Spider-Man Movie Trivia
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This Spider-Man movie trivia quiz has 117 free questions with answers and covers every film version of the wall-crawler: Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire, Marc Webb's two Amazing Spider-Man films with Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland's run through the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to No Way Home, the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse animated films, and the Venom spin-offs. Questions range from easy casting and villain checks to hard production trivia: budgets, opening-weekend records, cancelled sequels, composers, cameos and the strange history of the film rights before Sony got them. It suits a movie night, a Marvel fan quiz or a warm-up before the next release. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources for the individual films, so the box-office figures and credits are the real ones, not half-remembered ones.
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Q 01Sam Raimi cast Tobey Maguire after seeing him play an orphan in which film?
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules sold Raimi on Maguire, but Columbia doubted he could be an action hero until he turned up to his screen test newly muscled and won the executives over.
Q 02Which actor played Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002)?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe insisted on wearing the Green Goblin suit himself, arguing that a stuntman behind the mask couldn't carry the character's body language; he returned to the role in No Way Home.
Q 03Spider-Man (2002) broke which film's opening-weekend record?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone lost its record to the film its own director had turned down: Chris Columbus passed on Spider-Man to make it, and Raimi's film then out-earned it on fewer screens.
Q 04Who composed the score for the first two Raimi Spider-Man films?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman fell out with Raimi and refused to score the third film, though the two later reunited on Oz the Great and Powerful.
Q 05Kirsten Dunst played which character in the Raimi trilogy?
Mary Jane Watson
Kirsten Dunst landed Mary Jane Watson only a month before filming began, after Kate Hudson had passed on the part.
Q 06During the upside-down kiss in Spider-Man (2002), what made the shot difficult for Tobey Maguire?
Rain water pouring into his nose
Rain water pouring into his nose left Maguire unable to breathe as he hung upside down, so he held his breath through the kiss; he later said it was far less romantic than it looked.
Q 07In Raimi's trilogy, how does Peter Parker produce his webbing?
Organically from his wrists
Raimi's Peter shoots webbing organically from his wrists, a deliberate break from the comics, where the teenage Peter engineers his own devices.
Q 08Who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004)?
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina nicknamed Doc Ock's four mechanical tentacles Larry, Harry, Moe and Flo; Flo, at his right shoulder, handled delicate jobs like lighting his cigar.
Q 09Spider-Man 2 won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects went to Spider-Man 2 two years after the first film had been nominated for the same Oscar and lost; the sequel's two sound nominations came up empty.
Q 10Which Pulitzer winner for a novel about comic-book creators drafted Spider-Man 2?
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; his rewrite imagined a younger Doc Ock who falls for the woman Peter loves, and he kept a story credit on the finished film.
Q 11In Spider-Man 2, the big set-piece fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus takes place on top of what?
A subway train
A subway train carries the fight, which ends with Peter stopping the runaway train and being carried unmasked by the passengers.
Q 12Spider-Man 2 was named one of the top ten films of 2004 by which organization?
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute put Spider-Man 2 on its list of the ten best films of 2004, and Roger Ebert called it the best superhero movie since 1978's Superman.
Q 13At its 2007 release, Spider-Man 3 held which distinction?
Most expensive film ever made
Q 21Who composed the score for The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
James Horner
James Horner, a double Oscar winner for Titanic, was enlisted because the reboot's director wanted a score that blended grandeur with intimacy.
Q 22What belonging of his father's does Peter find in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
A briefcase
A briefcase left by his father Richard holds papers on cross-species genetics, and they lead Peter to Oscorp and to his father's old colleague Curt Connors.
Q 23In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Stan Lee's cameo has him playing what?
A school librarian
Lee plays the school librarian, listening to classical music on headphones, oblivious to the Lizard fight wrecking the library behind him.
With a budget estimated at $258 million, Spider-Man 3 was the most expensive film ever made when it opened in May 2007, a mark Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End passed weeks later.
Q 14Spider-Man 3's opening-weekend record stood until which 2008 film beat it?
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight beat the forecasts as well as the record: early predictions had it opening below Spider-Man 3, and Warner's own distribution chief admitted he never thought it could come close.
Q 15Who played Flint Marko, the Sandman, in Spider-Man 3?
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church, fresh from an Oscar nomination for Sideways, played Flint Marko, whom the film reveals to be the man who really shot Ben Parker.
Q 16Which actor played Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3?
Topher Grace
Topher Grace, then best known for That '70s Show, played Eddie Brock, the rival photographer who fakes a Spider-Man picture and then bonds with the alien suit Peter tears off in a church bell tower.
Q 17Who played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3 (2007)?
Bryce Dallas Howard
Bryce Dallas Howard's Gwen is Peter's lab partner; when Spider-Man kisses her on stage at a ceremony in his honour, purely to please the crowd, it infuriates Mary Jane.
Q 18Raimi's unmade Spider-Man 4 wanted which actress as Felicia Hardy?
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway was in talks to play Felicia Hardy, the comics' Black Cat, when Sony scrapped the film; two years later she played another comic-book cat burglar, Catwoman.
Q 19Who directed The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Marc Webb
Marc Webb had directed just one feature, the indie romance (500) Days of Summer, when Sony chose him over David Fincher to relaunch the series.
Q 20Which actor played Dr. Curt Connors, the Lizard, in The Amazing Spider-Man?
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans played Curt Connors, whose lizard-DNA serum regrows his lost arm and turns him into the Lizard; Dylan Baker had played an untransformed Connors in Spider-Man 2 and 3.
Q 24Who played Ben Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen played Ben Parker opposite Sally Field's May; Ben is shot by a thief while out looking for Peter after an argument, and the hunt for the killer first puts Peter in a mask.
Q 25Which actor played Max Dillon in The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx sat through hours of blue paint and prosthetics to become Max Dillon's alter ego Electro; when he returned in No Way Home, the blue was gone.
Q 26Paul Giamatti's character Aleksei Sytsevich in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 becomes which villain?
The Rhino
Sytsevich returns in the film's final minutes inside a mechanized armor as the Rhino, a setup for sequels that were never made.
Q 27Which composer, working with a group called The Magnificent Six, scored The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer assembled The Magnificent Six, including Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr of the Smiths, to score The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Q 28Which villain-team spin-off from Drew Goddard was planned after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but never made?
Sinister Six
Drew Goddard's Sinister Six film was announced in 2013 but died after Sony and Marvel Studios agreed in February 2015 to share Spider-Man instead.
Q 29Tom Holland's Spider-Man first appeared in which film?
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War brought in Holland's Peter when Tony Stark adds the Queens teenager to his team for the airport battle in Leipzig.
Q 30Who directed Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)?
Jon Watts
Jon Watts caught Marvel's eye with the low-budget thriller Cop Car, directed the first three Tom Holland films and then handed the fourth to another director.