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50 free DC Villains trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
DC's villains are at least as famous as its heroes. The Joker and Catwoman both arrived in Batman #1 in 1940, Lex Luthor the same month in Action Comics, and the decades since have added a cosmic tier (Darkseid, the Anti-Monitor, Brainiac, Mongul), a Gotham tier (Two-Face, the Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, the Scarecrow, Bane, Hush) and a long tail of Flash Rogues, Aquaman's nemeses and Teen Titans tormentors. This quiz covers the whole rogues gallery in 50 questions: who created whom and when, real names and aliases, the origin stories (Venom, Lazarus Pits, fear toxin, a Cro-Magnon meteorite), the defining storylines like Knightfall, The Killing Joke and The Death of Superman, and the actors who brought them to screen, from Terence Stamp's Zod and Danny DeVito's Penguin to Heath Ledger, Margot Robbie and Lady Gaga. Four options per question and a short explanation after each answer. Play in sets of ten or print the set for a comic-shop trivia night.
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Q 01Which New God rules Apokolips and hunts for the Anti-Life Equation?
Darkseid
Jack Kirby created him for his Fourth World saga; Ray Porter played him in Zack Snyder's Justice League.
Q 02Which android from the planet Colu shrinks cities, including Kandor, into bottles?
Brainiac
He is even blamed for Krypton's destruction in some continuities.
Q 03Black Adam's homeland Kahndaq sits at the southern tip of which peninsula?
Sinai
Dwayne Johnson played him as an antihero who liberated Kahndaq from slavery.
Q 04Which helmeted underwater mercenary murdered Aquaman's infant son?
Black Manta
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played him in both Aquaman films; his bug-eyed helmet is the visual motif.
Q 05Leonard Snart, leader of the Flash's Rogues, operates under which name?
Captain Cold
Wentworth Miller played him in the Arrowverse; in the New 52 his Rogues live by a no-killing code.
Q 06Archaeologist Barbara Ann Minerva is the best-known version of which Wonder Woman foe?
Cheetah
A plant god named Urzkartaga transformed her, making her the third woman to use the codename.
Q 07Which never-missing marksman, Floyd Lawton, did Will Smith play in 2016's Suicide Squad?
Deadshot
He debuted in 1950 in a tuxedo and top hat and was meant to be a one-off Batman villain.
Q 08Slade Wilson, archenemy of the Teen Titans, is better known as whom?
Deathstroke
He debuted in 1980 as 'Deathstroke the Terminator'; Joe Manganiello played him in Justice League.
Q 09Which pink-skinned, three-eyed alien debuted in Justice League of America #1?
Despero
Tony Curran played him in The Flash's 'Armageddon' crossover.
Q 10Which monster killed Superman in the 1992 storyline 'The Death of Superman'?
Doomsday
Editor Mike Carlin scribbled 'doomsday for Superman' on a planning chart, and the name stuck.
Q 11Which telepathic super-intelligent ape plots conquest from a hidden African city?
Gorilla Grodd
A crashed alien spaceship gave his whole troop sapience; he has fought the Flash since 1959.
Q 12Which Batman foe is a former sideshow wrestler with a reptilian genetic condition?
Killer Croc
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje played him in 2016's Suicide Squad.
Q 13Which Superman foe, lord of Warworld, takes his name from the Mongol Empire?
Mongul
He debuted in DC Comics Presents #27 in 1980, created by Len Wein and Jim Starlin.
Aquaman's half-brother Orm Marius goes by which villain name?
Q 21Which immortal Cro-Magnon warrior gained eternal life from a prehistoric meteorite?
Vandal Savage
He debuted in Green Lantern #10 in 1943 and has fought Hawkman across 50,000 years.
Q 22Who is the main antagonist of 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths?
the Anti-Monitor
He stayed in shadow until issue #5; LaMonica Garrett played him and the Monitor in the Arrowverse.
Q 23Which 'mirror image' of Superman debuted in Superboy #68 in 1958?
Bizarro
Otto Binder wrote him as a Frankenstein's-monster pastiche who does everything backwards.
Ocean Master
In the New 52 he is a full-blooded Atlantean royal who wants to punish humans for polluting the sea.
Q 15Rudy Jones, who drains powers and memories by touch, is which Superman villain?
Parasite
Creator Jim Shooter, who started at DC aged 13, got the idea from ninth-grade biology.
Q 16Which Grant Morrison-created Batman foil was killed at the end of Justice League: Cry for Justice?
Prometheus
He first appeared in New Year's Evil: Prometheus in 1998; Josh Segarra played him on Arrow.
Q 17Which discharged Green Lantern, modeled on David Niven, founded his own yellow-ringed Corps?
Sinestro
Mark Strong played him in 2011 and Ulrich Thomsen takes over in the DCU series Lanterns.
Q 18Which swamp-born revenant, Cyrus Gold, is named after a 19th-century nursery rhyme?
Solomon Grundy
He began as a foe of Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern; Butch Gilzean became him on Gotham.
Q 19Which giant starfish was the first villain ever faced by the Justice League of America?
Starro
The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960) introduced both; The Suicide Squad (2021) finally put it on screen.
Q 20Which world-conquering demon is the father and arch-enemy of the Titan Raven?
Trigon
He cameoed in New Teen Titans #2, the same 1980 issue that introduced Deathstroke.
Q 24B-list actor Basil Karlo was the original version of which shapeshifting Batman villain?
Clayface
Bob Kane said the 1940 character was partly inspired by Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera.
Q 25Bandage-wrapped neurosurgeon Tommy Elliot, Bruce Wayne's childhood friend, is which villain?
Hush
Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee introduced him in Batman #609 in 2003.
Q 26Jervis Tetch, who builds mind-control devices, is which Lewis Carroll-inspired villain?
the Mad Hatter
Roddy McDowall voiced him in the animated series; Benedict Samuel played him on Gotham.
Q 27Botanist Pamela Isley, empowered by 'the Green', is which Gotham villain?
Poison Ivy
Uma Thurman played her in 1997; in recent comics she is Harley Quinn's primary love interest.
Q 28Psychologist Jonathan Crane, the self-styled 'Master of Fear', is which villain?
the Scarecrow
Gardner Fox's 1967 revival introduced his fear toxin; Cillian Murphy played him in all three Nolan films.
Q 29What does Ra's al Ghul's name mean in Arabic?
Head of the Ghoul
Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams introduced him in 1971's 'Daughter of the Demon'.
Q 3025th-century scientist Eobard Thawne is best known under which villain name?
the Reverse-Flash
He idolised the Flash, copied his accident, then learned he was destined to be his greatest enemy.