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60 free Captain Marvel trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Captain Marvel trivia quiz covers the 2019 film that introduced Carol Danvers to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and explained where Nick Fury's eye and the Avengers Initiative came from. The plot questions run from Hala and Starforce through the Blockbuster crash-landing in Los Angeles, Project Pegasus, Louisiana, Mar-Vell's cloaked laboratory, the Supreme Intelligence and the cat that swallowed the Tesseract. The harder half covers how it was made: the comic storyline behind the Kree-Skrull war, why the character was cut from Age of Ultron, why Mar-Vell became a woman, the working title, the California tax credit, the four cats who played Goose, the puppet used because Brie Larson is allergic, the 25-year de-aging of Samuel L. Jackson and the films it was modelled on, the first woman to score an MCU film, the Stan Lee tribute logo and the box office milestones. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test even committed MCU fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the wider universe, try our Marvel and MCU quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Carol Danvers?
Brie Larson
She was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, earned $5 million for the film and trained for nine months in judo, boxing and wrestling.
Q 02In which year is the film set?
1995
Danvers is presumed to have died in 1989 testing the light-speed engine, six years before the story begins.
Q 03What name does Carol go by as a member of Starforce?
Vers
It is all that survived of her dog tag, which had read 'Carol Danvers'.
Q 04What is the Kree capital planet called?
Hala
Rise created its exterior environments; the film's opening and closing both take place there.
Q 05Who directed Captain Marvel?
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
The indie duo behind Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind were hired in April 2017; Ava DuVernay had been in talks earlier.
Q 06Which shapeshifting aliens are the Kree at war with?
The Skrulls
Feige revealed them as the film's villains at Comic-Con 2017; the twist is that they are refugees.
Q 07Where does Vers crash-land on Earth?
A Blockbuster Video store in Los Angeles
The first trailer opened on the Blockbuster logo because audiences would instantly recognise it as the 1990s.
Q 08Whom does Talos impersonate at S.H.I.E.L.D. to keep tabs on Vers?
Fury's boss, Keller
The actor used a clipped American accent for Keller and his own Australian accent for Talos.
Q 09What was the name of the installation at the former Air Force base where Vers and Fury dig up her past?
Project Pegasus
It is the same installation that housed the glowing cube in the first Avengers film.
Q 10Who is Dr. Wendy Lawson really?
Mar-Vell, a renegade Kree scientist
Mar-Vell was a male love interest in the comics; the filmmakers changed the gender to give Carol a female mentor.
Q 11Who plays both Mar-Vell and the Supreme Intelligence?
Annette Bening
She joined in May 2018 in an undisclosed role; her parts were only confirmed in February 2019.
Q 12What is the name of Lawson's cat?
Goose
In the comics the cat is Chewie, after Chewbacca; the film renamed it after the Top Gun character because Top Gun is pilot-themed and period-appropriate.
Q 13What kind of creature is the cat revealed to be?
A Flerken
It swallows the glowing cube, coughs it back up in the post-credits scene, and takes Fury's eye in between.
Q 21What was the power source of Lawson's engine?
The Tesseract
It is hidden aboard the cloaked laboratory orbiting Earth along with Talos's family.
Q 22What does Danvers remove to unlock her full powers?
A Kree implant suppressing them
Producer Nate Moore said the film deliberately avoids the usual origin structure: she starts with her powers and learns not to hold back.
Q 23Which two Guardians of the Galaxy villains appear as Kree officers, years before their deaths?
Ronan the Accuser and Korath
Q 14How does Nick Fury lose his left eye?
The cat scratches it
Years of hints about the eye ended with a scratch from a house pet.
Q 15In which state do Vers and Fury find Maria Rambeau?
Louisiana
Production really moved to Baton Rouge and New Orleans for two weeks in June 2018.
Q 16Who plays Maria Rambeau?
Lashana Lynch
DeWanda Wise was cast first but left over a clash with She's Gotta Have It; Lynch was in negotiations the next day.
Q 17What is Maria Rambeau's Air Force call sign?
Photon
Photon is one of the superhero names her daughter Monica uses in the comics.
Q 18What was Carol's Air Force call sign, which Fury borrows for his initiative?
Avenger
Fury spots it on an old photo of her jet and crosses out his working name for the programme.
Q 19Who killed Mar-Vell to stop her destroying the light-speed engine?
Yon-Rogg
Carol then destroyed the engine herself and absorbed its energy, which is how she got her powers and lost her memory.
Q 20Who plays Yon-Rogg?
Jude Law
Keanu Reeves was approached first and declined; Robert Downey Jr., Law's Sherlock Holmes co-star, advised him on working with Marvel.
Lee Pace and Djimon Hounsou reprised the roles; Ronan is not yet the zealot he later becomes.
Q 24Which two returning actors were digitally de-aged by 25 years for the whole film?
Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg
It was the first time Marvel had de-aged an actor for an entire film, and the first time Lola VFX did it without a body double.
Q 25Which 1997 film was the main visual reference for the young Nick Fury?
One Eight Seven
Pulp Fiction was ruled out because of Jules's wig and facial hair, and Jurassic Park because Jackson was made to look older in it.
Q 26Who plays Talos?
Ben Mendelsohn
The directors had him in mind from the start after Mississippi Grind; an early draft killed the character off.
Q 27Which former U.S. defence secretary inspired the actor's accent as Keller?
Donald Rumsfeld
Talos, by contrast, speaks in the actor's own Australian accent, chosen for its 'earthy correctness'.
Q 28Which 1971 comic storyline did the writers borrow from?
"Kree–Skrull War"
Its paranoia elements were kept but not the Anti-Superhero Act; the conflict served as a 'backdrop and mythological underpinning'.
Q 29Why was Captain Marvel's comic-book origin changed for the film?
It was too similar to Green Lantern's
Feige said the new story centres on Danvers finding her limits and vulnerabilities.
Q 30Which earlier MCU film had Captain Marvel in an early draft before she was cut?
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Marvel did not want to introduce her fully formed before exploring her backstory.