Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
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40 free Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is one of the strangest releases in a strange series: a 2014 prologue to The Phantom Pain that was sold on its own and set almost entirely inside a single prison camp. Critics argued over whether it was a full game or an expensive demo, and players kept replaying it anyway, because Camp Omega turned out to be one of the most carefully built stealth sandboxes Metal Gear has produced. This quiz covers the whole package. There are questions on the story, from Snake's infiltration of Camp Omega to the rescue of Paz and the disaster that follows; on the heroes, the villains and the actors who voice them; on the new stealth tools and the bonus missions; and on how the game was made, sold and reviewed. A few reach back to Peace Walker and forward to The Phantom Pain, since Ground Zeroes is the bridge between them. It is written for Metal Gear fans who have replayed the main mission more than once, and for newer players who want to check how much of the plot they caught. Every answer comes with a brief explanation, so you leave knowing a little more than when you arrived.
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Q 01Camp Omega, the American black site in MGSV: Ground Zeroes, stands on which country's soil?
Cuba
Cuba hosts the fictional Camp Omega, a former refugee camp whose old prison sits beyond the reach of the United States Constitution.
Q 02Which real-life game director plays a spy awaiting rescue in a Ground Zeroes bonus mission?
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima cast himself as the stranded agent, repeating a cameo he made in Peace Walker. The player covers his escape from a helicopter.
Q 03Kiefer Sutherland, who voices Snake in Ground Zeroes, is best known for playing which TV agent?
Jack Bauer
Jack Bauer won Sutherland an Emmy, and for Ground Zeroes the actor supplied Snake's facial motion capture as well as the voice.
Q 04Critics liked the mechanics and graphics of MGSV: Ground Zeroes but mostly faulted which aspect?
Its short length
Its short length was the sticking point: the core story mission can be finished very quickly, and one review called the game a cash grab.
Q 05Which commander interrogates Paz at Camp Omega and is the main villain of Ground Zeroes?
Skull Face
Skull Face stays on as the main antagonist of The Phantom Pain, and he claims to have forgotten his own native language.
Q 06During the helicopter escape in Ground Zeroes, what is found surgically implanted inside Paz?
A bomb
A bomb is cut out by a medic in mid-flight, but a second device goes off after Paz throws herself from the helicopter to save the others.
Q 07Which guest character from another Metal Gear game is playable in the Jamais Vu mission of Ground Zeroes?
Raiden
Raiden hunts machines disguised as human soldiers in the mission, which was at first exclusive to the Xbox versions of the game.
Q 08Which publisher released MGSV: Ground Zeroes and later removed its director's name from the cover?
Konami
Konami stripped the credit from later releases in 2015 as it parted ways with the series creator, whose final Metal Gear was The Phantom Pain.
Q 09Which scouting tool did MGSV: Ground Zeroes move from the item menu to its own dedicated button?
Binoculars
Binoculars became the main way to scout Camp Omega, and reviewers noted that they stood in for the radar and on-screen indicators of earlier games.
Q 10The helicopter crash that ends Ground Zeroes leaves Big Boss in what condition for nine years?
A coma
A coma keeps him out of action until 1984, when he wakes in a hospital in Cyprus at the start of The Phantom Pain.
Q 11What is the name of Snake's offshore headquarters, destroyed at the end of Ground Zeroes?
Mother Base
Mother Base is the home players built up across Peace Walker, and the director meant its loss to give them their own motive for revenge.
Q 12Which long-time English voice of Snake was replaced by a Hollywood actor for Ground Zeroes?
David Hayter
David Hayter had voiced Snake since 1998 and also wrote the first X-Men film. He said he was never asked to return for Metal Gear Solid V.
Q 13MGSV: Ground Zeroes reached four consoles in March 2014; which platform got it nine months later?
Windows
Windows players got the game through Steam in December 2014, and the PC release ended up with the highest review average of any version.
Q 21In Ground Zeroes, which new feature gives Snake a brief chance to silence a guard who spots him?
Reflex Mode
Reflex Mode arrived as the game dropped the on-screen alert gauge of earlier entries in favor of subtler visual and audio cues.
Q 22Which covert strike force destroys Snake's headquarters at the end of Ground Zeroes?
XOF
XOF began as a support network for Snake's old unit before going rogue, and its soldiers remove every identifying marking in Ground Zeroes.
Q 23Which deputy of Snake is on the Japanese cover of Ground Zeroes but missing from the Western one?
Kazuhira Miller
Kazuhira Miller was dropped by Western marketers who feared buyers would not recognize him, since Peace Walker had sold poorly on its handheld.
Q 14Nine years after Ground Zeroes, which new mercenary group takes the place of the destroyed MSF?
Diamond Dogs
Diamond Dogs is founded on an offshore platform near the Seychelles, and its soldiers go after the people who wiped out their old comrades.
Q 15Which handheld device shows Snake a holographic map of marked enemies in Ground Zeroes?
iDroid
The iDroid also came as a companion app for iOS and Android, letting players keep the in-game map open on a real smartphone.
Q 16Which in-house technology, first used commercially in a football game, powers MGSV: Ground Zeroes?
Fox Engine
Fox Engine takes its name from a fictional military unit in the series, and its first commercial release was Pro Evolution Soccer 2014.
Q 17What are the four extra Camp Omega missions unlocked after the main story of Ground Zeroes called?
Side Ops
Side Ops take place at different times of day and include hunting a sniper team, meeting an informant and sabotaging anti-aircraft guns.
Q 18Which former child soldier is captured after trying to rescue Paz alone before Ground Zeroes begins?
Chico
Chico is the younger brother of rebel commander Amanda, and in Peace Walker he was the one who briefed Snake on its Monster Hunter missions.
Q 19MGSV: Ground Zeroes continues the story of Peace Walker, a game first made for which handheld?
Sony PSP
Sony PSP owners got Peace Walker in 2010, a year before it was remastered for home consoles in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.
Q 20Which folk singer performs "Here's to You", the song in the opening of MGSV: Ground Zeroes?
Joan Baez
Joan Baez wrote the words to Ennio Morricone's music for a 1971 film about Sacco and Vanzetti, and a cover of the song closed Metal Gear Solid 4.
Q 24The unnamed medic who shields Big Boss in Ground Zeroes becomes which hero of The Phantom Pain?
Venom Snake
Venom Snake is rebuilt through plastic surgery and hypnotherapy into a body double, drawing enemies away while the real Big Boss works in secret.
Q 25Paz, rescued by Snake in Ground Zeroes, was exposed in Peace Walker as an agent of which group?
Cipher
Cipher is the secret organization that later becomes the Patriots, and under its orders Paz once tried to launch a nuclear warhead at the East Coast.
Q 26In Peace Walker, the prequel to Ground Zeroes, Snake investigates an army occupying which country?
Costa Rica
Costa Rica cannot push the occupying force out in the story because its constitution does not allow an official military.
Q 27Ground Zeroes was the first Metal Gear game to carry subtitles in which language?
Arabic
Arabic subtitles were a feature the team had planned for earlier Metal Gear games but only delivered here, as the director revealed in January 2013.
Q 28The director of MGSV: Ground Zeroes compared the game to which part of a Hollywood movie?
The pre-title sequence
The pre-title sequence was his model, because Ground Zeroes exists to build up the plot of The Phantom Pain before the main feature begins.
Q 29In the post-credits scene of Ground Zeroes, Paz is pressed for the whereabouts of which leader?
Major Zero
Major Zero is the overarching antagonist of the series, and Paz is pressed for his location because she had once met him in person.
Q 30Which scientist arranges a United Nations inspection against Snake's wishes in Ground Zeroes?
Huey
Huey is the father of Hal Emmerich, and the visit he arranged proved to be a ruse that let the attackers strike Snake's forces.