Band of Brothers Trivia
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120 free Band of Brothers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
45 free Band of Brothers trivia questions with answers. Currahee. This quiz covers the 2001 HBO miniseries and the real men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment: Camp Toccoa and Herbert Sobel, the NCO mutiny, D-Day and the Brécourt Manor assault, Market Garden, Bastogne and Foy, the concentration camp at Kaufering and the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, plus the production, the record-breaking budget, the English airfield where it was filmed, the actors' boot camp and the Emmys. Forty-five questions cover Winters, Nixon, Speirs, Lipton, Guarnere, Malarkey, Compton, Roe and Webster, and the future stars hiding in the ranks. The easy questions ask who plays Major Winters and what Easy Company ran up at Toccoa; the hard ones want the whisky Nixon hoarded, the prison Speirs later governed, the trial Buck Compton prosecuted, the West Point textbook assault and how many Easy Company veterans were flown to Utah Beach for the premiere. It suits anyone who rewatches the series every September and anyone who wants the history behind the drama. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the miniseries, Easy Company and its members, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Band of Brothers reunited Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg for the first time since which film?
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan, the 1998 film Spielberg directed with Hanks in the lead, came first; the series took many of its visual cues and crew members from it.
Q 02Whose 1992 book was the Band of Brothers miniseries based on?
Stephen E. Ambrose
Stephen E. Ambrose built the 1992 book from interviews with the surviving veterans of Easy Company.
Q 03What is the nickname of the 101st Airborne Division, Easy Company's parent division?
The Screaming Eagles
The Screaming Eagles take their nickname from the division's shoulder patch, a bald eagle on a black shield that recalls Old Abe, the eagle mascot of a Civil War regiment from Wisconsin.
Q 04The title Band of Brothers comes from a speech in which Shakespeare play?
Henry V
Henry V: the title comes from the St. Crispin's Day speech ('we few, we happy few, we band of brothers'), which veteran Carwood Lipton recites in the finale.
Q 05Who plays Major Richard Winters?
Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis, an English actor, plays Richard Winters with an American accent; he later narrated the 2012 documentary Dick Winters: Hang Tough.
Q 06How many episodes does Band of Brothers have?
Ten
Ten episodes aired from September to November 2001, each opening with interviews of the real Easy Company veterans, who are not named until the end of the finale.
Q 07On which network did Band of Brothers first air in September 2001?
HBO
HBO drew about ten million viewers to the two-hour premiere on 9 September 2001; when the September 11 attacks came two days later, it halted the marketing campaign at once.
Q 08On D-Day night in Band of Brothers, which password answers the paratroopers' challenge "Flash"?
Thunder
Thunder was the real Allied password for D-Day; in the series a startled Private Hall swears instead, and Winters tells him that is not the correct reply.
Q 09What is Currahee?
A steep hill the men ran up and down
A steep hill the men ran up and down, Currahee had a trail the paratroopers summed up as 'three miles up, three miles down', and its name became their regiment's motto.
Q 10Who plays Easy Company's hated first commander, Herbert Sobel?
David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer, then starring as Ross in Friends, plays Herbert Sobel; veterans who loathed the real Sobel still credited his harsh training with making Easy Company so good.
Q 11How did Easy Company's NCOs force Sobel's removal before D-Day?
They threatened to surrender their stripes
They threatened to surrender their stripes: the sergeants' ultimatum got ringleaders Harris and Ranney demoted and transferred, but Colonel Sink still moved Sobel out to run a jump school.
Q 12Which retired Marine, Band of Brothers' military adviser, also plays Colonel Robert Sink?
Dale Dye
Dale Dye, a retired Marine captain and the show's military adviser, plays Colonel Robert Sink; he also ran the cast through a ten-day boot camp before filming began.
Q 13Why did Winters end up leading Easy Company on D-Day?
Q 21Which future Gossip Girl star plays Ronald Speirs in Band of Brothers?
Matthew Settle
Matthew Settle plays Ronald Speirs, the officer who takes over Easy Company in the middle of an attack and leads it to the war's end; he later played Rufus Humphrey, the father in Gossip Girl.
Q 22What post did the real Ronald Speirs hold from 1958?
American governor of Spandau Prison
American governor of Spandau Prison: in 1958 Speirs, long dogged by stories that he had shot German prisoners in Normandy, took the American post at the Berlin jail that held Rudolf Hess.
Q 23Which New Kids on the Block singer plays First Sergeant Carwood Lipton?
Donnie Wahlberg
Commander Meehan's plane was lost
Commander Meehan's plane was lost: Lieutenant Thomas Meehan's aircraft was shot down over Normandy with everyone aboard, and because his death was confirmed only later, Winters led as acting commander.
Q 14What did Winters' men destroy at Brécourt Manor on D-Day?
A battery of four 105 mm howitzers
A battery of four 105 mm howitzers had been shelling the causeways that led inland from Utah Beach, so silencing it protected the troops coming ashore there.
Q 15Which decoration did Winters receive for Brécourt Manor, having been recommended for the Medal of Honor?
The Distinguished Service Cross
The Distinguished Service Cross: Winters was recommended for the Medal of Honor for Brécourt Manor but received the Army's second-highest valor award; later congressional efforts to upgrade it did not succeed.
Q 16Which general pinned Winters' Brécourt Manor decoration on him in Normandy in July 1944?
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley, then commanding the US First Army, presented the medal on 2 July 1944; soon afterwards Easy Company was pulled out of France and sent back to England.
Q 17Who plays Captain Lewis Nixon, Winters' closest friend?
Ron Livingston
Ron Livingston, best known as Peter Gibbons in Office Space, plays Nixon; he also shot the boot-camp video diary included on the DVD.
Q 18Nixon was famous for always having a supply of which whisky?
Vat 69
Vat 69 Scotch was Nixon's whisky of choice, and his hunt for a bottle runs through the series; after the war he went back to his family's New Jersey firm and gave Winters a job there.
Q 19Easy Company's fight in the woods outside Bastogne was part of which larger battle of December 1944?
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's surprise winter offensive through the Ardennes; the 101st Airborne, rushed to the front short of winter gear and ammunition, held Bastogne all the same.
Q 20What did Ronald Speirs famously do during the attack on Foy?
Ran through the German lines and back again
Ran through the German lines and back again: at Foy, Speirs sprinted through the Germans to link up with I Company, then ran back; Lipton recalled the Germans were too stunned to shoot.
Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block plays Carwood Lipton, the steady first sergeant who holds Easy together at Bastogne and earns a battlefield commission at Haguenau.
Q 24How was 'Wild Bill' Guarnere shot in the leg in Holland?
Riding a stolen motorcycle across an open field
Riding a stolen motorcycle across an open field, Guarnere was hit by a sniper in October 1944; he lost the same leg at Bastogne trying to drag the wounded Joe Toye to safety.
Q 25Who plays 'Wild Bill' Guarnere in Band of Brothers?
Frank John Hughes
Frank John Hughes plays Guarnere, whose reckless fury at the enemy, fed by his brother Henry's death at Monte Cassino, earned him the nickname 'Wild Bill'.
Q 26Which ER and American Dad! actor plays Donald Malarkey?
Scott Grimes
Scott Grimes, later ER's Archie Morris and the voice of Steve on American Dad!, plays Donald Malarkey, the mortar sergeant whose best friends Skip Muck and Alex Penkala die in a Bastogne shell burst.
Q 27The real Lynn 'Buck' Compton later served as lead prosecutor in the trial of whom?
Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan: Compton worked his way through law school as a Los Angeles policeman and burglary detective, then joined the district attorney's office and led the team that convicted Robert F. Kennedy's assassin.
Q 28Who plays Buck Compton?
Neal McDonough
Neal McDonough plays Buck Compton, who is pulled off the line at Bastogne after seeing his friends Guarnere and Toye maimed by shellfire; McDonough later played Dum Dum Dugan in Captain America.
Q 29Medic Eugene 'Doc' Roe, the heart of the Band of Brothers episode 'Bastogne', comes from which state?
Louisiana
Louisiana: Roe spends 'Bastogne' scrounging supplies for the wounded, and the finale's closing narration says he went back there and became a construction contractor.
Q 30David Kenyon Webster, whose memoir the writers used, had left which university to enlist?
Harvard
Harvard: Webster left his English studies there to enlist as a private; he vanished at sea off Santa Monica in 1961, and his memoir Parachute Infantry was published in 1994.