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50 free Metal Gear Solid trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Metal Gear Solid arrived on the PlayStation in 1998 from a team of twenty people who mocked up its Alaskan base in Lego, and it changed what a video game could look like: in-engine cutscenes, a Hollywood-style script, a radio that scolds you for not saving, and a boss who reads your memory card. Hideo Kojima went on to direct the series for 28 years, through Raiden's bait-and-switch, The Boss's jungle, Old Snake's last mission and the unfinished Phantom Pain that ended his time at Konami. These 50 questions span the whole saga: the MSX originals, Shadow Moses and FOXHOUND, the Tanker and Big Shell, Snake Eater's camouflage index and a sniper who dies of old age, Guns of the Patriots' OctoCamo, Peace Walker on the PSP, Rising's PlatinumGames rescue, the 2025 Delta remake and Kojima's exit. Easy questions stick to Snake, Otacon and the cardboard box; the expert tier asks about voice actors, Kojima's 3DO plans, Dead Cell and the Philosophers. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick up something even when you miss. Kept you waiting, huh?
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Q 01Metal Gear Solid (1998) was developed and published by which company?
Konami
Kojima directed, produced and wrote it as the third mainline Metal Gear game.
Q 02What is the name of the Alaskan nuclear facility Snake infiltrates in the first game?
Shadow Moses
It sits on a remote island in Alaska's Fox Archipelago and houses a nuclear weapons disposal facility.
Q 03Which nuclear-capable mecha is secretly tested at the facility in the first game?
Metal Gear REX
Liquid Snake's FOXHOUND threatens to use it unless they receive Big Boss's remains and $1 billion.
Q 04Who leads the rogue FOXHOUND unit in the first game?
Liquid Snake
Later in the series his will possesses Revolver Ocelot, producing 'Liquid Ocelot'.
Q 05Which FOXHOUND member favors the Colt Single Action Army?
Revolver Ocelot
He is described as a Western-style gunslinger and expert interrogator.
Q 06Which FOXHOUND boss wields a minigun torn from a downed F-16?
Vulcan Raven
He is a hulking Alaskan shaman who later tells Snake the 'Anderson' he met was an impostor.
Q 07Psycho Mantis famously reads what device before his boss fight?
The player's memory card
He also makes a DualShock controller vibrate, a scene cut from the PC port.
Q 08On the original console release, what was the trick to beating Psycho Mantis?
Using the second controller port
Guinness honoured the fight for the 'Most Innovative Use of a Video Game Controller'.
Q 09Who is the disguise artist who impersonates DARPA Chief Donald Anderson?
Decoy Octopus
Snake is confused to find Anderson's body after being tortured, until Raven explains the deception.
Q 10Dr. Hal Emmerich, lead developer of REX, goes by what nickname?
Otacon
He later lives with Snake aboard the plane Nomad alongside the child prodigy Sunny.
Q 11The cyborg ninja of the first game is revealed to be which former ally?
Gray Fox
He was also the anonymous caller 'Deepthroat' and is crushed by REX after destroying its radome.
Q 12Meryl Silverburgh is the niece of which character?
Colonel Roy Campbell
She was a rookie stationed at the base who refused to join the revolt.
Q 13Which support character invented the Soliton radar and saves the game for you?
Mei Ling
The English script gave her Western authors to quote instead of only Chinese proverbs.
Q 21Who is the rookie protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2's Plant chapter?
Raiden
Critics were initially divided on the switch away from Solid Snake.
Q 22What is the Big Shell in Metal Gear Solid 2?
An offshore clean-up facility
It was built in lower New York Harbor to clear the oil spill from the Tanker Incident.
Q 23In MGS2's Tanker chapter, Snake seeks evidence of which new Metal Gear?
RAY
The tanker is hijacked by Russian mercenaries before Ocelot betrays them and scuttles it.
Q 24The rogue anti-terrorist unit in MGS2 with Vamp, Fatman and Fortune is called what?
Q 14Who voices Solid Snake in the English versions?
David Hayter
Most of the English cast were credited under pseudonyms in 1998; Hayter was one of two exceptions.
Q 15Solid Snake's physique in the 1998 game was based on which action star?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
His face, by contrast, was modelled on Christopher Walken.
Q 16Kojima used which toy to mock up Metal Gear Solid's 3D areas and camera views?
Lego building blocks
The whole game was made by a staff of just twenty people.
Q 17Metal Gear Solid was originally planned in 1994 for which console?
3DO
Kojima conceived it while Policenauts was still in development, before moving to the PlayStation.
Q 18Which artist designed most of the Metal Gear Solid characters and mecha?
Yoji Shinkawa
He built plastic models of the hardware at home before drawing the final designs.
Q 19The North American release added which alternate outfit for Snake?
A tuxedo
He wears it on every third playthrough on the same save file.
Q 20The 2004 GameCube remake of Metal Gear Solid was titled what?
The Twin Snakes
Silicon Knights developed it, with cutscenes directed by filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura.
Dead Cell
Fortune's uncontrollable psychic ability keeps any bodily harm from befalling her.
Q 25The leader of the Sons of Liberty turns out to be which third clone?
Solidus Snake
He had raised Raiden as a child soldier during the Liberian civil war.
Q 26Under what alias does Solid Snake first assist the rookie on the Big Shell?
Iroquois Pliskin
The name nods to Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York.
Q 27The shadowy organization pulling the strings in MGS2 is known as what?
The Patriots
The President reveals that US democracy is merely a drama they orchestrate.
Q 28Metal Gear Solid 2's expanded edition was released under what subtitle?
Substance
It reached the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows the year after the original.
Q 29Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is set in which year?
1964
That places it 31 years before the original Metal Gear, making it the series' chronological start.
Q 30Snake Eater introduced which hand-to-hand combat system?
CQC
It stands for close quarters combat, joining camouflage and a stamina gauge as new mechanics.