130 free Band of Brothers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
45 free Band of Brothers trivia questions with answers. Currahee. This quiz covers the 2001 HBO miniseries and the real men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment: Camp Toccoa and Herbert Sobel, the NCO mutiny, D-Day and the Brécourt Manor assault, Market Garden, Bastogne and Foy, the concentration camp at Kaufering and the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, plus the production, the record-breaking budget, the English airfield where it was filmed, the actors' boot camp and the Emmys. Forty-five questions cover Winters, Nixon, Speirs, Lipton, Guarnere, Malarkey, Compton, Roe and Webster, and the future stars hiding in the ranks. The easy questions ask who plays Major Winters and what Easy Company ran up at Toccoa; the hard ones want the whisky Nixon hoarded, the prison Speirs later governed, the trial Buck Compton prosecuted, the West Point textbook assault and how many Easy Company veterans were flown to Utah Beach for the premiere. It suits anyone who rewatches the series every September and anyone who wants the history behind the drama. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the miniseries, Easy Company and its members, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which two filmmakers created Band of Brothers, fresh from Saving Private Ryan?
Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
Many of the crew and visual cues came straight from the 1998 film.
Q 02Whose 1992 book was the miniseries based on?
Stephen E. Ambrose
He built it from interviews with the surviving veterans of Easy Company.
Q 03The series follows Easy Company of which regiment and division?
506th PIR, 101st Airborne
The 101st are the Screaming Eagles.
Q 04The title Band of Brothers comes from a speech in which Shakespeare play?
Henry V
Carwood Lipton recites the St. Crispin's Day passage in the finale.
Q 05Who plays Major Richard Winters?
Damian Lewis
The English actor later narrated the documentary Dick Winters: Hang Tough in the same American accent.
Q 06How many episodes does Band of Brothers have?
Ten
Each opens with interviews with veterans who are only named at the end of the finale.
Q 07On which network did the series first air, from September to November 2001?
HBO
The premiere drew nearly ten million viewers; two days later came 9/11 and HBO pulled its marketing.
Q 08Where did Easy Company do its initial training?
Camp Toccoa, Georgia
Their conditioning was so severe they skipped the physical training portion of jump school.
Q 09What is Currahee?
A steep hill the men ran up and down
The trail ran 'three miles up, three miles down' and became the regiment's motto.
Q 10Who plays Easy Company's hated first commander, Herbert Sobel?
David Schwimmer
The Friends star's casting was one of the show's boldest choices.
Q 11How did Easy Company's NCOs force Sobel's removal before D-Day?
They threatened to surrender their stripes
Colonel Sink transferred Sobel to run a parachute training school at Chilton Foliat.
Q 12Which retired Marine, the show's military adviser, also plays Colonel Robert Sink?
Dale Dye
He ran the cast through a 10-day boot camp ending with parachute training at RAF Brize Norton.
Q 13Why did Winters take command on D-Day?
Commander Meehan's plane was lost
Q 21Who plays Ronald Speirs?
Matthew Settle
Speirs remained Easy Company's commander for the rest of the war.
Q 22What post did the real Ronald Speirs hold from 1958?
American governor of Spandau Prison
Rudolf Hess was among the Nazis held there.
Q 23Which New Kids on the Block singer plays First Sergeant Carwood Lipton?
Donnie Wahlberg
Lipton delivers the Henry V passage that gives the series its name.
How did 'Wild Bill' Guarnere get shot in the leg in Holland?
It was later confirmed that Lieutenant Meehan had been killed.
Q 14What did Winters' men destroy at Brécourt Manor on D-Day?
A battery of four 105 mm howitzers
The guns were shelling causeway exit 2 off Utah Beach.
Q 15Which decoration did Winters receive for Brécourt Manor, having been recommended for the Medal of Honor?
The Distinguished Service Cross
A 2007 bill to upgrade it to the Medal of Honor died in committee.
Q 16Who presented Winters with his decoration the day after Brécourt Manor?
Omar Bradley
The assault is still taught as a textbook attack on a fixed position.
Q 17Who plays Captain Lewis Nixon, Winters' closest friend?
Ron Livingston
The Office Space star also shot the DVD's boot-camp video diary.
Q 18Nixon was famous for always having a supply of which whisky?
Vat 69
After the war, Winters went to work at Nixon's family business, Nixon Nitration Works.
Q 19Which town, held through the siege of Bastogne, was Easy Company ordered to capture in January 1945?
Foy
Their attack bogged down under Lieutenant Dike until Speirs took over.
Q 20What did Ronald Speirs famously do during the attack on Foy?
Ran through the German lines and back again
Lipton said the Germans were so shocked they forgot to shoot.
Riding a stolen motorcycle across an open field
He later lost the same leg at Bastogne trying to help Joe Toye.
Q 25Who plays Guarnere?
Frank John Hughes
He later played Tom Fox opposite Tom Hanks again in Catch Me If You Can.
Q 26Which ER and American Dad! actor plays Donald Malarkey?
Scott Grimes
The real Malarkey, from Astoria, Oregon, advised the production.
Q 27The real Lynn 'Buck' Compton later served as lead prosecutor in the trial of whom?
Sirhan Sirhan
He was also a UCLA All-American catcher who played in the 1943 Rose Bowl.
Q 28Who plays Buck Compton?
Neal McDonough
Compton starred at guard for UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl.
Q 29Which British actor plays medic Eugene 'Doc' Roe, the focus of the Bastogne episode?
Shane Taylor
Roe was a Louisianan; the episode is simply titled Bastogne.
Q 30David Kenyon Webster, whose memoir the writers used, had left which university to enlist?
Harvard
He died in a boating accident in 1961; his memoir was published in 1994.