Among Us Trivia Quiz: Are You an Impostor Expert?

Two years of near-total obscurity followed by an explosive, almost overnight surge in popularity is a rare enough trajectory that it’s worth pausing on, especially for a game as simple in concept as this one. Among Us sat largely unnoticed after its original 2018 release before streamers rediscovered it in 2020, and within a matter of weeks it had become one of the most-watched, most-played games on the planet, driven almost entirely by word of mouth and viral clips of friends screaming accusations at each other.

InnerSloth had three people on staff when the game went out on mobile in June 2018, and for most of the following year its concurrent player count sat in the low thousands, occasionally dipping into the dozens. By September 2020 that figure had reached roughly 3.8 million at peak, which is the kind of jump that breaks a small studio’s plans rather than validating them. A sequel had already been announced that August; InnerSloth cancelled it within weeks and redirected everything into the original game instead, on the reasonable grounds that the audience was already there and the codebase they wanted to rebuild was the one everybody was playing.

Rounds run on maps with names most players can still recite: The Skeld, MIRA HQ, Polus, and the later, much larger Airship. Crewmates work through a task list that includes swiping a keycard in Admin, aligning the telescope, emptying the garbage chute, and the widely hated wire-connecting minigame, while Impostors move through the vent network, trigger reactor meltdowns and oxygen depletion to force the crew to split up, and wait out a kill cooldown between eliminations. Fixing a sabotage takes two people at two separate panels, which is exactly the sort of forced separation an Impostor is counting on.

Meetings are called either by reporting a body or hitting the emergency button, and the discussion that follows borrows its shape from Mafia and Werewolf, party games that predate the video game by decades. Someone gets voted out, the game announces whether that person was the Impostor, and the survivors adjust their reasoning accordingly. Much of the appeal sits in that announcement: a confident, articulate, completely wrong accusation lands harder than a correct one, and the clips that spread fastest in 2020 were almost always the failures rather than the deductions that worked.

The cultural peak arrived in October 2020, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar streamed the game on Twitch to an audience of several hundred thousand concurrent viewers, one of the largest debuts the platform had recorded. Console ports followed on Switch, Xbox and PlayStation, and later updates added the Hide n Seek mode and a set of assigned roles including Engineer, Scientist, Guardian Angel and Shapeshifter, which complicated a formula that had been deliberately bare.

Expect questions on the Impostor and Crewmate roles, the maps and their task locations, the sabotages and the vent system, and the studio and release history behind the whole thing. Some are the sort of detail anyone who played a handful of rounds will have, like what happens after a vote or what the characters are shaped like. Others are tighter, asking for the developer’s name, the year of the original release, or which map arrived last. Answers with the correct choices marked sit below the final question once the quiz is submitted.

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