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50 free Fallout 4 trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Fallout 4 trivia quiz covers Bethesda's 2015 game from the moment the bombs drop on October 23, 2077 to the endings for the Institute, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Railroad and the Minutemen. You will get questions on the story (Vault 111, Shaun, Kellogg, the synths), the Commonwealth's landmarks (Diamond City in Fenway Park, Goodneighbor, the Prydwen), the thirteen companions and who can be romanced, the mechanics (settlements, power armour fusion cores, V.A.T.S., Survival mode) and the six add-ons from Automatron to Nuka-World. It also covers how the game was made and received: the Creation Engine, id Software's help with gunplay, 111,000 lines of dialogue, the E3 2015 reveal, the launch that shipped 12 million units, the Game of the Year awards, the wearable Pip-Boy, the VR port and the Anniversary Edition. Difficulty runs from easy questions for anyone who finished the main quest to expert ones about release dates and development. Every answer was checked against a reference page before publishing, so the dates, names and numbers hold up.
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Q 01Fallout 4 was released worldwide on which date?
November 10, 2015
Fallout 4 launched on November 10, 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows, the first main-series entry since Fallout 3 in 2008; native PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions followed in April 2024.
Q 02From which numbered vault does the Sole Survivor emerge?
111
The Sole Survivor emerges from Vault 111, the cryogenic vault on the hill above Sanctuary Hills, where residents were frozen in pods instead of living out their lives below ground.
Q 03In which year is Fallout 4's main story set?
2287
Fallout 4's main story takes place in 2287, a decade after Fallout 3's 2277; Fallout: New Vegas sits between them in 2281.
Q 04On which date do the bombs fall at the start of Fallout 4's story?
October 23, 2077
Fallout 4 opens on the morning of October 23, 2077, the day of the Great War; the Sole Survivor's family reaches the vault as the first bomb detonates on the horizon.
Q 05The Commonwealth is Fallout's version of which real region?
Boston and Massachusetts
The Commonwealth is Fallout's take on Boston and Massachusetts: the map rebuilds real landmarks such as the Massachusetts State House, Bunker Hill Monument and the USS Constitution in post-war ruin.
Q 06What is the name of the Sole Survivor's kidnapped son?
Shaun
Shaun, the infant taken from the spouse's cryo-pod, turns out to be Father, the elderly director of the Institute, which wanted his uncorrupted pre-war DNA.
Q 07Which mercenary killed the Sole Survivor's spouse?
Conrad Kellogg
Conrad Kellogg, the scarred Institute mercenary, shoots the spouse in the cryo-vault while seizing the baby; Dr Amari later replays his memories from a brain implant in Goodneighbor's Memory Den.
Q 08Diamond City, the Commonwealth's largest settlement, is built inside which real landmark?
Fenway Park
Diamond City was built inside Fenway Park: its market stands on the old baseball diamond, the stadium's outer wall keeps out raiders, and Mayor McDonough governs from the upper stands.
Q 09Which of these is NOT one of Fallout 4's four main factions?
The Enclave
The Enclave, the shadow-government faction of Fallout 2 and Fallout 3, is not a joinable faction in Fallout 4; the fourth is the Brotherhood of Steel, which arrives aboard the airship Prydwen.
Q 10The Institute's humanoid creations are known as what?
Synths
The Institute's artificial humans are Synths; the third-generation models are indistinguishable from people, and the Railroad smuggles them out with wiped memories and new identities.
Q 11Which is the only mandatory companion in Fallout 4?
Dogmeat
Dogmeat, the German Shepherd met at the Red Rocket truck stop, is the one companion the main quest requires: he tracks the mercenary's scent during the quest Reunions, and was modelled on a real dog named River.
Q 12Which companion is a Super Mutant sympathetic to humans?
Strong
Strong is the Super Mutant companion, freed from the top of Trinity Tower alongside the actor Rex Goodman, who is teaching him Macbeth in his search for the 'milk of human kindness'.
Q 13Which companion is an Institute Courser?
X6-88
X6-88 is the Institute Courser, an elite retrieval unit, who can be recruited as a companion after the Sole Survivor joins the Institute and helps him recover a runaway at the raider base Libertalia.
Q 21Which studio, maker of Doom, helped Bethesda with Fallout 4's gunplay?
id Software
id Software, Bethesda's sister studio and maker of Doom, advised on Fallout 4's shooting so that real-time gunplay felt as solid as a dedicated shooter's rather than a fallback, as it had in Fallout 3.
Q 22Fallout 4 runs on which technology, previously used for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?
Creation Engine
Fallout 4 runs on the Creation Engine, Bethesda's successor to Gamebryo that debuted with Skyrim in 2011, upgraded here with physically based rendering and dynamic volumetric lighting.
Q 23Roughly how many lines of dialogue does Fallout 4 contain?
111,000
Q 14How many companions can be romanced once they idolize the Sole Survivor?
Seven
Seven companions can be romanced: Cait, Curie, Danse, Hancock, MacCready, Piper and Preston, regardless of the player's gender, with Curie only after she transfers into a human-like body.
Q 15A companion 'idolizes' the player when their affinity reaches how many points?
1,000
A companion idolizes the Sole Survivor at 1,000 affinity, which unlocks their unique companion perk; actions they love add to affinity while actions they hate subtract from it.
Q 16Roughly how many perks are available to unlock in Fallout 4?
About 275
About 275 perks were advertised by Bethesda for Fallout 4, counting each rank of the chart's 70 base perks separately; they replace the skill system of earlier games.
Q 17Power armour in Fallout 4 must be fed with what to run efficiently?
Fusion cores
Power armour runs on Fusion cores, which drain with use and can be pulled from generators or bought from vendors; the suits were redesigned to feel like vehicles and can mount a jet pack.
Q 18Which convenience is disabled when playing on Survival difficulty?
Fast travel
Survival difficulty disables Fast travel and manual saving, adds hunger, thirst and sleep needs, and raises damage in both directions; the revamped mode arrived as a free update in 2016.
Q 19What does V.A.T.S. stand for?
Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System
V.A.T.S. is the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, which slows time so the player can queue shots at specific body parts; each queued shot drains Action Points.
Q 20Fallout 4 was the first game in the series to feature what?
A fully voiced protagonist
Brian T. Delaney and Courtenay Taylor voiced the male and female Sole Survivor across 111,000 lines of dialogue.
Bethesda put the count at 111,000 lines of dialogue, more than Fallout 3 and Skyrim combined; the game also introduced a layered armour system and settlement building.
Q 24Fallout 4 was officially revealed with a trailer on which date in 2015?
June 3
The reveal trailer went live on June 3, 2015, after a 24-hour countdown on Bethesda's website; gameplay details followed at the company's first E3 press conference eleven days later.
Q 25How many units did Fallout 4 ship to retailers at launch, generating $750M in its first 24 hours?
12 million
Bethesda shipped 12 million units to retailers for launch, worth about $750 million in sales, a bigger opening than Skyrim's 7 million; it was the company's most successful launch to that point.
Q 26Whose Steam record for concurrent players in a non-Valve game did Fallout 4 break at launch?
Grand Theft Auto V
Fallout 4 passed Grand Theft Auto V's mark for the most concurrent Steam players on a non-Valve game, peaking at almost 470,000 on launch day.
Q 27Fallout 4's collector's edition included a wearable replica of what?
The Pip-Boy
The Pip-Boy Edition shipped with a wearable plastic Pip-Boy that held a smartphone running the companion app, mirroring the in-game wrist computer on a second screen.
Q 28Which two ceremonies named Fallout 4 their Game of the Year?
D.I.C.E. Awards and the British Academy Games Awards
Fallout 4 took Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards and the British Academy Games Awards in early 2016, while The Witcher 3 beat it to the top prize at The Game Awards.
Q 29Which voice actor plays both Codsworth and Nick Valentine?
Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell voices both Codsworth, the Mister Handy butler, and Nick Valentine; he had earlier played the master thief Garrett in the original Thief games.
Q 30Which was the first add-on released for Fallout 4, in March 2016?
Automatron
Automatron, released in March 2016, lets players build custom robot companions from salvaged parts and pits them against the Mechanist and her robot army.