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70 free 2022 Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This movie trivia 2022 quiz covers the whole year at the cinema, from Top Gun: Maverick finally landing in May to Avatar: The Way of Water closing the year with a two-billion-dollar run. In between are the films people actually argued about: a laundromat owner hopping through the multiverse, a three-hour Batman, Austin Butler's Elvis, Jordan Peele's cloud, a Viking Hamlet, and the strangest press tour of the decade. The 70 questions mix easy crowd-pleasers (who voiced Buzz, who played the Riddler) with the details only real 2022 moviegoers remember: which horror film was shot on IMAX cameras, which Netflix film earned an NC-17, which sequel spawned the #Gentleminions trend, and what happened at the Oscars in March. Awards questions follow the 2022 films through to the ceremonies that honoured them. Every answer has been checked against the film's own Wikipedia article or the relevant awards page, and each question links to its source, so you can settle any argument at the table. Play it solo, or use it as a ready-made 2022 movie round for a quiz night.
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Q 01Who directed Top Gun: Maverick, the long-delayed 2022 sequel starring Tom Cruise?
Joseph Kosinski
Kosinski had already directed Cruise in Oblivion. The sequel was originally scheduled for July 2019 before pandemic delays pushed it to May 2022.
Q 02Top Gun: Maverick grossed about $1.5 billion worldwide. Where did that rank among Tom Cruise's films?
His highest-grossing film ever
It was the second-highest-grossing film of 2022 overall, and the first Cruise film to pass a billion dollars.
Q 03Which artist recorded 'Hold My Hand', the Oscar-nominated song from Top Gun: Maverick?
Lady Gaga
OneRepublic's 'I Ain't Worried' was the film's other single. Gaga's song was nominated for Best Original Song but lost to 'Naatu Naatu'.
Q 04After its first run, where did Avatar: The Way of Water rank on the all-time worldwide box-office list?
Third
Its $2.32 billion put it behind only the original Avatar and Avengers: Endgame, giving James Cameron two of the top three.
Q 05In the 2022 Avatar sequel, Sigourney Weaver returned to play which character?
Kiri, the Sullys’ adopted daughter
Weaver was in her seventies while playing a Na'vi teenager through performance capture. Kiri was born from Grace's inert avatar body.
Q 06In Everything Everywhere All at Once, what business does Evelyn Wang run while being audited by the IRS?
A laundromat
The Wangs' laundromat is in Simi Valley, California, and the audit meeting is where the multiverse first cracks open.
Q 07How many Academy Awards did Everything Everywhere All at Once win at the 95th ceremony?
Seven
It won seven of its eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, both supporting acting prizes, Original Screenplay and Editing.
Q 08Which former Goonies and Temple of Doom child actor won an Oscar for playing Waymond Wang?
Ke Huy Quan
Quan had largely quit acting for two decades and worked as a stunt coordinator before his comeback role.
Q 09Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for playing Deirdre Beaubeirdre. What is Deirdre's job?
IRS revenue agent
Curtis played the hot-dog-fingered auditor in a deliberately unflattering wardrobe and had reportedly asked to look like a real government worker.
Q 10Which horror film did Everything Everywhere All at Once overtake as A24's top grosser in 2022?
Hereditary
Hereditary had held the studio record at $79 million since 2018; the Daniels' film went on to more than $140 million worldwide.
Q 11Who played the Riddler, the serial-killer villain of The Batman (2022)?
Paul Dano
Dano's Riddler is a Zodiac-style figure who livestreams his crimes. Barry Keoghan appears briefly at the end as an unnamed Arkham inmate.
Q 12Which actor was buried under prosthetics to play the Penguin in The Batman?
Colin Farrell
Farrell was so unrecognisable that Robert Pattinson said he did not spot him on set. Turturro plays crime boss Carmine Falcone.
Q 13The Batman was one of the longest superhero films ever released. Roughly how long is it?
176 minutes
Only Avengers: Endgame ran longer among major superhero films at the time. The story is set in Batman's second year fighting crime in Gotham.
Q 21In which language is the Oscar-winning 2022 version of All Quiet on the Western Front filmed?
German
It was the first German-language adaptation of Remarque's novel; the 1930 Hollywood version had already won Best Picture. Netflix released it in October 2022.
Q 22Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, the 2022 Best Animated Feature winner, moves the story to which setting?
Fascist Italy between the world wars
The stop-motion film has Pinocchio meet Mussolini and get conscripted into a youth military camp. Ewan McGregor voices Sebastian J. Cricket, the narrator.
Q 23In which language is RRR, whose 'Naatu Naatu' won the Best Original Song Oscar?
Telugu
Q 14Which Oscar-winner plays Colonel Tom Parker, the manager and narrator, in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis?
Tom Hanks
Hanks wore a fat suit and adopted a Dutch-tinged accent, a nod to Parker's secret origins as an illegal immigrant from the Netherlands.
Q 15Which actor, previously known for The Carrie Diaries, played Elvis Presley in the 2022 biopic?
Austin Butler
Butler won the Golden Globe and kept traces of the Presley voice for months afterwards. Elordi later played Elvis in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla.
Q 16In The Banshees of Inisherin, what does Colm threaten to do every time Pádraic keeps talking to him?
Cut off one of his own fingers
Colm is a fiddle player, which makes the threat self-destructive. Pádraic's beloved miniature donkey Jenny later chokes on one of the severed fingers.
Q 17Which conflict's gunfire drifts over from the mainland in The Banshees of Inisherin, set in 1923?
The Irish Civil War
The feud between two friends mirrors a civil war between former comrades. Martin McDonagh reunited the two leads of his earlier film In Bruges.
Q 18In Tár, Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a world-renowned figure in which profession?
Orchestra conductor
Tár is fictional, but the film was so convincing that some viewers assumed she was real. Blanchett won the Volpi Cup at Venice for the role.
Q 19Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Charlie, a reclusive English teacher, in The Whale?
Brendan Fraser
The role marked a comeback for Fraser after years away from leading parts. The film also won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Q 20Which director, known for Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream, made The Whale?
Darren Aronofsky
It was adapted from Samuel D. Hunter's 2012 play and takes place almost entirely inside Charlie's apartment.
S. S. Rajamouli's film pairs fictionalised versions of two real revolutionaries, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju, in a 1920s bromance epic.
Q 24In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Namor rules which hidden underwater kingdom?
Talokan
Marvel swapped the comics' Atlantis for a Mesoamerican-inspired civilisation played by Tenoch Huerta Mejía. The film was rewritten after Chadwick Boseman's death, and T'Challa was not recast.
Q 25Which former Batman actor played the villain Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder?
Christian Bale
It was Bale's first comic-book role since The Dark Knight Rises. Natalie Portman returned as Jane Foster, who wields Mjolnir as the Mighty Thor.
Q 26Which Oscar-winning Australian plays Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder?
Russell Crowe
Crowe played the part largely for laughs at Omnipotence City. His son Hercules, played by Brett Goldstein, appears in a mid-credits scene.
Q 27In Jordan Peele's Nope, OJ Haywood names the sky creature 'Jean Jacket'. After what?
An unruly horse the family once owned
The Haywoods run a horse ranch that supplies animals to Hollywood. Nope was the first horror film shot with 65mm IMAX film cameras.
Q 28In Nope's flashback to the fictional 1990s sitcom Gordy's Home, what was Gordy?
A chimpanzee
The chimp attack, triggered by popping balloons, is Peele's parable about trying to tame a wild spectacle. Steven Yeun plays the child star who survived it.
Q 29Where is Miles Bron's island mansion in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery?
Greece
Rian Johnson wrote Bron as a Musk-style disruptor whose genius turns out to be borrowed. Netflix streamed the film after a one-week cinema run.
Q 30Pixar's Turning Red is set in 2002 in which city?
Toronto
Director Domee Shi grew up in Toronto, and Mei's obsession with the boy band 4*Town is a period detail. The film went straight to Disney+ in March 2022.