Call of Duty: Black Ops II
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50 free Call of Duty: Black Ops II trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II arrived in November 2012 and took the series somewhere new: a campaign split between the Cold War 1980s and a drone-filled 2025, with choices that change how the story ends. Online, it rebuilt class creation and rewards around objectives, and its maps are still the ones fans ask to see remade. This quiz covers every side of the game. There are questions on the campaign, its villain Raul Menendez and the actors behind the characters; on multiplayer guns, attachments, modes and maps; and on Zombies, from the bus route of TranZit to the mud and giant robots of Origins. It is written for anyone who spent late nights on BO2, whether that meant prestige grinds, split-screen survival rounds or one more run at the story. Expect a mix of easy wins and questions for veterans, each with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which US president gives his name to the Black Ops II aircraft carrier where Raul Menendez is held?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama was in the White House when the game came out in 2012, and its writers imagined a supercarrier bearing his name by 2025. Menendez escapes the ship with help from a mole.
Q 02Which heavy metal band plays a concert with Woods and Menendez after the Black Ops II credits?
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold put Woods behind the drum kit as a nod to The Rev, the band's own drummer, who died in 2009. Menendez plays rhythm guitar in the scene.
Q 03Which former Latin American dictator sued Activision in 2014 over his portrayal in Black Ops II?
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Noriega objected to being shown as a kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state. A Los Angeles court dismissed the case, ruling that his portrayal was protected as free speech.
Q 04Black Ops II held the record for biggest entertainment launch until which 2013 game surpassed it?
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V took the record in September 2013, ending four straight years in which a Call of Duty game had set it. Black Ops II had grossed over $500 million in its first day.
Q 05What replaced killstreaks in Black Ops II multiplayer so that playing objectives also earns rewards?
Scorestreaks
Scorestreaks count points rather than kills, so planting a bomb or holding a flag moves a player toward a reward. The change was meant to pull teams onto the objective.
Q 06In Black Ops II, Alex Mason charges Soviet troops in 1980s Afghanistan while riding which animal?
A horse
A horse carries the player through the mission Old Wounds, and sprinting it into enemy soldiers kills them instantly. The studio motion-captured a real animal for the level.
Q 07Besides fire, ice and wind, which element powers a buildable staff in the Zombies map Origins?
Lightning
Lightning powers the fourth staff, whose parts sit in hidden areas that players can only reach by riding the map's Mark IV tank. The wind staff's parts are inside the three giant robots.
Q 08Which weapon camouflage is unlocked in Black Ops II by earning gold on every gun in a class?
Diamond
Diamond camouflage stays hidden until it is earned, then covers the gun in gold studded with cut gems. For assault rifles, that means unlocking gold on every assault rifle first.
Q 09Which tiny Black Ops map returned in Black Ops II as a pre-order bonus with a 1960s makeover?
Nuketown
Nuketown came back with 2025 added to its name, trading the 1950s test-town look for a 1960s idea of the home of the future. Buyers of the special editions also got a Zombies version of the map.
Q 10Which Batman actor took over from Ed Harris as CIA handler Jason Hudson in Black Ops II?
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton gave Hudson a new voice for the sequel, though the character does not survive it. Raul Menendez kills him in Panama in 1989 after using him to lure Mason into a trap.
Q 11Which populist movement with two billion followers does Raul Menendez lead in Black Ops II?
Cordis Die
Cordis Die starts a new cold war on its own: in 2018 its cyberattack cripples the Chinese stock exchanges and sets NATO against a Chinese-led alliance.
Q 12Which Australian actor returned from the first Black Ops to voice Alex Mason in Black Ops II?
Sam Worthington
Sam Worthington voices the older, retired Mason of the 1980s missions, while the 2025 story hands the lead to his grown-up son. In 1986 Mason is living quietly in Alaska when he is called back.
Q 13Which actor, known as Merle Dixon in The Walking Dead, plays squadmate Mike Harper in Black Ops II?
Michael Rooker
Q 21Which studio, also behind the first Black Ops and Black Ops III, developed Black Ops II?
Treyarch
Treyarch began work on the sequel soon after Black Ops shipped, and made it the first Call of Duty campaign with branching storylines and several endings.
Q 22Black Ops II was the first Call of Duty game released for which Nintendo console, new in late 2012?
Wii U
Wii U owners could play two-player games with one person on the TV and the other on the GamePad's own screen, with no split screen. None of the game's DLC map packs were ever released for the console.
Q 23Which industrial rock frontman and film composer wrote the main theme of Black Ops II?
Trent Reznor
Michael Rooker gave Harper his voice, face and movements through performance capture. Harper's survival is in the player's hands during the mission in Yemen.
Q 14Which fictional rare-earth element lets Raul Menendez seize the US drone fleet in Black Ops II?
Celerium
Celerium first comes to light during a mission in Myanmar, and it can power a computer virus strong enough to send every American drone against US and Chinese cities.
Q 15Raul Menendez cripples Frank Woods for life in Black Ops II by shooting which part of his body?
The kneecaps
Shooting the kneecaps leaves Woods alive to suffer, and Menendez promises to finish his revenge in the future. By 2025 Woods lives in a CIA retirement home called the Vault.
Q 16Black Ops II opens in 1986 with Alex Mason fighting beside UNITA rebels in which African country?
Angola
Angola is where Frank Woods has gone missing, and Mason pulls him off a barge on the Cubango River. The rescue also brings the first meeting with the villain, Raul Menendez.
Q 17In Black Ops II, the hacker Chloe Lynch is hunted by Raul Menendez under which codename?
Karma
Karma is also the title of the mission that tracks her to Colossus, a floating resort city in the Cayman Islands. Whether she survives helps decide which ending the player sees.
Q 18Which Black Ops II missions let players command squads and drones and can change the ending?
Strike Force
Strike Force missions have no checkpoints: lose the squad and the campaign simply moves on with that defeat on the record. Finishing all of them brings China over to the American side.
Q 19In one Black Ops II ending, jailed Raul Menendez watches Chloe Lynch mock him on which talk show?
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live appears in the ending where Menendez is taken alive and Lynch survives to stop his cyberattack. He can only rage in his cell as she insults him on air.
Q 20Which wonder weapon, a single-shot shotgun, debuted in the Black Ops II Zombies map Mob of the Dead?
Blundergat
The Blundergat can be won without the Mystery Box by collecting five hidden blue skulls, after which it appears on the warden's desk. Its design borrows from the blunderbuss and the Gatling gun.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote only the theme, and Jack Wall composed the rest of the score. The soundtrack album also slips in a movement of a Mozart symphony.
Q 24Which Swedish actor plays The Replacer in live-action adverts for the Black Ops II map packs?
Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare's Replacer takes over clients' jobs and family duties so they can stay home and play the new maps. Comedian J.B. Smoove joined him as a trainee in the second advert.
Q 25Which screenwriter of Batman Begins co-wrote the campaign of Black Ops II?
David S. Goyer
The sequel's script was a joint effort with game director Dave Anthony. On the first Black Ops, David S. Goyer had served only as a story consultant.
Q 26Which Create-a-Class system, new in Black Ops II, lets players trade perks for extra attachments?
Pick 10
Pick 10 gives each class a fixed budget of points to spend on guns, attachments, perks and grenades, so a player can skip grenades entirely to afford more attachments.
Q 27Which objective mode, introduced in Black Ops II, has teams hold a zone that moves around the map?
Hardpoint
Hardpoint awards a point for every second a team holds the zone alone, and nothing while both teams are inside it. Unlike Headquarters, the defenders keep respawning.
Q 28Which Black Ops II ranked mode places players in skill divisions and uses esports tournament rules?
League Play
League Play was the first dedicated competitive mode in a Call of Duty game, with divisions running from Iron up to Master. It followed the rules of Major League Gaming.
Q 29Which small Black Ops II multiplayer map is set aboard a luxury superyacht in international waters?
Hijacked
Hijacked crams two teams onto a single boat, and Black Ops III later remade it as Skyjacked. The yacht can also be spotted out at sea from the map Cove.
Q 30Which machine introduced in the Zombies map Origins gives players a random Perk-a-Cola?
Der Wunderfizz
Der Wunderfizz works much like the Mystery Box: after a few uses a teddy bear appears and the machine moves to another part of the map. Each drink costs 1,500 points.