Aquaman Trivia
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49 free Aquaman trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Sep 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 01Aquaman debuted in November 1941 in the same More Fun Comics issue as which other DC hero?
Green Arrow
Green Arrow debuted in that issue too, and editor Mort Weisinger co-created both, Aquaman with artist Paul Norris and Green Arrow with artist George Papp.
Q 02Aquaman is the son of the queen of Atlantis and a human with what job?
Lighthouse keeper
Lighthouse keeper is right: Tom Curry tended a lighthouse, and his son with Atlanna also goes by the Atlantean name Orin.
Q 03Which HBO comedy gave its hero a record-breaking James Cameron Aquaman movie years before the real one?
Entourage
Entourage did it: its hero Vincent Chase starred in James Cameron's Aquaman, which on the show broke the record for the biggest opening weekend.
Q 04During the Silver Age, Aquaman was a founding member of which team?
The Justice League
The Justice League is right: he was among the founders in The Brave and the Bold #28 (1960), and in 1984 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
By speaking their language, if they were near: long-range telepathy came later and became a comedy punchline.
Q 06Aquaman's first cartoon, a 1967 Filmation series on CBS, shared its title with which hero?
Superman
Superman shared the bill in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, and Filmation later repackaged the Aquaman shorts as a standalone half-hour Aquaman show.
Q 07Jokes about Aquaman's wholesome, weak portrayal on which cartoon became a comedy staple?
Super Friends
Super Friends, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon that began in 1973, made him a punchline, and DC responded several times by trying to make him edgier, brooding or more powerful in the comics.
Q 08Aquaman's 1961 four-issue solo tryout ran in which DC anthology series?
Showcase
Showcase is right: issues #30 to #33 in 1961 tested him as a lead, and his first solo series followed in 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
Piranhas did it: in the 1994 Aquaman #2, the villain Charybdis held his hand in their pool until they stripped it, and the maimed, bearded look defined him for the rest of the decade.
Q 10What did Aquaman attach to his arm in place of his missing hand?
A harpoon spearhead
A harpoon spearhead is right: he fitted a retractable harpoon where the hand had been, and years later swapped it for a hand of magical water.
Q 11Which writer's 1990 series The Atlantis Chronicles told the history of Atlantis up to Aquaman's birth?
Peter David
Peter David wrote it, and four years later he relaunched Aquaman's monthly series, in which the hero lost a hand.
Q 12After which 1985 DC crossover was Aquaman's origin retold in The Legend of Aquaman Special?
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Crisis on Infinite Earths, the 1985-86 maxiseries that collapsed DC's multiverse into one continuity, cleared the way for The Legend of Aquaman Special to retell his origin in 1989.
Q 13In The Legend of Aquaman Special, 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
Aquababy was the nickname: the boy was suffocated by Black Manta in a 1977 Adventure Comics story, a death that haunted both parents for decades.
Q 22Which actor played Aquaman in the live-action series Smallville?
Alan Ritchson
Alan Ritchson played him, first in the 2005 Smallville episode Aqua, and he later starred as Jack Reacher in Amazon's Reacher.
Q 23Justin Hartley's unaired 2006 Aquaman pilot topped iTunes downloads after which network passed on it?
The CW
The CW passed after The WB, which developed the pilot, merged into the new network; released on iTunes in July 2006, it became the No. 1 TV download.
His blond hair marked him: superstitious Atlanteans read the colour as the Mark of Kordax, a curse, so the infant was left to die on Mercy Reef.
Q 14Pitbull's Ocean to Ocean, from the 2018 Aquaman soundtrack, samples which Toto hit?
Africa
Africa is the sample: Ocean to Ocean reworks Toto's 1982 hit for the soundtrack, so a song about Africa ended up selling a movie about the sea.
Q 15Mera's home realm, originally called Dimension Aqua, was later renamed what?
Xebel
Xebel is the later name, given when Brightest Day revealed the realm as a penal colony for a banished faction of Atlanteans.
Q 16Which 2009 Green Lantern crossover raised a dead Aquaman as an undead villain who attacked Mera?
Blackest Night
Blackest Night raised him as a Black Lantern, and when the event ended in 2010, a White Lantern ring brought him fully back to life.
Q 17What is the distinctive feature of Black Manta's costume?
A large bug-eyed metal helmet
A large bug-eyed metal helmet is the trademark, its red lenses firing energy blasts, worn over a black wetsuit since his 1967 debut.
Q 18Ocean Master, who debuted in Aquaman #29 in 1966, is what relation to Aquaman?
His half-brother
His half-brother is right: Orm Curry was originally Tom Curry's jealous, fully human son by another woman; later versions made him fully Atlantean as Orm Marius.
Q 19The first Aqualad, Garth, has what unusual physical trait marking him as an outcast?
Purple eyes
Purple eyes marked him: Atlantean superstition treated the colour as a bad omen, so Garth was cast out as a baby; he later took the name Tempest, and Jackson Hyde became the second Aqualad in 2010.
Q 20Aquaman's young partner Aqualad was a founding member of which superhero team?
Teen Titans
The Teen Titans began as a 1964 team-up of three sidekicks, including Aqualad and Robin, and only took that name a year later when Wonder Girl joined.
Q 24In which film did Jason Momoa first appear as Aquaman, in a cameo?
Batman v Superman
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) gave Momoa his first appearance, a brief clip in Lex Luthor's metahuman files, and the character's live-action film debut.
Q 25Before Aquaman, Momoa was best known as Khal Drogo on which series?
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is right: Momoa played the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo in its first season in 2011, after Ronon Dex on Stargate Atlantis and a start on Baywatch: Hawaii.
Q 26Who directed the 2018 Aquaman film?
James Wan
James Wan directed it: the horror director behind Saw and The Conjuring signed on in 2015, three years before the film's December 2018 release.
Q 27Aquaman overtook which film as the highest-grossing DC movie?
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises had held the DC record with more than $1.08 billion until Aquaman reached $1.15 billion, so a hero long mocked as a joke outgrossed the finale of Christopher Nolan's trilogy.
Q 28Where was principal photography for the 2018 Aquaman film based?
The Gold Coast, Australia
The Gold Coast, Australia was the base: Village Roadshow Studios in Queensland hosted principal photography from May 2017, with additional units in Canada, Italy and Morocco.
Q 29Who plays Orm, the Ocean Master, in the Aquaman films?
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson plays Orm in both films, and in the 2023 sequel Arthur has to break him out of prison and team up with him against Black Manta.
Q 30Which actress plays Queen Atlanna, Aquaman's mother, in the Aquaman films?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman plays Atlanna, who washes up at Amnesty Bay, Maine, in 1985 and is taken in by Thomas Curry, Arthur's father, before Atlantis drags her back.