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60 free Grand Theft Auto trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
51 free Grand Theft Auto trivia questions with answers. This Grand Theft Auto trivia quiz is split roughly down the middle. Half of it is GTA 5 trivia: the three protagonists and their voice actors, the Ludendorff prologue, Lester's heists, Trevor's business in Sandy Shores, the record-shattering launch numbers, and GTA Online's Heists, Cayo Perico, Dr. Dre and Shark Cards. The other half runs through the whole series, from DMA Design's top-down original in 1997 through GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas and the Hot Coffee scandal, GTA IV, Chinatown Wars, the Housers and Rockstar, and on to GTA VI, its trailers, its leak and its release date. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has played a GTA game, a third are medium, and the rest are for players who know which cargo ship Niko arrives on and what the studio's original working title was. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01In what year was Grand Theft Auto V first released, on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360?
2013
It launched on 17 September 2013 and later jumped to PS4/Xbox One (2014), Windows (2015) and PS5/Xbox Series (2022).
Q 02GTA V's lead studio, Rockstar North, is headquartered in which UK city?
Edinburgh
The studio began life in Dundee under a different name before moving to Scotland's capital; the Dundee office was closed a few months after the new branch opened.
Q 03Which GTA V protagonist is introduced as a street gangster working for a corrupt car salesman?
Franklin Clinton
He meets Michael while trying to fraudulently repossess Michael's son's car, and the two end up as partners in crime.
Q 04GTA V's city of Los Santos is a fictional version of which real city?
Los Angeles
The team studied census data, documentaries and Google Maps projections to reproduce the real city's road networks and demographic spread.
Q 05Which actor provides the voice and motion capture for Trevor Philips?
Steven Ogg
He was later cast as Simon in The Walking Dead, and Rockstar based Trevor's look on his own appearance.
Q 06GTA V opens in 2004 with a botched robbery in the town of Ludendorff, in which fictional snowy state?
North Yankton
The prologue leaves Michael presumed dead; the story then jumps nine years ahead to Los Santos.
Q 07In 2013, how fast did GTA V gross US$1 billion, a record for any entertainment product?
3 days
It had already made about $800 million on its first day, roughly the same as the entire film industry's biggest opening weekends.
Q 08How many Guinness World Records did GTA V break in one go on 8 October 2013?
Seven
They included best-selling video game in 24 hours and most viewed trailer for an action-adventure game.
Q 09Roughly how many copies of GTA V had shipped worldwide by mid-2026?
230 million
That makes it the second-best-selling video game ever, with close to $10 billion in lifetime revenue.
Q 10Each GTA V protagonist has a special ability. Franklin's slows down time while he is doing what?
Driving
Michael gets bullet time in gunfights, while Trevor deals double damage and takes half as much.
Q 11Michael's old friend Lester Crest, who plans the heists, is what kind of specialist?
Hacker
The wheelchair-using mastermind first helps the trio rob a jewellery store to pay off Michael's debt, and later runs GTA Online's heists too.
Q 12Trevor Philips Enterprises, Trevor's meth-and-guns operation, is based in which small Blaine County town?
Sandy Shores
Its trailer-park setting was inspired by a research trip Rockstar took to Bombay Beach on California's Salton Sea.
Q 13Which target does the trio hit for GTA V's final heist, 'The Big Score'?
The Union Depository
The prize is a gold bullion reserve, and pulling it off sets up the game's three possible endings.
Q 21Which German electronic group co-composed GTA V's original score, the series' first?
Tangerine Dream
Founder Edgar Froese initially turned down the idea of scoring a video game before signing on alongside Woody Jackson, The Alchemist and Oh No.
Q 22Which actress joined Karen Gravano in suing Rockstar over GTA V likenesses in 2014?
Lindsay Lohan
Her complaint pointed at the paparazzi-dodging starlet Lacey Jonas; the case was eventually thrown out.
Q 23Before living under the alias De Santa, Michael's real surname was what?
Townley
He faked his death in the Ludendorff job with help from FIB agent Dave Norton, and his old partner Brad was buried in the grave marked with his name.
Q 14Which private military company does Trevor go to war with in Blaine County?
Merryweather
It's a thinly veiled jab at real contractors like Blackwater, and the company also guards targets in several GTA Online heists.
Q 15How long after GTA V's release did Grand Theft Auto Online go live?
Two weeks later
The launch on 1 October 2013 was so rough that Rockstar handed every early player GTA$500,000 as an apology.
Q 16Up to how many players can share a single GTA Online session?
30
That cap is lower than GTA IV's 32-player multiplayer, but the world is far bigger and the sessions run persistent businesses.
Q 17GTA Online's long-delayed Heists update finally arrived in which year?
2015
It landed on 10 March 2015, about 17 months after the mode launched, and promptly buckled under the player load.
Q 18What do GTA Online's real-money 'Shark Cash Cards' actually give the buyer?
In-game currency
The biggest, the Megalodon, drops GTA$10,000,000 straight into your character's bank account.
Q 19The Cayo Perico Heist requires players to buy what kind of vehicle to reach El Rubio's island?
Submarine
The Kosatka comes with a one-man crew, ex-Russian Navy sailor Pavel, and the heist was the first that could be finished solo.
Q 20In GTA Online's The Contract, whose stolen phone of unreleased music does Franklin's agency recover?
Dr. Dre
The update also refreshed Radio Los Santos and West Coast Classics with brand-new tracks he made for the game.
Q 24Analysts put GTA V's development and marketing budget at roughly how much, then a record for any game?
$265 million
More than 1,000 people across Rockstar's studios worked on it, and it earned the budget back roughly three times over on launch day.
Q 25In GTA Online's Doomsday Heist, the player storms a secret missile base hidden inside which mountain?
Mount Chiliad
The mountain had already spawned years of fan theories thanks to a cryptic mural at its summit in the single-player game.
Q 26Which Scottish studio developed the original Grand Theft Auto in 1997?
DMA Design
The same studio had made Lemmings six years earlier and would later be renamed Rockstar North.
Q 27Under what working title did the first Grand Theft Auto begin development, with the player as a cop?
Race 'n' Chase
The cop concept was judged dull, so the team flipped it and let players be the criminal instead.
Q 28From what perspective was the original 1997 Grand Theft Auto played?
Top-down
The series stayed 2D until GTA III made the leap to a full 3D city.
Q 29Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) is set in a retrofuturistic metropolis with what name?
Anywhere City
Its intro was a live-action short film shot in New York, the only one in the series, starring EastEnders actor Scott Maslen.
Q 30GTA III, the first fully 3D game in the series, was released for PlayStation 2 in which year?
2001
It was delayed three weeks after the 11 September attacks so the team could change references that suddenly felt inappropriate.