Hogan's Heroes Trivia
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100 free Hogan's Heroes trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free Hogan's Heroes trivia questions with answers. Hogan's Heroes ran 168 episodes across six seasons, and it is stranger than its reputation. A sitcom set in a German prisoner-of-war camp, made largely by Jewish writers and actors, including a concentration camp survivor and the son of the conductor Otto Klemperer, who took the role of the commandant on condition that the character never win. This quiz covers the show itself - the tunnels, the standing orders, the man who saw nothing, the general and the Gestapo major who never caught on - and the production behind it: the Emmys, the theme tune with a drumming lead actor, the trading cards, the Mad parody, and the Stalag 17 lawsuit that a jury won and a judge overturned. Every answer is written against a sourced account of the series with the sentence that establishes it attached. Difficulty runs from easy character questions to production detail that will surprise long-time viewers.
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Q 01On which American network did Hogan's Heroes originally run?
CBS
CBS. The network ended up in court over its hit, sued by two playwrights who said the sitcom copied their prison-camp play, and it won.
Q 02Which instrument does Colonel Klink play, enthusiastically and very badly?
The violin
The violin. His scraping is a running gag, and Hogan puts it to use, coaxing a recital out of him at dinner to keep a visiting general busy while his men photograph the general's papers.
Q 03Hogan's Heroes co-creator Albert S. Ruddy later won an Oscar for producing which film?
The Godfather
The Godfather. Ruddy went from a prison-camp sitcom to the 1972 best picture winner within a decade, and took a second Oscar for Million Dollar Baby.
Q 04What is the prison camp in Hogan's Heroes called?
Stalag 13
Stalag 13. The pilot actually calls it Camp 13; the German name, short for Stammlager, only arrived once the show went to series.
Q 05Near which real German town does Hogan's Heroes place its prison camp?
Hammelburg
Hammelburg. The real town did have prison camps on its edge, and in spring 1945 General Patton sent a raid there that failed to free his captured son-in-law.
Q 06Which 2002 film stars Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane, the star of Hogan's Heroes?
Auto Focus
Auto Focus. Paul Schrader's film follows Crane's slide from clean-cut sitcom lead to his murder in an Arizona apartment in 1978.
Q 07Which branch of the US military does Hogan belong to?
The Army Air Forces
The Army Air Forces. Hogan was a bomber commander shot down on a raid, which is why his jailer is a Luftwaffe colonel: Germany's air arm held captured flyers.
Q 08Colonel Klink was voiced one last time by his original actor in a 1993 episode of which animated series?
The Simpsons
The Simpsons. Klink turns up as Homer's guardian angel, the shape the spirit settles on after Homer fails to recognise Isaac Newton.
Q 09Otto, the father of Klink actor Werner Klemperer, was world famous in which profession?
A conductor
A conductor. Otto Klemperer led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1930s, and his son later returned to that world as a concert narrator and opera performer.
Q 10What had his agent not told the actor cast as Colonel Klink?
That the show was a comedy
That the show was a comedy. The actor, who had played Nazis in serious films, said he was stunned to learn this one was meant to be funny.
Q 11In Hogan's Heroes, what does Sergeant Schultz insist whenever he stumbles on the prisoners' schemes?
I know nothing
I know nothing. John Banner had spent years cast as menacing Nazis in films before he turned a guard's plea of ignorance into the show's signature line.
Q 12Why does Sergeant Schultz never report what Hogan's men are up to?
He fears the Russian front
He fears the Russian front. Reporting a plot would mean admitting it happened on his watch, so he prefers to look the other way.
Q 13What nationality is Corporal Louis LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes?
French
French. LeBeau's cooking is one of Hogan's weapons: his gourmet dinners keep visiting German officers at the table while the others go to work.
Q 21In Hogan's Heroes, which Nazi leader does Sergeant Carter impersonate as a distraction?
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler. Carter bears such an eerie resemblance to him that the mild-mannered sergeant gets the job more than once.
Q 22What keeps the inept Colonel Klink in command of his camp in Hogan's Heroes?
No prisoner has ever escaped
No prisoner has ever escaped. Hogan's men protect that record themselves, because a sharper commandant might notice what they are really up to.
Q 23In Hogan's Heroes, Klink's commanding general keeps trying to marry him off to which relative?
His widowed sister
Q 14What was the real-life history of Robert Clary, who played LeBeau?
He survived a Nazi concentration camp
He survived a Nazi concentration camp. Deported at 16, he spent 31 months in the camps, and said a comedy about prisoners of war was night and day from what he had seen.
Q 15Which skills does Corporal Peter Newkirk bring to Hogan's team?
Forgery, lock picking and tailoring
Forgery, lock picking and tailoring. The tailoring keeps the team in disguise: Newkirk sews the uniforms and civilian clothes the prisoners wear whenever they slip out of camp.
Q 16A part in which 1965 film reportedly won Richard Dawson his place in Hogan's Heroes?
King Rat
King Rat. That grim drama is set in a Japanese prison camp, so Dawson went straight from one prisoner-of-war story to another, this one played for laughs.
Q 17Which of Hogan's men runs the hidden radio that links the camp to London?
James Kinchloe
James Kinchloe. Kinch worked for the phone company back in Detroit, and he does more than transmit: he mimics German officers on the line to fool the enemy.
Q 18Kenneth Washington joined Hogan's Heroes when which original cast member left?
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon. He walked away before the final season, reportedly feeling underused, and built a second career as a director, notably of The Spook Who Sat by the Door.
Q 19What is Sergeant Carter's speciality in Hogan's Heroes?
Chemistry and explosives
Chemistry and explosives. Before the war the team's bomb-maker ran a drugstore in Muncie, Indiana, and he is the one man in the barracks who is shy around women.
Q 20In the Hogan's Heroes pilot, what is Larry Hovis's Carter doing at the camp?
Passing through as an escaped prisoner
Passing through as an escaped prisoner. Lieutenant Carter was written as a one-episode guest, but the producer liked Hovis so much that he came back as a sergeant and a regular.
His widowed sister. The general treats Klink with open contempt, yet still thinks him good enough for Gertrude, to the horror of the prospective groom.
Q 24Which two officers above Colonel Klink is Hogan constantly outwitting in Hogan's Heroes?
Burkhalter and Hochstetter
Burkhalter and Hochstetter. The general silences Klink with 'Shut up, Klink!', and the Gestapo major calls Hogan the most dangerous man in all Germany yet never pins a thing on him.
Q 25In Hogan's Heroes, what are the prisoners' resistance contacts collectively called?
The Underground
The Underground. When the Gestapo holds several of its leaders in the camp, Hogan gets them released by convincing the Germans that the war is over.
Q 26How do escaping Allied prisoners get in and out of the camp in Hogan's Heroes?
Through a secret tunnel network
Through a secret tunnel network. One entrance is hidden under a doghouse in the guard-dog kennel, the last place a nervous German sentry wants to search.
Q 27What sets the Hogan's Heroes pilot apart from every later episode?
It was filmed in black and white
It was filmed in black and white. The pilot was shot back in 1964, and by the time it aired the following year the series around it was being made in colour.
Q 28Which first-year series beat Hogan's Heroes to the 1967 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series?
The Monkees
The Monkees. Hogan's Heroes was up for the top comedy Emmy three years running and lost every time, on this occasion to a show about a made-for-TV pop group.
Q 29Which Hogan's Heroes cast member won both of the show's Emmy Awards?
Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer. He won as supporting actor in 1968 and 1969, while the show's leading man was nominated twice and went home empty-handed.
Q 30Who composed the theme music of Hogan's Heroes?
Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding. He later wrote lyrics to his wordless march so that four of the cast could sing it on their own album of wartime songs.