Fallout: New Vegas Trivia
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100 free Fallout: New Vegas trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fallout: New Vegas arrived in 2010 as a spin-off built in just 18 months, shipped with a famous pile of bugs, and missed its Metacritic bonus by a single point. Then something odd happened: fans kept playing, modders kept patching, and the game Obsidian made in the Mojave grew into the series entry people argue is the best of them all. This quiz covers the whole story. You'll face questions on the Courier's journey from a shallow grave in Goodsprings to the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the factions fighting over the Strip, the celebrity voice cast, and the four story DLCs that tie together in Lonesome Road. There are development questions too — working titles, the cancelled Van Buren, the Gamebryo struggles — for players who read the credits. The set runs from easy (who stole the Platinum Chip?) to expert (which year was the Divide detonated?). Fifty questions, each one checked against its source. Pick a faction and see how far you get.
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Q 01In Fallout: New Vegas, which Strip casino does the reclusive Mr. House rule from?
The Lucky 38
The Lucky 38: it looms over the Strip yet stays closed to the public, until the Courier is invited inside and handed its presidential suite.
Q 02Fallout: New Vegas is set 204 years after which event in the series' timeline?
The Great War
The Great War: the nuclear exchange of 2077 lasted about two hours, yet most of Las Vegas survived because Mr. House's defences stopped nearly every warhead aimed at it.
Q 03In Fallout: New Vegas, which wearable computer serves as the player's menu and map?
Pip-Boy 3000
Pip-Boy 3000: the Courier's is a hand-me-down, a gift from the doctor who patches them up and who once wore it himself as a vault dweller.
Q 04In Fallout: New Vegas, which item is the Courier delivering when they are ambushed and shot?
The Platinum Chip
The Platinum Chip: Mr. House designed it before the bombs fell, lost it in the war, then spent two centuries hunting for it.
Q 05Who shoots the Courier in the head at the start of Fallout: New Vegas?
Benny
Benny: the checkered-suit mobster, voiced by Friends star Matthew Perry, tells his victim "the game was rigged from the start" before pulling the trigger.
Q 06In Fallout: New Vegas, which Securitron digs the Courier out of a shallow grave?
Victor
Victor: townsfolk distrust his cheerful cowboy act, since the robot had never done much to help anyone before he dug up a stranger.
Q 07In Fallout: New Vegas, which physician nurses the Courier back to health?
Doc Mitchell
Doc Mitchell: his check-up doubles as character creation, since the tests he runs set the Courier's stats before he hands over his old Vault 21 jumpsuit.
Q 08In Fallout: New Vegas, which structure is the focal point of the war between the NCR and Caesar's Legion?
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam: it still generates power two centuries after the bombs, and a treaty hands the NCR 95% of its output, so whoever holds it holds the Mojave's electricity.
Q 09In the Fallout games, which animal appears on the flag of the New California Republic?
A two-headed bear
A two-headed bear: the NCR's flag is a variation on the old California state flag, a pre-War symbol given one extra head.
Q 10Before founding Caesar's Legion, Edward Sallow was raised and educated by which Fallout faction?
The Followers of the Apocalypse
The Followers of the Apocalypse: the humanitarians taught him to read and sent him east as a scholar, where a cache of books on ancient Rome gave him other ideas.
Q 11In Fallout: New Vegas, which fast, venomous flying insects were created in a laboratory before escaping into the Mojave?
Cazadores
Cazadores: the scientist whose experiments created them still insists they never escaped his lab and cannot breed, while swarms of them multiply across the wasteland.
Q 12In Fallout: New Vegas, which heavily armed, xenophobic tribe occupies Nellis Air Force Base?
The Boomers
The Boomers: descended from vault dwellers who raided their own armoury, they hauled howitzers back to the base and now shell anyone who walks up to it.
Q 13Which Fallout: New Vegas group is made up of escaped convicts who took over their own prison?
The Powder Gangers
Q 21Which old gunfighter ballad won a new generation of fans by playing on the radio in Fallout: New Vegas?
Big Iron
Big Iron: Marty Robbins's song about an Arizona ranger facing down an outlaw plays on three of the game's stations, and the game's success sparked a revival of his music.
Q 22Which Nevada city was proposed as the setting of Fallout: New Vegas before Las Vegas was chosen?
Reno
Reno: the team debated going back to New Reno, the gangster city of Fallout 2, until, as Obsidian's boss put it, "we saw Vegas and we just went with it".
Q 23Which Obsidian project did Sega cancel in 2009, shortly before the studio began Fallout: New Vegas?
An Alien RPG
The Powder Gangers: the NCR put its prisoners to work on the railroad with dynamite and blasting powder, and they used the explosives to blast their way out.
Q 14In Fallout: New Vegas, which robot helps the Courier claim the city for themselves in the independent ending?
Yes Man
Yes Man: rebuilt so that he obeys whoever is talking to him, he promises to help the Courier "accomplish so much, whether I want to or not".
Q 15Which commander, feared as the "Monster of the East", leads Caesar's Legion in the final battle of Fallout: New Vegas?
Lanius
Lanius: for all his fearsome reputation, the Legate never has to be fought, because a Courier who passes a string of Speech checks can talk him into retreating.
Q 16Which optional Fallout: New Vegas mode makes the Courier eat, drink and sleep to stay alive?
Hardcore Mode
Hardcore Mode: it can be switched off at any moment, but the achievement goes only to players who finish the whole game without ever doing so.
Q 17Which skill, added in Fallout: New Vegas, boosts the benefit the Courier gets from food and drink?
Survival
Survival: it replaced the Outdoorsman skill of the first two Fallout games, and it also unlocks campfire recipes, including poisons for coating weapons.
Q 18At which levels can the player choose a perk in Fallout: New Vegas?
Every even-numbered level
Every even-numbered level: Fallout 3 had granted a perk at every level, so New Vegas players choose half as often and each permanent pick counts for more.
Q 19Which actor narrates the opening of Fallout: New Vegas, as he did for the first Fallout game?
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman: he has spoken the series' signature line, "War. War never changes", since the first game, yet in Fallout 4 he was heard only as a TV newscaster.
Q 20Which cancelled Black Isle project was originally meant to be the third mainline Fallout?
Van Buren
Van Buren: cancelled in 2003, it left behind ideas that New Vegas later picked up, among them a tribal army modelled on Rome called Caesar's Legion.
An Alien RPG: Sega shelved Aliens: Crucible in 2009, but Obsidian kept the engine it had been building for it, and the offer to make a Fallout game came at about the same time.
Q 24What was one of the working titles of Fallout: New Vegas?
Fallout: Sin City
Fallout: Sin City: Obsidian's three-page pitch borrowed Las Vegas's old nickname because the story was meant to be about greed and excess.
Q 25Which event did the director of Fallout: New Vegas use as the cut-off for the game's historical references?
The Kennedy assassination
The Kennedy assassination: Josh Sawyer let the setting drift from the 1950s into the early 1960s, but ruled out music or anything else from after that day.
Q 26Which agency's data did Obsidian use to build the Mojave map of Fallout: New Vegas?
The United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey: Obsidian put its terrain data into the pitch for the game, then the director went to Las Vegas to photograph the desert around it.
Q 27Which Fallout: New Vegas town is watched over by Dinky, a giant roadside dinosaur?
Novac
Novac: the town is named after its motel's broken "No Vacancy" sign, and its dinosaur is modelled on the real roadside giants of Cabazon, California.
Q 28In Fallout: New Vegas, which cyberdog with a failing brain can join the Courier as a companion?
Rex
Rex: he belongs to the King, who runs a school of Elvis impersonators, and travels with the Courier on a quest to find him a healthy replacement brain.
Q 29Which engine, inherited from Fallout 3, did Obsidian use to build Fallout: New Vegas?
Gamebryo
Gamebryo: nobody at Obsidian had worked with it, so the first person on the team who knew the engine was a modder hired for his overhaul of Oblivion.
Q 30Who composed the original score of Fallout: New Vegas?
Inon Zur
Inon Zur: Obsidian steered him toward the stark score of the film There Will Be Blood and asked for small string groups in which the rosin on the bows could be heard.