Spider-Man Trivia for Kids
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47 free Spider-Man Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Spider-Man trivia for kids quiz is written for children aged roughly 7 to 12 and for the grown-ups who read them the comics. It covers how Peter Parker got his powers, who raised him, which newspaper he takes photos for, and the villains every kid knows: the Green Goblin on his glider, Doc Ock with his metal arms, Sandman, Electro, Rhino and Venom. There are also questions about Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen and the pig hero Spider-Ham from Into the Spider-Verse, the Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland movies, the preschool show Spidey and His Amazing Friends, the video game and even the old cartoon theme song. Everything is pitched so a young Spider-Man fan can get most of them right and learn something fun from the rest. There is nothing frightening in here, and the sadder parts of the comics are left out. It works for a superhero birthday party, a rainy afternoon quiz, or a classroom reward game. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and Marvel film pages, so parents and teachers can read them out with confidence. All 47 questions are free and there is no sign-up. Older fans who want something tougher can try our main Spider-Man trivia page or the Hard Spider-Man quiz.
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Q 01In the original comic, what kind of spider bit Peter Parker and gave him his powers?
A radioactive spider
A radioactive spider: at a science exhibit it dropped through a beam of radiation, bit Peter and died, and soon afterwards he found himself clinging to a wall by his fingertips.
Q 02Which part of New York City did Peter Parker grow up in?
Queens
Queens is home: the comics put Peter's house at 20 Ingram Street in Forest Hills, a real address where, by coincidence, a real family named Parker turned out to be living.
Q 03Which word completes the Spider-Man saying 'With great power comes great ...'?
Responsibility
Peter learns responsibility the hard way after letting a thief run past him; Justice Elena Kagan even quoted the line in a 2015 US Supreme Court opinion about a Spider-Man toy patent.
Q 04Which actress plays Peter's classmate MJ in the Tom Holland Spider-Man films?
Zendaya
Zendaya plays Michelle Jones, a new character rather than the comics' Mary Jane Watson; only at the very end of Homecoming does she tell her teammates that her friends call her MJ.
Q 05Which artist drew Spider-Man's first stories and designed his costume?
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko drew the story and designed the costume, yet the cover of Spider-Man's first comic is mostly not his: Jack Kirby pencilled it, and Ditko only inked over Kirby's lines.
Q 06Before Spider-Man in 1962, teenagers in superhero comics were usually what?
Sidekicks
Sidekicks, like Batman's Robin: Peter had no grown-up hero to guide him, so he had to learn from his own mistakes.
Q 07Why did Spider-Man's co-creator say the full-face mask made him so popular?
Anyone could imagine being inside it
Anyone could imagine being inside it, he explained, because the costume hides every inch of skin: a reader of any background, anywhere in the world, can picture themselves as Spider-Man.
Q 08Which relative's death taught Peter that he must use his powers to help people?
His Uncle Ben
Uncle Ben was shot by a burglar Peter had earlier let run past him; realising it was the same man taught Peter to use his powers for others.
Q 09Who is the kind older woman who raises Peter Parker?
Aunt May
Aunt May once got engaged to one of Peter's worst enemies in the comics; the villain was secretly after a nuclear plant on an island she had inherited.
Q 10What happened to Peter Parker's parents when he was little?
They died in a plane crash
They died in a plane crash when Peter was tiny; years later he learned that Richard and Mary Parker had been secret agents, and that an enemy had arranged the crash.
Q 11What does Spider-Man's spider-sense do?
Warns him of danger
Warns him of danger: the spider-sense is a tingle at the back of Peter's skull that goes off just before trouble strikes, letting him dodge attacks he never saw coming.
Q 12In the original comics, how does Spider-Man shoot his webs?
From gadgets he built for his wrists
From gadgets he built for his wrists: Peter invented the web-shooters and the web fluid himself, but the 2002 film changed that, giving him webs that shoot straight from his own body.
Q 13Which newspaper does Peter Parker sell photographs to?
The Daily Bugle
Q 21In Spider-Man: Homecoming, which villain turns out to be the father of Peter's school-dance date?
The Vulture
The Vulture, Adrian Toomes, is the father of Peter's date Liz; on the night of the dance he works out that Peter is Spider-Man and threatens him to stay out of his way.
Q 22Which animal is the huge, charging villain Aleksei Sytsevich named after?
A rhinoceros
A rhinoceros was the model for the thick grey suit, horn and all, that scientists bonded to Aleksei's skin; when it later got stuck on for good, the Rhino went looking for surgeons to remove it.
Q 23Before turning to crime, what was the villain Mysterio's job in Hollywood?
Special effects artist
The Daily Bugle buys Peter's photos of Spider-Man in action, and its publisher never guesses that the young freelance photographer and the hero in the pictures are the same person.
Q 14Who is Peter's grumpy, cigar-chomping newspaper boss who thinks Spider-Man is a menace?
J. Jonah Jameson
J. Jonah Jameson dislikes Spider-Man so much that he once paid a scientist to turn a private detective into the Scorpion, a villain built to beat the hero.
Q 15Which classmate is the school bully who picks on Peter Parker?
Flash Thompson
Flash Thompson idolises Spider-Man and even starts a fan club for him, never guessing that the hero is the boy he teases; at college the two become close friends.
Q 16Which villain flies on a rocket glider and throws pumpkin-shaped bombs?
Green Goblin
The Green Goblin is really Norman Osborn, the father of Peter's best friend Harry, which makes things very awkward.
Q 17Which villain's own invention became permanently joined to his body in a lab accident?
Doctor Octopus
Doctor Octopus, really Otto Octavius, built four metal arms to handle dangerous materials from a safe distance; after the accident they stayed joined to him and obeyed his thoughts.
Q 18Which enemy of Spider-Man is a gooey alien creature that sticks to a person?
Venom
Venom bonded with Eddie Brock, a reporter who blamed Spider-Man for ruining his career; loud noise and fire can drive the creature off its host.
Q 19Which villain gained his powers when radiation caught him hiding on a beach?
Sandman
Sandman, the crook known as Flint Marko, was an escaped convict when the radiation fused his body with the sand around him; years later he gave up crime for a while and became an ally of Spider-Man.
Q 20In the comics, how did Max Dillon become the villain Electro?
He was struck by lightning
He was struck by lightning while repairing a power line; the 2014 film changed the accident, dropping Max into a tank of electric eels instead.
Quentin Beck was a Hollywood special effects artist, which is why his crimes are full of tricks and illusions under that fishbowl-style helmet.
Q 24Dr. Curt Connors turned into the Lizard while trying to do what?
Regrow his missing arm
Connors, who had lost an arm, based a serum on the way some lizards regrow lost tails so he could regrow his missing arm, but it turned him into a giant reptile instead.
Q 25Felicia Hardy, a thief who is sometimes Spider-Man's partner, goes by which costumed name?
Black Cat
Black Cat's bad-luck powers jinx anyone who means her harm; writer Marv Wolfman took the idea from Bad Luck Blackie, a Tex Avery short about a black cat that brings misfortune to others.
Q 26Miles Morales grew up in which part of New York City?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is home to Miles and his parents; writer Brian Michael Bendis has said Miles's look was shaped by seeing actor Donald Glover wear Spider-Man pyjamas in the TV comedy Community.
Q 27Which 2018 animated film about Miles Morales won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Into the Spider-Verse
Into the Spider-Verse was built to look like a printed comic: artists drew ink lines by hand over the computer images and nudged the colours out of line, the way old comics were misprinted.
Q 28In the animated Miles Morales movie, his uncle Aaron is secretly which villain?
The Prowler
Aaron Davis is the Prowler, a masked enforcer for the Kingpin; he is also the cool uncle who takes Miles to paint graffiti, which makes the discovery even harder.
Q 29Spider-Ham, the cartoon pig from the Spider-Verse, is really named what?
Peter Porker
Peter Porker's story runs backwards: he was born a spider and was turned into a pig when a pig scientist bit him, keeping his spider powers; comedian John Mulaney voices him on screen.
Q 30Peni Parker, from the Spider-Verse, fights alongside what?
A giant robot suit
Peni pilots a giant robot suit called SP//dr, steering it through a mind link with a spider that rides inside; she took over as pilot after her father, who flew it first, died.