50 free PUBG: Battlegrounds trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 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 map at the start of a standard PUBG match?
100
Players can drop solo, in duos or in squads of up to four, and the last player or team alive wins.
Q 02What phrase is shown to the last player or team standing at the end of a PUBG match?
Winner winner chicken dinner
Greene had used the idiom in his earlier mods; its origins go back at least to the Great Depression.
Q 03What is the online handle of Brendan Greene, the game's creator?
PlayerUnknown
The game was originally titled PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and quietly rebranded around July 2021.
Q 04Greene's earliest mod efforts drew on which book series before he moved away to avoid copyright issues?
The Hunger Games
Players were to fight over a central weapons stockpile; he spread the loot around instead to give players a better chance of survival.
Q 05What was the name of the first map, an island with Soviet-style brutalist buildings?
Erangel
Greene thought it felt disjointed despite meeting its gameplay goals; Game Informer still named it the best map of 2017.
Q 06After being spun out as its own company in 2017, the game's studio opened its first overseas office where?
United States
Offices in Europe and Japan were planned next, and Greene later relocated to a special-projects studio in Amsterdam.
Q 07Greene's earliest battle royale mod was built on which game?
ARMA 2
The mod was an offshoot of DayZ; when DayZ went standalone he moved to ARMA 3.
Q 08In which country was Greene a photographer when he made his first battle royale mod?
Brazil
He learned programming as he went while tinkering with a custom DayZ server.
Q 09Why are PUBG's safe zones circular rather than the squares Greene originally wanted?
His inexperience at coding
The Japanese film that inspired him used square zones; the circle stuck all the way to Battlegrounds.
Q 10Before PUBG, Greene consulted for Sony Online Entertainment on the battle royale mode of which game?
H1Z1
Sony split it into Just Survive and King of the Kill in February 2016, around the time his consultancy ended.
Q 11Which South Korean company hired Greene as creative director to build PUBG?
Bluehole
Chang-han Kim of Bluehole Ginno Games sought him out; Greene says he was the first foreigner hired as a creative director by a Korean studio.
Q 12PUBG was built on which off-the-shelf technology, allowing faster development than ARMA's or H1Z1's?
Unreal Engine 4
Greene admitted the engine was not designed with such large maps in mind.
Q 13Who composed PUBG's main musical theme, an 'orchestral electronic hybrid' chosen personally by Greene?
Tom Salta
Antti Martikainen wrote the music for the sixth anniversary.
Q 21PUBG became free to play on all platforms in which month?
January 2022
Existing owners were upgraded free to the paid Battleground Plus tier, which unlocks ranked mode and custom servers.
Q 22Which Chinese company publishes PUBG in China and developed PUBG Mobile?
Tencent
Its LightSpeed & Quantum Studio built the abridged mobile version, first released in China as Exhilarating Battlefield.
Q 23Under what title was PUBG Mobile re-released in China in 2019 to satisfy content rules?
Game for Peace
Blood and gore were removed; it was renamed again to Peacekeeper Elite in 2020.
Q 14PUBG launched in Steam early access in which month and year?
March 2017
It left early access on 20 December 2017 after the planned six months stretched to nine.
Q 15Which anti-cheat software does PUBG use, having permanently banned tens of millions of accounts?
BattlEye
The company said 99 per cent of all cheating software for the game was developed in China.
Q 16What does the game drop when a player fires a flare gun?
A supply package with rare loot
Care packages emit red smoke that draws other players and creates confrontations.
Q 17Random red-highlighted regions of the map are periodically subjected to what?
Bombing
Greene later argued that clones copying the red-zone bombing runs and parachute drop should not be allowed to lift such specific mechanics.
Q 18On which console did PUBG launch as a timed exclusive in December 2017 via a Game Preview programme?
Xbox One
Microsoft dropped real supply crates full of Xbox hardware across Australia the week before to promote it.
Q 19Which Spanish developer handled most of the early Xbox One porting work?
Anticto
Microsoft's The Coalition and its advanced technology group later pitched in, and Rare shared water-rendering tech from Sea of Thieves.
Q 20The PlayStation 4 version included which exclusive cosmetic from Uncharted?
Nathan Drake's outfit
Ellie's backpack from The Last of Us was also included; Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed a live-action promo.
Q 24After the 2020 Indian ban, the publisher relaunched the smartphone game there in 2021 under what name?
Battlegrounds Mobile India
India had been the mobile game's largest market, with 175 million downloads and 24 per cent of global users.
Q 25Which Indian state banned PUBG in March 2019 as an addictive distraction during exam season?
Gujarat
Students caught playing were arrested; Nepal, Iraq, Jordan and Aceh followed with bans of their own that year.
Q 26PUBG Corporation sued which company in January 2018 over Fortnite Battle Royale?
Epic Games
Awkwardly, Epic also supplied PUBG's engine; the suit was dropped in June 2018 for undisclosed reasons.
Q 27PUBG's lawsuit against NetEase targeted which two mobile games?
Rules of Survival and Knives Out
PUBG pointed to chicken references and cookware used as armour as evidence; the two settled by March 2019.
Q 28Chinese clones of PUBG are grouped under what genre nickname?
Chicken-eating games
The name comes from the game's victory message.
Q 29How many Guinness World Records did PUBG collect on Steam while still in early access?
Seven
They included the first non-Valve game to be the most played on Steam and the first game to hit 2 million concurrent Steam players.
Q 30PUBG's peak concurrent Steam player count reached what figure, a record at the time?
3,257,248
It was the first game ever to pass 2 million concurrent players on Steam, having already overtaken Dota 2's record in September 2017.