turn her into a potato battery, a talking one, no less.

Answer: Green: Simulates the faith plates from GLaDOS' test chambers.

The blue propulsion-gel allowed the player to bounce extra high wherever this gel was spilled. This allowed the player to use their momentum to gain extra distance when landing on one of the blue stains on the floor. The orange (or red, depends on how your colors are set), gel allowed the player to wildly accelerate.

This acceleration allowed the player to jump over long gaps, or launch through portals at high enough speeds to clear obstacles. The white gel, that happened to be made of crushed moon rocks, allowed the player to place portals in areas where portals could not ordinarily be placed.

The beginning of the old Aperture testing area started off easy but became somewhat more challenging as combinations of the gels had to be used in order to overcome the various obstacles presented to the player.

Answer: A bird

Earlier in the game, back in GLaDOS' test chambers, Wheatley jammed a door closed using a bird's eggs. As Wheatley told the player about what he had done, the bird who had laid those eggs began pecking at and chasing Wheatley around. After falling down the elevator shaft with the potato-battery GLaDOS, a bird had grabbed her and flown off. As the player approached the bird's nest where GLaDOS was taken, GLaDOS told Chell that because Chell was so good at killing, she should kill the bird. After scaring away the bird, the player rescued GLaDOS by stabbing the potato onto the portal gun.

In the same game area, a hidden thing could easily be overlooked on a first play. Instead of launching to the lower offices where GLaDOS was, the player should launch to the second level of offices, above GLaDOS' potato location. Inside the office, on the left side, was a door. After going through it, the player would discover that hidden behind the door was the testing area of the experimental "Borealis", the mysterious ship first alluded to in "Half Life 2: Episode Two". Finding the ship also unlocks an achievement.

Answer: A canine core that made noises like a dog.

The first core that had to be connected was a core obsessed with outer-space. Sounding like it was stimulated by coffee, it ranted in a rather unresting pace about space. The second core that was attached was a southern adventurer type of core. The final core recited useless and incredibly untrue trivia.

The core stated many ridiculously hilarious "facts". Some of them were: Nikola Tesla invented push-ups and they were originally called "Tesla-cises", Babe Ruth died because of hot-dog poisoning as a result of eating 75 hot-dogs, and my personal favourite: pants were invented by sailors in the 17th century because they believed that pantless sailors upset the God, Poseidon.

Answer: Moon

After being knocked to the ground by Wheatley's explosive trap, the roof of Aperture Science opened up, exposing the moon and giving a not-so-subtle hint to the player as to what they must do next. With the orange portal already underneath Wheatley, all the player had to do was fire a blue portal at the moon.

After connecting the portals, everything in the room began to be sucked out into space. Wheatley, and the three cores attached to his body were all sucked out. Before being sucked out into space as well, Chell was saved by GLaDOS.

Answer: A companion cube

GLaDOS told Chell that the easiest solution to a problem was usually the best. Chell, proved difficult to kill, so GLaDOS decided to let her go instead, as letting her leave was the easier option. As the elevator to the surface rose up, all of the security turrets began singing a song.

After exiting the door out into a large wheat field, Chell's special gift was launched out of the door from which she had just exited. It was a companion cube, not just any companion cube, but the same cube that the player had incinerated in the first game. That was evident via the scorch marks and heavy degradation on the cube's outer shell.