Fallout 4 Trivia
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99 free Fallout 4 trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Fallout 4 trivia quiz covers Bethesda's 2015 game from the moment the bombs drop on October 23, 2077 to the endings for the Institute, the Brotherhood of Steel, the Railroad and the Minutemen. You will get questions on the story (Vault 111, Shaun, Kellogg, the synths), the Commonwealth's landmarks (Diamond City in Fenway Park, Goodneighbor, the Prydwen), the thirteen companions and who can be romanced, the mechanics (settlements, power armour fusion cores, V.A.T.S., Survival mode) and the six add-ons from Automatron to Nuka-World. It also covers how the game was made and received: the Creation Engine, id Software's help with gunplay, 111,000 lines of dialogue, the E3 2015 reveal, the launch that shipped 12 million units, the Game of the Year awards, the wearable Pip-Boy, the VR port and the Anniversary Edition. Difficulty runs from easy questions for anyone who finished the main quest to expert ones about release dates and development. Every answer was checked against a reference page before publishing, so the dates, names and numbers hold up.
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Q 01Fallout 4 launched in November 2015 for Windows and which consoles?
PS4 and Xbox One
PS4 and Xbox One. Bethesda then opened both consoles to mods made by PC players, first on Xbox One and, after a delay, on PS4.
Q 02From which numbered vault does the Sole Survivor emerge?
Vault 111
The Sole Survivor emerges from Vault 111, the cryogenic vault on the hill above Sanctuary Hills, where residents were frozen in pods instead of living out their lives below ground.
Q 03Which faction does Preston Garvey ask the Sole Survivor to rebuild?
The Minutemen
The Minutemen: Garvey promotes the Sole Survivor, a newcomer, to be their General, and the group can then retake its old base.
Q 04Fallout 4 opens on October 23, 2077, the day of which event in the series' timeline?
The Great War
The Great War: the family reaches the vault with moments to spare, and the Sole Survivor walks out exactly 210 years later, on October 23, 2287.
Q 05The Commonwealth is Fallout's version of which real region?
Boston and Massachusetts
Boston and Massachusetts: the state's formal title is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the game keeps that name for the ruins in and around the city.
Q 06What is the name of the Sole Survivor's kidnapped son?
Shaun
Shaun, the infant taken from the spouse's cryo-pod, turns out to be Father, the elderly director of the Institute, which wanted his uncorrupted pre-war DNA.
Q 07Who shoots the Sole Survivor's spouse in Fallout 4?
Conrad Kellogg
Conrad Kellogg, a mercenary working for the Institute, shoots the spouse while taking the baby. After his death, Dr Amari uses an implant from his brain to let the player relive his memories.
Q 08Diamond City, the Commonwealth's largest settlement, is built inside which real landmark?
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is the real home of the Boston Red Sox, and the ballpark still shapes the town: Diamond City's guards keep the peace in old baseball padding.
Q 09Which faction arrives in Fallout 4 aboard the airship Prydwen?
The Brotherhood of Steel
The Brotherhood of Steel flies in from the Capital Wasteland under Elder Arthur Maxson. Side with the Institute or the Railroad, though, and the player ends up destroying the airship.
Q 10In Fallout 4, what are the Institute's artificial humans called?
Synths
Synths: the newest models are all but indistinguishable from people, and the Institute uses them to replace residents of the Commonwealth it has abducted.
Q 11Which is the only mandatory companion in Fallout 4?
Dogmeat
Dogmeat, the German Shepherd met at the Red Rocket truck stop, is the one companion the main quest requires: he tracks the mercenary's scent during the quest Reunions, and was modelled on a real dog named River.
Q 12Which companion is an Institute Courser?
X6-88
X6-88 is the Institute Courser, an elite retrieval unit, who can be recruited as a companion after the Sole Survivor joins the Institute and helps him recover a runaway at the raider base Libertalia.
Q 13Which companion can be romanced only after moving from a robot into a humanlike body?
Curie
Curie is a lab robot found locked in a secret wing of Vault 81, where she worked on a cure for every disease. She asks for the new body herself, wanting to become more human.
Q 21Fallout 4 runs on which game engine?
Creation Engine
The Creation Engine is less new than it sounds: it was built on Gamebryo, the engine behind the two previous Fallout games, and keeps much of its framework.
Q 22Bethesda said Fallout 4 out-talked Fallout 3 and which other game combined?
Skyrim
Skyrim: Bethesda counted just over 111,000 recorded lines. Yet players choose each reply from a few paraphrased words, and modders soon put the full lines back on screen.
Q 23How did Bethesda tease Fallout 4's reveal trailer?
A website countdown
A website countdown: it appeared the day before, and the trailer went out as it hit zero. Gameplay followed eleven days later at Bethesda's E3 press conference.
Q 14What does a companion who idolizes the Sole Survivor grant?
A perk
A unique perk, earned when the companion's affinity score reaches 1,000. Actions they approve of raise it, and if it sinks far enough they walk out for good.
Q 15Fallout 4's perk chart took the place of which system from earlier Fallout games?
Skills
Skills are gone: each level-up brings one point to spend on the chart, so opening a Master lock or hacking a Master terminal now takes ranks in Locksmith and Hacker.
Q 16Power armour in Fallout 4 must be fed with what to run efficiently?
Fusion cores
Power armour runs on Fusion cores, which drain with use and can be pulled from generators or bought from vendors; the suits were redesigned to feel like vehicles and can mount a jet pack.
Q 17Which convenience is disabled when playing on Survival difficulty?
Fast travel
Survival difficulty disables Fast travel and manual saving, adds hunger, thirst and sleep needs, and raises damage in both directions; the revamped mode arrived as a free update in 2016.
Q 18What does V.A.T.S. stand for?
Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System
V.A.T.S. is the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, which slows time so the player can queue shots at specific body parts; each queued shot drains Action Points.
Q 19Fallout 4 was the first game in the series to feature what?
A fully voiced protagonist
A fully voiced protagonist, so every reply is spoken aloud. Bethesda did not repeat the experiment: its next big single-player game, Starfield, went back to a silent hero.
Q 20Which studio, maker of Doom, helped Bethesda with Fallout 4's gunplay?
id Software
id Software, Bethesda's sister studio and maker of Doom, advised on Fallout 4's shooting so that real-time gunplay felt as solid as a dedicated shooter's rather than a fallback, as it had in Fallout 3.
Q 24Bethesda valued the Fallout 4 copies it shipped for launch day at roughly what?
$750 million
$750 million, Bethesda said, for 12 million copies, a little over $60 each. The figure counted copies shipped to shops, and the publisher did not say how many players had actually bought one.
Q 25Whose Steam record for concurrent players in a non-Valve game did Fallout 4 break at launch?
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V had taken the mark from Bethesda's own Skyrim earlier that year. Fallout 4 won it back with more than 440,000 people playing at once on launch day.
Q 26Fallout 4's collector's edition included a wearable replica of what?
The Pip-Boy
The Pip-Boy Edition shipped with a wearable plastic Pip-Boy that held a smartphone running the companion app, mirroring the in-game wrist computer on a second screen.
Q 27Which two ceremonies gave Fallout 4 their top prize?
D.I.C.E. Awards and BAFTA Games Awards
The D.I.C.E. Awards and BAFTA Games Awards both gave Fallout 4 their top prize in early 2016. The Witcher 3 had beaten it at The Game Awards and won again at the developers' own ceremony.
Q 28Which voice actor plays both Codsworth and Nick Valentine?
Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell voices both Codsworth, the Mister Handy butler, and Nick Valentine; he had earlier played the master thief Garrett in the original Thief games.
Q 29Which was the first add-on released for Fallout 4, in March 2016?
Automatron
Automatron, released in March 2016, lets players build and customise their own robot companions, then sends them after the Mechanist, whose machines have been attacking caravans across the Commonwealth.
Q 30In a Fallout 4 add-on, the captive Jezebel is which model of machine?
Robobrain
A Robobrain runs on a preserved human brain. The Rust Devils hold Jezebel captive, and she trades what she knows about the Mechanist's hideout for the promise of a new body.