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122 free Prison Break trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
47 free Prison Break trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Prison Break fan? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive trivia quiz covering the thrilling escape plans, memorable characters, and shocking twists that made the series a global phenomenon. Whether you're a casual viewer or a die-hard fan, see how well you remember the details from Michael Scofield's ingenious schemes.
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Q 01By what method is Lincoln Burrows due to be executed at Fox River in Prison Break's first season?
The electric chair
The electric chair is Lincoln's sentence; Michael shorts it with a rat to win a delay, a guard has it fixed in time, and only a judge's phone call halts the execution at the last moment.
Q 02Which veteran actor plays the warden of Fox River in Prison Break's first season?
Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach plays the warden, and he knew prison from the other side: he had served six months in England's Reading Prison after a cocaine arrest at Heathrow.
Q 03Who created the television series 'Prison Break'?
Paul Scheuring
Paul Scheuring first took the script to Fox in 2003 and was turned down, the network doubting the story could last; a year later Fox changed its mind and ordered the series.
Q 04What is Michael Scofield's profession before he gets himself sent to Fox River?
Structural engineer
Structural engineer: Michael's Chicago firm had handled the retrofit of Fox River, which is how he got hold of the prison's blueprints before his arrest.
Q 05For which crimes is Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell serving time at Fox River?
Kidnapping, rape and murder
Kidnapping, rape and murder put T-Bag away for life; he was only caught because his girlfriend Susan Hollander, on learning what he had done, turned him in to the police.
Q 06What office does Sara Tancredi's father, Frank, hold during Prison Break's first season?
Governor of Illinois
Governor of Illinois Frank Tancredi could have spared Lincoln: asked by his own daughter to review the case on execution day, he refused clemency at the Vice President's request.
Q 07Which Fox River escapee is shot dead by Mahone's FBI team in season two after refusing to kneel?
John Abruzzi
John Abruzzi is lured to a motel by a false tip about the witness who jailed him; told to kneel, he says he kneels only to God, raises his gun and is cut down.
Q 08How does Michael Scofield smuggle the blueprints of Fox River into the prison?
Tattoos
Tattoos: before getting himself arrested, Michael had the plans inked across his upper body, hidden inside a gothic design of angels fighting demons.
Q 09A fire gets Michael's work crew sent to rebuild which Fox River room, where they dig their escape hole?
The guards' break room
The guards' break room is where the crew cuts through the floor to the pipes below; the fire was no accident, set by an old inmate to settle a score with the guard captain.
Q 10Michael and his cellmate begin their escape route by removing which fixture in their Fox River cell?
The toilet
The toilet comes away from the wall once Michael grinds a bolt against the cell floor into a hexagonal key that fits its screws, opening the way into the space behind.
Q 11One long-serving Fox River inmate turns out to be which real-life figure who famously vanished?
D. B. Cooper
D. B. Cooper, the hijacker who leapt from an airliner with a ransom, is one of the prison's longest-serving inmates; he denies it for half the season, then proves it with a bill from the ransom.
Q 12Who is the warden of Fox River in Prison Break's first season?
Henry Pope
Henry Pope quits after the breakout, yet in season two the former warden helps the brothers, now on the run, recover a recording that could clear Lincoln.
Q 13Which real-estate lawyer and ex-girlfriend of Lincoln fights to prove his innocence in Prison Break's first season?
Veronica Donovan
Q 21Who plays FBI agent Alexander Mahone, who becomes entangled with Michael and Lincoln?
William Fichtner
William Fichtner joined in season two as Mahone, an FBI agent as sharp as Michael, who is being coerced by The Company into killing the escapees rather than arresting them.
Q 22What crime does Michael Scofield deliberately commit to get himself sent to Fox River?
Armed robbery
Armed robbery of a downtown Chicago bank does it: Michael surrenders without a fight, pleads no contest and asks to serve his time close to home, at Fox River.
Q 23Under which famous name does Company operative Gretchen Morgan introduce herself in Prison Break's third season?
Susan B. Anthony
Veronica Donovan is a real-estate lawyer, not a criminal one, yet she defends Michael at his trial and then chases the conspiracy that framed Lincoln.
Q 14What is the prison nickname of the character Benjamin Miles Franklin?
C-Note
C-Note is Fox River's fixer, the prison 'pharmacist' who can get an inmate almost anything from outside, including the drug Michael needs to fake his illness.
Q 15Which stolen item put young inmate David Apolskis in Fox River?
A rare baseball card
A rare baseball card: he took a card collection without realising it held a Honus Wagner worth a fortune, which turned a petty theft into grand larceny.
Q 16What leaves without the escapees in Prison Break's season-one finale?
A plane
A plane laid on by the mob boss among them takes off as the police close in, leaving five of the escapees behind; season two opens with the five still on the run.
Q 17Who is Fernando Sucre's girlfriend, the woman he breaks out to marry?
Maricruz Delgado
Maricruz Delgado is Sucre's pregnant girlfriend; he joins the escape to reach her before she marries his cousin Hector, and the pair reunite in Mexico in season two.
Q 18After the escape, T-Bag forces what kind of professional to sew his severed hand back on?
A veterinarian
A veterinarian is made to reattach it without anaesthetic; the hand came off on the night of the escape, when a fellow escapee took an axe to the wrist T-Bag had cuffed to Michael.
Q 19In Prison Break's fourth season, what does Scylla, The Company's supposed 'black book', really hold?
Plans for a renewable power cell
Plans for a renewable power cell are the prize: Scylla is The Company's trove of advanced technology, not just a list of names, which is why more than one thief tries to sell it to the highest bidder.
Q 20In what country is the prison Sona, featured in Season 3, located?
Panama
Panama is where the brothers flee at the end of season two; instead of freedom, Michael is arrested there over the death of a Company agent and locked in Sona.
Susan B. Anthony is the only name she gives the brothers while she holds Sara and L.J. hostage to force Michael to break a prisoner out of Sona.
Q 24In Season 1, L.J. Burrows goes on the run after Company agents frame him for what?
Murdering his mother and stepfather
Murdering his mother and stepfather is the frame: two agents kill the couple and pin it on L.J., who goes on the run and later comes after one of them with a gun.
Q 25Which character works in the laundry at Fox River and is a cousin to Fernando Sucre?
Manche Sanchez
Manche Sanchez smuggles guard uniforms out of the laundry for the plan and is promised a place in the breakout, but he is the last man out and is caught on the night.
Q 26What agency does Paul Kellerman initially work for?
Secret Service
Secret Service agent Paul Kellerman starts out on the Vice President's protective detail, doing The Company's dirty work, yet it is his testimony that finally clears Lincoln.
Q 27Which Season 4 antagonist, a Company hitman, murders Alexander Mahone's young son Cameron?
Wyatt Mathewson
Wyatt Mathewson, the General's personal hitman, kills the boy in the season premiere, and the hope of finding him is part of what brings a grieving Mahone onto the Scylla team.
Q 28What is the codename of the CIA handler who erased Michael's identity in season five?
Poseidon
Poseidon is the rogue CIA operative behind Michael's disappearance, who threatened to jail Sara and Lincoln unless Michael vanished and went to work for him.
Q 29Michael's wife Nika Volek smuggles what into Fox River when she visits him?
A key card
A key card disguised as a credit card is what she slips him; Michael had paid off the traffickers who brought her from the Czech Republic and married her so that she could get a green card.
Q 30In Prison Break's third season, Sucre takes what job at Sona to help Michael escape?
Gravedigger
Gravedigger is the job Sucre takes under a false name to help from outside the walls; after the escape the guards find out, torture him and throw him into Sona himself.