2022 Movies Trivia
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69 free 2022 Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This movie trivia 2022 quiz covers the whole year at the cinema, from Top Gun: Maverick finally landing in May to Avatar: The Way of Water closing the year with a two-billion-dollar run. In between are the films people actually argued about: a laundromat owner hopping through the multiverse, a three-hour Batman, Austin Butler's Elvis, Jordan Peele's cloud, a Viking Hamlet, and the strangest press tour of the decade. The 69 questions mix easy crowd-pleasers (who voiced Buzz, who played the Riddler) with the details only real 2022 moviegoers remember: which horror film was shot on IMAX cameras, which Netflix film earned an NC-17, which sequel spawned the #Gentleminions trend, and what happened at the Oscars in March. Awards questions follow the 2022 films through to the ceremonies that honoured them. Every answer has been checked against the film's own Wikipedia article or the relevant awards page, and each question links to its source, so you can settle any argument at the table. Play it solo, or use it as a ready-made 2022 movie round for a quiz night.
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Q 01Who directed Top Gun: Maverick, the long-delayed 2022 sequel starring Tom Cruise?
Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski had already directed Cruise in Oblivion. The sequel was first due in July 2019, slipped a year so its flight sequences could be finished, then waited out the pandemic until May 2022.
Q 02Where does Top Gun: Maverick rank among Tom Cruise's films at the worldwide box office?
His highest-grossing film ever
His highest-grossing film ever, by a distance: after a three-year wait for release it took about $1.5 billion worldwide, close to double his previous best, Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
Q 03Which artist recorded 'Hold My Hand', the Oscar-nominated song from Top Gun: Maverick?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga wrote and produced 'Hold My Hand' with BloodPop, then sang a stripped-back version at the Oscars, where it lost Best Original Song to RRR's 'Naatu Naatu'.
Q 04Which film did Avatar: The Way of Water pass to go third at the all-time box office?
Titanic
Titanic had held third place until The Way of Water's $2.3 billion pushed it down, which for a time left James Cameron as the director of three of the four biggest films ever released.
Q 05Which actor played Kiri, the Sullys' adopted teenage daughter, in Avatar: The Way of Water?
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver was in her late sixties when she performed the teenage Kiri through motion capture. Her scientist Grace Augustine died in the first film, and Kiri was born from Grace's dormant avatar.
Q 06In Everything Everywhere All at Once, what kind of business does Evelyn Wang run?
A laundromat
A laundromat in Simi Valley, California, is Evelyn's failing business. The lead was first written for Jackie Chan, until the directors swapped the couple's roles and made the wife the hero.
Q 07Which former Goonies and Temple of Doom child actor won an Oscar for playing Waymond Wang?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan had given up acting for about two decades, working as a stunt choreographer and assistant director, until the success of Crazy Rich Asians persuaded him to try again.
Q 08Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar as Deirdre Beaubeirdre, who does which job?
IRS revenue agent
IRS revenue agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre spends the film auditing the Wangs. Her hair and outfit copy an online photo one director took to be of a tax auditor, after Curtis begged to play that woman.
Q 09Which horror film did Everything Everywhere All at Once pass to become A24's biggest hit worldwide?
Hereditary
Hereditary had been A24's biggest hit since 2018. The film that passed it opened to barely half a million dollars, spent fourteen straight weekends in the American top ten and ended above $140 million worldwide.
Q 10Who played the Riddler, the serial-killer villain of The Batman (2022)?
Paul Dano
Paul Dano plays the Riddler as a masked serial killer who taunts Gotham's police with ciphers and riddles, which is why the film's director likened him to the real Zodiac Killer.
Q 11Which actor was buried under prosthetics to play the Penguin in The Batman?
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell spent two to four hours a day having Mike Marino's prosthetics and fat suit applied, and emerged unrecognisable. The work earned the film an Oscar nomination for makeup.
Q 12Which earlier superhero blockbuster ran even longer than The Batman's 176 minutes?
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame runs 181 minutes. At 176, The Batman still lasts 12 minutes longer than The Dark Knight Rises, which makes a detective story, not a trilogy finale, the longest Batman film.
Q 13Which Oscar-winner plays Colonel Parker, the manager and narrator, in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis?
Tom Hanks
Q 21Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, the 2022 Best Animated Feature winner, moves the story to which setting?
Fascist Italy between the world wars
Fascist Italy between the world wars gave del Toro a land where, he said, citizens behave like obedient puppets, so the wooden boy's virtue is to disobey: he even mocks Mussolini to his face in a song.
Q 22RRR, the 'Naatu Naatu' epic often mislabelled a Bollywood film, was actually made in which language?
Telugu
Telugu, not Hindi: RRR comes from the southern industry nicknamed Tollywood, while Bollywood means Hindi films from Mumbai. India's own selectors passed it over as the country's Oscar entry, yet its song won anyway.
Q 23Marvel's comics make Namor king of Atlantis, but which underwater kingdom does he rule in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?
Tom Hanks played him in a fat suit and a false nose. The real 'Colonel' was born Andreas van Kuijk in the Netherlands, entered America illegally and passed himself off as American-born.
Q 14Which actor, previously known for The Carrie Diaries, played Elvis Presley in the 2022 biopic?
Austin Butler
Austin Butler beat Harry Styles and Miles Teller to the part with a tape of himself at a piano singing 'Unchained Melody', recorded after a dream about his late mother.
Q 15In The Banshees of Inisherin, what does Colm threaten to do if Pádraic keeps talking?
Cut off one of his own fingers
Cut off one of his own fingers is no idle threat: Colm, a fiddler, ends up severing all five on his left hand and throwing them at Pádraic's door, and Pádraic's pet donkey Jenny dies after choking on one.
Q 16Which conflict's gunfire drifts over from the mainland in The Banshees of Inisherin, set in 1923?
The Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War had turned former comrades on each other, and the film mirrors it in two friends' feud; even the invented island's name, Inisherin, means 'island of Ireland'.
Q 17In Tár, Cate Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a world-renowned figure in which profession?
Orchestra conductor
Orchestra conductor Lydia Tár is invented, but the music is real: it was recorded live on set, with Blanchett herself playing the piano and the Dresden Philharmonic standing in for her Berlin orchestra.
Q 18Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Charlie, a reclusive English teacher, in The Whale?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser sobbed through a six-minute standing ovation at the film's Venice premiere, a comeback after years away from leading roles; his prosthetic suit weighed up to 300 pounds.
Q 19Which director made the 2022 drama The Whale?
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky spent about ten years trying to film Samuel D. Hunter's play and blamed the wait on finding its 600-pound lead: "it took me 10 years to cast," he said.
Q 20In which language is the Oscar-winning 2022 version of All Quiet on the Western Front filmed?
German
German is the novel's own language, yet Hollywood filmed it first in English, and when that 1930 Best Picture winner reached Berlin, Nazis disrupted screenings with stink bombs and mice.
Talokan
Talokan replaced the comics' Atlantis, which DC's Aquaman had already brought to the screen; Ryan Coogler rebuilt Namor's people as descendants of the Maya who fled colonisers into the sea.
Q 24Which former Batman actor played the villain Gorr the God Butcher in Thor: Love and Thunder?
Christian Bale
Christian Bale built the scarred god-killer from unlikely inspirations: he cited a touch of Nosferatu and said the thing he stared at most was Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy' music video.
Q 25Which Oscar-winning actor plays Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder?
Russell Crowe
Russell Crowe was asked to reuse his British-accented Gladiator voice but argued for a different accent, so he shot every scene twice, and his choice made the final cut.
Q 26In Jordan Peele's Nope, what do the Haywood siblings nickname 'Jean Jacket', after a horse from their childhood?
The UFO above their ranch
The UFO above their ranch is really a territorial animal that attacks whatever looks straight at it, so horse wrangler OJ names it after a horse the family once owned and handles it like one.
Q 27In Nope's flashback to the fictional 1990s sitcom Gordy's Home, what was Gordy?
A chimpanzee
A chimpanzee playing Gordy snapped when balloons popped on set and mauled his co-stars, sparing only the child actor Jupe; the film uses the attack to warn that a predator can't be tamed for show.
Q 28Where is Miles Bron's island mansion in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery?
Greece
Greece was Rian Johnson's pick for a holiday whodunnit in the spirit of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun, with every suspect marooned on a private island; a real villa at Porto Heli plays Bron's mansion.
Q 29Pixar's Turning Red is set in 2002 in which city?
Toronto
Director Domee Shi grew up in Toronto, and Mei's obsession with the boy band 4*Town is a period detail. The film went straight to Disney+ in March 2022.
Q 30In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the bounty-hunting Wolf stalking Puss is revealed to be what?
Death itself
Death itself, voiced by Wagner Moura, has come in person because Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives and never valued one of them, and he means to take the last.