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40 free Escape Plan trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Escape Plan gave action fans something they had waited decades for: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger sharing top billing. Stallone plays Ray Breslin, a man paid to break out of prisons who ends up locked inside one built to beat him. Schwarzenegger is Emil Rottmayer, the inmate who becomes his ally. This quiz follows the 2013 film from its opening job to its final twist: the prison and its secrets, the warden and his guards, the cast, the script's long road to the screen, and the two sequels that followed, Escape Plan 2 and Escape Plan: The Extractors. It is written for anyone who has seen the film once as well as for fans who know every step of the breakout. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories from behind the scenes along the way.
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Q 01In which language does Arnold Schwarzenegger's character rave like a madman to aid the breakout in Escape Plan?
German
German is the Austrian-born star's first language, and one critic called the tirade perhaps his best moment of acting to date.
Q 02Escape Plan: The Extractors shot its prison scenes at the Ohio State Reformatory, made famous by which film?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption used the Mansfield prison for most of its scenes; the building closed in 1990 and is now open to tourists.
Q 03In Escape Plan, the secret prison turns out to be hidden aboard a ship disguised as what?
An oil tanker
An oil tanker in the middle of an ocean hides the prison, and Breslin only finds out when his first breakout attempt reaches the open air.
Q 04Before Escape Plan, Stallone and Schwarzenegger had shared only brief scenes together in which action franchise?
The Expendables
The Expendables films gave the pair only brief appearances side by side; Escape Plan was the first film to cast them as co-leads.
Q 05Which former Wimbledon footballer plays Drake, the ruthless prison guard, in Escape Plan?
Vinnie Jones
Vinnie Jones won the 1988 FA Cup with Wimbledon, and his hard-man reputation on the pitch has often seen him typecast as thugs on screen.
Q 06What navigation instrument does Ray Breslin improvise in Escape Plan to work out the secret prison's latitude?
A sextant
A sextant built in secret is smuggled outside by another inmate, and its reading tells the escapees which ocean they are in.
Q 07Pete Wentz, who has a small role as Bug in Escape Plan 2, plays bass in which rock band?
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy's bassist and lyricist joined the sequel's cast in March 2017, in the same round of casting as Jesse Metcalfe and Wes Chatham.
Q 08Which Jurassic Park star plays Dr. Kyrie, the prison doctor, in Escape Plan?
Sam Neill
Sam Neill's doctor is the one Breslin persuades to send the prison's coordinates to the outside world, which brings the rescue helicopter.
Q 09What was Escape Plan's working title, taken from the codename of the secret prison in the story?
The Tomb
The Tomb was the title of the spec script, and the film kept it until April 2013, six months before release.
Q 10Which former WWE champion joined the series in Escape Plan 2 as Ray Breslin's old contact Trent DeRosa?
Dave Bautista
Dave Bautista returned as DeRosa in the third film, whose producers wanted actors with MMA experience for fight scenes with him and Stallone.
Q 11In all three Escape Plan films, the rapper 50 Cent plays Hush, who fills what role on Ray Breslin's team?
Hacker
Hacker Hush is the one who uncovers who really owns the secret prison in the first film; the sequels credit 50 Cent as Curtis Jackson.
Q 12On a beach in which country does the rescue helicopter land at the end of Escape Plan?
Morocco
Morocco was the nearest coast: the escapees had already worked out that the prison lay in the Atlantic just offshore.
Q 13Which Person of Interest star plays Willard Hobbes, the warden of the secret prison, in Escape Plan?
Jim Caviezel
Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, had his casting as the villain revealed by producer Mark Canton in an interview.
Q 21How are the guards who watch the cells of the secret prison in Escape Plan dressed?
In black uniforms and masks
In black uniforms and masks, the guards stay faceless, one of the first things Breslin notices when he wakes up inside.
Q 22What unusual feature do the cells of the secret prison have in Escape Plan?
Fully transparent walls
Fully transparent walls leave each inmate permanently on show to the guards surveilling the blocks.
Q 23In Escape Plan, Hush punishes Lester Clark for betraying Ray Breslin by locking him inside what?
A shipping container
Q 14What was Ray Breslin's job before he began breaking out of prisons for a living in Escape Plan?
Prosecutor
A prosecutor turned escape artist, Breslin co-founded a firm that is paid to test supermax prisons by posing as an inmate and getting out.
Q 15Which agency does Jessica Miller claim to represent when she hires Ray Breslin in Escape Plan?
The CIA
The CIA cover came with millions of dollars and one condition that broke Breslin's own rules: his team could not know where the prison was.
Q 16Jessica Miller, who hires Ray Breslin in Escape Plan, is finally revealed to be what relation to Emil Rottmayer?
His daughter
His daughter staged the entire job: the prison test was a ruse to put a master escape artist inside to break her father out.
Q 17At the end of Escape Plan, Emil Rottmayer turns out to be which faceless figure who steals from the wealthy?
Victor Mannheim
Victor Mannheim had been posing as his own security expert, so the man the warden wanted to find was sitting in his cells all along.
Q 18In which US city does Ray Breslin let himself be captured at the start of his secret-prison job in Escape Plan?
New Orleans
New Orleans was also the production's base, with shooting there scheduled from April to June 2012.
Q 19Early reports in 2010 had which action star playing Ray Breslin in Escape Plan before Sylvester Stallone signed on?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis was linked to the lead with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct, but neither of them made the film.
Q 20Escape Plan director Mikael Håfström, who also made the horror film 1408, comes from which country?
Sweden
Sweden-born Håfström earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film with his 2003 drama Evil before Hollywood hired him for thrillers.
A shipping container, sent off to an unknown location, gives the traitor a taste of the disappearance he had arranged for his partner.
Q 24In Escape Plan, Ray Breslin's obsession with prison security began when his wife and child were murdered by whom?
An escaped convict
An escaped convict killed them, which is why Breslin spends his life proving that supposedly secure prisons can be broken out of.
Q 25Which inmate ally of Ray Breslin in Escape Plan is gunned down while buying time for the breakout?
Javed
Javed, played by Faran Tahir, is also the one who slips outside to take the latitude reading the whole escape depends on.
Q 26In Escape Plan, warden Hobbes says the secret prison was built using what of Ray Breslin's as its blueprint?
A book he wrote
The book he wrote turned out to be the ideal blueprint for a prison built to hold him, and the warden means to keep its author inside for life.
Q 27How does warden Hobbes die at the climax of Escape Plan as Ray Breslin climbs the helicopter's ladder?
In a barrel explosion
In a barrel explosion that Breslin sets off himself: hanging from the ladder, he shoots several leaking drums, and the blast kills the warden.
Q 28Which Oscar nominee for Gone Baby Gone plays Abigail Ross, Ray Breslin's colleague, in Escape Plan?
Amy Ryan
Amy Ryan's character was written as Breslin's potential love interest, and the part was recast for both sequels.
Q 29Which Full Metal Jacket actor plays Lester Clark, Ray Breslin's business partner, in Escape Plan?
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent D'Onofrio returns in the third film through archive footage, when Clark's son comes looking for revenge.
Q 30At which fan convention did Stallone and Schwarzenegger attend an early screening of Escape Plan in July 2013?
San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con hosted the fan screening three months before the film opened in American cinemas.