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60 free Inglourious Basterds trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Inglourious Basterds trivia quiz covers Quentin Tarantino's 2009 alternate-history war film from the opening farmhouse interrogation to the swastika carved in the final shot. There are questions on the plot (Operation Kino, the Bear Jew, Bridget von Hammersmark's shoe, the card game in the tavern), the cast (Christoph Waltz, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mike Myers and a retired Rod Taylor as Churchill), and the making of it: the decade-long script, the actors Tarantino wanted first, the fire that burned three times hotter than planned, and why the title is misspelled. Roughly a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest dig into the awards, the box office, the music and the casting what-ifs. It works as a movie-night challenge, a Tarantino pub-quiz round or a solo test. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Inglourious Basterds?
Quentin Tarantino
He spent just over a decade on the script, telling Charlie Rose he had become 'too precious about the page'.
Q 02The film's title was borrowed, and deliberately misspelled, from a 1978 Euro-war film by which director?
Enzo G. Castellari
He has a cameo at the premiere, and Tarantino called the misspelling 'a Basquiat-esque touch' rather than a way to tell the films apart.
Q 03What nickname does Colonel Hans Landa boast about in the opening scene?
The Jew Hunter
Tarantino has called the farmhouse interrogation his 'favorite thing' he has ever written.
Q 04The French dairy farmer hiding the Dreyfus family under his floorboards is named what?
Perrier LaPadite
He is played by Denis Ménochet; the scene is set in 1941, three years before the rest of the film.
Q 05Under what false name does Shosanna run her Paris cinema?
Emmanuelle Mimieux
A character called Madame Ada Mimieux, played by Maggie Cheung, was cut from the film for length.
Q 06The German propaganda film premiered at Shosanna's cinema is called what?
Nation's Pride
Eli Roth directed the film-within-the-film, using 300 extras, and Tarantino appears in it as an American soldier.
Q 07Fredrick Zoller, the war hero starring in the propaganda film, is famous for what military role?
Sniper
Daniel Brühl got the part after Tarantino saw Good Bye, Lenin! and declared 'That's my Zoller right there'.
Q 08Shosanna plans to burn down the cinema using her collection of what?
Nitrate film prints
On set the blaze was projected to burn at 400 degrees Celsius but hit 1,200, and the giant emblem above the screen fell when its steel cables softened.
Q 09What is the codename of the British plan to attack the film premiere?
Operation Kino
Kino is simply the German word for cinema; the briefing lists Goebbels, Göring and Bormann among the expected guests.
Q 10Before the war, British Lieutenant Archie Hicox had what profession?
Film critic
Simon Pegg was Tarantino's first choice for the part but had to drop out because of The Adventures of Tintin.
Q 11In the tavern, the disguised officers and Bridget von Hammersmark play which German guessing game?
Wer bin ich?
The German cut of the film runs slightly longer, and it is the only version with the tavern scene in full.
Q 12Hicox finally blows his cover in the tavern by doing what?
Making a non-German hand gesture
His accent had already caught the ear of the SS major Dieter Hellström, played by August Diehl.
Q 13Which two items does Landa recover from the tavern that expose von Hammersmark?
A shoe and a signed napkin
Q 21Which A-list star did Tarantino originally want for Hans Landa before opting for a native German speaker?
Leonardo DiCaprio
The two finally worked together three years later on Django Unchained.
Q 22Michael Fassbender plays Hicox, but he originally auditioned for which role?
The Jew Hunter
The Irish-German actor entered final negotiations in August 2008, the same month B. J. Novak was cast as Utivich.
Q 23Which German star plays Hugo Stiglitz, the rogue sergeant who murdered Gestapo officers?
Til Schweiger
The character is introduced with his own freeze-frame title card and heavy-metal sting, a nod to Tarantino's grindhouse influences.
She had signed the napkin for the newborn son of Wilhelm, the sergeant she later shot dead.
Q 14At the premiere, Raine, Donowitz and Ulmer pose as filmmakers of what nationality?
Italian
Landa, fluent in the language, sees through the accents instantly.
Q 15How does Landa kill Bridget von Hammersmark at the premiere?
He strangles her
Tarantino told Graham Norton he did the strangling himself, with his own hands, in one take.
Q 16Which two Nazi leaders do Ulmer and Donowitz shoot dead in the opera box?
Hitler and Goebbels
Martin Wuttke and Sylvester Groth play the pair; the timed explosives Landa planted then finish the job.
Q 17In the final scene Raine carves what into Landa's forehead, calling it his masterpiece?
A swastika
He does the same to every German he lets live, so they can never hide their past after the war.
Q 18Sergeant Donny Donowitz, 'The Bear Jew', executes German soldiers with what?
A baseball bat
Adam Sandler was asked to play him but was tied up with Funny People, so Eli Roth stepped in.
Q 19What nickname has Brad Pitt's lieutenant earned through his habit of scalping Germans?
Aldo the Apache
The character is a coal miner and bootlegger from the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
Q 20Which Austrian actor plays Hans Landa, a role Tarantino feared was 'unplayable'?
Christoph Waltz
Tarantino said the actor 'gave me my movie'; he had first pursued a Hollywood A-lister before deciding on a native German speaker.
Q 24Which comedy star plays British General Ed Fenech in the Churchill briefing scene?
Mike Myers
He had asked to be in the film because his parents served in the British Armed Forces.
Q 25Which retired Australian actor came back for his final film role to play Winston Churchill?
Rod Taylor
He recommended Albert Finney instead, then studied dozens of Churchill DVDs to get the posture, voice and lisp right.
Q 26Which German actress did Tarantino meet in Germany for Bridget von Hammersmark before casting Diane Kruger?
Nastassja Kinski
Kruger's character is a film star turned spy for the United Kingdom.
Q 27Samm Levine was cast as Hirschberg because Tarantino loved which cult TV series he had starred in?
Freaks and Geeks
The Basterds also include B. J. Novak of The Office as Smithson 'Little Man' Utivich.
Q 28Which French actress was cast as Madame Mimieux and then fired over creative differences?
Isabelle Huppert
The role was later played by Maggie Cheung, and then cut from the finished film altogether.
Q 29Who narrates the film, uncredited?
Samuel L. Jackson
Harvey Keitel is also in there, as the voice of the OSS commander on the radio.
Q 30Tarantino said he could not finish the script for years because he was missing what?
An ending
He shelved it to make Kill Bill, and a French director later talked him out of turning it into a mini-series.