Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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50 free Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arrived in 2007 and reshaped the first-person shooter, with a tightly scripted campaign and an online mode that players levelled up for years. Two sequels, a remaster and a full reboot followed, making Modern Warfare the best-known name in the whole Call of Duty series. This quiz covers the lot: the original trilogy and its heroes and villains, the famous missions, the multiplayer ideas each game introduced, the rebooted games from 2019 onward, and the developers, actors and composers behind them. It is written for anyone who has played a Modern Warfare campaign or lost evenings to its online matches. Expect easy wins about Captain Price and his squad alongside tougher questions for veterans, each with a short explanation.
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Q 01In Call of Duty 4, what kills playable American sergeant Paul Jackson midway through the campaign?
A nuclear explosion
A nuclear explosion engulfs the capital as American forces withdraw, killing Jackson, his lieutenant Vasquez and much of the invasion force that had been hunting Khaled Al-Asad.
Q 02Which Scottish SAS recruit of Call of Duty 4 dies in both 2011's Modern Warfare 3 and 2023's Modern Warfare III?
Soap
Soap bleeds to death in Prague in the 2011 game and is killed by Makarov himself in the 2023 reboot, where his squadmates scatter his ashes.
Q 03Which historical conflict, the setting of the first three Call of Duty games, did Call of Duty 4 leave behind?
World War II
World War II had been the series' only setting, and Infinity Ward's bosses later said Activision at first resisted the risky move away from it.
Q 04In which city do a young Lieutenant Price and his captain crawl past patrols in ghillie suits in Call of Duty 4?
Pripyat
Pripyat, emptied by the Chernobyl disaster, hosts the 1996 flashback All Ghillied Up, which critics have called one of the greatest levels in video game history.
Q 05Which Hollywood film composer wrote the main theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, leaving the rest to Lorne Balfe?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer wrote only the main theme, yet the soundtrack's iTunes page wrongly listed him as its sole composer.
Q 06Which British film star voiced the Delta Force operator Truck in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3?
Idris Elba
Idris Elba played Truck beside William Fichtner as Sandman and Timothy Olyphant as Grinch, the three making up most of Delta Force's Team Metal.
Q 07Which blockbuster film's record run to $1 billion did Activision say Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 beat in 16 days?
Avatar
Avatar had been the fastest film to gross $1 billion, and Activision said Modern Warfare 3 beat its pace after a $400 million first day.
Q 08What does Captain Price light at the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, moments after hanging Makarov?
A cigar
A cigar is Price's reward after he wraps a steel cable around Makarov's neck and plunges him through a hotel skylight, ending the original trilogy.
Q 09In Call of Duty: Warzone, what is the name of the prison where eliminated players duel one-on-one for a second chance?
Gulag
The Gulag gives both defeated players the same weaponry, and a player may only enter it after a first death in the match.
Q 10Which fictional Kastovian city from 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare became the original map of Warzone?
Verdansk
Verdansk hosted Warzone from its March 2020 launch until the island of Caldera replaced it as the main battle royale map in December 2021.
Q 11Which Task Force 141 lieutenant, real name Simon Riley, got his own comic-book prequel to Modern Warfare 2?
Ghost
Ghost proved so popular that readers of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition voted him the 40th-top video game character of all time in 2011.
Q 12Which American general, creator of Task Force 141 in the original trilogy, betrays the unit in Modern Warfare 2?
Shepherd
Shepherd executes two of his own operatives at their extraction point and takes the intelligence they recovered, while his private army hunts down the rest of the unit.
Q 13Which Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mission casts the player as an undercover CIA agent in a Moscow airport massacre?
No Russian
Q 21In Call of Duty 4, what does Ultranationalist leader Imran Zakhaev lose to Lieutenant Price's sniper shot in 1996?
An arm
An arm is all the bullet takes, and Zakhaev survives to lead the Ultranationalists into civil war against Russia's government fifteen years later.
Q 22In Call of Duty 4, which kind of vessel does Captain Price's SAS team raid in the Bering Strait?
Cargo ship
A cargo ship carrying a bomb linked to Khaled Al-Asad is the target, and enemy aircraft sink it while the team is still aboard, forcing a hurried escape.
Q 23Which type of gunship covers Captain Price's SAS team from the air after they are shot down in Call of Duty 4?
AC-130
An AC-130 keeps the stranded team alive, and Modern Warfare 3 later seats the player at the same aircraft's TV screen during the Battle of Paris.
No Russian can be skipped without penalty, and its designer, Mohammad Alavi, had already built the sniper mission All Ghillied Up for the previous game.
Q 14In which Gulf city does Captain Price finally corner Makarov in a hotel at the end of Modern Warfare 3?
Dubai
Dubai is where Price storms the hotel once the war in Europe has ended and Makarov has gone into hiding, closing a campaign that began in India.
Q 15Which wave-based co-op mode debuted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, set on the game's own multiplayer maps?
Survival
Survival sends enemies to tactical positions based on where the players are standing, rather than spawning them at fixed points on the map.
Q 16Which mode, introduced in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, only scores once a downed enemy's dog tags are collected?
Kill Confirmed
Kill Confirmed also lets the other team grab the tags to deny the point, and the mode went on to become a mainstay of the series.
Q 17In which East Coast city does Delta Force's Team Metal fight an invading army early in Modern Warfare 3?
New York
New York sees the squad destroy a radio jammer on the Stock Exchange building so that American forces can win back control of the air.
Q 18Which fictional country, occupied by General Barkov's forces, is the main setting of 2019's Modern Warfare?
Urzikstan
Urzikstan was invented so that the game's Middle East conflict was not tied to any one real place, though its story drew on the wars in Syria and Iraq.
Q 19Which mode, new in 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, pits two teams of two against each other in forty-second rounds?
Gunfight
Gunfight proved popular enough to return in Black Ops Cold War and, after launch, in Modern Warfare II.
Q 20Which extraction mode arrived with Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, sending trios to complete missions and escape with loot?
DMZ
DMZ pits its squads against AI combatants as well as each other, and it launched with Warzone 2.0 on November 16, 2022.
Q 24In Call of Duty 4's console multiplayer, which mode lets a max-rank player reset to rank one for a new insignia?
Prestige
Prestige could be repeated up to ten times in Call of Duty 4, and by Modern Warfare 3 the limit had doubled to twenty.
Q 25What name does Call of Duty 4 give the three bonus abilities, such as increased health, chosen for each custom class?
Perks
Perks came in three groups in Call of Duty 4, and the idea became a hallmark of later games in the series and of other shooters.
Q 26Which long-running Call of Duty co-op mode first appeared in a Modern Warfare game with 2023's Modern Warfare III?
Zombies
Zombies arrived as an open-world mode for up to 24 players, created by the Black Ops team working with the game's lead studio.
Q 27Besides the British SAS, soldiers of which American force are playable in the Call of Duty 4 campaign?
Marine Corps
Marine Corps veterans with recent combat experience advised the developers, who also watched a live-fire exercise at the Twentynine Palms base.
Q 28Which type of headwear, worn weathered and misshapen, is a trademark of Captain Price in the Modern Warfare games?
Boonie hat
A boonie hat throws a shadow over Price's eyes, which the artists used to give him the look of a thousand-yard stare.
Q 29Which type of enemy vessel do Delta Force and Navy SEALs hijack in Modern Warfare 3 to fire on the invading fleet?
Submarine
A submarine of the Oscar II class is boarded so that its own missile payload can destroy the Russian Navy in the bay, forcing a withdrawal from the East Coast.
Q 30Which nickname is shared by Captain Price's SAS right-hand man in Call of Duty 4 and the reboot's Sergeant Kyle Garrick?
Gaz
Gaz is executed by Zakhaev in the 2007 game but survives the reboot, where Price names him among the first recruits he wants for Task Force 141.