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50 free Mad Max trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Mad Max trivia quiz covers all five films in George Miller's saga: the guerrilla-shot 1979 original that made Mel Gibson a star, Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US), Beyond Thunderdome with Tina Turner, the six-Oscar Fury Road with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, and the 2024 prequel Furiosa with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. There is a question or two on the Avalanche video game as well. Expect questions on the Pursuit Special Interceptor and which Ford Falcon it really was, Toecutter, Lord Humungus, Aunty Entity, Immortan Joe and Dementus, Bartertown and the Citadel, the American redub of the first film, the Guinness record it held for twenty years, the Namibia shoot, the 150 vehicles built for Fury Road, and the songs, scores and Oscars. Roughly a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the films, a third are medium, and the rest are for wasteland obsessives. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Who created the Mad Max franchise, directing or co-directing every film in it?
George Miller
George Miller created Mad Max and has directed every entry through Furiosa (2024), sharing the Beyond Thunderdome credit with George Ogilvie; he practised as a hospital doctor before the 1979 original.
Q 02What is Max's surname?
Rockatansky
He starts the series as the top pursuit man of the Main Force Patrol before the biker gang murders his wife and infant son.
Q 03Which actor played Max in the first three films?
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson played Max in Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2 (1981) and Beyond Thunderdome (1985); the American-born NIDA graduate was cast at 21 after the surf film Summer City.
Q 04Under what title was Mad Max 2 released in the United States?
The Road Warrior
Warner Bros. released Mad Max 2 in the United States in 1982 as The Road Warrior, dropping the sequel number because the 1979 original had barely been seen there.
Q 05Which pop star plays Aunty Entity, ruler of Bartertown, in Beyond Thunderdome?
Tina Turner
Tina Turner plays Aunty Entity, the ruler of Bartertown, in Beyond Thunderdome (1985); she also recorded two songs for the soundtrack, including 'One of the Living', which won her a Grammy.
Q 06Who plays Max in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy took over as Max in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), beating finalists Armie Hammer and Jeremy Renner for the role first played on screen in 1979.
Q 07Who plays Imperator Furiosa in Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); she shaved her head for the part, and her character's missing left forearm was removed digitally in post-production.
Q 08Who plays the young adult Furiosa in the 2024 prequel?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy plays the young adult Furiosa in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), with Alyla Browne as the child; the director rejected digitally de-ageing the Fury Road actress as unconvincing.
Q 09Which Thor actor plays the warlord Dementus in Furiosa?
Chris Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth plays Dementus, the warlord who leads the Biker Horde in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024); he wore a prosthetic nose and rode a chariot pulled by three motorcycles.
Q 10In the 1979 film, what is the name of the law-enforcement agency Max works for?
Main Force Patrol
The Main Force Patrol, or MFP, is the highway police force Max serves in the 1979 film; its base is the Halls of Justice and the gangs call its officers 'the Bronze'.
Q 11What is the name of the biker-gang leader who terrorises Max's family in the first film?
Toecutter
Toecutter leads the biker gang that murders Max's wife and child in Mad Max (1979); chased down by Max at the end, he rides head-on into a semi-trailer and is killed.
Q 12What is the nickname of Max's partner Jim Rains, who is burned alive in his ute in the first film?
Goose
Jim 'Goose' Rains is Max's motorcycle-cop partner, played by NIDA classmate Steve Bisley; his burning scene led New Zealand to ban the film because it resembled a real gang killing.
Q 13Max's black supercharged Pursuit Special was built from which Australian car?
A Ford Falcon XB
Q 21In Mad Max 2, what weapon does the Feral Kid throw to kill a marauder?
A metal boomerang
The Feral Kid, played by Emil Minty, kills a marauder with his razor-edged metal boomerang; when the Toadie tries to catch it on the return, it takes off his fingers.
Q 22What is the twist at the end of Mad Max 2 when the tanker finally crashes?
It was full of sand
The settlers had smuggled the real fuel out in oil drums inside their smaller vehicles while everyone chased the decoy.
Q 23Which actor plays the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 and pilot Jedediah in Beyond Thunderdome?
Bruce Spence
The Pursuit Special is a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT hardtop; its bonnet-mounted Weiand supercharger was a non-functioning prop, spun by an electric motor for the camera.
Q 14Roughly what was the production budget of the original Mad Max?
A$400,000
Mad Max was made for roughly A$400,000, partly raised by the director working months of emergency house calls as a doctor; it went on to gross about US$100 million worldwide.
Q 15Which 1999 release took Mad Max's twenty-year Guinness record for most profitable film?
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project (1999), shot for about US$60,000, took the Guinness record for highest cost-to-profit ratio that Mad Max had held since 1979.
Q 16What did the US distributor do to the first film's dialogue for its 1980 release there?
Redubbed it with new voices
'Oi!' became 'Hey!', 'windscreen' became 'windshield' and 'proby' became 'rookie'.
Q 17Who composed the scores for the first two Mad Max films?
Brian May
Australian composer Brian May (no relation to the Queen guitarist) scored Mad Max (1979) and Mad Max 2 (1981), hired after his music for the 1978 thriller Patrick.
Q 18In and around which Australian city was the original Mad Max filmed?
Melbourne
The original Mad Max was shot in and around Melbourne in 1977–78, on roads near Little River and in the town of Clunes; the crew often closed roads without permits.
Q 19Mad Max 2 was shot in the outback around which Australian mining town?
Broken Hill
Mad Max 2 (1981) was filmed in the desert around Broken Hill, New South Wales; Fury Road planned to return there in 2010 until heavy rain turned the area green with wildflowers.
Q 20What is the name of the masked leader of the marauders besieging the refinery in Mad Max 2?
Lord Humungus
Lord Humungus, the self-styled 'Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla', leads the marauders besieging the refinery in Mad Max 2 (1981); he wears a hockey mask and was played by Kjell Nilsson.
Bruce Spence, the lanky New Zealand-born actor, played the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 (1981) and the pilot Jedediah in Beyond Thunderdome (1985), officially two different characters.
Q 24Which mohawked marauder, armed with a wrist-mounted crossbow, hunts Max in Mad Max 2?
Wez
Wez, played by Vernon Wells, is the mohawked marauder with a wrist-mounted crossbow in Mad Max 2 (1981); Wells went on to play the villain Bennett in Commando (1985).
Q 25In Beyond Thunderdome, Bartertown's electricity comes from a refinery in 'Underworld' that runs on what?
Methane from pig manure
Pig Killer is serving a sentence shovelling it there for the crime of slaughtering a pig to feed his children.
Q 26Who runs Underworld in Beyond Thunderdome, a dwarf engineer who rides on his giant bodyguard's shoulders?
Master
Master, the dwarf engineer played by Angelo Rossitto, runs Underworld and rides on the shoulders of his giant bodyguard Blaster; together the pair are known as Master Blaster.
Q 27The tribe of children Max meets in Beyond Thunderdome are descended from survivors of what crash?
A Qantas Boeing 747
The children's tribe descends from passengers of a Qantas Boeing 747 that crashed in the desert; they await its pilot, Captain Walker, to fly them to 'Tomorrow-morrow Land'.
Q 28Which Beyond Thunderdome song, sung by the actress playing Aunty Entity, hit No. 2 in the US?
We Don't Need Another Hero
'We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)' reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985; the film's other song, 'One of the Living', won a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal.
Q 29Beyond Thunderdome is dedicated to which co-creator of the series, killed in a helicopter crash in 1983?
Byron Kennedy
Byron Kennedy, producer of the first two films, died in a helicopter crash in New South Wales in July 1983; Beyond Thunderdome carries a dedication to him.
Q 30What MPAA rating did Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome receive in the United States?
PG-13
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) was rated PG-13 in the United States after its violence was toned down; the first two films and Fury Road all carried R ratings.