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100 free Metal Gear Solid trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Metal Gear Solid arrived on the PlayStation in 1998 from a team of twenty people who mocked up its Alaskan base in Lego, and it changed what a video game could look like: in-engine cutscenes, a Hollywood-style script, a radio that scolds you for not saving, and a boss who reads your memory card. Hideo Kojima went on to direct the series for 28 years, through Raiden's bait-and-switch, The Boss's jungle, Old Snake's last mission and the unfinished Phantom Pain that ended his time at Konami. These 100 questions span the whole saga: the MSX originals, Shadow Moses and FOXHOUND, the Tanker and Big Shell, Snake Eater's camouflage index and a sniper who dies of old age, Guns of the Patriots' OctoCamo, Peace Walker on the PSP, Rising's PlatinumGames rescue, the 2025 Delta remake and Kojima's exit. Easy questions stick to Snake, Otacon and the cardboard box; the expert tier asks about voice actors, Kojima's 3DO plans, Dead Cell and the Philosophers. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick up something even when you miss. Kept you waiting, huh?
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Q 01Metal Gear Solid (1998) was developed and published by which company?
Konami
Konami: the game was named Metal Gear Solid rather than Metal Gear 3, with 'Solid' nodding both to its hero Solid Snake and to the series' leap from 2D into 3D.
Q 02Which Alaskan island base does Solid Snake infiltrate in Metal Gear Solid (1998)?
Shadow Moses
Shadow Moses: officially a nuclear weapons disposal site in Alaska's Fox Archipelago, the island secretly doubles as a testing ground for a new walking tank.
Q 03Which nuclear-armed walking tank do the terrorists seize in Metal Gear Solid (1998)?
Metal Gear REX
Metal Gear REX: the terrorists threaten a nuclear strike with it unless Washington pays $1 billion and hands over the remains of the legendary soldier they revere.
Q 04Who leads the rogue FOXHOUND unit in Metal Gear Solid (1998)?
Liquid Snake
Liquid Snake: for most of the game he also poses over the radio as Snake's trusted adviser Master Miller, tricking him into arming the very weapon he came to stop.
Q 05Which FOXHOUND member has his right hand cut off by the cyborg ninja in Metal Gear Solid?
Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot: the ninja's blade takes his hand in the middle of a gunfight with Snake, yet he survives the game and is revealed as a double agent reporting to the US President.
Q 06Which FOXHOUND member first attacks Snake from inside a tank in Metal Gear Solid?
Vulcan Raven
Vulcan Raven: once the tank is destroyed he returns for a second fight in an underground warehouse, this time carrying a 20mm cannon built for fighter jets.
Q 07In Metal Gear Solid, what does Psycho Mantis scan to 'read your mind'?
The player's memory card
The player's memory card: he names other games saved on it, so the English release dropped the titles never sold outside Japan.
Q 08On the PlayStation original, what was the trick to beating Metal Gear Solid's Psycho Mantis?
Using the second controller port
Using the second controller port: with the pad plugged in there, he can no longer 'read' Snake's moves, a trick the PC version swapped for the keyboard.
Q 09Which FOXHOUND member dies without ever fighting Snake in Metal Gear Solid?
Decoy Octopus
Decoy Octopus: disguised as a hostage, he is killed by the FOXDIE virus Snake unknowingly carries, so the 'DARPA chief' who dies in the cell was him all along.
Q 10Hal Emmerich, the engineer Snake rescues in Metal Gear Solid, goes by what nickname?
Otacon
Otacon: he designed the game's walking nuclear tank believing it was a purely defensive system, and turns on his employers once Snake shows him the truth.
Q 11The cyborg ninja in Metal Gear Solid (1998) is revealed to be which former ally of Snake?
Gray Fox
Gray Fox: Snake's old comrade, believed dead, had been rebuilt as a cyborg test subject, and he dies crushed beneath the walking tank after crippling its radar dome.
Q 12Meryl Silverburgh is introduced as the niece of which character?
Colonel Roy Campbell
Colonel Roy Campbell: he later admits she is really his daughter, born of an affair with his brother's wife and raised without ever being told.
Q 13In Metal Gear Solid (1998), which support character invented the Soliton radar and saves your game?
Mei Ling
Mei Ling: the young data analyst of 1998 returns in Metal Gear Solid 4 as captain of the battleship USS Missouri, which she commands in battle.
Q 21Who is the rookie protagonist of Metal Gear Solid 2's Plant chapter?
Raiden
Raiden: he was hidden from players before release, with trailers showing Solid Snake in scenes that belong to the newcomer in the finished game.
Q 22What is the Big Shell in Metal Gear Solid 2?
An offshore clean-up facility
An offshore clean-up facility: built off Manhattan to mop up a tanker's oil spill, it turns out to be a cover story hiding a vast submersible fortress.
Q 23In MGS2's Tanker chapter, Snake seeks evidence of which new Metal Gear?
RAY
RAY: unlike the models before it, it carries no nuclear missiles, because it was built to hunt down the copycat Metal Gears spreading around the world.
Q 14Who was Solid Snake's English voice in Metal Gear Solid (1998)?
David Hayter
David Hayter: by co-star Paul Eiding's account, he gave up half his own fee so that the original voice cast could be rehired for the game's 2004 remake.
Q 15Solid Snake's physique in Metal Gear Solid (1998) was modelled on which action star?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme: the game's artist took Snake's build from him but borrowed the face from another actor entirely, Christopher Walken.
Q 16Kojima used which toy to mock up Metal Gear Solid's 3D areas?
Lego building blocks
Lego building blocks: his designers put levels together in bricks to see how the planned camera views would look.
Q 17Metal Gear Solid was originally planned in 1994 for which short-lived console?
3DO
3DO: early artwork of Snake even shipped on a 3DO preview disc for Kojima's Policenauts, but as the console faded the project moved to Sony's new machine.
Q 18Which artist designed most of the Metal Gear Solid characters and mecha?
Yoji Shinkawa
Yoji Shinkawa: he started at the publisher in 1994 as a bug tester on Policenauts, rose to design the whole series, and followed Kojima out of the company in 2015.
Q 19The North American release of Metal Gear Solid added which unlockable outfit for Snake?
A tuxedo
A tuxedo: it unlocks only once the game has been finished twice on one save, and the gag stuck, with later games in the series hiding a dinner suit of their own.
Q 20The 2004 GameCube remake of Metal Gear Solid was released under what subtitle?
The Twin Snakes
The Twin Snakes: it was built not by Kojima's own team but by the outside studio Silicon Knights, with Kojima and Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto overseeing the project.
Q 24The rogue anti-terrorist unit in MGS2 with Vamp, Fatman and Fortune is called what?
Dead Cell
Dead Cell: the unit was created to launch surprise mock attacks on friendly bases as anti-terror training, before it went rogue and took the Big Shell hostage.
Q 25In Metal Gear Solid 2, which of Snake's fellow clones leads the Sons of Liberty terrorists?
Solidus Snake
Solidus Snake: under the name George Sears he had been President of the United States, and he seizes the Big Shell hoping to break the secret group that really runs the country.
Q 26Under what alias does Solid Snake first assist the rookie on the Big Shell?
Iroquois Pliskin
Iroquois Pliskin: he poses as a Navy SEAL lieutenant, and the surname winks at Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell's antihero in Escape from New York.
Q 27The shadowy organization pulling the strings in MGS2 is known as what?
The Patriots
The Patriots: the captive US President confesses that American elections are a drama they stage, and that they even choose who gets his job.
Q 28Metal Gear Solid 2's expanded edition was released under what subtitle?
Substance
Substance: it reached Microsoft's Xbox first, in late 2002, before arriving on the PlayStation 2, the console the original game had been made for.
Q 29Snake Eater's backstory rewrites the resolution of which real crisis?
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis: in the game's secret history, the Soviet missiles left Cuba only after America quietly returned the weapons designer it had just helped defect.
Q 30Snake Eater introduced which hand-to-hand combat system?
CQC
CQC: short for close quarters combat, it pairs a pistol with a knife so Snake can seize a guard, then throw him, choke him out or question him at knifepoint.