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93 free Fallout trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Fallout trivia questions with answers. Welcome to the ultimate Fallout trivia quiz! Whether you're a seasoned Vault Dweller who's conquered every wasteland or a newcomer curious about the series, this quiz will test your knowledge of the iconic post-apocalyptic world. From the Brotherhood of Steel to Deathclaws, see how well you really know the Fallout universe.
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Q 01Behind the sales pitch, what were most of Fallout's Vaults secretly built to do?
Run experiments on residents
Run experiments on residents: the Vaults were sold as nuclear shelters, but only 17 of the 122 were built to work as promised, and each of the rest tested a different ordeal on the people inside.
Q 02From which animal were Fallout's Deathclaws originally genetically engineered as a bioweapon before the Great War?
Jackson's chameleons
Jackson's chameleons were the base stock: pre-War military scientists spliced the chameleon's DNA with other species to create Deathclaws as replacements for human soldiers in close-combat missions.
Q 03Which casino boss ambushes the Courier and steals the Platinum Chip at the start of Fallout: New Vegas?
Benny
Benny runs The Tops and wears a checkered suit; his tribe, the Boot-Riders, were renamed the Chairmen when they took over the casino.
Q 04In Fallout 3, the player character begins their journey in which location?
Vault 101
Vault 101 teaches that no one ever enters or leaves, yet the player character was born outside: their father James brought them in as a newborn and later slips out, starting the story.
Q 05What is the wrist-worn computer that manages quests, inventory and stats in every mainline Fallout game?
Pip-Boy
Pip-Boy: the Pip stands for Personal Information Processor, and the cartoon mascot on the first two games' Pip-Boy was modelled on the Bob's Big Boy restaurant mascot and is a different character from Vault Boy.
Q 06Which heavy weapon in the Fallout games launches miniature nuclear warheads?
Fat Man
The M42 Fat Man was developed at Fort Strong near Boston, where early warheads were too heavy to clear the blast radius before going off.
Q 07At the start of Fallout: New Vegas, which robot digs the Courier out of a shallow grave in Goodsprings?
Victor
Victor, a one-wheeled robot with a cowboy drawl, digs the Courier out and gets them to Doc Mitchell; he was secretly a scout for the reclusive ruler of the Strip all along.
Q 08Which journalist and editor of the 'Publick Occurrences' newspaper can become a companion in Fallout 4?
Piper Wright
Piper Wright prints the paper with her younger sister Nat; her article 'The Synthetic Truth' accused the mayor of being a synth, so he had her locked out of the city.
Q 09In Fallout, the Great War was a nuclear exchange between the United States and which country?
China
China's invasion of Alaska set off the war, and American troops in power armor won back Anchorage less than a year before the two sides destroyed each other.
Q 10In Fallout 4, which S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat sets how many settlers a settlement can hold?
Charisma
Charisma: a settlement holds ten settlers plus one per point, and outfits or consumables that boost the stat raise the cap too; it also governs persuasion and the prices merchants offer.
Q 11On what morning did Fallout's two-hour Great War wipe out the old world?
October 23, 2077
October 23, 2077 fell on a Saturday in the games' timeline; Bethesda now treats October 23 as Fallout Day, marking it each year with a broadcast for fans.
Q 12What is the official title given to the player character in Fallout 3?
The Lone Wanderer
The Lone Wanderer sets out after their missing father James, a part Bethesda wrote with its eventual voice actor, Liam Neeson, in mind.
Q 13Which prominent Fallout faction zealously preserves pre-war technology?
The Brotherhood of Steel
Q 21Fallout 4's Diamond City is built inside the ruins of which real baseball stadium?
Fenway Park
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, becomes Diamond City: settlers sheltered behind the ballpark's high walls and built what they call the Great Green Jewel.
Q 22Which Fallout game is set earliest in the timeline, only 25 years after the bombs fell?
Fallout 76
Fallout 76 opens in 2102 and launched without a single human character to talk to; Bethesda added them in the 2020 Wastelanders update.
Q 23Which Fallout: New Vegas companion is a Followers of the Apocalypse researcher with a medical background?
Arcade Gannon
Arcade Gannon works as a researcher and doctor for the Followers of the Apocalypse at the Old Mormon Fort in Freeside, while hiding that he grew up among Enclave remnants.
The Brotherhood of Steel was founded by Roger Maxson, a U.S. Army captain who led his unit into desertion just before the bombs fell, after learning of the military's secret human experiments.
Q 14The Yao Guai that roam the Fallout wastelands are mutated descendants of which animal?
Black bear
Black bear: the mutated bears were named by descendants of pre-War internment-camp prisoners, in whose language the words mean 'monster' or 'demon'.
Q 15In Fallout 4, which faction is dedicated to liberating and protecting sentient synths?
The Railroad
The Railroad borrows its name from the Underground Railroad and hides beneath Boston's Old North Church, at the end of the old Freedom Trail walking tour.
Q 16Which is one of the four main factions vying for the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas?
Caesar's Legion
Caesar's Legion was founded by a former scholar of the Followers of the Apocalypse, who lifted its whole culture from books about ancient Rome and built an army of enslaved tribes.
Q 17What does the 'I' stand for in Fallout's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. character stats?
Intelligence
Intelligence is the I in S.P.E.C.I.A.L.; the system was built in-house after a licence to use the GURPS tabletop rules fell through during the first game's development.
Q 18In the original Fallout, what item must the Vault Dweller find to save their vault?
A working water chip
The hero has 150 days to find a working water chip, which turns up beneath the ghoul city of Necropolis; the Overseer then exiles them, fearing others would follow them outside.
Q 19Which pre-War contractor built the first Power Armor in the Fallout universe?
West-Tek
West-Tek built the T-45, the first power armor deployed in battle, and the same contractor's virus research produced the Forced Evolutionary Virus.
Q 20In the Fallout TV series, Lucy MacLean leaves which shelter to find her kidnapped father?
Vault 33
Vault 33 is home to Ella Purnell's Lucy; the raiders who seize her father Hank arrive posing as neighbours from Vault 32, where everyone was already dead.
Q 24In Fallout 3, which town can the player destroy for a reward from the wealthy Allistair Tenpenny?
Megaton
Megaton is built around an unexploded atomic bomb that a local cult worships; the player can disarm it for the sheriff or detonate it for Tenpenny's agent, Mister Burke.
Q 25How is Fallout 2's Chosen One related to the protagonist of the original Fallout?
A direct descendant
A direct descendant: the Chosen One is the grandchild of the first game's hero, sent out by Arroyo's elder, who is both their mother and the old hero's daughter.
Q 26The first season of the Fallout TV series is set in which ruined U.S. city?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles: the heroine's home lies beneath Santa Monica, and the season ends by turning toward New Vegas, where the second season picks up the story.
Q 27Which Fallout 4 Luck perk gives a random chance to triple the experience earned from any action?
Idiot Savant
Idiot Savant fires more often the dumber your character is, and a laughing Vault Boy pops up whenever it does; a second rank raises the bonus to five times the experience.
Q 28In Fallout 3, Project Purity's giant water purifier is built inside which Washington landmark?
The Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial holds Project Purity, begun by the player's parents to clean the Tidal Basin; in the ending, someone must enter its lethally irradiated control room to start it.
Q 29In Fallout 4's Vault 81, a bite from which creature leaves the player with a lasting disease?
Mole Rat
Mole Rat: Vault 81's hidden wing kept infected ones for its disease research, and one bite cuts the player's health for good unless they take the only cure, meant for a sick boy.
Q 30Which iconic location in Fallout: New Vegas features a massive dinosaur sculpture and a motel?
Novac
Novac took its name from a broken 'No Vacancy' motel sign; Dinky the T-Rex looms over the Dino Dee-lite Motel, and snipers Boone and Manny Vargas use its mouth as a nest.