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50 free Scarlet Witch trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Scarlet Witch started out as a reluctant villain in X-Men #4 in 1964, a probability-bending member of Magneto's Brotherhood. Six decades of retcons later she has been an Avenger, Vision's wife, the mother of two magically conjured sons, the author of M-Day and, in Elizabeth Olsen's hands, the grieving sitcom star of WandaVision and the villain of Multiverse of Madness. These 50 questions cover both halves of her story: the comics, from Cap's Kooky Quartet to Immortus, House of M and the High Evolutionary retcon, and the MCU, from Sokovia and the Mind Stone through Westview, Agatha Harkness, the Darkhold and Mount Wundagore. Expect creators, storylines, actors and plot twists. Every answer is sourced from Wikipedia's coverage of the character, the series and the films, so you can check anything that surprises you. Play in sets of 10 and see if you know your chaos magic.
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Q 01What is the Scarlet Witch's real name?
Wanda Maximoff
In the comics her full name is Wanda Django Maximoff, honouring the uncle who raised her.
Q 02Who created the Scarlet Witch?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Kirby toyed with names like Jinx, Witch Woman and Miss Witch before settling on Scarlet Witch.
Q 03In which comic did the Scarlet Witch make her first appearance?
The X-Men #4
She and Quicksilver debuted in March 1964 as reluctant members of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Q 04Who is the Scarlet Witch's twin brother?
Quicksilver
Pietro is 13 minutes older and was long portrayed as obsessively protective of his 'little sister'.
Q 05Which villain team did the Scarlet Witch belong to when she debuted?
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
The twins only helped Magneto reluctantly and often tried to keep his targets from being hurt.
Q 06What was the Scarlet Witch's original power when she was introduced?
Manipulating probability
Her hexes caused bad luck for enemies; she was later expanded into a chaos-magic sorceress.
Q 07Which android did the Scarlet Witch marry in the comics?
Vision
They wed in Giant-Size Avengers #4 in 1975, at the end of the Celestial Madonna arc.
Q 08What are the superhero names of the Scarlet Witch's reincarnated sons?
Wiccan and Speed
Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd worked out they were Wanda's reborn twins in Young Avengers.
Q 09What nickname was given to the 1965 Avengers line-up led by Captain America?
Cap's Kooky Quartet
Swapping almost the entire roster at once was unprecedented for a superhero team in the 1960s.
Q 10Which Golden Age couple were once revealed as Wanda and Pietro's parents?
Whizzer and Miss America
Giant-Size Avengers #1 made the claim in 1974; it was undone five years later.
Q 11From whom does Wanda learn witchcraft in the comics?
Agatha Harkness
Writer Steve Englehart introduced the tutelage in 1974, expanding her powers beyond hexes.
Q 12Which limited series first retconned Magneto as Wanda and Pietro's father?
The Vision and the Scarlet Witch
Bill Mantlo and Rick Leonardi made the change; AXIS undid it 32 years later.
Q 13Which demon absorbed Wanda's twin sons in John Byrne's run?
Mephisto
Byrne retconned the boys as magical constructs unknowingly built from shards of Mephisto's essence.
Q 21Who wrote the 2015-2017 Scarlet Witch solo series?
James Robinson
He cited Matt Fraction and David Aja's Hawkeye as a model for giving a second-tier Avenger a fresh direction.
Q 22What title did Wanda earn on Krakoa after updating the mutant resurrection protocols?
The Redeemer
Her change added twenty million mutants, including everyone who died on Genosha, to the queue.
Q 23Which elder god claims to have infused Wanda with magic at her birth?
Chthon
Chthon is also the author of the Darkhold, which corrupts Wanda in the MCU.
Q 14Which time-travelling villain was revealed to have manipulated Wanda in the 1990s?
Immortus
Roy and Dann Thomas explained her power surge by naming her a nexus being who shapes timelines.
Q 15Which short-lived 1994 team did Wanda lead after Avengers West Coast ended?
Force Works
The title ran only a couple of years before Marvel's mid-90s relaunches.
Q 16Which 2004 storyline saw Wanda turn on her teammates and destroy their mansion?
Avengers Disassembled
Brian Michael Bendis wrote it to relaunch the team; Wanda's rampage destroyed Avengers Mansion.
Q 17In which 2005 crossover does Wanda warp reality and then depower most mutants?
House of M
Her three words, 'No more mutants', triggered M-Day.
Q 18Who illustrated the House of M limited series?
Olivier Coipel
Bendis promised the event would shake the world and break the Internet wide open.
Q 19A 2015 retcon credited Wanda and Pietro's powers to which geneticist's experiments?
The High Evolutionary
The reveal landed while Marvel Studios and Fox were disputing film rights to the pair.
Q 20Who was revealed as Wanda's true mother in the 2015 Scarlet Witch solo series?
Natalya Maximoff
Natalya was a previous Scarlet Witch; the Maximoffs who raised the twins were her brother and sister-in-law.
Q 24On which mountain were the Maximoff twins experimented on as children?
Mount Wundagore
A cow uplifted into humanoid form, Bova, served as their nurse there.
Q 25Who plays the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Elizabeth Olsen
Joss Whedon had considered Saoirse Ronan his prototype before Olsen was cast in August 2013.
Q 26In which film's mid-credits scene did Wanda first appear in the MCU?
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
She and Pietro are shown as prisoners of Baron Strucker in 2014.
Q 27Which fictional Eastern European country is the MCU Wanda from?
Sokovia
She was born there in 1989; her parents died when a Stark Industries missile hit their apartment.
Q 28Which Infinity artefact did Hydra use to awaken Wanda's powers in the MCU?
The Mind Stone
She and Pietro were the only survivors of Strucker's experiments.
Q 29Which Avenger does Wanda fail to subdue with visions in Age of Ultron?
Clint Barton
Hawkeye briefly incapacitates her, and later encourages her to rejoin the fight in Sokovia.
Q 30In which city does Wanda accidentally kill Wakandan aid workers in Civil War?
Lagos
The incident helped trigger the Sokovia Accords.