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50 free Batman: the Animated Series trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Batman: The Animated Series premiered on Fox Kids on September 5, 1992 and ran for 85 episodes, becoming the cartoon that defined Batman for a generation. Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski painted Gotham in light colours on black paper, called the look 'Dark Deco', and hired a voice cast led by Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill that stayed with the characters for decades. This quiz covers the making of the show and its stories: the silent pitch short, the Tim Curry recast, Shirley Walker's theme, the Mike Mignola Mr. Freeze, Paul Dini's Emmy-winning 'Heart of Ice', Harley Quinn's accidental creation in 'Joker's Favor', the guest voices from Adam West to Kate Mulgrew, the studio fired for bad animation, the Fox mandate that put Robin in every episode, Mask of the Phantasm's Christmas Day flop and cult rebirth, and the follow-up The New Batman Adventures. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it for a DC animation night.
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Q 01Who developed Batman: The Animated Series?
Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski
Neither had produced a series before; they pitched with a silent short called The Dark Knight's First Night.
Q 02On which network block did the series originally air?
Fox Kids
Fox also ran it in prime time on Sundays for a stretch in 1992 and 1993.
Q 03What was the series retitled midway through its run?
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Fox wanted Robin in every episode to pull in younger boys.
Q 04Who voiced Batman throughout the series?
Kevin Conroy
Critics repeatedly singled out his performance; he reprised the role in the Arkham games.
Q 05Which Star Wars actor voiced the Joker?
Mark Hamill
He credited the laughs he honed on stage in Amadeus for landing the part.
Q 06Which actor was first cast as the Joker before illness forced a recast?
Tim Curry
He developed bronchitis during the early recording sessions.
Q 07Which film star declined the role of Two-Face, which went to Richard Moll?
Al Pacino
Moll was best known as Bull the bailiff on Night Court.
Q 08Whom did voice director Andrea Romano first want as Ra's al Ghul before David Warner?
Christopher Lee
Scheduling got in the way; Warner's Ra's became a fan favourite.
Q 09What was unusual about how the voice cast worked under Andrea Romano?
they performed together in one studio
The ensemble approach became standard across the whole DC Animated Universe.
Q 10What nickname did the producers give the show's noir-meets-1940s-architecture look?
Dark Deco
Backgrounds were painted in light colours on black paper, reversing industry practice.
Q 11Which character is the only one ever shown being shot in the series?
Commissioner Gordon
It happens in 'I Am the Night'; censors barred bullet holes and on-screen deaths.
Q 12What was the title of the pilot episode?
On Leather Wings
Its Man-Bat story 'got a lot of people off our backs', Timm said.
Q 13Which comics artist designed the series' Mr. Freeze in about 20 minutes?
Mike Mignola
He said he mostly copied an old drawing from a history-of-DC book.
Which 1960s TV Batman voiced the washed-up actor Simon Trent, the Gray Ghost?
Q 21Which Planet of the Apes actor voiced the Mad Hatter?
Roddy McDowall
Michael York voiced Count Vertigo and Ed Asner the businessman Roland Daggett.
Q 22Which Star Trek captain voiced the terrorist Red Claw?
Kate Mulgrew
Red Claw was created for the series rather than taken from the comics.
Q 23Which Back to the Future actor voiced the gangster Tony Zucco?
Thomas F. Wilson
Biff Tannen as the man who killed Dick Grayson's parents in 'Robin's Reckoning'.
Q 24Who wrote 'Heart of Ice', the episode that reinvented Mr. Freeze?
Adam West
The Gray Ghost's look was inspired by The Shadow.
Q 15Which Days of Our Lives actress inspired and voiced Harley Quinn?
Arleen Sorkin
Paul Dini drew on a dream-sequence jester she played on the soap.
Q 16Harley Quinn's red-and-black colour scheme was inspired by which 1940s character?
Daredevil
Her costume shape comes from the commedia dell'arte Harlequin.
Q 17Who composed the series' own main theme, later defining the DCAU sound?
Shirley Walker
Early episodes used a variation of Elfman's film theme; Walker's replaced it.
Q 18Which Hellboy actor voiced Clayface?
Ron Perlman
His Clayface, Matt Hagen, was a disfigured actor hooked on a face-changing cream.
Q 19Which singer-songwriter voiced the Penguin?
Paul Williams
His Penguin was modelled on Danny DeVito's look from Batman Returns.
Q 20Who voiced Catwoman in the series?
Adrienne Barbeau
The character was given Michelle Pfeiffer's blonde hair from Batman Returns.
Paul Dini
It won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.
Q 25In 'Heart of Ice', which GothCorp CEO kicks Victor Fries into the cryonic chemicals?
Ferris Boyle
Batman leaves him half-frozen with the line 'Goodnight... humanitarian.'
Q 26What does Batman smash on Mr. Freeze's helmet to beat him in 'Heart of Ice'?
a thermos of chicken soup
Alfred had packed the soup because Batman had caught a cold.
Q 27Who directed the series' 1993 theatrical feature film?
Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm
Mask of the Phantasm was the only DCAU film to get a full theatrical release.
Q 28Who voiced Andrea Beaumont, Bruce's former love, in Mask of the Phantasm?
Dana Delany
She later voiced Lois Lane in Superman: The Animated Series.
Q 29Which comic arc's villain, the Reaper, loosely inspired the Phantasm?
Batman: Year Two
Mike W. Barr wrote the arc; the film also borrows from Year One.
Q 30On what date was Mask of the Phantasm released in cinemas?
December 25, 1993
Rushed to theatres in eight months, it flopped, then found success on home video.