Call of Duty Trivia
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118 free Call of Duty trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
63 free Call of Duty trivia questions with answers. Call of Duty has shipped a new game almost every autumn since 2003, and this quiz covers the whole run. Fifty-one questions take in the World War II originals, Call of Duty 4 and the Modern Warfare trilogy, Black Ops from the Cold War to 2035, Zombies, Warzone, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare, WWII and Vanguard, plus the studios, the voice actors, the esports league and the sales records that made it the best-selling shooter series ever. Easy questions ask which company publishes it and which mode Warzone is; the hard ones want who founded Infinity Ward, what a numbers station is for, and which game first dropped the campaign. Built for players from the MW2 lobby days through Black Ops 7. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games and studios, and each question shows the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which company has published every Call of Duty game since the series began in 2003?
Activision
The franchise has sold more than 500 million copies and passed $30 billion in revenue by 2022.
Q 02The original 2003 Call of Duty was set during which war?
World War II
The 2003 original was set in World War II, following American, British and Soviet soldiers on a modified id Tech 3 engine with squad-based combat.
Q 03Which studio developed the first Call of Duty and later created Modern Warfare?
Infinity Ward
Its 22 founding staff had all worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault at a studio called 2015.
Q 04Which famous flashback mission sends a young Lieutenant Price sneaking through Pripyat as a sniper?
All Ghillied Up
All Ghillied Up is set 15 years before the game's main story: Price and Captain MacMillan creep through the abandoned city, at one point lying flat in the grass while a whole platoon walks past.
Q 05Warzone, released in March 2020, is which type of game?
Battle royale
Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale that drops 150 players onto one map; its twist on the genre is cash, looted during the match and spent at Buy Stations on gear and custom loadouts.
Q 06The cooperative Zombies mode made its debut in which game?
World at War
Zombies debuted in World at War (2008) as the unlockable Nazi Zombies bonus mode and has returned in every Treyarch entry since.
Q 07Which Modern Warfare 2 mission caused an outcry for letting players take part in an airport massacre?
No Russian
'No Russian' has the player walk with Makarov's gunmen as they massacre civilians at a Moscow airport; the game warns of disturbing content and lets players skip the mission without penalty.
Q 08Which actor took over as the voice of Captain Price in the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot?
Barry Sloane
Barry Sloane both voices and motion-captures Captain Price in the reboot series; Billy Murray had voiced the character throughout the original Modern Warfare trilogy.
Q 09Which SAS recruit joins Captain Price's team as a sergeant in Call of Duty 4?
John 'Soap' MacTavish
John 'Soap' MacTavish starts Call of Duty 4 as the SAS squad's newest recruit, mocked by Price for his nickname; by Modern Warfare 2 he is the captain giving the orders.
Q 10Who is the Ultranationalist leader that Price hunts in Call of Duty 4?
Imran Zakhaev
Imran Zakhaev leads the Ultranationalists in Call of Duty 4, having built his movement on nuclear-material profits after Chernobyl and the Soviet collapse.
Q 11What multinational special forces unit does Soap command in Modern Warfare 2?
Task Force 141
Task Force 141 is the multinational unit Captain Soap MacTavish leads in the field; after its own commanding general turns on it, the survivors are officially disavowed going into Modern Warfare 3.
Q 12Black Ops (2010) follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he tries to locate what?
A numbers station
Mason hunts a Soviet numbers station whose broadcast would trigger sleeper agents to release the nerve agent Nova 6 across the United States.
Q 13Which Hollywood actor voices Viktor Reznov in World at War and Black Ops?
Gary Oldman
Q 21Which actor plays Atlas boss Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare?
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey plays Jonathan Irons, who gives the hero a job after his own son dies fighting beside him in Seoul, and who is later unmasked as the story's villain.
Q 22Advanced Warfare's signature new movement came from what piece of equipment?
An exoskeleton
An exoskeleton powers the game's Exo moves: a boosted double jump, a mid-air dodge in any direction, and a slam back to earth that can kill anyone caught underneath.
Q 23In Black Ops III's 2065 setting, what kind of upgrade turns the player into a super-soldier?
Cybernetics
Cybernetics rebuild the player after a combat robot leaves them critically wounded in the opening mission, including a direct neural interface that links soldiers to robots and networked weapons.
Gary Oldman voices Viktor Reznov, who stays behind so Mason can escape the Vorkuta labour camp yet keeps turning up at his side; those later sightings prove to be hallucinations.
Q 14Which US president orders Mason to assassinate Dragovich in Black Ops?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy personally orders Mason to kill Dragovich in a Pentagon briefing, while a brainwashed Mason sees visions of shooting the president.
Q 15Which 1960s band saw its record sales jump after its songs featured in the first Black Ops and its launch ad?
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones' 'Gimme Shelter' drove the launch ad, and its weekly sales climbed from about 2,000 to nearly 11,000 by the game's release; 'Sympathy for the Devil' plays during the campaign.
Q 16Which small Black Ops multiplayer map has two brightly painted houses filled with mannequins?
Nuketown
Nuketown copies the mock suburbs the United States built in the 1950s to see what an atomic blast would do to houses and the mannequins inside; fittingly, a bomb levels the map when each match ends.
Q 17Black Ops II's future storyline pits the United States against which country in a second Cold War?
China
China squares off with the United States in the game's 2025 chapters after a cyberattack cripples its stock exchange and it answers by banning exports of rare earth elements.
Q 18Who is the arms-dealing main villain of Black Ops II?
Raul Menendez
Raul Menendez, a Nicaraguan arms dealer and later a terrorist, blames America for the death of his sister Josefina; in 2025 he hijacks the US drone fleet and turns it on its own cities.
Q 19Which comedy actor played 'The n00b' opposite Sam Worthington in Modern Warfare 3's live-action trailer?
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill played The n00b to Sam Worthington's Vet, with NBA star Dwight Howard appearing as himself; Worthington already had a part in the series, having voiced the hero of Black Ops a year earlier.
Q 20Which dog can players control during the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign?
A German Shepherd named Riley
A German Shepherd named Riley is a full member of the squad: he sniffs out explosives, attacks on command, and at certain points the player takes direct control of him.
Q 24Which Game of Thrones actor plays villain Salen Kotch in Infinite Warfare?
Kit Harington
Kit Harington plays Admiral Salen Kotch, leader of the Settlement Defense Front; the 2016 reveal trailer drew so many dislikes that it became YouTube's second-most-disliked video at the time, behind only Justin Bieber's 'Baby'.
Q 25Infinite Warfare's campaign takes the fight to which new setting?
Outer space
Infinite Warfare takes the fight into outer space: players fly the transforming Jackal fighter to planets, moons and asteroids across the Solar System.
Q 26Special editions of Infinite Warfare bundled a remaster of which earlier game?
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty 4 returned as Modern Warfare Remastered, sold at first only inside Infinite Warfare's special editions; a standalone release did not follow until mid-2017.
Q 27Call of Duty: WWII follows a squad in which US Army division?
1st Infantry
The 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Big Red One, is Private 'Red' Daniels's unit; in a throwback, the campaign drops regenerating health, so players lean on a squad medic for health packs.
Q 28Which was the first mainline Call of Duty to ship without a single-player campaign?
Black Ops 4
Black Ops 4 (2018) was the first main entry with no story campaign; a planned two-versus-two campaign was reportedly cancelled during development, leaving multiplayer and Zombies to carry the game.
Q 29What was the 100-player last-squad-standing mode in Treyarch's 2018 Call of Duty called?
Blackout
Blackout drops 100 players onto what was then the largest map in the series, stitched together from locations of earlier Black Ops games.
Q 30Modern Warfare (2019) was the first Call of Duty game to support what?
Cross-platform play
Cross-platform play arrived with Modern Warfare (2019), linking PlayStation, Xbox and PC; to keep those players together, the game also dropped the paid season pass and released new maps to everyone at once.