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50 free X-Men: Days of Future Past trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This X-Men: Days of Future Past trivia quiz covers Bryan Singer's 2014 time-travel epic, the film that united the original X-Men cast with the First Class generation. The easy questions cover the setup: the Sentinel apocalypse of 2023, Kitty Pryde sending Wolverine's mind back to 1973, a broken Charles Xavier on his serum, Magneto locked under the Pentagon, Bolivar Trask and the assassination Mystique must not carry out. The harder ones dig into the future X-Men at the Chinese temple, the Paris Peace Accords, the plastic gun, RFK Stadium, the rewritten timeline and the En Sabah Nur post-credits scene. Behind the scenes it covers Chris Claremont and John Byrne's 1981 comic, Matthew Vaughn's Kennedy magic-bullet idea and his exit for Kingsman, why Wolverine replaced Kitty as the traveller, Rachel Summers in the first draft, the Montreal shoot, Kelsey Grammer's secret cameo, the Quicksilver kitchen sequence, John Ottman scoring and editing, the lawsuit that pulled Singer from publicity, the Rogue Cut and the record $746 million gross. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our X-Men movies and Wolverine movies quizzes.
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Q 01Who directed X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Bryan Singer
Matthew Vaughn was set to return from First Class but left for Kingsman: The Secret Service.
Q 02In which year is the film's dystopian future set?
2023
Ten years after release, in other words; the past is 1973.
Q 03Who plays the weapons designer behind the Sentinel programme?
Peter Dinklage
The Game of Thrones star's Trask heads Trask Industries and is opposed by Nixon at first.
Q 04Whose power sends a person's consciousness into the past?
Kitty Pryde's
Writer Simon Kinberg gave her the secondary power; in the comics she is the one who travels.
Q 05Why does Wolverine make the trip to 1973 rather than the professor?
Going that far back would kill anyone who cannot heal
Kinberg also felt Wolverine's ageless look made him the sensible choice.
Q 06Where do the future X-Men make their last stand?
A remote Chinese temple
Storm, Colossus, Iceman and most of the others die there while buying time.
Q 07Who designed the Sentinels?
Bolivar Trask
The weapons designer's 1973 murder is the event that must be prevented.
Q 08What does Magneto secretly infuse into Trask's prototype Sentinels so he can control them?
Steel
Non-metal prototypes would otherwise be beyond his reach.
Q 09Why has the young Xavier lost his telepathy in 1973?
A serum that lets him walk suppresses it
Hank McCoy developed it; Charles has also turned to drink after the school closed.
Q 10Why is Magneto imprisoned beneath the Pentagon?
For assassinating John F. Kennedy
He claims he was actually trying to save Kennedy, who was a mutant.
Q 11Who plays Quicksilver?
Evan Peters
Aaron Taylor-Johnson played a different Quicksilver in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron a year later.
Q 12Where does the celebrated Quicksilver super-speed sequence take place?
The Pentagon kitchen
Rising Sun Pictures created it, and many reviewers called it the effects centrepiece of the film.
Q 13Where does Mystique first try to kill Trask?
The Paris Peace Accords
Xavier, Beast and Logan foil it, but Beast and the shapeshifter are exposed on camera as mutants.
Q 21Who is building pyramids in the post-credits scene?
En Sabah Nur
The ancient mutant became the villain of the 2016 sequel.
Q 22Which comics creators wrote the 1981 'Days of Future Past' storyline?
Chris Claremont and John Byrne
It ran in Uncanny X-Men #141-142; Claremont cameos in the film as a congressman.
Q 23Which character was the time-traveller in the first draft of the script?
Rachel Summers
Kinberg and Vaughn also considered Bishop and Cable before settling on Wolverine.
Q 14Which US president authorises the Sentinel programme in the film?
Richard Nixon
Mark Camacho plays him; two X-Men comics writers cameo as congressmen.
Q 15What does Magneto lift to barricade the White House?
RFK Stadium
He has secretly rigged Trask's prototypes so he can control them.
Q 16How does Mystique subdue Magneto in the climax?
With a plastic gun
Plastic, of course, because he can control anything metal.
Q 17What convinces Mystique to spare Trask?
Xavier's telepathic appeal
Because the public sees a mutant save the president, the Sentinel programme is scrapped.
Q 18What does Magneto do to Logan during the Washington battle?
Impales him with rebar and throws him in the Potomac
A disguised ally fishes him out afterwards.
Q 19Which two X-Men, dead in the old timeline, does Logan find alive at the school in the new 2023?
Jean Grey and Scott Summers
Famke Janssen and James Marsden cameo, undoing The Last Stand.
Q 20How is Logan pulled from the Potomac in 1973?
Rescued by a shapeshifter posing as Stryker
Josh Helman plays the young Stryker in the rest of the film.
Q 24How did Matthew Vaughn want to open the film?
With Magneto steering the Kennedy magic bullet
A trace of the idea survives in Magneto's Pentagon imprisonment.
Q 25Which two films did Vaughn leave Days of Future Past to make?
Kingsman and the 2015 Fantastic Four
Fox went back to the director of the first two X-Men films.
Q 26Where was the film principally shot?
Montreal
Mel's Cité du Cinéma, City Hall and McGill University all appear.
Q 27What was the film's production budget?
$205 million
Twelve visual effects companies produced 1,311 shots.
Q 28Who makes an uncredited cameo as the future Beast, flown to set in secret?
Kelsey Grammer
The writers felt audiences would want to know Hoult's 'sweet, young' Beast survived.
Q 29Who both scored and edited the film, becoming the first composer to score two X-Men films?
John Ottman
He had scored X2 and worked with Singer since The Usual Suspects.
Q 30Whose role was cut to a cameo in cinemas, then restored in an alternate home-media version?
Anna Paquin's Rogue
The Rogue Cut arrived in July 2015 with a more complex plot involving a raid on the old Cerebro.