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60 free Hard Fallout trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This hard Fallout trivia quiz is written for players who have finished every game and still argue about the endings. It covers the Interplay and Black Isle originals, Bethesda's Fallout 3 and 4, Obsidian's New Vegas, Fallout 76 and the spin-offs, plus the DLC, the Prime Video series and the people who built the franchise. Expect questions on why SPECIAL replaced GURPS, what Van Buren was, how many days the Vault Dweller had to find a water chip, who really made Vault Boy, which company got 18 months to build New Vegas, and what happened on October 23, 2077. It suits Fallout lore obsessives, Discord quiz nights and anyone who found our main Fallout trivia page too easy. Nearly every question sits in the hard-to-expert range. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article on the game, character, expansion or developer, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Fallout was originally built on which tabletop RPG system before its creator objected to the violence?
GURPS
Steve Jackson Games pulled out, so Tim Cain and Christopher Taylor invented SPECIAL instead.
Q 02How many days does the Vault Dweller have to find a replacement water chip in the original Fallout?
150
The chip turns out to be in the ruined Vault 12 beneath Necropolis, the ghoul city built on Bakersfield.
Q 03Fallout is regarded as the spiritual successor to which 1988 Interplay game?
Wasteland
Brian Fargo could not get the rights back from Electronic Arts, so Interplay built a new post-apocalyptic world instead.
Q 04Which two films did Interplay cite as artistic inspiration for the first Fallout?
Mad Max and A Boy and His Dog
The game eventually cost Interplay about $3 million and employed up to thirty people.
Q 05Which actor voiced the Overseer of Vault 13 in the original Fallout?
Ken Mars
Richard Dean Anderson voiced Junktown's sheriff Killian Darkwater, and Jim Cummings voiced both Gizmo and the Master.
Q 06Necropolis in the first Fallout was founded by ghouls in the remains of which real city?
Bakersfield
The ghouls were the former residents of Vault 12, whose door was designed never to close properly.
Q 07Which pre-made Fallout character is the granddaughter of a Soviet diplomat in Los Angeles?
Natalia Dubrovhsky
The other two premades are the negotiator Albert Cole and the strong but dim Max Stone.
Q 08The Lieutenant, the cybernetic Super Mutant who relays the Master's orders, is stationed where?
Mariposa Military Base
The Lieutenant is a cybernetically enhanced Super Mutant; the Master himself sits beneath the Cathedral.
Q 09In Fallout 2, the Chosen One is the grandchild of the Vault Dweller and comes from which tribal village?
Arroyo
The village is hit by its worst drought on record in 2241, and the Chosen One sets out for a G.E.C.K.
Q 10When the Chosen One reaches Vault 13 in Fallout 2, who is living there?
Intelligent Deathclaws
The Enclave had removed the human residents; the Vault holds the G.E.C.K. Arroyo needs.
Q 11How does the Chosen One reach the Enclave's main base in Fallout 2?
By reactivating an ancient oil tanker
The base is an offshore oil rig, and the Enclave's plan is an airborne FEV strain that kills anyone with mutated DNA.
Q 12What was the codename of Interplay's cancelled Fallout 3?
Van Buren
Set in 2253, it starred an escaped prisoner pursued by robot guards; Josh Sawyer and Chris Avellone were on the team before it died in 2003.
Q 13Who was the main antagonist of the cancelled Van Buren, a mad scientist planning to spread a virus?
Victor Presper
Q 21According to Fallout lore, in what year did China invade Alaska and start the Sino-American War?
2066
The US liberated Alaska in the Battle of Anchorage in early 2077, months before the bombs fell.
Q 22How long did Bethesda give Obsidian to develop Fallout: New Vegas?
18 months
Journalists have called it a very short time for a AAA game; Josh Sawyer used USGS data and his own photos to build the map.
Q 23Which Securitron digs the Courier out of a shallow grave at the start of New Vegas?
Victor
Doc Mitchell of Goodsprings then patches up the bullet hole Benny left.
His plan used the prisoner protagonist as an unwitting vector across the American Southwest.
Q 14Fallout Tactics (2001) was developed by which Australian studio?
Micro Forté
Published by 14 Degrees East, it swapped towns for Brotherhood bunkers and missions.
Q 15Which 2004 Interplay game was the first entry in the series released for home consoles?
Brotherhood of Steel
Interplay made it for PlayStation 2 and Xbox after the success of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
Q 16Fallout 3's Lone Wanderer grows up in which shelter near Washington, D.C.?
Vault 101
The Lone Wanderer leaves after their 19th birthday when their father James, voiced by Liam Neeson, disappears.
Q 17In Fallout 3, where does the Lone Wanderer rescue their father from Stanislaus Braun's virtual-reality program?
Vault 112
Braun's Tranquility Lane simulation is a 1950s suburb where he torments the residents for fun.
Q 18Who voiced President John Henry Eden, the Enclave leader in Fallout 3 who turns out to be an AI?
Malcolm McDowell
Peter Gil voiced Colonel Augustus Autumn; Eden wants the purifier laced with a virus that kills all mutated life.
Q 19Project Purity in Fallout 3 is a water purifier built inside which Washington landmark?
The Jefferson Memorial
James and Catherine planned to clean the Tidal Basin and Potomac; Catherine died giving birth to the Lone Wanderer.
Q 20Which Fallout 3 add-on raised the level cap to 30 and let players keep going after the main quest?
Broken Steel
It also changed the game's ending, the one where the Lone Wanderer originally had to die in the purifier chamber.
Q 24What was the Platinum Chip originally meant to do before the Great War interrupted its delivery?
Upgrade Mr. House's Securitron army to protect Las Vegas
Benny stole it as part of his plan to usurp House; the war started before it could reach the city.
Q 25New Vegas's Dead Money DLC takes place at a casino resort called what?
The Sierra Madre
Rogue Brotherhood elder Father Elijah collars the Courier there; the tech was supplied by Big MT, setting of Old World Blues.
Q 26Honest Hearts is set in which national park?
Zion
Its four factions are the Dead Horses, the Sorrows, the invading White Legs and the New Canaanites.
Q 27Which New Vegas DLC ties together the plots of the other three?
Lonesome Road
It is the last of the four story add-ons and finally introduces Ulysses, the courier who refused the Platinum Chip job.
Q 28Fallout 4 is set in which year?
2287
That is ten years after Fallout 3 and exactly 210 years after the bombs fell on October 23, 2077.
Q 29How much revenue did Fallout 4 generate in its first 24 hours on sale?
US$750 million
Bethesda shipped 12 million units to retailers for launch day, November 10, 2015.
Q 30Which Fallout 4 companion is a prototype synth detective?
Nick Valentine
He is one of six companions the game forces you to at least meet, along with Dogmeat, who is mandatory.