Call of Duty Trivia
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119 free Call of Duty trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
63 free Call of Duty trivia questions with answers. Call of Duty has shipped a new game almost every autumn since 2003, and this quiz covers the whole run. Fifty-one questions take in the World War II originals, Call of Duty 4 and the Modern Warfare trilogy, Black Ops from the Cold War to 2035, Zombies, Warzone, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare, WWII and Vanguard, plus the studios, the voice actors, the esports league and the sales records that made it the best-selling shooter series ever. Easy questions ask which company publishes it and which mode Warzone is; the hard ones want who founded Infinity Ward, what a numbers station is for, and which game first dropped the campaign. Built for players from the MW2 lobby days through Black Ops 7. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games and studios, and each question shows the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which company has published every Call of Duty game since the series began in 2003?
Activision
The franchise has sold more than 500 million copies and passed $30 billion in revenue by 2022.
Q 02The original 2003 Call of Duty was set during which war?
World War II
The 2003 original was set in World War II, following American, British and Soviet soldiers on a modified id Tech 3 engine with squad-based combat.
Q 03Which studio developed the first Call of Duty and later created Modern Warfare?
Infinity Ward
Its 22 founding staff had all worked on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault at a studio called 2015.
Q 04Which 2007 game moved the series out of World War II and became its breakthrough hit?
Call of Duty 4
It introduced killstreak rewards and the Prestige system, which resets a player's rank in exchange for a new insignia.
Q 05Warzone, released in March 2020, is which type of game mode?
Battle royale
Warzone is a free-to-play battle royale launched in March 2020 inside Modern Warfare (2019), dropping up to 150 players onto Verdansk.
Q 06The cooperative Zombies mode made its debut in which game?
World at War
Zombies debuted in World at War (2008) as the unlockable Nazi Zombies bonus mode and has returned in every Treyarch entry since.
Q 07Which Modern Warfare 2 mission caused an outcry for letting players take part in an airport massacre?
No Russian
'No Russian' has the player join Makarov's massacre at Zakhaev International Airport; the game offered a prompt to skip the mission entirely.
Q 08Captain Price is voiced in the original Modern Warfare trilogy by Billy Murray and in the reboot by whom?
Barry Sloane
Barry Sloane voices Captain Price in the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot; Billy Murray played him in the original trilogy, himself an homage to the WWII Price of 2003.
Q 09Which SAS recruit joins Captain Price's team as a sergeant in Call of Duty 4?
John 'Soap' MacTavish
Sergeant John 'Soap' MacTavish joins Price's SAS squad as a fresh recruit in Call of Duty 4 and has risen to captain by Modern Warfare 2.
Q 10Who is the Ultranationalist leader that Price hunts in Call of Duty 4?
Imran Zakhaev
Imran Zakhaev leads the Ultranationalists in Call of Duty 4, having built his movement on nuclear-material profits after Chernobyl and the Soviet collapse.
Q 11Which lieutenant general betrays Soap's unit and executes Roach and Ghost in Modern Warfare 2?
Shepherd
Lieutenant General Shepherd kills Roach and Ghost; having lost 30,000 men to the 2011 nuke, he leaked Ranger Joseph Allen's identity to start a war he could win.
Q 12What multinational special forces unit does Soap command in Modern Warfare 2?
Task Force 141
Task Force 141 is the multinational unit Captain Soap MacTavish commands; its playable member is Sergeant Gary 'Roach' Sanderson, while Private Ramirez carries the Rangers missions.
Q 13Black Ops (2010) follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he tries to locate what?
A numbers station
Q 21Ghosts introduced the series' first non-human playable character. What was it?
A German Shepherd named Riley
Its Extinction mode swapped zombies for aliens called Cryptids.
Q 22Which actor plays Atlas boss Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare?
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey plays Irons, with Troy Baker voicing the hero Jack Mitchell; the story runs from 2054 to 2061.
Q 23Advanced Warfare's signature new movement came from what piece of equipment?
An exoskeleton
An exoskeleton powers the Exo movements, letting players boost, dash and sky jump, a first for the boots-on-the-ground series.
Mason hunts a Soviet numbers station whose broadcast would trigger sleeper agents to release the nerve agent Nova 6 across the United States.
Q 14Which Hollywood actor voices Viktor Reznov in World at War and Black Ops?
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman voices Viktor Reznov in both games; Sam Worthington is Mason, Ed Harris is handler Jason Hudson and Ice Cube is Joseph Bowman.
Q 15Which US president orders Mason to assassinate Dragovich in Black Ops?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy personally orders Mason to kill Dragovich in a Pentagon briefing, while a brainwashed Mason sees visions of shooting the president.
Q 16Black Ops sold how many copies in its first 24 hours, breaking Modern Warfare 2's record?
5.6 million
Black Ops sold 5.6 million copies in the US and UK in its first 24 hours, beating Modern Warfare 2's 4.7 million, and later topped 25 million worldwide.
Q 17The multiplayer map Nuketown is set in what kind of location?
A nuclear test town in Nevada
Nuketown is a mock 1950s suburb in a Nevada nuclear test town, like the mannequin-filled houses built at the Nevada Test Site; a bomb levels the map after every match.
Q 18Black Ops II jumps between the 1980s and which future year?
2025
Black Ops II alternates between Woods's 1980s flashbacks and a 2025 Cold War with China, and was the series' first game with branching storylines and multiple endings.
Q 19Who is the arms-dealing main villain of Black Ops II?
Raul Menendez
Raul Menendez is Black Ops II's villain; a non-canon post-credits scene has him and Woods performing 'Carry On' with Avenged Sevenfold.
Q 20Modern Warfare 3 grossed how much in its first 24 hours, then the biggest entertainment launch ever?
$400 million
Modern Warfare 3 grossed $400 million in the US and UK in its first 24 hours, selling 6.5 million copies, and added a wave-based Survival mode to Spec Ops.
Q 24Black Ops III is set in which year?
2065
Black Ops III is set in 2065, forty years after Black Ops II; its Nightmares mode replays the campaign with a new story and zombies swapped in for most enemies.
Q 25Which Game of Thrones actor plays villain Salen Kotch in Infinite Warfare?
Kit Harington
Kit Harington plays Admiral Salen Kotch, leader of the Settlement Defense Front; the game's 2016 reveal trailer briefly became YouTube's second-most-disliked video.
Q 26Infinite Warfare's campaign takes the fight to which new setting?
Outer space
Infinite Warfare takes the fight into outer space: players fly the transforming Jackal fighter to planets, moons and asteroids across the Solar System.
Q 27Special editions of Infinite Warfare bundled a remaster of which earlier game?
Call of Duty 4
For many players the remaster was the real reason to buy the 2016 package.
Q 28Call of Duty: WWII follows a squad in which US Army division?
1st Infantry
WWII follows Private Ronald 'Red' Daniels of the 1st Infantry Division, the 'Big Red One', and was the first campaign since 2005's Big Red One to drop regenerating health.
Q 29Which was the first mainline Call of Duty to ship without a single-player campaign?
Black Ops 4
Black Ops 4 (2018) shipped with no campaign after a planned story mode called Career was scrapped early that year, leaning on multiplayer, Zombies and a new battle royale instead.
Q 30Black Ops 4's 100-player last-squad-standing mode was called what?
Blackout
Blackout was Black Ops 4's 100-player battle royale, launching in October 2018, two years before Warzone, on a map stitched together from classic Black Ops locations.