60 free Captain America: Civil War trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Captain America: Civil War trivia quiz covers the 2016 film that opened Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and split the Avengers down the middle. The plot questions run from the opening mission in Lagos and the bombing in Vienna to the Leipzig/Halle airport battle, the Siberian bunker and the two credits scenes, and they take in the debuts of Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spider-Man along the way. The harder half is for people who read the making-of features: the working title, the IMAX cameras used for the airport sequence, the Madbomb storyline Marvel kept in reserve, the character cut from an early draft, the studio fight over the ending, the cameos, the salaries and the box office records. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen the film once; the expert ones will test even committed MCU fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. If you want the wider universe, try our Marvel and MCU quizzes too.
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Q 01Captain America: Civil War was the first film released in which of the MCU's numbered slates?
Phase Three
It kicked off Phase Three in May 2016; the phase ran through Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019.
Q 02Which directing duo helmed Captain America: Civil War?
Anthony and Joe Russo
The brothers were rehired after test screenings of The Winter Soldier impressed Marvel executives, three months before that film even opened.
Q 03In what year is the film's opening scene set, where the Winter Soldier intercepts a car carrying super-soldier serum?
1991
The Siberian mission bookends the film: the footage of what happened on that road is the fuse Zemo lights in the third act.
Q 04In which city do the Avengers try to stop Brock Rumlow at the film's start?
Lagos
The market scenes were shot in Downtown Atlanta, in an area near Philips Arena known as The Gulch.
Q 05What is the name of the UN document that would place the Avengers under a UN panel's oversight?
The Sokovia Accords
They are named for the country levelled at the end of Age of Ultron, roughly a year before the film begins.
Q 06In which city is the UN conference bombed?
Vienna
Security footage frames the Winter Soldier for the blast, which is exactly what the real bomber intended.
Q 07Which character is killed by the bomb at the UN conference?
King T'Chaka
His son vows revenge on the man he believes planted it, which pulls Black Panther into the manhunt.
Q 08In which European capital do Rogers and Wilson track down Barnes?
Bucharest
All four fugitives, Black Panther included, end up arrested by the local police and James Rhodes after the rooftop chase.
Q 09Zemo impersonates whom in order to get access to the captured Barnes?
A psychiatrist
He recites the trigger words from a stolen Hydra notebook, then uses the resulting rampage to cover his own escape.
Q 10Where do the two Avengers factions have their big set-piece fight?
Leipzig/Halle Airport
The real airport is in Schkeuditz, Germany, and production moved there in early August 2015 after finishing in Atlanta.
Q 11Which hero is accidentally shot down by Vision during the airport battle and left partially paralyzed?
War Machine
Stark later builds him exoskeletal leg braces so he can walk again, a set-up for his return in Infinity War.
Q 12Where are the members of Rogers' team detained after they are captured?
The Raft
It is an underwater prison, and Rogers breaks his allies out of it in the film's final minutes.
Q 13Zemo's footage reveals that the car Barnes intercepted in the opening scene was carrying whom?
Howard and Maria Stark
Stark is enraged less by the killing itself than by the discovery that Rogers already knew and kept it from him.
Q 21Emily VanCamp's CIA agent Sharon is the niece of which earlier character?
Peggy Carter
She works for the CIA in this film and tips Rogers off to where the authorities have found Barnes.
Q 22What is the name of Sam Wilson's robotic drone?
Redwing
In the comics Redwing is a real falcon Wilson has a telepathic link with; the film made it a drone.
Q 23Which comic-book identity does Scott Lang take on for the first time during the airport battle?
Giant-Man
Feige said the reveal was chosen because none of the Ant-Man and the Wasp plans depended on it, so it could be spent here as a shock.
Q 14What does Rogers leave behind when he walks away from the fight with Stark in Siberia?
His shield
Stark tells him he does not deserve it because Howard Stark made it; the shield stays on the bunker floor.
Q 15Who stops Zemo from taking his own life once his plan has succeeded?
T'Challa
Having overheard the truth, he decides vengeance has consumed enough people and hands Zemo to the authorities instead.
Q 16In the mid-credits scene, what does Barnes choose to do?
Return to cryogenic sleep
He asks to be frozen until a cure for the brainwashing is found; Wakanda grants him asylum in the meantime.
Q 17What is Peter Parker examining in the post-credits scene?
Web shooters built by Stark
The gadgets project a Spider-Signal onto his bedroom ceiling, a nod to the character's Ditko-era comics.
Q 18Which actor makes his debut as Black Panther in Civil War?
Chadwick Boseman
He did not audition; instead he had a discussion with Marvel about what they wanted to do, then signed a five-picture deal.
Q 19Who plays Peter Parker in the film?
Tom Holland
He deliberately did not read the whole script so he could not accidentally leak the plot in interviews.
Q 20Whose casting as May Parker was only revealed at the film's premiere?
Marisa Tomei
Her aunt is decades younger than the comic-book May, which the film has Stark comment on immediately.
Q 24Who plays Helmut Zemo?
Daniel Brühl
Unlike his comic-book counterpart, this Zemo never wears the purple mask, and he goes by several names in the film.
Q 25Zemo is a former colonel from which fictional country?
Sokovia
His family died when the Avengers fought Ultron there, which is why he wants the team to destroy itself.
Q 26What was cited as the reason the actor playing Zemo was cast?
His German accent
Brühl said he did not consider the role a stereotype, calling Zemo a clever man acting from an understandable motive.
Q 27Which character does Martin Freeman play?
Everett K. Ross
Freeman signed a three-film contract covering this film, Black Panther and its 2022 sequel.
Q 28Which Hydra official oversaw the Winter Soldier program?
Vasily Karpov
Gene Farber plays him; his notebook of trigger words is what Zemo steals in the first act.
Q 29Alfre Woodard plays Miriam Sharpe. Who is she?
The mother of a man killed in the Sokovia battle
Downey suggested her for the part before Marvel learned she had been cast as Mariah Dillard in Luke Cage.
Q 30What is Stan Lee's cameo role in Civil War?
A FedEx deliveryman
He delivers a package to "Tony Stank", a joke Rhodes immediately promises never to let go of.