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50 free Rainbow Six Siege trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Rainbow Six Siege trivia questions with answers. This R6 trivia quiz is for people who know their Bomb from their Secure Area. It covers Rainbow Six Siege from its origins in the cancelled Patriots and a 25-person reboot team at Ubisoft Montreal, through launch in December 2015, the five base CTUs, the destruction tech, Situations and Terrorist Hunt, and the free-DLC 'games as a service' turnaround that took it past 70 million players. The lore gets its due, from Six and the White Masks to Harry, Nighthaven, Kali and Deimos, as do the real-life sieges that inspired maps, the Six Invitational and Pro League, Outbreak and Extraction, the loot-box economy and the controversies. A few questions reach back to Tom Clancy's 1998 novel and Red Storm's first game. Casual players will handle the early questions; the later ones will test veterans of Year 1. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Which studio developed Rainbow Six Siege?
Ubisoft Montreal
Barcelona, Toronto, Kyiv, Shanghai and Chengdu studios assisted, and Blue Byte in Germany helped with post-launch content.
Q 02Siege was the successor to which cancelled, story-focused game in the series?
Patriots
After Patriots was scrapped for technical shortcomings, Ubisoft assembled a team of just 25 people to reboot the series.
Q 03In which month and year was Siege first released for PS4, Windows and Xbox One?
December 2015
PS5 and Xbox Series versions followed in December 2020 and Stadia in June 2021.
Q 04Which Ubisoft technology powers Siege's destructible environments?
RealBlast
The game runs on the AnvilNext 2.0 engine.
Q 05Which of these was NOT one of the five base Counter-Terrorism Units at launch?
US Navy SEALs
The launch CTUs were the FBI SWAT, SAS, GSG-9, Spetsnaz and GIGN, each with four operators.
Q 06How many operators did each launch CTU have?
Four
They were split between attackers and defenders; the flexible 'Recruit' had no unique gadget.
Q 07What does the 'Recruit' operator give up in exchange for a more flexible loadout?
A unique gadget
Recruits appear in the game's story too, training against the White Masks.
Q 08How many single-player missions make up the 'Situations' tutorial series?
Ten, plus one co-op
Critics found the mode's narrative thin; the campaign was abandoned to focus everything on multiplayer.
Q 09How long does a ranked round last?
Three minutes
Casual rounds run three minutes thirty; players who die cannot respawn until the round ends.
Q 10What is the in-game currency earned at the end of matches called?
Renown
Ranked matches offer the biggest multiplier, and boosters can raise the rate for 24 hours or more.
Q 11Which real 1980 event inspired the map Consulate?
The Iranian Embassy siege
The team also studied the 1977 Lufthansa Flight 181 hijacking and the 2002 Moscow theatre hostage crisis.
Q 12Who composed Siege's music, having also scored earlier Rainbow Six games and Far Cry?
Paul Haslinger
Leon Purviance assisted on the score.
Q 13Which esports company did Ubisoft partner with to build Siege as a competitive game?
ESL
Their first meeting was in late 2013, and ESL advised on balance before launch.
Q 21What is the terrorist group that Team Rainbow fights in the early years' story?
The White Masks
They launch a chemical attack on Bartlett University, which the recruits are sent to stop.
Q 22Who becomes 'Six' in 2019 after being recommended by the outgoing leader?
Doctor Harishva Pandey
Harry invites the private military company Nighthaven into Rainbow to keep an eye on its operatives.
Q 23Who founded the private military company Nighthaven?
Jaimini 'Kali' Shah
Ash was injured in the 2021 tournament finals through Kali's actions, sparking a public feud.
Q 14Which European team won the first season of the Rainbow Six Pro League in May 2016?
PENTA Sports
They beat GiFu in the final; Xbox One tournaments were dropped for Year Two.
Q 15How big was the prize pool at the Six Invitational 2020, the largest in Rainbow Six history?
$3,000,000
Spacestation Gaming took the $1 million top prize among 16 teams.
Q 16The Six Invitational was held in which city until it went international in 2021?
Montreal
That is home to the Ubisoft studio that makes the game.
Q 17Roughly how many registered players had Siege reached across all platforms by December 2020?
70,000,000
Initial sales were weak; the free-DLC 'games as a service' model turned it around.
Q 18After which summer 2016 DLC did the player base jump 40 percent, passing 10,000,000 registered players?
Operation Skull Rain
That season also added the Tactical Realism mode.
Q 19Which MOBA inspired the decision to keep adding operators for esports variety?
Dota 2
Such games often have 80 to 100 playable characters.
Q 20In the story, who reactivates the Rainbow program and takes the codename 'Six'?
Aurelia Arnot
She is played by Angela Bassett; she later leaves to become Secretary of State.
Q 24'Deimos', the rogue former Rainbow operative who kills Harry, is eventually unmasked as whom?
Gerald Morris
He had betrayed and killed a squadmate in 2012 and been declared killed in action.
Q 25Which crossover operator from another Tom Clancy series helps apprehend Deimos?
Sam 'Zero' Fisher
Doc, Mira and Rook are with him for the arrest.
Q 26Which faction destroys Hereford Base after infiltrating it disguised as recruits?
The Keres Legion
They break Deimos out of prison; the attack is only 'Phase One' of his plan.
Q 27The operator Rauora, revealed at the Six Invitational 2025, comes from which city?
Christchurch, New Zealand
Fans noticed her March 15 birthday matched the date of the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks.
Q 28'Outbreak', the co-op event against alien-infected mutants, was exclusive to which season?
Chimera
Three-player teams fought AI-controlled infected; the idea grew into the spin-off Rainbow Six Extraction.
Q 29In which month and year was the spin-off Rainbow Six Extraction released?
January 2022
It featured Siege's characters against the alien parasite threat.
Q 30What were the loot boxes introduced in January 2018 called?
Outbreak Packs
They were unlocked with R6 credits and, unlike Battlefront II's, drew little backlash.