70 free Call of Duty trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 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
It ran on a modified id Tech 3 engine and pushed squad-based play instead of the 'lone wolf' shooter formula.
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
It launched inside Modern Warfare (2019) but has always been free to play without buying that game.
Q 06The cooperative Zombies mode made its debut in which game?
World at War
It began as a bonus minigame called Nazi Zombies and became a mainstay of every Treyarch entry.
Q 07Which Modern Warfare 2 mission caused an outcry for letting players take part in an airport massacre?
No Russian
The game still sold about 4.7 million copies in North America and the UK in its first 24 hours.
Q 08Captain Price is voiced in the original Modern Warfare trilogy by Billy Murray and in the reboot by whom?
Barry Sloane
The character was reworked from a WWII Captain Price in the 2003 game, complete with thousand-yard stare and weathered boonie hat.
Q 09Which SAS recruit joins Captain Price's team as a sergeant in Call of Duty 4?
John 'Soap' MacTavish
He goes on to command Task Force 141 in the sequels.
Q 10Who is the Ultranationalist leader that Price hunts in Call of Duty 4?
Imran Zakhaev
He built his movement on nuclear proliferation 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
His motive: he lost his men to a nuke in 2011 and leaked a Ranger's identity to start a war and become a hero.
Q 12What multinational special forces unit does Soap command in Modern Warfare 2?
Task Force 141
Its playable members include Sergeant Gary 'Roach' Sanderson, while Private Ramirez carries the US Army Rangers side.
Q 13Black Ops (2010) follows CIA operative Alex Mason as he tries to locate what?
A numbers station
The station is set to trigger sleeper agents to release the chemical weapon Nova 6 across the United States.
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 Oscar-winning actor plays Atlas boss Jonathan Irons in Advanced Warfare?
Kevin Spacey
Troy Baker voices the hero Jack Mitchell, and the whole story runs from 2054 to 2061.
Q 23Advanced Warfare's signature new movement came from what piece of equipment?
An exoskeleton
Exo movements let players boost, dash and sky jump, a first for the boots-on-the-ground series.
Q 14Which Hollywood actor voices Viktor Reznov in World at War and Black Ops?
Gary Oldman
Ed Harris plays Mason's handler Jason Hudson, and Ice Cube plays Joseph Bowman.
Q 15Which US president orders Mason to assassinate Dragovich in Black Ops?
John F. Kennedy
The scene takes place at the Pentagon while Mason is plagued by murderous visions.
Q 16Black Ops sold how many copies in its first 24 hours, breaking Modern Warfare 2's record?
5.6 million
It went on to pass 25 million copies and was for a time the best-selling game ever in the United States.
Q 17The multiplayer map Nuketown is set in what kind of location?
A nuclear test town in Nevada
At the end of every match a bomb drops and obliterates the map, a nod to real US test sites with fake neighbourhoods.
Q 18Black Ops II jumps between the 1980s and which future year?
2025
It was the first game in the series with branching storylines and multiple endings driven by player choice.
Q 19Who is the Nicaraguan arms dealer and villain of Black Ops II?
Raul Menendez
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
It sold 6.5 million copies in the US and UK on day one and added a wave-based Survival mode to Spec Ops.
Q 24Black Ops III is set in which year?
2065
Its Nightmares mode replays the entire 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
The game's reveal trailer briefly became the second-most-disliked video on YouTube.
Q 26Infinite Warfare's campaign takes the fight to which new setting?
Outer space
Players fly a transforming fighter called the Jackal and visit 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
It was the first game since the original and Big Red One to drop health regeneration from the campaign.
Q 29Which was the first mainline Call of Duty to ship without a single-player campaign?
Black Ops 4
A planned story mode called Career was scrapped in early 2018 and the Blackout battle royale took its place.
Q 30Black Ops 4's 100-player last-squad-standing mode was called what?
Blackout
It debuted two years before Warzone and replaced the scrapped Career story mode.