U.S.D.D & Executive Order Trivia Quiz

Answer: John F. Kennedy

U.S.D.D features absolutely no gameplay whatsoever. Despite being its own campaign mission, this is really just a great big cinematic cutscene. In it, JFK will speak to the player directly very briefly as he is met by the player, along with Jason Hudson, in the Pentagon.

In addition to JFK, then-US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara very briefly appears in this mission, and has one dialogue line at that.

Fidel Castro is very, very briefly mentioned, but he is not in this cutscene, nor actually spoken of significantly.

Answer: Kill him

Dragovich is the mastermind behind Nova 6, and reportedly has established sleeper cells all over the US, which need only be triggered with a pass code to release Nova 6 all over the country. Nova 6 is extremely deadly, and will kill humans the absolute second they breathe it in, rendering them dead before they hit the ground. As such, this is an extremely serious threat.

JFK will tell the player they will 'need to be' the best in the business in order to bring Dragovich down.

Answer: M1911

In reality, Mason has been brainwashed by the KGB while he was a prisoner at Vorkuta. Nobody concretely knows this, only Jason Hudson even slightly suspects this at the time of U.S.D.D. Because of how the KGB wired him, Mason sits down to meet JFK, and immediately becomes triggered on doing so.

He has a very distinct vision of him gripping an M1911 and aiming it directly at JFK while sitting next to him.

Answer: SR-71 Flight Data

It is a large board depicting a series of instances when the Pentagon commissioned the use of the SR-71 Blackbird. This is a reconnaissance plane with explictly zero directly offensive utility, so it's for scouting and intelligence runs strictly.

While the numbers and, presumably, the dates are random, the names of pilots actually correlate with the names of Treyarch developers who worked on this game. This board can also be seen when playing on the Five map in Zombies.

Curiously, when Five was reworked into Classified on "Black Ops 4", sending players back to the Pentagon, the SR71 flight data board was changed slightly and made to be a prominent part of the Project Skadi Easter Egg.

Answer: Sgt. Roebuck

Roebuck served two roles in "World at War". The first was as the squad leader of the US Marines during the game's campaign. The second is as the overhead announcer for the Marines during the Multiplayer mode.

A picture of Roebuck during the "Little Resistance" mission of that game can be seen during U.S.D.D while in the War Room.

Answer: Find Nikita Dragovich

The idea is to find and eliminate Dragovich right here and now. Unfortunately, things quickly go haywire and Dragovich is never even seen in this mission. Kravchenko, on the other hand, is a major opposition in this mission, as he is able to have an ally, Grigori Weaver, apprehended, and he even gouges Weaver's eye out here as well.

The mission quickly turns into rescuing Weaver and putting a stop to Russian operations at the Baikur Cosmodrome.

Answer: MP5K

The player begins the mission with an MP5K that has a Red Dot and Extended Mags, along with a Python that has a Speed Reloader attachment. The MP5K won't be kept for long, but the player could hang onto the Python all mission if they wanted.

Answer: PM63

Early on, the player must join Frank Woods in stealthily killing two Spetsnaz guards on patrol. Once done, they disguise themselves as Spetsnaz in stealing their clothes. The MP5K is a purely American weapon, so this would have likely given them away. Instead, Mason ditches the MP5K entirely and takes the AK47 off the Spetsnaz to replace it with.

Most enemy Spetsnaz in this mission have their own AK47s. Once inside the building, however, there are exactly two Spetsnaz with PM63s. The player can kill them and take their PM63s off of their corpses.

Answer: Russians killed his father

Intel #3 found in this mission reveals that Weaver's father was executed by the Spetsnaz during Joseph Stalin's 'Great Purge'.

The Great Purge or, Great Terror, was a real world event. As the intel properly states, it was carried out by real world Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The main goal was for Stalin to eliminate anyone who proved to be a political rival, anyone who dissented against Communism and to generally establish the Soviet Union as politically dominant.

The intel doesn't state how exactly Weaver's father put himself into the crosshairs of Stalin, but it simply clarifies that this action was what drove Weaver to defect to the US.

Answer: The game redirects the shot

In any sort of remotely 'ordinary' circumstances in real life, shooting someone with a Zipline Crossbow would mortally wound them at best, but it would be far likelier to just kill them instead. The Zipline Crossbow used in this game, in real life, can travel up to 492 feet. The distance between the two buildings is far less than that, so the Crossbow has the range to hit its target.

Obviously, this is not real life. But mechanically, the game handles this sequence very oddly. It is not really possible for the player to 'fail' at this, as the game will redirect their shot towards the building even if they fired it at the ground. The player cannot actually kill anyone with the Zipline Crossbow no matter what they do.