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47 free Captain America trivia questions with answers. Captain America punched Hitler on a comic cover a year before America entered the war, and he has been the most enduring of the flag-draped heroes ever since. This quiz covers the comics: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Timely's million-copy print run, Project Rebirth, the heater shield that became a disc, Bucky as someone to talk to, the 1964 thaw, the Falcon, Nomad, Brubaker's Winter Soldier, the death and return, U.S. Agent, Isaiah Bradley and Hydra Supreme. Then the screen: the 1944 serial's district attorney, the 1990 direct-to-video film, Joe Johnston's First Avenger, the Russos' Winter Soldier and Civil War, the Sokovia Accords and the Leipzig airport, Robert Redford and Zola's computer, Mjolnir and the dance in Endgame, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Flag Smashers and Power Broker, and Anthony Mackie's Brave New World with Harrison Ford's Red Hulk. Easy questions suit MCU fans; harder ones reward long-time readers. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the character, the films and the series, and the source line appears under each question after you answer.
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Q 01Which two creators invented Captain America?
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
Simon was Timely Comics' first editor.
Q 02Captain America Comics #1 was published in December 1940 by which company?
Timely Publications
Timely was the corporate predecessor of Marvel.
Q 03Who is Captain America shown punching on the cover of his first issue?
Adolf Hitler
The story inside established the Red Skull as his main enemy and introduced Bucky.
Q 04The print run of Captain America Comics #2 was set at more than how many copies?
One million
The first issue sold out in days.
Q 05What is Captain America's civilian name?
Steve Rogers
A frail man rejected by the Army, he was transformed by the super-soldier serum.
Q 06What was the name of the secret programme that made Rogers its first test subject?
Project Rebirth
Its goal was to create super soldiers via the Super-Soldier Serum.
Q 07Which two fictional metals form the alloy of Cap's shield in the comics?
Vibranium and adamantium
His very first shield, in issue #1, was a heater-style steel shield; the round one arrived in issue #2.
Q 08What form did Cap's original defensive weapon take in his 1941 debut?
A heater, like a kite
The circular shield everyone knows debuted in the very next issue.
Q 09Why did Joe Simon say Bucky was created?
To give Cap someone to talk to
He said Bucky was a way of 'eliminating too many thought balloons'.
Q 10After the war Cap's title was cancelled in 1950; in what year did he return to comics for good?
1964
A short-lived revival came in 1953 under Atlas Comics.
Q 11The Falcon, introduced in 1969, was mainstream comics' first what?
African-American superhero
The book was retitled Captain America and the Falcon from 1971 for seven and a half years.
Q 12In a 1974 Watergate-inspired storyline, Rogers briefly dropped the Captain America identity to become whom?
Nomad
The Secret Empire's leader turned out to be the president of the United States.
Q 13Which writer relaunched Captain America in 2005 and brought Bucky back as the Winter Soldier?
Ed Brubaker
Artist Steve Epting drew it; Brubaker won the 2006 Harvey Award for Best Writer.
Q 21In the 1944 serial, Captain America's secret identity was changed to what?
District Attorney Grant Gardner
It was the last Republic serial ever made about a superhero.
Q 22Who played Captain America in the 1990 film?
Matt Salinger
It got a theatrical release abroad but went direct-to-video in the US.
Q 23Who directed Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)?
Joe Johnston
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote it and all three Cap films.
Who plays the Red Skull in The First Avenger?
Q 14Captain America #25, in which the character dies, was the best-selling comic of which year?
2007
He was revived in the 2009 series Captain America: Reborn.
Q 15Who took over as Captain America in 2008 after Rogers' death?
Bucky Barnes
Sam Wilson later took the mantle in 2014 after Rogers lost the serum.
Q 16In Nick Spencer's 2016 run, Cap was replaced by a version loyal to which organisation?
Hydra
It culminated in the 2017 crossover Secret Empire.
Q 17John Walker, later U.S. Agent, was introduced in 1988 as what?
A villainous Captain America
Isaiah Bradley followed in 2003's Truth: Red, White & Black.
Q 18Isaiah Bradley's 2003 origin series Truth: Red, White & Black drew on which real-life episode?
The Tuskegee Study
Carl Lumbly plays him in the MCU.
Q 19The Red Skull's true identity, Johann Schmidt, first appeared in which issue of the original title?
#7
The Skull in issue #1 was a decoy named George Maxon.
Q 20Cap's first appearance outside comics was in what?
A 1944 movie serial
It was the first non-comics media to feature any Marvel character.
Hugo Weaving
Ross Marquand took over the role in Infinity War and Endgame.
Q 25In The First Avenger, Schmidt steals the Tesseract from a town in which country?
Norway
Tønsberg is the setting; the film grossed over $370 million.
Q 26Who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine, the scientist who lets Rogers enlist?
Stanley Tucci
Tommy Lee Jones plays Colonel Phillips and Dominic Cooper is Howard Stark.
Q 27Which actress plays Peggy Carter?
Hayley Atwell
Emily VanCamp plays her niece Sharon.
Q 28Who directed The Winter Soldier and Civil War?
The Russo brothers
They signed on for The Winter Soldier in June 2012.
Q 29Which Hollywood legend plays Alexander Pierce, Hydra's leader inside S.H.I.E.L.D., in The Winter Soldier?
Robert Redford
The film grossed $714 million and earned a visual effects Oscar nomination.
Q 30What is Project Insight in The Winter Soldier?
Three helicarriers linked to spy satellites
They were designed to preemptively eliminate threats.