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50 free Captain America: the Winter Soldier trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Captain America: The Winter Soldier trivia quiz covers the Russo brothers' 2014 political thriller, often ranked among the best films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The easy questions cover the cast and the story: Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world, meeting Sam Wilson on the National Mall, the Lemurian Star mission, Nick Fury's ambush, the Winter Soldier's identity and the three Helicarriers of Project Insight. The harder ones dig into Arnim Zola's bunker, Jasper Sitwell, Alexander Pierce, the World Security Council, the Smithsonian post-credits scene and the twins in Baron von Strucker's lab. Behind the scenes it covers Ed Brubaker's comics arc, the 1970s thrillers that shaped the script, why the Russos got the job off the back of Community, Robert Redford's casting, the Cleveland shoot standing in for Washington, the Freezer Burn working title, Henry Jackman's score, the April box office records, the Oscar nomination and the Pulp Fiction Easter egg on Fury's tombstone. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our Captain America, Avengers and MCU quizzes.
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Q 01Who directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier?
Anthony and Joe Russo
Kevin Feige sought them out after their genre-spoofing episodes of a network sitcom.
Q 02Where does Steve Rogers first meet Sam Wilson?
Running laps around the National Mall in Washington
'On your left' becomes the running joke; Sam is a VA counsellor and former pararescueman.
Q 03Who leads the pirates holding the S.H.I.E.L.D. ship hostage in the opening mission?
Georges Batroc
A real UFC champion plays the savate-fighting mercenary.
Q 04What is Project Insight?
Three satellite-linked Helicarriers that kill threats pre-emptively
Fury asks Pierce to delay it after Romanoff's stolen data proves undecryptable.
Q 05What is the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in the film?
The Triskelion
It is destroyed when the Helicarriers crash into it at the climax.
Q 06What does the S.H.I.E.L.D. director hand Steve before apparently dying?
A flash drive of the ship's data
His last instruction is 'trust no one'.
Q 07Whose preserved consciousness lives in the supercomputer in the New Jersey bunker?
Arnim Zola
Toby Jones returns from The First Avenger; Zola explains how Hydra secretly rebuilt itself inside S.H.I.E.L.D.
Q 08Which organisation is revealed to have grown secretly inside S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades?
Hydra
Zola says it convinced the world to trade freedom for security.
Q 09Who is Hydra's leader within S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Alexander Pierce
The casting was a nod to the actor's 1970s conspiracy thrillers.
Q 10Who plays the senior S.H.I.E.L.D. official who turns out to be Hydra's man on the World Security Council?
Robert Redford
The Russos likened it to Henry Fonda playing a villain in Once Upon a Time in the West.
Q 11What has Zola developed that lets Hydra identify future threats?
A data-mining algorithm
The Helicarriers' satellite-guided guns would then wipe those targets out.
Q 12Which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is captured and revealed as a Hydra mole before the Winter Soldier kills him?
Jasper Sitwell
Maximiliano Hernandez had played him in Thor and The Avengers.
Q 13Who is the Winter Soldier revealed to be?
Bucky Barnes
Sebastian Stan only learned the sequel's title from a friend at Comic-Con, despite his nine-picture deal.
Q 21Which comics writer's Winter Soldier storyline was the film adapted from?
Ed Brubaker
He cameos as a scientist working on the Winter Soldier; the writers took six months to convince themselves they could adapt it.
Q 22Which 1975 thriller was the main model for the script's structure?
Three Days of the Condor
The Parallax View and Marathon Man were influences too; Redford, star of Condor, was cast partly as an homage.
Q 23Which sitcom's genre-parody episodes put the Russo brothers on Kevin Feige's radar?
Community
One paintball episode even spoofed Feige's love of Star Wars; Community writer Chris McKenna added jokes to the script.
Q 14How has Bucky survived and served Hydra for seventy years?
Brainwashing and cryogenic freezing between missions
Zola's experiments on him during the war are what let him survive the fall.
Q 15What is Fury's plan to stop the Helicarriers?
Replace their control chips
Once the third chip is in, Maria Hill makes the three ships destroy each other.
Q 16Disguised as whom does Natasha disarm Pierce during the Insight launch?
A World Security Council member
She then leaks S.H.I.E.L.D.'s entire classified database to expose Hydra.
Q 17Into which river does Steve fall from the crashing Helicarrier?
The Potomac
Bucky pulls him out and disappears.
Q 18Who fires the shot that kills Hydra's leader inside S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Nick Fury
It comes after Fury forces him to unlock the database.
Q 19Which two enhanced test subjects appear in Baron von Strucker's lab in the mid-credits scene?
Wanda and Pietro Maximoff
Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson appear uncredited, alongside Loki's scepter, setting up Age of Ultron.
Q 20Where does Bucky go in the post-credits scene?
His own memorial at the Smithsonian
Gary Sinise narrates the exhibit, and Stan Lee is the security guard there.
Q 24Under what working title was the film shot?
Freezer Burn
Filming began at Raleigh Manhattan Beach Studios in Los Angeles on April 1, 2013.
Q 25Which Ohio city doubled for Washington, D.C. for much of the shoot?
Cleveland
Its West Shoreway, Federal Reserve Bank and Cleveland Arcade all appear; it had also hosted The Avengers.
Q 26On which real vessel were the Lemurian Star scenes filmed?
The Sea Launch Commander in Long Beach
The ship was docked in California, not the Indian Ocean.
Q 27Who composed the score for The Winter Soldier?
Henry Jackman
He described it as half electronic production, half symphonic heroics.
Q 28What Bible verse on Fury's tombstone references Samuel L. Jackson's Pulp Fiction character?
Ezekiel 25:17
Jules Winnfield's favourite recitation, more or less.
Q 29Which UFC champion plays Batroc?
Georges St-Pierre
Batroc is a master of savate, the French kickboxing style.
Q 30Which sitcom actor, a Russo brothers regular, has a small role as a S.H.I.E.L.D. technician?
Danny Pudi
DC Pierson plays an Apple Store employee.