Call of Duty Zombies
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50 free Call of Duty Zombies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Call of Duty Zombies began as a hidden extra that its own makers thought was too strange to advertise, and grew into one of the most popular modes in the whole series. Round after round, up to four players board up windows, spend points on better guns and try to outlast a horde that only gets faster and tougher. This COD Zombies quiz covers the lot: the classic maps of the Black Ops era, the perk machines and wonder weapons, the Hollywood casts who lent their voices, and the tangled story of teleporters, secret research and soul-swapping that fans love to argue about. Later chapters get their turn too, including Exo Zombies, Zombies in Spaceland and the Dark Aether saga. Every question comes with its answer and a short explanation, so it works as a quick solo test, a trivia night round or a way to settle an argument in the lobby. Casual players should get a good run at the early questions; the deep cuts are there for the Easter egg hunters.
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Q 01Which 2008 Call of Duty game first hid Zombies as a bonus unlocked by finishing the campaign?
World at War
World at War shipped Zombies as an unadvertised extra because its makers doubted the publisher would accept something so odd. Once it caught on, it was unlocked for every player.
Q 02Which horror director stalks the film set as a zombie in the Zombies map Call of the Dead?
George A. Romero
George A. Romero plays himself, kidnapped and turned undead while shooting a film at a remote Siberian outpost. The map's name salutes his own Dead series of zombie films.
Q 03In which building do Kennedy, Nixon, Castro and McNamara fight the undead in the Zombies map Five?
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is where the four are negotiating after the Cuban Missile Crisis when the outbreak forces them to take up arms. Five was one of two maps that shipped with Black Ops.
Q 04Which island prison do four mobsters try to escape in the Zombies map Mob of the Dead?
Alcatraz
Alcatraz holds the four gangsters on New Year's Eve 1933, when they try to fly out on a makeshift airplane. They get airborne, only to crash-land at the Golden Gate Bridge.
Q 05Which real ocean liner is overrun by undead passengers in the Zombies map Voyage of Despair?
Titanic
Titanic is the stage: a stolen artifact turns the passengers and crew into zombies just as the liner strikes the iceberg. The map launched with Black Ops 4.
Q 06Which heavy metal band wrote the song Not Ready to Die for the Zombies map Call of the Dead?
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold wrote it in four days between tours, basing the lyrics on the mode's lore because singer M. Shadows is a fan. Players trigger it as a hidden Easter egg.
Q 07Which famous Black Ops multiplayer map became a Zombies map bundled with Black Ops II's special editions?
Nuketown
Nuketown, a Nevada nuclear test site, is wiped out in the Zombies story by a missile fired from the Moon. The undead version was later made available to every player.
Q 08Which 1980s TV star turns up to help the trapped actors in the theme-park map Zombies in Spaceland?
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff, the Knight Rider star, is trapped in the film too and helps the four fend off the undead. The map belongs to Infinite Warfare, whose Zombies story unfolds inside horror films.
Q 09In Call of Duty Zombies, what do players call the chest that hands out a randomly selected weapon?
Mystery Box
The Mystery Box can also produce wonder weapons, powerful fictional guns unique to Zombies mode. Players who want one particular gun buy it from a chalk outline on a wall instead.
Q 10Which Perk-a-Cola in Call of Duty Zombies increases the health of the player who drinks it?
Juggernog
Juggernog is the health perk, one of the soda-themed upgrades players buy from machines scattered around each map. Perk-a-Colas arrived with the mode's first downloadable map.
Q 11Which Activision studio invented Zombies mode while behind schedule on a 2008 Call of Duty game?
Treyarch
Treyarch's studio head first tried to shut the side project down, then played it and decided it had to be finished. It was never formally pitched; word simply spread through the team.
Q 12Which weapon from the 2008 debut of Call of Duty Zombies was the mode's first wonder weapon?
Ray Gun
The Ray Gun began a line of powerful fictional weapons found only in Zombies. Later wonder weapons were often tied to a single map and earned by building them or finishing quests.
Q 13Which machine, introduced in the factory map Der Riese, lets Zombies players upgrade their weapons?
Pack-a-Punch
Q 21Which asylum map, the first Zombies DLC map, introduced Perk-a-Colas, traps and a power switch?
Verrückt
Verrückt, German for crazy, is built on the multiplayer map Asylum, and switching on its generator reunites the two halves of the map. Its traps are modelled on electro-shock therapy.
Q 22What does Shi No Numa, the Zombies map that introduced Richtofen's crew, mean in Japanese?
Swamp of Death
Swamp of Death fits a map set in misty swampland surrounded by jungle. It also added flaming hellhounds and the Wunderwaffe DG-2.
Q 23What does Der Riese, the Zombies factory map remade for Black Ops III, mean in English?
The Giant
Pack-a-Punch debuted in Der Riese, a Breslau factory where a strange substance is built into teleporters and other devices. The machine became a fixture of most later versions of the mode.
Q 14Which map, set in a German bunker, was the only Zombies map when the mode launched in 2008?
Nacht der Untoten
Nacht der Untoten, German for Night of the Undead, started automatically once a player finished the final campaign mission. Three more maps followed as downloadable content.
Q 15Which actor voices failing magician Nero Blackstone in the Zombies map Shadows of Evil?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum heads a noir cast with Heather Graham as a burlesque dancer, Ron Perlman as a boxer and Neal McDonough as a corrupt cop. The four are tricked into freeing an ancient beast.
Q 16Which US site is the starting point of the Zombies map Moon, before a teleporter trip into space?
Area 51
Area 51 is where the crew arrive before the base's teleporter sends them to a research station on the lunar surface. Once there, players and zombies alike fight in low gravity.
Q 17Which rapper's song Won't Back Down can be triggered as an Easter egg in the Zombies map Five?
Eminem
Eminem's track, which features Pink, also plays over the end credits of Black Ops. Most Zombies maps hide a secret song that players unlock by hunting for Easter eggs.
Q 18Which actress stars beside Danny Trejo and Robert Englund in the Zombies map Call of the Dead?
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Trejo, Englund and Michael Rooker all play themselves as actors whose film shoot is overrun. Celebrity casts returned in several later Zombies maps.
Q 19Which Call of Duty game gave its undead powered exoskeletons in a mode called Exo Zombies?
Advanced Warfare
Advanced Warfare delivered Exo Zombies across its four DLC packs, starting with a map called Outbreak. Raven Software, not lead developer Sledgehammer Games, built the mode.
Q 20Which actor voices the mobster Billy Handsome in the Zombies map Mob of the Dead?
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta voices Billy beside Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen and Joe Pantoliano as four inmates jailed during the Great Depression. One of them, Weasel, keeps a journal of every failed breakout.
The Giant is both the translation and the name of the remake, a Collector's Edition bonus map starring the four original heroes. The first version closed out the 2008 game's run of Zombies maps.
Q 24Which substance, processed at the Der Riese factory, reanimates dead cells in the Zombies story?
Element 115
Element 115 is the story's cause of the undead and the material used to build its teleporters. In Black Ops II, missiles loaded with it are fired from the Moon at Earth.
Q 25Which German research body builds massive robots and elemental staffs in the Zombies map Origins?
Group 935
Group 935 built the machines to aid Germany's war effort, then dug into an ancient tomb in 1918 and unleashed the first known zombie outbreak in history. Its outposts stretch from Siberia to the Moon.
Q 26Which girl, trapped in a pyramid device on the Moon, unleashes the undead in the Zombies story?
Samantha Maxis
Samantha Maxis swore vengeance on her father's colleagues after watching him die, sending zombies after them across time and space. A soul swap with Richtofen later hands him control of the horde.
Q 27Which US Marine fights beside Nikolai, Takeo and Richtofen in the original Zombies crew?
Tank Dempsey
Tank Dempsey completes a crew drawn from four armies: American, Soviet, Japanese and German. The four debuted together in the map Shi No Numa.
Q 28Which voice actor plays Edward Richtofen, the German doctor of the original Zombies crew?
Nolan North
Nolan North voices Richtofen throughout the Black Ops games and doubles as Doctor Gersh, a scientist stuck in ethereal form in the map Ascension.
Q 29Kino der Toten, a launch map for Black Ops Zombies, is set in an abandoned theatre in which city?
Berlin
Berlin in the 1960s is where the crew land after overloading a teleporter at the Der Riese factory and jumping forward in time. The theatre hides a secret research facility.
Q 30Which top-down Zombies spin-off is unlocked by typing a code into the Black Ops main-menu terminal?
Dead Ops Arcade
Dead Ops Arcade opens when a player types DOA at the terminal, revealing a retro twin-stick shooter with extra lives and zombie bosses. A sequel followed in Black Ops III.