Questions in this quiz: Half-Life

Valve's foundational FPS series. Gordon Freeman, Black Mesa, the G-Man, the Combine, the gravity gun, City 17, and the long wait for Half-Life 3 (plus Alyx in VR).

1. In the original Half-Life, the catastrophic chain reaction in Sector C occurs during a routine procedure in which research division? — Options: Lambda Complex, Anomalous Materials, Biodome Research, Hydroelectric Engineering
2. Which composer scored the original Half-Life, contributing tracks that blended industrial noise with jazz percussion? — Options: Kelly Bailey, Mike Morasky, Jeremy Soule, Chance Thomas
3. Half-Life 2 was originally scheduled to launch in late 2003. What forced Valve to delay the game by roughly a year? — Options: A leak of the source code by a German hacker, A lawsuit filed by publisher Sierra, The collapse of the Source engine's physics middleware deal, A studio fire at Valve's Bellevue offices
4. In Half-Life 2, what is the official in-universe designation of the weapon players call the gravity gun? — Options: Field Manipulation Device, Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, Mass Inversion Projector, Kinetic Containment Apparatus
5. In Dr. Breen's Breencasts, how long does he claim Earth's resistance to the Combine invasion actually lasted? — Options: Seven hours, Just under two days, Approximately seven minutes, Around seven weeks
6. At the climax of Half-Life: Alyx, whose role does the player effectively assume in order to retroactively change the canon of the series? — Options: Eli Vance, Gordon Freeman, Father Grigori, The G-Man
7. Which Half-Life 2 episode ended on the cliffhanger that fans waited over a decade to see resolved? — Options: Episode One, Episode Two, The cancelled Episode Three, Lost Coast