PUBG: Battlegrounds Trivia
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41 free PUBG: Battlegrounds trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This PUBG: Battlegrounds trivia quiz covers the game that turned battle royale from an ARMA mod into the biggest genre in gaming: Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene's idea, Bluehole's Korean studio, the March 2017 early-access launch and the records that fell in the months that followed. The easy questions cover the basics: how many players drop, what the winner is told, the name of the first map, the shrinking safe zone and the free-to-play switch. From there the quiz moves through the Xbox and PlayStation ports, PUBG Mobile and its Chinese rebrand, the esports beginnings and the Guinness World Records. The harder half is for players who remember the Fix PUBG campaign: the film that inspired the whole idea, why the safe zones are circles, the composer of the theme, the Epic Games and NetEase lawsuits, the national bans, the Callisto Protocol connection and the 2025 end of support for last-generation consoles. Every answer was checked against the encyclopaedia entry for PUBG: Battlegrounds before publishing. If you enjoy this, try our Fortnite and video game history quizzes next.
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Q 01Up to how many players parachute onto the island at the start of a standard PUBG match?
100
100. Everyone lands unarmed, so the opening minutes are a scramble for weapons scattered at random across the map.
Q 02What phrase is shown to the last player or team standing at the end of a PUBG match?
Winner winner chicken dinner
Winner winner chicken dinner. In China, the line led players to nickname PUBG and its clones 'chicken-eating games'.
Q 03What online handle does PUBG creator Brendan Greene go by?
PlayerUnknown
PlayerUnknown. Greene backed mod support for PUBG, saying he wanted to 'find the next PlayerUnknown' among its players.
Q 04Greene's earliest mod efforts drew on which book series before he moved away to avoid copyright issues?
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games. Greene was also inspired by a DayZ streamer tournament he couldn't join, so he set out to build a mode anyone could play.
Q 05What was PUBG's first map, an island dotted with Soviet-style brutalist buildings?
Erangel
Erangel. Greene chose an island because island maps had worked best in his mods.
Q 06Which kitchen item doubles as a melee weapon and a piece of armour in PUBG?
Frying pan
Frying pan. PUBG Corp's 2018 lawsuit against NetEase listed cookware used as a weapon or armour among the features rivals had copied.
Q 07Greene's earliest battle royale mod was built on which game?
ARMA 2
ARMA 2. His DayZ: Battle Royale mod grew out of the open-world mod DayZ, and when DayZ went standalone he rebuilt the mode for ARMA 3.
Q 08PUBG creator Brendan Greene was a photographer in which country when he made his first battle royale mod?
Brazil
Brazil. Greene had barely played games there until he found the DayZ mod and taught himself scripting on his own server.
Q 09Why are PUBG's safe zones circular rather than the squares Greene originally wanted?
His inexperience at coding
His inexperience at coding. Greene wanted square zones like those in the film Battle Royale but couldn't program them, so he used a circle.
Q 10Before PUBG, Greene consulted for Sony Online Entertainment on the battle royale mode of which game?
H1Z1
H1Z1. Sony licensed his battle royale mode as an official H1Z1 game mode and brought Greene on as a consultant.
Q 11Which South Korean company hired Greene as creative director to build PUBG?
Bluehole
Bluehole. Greene says it was the first time a Korean studio had hired a foreigner as creative director, and he moved to Seoul to lead the team.
Q 12Which game engine was PUBG built on?
Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4. Greene said its big engine team made building far easier than on in-house engines, though maps this large needed heavy engine changes.
Q 13What was PUBG Corporation's 2018 campaign to squash bugs and speed up the game called?
Fix PUBG
Fix PUBG. The studio openly admitted the game was broken, then declared the campaign a success three months later once all 100 listed fixes had shipped.
Q 21Which Chinese company won the rights to publish PUBG in China and developed PUBG Mobile?
Tencent
Tencent. It released two official PUBG phone games in China, one close to the PC game and one arcade-style with naval battles.
Q 22Under what title was PUBG Mobile re-released in China in 2019 to satisfy content rules?
Game for Peace
Game for Peace. Unable to win government approval to sell in-game items for over a year, the publisher pulled PUBG Mobile.
Q 23After India banned PUBG's phone version in 2020, Krafton relaunched it there in 2021 under what name?
Battlegrounds Mobile India
Battlegrounds Mobile India. The government blocked it too in 2022, and it returned to Indian phones in May 2023.
Q 14Which country is PUBG creator Brendan Greene from?
Ireland
Ireland. After moving back home, he lived on social welfare while running his battle royale mods, which earned him nothing.
Q 15Which anti-cheat service policed PUBG's servers in 2017?
BattlEye
BattlEye. It blamed most cheating on China, fuelling calls for region locks that Greene said just don't work, though a 2018 update began matching players by region.
Q 16What does a plane drop when a PUBG player fires a flare gun inside the safe zone?
A supply package with rare loot
A supply package with rare loot. Fired outside the safe zone, the same flare calls in an armoured vehicle instead.
Q 17In PUBG, what happens inside the red zones that appear on the map during a match?
Bombing
Bombing. Players get a few minutes' warning, and anyone who can't get out of the red zone can shelter inside a building.
Q 18On which console did PUBG launch as a timed exclusive in December 2017?
Xbox One
Xbox One. Microsoft's Gears of War studio, The Coalition, helped PUBG's team build the Xbox port.
Q 19PUBG's PlayStation 4 version included which exclusive Uncharted cosmetic?
Nathan Drake's outfit
Nathan Drake's outfit. To mark the PS4 launch, Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts made a live-action PUBG short film.
Q 20In January 2022, PUBG switched to which business model?
Free to play
Free to play. Anyone who had already bought the game was automatically upgraded to the paid Battlegrounds Plus tier, which unlocks ranked matches.
Q 24Which Indian state banned PUBG in March 2019 as an addictive distraction during exam season?
Gujarat
Gujarat. Police there arrested students who were caught playing the game.
Q 25PUBG Corporation sued the maker of which game over a battle royale mode released in September 2017?
Fortnite
Fortnite. PUBG's makers said they claimed no ownership of battle royale, then dropped the suit in June 2018 without saying why.
Q 26PUBG's lawsuit against NetEase targeted which two mobile games?
Rules of Survival and Knives Out
Rules of Survival and Knives Out. NetEase denied infringing PUBG's copyright when PUBG Corp complained to Apple about the games, and the two settled by March 2019.
Q 27Which mode did PUBG's developers announce in 2017 after streamers' custom games caught on?
Zombie mode
Zombie mode. In those matches, every player but one four-person squad played the undead, armed only with melee weapons.
Q 28In October 2017, PUBG passed which game as the most played in South Korea's internet cafés?
League of Legends
League of Legends. Overwatch had briefly led it there in 2016, only to fall back behind the long-running MOBA.
Q 29What reason did India's government give for banning PUBG Mobile in 2020?
Data security
Data security. The game's South Korean owner responded by taking over its publishing in India.
Q 30Which long-reigning title did PUBG overtake in August 2017 to become the most played game on Steam?
Dota 2
Dota 2. Months earlier, some industry veterans on PUBG's own team had predicted just 200,000 to 300,000 sales in the game's first year.