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50 free Aquaman trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Aquaman trivia questions with answers. Aquaman went from Super Friends punchline to a billion-dollar movie star, and this quiz covers the whole tide. Forty questions take in his 1941 debut in More Fun Comics, the lighthouse keeper and the Atlantean queen, the Justice League founding, Mera and Xebel, Black Manta and Ocean Master, Aqualad, the piranhas that cost him a hand and the harpoon that replaced it, and Peter David's Atlantis Chronicles. On screen there is the 1967 Filmation cartoon, Smallville and the CW pilot that went to iTunes, Jason Momoa's cameo in Batman v Superman, James Wan's 2018 blockbuster with its Karathen voiced by Julie Andrews, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom closing out the DCEU. Easy questions ask who plays him; hard ones want the issue his archenemy debuted in and the studio on the Gold Coast where the film was shot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the character, his supporting cast and the films, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In which comic did Aquaman make his debut in November 1941?
More Fun Comics #73
More Fun Comics #73 is right: he was a backup feature created by artist Paul Norris and editor Mort Weisinger, in the same issue that introduced Green Arrow.
Q 02Aquaman is the son of the queen of Atlantis and a human with what job?
Lighthouse keeper
Lighthouse keeper is right: Tom Curry tended a lighthouse, and his son with Atlanna also goes by the Atlantean name Orin.
Q 03What is Aquaman's civilian name?
Arthur Curry
Arthur Curry is his civilian name, used since the 1959 Silver Age origin that gave him a human father, Tom Curry; Arthur Joseph Curry and Jackson Hyde have also carried the Aquaman title.
Q 04During the Silver Age, Aquaman was a founding member of which team?
The Justice League
The Justice League is right: he was among the founders in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), and in 1984 he briefly disbanded and reformed the League with new bylaws.
Q 05In his earliest stories, how did Aquaman communicate with sea creatures?
By speaking their language, if they were near
The range was about 20 yards; full telepathy came later and became the butt of a thousand jokes.
Q 06Which 1967 show marked the character's first animated appearance?
The Superman/Aquaman Hour
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Filmation's 1967 CBS series, was his first animated outing; the studio later repackaged his segments as a standalone Aquaman show.
Q 07Jokes about Aquaman's wholesome, weak portrayal on which cartoon became a comedy staple?
Super Friends
Super Friends, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon that began in 1973, made him a punchline, and DC responded several times by trying to make him edgier, brooding or more powerful in the comics.
Q 08Aquaman's 1961 four-issue solo tryout ran in which DC anthology series?
Showcase
Showcase is right: issues #30 to #33 in 1961 tested him as a lead, and his first solo series followed in 1962 and ran 56 issues.
Q 09In the 1990s comics, Aquaman lost his left hand when Charybdis forced it into a pool of what?
Piranhas
Piranhas did it: in the 1994 Aquaman #2, the villain Charybdis held his hand in their pool until they stripped it, and the maimed, bearded look defined him for the rest of the decade.
Q 10What did Aquaman attach to his arm in place of his missing hand?
A harpoon spearhead
A harpoon spearhead is right: he fitted a retractable harpoon where the hand had been, and years later swapped it for a hand of magical water.
Q 11Which writer's 1990 series The Atlantis Chronicles told the history of Atlantis up to Aquaman's birth?
Peter David
Peter David wrote The Atlantis Chronicles, a seven-issue 1990 maxiseries drawn by Esteban Maroto that traced the sunken continent's history from its founding to Aquaman's birth.
Q 12After which 1985 DC crossover was Aquaman's origin retold in The Legend of Aquaman Special?
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths, the 1985-86 maxiseries that collapsed DC's multiverse into one continuity, cleared the way for The Legend of Aquaman Special to retell his origin in 1989.
Q 13In the Post-Crisis origin, baby Orin was abandoned on Mercy Reef because of what?
His blond hair
Q 21Aquaman and Mera's son, Arthur Jr., was nicknamed what?
Aquababy
Aquababy was the nickname: the boy was suffocated by Black Manta in a 1977 Adventure Comics story, a death that haunted both parents for decades.
Q 22Which actor played Aquaman in the live-action series Smallville?
Alan Ritchson
Alan Ritchson played him, first in the 2005 Smallville episode Aqua, and he later starred as Jack Reacher in Amazon's Reacher.
Q 23What happened to Justin Hartley's 2006 Aquaman TV pilot after the CW passed on it?
It became the No. 1 download on iTunes
His blond hair marked him: superstitious Atlanteans read the colour as the Mark of Kordax, a curse, so the infant was left to die on Mercy Reef.
Q 14In which 1963 issue did Mera first appear?
Aquaman #11
Aquaman #11 (1963) introduced her: Mera was created by writer Jack Miller and artist Nick Cardy and hails from the other-dimensional realm then called Dimension Aqua.
Q 15Mera's home realm, originally called Dimension Aqua, was later renamed what?
Xebel
Xebel is the later name, introduced in 2010's Brightest Day, which revealed the realm as a penal colony for a banished faction of Atlanteans; Mera wields hydrokinetic hard-water powers there.
Q 16The archenemy Black Manta first appeared in which 1967 issue?
Aquaman #35
Aquaman #35, dated September-October 1967, introduced Black Manta; writer Bob Haney and artist Nick Cardy created him as a ruthless mercenary in a black wetsuit.
Q 17What is the distinctive feature of Black Manta's costume?
A large bug-eyed metal helmet
A large bug-eyed metal helmet is the trademark, its red lenses firing energy blasts, worn over a black wetsuit since his 1967 debut.
Q 18Ocean Master, who debuted in Aquaman #29 in 1966, is what relation to Aquaman?
His half-brother
His half-brother is right: Orm Curry was originally Tom Curry's son by another woman, a jealous human; later versions made him fully Atlantean as Orm Marius.
Q 19The first Aqualad, Garth, has what unusual physical trait marking him as an outcast?
Purple eyes
Purple eyes marked him: Atlantean superstition treated the colour as a bad omen, so Garth was cast out as a baby; he later took the name Tempest, and Jackson Hyde became the second Aqualad in 2010.
Q 20In which comic did the first Aqualad debut?
Adventure Comics #269
Adventure Comics #269 (1960) introduced Garth; Aquaman had been a backup fixture in Adventure Comics since 1946, which is why his sidekick debuted there.
It became the No. 1 download on iTunes after Warner Bros. released the unaired pilot there in July 2006; Hartley's A.C. Curry ran a dive shop in the Florida Keys.
Q 24In which film did Jason Momoa first appear as Aquaman, in a cameo?
Batman v Superman
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) gave Momoa his first appearance, a brief clip in Lex Luthor's metahuman files, and the character's live-action film debut.
Q 25Before Aquaman, Momoa was best known as Khal Drogo on which series?
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is right: Momoa played the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in its first season in 2011, after Ronon Dex on Stargate Atlantis and a start on Baywatch: Hawaii.
Q 26Who directed the 2018 Aquaman film?
James Wan
James Wan directed it: the horror director behind Saw and The Conjuring signed on in 2015, three years before the film's December 2018 release.
Q 27How much did the 2018 Aquaman film gross worldwide?
$1.152 billion
$1.152 billion is the figure, which made it the highest-grossing film of the DC Extended Universe and, at the time, the biggest film based on a DC character.
Q 28Where was principal photography for the 2018 film based?
The Gold Coast, Australia
The Gold Coast, Australia was the base: Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland hosted principal photography from May 2017, with additional units in Canada, Italy and Morocco.
Q 29Who plays Orm, the Ocean Master, in the films?
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson plays Orm in both films, and in the 2023 sequel Arthur has to break him out of prison and team up with him against Black Manta.
Q 30Which actress plays Queen Atlanna, Arthur's mother, in the films?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman plays Atlanna, who washes up at Amnesty Bay, Maine, in 1985 and is taken in by Thomas Curry, Arthur's father, before Atlantis drags her back.