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70 free Black Panther trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
65 free Black Panther trivia questions with answers. Black Panther debuted in Fantastic Four #52 in July 1966, three months before the Black Panther Party existed, and Jack Kirby's first sketches called him the Coal Tiger. Fifty-two years later the film version became the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture and the first Marvel Studios film to win an Oscar. This quiz runs 70 questions across all of it: the Lee and Kirby comics, Don McGregor's Panther's Rage, Christopher Priest's Everett Ross and the Dora Milaje, T'Challa's marriage to Storm, Shuri and Ta-Nehisi Coates's run, plus the 2018 film (the Oakland opening, the Busan car chase, Ludwig Göransson's Senegal research, Ruth E. Carter's 700 costumes), Chadwick Boseman's career, and Wakanda Forever with Namor and Talokan. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know what King Solomon's Frog is. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a Marvel movie night, a comic-shop pub quiz or a family round.
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Q 01In which comic book did the Black Panther make his first appearance in 1966?
Fantastic Four #52
That July 1966 debut made him the first Black superhero in American mainstream comics, three months before the Black Panther Party was founded.
Q 02Which writer and artist created the Black Panther?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Kirby later returned to write, pencil and edit a solo Black Panther series in 1977, but it lasted only 15 issues.
Q 03Jack Kirby's original concept art for the character used which working name?
Coal Tiger
The early concept was a swashbuckler; the finished hero became the king of a hidden, hyper-advanced African nation instead.
Q 04T'Challa gains his enhanced abilities by consuming the essence of what?
The heart-shaped herb
The plant only grows in Wakanda, and being denied it is a serious handicap in a ritual challenge for the throne.
Q 05In which year did the Black Panther travel to New York to join the Avengers?
1968
He joined in The Avengers #52 and, while on the team, moonlighted as a Harlem schoolteacher under a false name.
Q 06Which anthology title carried the acclaimed 1973-75 storyline "Panther's Rage"?
Jungle Action
It ran in issues #6-18 and is often called one of the first true graphic novels in mainstream comics.
Q 07Who wrote "Panther's Rage", the storyline that introduced T'Challa's nemesis Erik Killmonger?
Don McGregor
The same writer followed it with "Panther vs. the Klan" in 1976 and later "Panther's Quest" with Gene Colan.
Q 08In a 1972 guest appearance the hero briefly went by which alternative name?
Black Leopard
The switch was meant to avoid association with the Black Panther Party; it was reversed by The Avengers #105.
Q 09Christopher Priest's 1998 series introduced which State Department attorney as a viewpoint character?
Everett K. Ross
Priest used him as a bridge for readers; in the films the same character became a CIA agent instead.
Q 10The name of T'Challa's all-female bodyguard, the Dora Milaje, is said to translate as what?
Adored ones
In the comics they were chosen from 18 rival tribes to serve as guards and ceremonial wives-in-training.
Q 11In the comics, Okoye spoke to the king only in which African language, chosen for privacy?
Hausa
The film version made her a Border Tribe traditionalist and head of the guard rather than a silent attendant.
Q 12In 2006, during Reginald Hudlin's run, T'Challa married which member of the X-Men?
Storm
The wedding was written as a temporary truce in the middle of Marvel's Civil War crossover.
Q 13Readers compared T'Challa and Storm's 2006 wedding to which real-life couple?
Jay-Z and Beyoncé
The comparison ran ahead of reality: the musicians did not actually marry until 2008.
Q 21In the comics, at which university did Killmonger study while plotting revenge?
MIT
He was written as a gifted intellectual from childhood, exiled to the US after his father sided with Klaw.
Q 22While living in New York as an Avenger, T'Challa taught school under which secret identity?
Luke Charles
The Coates-era comics later gave him a second civilian cover as Mr. Okonkwo, a Congolese diner owner in Hell's Kitchen.
Q 23Kasper Cole, who replaced T'Challa as the lead of Priest's series for its last 13 issues, worked as what?
A New York City police officer
Q 14After marrying, T'Challa and Storm temporarily replaced which two members of Marvel's first family?
Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman
Reed and Sue stepped away in the aftermath of Civil War, and the royal couple filled their spots on the team.
Q 15Black Panther vol. 5 launched in February of which year, with Shuri taking over as the new Black Panther?
2009
Shuri had only debuted in 2005; her rise to the mantle came a decade before Letitia Wright played her.
Q 16Which artist drew Ta-Nehisi Coates's 2016 Black Panther relaunch?
Brian Stelfreeze
That book's self-forming suit was the direct inspiration for the Panther Habit in the 2018 film.
Q 17What was the title of Coates's first Black Panther storyline, in which T'Challa faces a popular uprising?
A Nation Under Our Feet
Coates borrowed the title from a Steven Hahn history of Black political struggle in the rural South.
Q 18At the end of Coates's first storyline, Wakanda is reformed into what?
A constitutional democracy
T'Challa stays on as a figurehead king rather than a ruler, a change the films have not adopted.
Q 19What is Erik Killmonger's Wakandan birth name in the comics?
N'Jadaka
The 2018 film kept the name and made him T'Challa's cousin, a relationship the original comics did not give him.
Q 20Erik Killmonger first appeared in September of which year?
1973
He was created by Don McGregor and Rich Buckler, and did not reach the screen for another 45 years.
T'Challa personally trained him as a new Black Panther while sidelined by injury.
Q 24In Jack Kirby's 1977 solo series, the Black Panther hunts for which magic artifact?
King Solomon's Frog
Kirby wrote, pencilled and edited the book after returning from DC, but left after 12 of its 15 issues.
Q 25In the comics, T'Challa was sent abroad to graduate from which university?
Oxford
The films skip his schooling entirely; the character is already a diplomat's son at the UN when we meet him.
Q 26Wakanda's secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, are known in English as what?
War Dogs
The 2018 film borrows the term for its undercover spies abroad, including Nakia and Killmonger's father.
Q 27Who voiced T'Challa in the 2010 animated Black Panther series on BET?
Djimon Hounsou
The six-episode motion-comic adaptation was based on Reginald Hudlin's "Who Is the Black Panther?" arc.
Q 28Vibranium made its Marvel debut in February 1966 in which title, five months before Wakanda's king?
Daredevil #13
That first version had the odd trait of absorbing sound; the Wakandan variety later became famous for soaking up kinetic energy.
Q 29The Antarctic form of vibranium is nicknamed "Anti-Metal" because it does what?
Dissolves other metals
It lives in the Savage Land, and Wakandan vibranium can be converted into it with the right radiation.
Q 30In the Marvel Universe, how long ago did the vibranium meteorite land in what became Wakanda?
10,000 years
Coates named the meteorite Mena Ngai; the film compresses the timeline into a five-tribe origin legend.