Captain America: The First Avenger
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48 free Captain America: the First Avenger trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Captain America: The First Avenger was the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the last piece of the puzzle before The Avengers. Joe Johnston, the man who designed ships for the original Star Wars trilogy, set it squarely in World War II: skinny Steve Rogers, Dr. Erskine's serum, Howard Stark's vibranium shield, and Hugo Weaving's Red Skull chasing the Tesseract across Europe. This quiz covers the plot and the production in equal measure. You will be asked about the Norwegian town where Schmidt steals the Tesseract, the British locations that doubled for 1940s Manhattan, the company that digitally shrank Chris Evans, the Mercedes models behind the Red Skull's car, Alan Menken's USO song and the working title FrostBite. The easy questions cover cast and story beats; the hard ones go after budgets, trailer spend, the Joe Simon lawsuit and which three countries dropped "Captain America" from the title. Fifty questions, every answer checked.
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Q 01Who directed Captain America: The First Avenger?
Joe Johnston
Joe Johnston. Marvel turned down Louis Leterrier, the director of its Incredible Hulk, when he asked for the job, and signed Johnston in November 2008.
Q 02In The First Avenger, where does Steve Rogers finally tell Dr. Erskine he is really from?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn. Erskine has caught him lying on five enlistment forms in five cities, and says it is the five tries that interest him, not the failed exams.
Q 03Which studio distributed Captain America: The First Avenger on its release in 2011?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures. It was the last Marvel film the studio released: Disney, Marvel's owner since 2009, had already bought out the next ones and took over this film's rights in 2013.
Q 04Who plays Johann Schmidt, the Red Skull, in The First Avenger?
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving. He modelled the villain's accent on director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, and wore a latex mask that effects artists then slimmed down, taking away his nose.
Q 05What relic does Johann Schmidt steal at the start of The First Avenger?
The Tesseract
The Tesseract. It is the films' version of the comics' Cosmic Cube, and later films revealed that the glowing box holds one of the six Infinity Stones the whole saga turns on.
Q 06In The First Avenger, Johann Schmidt seizes a relic hidden in a church in which German-occupied country?
Norway
Norway. The church stands in Tønsberg, a real coastal town regarded as the country's oldest; David Bradley plays the keeper, whom Schmidt has killed once the relic is found.
Q 07Who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine in The First Avenger?
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci. He said the draw was the chance to play an elderly German scientist with an accent, something he had long wanted to try.
Q 08In The First Avenger, what does Steve Rogers do that convinces Colonel Phillips he is the right candidate?
Jumps on a grenade
Jumps on a grenade. Phillips lobs a dummy among the recruits to prove that wars are won with guts; the others scatter while the smallest man throws himself on it.
Q 09Who plays the young Howard Stark in The First Avenger?
Dominic Cooper
Dominic Cooper. The story is set decades before Iron Man 2, in which John Slattery had played Tony Stark's father as an older man, so a younger actor took the part.
Q 10In The First Avenger, how does the assassin Heinz Kruger avoid interrogation?
Takes a cyanide capsule
Takes a cyanide capsule. Rogers, minutes after his transformation, runs down Kruger's car on foot and hauls him out of a submarine, only for the spy to bite the pill and die.
Q 11In The First Avenger, what does Senator Brandt have Steve Rogers do once the serum is lost?
Tour selling war bonds
Tour selling war bonds. Rogers becomes a costumed stage mascot called Captain America, because Colonel Phillips would rather leave him behind as a lab specimen than send him to fight.
Q 12In The First Avenger, Steve Rogers' round shield is made of which rare metal?
Vibranium
Vibranium. Howard Stark hands Rogers the shield after the rescue mission; in the Black Panther stories the same metal is mined only in Wakanda and is the root of its power.
Q 13What is the squad Steve Rogers forms from freed prisoners in The First Avenger called?
The Howling Commandos
Q 21Chris Evans, star of The First Avenger, had earlier played which Marvel hero?
The Human Torch
The Human Torch. Evans played him in Fantastic Four in 2005, and The First Avenger hides another: a display case at its Stark Expo shows the original Human Torch, an android hero of 1940s comics.
Q 22The First Avenger's star said which feeling made him refuse the role three times?
Fear
Fear. He said no three times before signing a six-film deal, and later admitted his decision-making had been fear-based: he was "almost too chicken to play Captain America."
Q 23How was skinny, pre-serum Steve Rogers mostly created for The First Avenger?
Digital shrinking
The Howling Commandos. One of the writers said the name is in the script "but no one says that out loud"; the squad comes from a Marvel war comic of the 1960s.
Q 14Who plays Bucky Barnes in The First Avenger?
Sebastian Stan
Sebastian Stan. He had first been in the running to play Captain America himself, and Marvel cast him as Bucky with the character's later return as the Winter Soldier already in mind.
Q 15Which war series did the actor playing Bucky Barnes call "very helpful" in preparing for The First Avenger?
Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers. He knew nothing about the comics when he auditioned, so he studied the series and wartime documentaries to learn how soldiers of the 1940s carried themselves.
Q 16Who plays Peggy Carter in The First Avenger?
Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell. She won the part over Keira Knightley, Alice Eve and Emily Blunt, then trained six days a week to be convincing as a soldier.
Q 17The actress playing Peggy Carter in The First Avenger likened her to a famous line about which dancer?
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers. The line says she did everything Fred Astaire did, "backwards and in high heels"; the actress said Carter does the same alongside Captain America.
Q 18In The First Avenger, how does Bucky Barnes apparently die in 1945?
Falls from a train
Falls from a train. It happens on the raid that captures Arnim Zola, whose earlier experiments on the captive Bucky let him survive the drop and return as the Winter Soldier.
Q 19In The First Avenger, what tips Steve Rogers off that his 1940s hospital room is fake?
A radio replay of a 1941 ballgame
A radio replay of a 1941 ballgame. Rogers had been in the stands that day, so he knows the broadcast is a recording, and he breaks out of the set into present-day Times Square.
Q 20In The First Avenger, who tells Steve Rogers he has slept almost 70 years?
Nick Fury
Nick Fury. The S.H.I.E.L.D. director explains that the fake 1940s room was meant to break the news slowly, and the scene closes on Rogers's reply: he had a date.
Digital shrinking. Effects house Lola slimmed the lead actor in every dimension, so each skinny scene had to be shot at least four times; a body double was the backup.
Q 24Which writing duo was hired in late 2008 to rewrite the script of The First Avenger?
Markus and McFeely
Markus and McFeely. Hired a week after the director, the pair went on to write both Captain America sequels and the two-part finale of Marvel's Infinity Saga.
Q 25In The First Avenger, the Red Skull leads which Nazi science division turned rogue army?
Hydra
Hydra. It begins as Hitler's research division, but the Red Skull soon breaks with him, saying Hydra can grow no further in his shadow.
Q 26Where does Steve Rogers crash the Red Skull's bomber at the end of The First Avenger?
The Arctic
The Arctic. Rogers puts the plane down in the ice to keep its bombs from reaching New York, saying goodbye to Peggy Carter as he dives.
Q 27Which English city's Northern Quarter was dressed as 1940s New York for The First Avenger?
Manchester
Manchester. Its streets stood in for Manhattan's Lower East Side, as did Liverpool's Stanley Dock, so much of the film's New York is really the north of England.
Q 28In The First Avenger, the Red Skull's giant coupe was modelled mainly on two 1930s cars from which German carmaker?
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz. Designer Daniel Simon, fresh from Tron: Legacy, blended the 540K roadster with the three-axle G4, the parade car of Nazi leaders, to make a car fit for a tyrant.
Q 29Who composed The First Avenger's score?
Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri. The Back to the Future composer was hired under five months before release, and Marvel later brought him back to score the two-part finale of its Infinity Saga.
Q 30Who wrote the music for "Star Spangled Man", the USO song in The First Avenger?
Alan Menken
Alan Menken. The Disney composer of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin wrote it with lyricist David Zippel as a wartime show tune for a chorus line to sing around Captain America.