Captain America Trivia
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56 free Captain America trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
47 free Captain America trivia questions with answers. Captain America punched Hitler on a comic cover a year before America entered the war, and he has been the most enduring of the flag-draped heroes ever since. This quiz covers the comics: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Timely's million-copy print run, Project Rebirth, the heater shield that became a disc, Bucky as someone to talk to, the 1964 thaw, the Falcon, Nomad, Brubaker's Winter Soldier, the death and return, U.S. Agent, Isaiah Bradley and Hydra Supreme. Then the screen: the 1944 serial's district attorney, the 1990 direct-to-video film, Joe Johnston's First Avenger, the Russos' Winter Soldier and Civil War, the Sokovia Accords and the Leipzig airport, Robert Redford and Zola's computer, Mjolnir and the dance in Endgame, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Flag Smashers and Power Broker, and Anthony Mackie's Brave New World with Harrison Ford's Red Hulk. Easy questions suit MCU fans; harder ones reward long-time readers. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the character, the films and the series, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01After ten issues of Captain America Comics, its creators left Timely for which rival publisher?
DC Comics
DC Comics offered the pair far more after Simon decided Goodman was holding back their promised share of the profits, and Goodman fired them when he learned of the talks.
Q 02Who made his comics debut with a two-page prose story in Captain America Comics #3?
Stan Lee
Stan Lee was a teenage office assistant then, and when Simon and Kirby left later in 1941, Goodman made him interim editor.
Q 03Who is Captain America shown punching on the cover of his first issue?
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the greatest villain you could think of, Simon said, and the pro-Nazi German American Bund objected to the comic mocking their leader.
Q 04Roughly how many copies did Captain America Comics #1 sell?
About 1,000,000
About 1,000,000 copies sold, and the series kept selling a million a month, yet Simon and Kirby saw little of the profits.
Q 05In The First Avenger, what job is the newly enhanced Captain America given before he sees combat?
Selling war bonds on tour
Selling war bonds on tour kept him from the front until he learned Bucky's unit was missing in Italy and went behind enemy lines to rescue them himself.
Q 06Which secret wartime programme turned Steve Rogers into a super-soldier?
Project Rebirth
Project Rebirth was meant to turn out more super-soldiers, but a Nazi spy shot the serum's creator, Abraham Erskine, just after Rogers was treated.
Q 07In the comics, which fictional metal went into the alloy of Captain America's shield?
Vibranium
Vibranium was fused into the alloy by a process no one could repeat, and metallurgist Myron MacLain's attempts to recreate it produced adamantium instead.
Q 08In The First Avenger, which act finally convinces Colonel Phillips that frail Steve Rogers is worth choosing?
Jumping on a grenade
Jumping on a grenade won Phillips over, though it was a dummy he had tossed to test the recruits, and every other man ran for cover.
Q 09When the Avengers found Captain America in 1964, how had he survived since the war?
Frozen in ice
Frozen in ice after a drone plane exploded in the war's last days, he had survived the blast that apparently killed Bucky.
Q 10The Falcon, introduced in 1969, was mainstream comics' first what?
African-American superhero
African-American superhero is the exact first: Black Panther reached comics three years earlier, in 1966, but he is an African king from fictional Wakanda.
Q 11In a 1974 Watergate-inspired storyline, Rogers briefly dropped the Captain America identity to become whom?
Nomad
Nomad, 'the man without a country', lasted only four issues, long enough for Rogers to trip over his own new cape in the middle of a fight.
Q 12Ed Brubaker's 2005 relaunch revealed that which country had turned Bucky into its assassin, the Winter Soldier?
Soviet Union
Soviet Union forces found Bucky and brainwashed him, breaking the old joke that no one in comics stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben.
Q 13Which actor plays Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, in the Marvel films?
Sebastian Stan
Q 21Who plays the Red Skull in The First Avenger?
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving played him only once: when the Skull resurfaced guarding the Soul Stone in Infinity War and Endgame, Ross Marquand had taken over.
Q 22In The First Avenger, the Red Skull seizes the Tesseract, hidden on Earth by Odin, from a town in which country?
Norway
Norway's Tønsberg guarded the cube for centuries, and the same town returns in Endgame as New Asgard, home of Thor's surviving people.
Q 23Who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine, the scientist who lets Rogers enlist?
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci says he took the part for the chance to do a German accent, something he had always wanted to try.
Sebastian Stan first auditioned to play Steve Rogers himself and was handed the role of Bucky instead.
Q 14In Nick Spencer's 2016 run, Cap was replaced by a version loyal to which organisation?
Hydra
Hydra's Cap came from Kobik, a living reality-warping artifact who rewrote his memories; the original Rogers returned to beat his double in 2017's Secret Empire.
Q 15Under which name did John Walker, later U.S. Agent, debut in Captain America #323 in 1986?
Super-Patriot
Super-Patriot vowed to prove he would make a better symbol of America than Rogers, and in 1987 he got the chance as the new Captain America.
Q 16Isaiah Bradley's 2003 origin series Truth: Red, White & Black drew on which real-life episode?
The Tuskegee Study
The Tuskegee Study inspired its story of 300 Black soldiers used as serum test subjects; sole survivor Bradley is court-martialed and jailed for taking Cap's costume.
Q 17In Republic's 1944 Captain America serial, the hero's first screen appearance, what replaced his shield?
A revolver
A revolver stood in for the shield, and the serial also dropped Steve Rogers and the army; publisher Timely objected, but Republic was already deep into filming.
Q 18In the 1979 Captain America TV movies, Cap's shield doubled as what on his motorcycle?
The windscreen
The windscreen was the shield itself: clear plexiglass with red stripes that Cap unclipped to throw, on a rocket bike that launched from the back of his van.
Q 19Who played Captain America in the 1990 film?
Matt Salinger
It got a theatrical release abroad but went direct-to-video in the US.
Q 20Who directed Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)?
Joe Johnston
Joe Johnston got the job for The Rocketeer, his earlier comic-book adventure, and for the ships he designed for the original Star Wars.
Q 24Which actress plays Peggy Carter?
Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell's Peggy outgrew the films: she led her own ABC series, Agent Carter, for two seasons in 2015 and 2016, set just after the war.
Q 25Who directed The Winter Soldier and Civil War?
The Russo brothers
The Russo brothers came from TV comedy, best known for directing the sitcom Community before Marvel trusted them with a political thriller.
Q 26Which Hollywood legend plays Alexander Pierce, a senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official, in The Winter Soldier?
Robert Redford
Robert Redford was cast partly as a nod to the 1970s conspiracy thrillers the film copies, above all his own Three Days of the Condor.
Q 27What is Project Insight in The Winter Soldier?
Three helicarriers linked to spy satellites
Three helicarriers linked to spy satellites would kill anyone an algorithm flagged as a future threat, judged from records as ordinary as bank statements and test scores.
Q 28Whose preserved consciousness lives in a supercomputer in a New Jersey bunker in The Winter Soldier?
Arnim Zola
Arnim Zola's face on the monitors nods to the comics, where the scientist's mind lives in a robot body that shows his face on a screen in its chest.
Q 29What UN framework divides the Avengers in Civil War?
The Sokovia Accords
The Sokovia Accords are the films' version of the comics' Superhuman Registration Act, a US law that made every hero register with the government.
Q 30The Avengers' airport battle in Civil War takes place in which country?
Germany
Germany's Leipzig/Halle Airport hosts the fight, though the actors were filmed partly at a studio near Atlanta and set inside a digital copy of the airport.