Alita: Battle Angel
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50 free Alita: Battle Angel trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Alita: Battle Angel spent nearly two decades as James Cameron's passion project before it finally reached cinemas in 2019. The result is a rare thing: a big-budget American film of a Japanese manga that kept the look and the bruising action of its source. It follows a young cyborg who wakes with no memory in a ruined future world and slowly learns that she was built to fight. This quiz covers the whole film. There are questions on the story and its characters, from the kindly doctor who rebuilds the heroine to the killers sent after her, and on the brutal arena sport at the centre of it all. Others go behind the scenes: the cast and the famous faces in small roles, the groundbreaking effects, the music, the release and the box office. A few reach back to the original manga and the changes the filmmakers made. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who has seen the film once to deep cuts for fans who know the manga and the making-of stories. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01In Alita: Battle Angel, Ido names the rebuilt cyborg Alita after which person he has lost?
His late daughter
His late daughter gives the cyborg both her name and the body Ido had built for her. In the original manga, the name comes from Ido's dead cat instead.
Q 02In Alita: Battle Angel, winning the title in which brutal sport is the only way into the sky city?
Motorball
Motorball is a gladiator race played by cyborgs, and Alita enters a tryout hoping to win prize money for Hugo.
Q 03Which feature of the cyborg in Alita: Battle Angel was kept manga-sized to honour the original art?
Her eyes
Her eyes were kept large on purpose, and the first trailer drew a mixed response centred on how the heroine looked.
Q 04Which Spy Kids director won the Alita: Battle Angel job by condensing James Cameron's script?
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez cut Cameron's 186-page screenplay and some 600 pages of notes down to a shooting script, and Cameron then offered him the director's chair.
Q 05Which actor, chosen over Zendaya and Maika Monroe, plays the title cyborg in Alita: Battle Angel?
Rosa Salazar
Rosa Salazar spent five months in martial arts training for the part, learning Eagle Claw kung fu, Muay Thai and staff work.
Q 06Which two-time Oscar winner for Tarantino films plays the scientist Ido in Alita: Battle Angel?
Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz won both Oscars as a supporting actor, for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. His Ido becomes a father figure to Alita.
Q 07Which James Cameron film, developed as Project 880, kept delaying his plans for Alita: Battle Angel?
Avatar
Avatar came first because Cameron believed it could raise public awareness of the need to protect the environment.
Q 08Which pop star recorded Swan Song for Alita: Battle Angel and becomes the cyborg in its video?
Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa was approached after the filmmakers saw her New Rules video and felt she had the strength and attitude of their heroine.
Q 09Alita: Battle Angel was the last 20th Century Fox release before which company bought the studio?
Disney
Disney completed its takeover of Fox on March 20, 2019, about a month after Alita opened in American cinemas.
Q 10Alita: Battle Angel opens 300 years after Earth's war with the United Republic of which world?
Mars
Mars holds the key to Alita's forgotten past: she fought in that war as one of the enemy's elite shock troops.
Q 11In Alita: Battle Angel, which wealthy sky city above Iron City does Hugo dream of reaching?
Zalem
Zalem was renamed Tiphares in older English editions of the manga, and newer translations went back to the original name.
Q 12In Alita: Battle Angel, where does Ido find the cyborg remains that hold a living human brain?
A scrapyard
A scrapyard gives the manga's whole city its name: there, the settlement that grew around the sky city's falling waste is simply called the Scrapyard.
Q 13In Alita: Battle Angel, which secret night job is Ido doing when Alita follows him into an ambush?
Bounty hunter
Bounty hunter is the trade of every Hunter-Warrior hired by the Factory, and Alita soon registers as one herself against Ido's wishes.
Q 21Which Fight Club star makes a wordless, uncredited cameo as the overlord in Alita: Battle Angel?
Edward Norton
Edward Norton took the non-speaking part to set up a far bigger role for the character in a planned follow-up film.
Q 22In Alita: Battle Angel, which sky city ruler speaks to Alita through another man's body?
Nova
Nova looms larger in the manga, where the mad genius behind many of Alita's enemies does not appear in person until more than two years into the story.
Q 23In Alita: Battle Angel, which arrogant sword-wielding cyborg kills Tanji and frames Hugo?
Zapan
Zapan pays for it when Alita seizes his own sword and cuts off his face with it.
Q 14Which lost combat art for machine bodies does Alita use by instinct in Alita: Battle Angel?
Panzer Kunst
Panzer Kunst is the one thing the amnesiac Alita remembers, and she first uses it to kill two of the cyborgs who ambush Ido.
Q 15In Alita: Battle Angel, the advanced body Alita finds was made for which enemy shock troops?
Berserker
Berserker technology worries Ido so much that he refuses to install Alita in the body, giving in only after her first one is wrecked in a duel.
Q 16In Alita: Battle Angel, which giant cyborg assassin ambushes Ido and later duels Alita?
Grewishka
Grewishka is damaged in that first fight and comes back upgraded, sent by the sky city's overlord to destroy Alita.
Q 17In Alita: Battle Angel, which crime does Hugo secretly commit while dreaming of the sky city?
Stealing cyborg parts
Stealing cyborg parts is what Hugo's gang does best: one victim, the top-league player Kinuba, has his limbs cut off by them.
Q 18In Alita: Battle Angel, which Factory boss falsely promises Hugo a passage up to the sky city?
Vector
Vector owns the arena tournament and is the de facto ruler of the Factory, until Alita fatally impales him.
Q 19Which Oscar winner for A Beautiful Mind plays Chiren, the ex-wife of Ido, in Alita: Battle Angel?
Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly was a late addition: her casting as a villain was reported on February 7, 2017, two days before filming ended.
Q 20Which Moonlight and Green Book Oscar winner plays the arena-rigging villain in Alita: Battle Angel?
Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali revealed after his first Oscar win that he was really playing two roles, because a second villain speaks through his character.
Q 24In Alita: Battle Angel, what is the prized sword that Alita seizes from a rival cyborg called?
Damascus Blade
Damascus Blade is the weapon Alita turns on its owner, taking it from him moments after he mortally wounds Hugo.
Q 25Alita's mirror punching practice in Alita: Battle Angel pays homage to which martial arts star?
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was James Cameron's idea: he decided the film should salute the star through the way Alita throws her punches.
Q 26Which technique turned the lead performance in Alita: Battle Angel into a CGI heroine?
Motion capture
Motion capture methods had to be redesigned by the effects team to record every subtlety of the lead actor's performance.
Q 27Which effects house founded by Peter Jackson animated the heroine of Alita: Battle Angel?
Weta Digital
Weta Digital, the New Zealand company behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy, led the work, with DNEG and Framestore also supplying effects.
Q 28Alita: Battle Angel was shot at Troublemaker Studios, on an old airport site in which Texas city?
Austin
Austin even supplied the crowds: a casting call sought rocker, punk and emo extras for night shoots there in February 2017.
Q 29James Cameron set the sky city of Alita: Battle Angel above which country near the equator?
Panama
Panama gave Iron City its look: the streets were designed with Latin American architecture to match the new location.
Q 30James Cameron says the sky city in Alita: Battle Angel does not float but hangs from what?
A space elevator
A space elevator would only work physically near the equator, a detail that decided where on Earth Cameron placed the story.