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40 free Spider-Man trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true Spider-Man fan? Test your knowledge of the wall-crawling superhero with our exciting trivia quiz. From origin stories to iconic villains, this 130-question challenge will determine just how much you really know about Spider-Man's amazing adventures.
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Q 01What is the secret identity of the original Spider-Man?
Peter Parker
Peter Parker broke the mould for teenage heroes: neither a sidekick nor given a mentor, and readers identified with his self-doubt and loneliness.
Q 02Who was Spider-Man's first super-criminal foe, back in March 1963?
The Chameleon
The Chameleon debuted in The Amazing Spider-Man #1 (March 1963) as the first super-criminal to face Spider-Man. A master of disguise, he works by impersonating other people rather than by any superhuman power.
Q 03Who is credited, alongside Stan Lee, with co-creating Spider-Man?
Steve Ditko
Ditko drew the first 38 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man and co-created much of the supporting cast and the rogues' gallery with Stan Lee, before leaving Marvel in 1966.
Q 04What event is responsible for the wall-crawler gaining his superhuman abilities?
Being bitten by a radioactive spider
Being bitten by a radioactive spider gave him the proportionate strength and agility of an arachnid, plus the ability to cling to walls and ceilings.
Q 05Whose killing, by a burglar Peter could have stopped, became Spider-Man's defining lesson?
Uncle Ben
Uncle Ben is killed by a burglar the hero had earlier declined to stop, and the lesson drawn from that failure is the mantra 'With great power comes great responsibility.'
Q 06In which Marvel anthology comic did the wall-crawler make his very first appearance in 1962?
Amazing Fantasy #15
The title had been slated for cancellation, so with nothing to lose publisher Martin Goodman let Stan Lee try out a teenage hero with everyday doubts and money problems in what turned out to be its final issue.
Q 07Which blustering publisher of the Daily Bugle campaigns relentlessly against Spider-Man while employing Peter Parker?
J. Jonah Jameson
J. Jonah Jameson is a fixture of the comics, films and cartoons alike, paying Peter for Spider-Man photos while denouncing the hero as a menace on the front page.
Q 08Norman Osborn was the first and best-known man to take up which villainous identity?
Green Goblin
The character's identity was kept secret when he first appeared, and the mystery of who was behind the mask became a running plot point.
Q 09Which of Spider-Man's girlfriends is thrown from a bridge by the Green Goblin in a landmark 1973 storyline?
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy's death in The Amazing Spider-Man #121–122 is often taken as the moment the Silver Age of comics ended.
Q 10The alien symbiote that later becomes Venom debuted as a living costume in which comic, cover-dated May 1984?
The Amazing Spider-Man #252
Its full debut under the Venom name did not come until The Amazing Spider-Man #300 in May 1988.
Q 11Who co-created Spider-Man with Steve Ditko?
Stan Lee
Stan Lee had to talk publisher Martin Goodman past his belief that readers hated spiders; the tryout ran in what Lee recalled as the last issue of a dying anthology.
Q 12In which New York City borough, in the neighbourhood of Forest Hills, was Peter Parker raised by his aunt and uncle?
Queens
Queens, specifically Forest Hills, is home to the Parker house; the borough was part of Lee's plan for a hero with everyday, working-class problems.
Q 13Spider-Man debuted in an anthology whose numbering was inherited from which earlier Marvel title?
Amazing Adventures
Q 21Which director helmed 'The Amazing Spider-Man' film released in 2012, starring Andrew Garfield?
Marc Webb
Marc Webb, known for '500 Days of Summer,' directed 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' which served as a reboot of the film series.
Q 22Which crossover gave Spider-Man the black costume later revealed as an alien symbiote?
Secret Wars
Peter Parker obtained his black suit on Battleworld during the 1984-1985 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars storyline, initially believing it to be a new fabric suit.
Q 23What is the real name of the Spider-Man villain known as Shocker?
Herman Schultz
The Shocker, a skilled safe-cracker who invented gauntlets that emit powerful vibrational shockwaves, is known by his real name, Herman Schultz.
Amazing Adult Fantasy premiered with issue #7, taking over the numbering from Amazing Adventures; the 'Adult' was dropped for its 15th and last issue.
Q 14Which figure in Peter Parker's life is remembered for the line 'with great power comes great responsibility'?
Uncle Ben
Uncle Ben's words only sank in after his death, at the hands of a burglar Peter could have stopped; the line has defined the character ever since.
Q 15What device does Spider-Man use to shoot webs?
Web-shooters
Web-shooters were Peter's own design, and the synthetic fluid runs out at the worst moments; the Raimi films gave him organic webbing instead.
Q 16Which comic book company publishes Spider-Man?
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics has had Spider-Man as a flagship since 1962; Image and Dark Horse did not even exist until decades later.
Q 17In which comic book did Spider-Man make his very first appearance?
Amazing Fantasy #15
Spider-Man first swung into action in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962, an anthology comic that was on the verge of cancellation.
Q 18What is the full first name of Peter Parker's Aunt May?
Maybelle
She is Maybelle Parker-Jameson in current continuity, having married J. Jonah Jameson's father Jay in 2009.
Q 19Besides the costume and spider signal, what wrist device did Steve Ditko say he designed first for Spider-Man?
The web gimmick
Jack Kirby had drawn a first version that Lee rejected; Ditko's redesign gave Spider-Man the full-face mask, wrist web-shooters and spider-signal in one go.
Q 20Who directed Tobey Maguire in the 2002 'Spider-Man'?
Sam Raimi
Maguire's casting in Raimi's 2002 film brought him international recognition after years of supporting roles.
Q 24In the 1973 Gwen Stacy death story, the art shows the Brooklyn Bridge but the text names which?
George Washington
Gwen dies from the whiplash of Spider-Man's web catching her fall, and the Goblin himself is killed by his own glider in the following issue.
Q 25Which writer's 2005 New Avengers series made Spider-Man a full-time Avenger?
Brian Michael Bendis
Bendis later co-created Miles Morales in 2011, and Spider-Man's Avengers stint led into the Civil War storyline where he publicly unmasked.
Q 26Which of these is NOT one of Spider-Man's primary powers or abilities?
Organic web-spinning
While some iterations of Spider-Man have organic webbing, the classic and most common depiction of his powers includes superhuman strength, agility, wall-crawling, and a precognitive 'spider-sense,' with webs being shot from mechanical web-shooters.
Q 27In what year did Spider-Man make his comic book debut?
1962
Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962, marking his official introduction to the Marvel Comics universe.
Q 28Felicia Hardy, Spider-Man's on-off love interest, operates under which costumed identity?
Black Cat
Daughter of a famous cat burglar, she debuted in 1979 and was played by Felicity Jones in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Q 29What is the real name of the Spider-Man villain known as Sandman?
Flint Marko
The Sandman's real name is William Baker, but he is better known as Flint Marko. He gained his sand-manipulating powers after being exposed to a nuclear test explosion.
Q 30Which tabloid, publisher J. Jonah Jameson's pastiche of New York's real dailies, buys Peter Parker's freelance photos?
The Daily Bugle
The Daily Bugle is a pastiche of the New York Daily News and the New York Post, and Peter began freelancing photos for it in The Amazing Spider-Man #2.