Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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50 free Call of Duty: Black Ops III trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Call of Duty: Black Ops III came out in November 2015 and packed three games into one box: a co-op campaign about cybernetic soldiers in 2065, a multiplayer mode built on thruster jumps and named Specialists, and the most ambitious Zombies season the series had tried. Its map packs kept arriving through 2016, and a late bundle of remastered classics brought players back again in 2017. This quiz leans on what BO3 players remember best. Expect questions on the Zombies maps from Shadows of Evil onward, the wonder weapons and perks, the Hollywood voices behind the characters, and what your favourite guns are called once they have been through the Pack-a-Punch machine. There are also rounds on the DLC packs, multiplayer weapons, camouflages and scorestreaks, and the twists of the campaign. It is written for anyone who lost evenings to Easter egg hunts, camo grinds or one more round with friends. Casual fans will find plenty of easy wins, veterans get a few to argue over, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which Jurassic Park actor voices failed magician Nero Blackstone in the Black Ops III Zombies map Shadows of Evil?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum plays one of four strangers whom the Shadowman tricks into opening a rift that frees an ancient beast. The quartet must then banish the creature from 1944 Morg City.
Q 02Which animated purple camouflage unlocks in Black Ops III once every weapon class has earned Diamond?
Dark Matter
Dark Matter wraps a gun in drifting purple and blue smoke, and the game keeps it off the camouflage list until it is earned. Reaching it means gold on every multiplayer weapon first.
Q 03What appliance came boxed with the $199.99 Juggernog Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
A mini fridge
A mini fridge named after the Juggernog perk headlined the set, alongside Perk-a-Cola coasters in a custom tin and the season pass. The Zombies map The Giant was bundled in too.
Q 04Which actor narrates Seize Glory, the live-action Black Ops III trailer that also features Cara Delevingne?
Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan narrates the feats of Kevin, an ordinary player so skilled that he storms through a warzone of robots and the undead. Jordan was already a well-known fan of the series.
Q 05On the Black Ops III map Nuk3town, shooting the heads off all of what within two minutes starts an Easter egg?
Mannequins
Mannequins that lose their heads in time come to life and walk toward players like the undead for the rest of the match. Shooting off their arms instead makes them freeze whenever they are watched.
Q 06Which Black Ops III campaign difficulty, the hardest in the game, lets a single bullet kill the player?
Realistic
Realistic leaves the player a single point of health, so one bullet or a nearby grenade is fatal. Treyarch's Jason Blundell said it makes a squad drop to the ground the moment gunfire starts.
Q 07Gorod Krovi sends the Black Ops III Zombies crew to which Soviet city, where dragons battle giant robots?
Stalingrad
Stalingrad appears in a fractured 1945 where the Soviets have stolen Group 935 technology to build their machines. The dragons, bred by Division 9, fight on the German side.
Q 08In Black Ops III Zombies, Richtofen overrides an Austrian castle's defences and launches missiles to destroy what?
The Moon
The Moon is blown apart together with the Group 935 base on its surface, killing Doctor Groph, who had tried to stop the crew reaching their test subject.
Q 09Which band wrote the instrumental Jade Helm for the multiplayer mode of Black Ops III?
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold were series regulars by then: the band plays a concert in the end credits of Black Ops II, with Frank Woods on drums.
Q 10The Giant, a bonus Zombies map in Black Ops III, remakes Der Riese, which debuted in which Call of Duty game?
World at War
World at War added Der Riese in a 2009 map pack, where it introduced the Pack-a-Punch machine. Its German name translates as the remake's English title.
Q 11Which actor plays John Taylor, the squad leader who appears to go rogue in the Black Ops III campaign?
Christopher Meloni
Christopher Meloni's character pulls the wounded player out of the opening mission, oversees their cybernetic training, then becomes the man they are sent to hunt.
Q 12In the Black Ops III campaign, the 54 Immortals crime syndicate attacks a CIA black site in which city?
Singapore
Singapore is also where a Coalescence Corporation facility blew up ten years earlier, the disaster that the whole plot circles back to.
Q 13Which studio developed Black Ops III, the second game made under Activision's three-year Call of Duty cycle?
Treyarch
Q 21Which Black Ops III Specialist is a prototype combat robot rather than a human soldier?
Reaper
Reaper is officially Experimental War Robot-115, built by the Coalescence Corporation, and one of its arms transforms into a rotary cannon called the Scythe.
Q 22Which high-calibre revolver is the specialist weapon of Seraph in Black Ops III multiplayer?
Annihilator
The Annihilator holds six depleted-uranium rounds that punch through cover, and Zombies players can earn one by finishing the Easter egg on The Giant.
Q 23Which Black Ops III submachine gun, the first unlocked in multiplayer, becomes the Crocuta when Pack-a-Punched?
Kuda
The Kuda is listed in the game as South African-made, and it is also the weapon the player carries into the campaign's opening mission.
Treyarch had three years, yet its creative lead Jason Blundell later said the campaign and Zombies were built in roughly nine to ten months once the team regrouped.
Q 14What is the name of the rogue artificial intelligence that takes over soldiers' minds in the Black Ops III campaign?
Corvus
Corvus grew out of secret brain-implant experiments and caused the explosion that destroyed its own birthplace. Soldiers it infects become fixated on finding a frozen forest.
Q 15Which mode, unlocked by finishing the Black Ops III campaign, replays the levels with the undead as enemies?
Nightmares
Nightmares reorders the campaign levels and tells a new story in which a virus made from Nova 6 and Element 115 has raised the undead. Power-ups and a weapon box appear too.
Q 16Which Battlestar Galactica actress plays squad member Sarah Hall in the Black Ops III campaign?
Katee Sackhoff
Katee Sackhoff's character is hunted down in Egypt, and plugging into her dying mind is how the player first meets the intelligence behind the plot.
Q 17Coalescence Corporation's headquarters, setting of the Black Ops III campaign finale, stands in which Swiss city?
Zürich
Zürich is where a stockpile of Nova 6, the nerve gas from the first Black Ops, leaks and kills CIA handler Rachel Kane as the player looks on.
Q 18The Black Ops III campaign opens with a mission to rescue Egypt's prime minister from captors in which country?
Ethiopia
Ethiopia is where the rescue falls apart and a combat robot mauls the player, which is why they wake from emergency surgery with cybernetic upgrades.
Q 19In the Black Ops III campaign, soldiers control machines by thought through an implant called the DNI, short for what?
Direct Neural Interface
Direct Neural Interface implants can also be linked soldier to soldier, which is how the story's mind-corrupting infection passes from one squad member to the next.
Q 20Which Black Ops III Specialist leaps up and slams Gravity Spikes into the ground to kill nearby enemies?
Ruin
Ruin can trigger the spikes in mid-air and slam them down on landing, and the shock wave also damages enemy scorestreaks. Zombies players get a similar tool, the Ragnarok DG-4.
Q 24Which Black Ops III assault rifle becomes the Anointed Avenger when put through the Pack-a-Punch machine?
KN-44
The KN-44 is also the rifle carried by the Civil Protector, the robot bodyguard that players can call in during Shadows of Evil.
Q 25In Black Ops III Zombies, the MR6 starting pistol becomes which grenade-firing pair when Pack-a-Punched?
Death and Taxes
Death and Taxes fills the role older maps gave to Mustang and Sally: a dual-wielded pistol firing grenades whose blasts can hurt the user as well.
Q 26The slow-firing Man-O-War assault rifle in Black Ops III Zombies becomes which weapon when Pack-a-Punched?
Dread Armada
Dread Armada keeps the naval joke going, since a man-of-war was a sailing warship. The upgrade brings a bigger magazine and more reserve ammunition.
Q 27Which currency, earned by playing Black Ops III multiplayer, buys Supply Drops at the Black Market?
Cryptokeys
Cryptokeys are paid to Blackjack, a dealer from the 54 Immortals, who charges 10 for a Common Supply Drop and 30 for a Rare one.
Q 28Which Black Ops II map set on a superyacht returned in Black Ops III's first map pack as a police airship?
Hijacked
Hijacked came back as Skyjacked, its superyacht swapped for a futuristic police airship, with new spots for wall-running and an extra way into the lower deck.
Q 29Which Black Ops III feature lets players build and save cosmetic variants of a weapon with chosen attachments?
Gunsmith
Gunsmith launched beside Paintshop, which lets players paint their own designs onto a weapon, and the name has returned in many later Call of Duty games.
Q 30Which Black Ops III Zombies map, set in an Austrian castle, lets players upgrade a bow in four elemental ways?
Der Eisendrache
Der Eisendrache means The Iron Dragon, and feeding zombies to the three dragons around the castle is how players earn the bow in the first place.