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45 free The Amazing Spider-Man trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Amazing Spider-Man rebooted the web-slinger in 2012, five years after Sam Raimi's trilogy ended and two years after Spider-Man 4 collapsed. Marc Webb, fresh from 500 Days of Summer, cast Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, brought back the mechanical web-shooters, and made the Lizard the villain. The 2014 sequel added Jamie Foxx's Electro, Dane DeHaan's Harry Osborn and a plan for a whole cinematic universe that Sony cancelled when it struck its deal with Marvel Studios. This quiz covers both films: the actors who were considered for Peter, the screen test that started Garfield and Stone's relationship, Rhys Ifans in a cardboard head and a green sleeve, the first Hollywood feature shot on the RED Epic, the Harlem swing rig, the Tokyo premiere, the Shailene Woodley scenes cut from the sequel, Hans Zimmer's Magnificent Six, Sally Field's five-pound bag, the Rochester car chase and the Sinister Six film Drew Goddard never got to make. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie quiz night.
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Q 01In The Amazing Spider-Man, what is the job of Gwen Stacy's father?
Police captain
Police captain George Stacy distrusts Spider-Man, and as he lies dying he makes Peter promise to keep Gwen out of his dangerous life.
Q 02Which 2009 film was Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb's feature debut?
500 Days of Summer
500 Days of Summer, a Golden Globe-nominated romance, was Marc Webb's first feature after years of music videos, and in January 2010 Sony handed him the Spider-Man reboot.
Q 03Whose run as Spider-Man ended when Sony scrapped Spider-Man 4 and announced a reboot in 2010?
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire was out along with director Sam Raimi because, producer Avi Arad said, they never found a story strong enough to justify a fourth film.
Q 04Which comic series did director Marc Webb say influenced the world of The Amazing Spider-Man?
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate Spider-Man shaped the film's look more than Steve Ditko's original comics did, Webb said, because he loved its adolescent, playful quality.
Q 05Andrew Garfield calmed his Spider-Man screen-test nerves by pretending he was making what?
A short film with friends
A short film with friends was the trick: Garfield told himself he was fifteen, the crew were his mates and there was no pressure, which freed him to play.
Q 06Which pop star was up for the part of Peter Parker in the year Andrew Garfield won it?
Joe Jonas
Joe Jonas went back for callbacks and hoped a director who came from music videos gave him an in; he later said losing such parts leaves you destroyed, though Garfield was the right choice.
Q 07What did Garfield admit to doing the first time he put on the Spider-Man suit?
Shedding a tear
Shedding a tear was his honest reaction to the spandex, Garfield said, and he had to imagine a much better actor's face inside the suit because his own made no sense to him.
Q 08Which villain does Harry Osborn become in The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Green Goblin
The Green Goblin is born when Harry, dying of the disease that killed his father, has himself injected with spider venom as a cure and it warps him instead.
Q 09Who plays Gwen Stacy in the Amazing Spider-Man films?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone had never met Garfield before she auditioned, but their chemistry was immediate at the screen test and soon turned into an off-screen romance.
Q 10Which long-rumoured character was never actually in the script of The Amazing Spider-Man?
Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane Watson was reported as one of two love interests Sony was casting in September 2010, but two months later The Wrap found she was not in the screenplay and apparently never had been.
Q 11Who plays Dr. Curt Connors in The Amazing Spider-Man?
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans took one look at the big double hired to play the nine-foot Lizard, said no, and insisted that every movement of the creature be his own.
Q 12The actor playing The Amazing Spider-Man's Curt Connors compared him to which literary doctor?
Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Jekyll came to mind because the Lizard becomes almost a drug for Connors, an alter ego as strong, brave and agile as the broken scientist cannot be in his own life.
Q 13The actor behind The Amazing Spider-Man's Lizard performed on set in a green suit and a head made of what?
Cardboard
Cardboard was all the on-set head amounted to, yet the actor said every blink and frown of the finished digital Lizard came from his own face.
Q 21Whose movements did stunt coordinator Andy Armstrong study to shape Spider-Man's swinging?
An Olympic gymnast
An Olympic gymnast swung on a high bar while Armstrong filmed him from every angle, because he believed the human eye can always spot a real body in motion.
Q 22Who composed the score for the first Amazing Spider-Man?
James Horner
James Horner, the composer of Titanic, got the job because Webb wanted someone who could do both grandeur and intimacy, and his first cue struck the director as spectacular.
Q 23What role does Stan Lee play in his cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man?
A school librarian
Q 14Why did Webb decide against giving the Lizard a snout?
So the creature could convey human emotion
So the creature could convey human emotion, Webb passed over the snouted Lizard of some comics; he wanted the actor's performance to survive inside the digital monster.
Q 15Who plays Uncle Ben in the Amazing Spider-Man films?
Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen's Uncle Ben is streetwise and blue-collar, not a scientist, and Webb wanted that gap between Ben and his science-minded nephew to shape their relationship.
Q 16Why did Sally Field say she took the role of Aunt May?
As a favour to producer Laura Ziskin
As a favour to producer Laura Ziskin, her friend and first producing partner, Field took a part she admitted was not her kind of movie, knowing it would be Ziskin's last film.
Q 17Which Indian actor plays Oscorp executive Rajit Ratha?
Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan admitted he did not want to join what he called a violent American fantasy, but both his sons were excited and kept insisting that he take it.
Q 18Which comic-book element did The Amazing Spider-Man restore after the Raimi films dropped it?
Mechanical web-shooters
Mechanical web-shooters returned because Webb wanted the strands to come from devices built by a young, inventive Peter, as in the comics, rather than from his body as in the 2002 film.
Q 19Which camera made The Amazing Spider-Man a Hollywood first?
The RED Epic
The RED Epic had never been used on a major studio film until this one began shooting in December 2010; its light bodies suited the 3D rigs used for action scenes.
Q 20The Amazing Spider-Man's crew built a huge rig to swing a stuntman through traffic in which Manhattan neighbourhood?
Harlem
Harlem's Riverside Drive viaduct hosted the rig because Webb wanted to ground the stunts, swinging a real man down the street instead of animating him.
A school librarian in earphones, Lee stamps books and listens to music, oblivious to Spider-Man and the Lizard wrecking the library behind him.
Q 24The actor who shot Uncle Ben in 2002's Spider-Man plays what in The Amazing Spider-Man?
A limo driver
A limo driver in the wrong place when the Lizard attacks was Michael Papajohn's part this time; he had asked to shoot Uncle Ben again, but the killer was recast.
Q 25In The Amazing Spider-Man, which old possession of his father's leads Peter to Oscorp?
A briefcase
A briefcase with a secret compartment hides his father's formula, the missing piece that Peter later hands to Dr. Curt Connors.
Q 26Which charity did Andrew Garfield become an ambassador for ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man?
Stand Up to Cancer
Stand Up to Cancer sold Spider-Man T-shirts for its campaign, which Garfield said underscored the idea that anyone has the power to be a hero.
Q 27Which New York bridge does the Lizard attack in The Amazing Spider-Man?
Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is where Curt Connors first turns into the Lizard and goes on a rampage, forcing Spider-Man to save the people caught in the attack.
Q 28Which country was The Amazing Spider-Man's biggest market outside North America?
China
China earned the film $48.8 million, and its first week there alone beat everything Spider-Man 3 had made in the country.
Q 29Critic Ty Burr called The Amazing Spider-Man the worst superhero film since which flop?
Green Lantern
Green Lantern was Ty Burr's yardstick in a one-and-a-half-star review that called the reboot dumbed down, tarted up and almost shockingly uninspired.
Q 30Which studio developed the tie-in video game for The Amazing Spider-Man?
Beenox
Beenox, fresh from Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time, set its game as an epilogue to the film, so it spoiled the plot for anyone who played before watching.