Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trivia
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50 free Captain America: the Winter Soldier trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Captain America: The Winter Soldier trivia quiz covers the Russo brothers' 2014 political thriller, often ranked among the best films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The easy questions cover the cast and the story: Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world, meeting Sam Wilson on the National Mall, the Lemurian Star mission, Nick Fury's ambush, the Winter Soldier's identity and the three Helicarriers of Project Insight. The harder ones dig into Arnim Zola's bunker, Jasper Sitwell, Alexander Pierce, the World Security Council, the Smithsonian post-credits scene and the twins in Baron von Strucker's lab. Behind the scenes it covers Ed Brubaker's comics arc, the 1970s thrillers that shaped the script, why the Russos got the job off the back of Community, Robert Redford's casting, the Cleveland shoot standing in for Washington, the Freezer Burn working title, Henry Jackman's score, the April box office records, the Oscar nomination and the Pulp Fiction Easter egg on Fury's tombstone. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our Captain America, Avengers and MCU quizzes.
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Q 01Which Marvin Gaye album does Sam Wilson tell Steve Rogers to add to his catch-up list in The Winter Soldier?
Trouble Man
Trouble Man, the 1972 soundtrack, is 'everything you missed jammed into one album', Sam says, so Steve writes it down; its title track is playing when he wakes in hospital with Sam at his bedside.
Q 02Where does Steve Rogers first meet Sam Wilson in The Winter Soldier?
On an early-morning run
On an early-morning run: Rogers keeps overtaking Wilson with a breezy 'On your left', and the two veterans bond afterwards over adjusting to life after service.
Q 03Who leads the pirates holding a S.H.I.E.L.D. ship hostage at the start of The Winter Soldier?
Georges Batroc
Georges Batroc taunts Rogers that he thought he was more than just a shield, so the Captain puts it away and beats him hand to hand.
Q 04Which S.H.I.E.L.D. project would launch three Helicarriers to kill threats before they can act in The Winter Soldier?
Project Insight
Project Insight never fires on its targets: at the climax the three Helicarriers are turned on one another and destroyed.
Q 05What is the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
The Triskelion
The Triskelion is wrecked at the climax, when one of the falling Helicarriers ploughs into it.
Q 06What does S.H.I.E.L.D.'s wounded director hand Steve Rogers in The Winter Soldier?
A flash drive of the ship's data
A flash drive of the ship's data, pressed on Rogers with a warning to trust no one; it later leads him and Romanoff to a hidden bunker in New Jersey.
Q 07Whose preserved consciousness lives in a supercomputer in a New Jersey bunker in The Winter Soldier?
Arnim Zola
Arnim Zola, recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. after the war, keeps Rogers and Romanoff talking, then admits he has been stalling while a missile closes on the bunker.
Q 08Which actor learned The Winter Soldier was named for his character when a friend phoned from Comic-Con?
Sebastian Stan
Sebastian Stan says he did not know whether his character would be brought back at all until Marvel announced the sequel's title in 2012, a year after the first film.
Q 09Who is Hydra's leader within S.H.I.E.L.D. in Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
Alexander Pierce
Alexander Pierce poses as Fury's loyal old friend, then brands Rogers a fugitive for refusing to say what the wounded director told him.
Q 10Which Hollywood legend plays the S.H.I.E.L.D. official secretly leading Hydra in The Winter Soldier?
Robert Redford
Robert Redford said he signed on 'because it's different. It's a new thing for me', and that he wanted to experience the high-tech filmmaking that had taken over.
Q 11In The Winter Soldier, what tool lets Hydra pick out the people who might one day threaten it?
A data-mining algorithm
A data-mining algorithm judges from people's pasts who might threaten Hydra in future, and the Helicarriers' guns would then pick those people off.
Q 12Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is captured and revealed as a Hydra mole before the Winter Soldier kills him?
Jasper Sitwell
Jasper Sitwell had seemed a loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in Thor and The Avengers; cornered by Rogers's team, he gives up Hydra's plan.
Q 13Who is the Winter Soldier revealed to be?
Bucky Barnes
Bucky Barnes, the best friend Rogers believed had died in the war, no longer recognises him, yet hesitates when he has the chance to kill him.
Q 21Which comics writer's Winter Soldier storyline was the film adapted from?
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker's story so daunted the screenwriters that they took six months to convince themselves they could adapt it; he then turned up on screen as one of the assassin's scientists.
Q 22Which 1975 thriller did The Winter Soldier's writers use as the main model for their script?
Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor is a one-man-on-the-run story, and the writers wanted a hero who no longer knows whom to trust, which is why he cannot simply call in powerful friends.
Q 23Which sitcom's genre-spoofing episodes led Marvel to seek out the Russo brothers for The Winter Soldier?
Community
Q 14How has Hydra kept the Winter Soldier alive for seventy years?
Brainwashing and cryogenic freezing
Brainwashing and cryogenic freezing: between missions Hydra wipes his memory again and puts him back on ice, and it repeats the wipe when he starts to remember.
Q 15In The Winter Soldier, how do the heroes plan to stop the three Helicarriers?
Replace their control chips
Replace their control chips: once Rogers slots in the third, Maria Hill takes over the ships' guns and has them shoot each other down.
Q 16Who is Natasha Romanoff disguised as when she ambushes Hydra's leader in The Winter Soldier?
A World Security Council member
A World Security Council member: wearing a councilwoman's face, she gets close enough to disarm him, then leaks S.H.I.E.L.D.'s classified files to expose Hydra.
Q 17Into which river does Steve Rogers fall from a crashing Helicarrier in The Winter Soldier?
The Potomac
The Potomac: the Winter Soldier, who moments earlier was beating him senseless, hauls the unconscious Rogers out of the water and vanishes.
Q 18Who fires the shots that kill Hydra's leader inside S.H.I.E.L.D. in The Winter Soldier?
Nick Fury
Nick Fury, back from his faked death, forces him to help unlock S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secret files so they can be leaked, then shoots him in the struggle that follows.
Q 19Which two test subjects appear in Baron von Strucker's lab in the mid-credits scene of The Winter Soldier?
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are glimpsed in their cells, near Loki's sceptre, in a scene Joss Whedon wrote and directed himself to set up his next Avengers film.
Q 20Where does the Winter Soldier turn up in the post-credits scene?
His own Smithsonian memorial
His own Smithsonian memorial: dressed as a civilian, he stands before the part of the Captain America exhibit devoted to him, trying to learn who he used to be.
Community's paintball finale caught Marvel's eye although the brothers had not even applied for the job; they later had one of its writers, Chris McKenna, add jokes to the script.
Q 24Under what working title was Captain America: The Winter Soldier shot?
Freezer Burn
Freezer Burn was the fake title printed on every sign at the studio, and even on set visitors' name tags, to keep the shoot secret.
Q 25Which Ohio city doubled for Washington, D.C. for much of The Winter Soldier's shoot?
Cleveland
Cleveland won the shoot after Ohio approved a $9.5 million tax credit, and Marvel already knew the city from filming The Avengers there.
Q 26In The Winter Soldier, where is Steve Rogers when he asks if anyone wants to get out before a fight?
In an elevator
In an elevator: undercover Hydra agents crowd in around him, and he knocks every one of them out and escapes by jumping out of it.
Q 27Which future Marvel film hero is named aloud among Hydra's targets in The Winter Soldier?
Stephen Strange
Stephen Strange is one of the names a captured Hydra mole gives up under interrogation, listing him beside Bruce Banner among the people Hydra means to kill.
Q 28What Bible verse on Fury's tombstone in The Winter Soldier nods to Samuel L. Jackson's Pulp Fiction role?
Ezekiel 25:17
Ezekiel 25:17 is the verse Jackson's hitman recites in Pulp Fiction; the headstone carries its opening words, and the grave is a decoy, since Fury is alive and in hiding.
Q 29Which UFC champion plays Batroc in Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
Georges St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre was the UFC's reigning welterweight champion when he was cast, a fitting choice for a character whose fighting style is savate, the French form of kickboxing.
Q 30In The Winter Soldier, Black Widow greets a bunker of old computers with a line from which film?
WarGames
WarGames gave her 'Shall we play a game?', which she says as a joke to a room of dusty old machines, seconds before they wake up and start talking back.