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50 free Black Widow (2021 Film) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Black Widow gave Natasha Romanoff her solo film after eleven years in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and this quiz covers the whole of it: the fake family in Ohio in 1995, the flight to Norway, the Budapest apartment fight, breaking Alexei out of prison, Melina's farm and the airborne Red Room that finally falls out of the sky. It also covers the post-credits scene at Natasha's grave that set up Hawkeye. The early questions are the ones any Marvel fan can answer: who plays Yelena, who is Red Guardian, what neutralises the Widows' mind control. Later ones dig into how the film got made, from the 65 directors Marvel met before hiring Cate Shortland to the actress who passed on Yelena, the composer swapped out late in post-production, the working title on location in Surrey, the 13 BMWs wrecked in Budapest and the settlement Scarlett Johansson reached with Disney. Every answer has been checked against production reporting and the film's own record, and each question links to its source. For the wider franchise, see our Marvel Cinematic Universe trivia; this page stays with the 2021 film.
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Q 01Black Widow is which numbered film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
24th
It was also the first film of Phase Four, though its pandemic delays meant WandaVision and other Disney+ series arrived first.
Q 02Who directed Black Widow?
Cate Shortland
Johansson, a fan of her film Lore, approached her personally after Marvel had met more than 65 directors for the job.
Q 03Between which two MCU films is Black Widow mostly set?
Civil War and Infinity War
Kevin Feige avoided an origin story, citing Better Call Saul as the model for a prequel that stands on its own.
Q 04In the 1995 prologue, in which US state is Natasha's fake family living undercover?
Ohio
The 'family' steals S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and flees to Cuba, where General Dreykov sends both girls to the Red Room.
Q 05Who plays Yelena Belova?
Florence Pugh
Marvel had considered her since late 2018, looked at others including Saoirse Ronan, then came back after her reviews for Fighting with My Family.
Q 06Which actress passed on the role of Yelena before it was finally cast?
Saoirse Ronan
Marvel had begun looking at other actresses in early 2019 before returning to Pugh.
Q 07David Harbour plays Alexei Shostakov, better known by which superhero name?
Red Guardian
He gained weight to 280 pounds for the role and then lost 60 over the shoot to play the younger Alexei of the flashback.
Q 08Which Oscar-winning actress plays Melina Vostokoff, the mother figure and Red Room scientist?
Rachel Weisz
In the comics Melina becomes the villain Iron Maiden, a storyline Weisz has said she would like to play.
Q 09Who plays General Dreykov, head of the Red Room?
Ray Winstone
He disliked the reshoots so much that he asked to be recast, but was contractually obliged to return.
Q 10Who is revealed to be under Taskmaster's mask?
Antonia Dreykov, the general's daughter
Writer Eric Pearson tied Taskmaster to the 'Dreykov's daughter' line from The Avengers rather than using the comics' Tony Masters.
Q 11Which former Bond girl plays Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster?
Olga Kurylenko
Her identity was kept secret until release; several body doubles were needed to perform Taskmaster's mimicked fighting styles.
Q 12How does Natasha overcome the pheromone lock that stops any Widow from attacking Dreykov?
She breaks her own nose
Ray Winstone's Dreykov was written as a coward 'puppeteering things' from the shadows so the villain would not contradict Infinity War.
Q 13What is the Red Room, physically, in the film?
A secret aerial facility
Q 21Which studio first bought the Black Widow film rights in 2004, with David Hayter to direct?
Lionsgate
The project died by 2006 and the rights reverted to Marvel; Hayter said no one else 'was willing to take the movie, and the character, seriously'.
Q 22Which actress was in early talks to play Black Widow in Iron Man 2 before Johansson?
Emily Blunt
A prior commitment to Gulliver's Travels forced her out; Johansson signed in March 2009 with options for multiple films.
Q 23Which director dropped out over a Nomadland schedule clash, then went on to make Eternals?
Chloé Zhao
Coralie Fargeat also passed, choosing to develop The Substance because she doubted Marvel would give her final cut.
Digital Domain built it as an airborne fortress hidden in the clouds, inspired by Soviet brutalist architecture.
Q 14Which city did Natasha and Clint Barton bomb years earlier, an event first hinted at in The Avengers?
Budapest
The film reveals they used Dreykov's young daughter as bait and believed she died in the blast, the shame Natasha carries.
Q 15Who supplies Natasha with a safehouse in Scandinavia and, later, a Quinjet?
Rick Mason
O-T Fagbenle had actually auditioned for the original Taskmaster before the story changed and Marvel offered him this role instead.
Q 16Who visits Yelena at Natasha's grave in the post-credits scene?
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
She blames Clint Barton for Natasha's death and assigns him as Yelena's next target, setting up the Hawkeye series.
Q 17Which Seinfeld and Veep star plays the woman at the graveside in that uncredited cameo?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
She was meant to debut in Black Widow, but the delays meant The Falcon and the Winter Soldier introduced her first, the only Phase Four change forced by the pandemic.
Q 18Which television series about a Russian spy family inspired the film's central premise?
The Americans
Shortland and Johansson borrowed the idea of a spy 'family', which is why the pivotal scene is everyone reunited around a dining table.
Q 19Which writer received sole screenplay credit?
Eric Pearson
Schaeffer and Benson got story credits; Pearson found the film's place in the MCU timeline the hardest he had ever had to get right.
Q 20Which future She-Hulk head writer pitched a Black Widow film inspired by Grosse Pointe Blank?
Jessica Gao
Her version had Natasha planted in a high school to kill a target and returning 20 years later for the reunion; Marvel felt it was really a She-Hulk pitch.
Q 24Where did principal photography begin on May 28, 2019?
Norway
Later locations included Pinewood in London, Budapest, Hankley Common in Surrey, Tangier and Macon, Georgia, over 87 days.
Q 25What was the film's working title while shooting at Hankley Common in Surrey?
Blue Bayou
The common was dressed as a Russian farmstead with added helicopter crash sites, to the annoyance of the local parish council.
Q 26How many BMW X3s were used to film the car chase in the Hungarian capital?
13
Crews switched off the stability control and swapped the electronic parking brake for a hydraulic one so the cars would do what the script demanded.
Q 27The Georgia town of Macon was dressed to portray which city?
Albany, New York
Set photos from that shoot revealed William Hurt would return as Thaddeus Ross.
Q 28Which composer replaced Alexandre Desplat late in post-production?
Lorne Balfe
He wrote an original piece in the style of Russian folk music the sisters might have grown up on, and drew on Prokofiev and Stravinsky.
Q 29The opening credits feature a slowed-down cover of which Nirvana song?
Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Think Up Anger version featuring Malia J was suggested by Perception, the studio that designed the credits to look like 8mm film and VHS.
Q 30Which Don McLean song is heard in the film?
American Pie
The family sings it in the car in the 1995 prologue; Sia's 'Cheap Thrills' also features.