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49 free Archie Comics trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Archie Andrews has been choosing between Betty and Veronica since Pep Comics #22 in 1941, which makes his love triangle older than the Pentagon. Along the way the publisher went from patriotic superheroes to Sonic the Hedgehog, put a cartoon band at the top of Billboard's year-end chart, turned Riverdale into a zombie apocalypse and a CW teen drama, and killed the grown-up Archie saving a gay senator. These 49 questions cover all of it: MLJ Magazines and the Shield, Bob Montana and the real Betty, Jughead's real name and his 'S' sweatshirt, Betsy the jalopy, Pop Tate's Chocklit Shoppe, Mr. Weatherbee, Moose, Reggie, Kevin Keller, Sabrina's aunts and Salem, Josie and the Pussycats, Ron Dante and Don Kirshner, Afterlife with Archie, the Mark Waid relaunch and the Riverdale cast. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for a comics night.
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Q 01Archie Andrews debuted in 1941 as a back-up feature in which superhero anthology comic?
Pep Comics
Pep Comics. Archie began as filler behind the book's costumed heroes, squeezed them off the cover within a few years, and ended up giving his name to the whole company.
Q 02Archie was conceived as a comic-book answer to the Andy Hardy films starring which teen idol?
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney. Publisher John Goldwater thought a character modeled on Rooney's screen persona might sell; writer Vic Bloom and the first artist turned that notion into Archie, Jughead and Betty.
Q 03What was Archie Comics called when it began publishing in 1939?
M.L.J. Magazines
M.L.J. Magazines. The letters were the first initials of founders Maurice Coyne, Louis Silberkleit and John Goldwater; the firm renamed itself once its red-headed teenager had outgrown its superheroes.
Q 04Which MLJ superhero wore the Stars and Stripes more than a year before Captain America did?
The Shield
The Shield. He debuted in January 1940 as the first superhero dressed in the American flag and was one of MLJ's most popular stars, until a red-headed teenager took over the line.
Q 05Which Archie Comics model, billed as America's 'Queen of Pin-Ups and Fashions', got a Riverdale spin-off series in 2020?
Katy Keene
Katy Keene. From 1945 she wore outfits that readers designed and mailed in, with each fan credited on the page; Lucy Hale played her in the short-lived TV series.
Q 06Which video game character did Archie Comics publish a long-running comic about from 1992 to 2016?
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog. The series reached 290 issues with its own cast and backstory, and ended only when Sega pulled the licence and took the hedgehog to another publisher.
Q 07Which MAD founder's 'Goodman Goes Playboy' parody of the Riverdale gang drew a lawsuit threat from Archie's publisher?
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman. Archie's publisher took the story's copyright in the settlement and blocked reprints for decades, then forgot to renew it, so the parody finally reappeared in 2004.
Q 08Which music act settled a 2005 Archie Comics trademark suit by guest-starring in one of its comics?
The Veronicas
The Veronicas. Archie Comics went to court to stop the Brisbane twins using the name and ended up promoting them instead: the sisters kept it and appeared in Veronica's own comic.
Q 09Who was Archie Comics' first openly gay character, debuting in 2010?
Kevin Keller
Kevin Keller. Created by Dan Parent, he arrived in a story where Veronica falls for the new boy in town; the issue sold out and earned the first reprint in the company's history.
Q 10In 2011, Archie Comics became the last publisher to abandon which industry body?
The Comics Code Authority
The Comics Code Authority. Archie's own publisher John Goldwater had helped found the self-censorship scheme in the 1950s; Archie quit right after DC, and the Code was finished.
Q 11Which 2013 comic, the first title of the Archie Horror line, brought a zombie apocalypse to Riverdale?
Afterlife with Archie
Afterlife with Archie. It grew out of a spooky alternate cover drawn for one of the regular Archie titles, and it was the company's first comic not aimed at children.
Q 12In 2014's Life with Archie #36, how does the grown-up Archie Andrews die?
Taking a bullet for a friend
Taking a bullet for a friend. The friend was a newly elected senator who had campaigned for gun control, and the publisher said Archie 'dies as he lived, heroically'.
Q 13Which writer and artist team relaunched Archie with a new #1 in July 2015?
Q 21What does Archie call his beloved jalopy?
Betsy
Betsy. The old car is a patchwork of junkyard parts that is forever breaking down, and it is Betty, a skilled mechanic, who keeps her running.
Q 22What are the names of Archie's parents?
Fred and Mary
Fred and Mary. On the TV series Riverdale, Fred was played by 1990s teen idol Luke Perry for three seasons, and the show opened its fourth with the character's death.
Q 23What is Jughead's real first name?
Forsythe
Forsythe. In full he is Forsythe Pendleton Jones III, and he steers clear of dating because he has seen how much trouble it gets Archie into.
Mark Waid and Fiona Staples
Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. They gave Riverdale a new look and an edgier tone and retold how the Archie, Betty and Veronica triangle began, restarting a title that had never been renumbered since 1942.
Q 14Which network picked up the live-action series Riverdale in January 2016?
The CW
The CW. The dark take on Archie's hometown was first developed at Fox, which let it go; on its new network it ran for seven seasons.
Q 15Which playwright, later Riverdale's showrunner, became Archie Comics' chief creative officer in 2014?
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. In 2003 the company hit his play about a grown-up Archie with a cease-and-desist the day before it opened; eleven years later the success of his zombie comic won him the job.
Q 16Which masked MLJ hero, revived in 2015 for the Dark Circle Comics imprint, shares his name with a Riverdale serial killer?
The Black Hood
The Black Hood. In 1940 he was a framed patrolman clearing his name; the 2015 series recast him as a Philadelphia cop shot in the face, and the TV show gave the name to a masked murderer.
Q 17Which filmmaking duo signed on in 2025 to bring Archie to the big screen?
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. They signed on to produce a live-action film at Universal after hearing comics writer Tom King's pitch, which they said made sense as an 'event movie'.
Q 18Which Marvel vigilante came to Riverdale hunting a crook in a 1994 crossover with Archie?
The Punisher
The Punisher. He mistakes Archie for the criminal he is chasing, then teams up with him once he sees his error; the two publishers put the one-shot out jointly.
Q 19What is Archie Andrews's full first name?
Archibald
Archibald. By publisher John Goldwater's account, the name came from an old school friend of his called Archie.
Q 20Who plays Archie on the TV series Riverdale?
KJ Apa
KJ Apa. The producers spent four months searching the world for their Archie, yet the 18-year-old New Zealander auditioned only days before he was cast.
Q 24What is the name of Jughead's white sheepdog?
Hot Dog
Hot Dog. The shaggy mutt started out as Archie's pet before settling in with Jughead, and in 1990 he starred in five issues of a comic of his own.
Q 25Who plays Jughead on Riverdale?
Cole Sprouse
Cole Sprouse. The former Disney Channel child star had stepped away to study archaeology at New York University and work on digs, and Jughead was his return to acting.
Q 26What kind of hat is Jughead's crown-like 'beanie'?
A whoopee cap
A whoopee cap. Boys of the 1930s made them by cutting the brim of a man's felt fedora into points and turning it up; the style is now so tied to him that it is also called a Jughead hat.
Q 27Betty Cooper was named for a real woman who briefly dated which Archie co-creator?
Bob Montana
Bob Montana. Betty Tokar Jankovich dated the artist at 18 and ended it herself, feeling she wasn't educated enough for him; at 94 she told a reporter she had no regrets.
Q 28Which Riverdale girl has spent decades trying to win over a reluctant Jughead?
Big Ethel
Big Ethel. Ethel Muggs has long nursed a crush on a boy who only has eyes for lunch; in the 2013 zombie comic it is an undead Jughead who goes after her.
Q 29Who plays Betty on Riverdale?
Lili Reinhart
Lili Reinhart. After five discouraging months in Los Angeles she had moved back home and nearly given up acting, then sent in a last-minute audition tape for Betty.
Q 30What are Betty's older siblings called?
Chic and Polly
Chic and Polly. Both have left Riverdale, Polly to work as a news reporter in San Francisco, which leaves Betty, the youngest, as the only Cooper child still at home.