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50 free Fantastic Four Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Fantastic Four movies trivia quiz spans every big-screen version of Marvel's first family: the Roger Corman film from 1994 that was never released, Tim Story's Fantastic Four (2005) and Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Josh Trank's ill-fated 2015 reboot, and the arrival of the team in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with The Fantastic Four: First Steps in 2025. The easy questions cover the casts, the powers and the villains; the harder ones cover the plots, the box office, the Razzies and the long list of directors who came and went. You will find the deleted Wolverine cameo, the Silver Surfer quarters that annoyed the US Mint, Doug Jones being dubbed by Laurence Fishburne, Josh Trank's deleted tweet, the Victor Domashev name change, the Chronicle connection, Chris Evans's return as Johnny Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine, and the John Krasinski Reed Richards who lasted one scene. If you only want the 2025 film, we have a separate deep quiz on The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Every answer was checked against the films' encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who directed both Fantastic Four (2005) and Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)?
Tim Story
Fox hired him in April 2004 after being impressed by his early cut of the comedy Taxi.
Q 02Who plays Reed Richards in the 2005 film?
Ioan Gruffudd
Mads Mikkelsen auditioned for the role and remembered it as humiliating.
Q 03Which future Captain America plays Johnny Storm in the Tim Story films?
Chris Evans
He returned as this version of Johnny Storm in Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024.
Q 04Who plays Sue Storm in the 2005 and 2007 films?
Jessica Alba
Cameron Diaz was approached but declined because she did not want to wear superhero makeup.
Q 05Who plays Ben Grimm / The Thing in the 2005 film, entirely in practical makeup at his own insistence?
Michael Chiklis
The Shield star's prosthetics were redesigned for the sequel so he could take them off between takes.
Q 06Who plays Victor von Doom in the Tim Story films?
Julian McMahon
Robert Downey Jr. was considered for the role in 2005 and finally played Doom in the MCU twenty years later.
Q 07In the 2005 film, where does the team get its powers?
A cosmic storm hits Von Doom's space station
The 2015 reboot swapped the space station for a Quantum Gate to another dimension.
Q 08On which New York landmark does The Thing accidentally cause a pile-up while stopping a suicide?
The Brooklyn Bridge
The rescue is what gets the team dubbed the Fantastic Four by the media.
Q 09What does Victor von Doom's body begin turning into after the storm in the 2005 film?
Organic metal
Powering Reed's machine to cure Ben accelerates the change and lets him produce electricity.
Q 10How is Doom finally defeated at the end of the 2005 film?
Superheated by fire, then doused in cold water
The thermal shock freezes him in place and he is shipped back to Latveria as a statue.
Q 11Stan Lee cameos in the 2005 film as which comics character?
Willie Lumpkin the mailman
It was the first time he played an actual named Marvel character on screen rather than a generic bystander.
Q 12Which X-Men star's face does Reed morph into in a deleted scene from the 2005 film?
Hugh Jackman
The scene was meant to hint at a shared universe with Fox's X-Men and Sony's Spider-Man; it was restored in the extended cut.
Q 13Which producer's B-movie Fantastic Four was made in 1992 purely to keep the rights and never released?
Roger Corman
Its budget was cut to about $1 million; the cast reportedly had no idea they were making an ashcan copy.
Q 21Which cosmic entity is the Silver Surfer serving in the 2007 film?
Galactus
The story drew on the comics' Galactus Trilogy and the Ultimate Extinction miniseries.
Q 22What happens to Johnny after his first encounter with the Surfer in the 2007 film?
He can swap powers with his teammates by touch
At the climax he absorbs all four powers to fight Doom for the board.
Q 23Which river does the Silver Surfer drain by creating a crater in the 2007 film?
The Thames
The Four track his cosmic energy to London but fail to stop him.
Q 14Which German producer's company bought the Fantastic Four film rights from Marvel in 1986?
Bernd Eichinger
The Constantin Film option was estimated at $250,000; a Warner and Columbia baulked at his $40-45 million budget.
Q 15Which director, hired for Fantastic Four in 1995, said he was fired for wanting Kirby-style art?
Chris Columbus
He developed the script with Michael France and stayed on as a producer through 1492 Pictures.
Q 16Which director left the Fantastic Four project in 2000 to make Scooby-Doo?
Raja Gosnell
Peyton Reed took over in 2001 and left in 2003; he later reused his ideas for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Q 17Which animated film prompted Tim Story to change the 2005 script and add effects to avoid similarities?
The Incredibles
Critics still compared it unfavourably with Pixar's family of superheroes.
Q 18Roughly how much did Fantastic Four (2005) gross worldwide?
$333 million
It topped the US box office with $56.1 million and was the highest-grossing superhero film by a Black director until Black Panther.
Q 19Fantastic Four (2005) moved its release a week to avoid opening against which Steven Spielberg film?
War of the Worlds
Its teaser had debuted in front of Elektra and the full trailer before Revenge of the Sith.
Q 20Who voices the Silver Surfer in Rise of the Silver Surfer?
Laurence Fishburne
Doug Jones performed the character physically and supposedly did not know he was being dubbed.
Q 24Where do Reed and Sue finally get married at the end of Rise of the Silver Surfer?
Japan
Their first ceremony was interrupted by the Surfer; the epilogue then sends them to an emergency in Venice.
Q 25Which Marvel character was in the original Rise of the Silver Surfer script before becoming General Hager?
Nick Fury
Some of Hager's lines came straight from Fury's dialogue in Ultimate Extinction.
Q 26Fox's promotion for the 2007 film that drew a warning from the US Mint involved altering 40,000 of what?
Quarters
The 2005 California state quarters got the Surfer on the reverse plus a website URL, which the Mint said turned currency into private advertising.
Q 27What was the working title of Rise of the Silver Surfer before it was named in August 2006?
Fantastic Four 2
Filming began in Vancouver on August 28, 2006, for a June 2007 release.
Q 28How did Rise of the Silver Surfer's worldwide gross compare with the first film's?
Lower
It opened bigger ($58 million) but dropped 66% in its second weekend, and Fox shelved a third film and a Surfer spin-off.
Q 29Which actor did Tim Story say in 2007 he wanted to cast as Black Panther in a third film?
Djimon Hounsou
Beau Garrett hoped to return as Nova and Alba wanted to introduce Franklin Richards; the film was cancelled by 2009.
Q 30Who directed the 2015 reboot Fantastic Four?
Josh Trank
He was hired in 2012 off a found-footage hit and later disowned the finished film.