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Who's Who in Easy Company Trivia Quiz

Ten-hut! I've got another "Band of Brothers" quotations quiz. This time, you'll pick out the person being spoken about rather than the speaker. Good luck.

A multiple-choice quiz by Caseena. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
Caseena

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
321,140

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
777

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 73 (10/10), Guest 49 (10/10), Guest 50 (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which central character has "no vices, no flaws, no sense of humor," at least according to Nixon? Hint

Richard Winters

Carwood Lipton

Ronald Speirs

Thomas Meehan

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Question 2 of 10

2. "You got to admit, he's got no chance. Either the Krauts'll get him, or one of us."

Which officer (who does not have the respect of the men) is Cobb talking about? Hint

Lieutenant Dike

Major Horton

Captain Sobel

Major Winters

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Question 3 of 10

3. "Be careful if he offers you a cigarette!"

From whom should the men be wary of accepting cigarettes? Hint

Carwood Lipton

George Luz

Shifty Powers

Ronald Speirs

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Never calls anyone by their nicknames."
"He once called me Edward."

Guarnere and Babe notice in "Bastogne" that who doesn't use nicknames? Hint

Don Malarkey

David Webster

Walter Gordon

Eugene Roe

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Question 5 of 10

5. "He's just another one of those arrogant rich jerks from Yale."

If you ask Winters, which usually absent officer is this? Hint

Nixon

Sobel

Jones

Dike

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Question 6 of 10

6. "This kid out of high school yet?"

This quotation comes from part eight, "The Last Patrol." Which new face to the company is Liebgott not impressed with? Hint

John Julian

Patrick O'Keefe

Babe Heffron

Lt. Jones

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Question 7 of 10

7. "What's that guy's problem?"
"Gonorrhea."
"Really?"

Who doesn't really have gonorrhea, just a really interesting nickname? Hint

Popeye Wynn

Don Hoobler

Bill Guarnere

Skip Muck

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Question 8 of 10

8. "Always tries to get out of everything."

Who does? (This soldier is a writer.) Hint

Albert Blithe

Roy Cobb

David Webster

Harry Welsh

9. "Grabbed his rifle, he did not tarry, hearing Floyd, but seeing Jerry!"

This bit comes from an interesting poem about an accidental stabbing. Who is the "he" who nearly kills Talbert? (This poem comes from "Carentan.") Hint

George Smith

Alex Penkala

Joe Liebgott

Moose Heyliger

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Question 10 of 10

10. "He's all wound up like a spring."

In "The Breaking Point," who's Babe concerned about? Hint

Eugene Roe

Frank Perconte

Don Malarkey

Buck Compton

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which central character has "no vices, no flaws, no sense of humor," at least according to Nixon?

Answer: Richard Winters

Nixon explains Winters to the newly-arrived Welsh in this manner. Winters does not drink and rarely swears.

2. "You got to admit, he's got no chance. Either the Krauts'll get him, or one of us." Which officer (who does not have the respect of the men) is Cobb talking about?

Answer: Captain Sobel

While the real Sobel was great at basic training, and the real men of Easy Co. believe that it was his harsh training that kept them alive during the war, Sobel's methods were petty, he could not read a map, and he got the men "killed" in a training exercise.

In the series, Liebgott suggests that he will "accidentally" fumble a grenade to kill Sobel. When the NCOs mutiny, Sink removes Sobel from command and replaces him with Lt. Meehan.

3. "Be careful if he offers you a cigarette!" From whom should the men be wary of accepting cigarettes?

Answer: Ronald Speirs

Throughout the series, the men tell stories about how, on D-Day, Speirs supposedly gave cigarettes to some German prisoners of war before shooting them all. Speirs lets the rumors circulate so that the men will fear and respect him. To this day, nobody knows for sure what really happened because Speirs died in 2007, having never told anybody the truth.

4. "Never calls anyone by their nicknames." "He once called me Edward." Guarnere and Babe notice in "Bastogne" that who doesn't use nicknames?

Answer: Eugene Roe

Not using nicknames is a way that Roe distances himself from the men so that it won't hurt so much emotionally when they die or are horribly wounded. The only times he uses nicknames are in combat (such as in "Replacements" when he calls Compton "Buck" when treating his wounds) and at the end of "Bastogne" when he calls Heffron "Babe," much to Babe's amusement.

5. "He's just another one of those arrogant rich jerks from Yale." If you ask Winters, which usually absent officer is this?

Answer: Dike

Winters is talking to Nixon, who is also an arrogant rich jerk from Yale. The men call Dike "Foxhole Norman."

6. "This kid out of high school yet?" This quotation comes from part eight, "The Last Patrol." Which new face to the company is Liebgott not impressed with?

Answer: Lt. Jones

Lt. Jones is fresh in from West Point, having graduated on D-Day in 1944. Nixon finds this fact most amusing.

7. "What's that guy's problem?" "Gonorrhea." "Really?" Who doesn't really have gonorrhea, just a really interesting nickname?

Answer: Bill Guarnere

The next line is, "His name. Guarnere, Gonorrhea, get it?" Wild Bill Guarnere's "problem" is that he just found out that his brother was killed at Monte Cassino; understandably, Bill is extremely angry.

8. "Always tries to get out of everything." Who does? (This soldier is a writer.)

Answer: David Webster

The men note this in "The Last Patrol" as Webster tries to get out of going on a night patrol. Instead, he gets Liebgott taken off the patrol. (This incident didn't happen in real life. In reality, Webster was accepted back into the company without a problem.

However, his initial ostracization wonderfully illustrates the problems that replacements had, and have, when joining companies of seasoned veterans.)

9. "Grabbed his rifle, he did not tarry, hearing Floyd, but seeing Jerry!" This bit comes from an interesting poem about an accidental stabbing. Who is the "he" who nearly kills Talbert? (This poem comes from "Carentan.")

Answer: George Smith

Gordon recites his original poem about when Smith accidentally bayoneted Talbert, who was wearing a German poncho, a few weeks earlier. The real poem "The Night of the Bayonet" is lost to history, so the writers had to invent something for the series. Gordon then gives one of his purple hearts to Talbert.

10. "He's all wound up like a spring." In "The Breaking Point," who's Babe concerned about?

Answer: Buck Compton

Buck doesn't seem to be the same after being shot in "Replacements." He's more on edge and tells the men not to "do anything stupid." Babe tells Guarnere that Buck reminds him of a guy he saw in Philadelphia who just stared all the time, and Babe is worried that Buck might crack. Sadly, Buck does after seeing two wounded comrades.

Source: Author Caseena

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