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49 free Doctor Strange Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Doctor Strange movies trivia quiz covers both of the Sorcerer Supreme's solo MCU films: Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange (2016) and Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). The easy questions cover the cast, the car crash, Kamar-Taj, the Cloak of Levitation and the famous bargain with Dormammu; the harder ones dig into the three Sanctums, the Eye of Agamotto's secret, Mordo's exit, the Darkhold, dreamwalking, America Chavez and the Illuminati. Behind the scenes it covers the Alex Cox and Stan Lee script that ended on Easter Island, why Tilda Swinton was cast as the Ancient One, the Nepal shoot after the 2015 earthquake, the Escher and Monument Valley influences, Michael Giacchino at Abbey Road, Scott Derrickson's exit from the sequel, Sam Raimi's horror touches, the British Museum massacre set, Bruce Campbell's Pizza Poppa, the $350 million budget and the Saudi Arabia release dispute. Every answer was checked against the two films' encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more Marvel, try our MCU and Avengers quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Dr. Stephen Strange?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Stephen Strange; he first passed because of his 2015 stage run as Hamlet, so Marvel pushed the release to November 2016 to get him.
Q 02What is Stephen Strange's profession before the accident?
Neurosurgeon
Strange is a brilliant, arrogant neurosurgeon whose hands are shattered in a car crash, ending his surgical career and driving him to seek a cure.
Q 03Who directed Doctor Strange (2016)?
Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson, director of the horror film Sinister, was hired in June 2014 and co-wrote the script with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill.
Q 04Who plays the Ancient One?
Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton plays the Ancient One, reimagined as a Celtic woman; the character is a Tibetan man in the comics, and co-writer C. Robert Cargill called adapting him faithfully an unwinnable Kobayashi Maru.
Q 05Who plays the villain Kaecilius?
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen, Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, plays Kaecilius, a former Kamar-Taj student who steals pages from the Ancient One's book in search of eternal life.
Q 06Which paraplegic who regained the use of his legs points Strange toward Kamar-Taj?
Jonathan Pangborn
Jonathan Pangborn, played by Benjamin Bratt, is the paraplegic who walked again after learning sorcery at Kamar-Taj and sends Strange there to seek his own cure.
Q 07In which city is Kamar-Taj located?
Kathmandu
Kamar-Taj is in Kathmandu, Nepal, where the crew shot on location in November 2015, months after the April earthquake; the comics had placed it in Tibet.
Q 08Earth's magical shield is generated by three Sanctums in New York and which two other cities?
London and Hong Kong
The Sanctums are in New York, London and Hong Kong; Kaecilius destroys the London Sanctum first, then attacks the New York one that Strange ends up defending.
Q 09What relic does Strange secretly learn to bend time with?
The Eye of Agamotto
The Eye of Agamotto, which Strange uses to rewind a half-eaten apple, turns out to house the Time Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones.
Q 10Which entity, from a realm where time does not exist, does Kaecilius contact?
Dormammu
Dormammu, ruler of a timeless realm, is the being Kaecilius serves; the actor playing Strange also supplied the character's motion capture and part of his voice.
Q 11How does Strange defeat the film's cosmic big bad?
With an endless time loop that forces a bargain
The entity kills him over and over, then gives up and takes the zealots with him.
Q 12What has the Ancient One secretly been drawing power from to prolong her life?
The Dark Dimension
The Ancient One has secretly drawn power from the Dark Dimension for centuries, breaking the rules she teaches; Kaecilius exposes that hypocrisy to Strange to justify his own rebellion.
Q 13What does Mordo tell Pangborn in the post-credits scene?
Q 21Roughly how much did Doctor Strange (2016) gross worldwide?
$678 million
Doctor Strange (2016) grossed about $678 million worldwide on a $165 million budget, then the biggest MCU solo-character introduction, ahead of Iron Man's $585 million.
Q 22Doctor Strange (2016) earned an Academy Award nomination in which category?
Best Visual Effects
Doctor Strange was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 89th Academy Awards, its only nomination, and lost to The Jungle Book.
Q 23What is Stan Lee reading on the bus in his Doctor Strange cameo?
The Doors of Perception
Earth has 'too many sorcerers'
Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mordo was deliberately not villainous at first, unlike in the comics.
Q 14Which Asgardian appears in the mid-credits scene of Doctor Strange?
Thor
Thor appears in the mid-credits scene, drinking an ever-refilling beer in the New York Sanctum while Strange agrees to help him find Odin; Thor: Ragnarok replays the scene.
Q 15What is Rachel McAdams's character, Christine Palmer, known as in the comics?
Night Nurse
Christine Palmer was one of the characters in Marvel's 1972 comic Night Nurse; Derrickson chose her over Strange's comic-book love interest to keep him tethered to ordinary New York life.
Q 16Under what working title was Doctor Strange shot?
Checkmate
Doctor Strange was shot under the working title Checkmate; cinematographer Ben Davis described the film as Marvel's Fantasia for its psychedelic, Ditko-inspired visuals.
Q 17Which mobile video game did Derrickson cite as a visual influence, alongside M. C. Escher?
Monument Valley
Derrickson named the puzzle game Monument Valley, with its Escher-style impossible architecture, as an influence on the film's folding cityscapes, alongside Steve Ditko's comics and surrealist art.
Q 18Who composed the score for Doctor Strange (2016)?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino, composer of Up and Rogue One, scored Doctor Strange (2016); the score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
Q 19Whose 1989 script, co-written with Stan Lee, had Strange fight the villain on Easter Island?
Alex Cox
Alex Cox, director of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, co-wrote a 1989 Doctor Strange script with Stan Lee whose climax pitted Strange against the villain on Easter Island.
Q 20Where did Doctor Strange hold its world premiere in October 2016?
Hong Kong
Doctor Strange held its world premiere in Hong Kong on 13 October 2016, three weeks before its US release on 4 November.
Stan Lee's cameo has him laughing on a bus over The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley's 1954 account of a mescaline trip, a nod to the film's psychedelic visuals.
Q 24Who directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi, who had not directed a feature since Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), took over in February 2020 after the first film's director left over creative differences.
Q 25Who is the main villain of Multiverse of Madness?
The Scarlet Witch
The Scarlet Witch, Wanda Maximoff, is the villain: corrupted by a book of dark magic, she hunts America Chavez for the power to reach a universe where her sons exist.
Q 26Who plays America Chavez?
Xochitl Gomez
Xochitl Gomez, previously seen in Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club, plays America Chavez, a teenager from the Utopian Parallel who punches star-shaped portals between universes.
Q 27What is the name of the corrupting book of dark magic Wanda uses?
The Darkhold
The Darkhold, the Book of the Damned, corrupts Wanda after she takes it from Agatha Harkness; its light counterpart, the Book of Vishanti, is what Strange and Chavez seek.
Q 28What is the term for using the dark book to possess your counterpart in another universe?
Dreamwalking
Dreamwalking is the forbidden spell that lets a sorcerer possess their counterpart in another universe; Strange dreamwalks into his own corpse at the climax and later sprouts a third eye.
Q 29Which mountain is the source of the dark book's power?
Mount Wundagore
Mount Wundagore is where the dark book's spells were first carved into the walls; Wanda collapses the mountain at the end, destroying every copy of the book across the multiverse.
Q 30What is the designation of the universe where Strange meets the Illuminati?
Earth-838
Strange and Chavez land on Earth-838, the universe whose Illuminati try Strange for the crimes of his counterpart; its Christine Palmer labels the main MCU reality Earth-616.