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50 free Green Lantern trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Green Lantern trivia quiz covers both the comics and the 2011 film. On the comics side it runs from Alan Scott's magic ring in All-American Comics in 1940 through Julius Schwartz's science-fiction reinvention as Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of Oa, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and the newer Lanterns, the ring's weakness to wood, the oath, the Green Arrow team-up years and Geoff Johns's Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night. On the film side it covers Martin Campbell's Green Lantern (2011): Ryan Reynolds as Hal, Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, Mark Strong's Sinestro, Peter Sarsgaard's Hector Hammond, Parallax, the CGI suit, the New Orleans shoot, the $200 million budget, the 66% second-weekend drop and the cancelled sequel that Deadpool has been mocking ever since. Cast trivia includes the actors who nearly played Hal and the Oscar winner voicing a bird-like alien. Every answer was checked against the character's and the film's encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more DC, try our DC Comics, Justice League and superhero quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Hal Jordan in the 2011 Green Lantern film?
Ryan Reynolds
Bradley Cooper auditioned but kept slipping into Christian Bale's Batman voice.
Q 02What is Hal Jordan's job when the ring finds him?
Test pilot
He works for Ferris Aircraft, run by his childhood sweetheart Carol Ferris.
Q 03Which dying alien Green Lantern passes his ring to Hal?
Abin Sur
Temuera Morrison spent four to five hours in prosthetics for the role.
Q 04What is the name of the Green Lanterns' homeworld?
Oa
Ryut is the desolate planet where Abin Sur imprisoned the film's villain.
Q 05Into how many sectors did the Guardians divide the universe, one Lantern per sector?
3,600
Earth sits in Sector 2814, which is why that number is a Lantern in-joke.
Q 06Which emotion powers the Green Lantern rings?
Willpower
The yellow energy of fear is the forbidden opposite, and it is what created the film's villain.
Q 07The film's villain, Parallax, was originally what?
One of the Guardians of the Universe
It broke into the physical plane by possessing that Guardian's body; Clancy Brown voiced it.
Q 08Who plays Sinestro, Hal's mentor, in the film?
Mark Strong
He said the character's widow's peak and thin moustache were originally based on David Niven.
Q 09What does Sinestro do in the film's mid-credits scene?
Puts on the yellow ring
His suit and eyes turn yellow, teasing a sequel that was cancelled three months after release.
Q 10Who plays Hector Hammond, the scientist whose head swells after exposure to the yellow energy of fear?
Peter Sarsgaard
He prepared with an eccentric Tulane biologist; Tim Robbins plays his father, Senator Hammond.
Q 11Who plays Carol Ferris?
Blake Lively
She trained with Cirque du Soleil acrobats and reportedly beat Eva Green, Keri Russell, Diane Kruger and Jennifer Garner to the role.
Q 12Which Oscar winner voices the bird-like Lantern Tomar-Re?
Geoffrey Rush
He joked he had already voiced an owl and a pelican, so half-bird, half-fish, part-lizard was a step up.
Q 13Who voices the drill-sergeant Lantern Kilowog?
Michael Clarke Duncan
A fan of the comics, he pointed out that Kilowog once fought Superman to a tie.
Q 21Green Lantern's 66% second-weekend drop was then a superhero record. Which two films pushed it to third place?
Cars 2 and Bad Teacher
It had opened at number one with $53.2 million.
Q 22What Rotten Tomatoes approval rating does Green Lantern (2011) hold?
25%
The consensus called it 'noisy, overproduced, and thinly written'; audiences gave it a B CinemaScore.
Q 23Who composed the Green Lantern film score?
James Newton Howard
He had co-scored Batman Begins and The Dark Knight with Hans Zimmer.
Q 14Which future Thor: Ragnarok director plays Ferris Aircraft engineer Thomas Kalmaku?
Taika Waititi
A Warner casting agent spotted him in Boy, which he had written and directed.
Q 15Who plays government agent Amanda Waller in the 2011 film?
Angela Bassett
Viola Davis played the character later in Suicide Squad; Bassett joked 'Well, I'm not 300 pounds'.
Q 16Who directed Green Lantern (2011)?
Martin Campbell
The Casino Royale director later admitted he should not have taken the job.
Q 17Which writer-director, hired in 2007, later said he had 'nothing to do with the finished product'?
Greg Berlanti
He went on to build the Arrowverse on TV.
Q 18Which comedian was to star in a 2004 action-comedy version of Green Lantern scripted by Robert Smigel?
Jack Black
Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino had both been offered the property earlier.
Q 19Which US city doubled for Coast City during filming?
New Orleans
It was originally due to shoot at Fox Studios Australia before moving to Louisiana.
Q 20What was Green Lantern's production budget?
$200 million
It grossed just $237 million, and Warner Bros. scrapped its plans for a shared universe.
Q 24Reynolds took the role after which studio showed no interest in making a Deadpool film?
20th Century Fox
Deadpool finally arrived in 2016 and has mocked Green Lantern ever since.
Q 25Which 2013 film replaced Green Lantern as the intended launch of a DC shared universe?
Man of Steel
Warner Bros. abandoned the Green Lantern sequel plans in September 2011.
Q 26What was the job of Alan Scott, the original 1940 Green Lantern, before a magic lantern spoke to him?
Railroad engineer
Martin Nodell created him with Bill Finger for All-American Comics #16, and he crafted his own ring from the lantern.
Q 27What material could the original Green Lantern's ring not affect?
Wood
The later Corps rings famously struggled with the colour yellow instead.
Q 28Which editor reinvented Green Lantern as science-fiction hero Hal Jordan in 1959?
Julius Schwartz
Hal debuted in Showcase #22 with art by Gil Kane, who based his face on a famous neighbour.
Q 29Hal Jordan's original look was modelled by artist Gil Kane on which actor?
Paul Newman
Kane and Sid Greene handled the art in the early years, with John Broome writing.
Q 30Which Green Lantern, a high-profile African-American superhero, was originally chosen as Hal's alternate?
John Stewart
Wayne T. Carr filmed him for the Snyder Cut of Justice League before Warner Bros. swapped in Martian Manhunter.