Question 1

True or false: You can cook a grenade in PUBG by holding the fire button before throwing it.

Accepted Answer

True. Holding the fire button after pulling the pin lets you cook the grenade, reducing the time before explosion on impact.

Question 2

True or false: PUBG was one of the first games to popularize the battle royale genre on mobile devices.

Accepted Answer

True. PUBG Mobile, released in 2018, brought the battle royale experience to smartphones and became a global phenomenon.

Question 3

True or false: PUBG features a fully destructible environment where buildings can collapse.

Accepted Answer

False. PUBG's buildings are mostly indestructible; only certain objects like wooden fences and doors can be destroyed.

Question 4

True or false: PUBG holds the Guinness World Record for most concurrent players on Steam.

Accepted Answer

True. In January 2018, PUBG peaked at over 3.2 million concurrent players on Steam, a record still unbroken.

Question 5

True or false: The game's map Erangel is based on a real island in the Black Sea.

Accepted Answer

False. Erangel is a fictional island inspired by Russian and Ukrainian landscapes, not a real location.

Question 6

True or false: The winner of the first PUBG Invitational was a team from South Korea.

Accepted Answer

False. The first PUBG Invitational in 2017 was won by a team from North America, not South Korea.

Question 7

True or false: The blue zone in PUBG deals damage based on the player's current health percentage.

Accepted Answer

False. The blue zone deals fixed damage per second that increases with each phase, not scaling with health.

Question 8

True or false: PUBG was originally developed as a mod for the game ARMA 2.

Accepted Answer

True. Brendan Greene created a battle royale mod for ARMA 2 before being hired to develop PUBG as a standalone game.

PUBG Trivia Questions