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40 free Garry's Mod trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Garry's Mod has no goals, no story and no ending, which is exactly why so many players have sunk thousands of hours into it. What began as one hobbyist's tinkering with Valve's technology grew into a huge commercial hit and a launch pad for game modes, YouTube channels and internet in-jokes. This quiz covers the whole of GMod: the tools and menus every builder uses, the player-made game modes that took on a life of their own, the oddball Steam achievements, and the story of Garry Newman and Facepunch Studios, from the first free release to the long-awaited successor. It is written for anyone who has ever welded a bathtub to a rocket. Casual players should recognise most of the early questions, while the later ones are for veterans who remember the game's earliest versions.
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Q 01In which Garry's Mod game mode does one team hide as everyday objects while the other seeks them?
Prop Hunt
Prop Hunt was popularised through Garry's Mod, and versions of it later appeared in Call of Duty, Fortnite and Genshin Impact.
Q 02Garry Newman built Garry's Mod as a mod for the Source engine and, principally, which Valve shooter?
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2 was the foundation because Newman felt his programming skills were not yet good enough to build a full game on the engine.
Q 03Before Garry's Mod took off, Garry Newman was fired from a programming job at what kind of website?
Online dating
Online dating was the site's business, and Newman lost the job when he launched a rival site of his own.
Q 04What does Garry's Mod call its spawnable character bodies, whose individual limbs can be posed and frozen?
Ragdolls
Ragdolls are spawned so freely that the Dollhouse achievement only unlocks after a player has created 2,000 of them.
Q 05In July 2024, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman received a takedown notice over which viral web series?
Skibidi Toilet
Skibidi Toilet's creator later said that he had not sent the claim himself and was trying to contact Newman.
Q 06Which Garry's Mod tool lets players pick up props, rotate them and freeze them in place?
Physics gun
The Physics gun fires a coloured beam at its target, and pressing R twice in quick succession unfreezes every prop that player has spawned.
Q 07A 2024 takedown notice from which Japanese company made Facepunch strip Garry's Mod Workshop entries?
Nintendo
Nintendo's notice covered so many uploads that Facepunch asked community members to delete their own to help clear the backlog.
Q 08If a Garry's Mod server lacks your addon player model, you appear to everyone as which scientist?
Dr. Kleiner
Dr. Kleiner is the default player model, and a multiplayer server can also override whichever model you picked as your preferred one.
Q 09Garry's Mod's success let Facepunch branch out into which multiplayer survival game, inspired by DayZ?
Rust
Rust sold over 150,000 copies in the first two weeks of its alpha release and left early access in February 2018.
Q 10Garry's Mod's Bad Coder achievement counts 500 errors in which scripting language, used for its addons?
Lua
Lua, whose name is Portuguese for moon, powers the game's addons and game modes, and GMod embeds its own modified version of the language.
Q 11Which hidden-traitor game mode won a Facepunch contest and was added to Garry's Mod itself in 2010?
Trouble in Terrorist Town
Trouble in Terrorist Town earned its place in the base game as the contest winner, arriving in July 2010 alongside Dogfight: Arcade Assault.
Q 12Holding which key opens the spawn menu in Garry's Mod by default, giving access to props and tools?
Q
Q is held down rather than tapped, and while the menu is open the crosshair is replaced by a mouse cursor.
Q 13Garry's Mod's Popper achievement is earned by bursting 1,000 of which spawnable construction item?
Balloons
Balloons are one of the game's Construction tools, listed beside Dynamite, the Thruster and the Hover Ball.
Q 21Garry's Mod's easily posed characters made it a late-2000s favourite for which kind of filmmaking?
Machinima
Machinima made in the game includes Full Life Consequences, which animated a 2008 fan fiction complete with its typing errors.
Q 22In 2012, Garry's Mod's Windows version added support for which full-body motion-tracking peripheral?
Kinect
Kinect lets a player stand in front of the sensor while a spawned character copies their movements, handy for acting out a film alone.
Q 23Garry's Mod gained an experimental client for which operating system in 2013, during its move to SteamPipe?
Linux
Linux arrived on 5 June 2013, nearly three years after the game's first port away from Windows.
Q 14Which YouTuber, born Evan Fong, is known for montage videos of friends playing Garry's Mod?
VanossGaming
VanossGaming, a Canadian creator, often films on user-made servers, exploring odd landscapes and showing off the game's exploits.
Q 15Garry's Mod developer Facepunch Studios was founded by Garry Newman in 2004 in which country?
England
England is home to Facepunch, which has its headquarters in Birmingham and had grown to more than 50 staff by 2023.
Q 16Which Facepunch platform, released in April 2026, is billed as the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod?
S&box
S&box runs on Valve's Source 2 engine, and its creators can export their projects as standalone games to sell on Steam royalty free.
Q 17Which multi-purpose Garry's Mod item welds props together and alters characters' facial expressions?
Tool gun
The tool gun takes on whichever tool is picked in the spawn menu, from Rope and Winch to the Face Poser and Remover.
Q 18Because standalone Garry's Mod needed a second game's files, it launched in a bundle with which shooter?
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source supplies assets that many community maps rely on, so a 2025 update finally built the most-used ones into the game.
Q 19Roughly how many copies had Garry's Mod sold by September 2021, fifteen years after its Steam release?
20 million
20 million copies was a long way from launch day in 2006, when just 5,729 were sold.
Q 20In Garry's Mod's hidden-traitor mode, which role is known to every player and carries a DNA scanner?
Detectives
Detectives use the scanner to trace a dead player's killer, helping the Innocents pick out those who only pretend to be on their side.
Q 24Garry Newman released version 1 of Garry's Mod in 2004 on which date, to a polarised first reaction?
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve 2004 brought version 1, which some players dismissed as too close to an existing mod before positive feedback won out.
Q 25Garry Newman has called keeping the Garry's Mod name a mistake, saying he should have used which title?
Sandbox
Sandbox was Newman's choice with hindsight, since the game had stopped being a mod once it went on sale as a standalone release.
Q 26Holding the C key in Garry's Mod opens what, used to edit objects and choose a player model?
The context menu
The context menu turns the crosshair into a cursor: right-click an object to see options that apply to it, or open the Player Model widget.
Q 27PixelTail Games turned its Garry's Mod hub of minigame servers into which standalone game in 2016?
Tower Unite
Tower Unite replaced the original server network, whose website drew two million views within hours of opening in 2009.
Q 28In 2024, Guinness World Records named Garry's Mod the best-selling game ever in which category?
PC-exclusive
PC-exclusive fits a game that never came to consoles, and Guinness made the call in September 2024, shortly before its eighteenth anniversary.
Q 29Which Garry's Mod addon adds entities that communicate with each other, used to build robots and computers?
Wiremod
Wiremod's parts talk to each other through wires, and it ranks among the game's most notable addons alongside Spacebuild.
Q 30Before Steam Workshop support came in version 13, which Garry's Mod section let players browse and install mods?
Toybox
Toybox arrived with version 12 and lasted only one major version before the Workshop replaced it.