"Metal Gear Solid" Saga [2] Trivia Quiz

Answer: FOXHOUND

"Sons of Liberty" was the name of the terrorist group that kidnapped President Johnson and seized control of the Big Shell during the events of "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty".

The Big Shell incident was a staged re-enactment of the Shadow Moses incident. Dead Cell were used due to their similarities to the FOXHOUND unit from "Metal Gear Solid".

Answer: grace period

A quote from Solidus Snake to Raiden, explaining the reasons for his actions and why he wants his name to live on.

Solidus was the main antagonist of "Metal Gear Solid 2"; he was chosen by the Patriots to take part in their staged re-enactment because of his and Raiden's resemblance to Big Boss and Solid Snake.

Answer: Iroquois Pliskin

Iroquois Pliskin was a supposed Navy SEAL who assisted Raiden during the Big Shell Incident, he was actually Solid Snake in disguise.

Pliskin's character design had shotgun shells tucked into his vest. Shotguns were unusable in the game, however, many guards used them. These guards were only seen during alert mode.

Answer: False

The only cyborg ninja in "Metal Gear Solid 2" is Olga Gurlukovich; Gray Fox does not make another appearance until "Metal Gear Solid 4".

The only "Metal Gear Solid" characters who aren't main characters in "Metal Gear Solid 2" to make cameo appearances are Mei Ling and Liquid Snake. Mei Ling can be heard correcting Otacon during a codec conversation on the oil tanker.

Answer: Ceramic-Titanium alloy

Ray was purposefully built as an anti-Metal Gear by the United States Marine Corps after a number of REX's began to surface due to Ocelot leaking REX's exercise data onto the black market.

Metal Gear RAY is equipped with several weapons. These include: machine guns, anti-tank missiles, anti-ship missiles, a water jet cutter and cluster bombs.

Answer: 35 longitude, 58 latitude

The ship was actually heading 500 miles past the Bermudas, meaning RAY was already combat ready during the "Tanker incident"

The amount of personnel onboard the Discovery (during the "Tanker incident") totalled around 184 this didn't include Snake, Ocelot, or the Gurlukovich Mercenaries.

Answer: U.S.S. Discovery KSNM-3*

The Discovery was mostly automated and only needed a crew of around twenty to actually run it.

The events on board the Discovery were originally to have taken place on an aircraft carrier.

Answer: Semtex

Semtex was invented in the late 1950s by Stanislav Brebera, a Czechoslovakian chemist.

Semtex has been developed under various names, originally it was called B-1 then SEMTEX 1A. Other names include SEMTEX H and SEMTEX 10.

Answer: The Wisemen's Committee

Bit of a trick question as The Wisemen's Committee, the Patriots and the Philosophers are all more or less the same group, however Snake and Otacon were discussing the group as they were originally called "The Wisemen's Committee". The Wisemen's Committee originally consisted of twelve men from China, Russia and America, the Philosophers was formed by the Wisemen's Committee and had more members, all three groups: the Patriots, the Wisemen's Committee and the Philosophers all sought to rule the world by influencing world leaders.

The Wisemen's Committee was named after a group of government officials called the Wise Men that were responsible for several things during the Cold War, including developing the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc.

Answer: Vietnamese

Chinaman was cut from the final game, however he remains in the script having died six months prior to the "Big Shell Incident" along with Old Boy another cut member.

Chinaman was Vietnamese he was born in Hanoi; he was kidnapped as a child and sold to an American buyer in New York.