50 free Aquaman trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Aquaman trivia questions with answers. Aquaman went from Super Friends punchline to a billion-dollar movie star, and this quiz covers the whole tide. Forty questions take in his 1941 debut in More Fun Comics, the lighthouse keeper and the Atlantean queen, the Justice League founding, Mera and Xebel, Black Manta and Ocean Master, Aqualad, the piranhas that cost him a hand and the harpoon that replaced it, and Peter David's Atlantis Chronicles. On screen there is the 1967 Filmation cartoon, Smallville and the CW pilot that went to iTunes, Jason Momoa's cameo in Batman v Superman, James Wan's 2018 blockbuster with its Karathen voiced by Julie Andrews, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom closing out the DCEU. Easy questions ask who plays him; hard ones want the issue his archenemy debuted in and the studio on the Gold Coast where the film was shot. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the character, his supporting cast and the films, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In which comic did Aquaman make his debut in November 1941?
More Fun Comics #73
He was a backup feature created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger.
Q 02Aquaman is the son of the queen of Atlantis and a human with what job?
Lighthouse keeper
Tom Curry and Atlanna's boy also goes by the Atlantean name Orin.
Q 03What is Aquaman's civilian name?
Arthur Curry
Others to carry the title include Joseph Curry, Jackson Hyde and a wartime hero named Adam Waterman.
Q 04During the Silver Age, Aquaman was a founding member of which team?
The Justice League
In the mid-1980s he briefly disbanded and reformed the League with new bylaws.
Q 05In his earliest stories, how did Aquaman communicate with sea creatures?
By speaking their language, if they were near
The range was about 20 yards; full telepathy came later and became the butt of a thousand jokes.
Q 06Which 1967 show marked the character's first animated appearance?
The Superman/Aquaman Hour
Filmation later repackaged his segments as a standalone Aquaman series on CBS.
Q 07Jokes about Aquaman's wholesome, weak portrayal on which cartoon became a comedy staple?
Super Friends
DC responded several times by trying to make him edgier, brooding or more powerful in the comics.
Q 08Aquaman's first cover appearances came in a 1961 four-issue run of which anthology series?
Showcase
His first solo series followed in February 1962 and ran 56 issues.
Q 09In the 1990s comics, Aquaman lost his left hand when Charybdis forced it into a pool of what?
Piranhas
He replaced it with a harpoon spearhead, later swapping in a hand of magical water.
Q 10What did Aquaman attach to his arm in place of his missing hand?
A harpoon spearhead
He said he needed a 'symbol' after the loss left him having prophetic dreams.
Q 11Which writer's 1990 series The Atlantis Chronicles told the history of Atlantis up to Aquaman's birth?
Peter David
It introduced the ancient king Orin, after whom Aquaman was named, and later launched the 75-issue volume 5.
Q 12Aquaman's Volume 5, which ran 75 issues from 1994 to 2001, holds what distinction among his solo runs?
The longest-running one to date
Peter David scripted it initially, following his Time and Tide miniseries.
Q 13In the Post-Crisis origin, baby Orin was abandoned on Mercy Reef because of what?
His blond hair
Q 21Aquaman and Mera's son, Arthur Jr., was nicknamed what?
Aquababy
His death drove Mera insane with grief in a 1989 miniseries.
Q 22Which actor played Aquaman in the live-action series Smallville?
Alan Ritchson
He later starred as Jack Reacher.
Q 23Justin Hartley starred in a 2006 Aquaman TV pilot that the CW passed on. What happened to it?
It became the No. 1 download on iTunes
Hartley's A.C. Curry ran a dive shop in the Florida Keys.
In which film did Jason Momoa first appear as Aquaman, in a cameo?
Superstitious Atlanteans read it as the 'Mark of Kordax', a curse.
Q 14In which 1963 issue did Mera first appear?
Aquaman #11
She was created by Jack Miller and Nick Cardy and hails from the mysterious 'Dimension Aqua'.
Q 15Mera's home realm, originally called Dimension Aqua, was later renamed what?
Xebel
It was revealed as a penal colony for a banished faction of Atlanteans; Mera has hydrokinetic 'hard-water' powers.
Q 16The archenemy Black Manta first appeared in which 1967 issue?
Aquaman #35
Bob Haney and Nick Cardy created him; his black wetsuit and bug-eyed helmet are his visual trademark.
Q 17What is the distinctive feature of Black Manta's costume?
A large bug-eyed metal helmet
One retconned origin made him an autistic orphan held at Arkham Asylum.
Q 18Ocean Master, who debuted in Aquaman #29 in 1966, is what relation to Aquaman?
His half-brother
Orm Curry was originally a jealous human half-brother; later versions made him fully Atlantean.
Q 19The first Aqualad, Garth, has what unusual physical trait marking him as an outcast?
Purple eyes
He later took the name Tempest; Jackson Hyde became the second Aqualad in 2010.
Q 20In which comic did the first Aqualad debut?
Adventure Comics #269
Aquaman had been a fixture in Adventure Comics through the 1950s.
Batman v Superman
It was the character's live-action film debut.
Q 25Before Aquaman, Momoa was best known as Khal Drogo on which series?
Game of Thrones
He also played Ronon Dex on Stargate Atlantis and made his debut on Baywatch: Hawaii.
Q 26Who directed the 2018 Aquaman film?
James Wan
The horror director of Saw and The Conjuring signed on in April 2015.
Q 27How much did the 2018 Aquaman film gross worldwide?
$1.152 billion
That made it the highest-grossing DCEU film and the biggest film based on a DC character.
Q 28Where was principal photography for the 2018 film based?
The Gold Coast, Australia
Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland hosted it, with extra units in Canada, Italy and Morocco.
Q 29Who plays Orm, the Ocean Master, in the films?
Patrick Wilson
In the sequel Arthur has to break him out of prison and team up with him.
Q 30Which actress plays Queen Atlanna, Arthur's mother, in the films?
Nicole Kidman
In the film she is rescued by Maine lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry during a storm in 1985.