Grand Theft Auto Trivia
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57 free Grand Theft Auto trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
51 free Grand Theft Auto trivia questions with answers. This Grand Theft Auto trivia quiz is split roughly down the middle. Half of it is GTA 5 trivia: the three protagonists and their voice actors, the Ludendorff prologue, Lester's heists, Trevor's business in Sandy Shores, the record-shattering launch numbers, and GTA Online's Heists, Cayo Perico, Dr. Dre and Shark Cards. The other half runs through the whole series, from DMA Design's top-down original in 1997 through GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas and the Hot Coffee scandal, GTA IV, Chinatown Wars, the Housers and Rockstar, and on to GTA VI, its trailers, its leak and its release date. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has played a GTA game, a third are medium, and the rest are for players who know which cargo ship Niko arrives on and what the studio's original working title was. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01GTA V's lead studio, Rockstar North, is headquartered in which UK city?
Edinburgh
Edinburgh became the studio's home when a 25-person branch opened there, yet the Grand Theft Auto series itself was born in Dundee.
Q 02In GTA V, which friend works alongside Franklin Clinton repossessing cars for a corrupt car dealer?
Lamar Davis
Lamar Davis later needs rescuing, after rival gangbanger Stretch betrays him to the Ballas and tries to have him killed.
Q 03GTA V's main city is a satirical version of which real US city?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the model for Los Santos, and Rockstar's team made research trips around the real city to gather footage before building it.
Q 04Which actor provides the voice and motion capture for Trevor Philips?
Steven Ogg
Steven Ogg had stepped away from acting to build a house in the country before Rockstar hired him to play Trevor Philips.
Q 05GTA V opens in 2004 with a botched robbery in the town of Ludendorff, in which fictional snowy state?
North Yankton
North Yankton is where Michael fakes his death through a secret agreement with the FIB, then resurfaces years later living under an alias.
Q 06When GTA V made $1 billion in three days in 2013, it broke records held by which game series?
Call of Duty
Call of Duty: Ghosts shipped $1 billion to retailers on day one later that year, yet Activision said even that was down on the previous game.
Q 07Grand Theft Auto 2 opened with a cut-down version of what kind of promotional film?
A live-action short film
A live-action short film followed a criminal taking jobs from the city's gangs, until an assassin from a gang he had robbed killed him.
Q 08By 2026, GTA V had sold over 230 million copies, but which game had sold even more?
Minecraft
Minecraft's maker, Mojang, was bought by Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, and its founders, including creator Markus Persson, left the company.
Q 09In GTA V, Franklin's special ability slows down time while he is doing what?
Driving
Driving is also how Franklin refills the ability's meter, since skilful moves such as drifting round corners top it up.
Q 10Michael's old friend Lester Crest, who plans the heists, is what kind of specialist?
Hacker
Hacker Lester Crest helped Michael and Franklin rob a jewellery store to pay for repairs to Martin Madrazo's mansion, which Michael had wrecked.
Q 11Trevor Philips Enterprises, Trevor's meth-and-guns operation, is based in which small Blaine County town?
Sandy Shores
Sandy Shores is where Trevor settled while on the run, and he dreams of growing his small operation there into a large empire.
Q 12Which target does the trio hit for GTA V's final heist, 'The Big Score'?
The Union Depository
The Union Depository job is the trio's biggest score, and afterwards Franklin is ordered to kill either Michael or Trevor.
Q 13Which private military company does Trevor go to war with in Blaine County?
Merryweather
Merryweather is the firm Trevor Philips keeps raiding for money and weapons to grow his business.
Q 21Which actress sued over GTA V in 2014, claiming the game's starlet Lacey Jonas was based on her?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan's case was thrown out in 2016, when a New York appeals court called the game a work of fiction and satire.
Q 22Before living under the alias De Santa, Michael's real surname was what?
Townley
Townley is the name on Michael's supposed grave, where Trevor later discovers their old partner Brad buried instead.
Q 23In GTA: Vice City, what goes wrong that leaves Tommy Vercetti needing to repay his mob boss?
His drug deal is ambushed
His drug deal is ambushed in a setup by drug lord Ricardo Diaz, whom Tommy later kills before taking over his assets.
Q 14Rockstar's 2013 stimulus package for early GTA Online players made up for what?
A botched launch
A botched launch in October 2013 wiped some players' characters, so Rockstar paid the stimulus to everyone who had played since launch.
Q 15What brings Carl 'CJ' Johnson back home at the start of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
His mother's murder
His mother's murder brings CJ back home, where he finds his old street gang in decline and sets out to rebuild it.
Q 16In 2021, Rockstar paid a fan $10,000 for fixing which long-running GTA Online problem?
Slow loading times
Slow loading times had dogged players for seven years until the fan, t0st, found the faulty code, and Rockstar made his fix official.
Q 17What do GTA Online's real-money Shark Cards give the buyer?
In-game currency
In-game currency is what Shark Cards sell, though the newer versions' Career Builder hands each new character enough of it to set up a business.
Q 18The Cayo Perico Heist requires players to buy what kind of vehicle to reach El Rubio's island?
Submarine
The Kosatka comes with a one-man crew, ex-Russian Navy sailor Pavel, and the heist was the first that could be finished solo.
Q 19In GTA Online's The Contract, whose stolen phone of unreleased music does Franklin's agency recover?
Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre also made new music for The Contract, and his fresh tracks were added to the game's radio stations.
Q 20Which German electronic group co-composed GTA V's original score, the series' first?
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream's founder Edgar Froese first turned down the idea of scoring a video game before joining Woody Jackson, The Alchemist and Oh No.
Q 24In GTA Online's Doomsday Heist, the player storms a secret missile base hidden inside which mountain?
Mount Chiliad
Mount Chiliad hides the launch facility where players must stop a missile launch and take out Avon Hertz.
Q 25Which Scottish studio developed the original Grand Theft Auto in 1997?
DMA Design
DMA Design's game had help from publicist Max Clifford, hired by its publisher to stir up press outrage as free publicity.
Q 26Under what working title did the original Grand Theft Auto begin development?
Race 'n' Chase
Race 'n' Chase started life as a cops-and-robbers chase game, and the team then made the player the criminal rather than the cop.
Q 27From what perspective was the original 1997 Grand Theft Auto played?
Top-down
Top-down views came first, but Rockstar had long pushed for a 3D, street-level world, which the team finally built for GTA III.
Q 28Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) is set in a retrofuturistic metropolis with what name?
Anywhere City
Anywhere City's gangs keep score: earning respect with one syndicate by doing its jobs turns its chief rivals hostile.
Q 29Which real-world event led Rockstar to delay the release of GTA III?
The September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks hit weeks before launch, so Rockstar pushed GTA III back three weeks to change references that no longer felt appropriate.
Q 30GTA III's protagonist never speaks a word and isn't even named until San Andreas. What is his name?
Claude
The developers wanted a strong, silent killer to contrast with the neurotic, verbose mobsters around him.