2018 Movies
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50 free 2018 Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The year 2018 gave cinemas one of their biggest superhero seasons, with Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War filling seats only months apart. It was also a strong year for animated sequels, musical biopics, smart horror and a new wave of films made for streaming. This quiz covers the whole year: the blockbusters, the family films children watched on repeat, the awards contenders and a few festival favourites for dedicated film fans. Questions touch on casts, characters, directors, production stories and the prizes handed out the following winter. It suits a pub quiz round, a family movie night or anyone testing how much of the year they remember. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so there is a story to take away even from a miss.
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Q 01Which country opened its first commercial cinema in decades in 2018 with a screening of Black Panther?
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia had lifted its cinema ban only months earlier, in December 2017. The Riyadh premiere in April 2018 opened the first commercial cinema there in decades, though none of the cast attended.
Q 02Black Panther became the first superhero film ever nominated for which Academy Award?
Best Picture
Best Picture went to another film, but Black Panther still took home three Oscars, for its score, costumes and production design. They were the first Academy Awards won by any Marvel Studios film.
Q 03Which actor played both Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and the time-traveling soldier Cable in Deadpool 2?
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin performed Thanos through motion capture on set. Deadpool 2 reached US cinemas on May 18, 2018, just three weeks after the Avengers film opened.
Q 04What must Sandra Bullock's character wear outdoors to survive the entities in the thriller Bird Box?
A blindfold
A blindfold is the only defence, because people who see the entities are driven insane. The film is based on a 2014 novel by Josh Malerman.
Q 05Which star of The Office directed A Quiet Place and acted in it opposite his wife, Emily Blunt?
John Krasinski
John Krasinski also co-wrote the script, about a family hiding from blind creatures with acute hearing. The characters talk in American Sign Language to stay silent.
Q 06Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek's award was one of four Oscars for the film, the most of any movie that night. Sacha Baron Cohen had been set for the role in 2010 but left over creative differences.
Q 07Which Marvel Comics legend, who died in November 2018, appears as a dog walker in Venom?
Stan Lee
Stan Lee co-created Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk and the Fantastic Four. He made cameo appearances in many films based on Marvel characters.
Q 08Which injury did Tom Cruise suffer jumping between buildings while filming Mission: Impossible – Fallout?
A broken ankle
A broken ankle resulted when he hit a wall during the jump. Filming stopped for nearly two months, yet he later shot a cliff-top fight in Norway on the injured leg.
Q 09Which Training Day star made the first sequel of his long career when he returned for The Equalizer 2?
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington had never before starred in a sequel to one of his own films. It was his fourth project with director Antoine Fuqua, who guided him to a Best Actor Oscar for Training Day.
Q 10Which character does Bob Parr call on to babysit Jack-Jack in Incredibles 2?
Edna Mode
Edna Mode is voiced by Brad Bird, who also wrote and directed the film. The Pixar sequel grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide.
Q 11Which fictional metal, mined only in the kingdom of Wakanda, makes up the suit worn by Black Panther?
Vibranium
Vibranium also forms Captain America's shield, as an alloy with steel. In the comics, the Wakandans hid their country from the outside world to protect the metal.
Q 12Which duet from A Star Is Born won Lady Gaga the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
Shallow
Shallow is the song Ally sings on stage with Jackson Maine after first refusing to join him. The single topped the charts in multiple countries.
Q 13In which city does Rachel Chu learn how wealthy her boyfriend's family is in Crazy Rich Asians?
Singapore
Singapore is home to the Young family, though parts of the film were shot in Malaysia. It was the first major Hollywood studio film since 1993 with a majority cast of Chinese descent in a modern setting.
Q 21Which action star battles a 75-foot prehistoric shark in The Meg, an American and Chinese co-production?
Jason Statham
Jason Statham's foe is a megalodon, a species believed extinct for over two million years. Scientists meet it during a rescue mission on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
Q 22Which Broadway star played Jack, a cockney lamplighter, in Mary Poppins Returns?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Jack is a former apprentice of Bert, the chimney sweep Dick Van Dyke played in 1964. The part brought him a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 23Which benefit concert provides the grand finale of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody?
Live Aid
Q 14Which actor played astronaut Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle's space drama First Man?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling reunited with his La La Land director for the film, which follows the years leading up to Apollo 11 in 1969 and dwells on what the mission cost Armstrong and his family.
Q 15Which actor plays Arthur Curry, the half-Atlantean hero reluctant to rule an underwater kingdom, in Aquaman?
Jason Momoa
Jason Momoa's film grossed $1.152 billion worldwide. That out-earned every earlier film based on a DC Comics character, Batman's included.
Q 16Which New York City teenager becomes the new hero of the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?
Miles Morales
Miles Morales gains his powers from the bite of a radioactive spider. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Q 17Which streaming service released Bird Box, The Kissing Booth and To All the Boys I've Loved Before in 2018?
Netflix
Netflix said one in three viewers of The Kissing Booth watched it again. That teen romance proved popular enough to grow into a trilogy.
Q 18Which talk-show legend played Mrs. Which, one of three celestial guides, in Disney's A Wrinkle in Time?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey's character is an astral being as old as the universe. Ava DuVernay became the first African-American woman to direct a live-action film with a budget of more than $100 million.
Q 19Which actress returned as Laurie Strode in 2018's Halloween, forty years after first playing the role?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis came back for a direct sequel to the 1978 original that ignores every other film in the franchise. John Carpenter's approval was sought for each major step.
Q 20Which actor played the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Donald Glover
Donald Glover met Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando in earlier Star Wars films and passed on some words of advice.
Live Aid, staged at Wembley Stadium in 1985, is where the story stops, fifteen years after the band forms. In the film, Freddie Mercury talks his bandmates into playing as a late addition to the bill.
Q 24Which Oscar-winning 2018 film follows pianist Don Shirley and his driver on a concert tour of the segregated Deep South?
Green Book
Green Book takes its title from a travel guide for Black motorists published from 1936 to 1966. The film won three Oscars, including the top prize, although its director was not even nominated.
Q 25Which American vice president did Christian Bale portray in Adam McKay's satirical biopic Vice?
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney's rise is traced from his days as a lineman in Wyoming after dropping out of Yale. Bale won a Golden Globe for the performance.
Q 26Which actor made his directorial debut with A Star Is Born while also playing musician Jackson Maine?
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper gave up an upfront salary in favour of a back-end deal to secure the directing job. He was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the role.
Q 27Which English actor plays Eddie Brock, a struggling journalist who becomes host to an alien symbiote, in Venom?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy returned to the part in two sequels, released in 2021 and 2024. He co-wrote the story for the first of them.
Q 28Which actor voiced the Christmas-hating title character of Illumination's 2018 animated film The Grinch?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch's version grossed $553 million, making it the highest-grossing Christmas film up to that time. Pharrell Williams narrates.
Q 29Which racer from the game Sugar Rush befriends the Disney Princesses in Ralph Breaks the Internet?
Vanellope
Vanellope von Schweetz is voiced by Sarah Silverman. She and Ralph go online to buy a replacement steering wheel that will save her arcade game from being scrapped.
Q 30Which car does the Transformer B-127 scan after crash-landing in 1987 California in Bumblebee?
Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle was the character's form in the original toys and cartoon. The earlier live-action films had turned him into a Chevrolet Camaro instead.