2015 Movies
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50 free 2015 Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
2015 was the year the blockbuster got its swagger back. A new Star Wars film arrived after a ten-year wait and became the biggest release of the year, Jurassic World reopened the gates, and Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Minions each passed a billion dollars at the box office. Away from the franchises, a post-apocalyptic chase through the desert and a survival story set on Mars reminded audiences what a big screen is for. This quiz covers the films released that year: The Force Awakens, Inside Out, Spectre, The Martian, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Spotlight, Room, The Big Short, Straight Outta Compton, Creed and many more. Expect questions on casts, characters, plots, directors and the stories behind the camera, most of them pitched for casual film fans, with a few tougher ones for the buffs. It is written for movie-night hosts, pub quiz setters and anyone who spent 2015 in a cinema seat. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the questions for a group.
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Q 01Which crop does stranded astronaut Mark Watney grow in Martian soil to survive in The Martian?
Potatoes
Potatoes were actually grown on a sound stage next to the one used for filming. In the story, the botanist fertilises his garden with the crew's own bio-waste.
Q 02Which festival's parade did Mexico City stage for the first time in 2016, inspired by the opening of Spectre?
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead had no such parade in the capital until the Bond film invented one. The authorities organised a real procession the following year, and 250,000 people attended.
Q 03Which of Riley's five emotions in Pixar's Inside Out finally takes the controls and sends her back home?
Sadness
Sadness takes over the console and prompts Riley to get off the bus and rush back to her parents. The emotions then make a new core memory that is both happy and sad.
Q 04Which genetically engineered hybrid escapes its paddock and terrorises the theme park in Jurassic World?
Indominus rex
Indominus rex turns out to carry Velociraptor DNA. That lets it take command of Owen's trained raptors and become the pack's new alpha.
Q 05Which actress shaved her head to play Imperator Furiosa, a one-armed rig driver, in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron's Furiosa later got a film of her own. The prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga arrived in 2024, again written and directed by George Miller.
Q 06Which Furious 7 star died during production, leaving his two brothers to stand in for his remaining scenes?
Paul Walker
Paul Walker died in a car crash and filming was suspended for months. The song that plays over the ending, See You Again, is a tribute to him.
Q 07Which singer's Writing's on the Wall, the theme from Spectre, was the first Bond song to top the UK chart?
Sam Smith
Sam Smith's theme also won the Oscar for Best Original Song, making it only the second Bond theme to take that award.
Q 08Which actress voices Scarlet Overkill, the supervillain the yellow henchmen serve in 2015's Minions?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock's villain ends up locking Kevin, Stuart and Bob in a dungeon. The film grossed $1.16 billion, the fifth-highest total of the year.
Q 09Which animal mauls frontiersman Hugh Glass and leaves him near death early in The Revenant?
A grizzly bear
A grizzly bear attacks while Glass is out scouting for game. Leonardo DiCaprio's performance in the role won him his first Oscar, after five earlier nominations.
Q 10Which actress appears as herself in a bathtub to explain subprime mortgages in The Big Short?
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie's cameo trended again six years later, during the GameStop short squeeze. Viewers used her explanation as a reference point for the stock frenzy.
Q 11Which rolling droid escapes with a vital map and befriends a scavenger in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
BB-8
BB-8 was performed on set by a rod puppet and a remote-controlled unit rather than added later by computer. Seven puppets of the character were built for filming.
Q 12Which actress, then almost unknown, plays the Jakku scavenger Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley had been working as a bartender at two London pubs before she was cast. The film went on to become the highest-grossing release of 2015.
Q 13Which director cast Tom Hanks as a lawyer negotiating a Cold War prisoner exchange in Bridge of Spies?
Steven Spielberg
Q 21Which actor plays the Apple co-founder in the 2015 film Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin?
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender took the part after Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale had each been lined up for it. Ashton Kutcher had played the same man two years earlier in Jobs.
Q 22Which actor plays the painter Lili Elbe in Tom Hooper's 2015 drama The Danish Girl?
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne earned a Best Actor nomination for the role. His co-star Alicia Vikander, as the painter's wife Gerda Wegener, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Q 23Which actress plays FBI agent Kate Macer in Sicario, Denis Villeneuve's thriller about a drug cartel task force?
Emily Blunt
Steven Spielberg's film takes its title from the Glienicke Bridge, where the real swap took place. Mark Rylance won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as the Soviet agent Rudolf Abel.
Q 14Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for Room, playing a mother held captive with her young son?
Brie Larson
Brie Larson's character has been a prisoner for seven years when the story begins. Jacob Tremblay plays her five-year-old boy, who was born in captivity.
Q 15Which newspaper's investigative team exposes abuse by Catholic priests in Spotlight, the Best Picture winner for 2015?
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe's unit is the oldest continuously operating investigative team at an American newspaper. The film took only one Oscar besides the top prize, for its screenplay.
Q 16Which hip-hop group's rise and fall under manager Jerry Heller is told in Straight Outta Compton?
N.W.A
N.W.A member Ice Cube is played in the film by his own son, the rapper O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Q 17Which actor earned an Oscar nomination for Creed by returning to a boxer he first played in 1976?
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone won the Critics' Choice Award for the part. His Rocky Balboa is now the trainer, mentoring the son of his old rival Apollo.
Q 18Which comedian voiced Count Dracula in Hotel Transylvania 2 and fought video-game aliens in Pixels, both in 2015?
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler also co-wrote the monster sequel. In Pixels he plays Sam Brenner, a former arcade champion called up when invaders attack with video game characters.
Q 19Which Pixar director made Inside Out after noticing his daughter's personality change as she grew older?
Pete Docter
Pete Docter saw his daughter Elie becoming more quiet and reserved, and began to wonder what was happening internally. The project was green-lit in October 2009.
Q 20Which future co-creator of Yellowstone made his screenwriting debut with the 2015 thriller Sicario?
Taylor Sheridan
Taylor Sheridan earned a Writers Guild nomination for the script. His Kevin Costner ranch saga reached television in 2018, three years after the film came out.
Emily Blunt joined the film in April 2014, shortly before Benicio del Toro. The studio went on to commission a sequel centred on his character.
Q 24Which Italian composer won the Oscar for Best Original Score for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight?
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone had not written a complete Western score for 34 years. It was also the first Tarantino film to use an original score at all.
Q 25Whom does Katniss Everdeen shoot instead of President Snow at the end of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2?
Alma Coin
Alma Coin, the leader of District 13, is accused by Snow of staging a bombing to turn his followers against him. Katniss fires at her during his public execution.
Q 26Which Pixar film followed Inside Out into cinemas in 2015, the studio's first year with two feature releases?
The Good Dinosaur
The Good Dinosaur imagines a world where the giant reptiles never died out. It follows Arlo, a timid young Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy called Spot.
Q 27Which real-life gangster and FBI informant does Johnny Depp play in the 2015 crime drama Black Mass?
Whitey Bulger
Whitey Bulger led the Winter Hill Gang. The film shows him exploiting his status as an informant, using the bureau's protection as cover for his crimes.
Q 28Which household invention does Jennifer Lawrence's character sell on the shopping channel QVC in the 2015 film Joy?
Miracle Mop
Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano designed the self-wringing gadget out of frustration with ordinary ones. Bradley Cooper plays the QVC executive who agrees to put it on television.
Q 29Which actress plays Lady Tremaine, the jealous stepmother, in Kenneth Branagh's 2015 live-action Cinderella?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett was the first actor cast in the film. Her character resents her stepdaughter for her unbreakable spirit and kindness.
Q 30Which actor voices the title villain, a rogue artificial intelligence, in Avengers: Age of Ultron?
James Spader
James Spader's machine is created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as a peacekeeper. It promptly decides that world peace requires human extinction.