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50 free Hulk trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Hulk trivia quiz covers more than sixty years of the Incredible Hulk, from the debut issue its two creators built out of Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, through the alter egos, villains, cousins and sons of the comics, to the television series that gave the world a catchphrase and the films that put three different actors under the green. You will find questions on the origin story and the colour the character was supposed to be, the writers who reshaped him, the debut of a certain clawed Canadian in his pages, the Planet Hulk saga and its condensed movie version, She-Hulk's origin, the make-up tricks and casting stories of the 1978 series, the 2003 film, the 2008 reboot and the Avengers years. Easy questions suit a family movie night; the harder ones on issue numbers, creators and behind-the-scenes decisions will test serious Marvel readers. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia entries, and each question shows its explanation and source after you answer.
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Q 01Which writer and artist created the Hulk in 1962?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Lee said the character grew out of his fondness for the Frankenstein monster and the idea of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Q 02What colour was the Hulk's skin in his very first issue?
Grey
Lee thought grey was scary and ethnically neutral, but the colourist could not keep the shade consistent, so the character went green from issue two.
Q 03What kind of radiation transforms Bruce Banner into the Hulk?
Gamma rays
He was caught in the blast of an experimental bomb while pushing a teenager to safety in a trench.
Q 04Whom did Banner save from the bomb test that turned him into the Hulk?
Rick Jones
The teenager had wandered onto the testing field on a dare and became Banner's best friend and secret-keeper.
Q 05What official full name fixed Stan Lee's mix-up after he called the Hulk's alter ego 'Bob'?
Robert Bruce Banner
Readers spotted the slip quickly; the full name was confirmed in a 1964 guest appearance.
Q 06According to Stan Lee, the Hulk got his name from which earlier comic character?
The Heap
That character was a large green swamp monster; Lee also compared the Hulk to the golem of Jewish legend.
Q 07How many issues did the original The Incredible Hulk comic run before it was cancelled in 1963?
Six
The character was quickly folded into the Avengers as a founding member and later shared Tales to Astonish.
Q 08The Hulk's first guest appearance outside his own book came in issue #12 of which title, in March 1963?
The Fantastic Four
Months later he was a founding Avenger, though he quit almost immediately because the others distrusted him.
Q 09Which future fan favourite made his debut as an antagonist in The Incredible Hulk #180–181 in 1974?
Wolverine
Len Wein was writing the book with Herb Trimpe on art at the time.
Q 10Which green-skinned super-genius, introduced in Tales to Astonish, became the Hulk's nemesis?
The Leader
He was introduced alongside another gamma-irradiated foe during the Tales to Astonish run.
Q 11What is the name of the Hulk's grey-skinned gangster alter ego?
Joe Fixit
Other personas include Professor Hulk, the Devil Hulk and Doc Green, a scientist in his own right.
Q 12Which writer began a 12-year Incredible Hulk run in 1987 and gave Banner dissociative identity disorder?
Peter David
He killed off Betty Ross in 1998, and his disagreement with Marvel over what came next ended the run.
Q 13In the "Planet Hulk" storyline, the Hulk is exiled by the Illuminati and crash-lands on which planet?
Sakaar
He marries the alien queen Caiera there and returns to Earth for revenge in "World War Hulk".
Q 21Who played Jennifer Walters in the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law?
Tatiana Maslany
The 2022 series was the character's live-action debut.
Q 22Which network aired The Incredible Hulk television series from 1978 to 1982?
CBS
Two TV movies in 1977 drew strong enough ratings to launch the weekly show.
Q 23Who played Dr. David Banner in the 1970s TV series?
Bill Bixby
He was producer Kenneth Johnson's first choice, and later directed two of the reunion TV movies himself.
Q 24Which bodybuilder played the Hulk in the TV series?
Q 14What are the names of the Hulk's two sons by Queen Caiera?
Skaar and Hiro-Kala
One of them later turned up in the MCU, introduced to the family at a gathering in Los Angeles.
Q 15Which tyrannical future version of the Hulk rules a world where most heroes are dead?
The Maestro
Professor Hulk met him while working with the secretive Pantheon organisation.
Q 16Which demigod temporarily replaced the Hulk as the title character of his own comic in 2008?
Hercules
After "World War Hulk" left him incapacitated, the book was retitled The Incredible Hercules.
Q 17Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's acclaimed horror-tinged 2018 series ran for 50 issues under what title?
The Immortal Hulk
It spun off an Immortal She-Hulk one-shot and a Gamma Flight series in 2021.
Q 18How did lawyer Jennifer Walters gain her She-Hulk powers?
A blood transfusion from her cousin
Unlike her cousin she keeps her personality and intellect in green form.
Q 19In which year did She-Hulk first appear, in The Savage She-Hulk #1?
1979
She was created by Stan Lee and John Buscema and has since served on several of Marvel's biggest teams.
Q 20Which writer-artist's Sensational She-Hulk run made her aware she was a comic book character?
John Byrne
His issues satirised comics themselves and tested the limits of the Comics Code.
Lou Ferrigno
He was doubled by Manny Perry for some stunts because so few stuntmen could match his physique.
Q 25Which future action superstar auditioned to play the TV Hulk but was rejected for being too short?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Richard Kiel, later Jaws in the Bond films, was actually hired first before the role went elsewhere.
Q 26Why did the TV series rename Bruce Banner "David"? Producer Kenneth Johnson said it was to avoid what?
Comic-book style alliterative names
Stan Lee also recalled the network worrying that "Bruce" sounded too effeminate, a rationale the show's Hulk actor called absurd.
Q 27What was the profession of Jack McGee, who pursued the Hulk across America in the TV series?
Tabloid reporter
He was modelled on Javert from Les Misérables, the novel Kenneth Johnson was reading when he took the job.
Q 28How many stages were edited together to show Bixby transforming into the TV Hulk?
Five
They ran from Bixby unaltered, through green contact lenses and forehead prosthetics, to Ferrigno in full make-up.
Q 29How often did the actor playing the TV Hulk have to remove his painful hard contact lenses?
Every 15 minutes
His full make-up took three hours to apply; Bixby's fourth-stage make-up alone took two.
Q 30What is the title of the melancholy piano theme that closes each episode of the TV series?
"The Lonely Man"
Composer Joe Harnell came over from The Bionic Woman, another Kenneth Johnson production.