50 free Austin Powers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Austin Powers trivia questions with answers. Groovy, baby. The Austin Powers trilogy took the spy movie, ran it through the 1960s and turned one comedian into a one-man cast of heroes and villains. This quiz covers all three films: the frozen secret agent, his bald arch-nemesis and the tiny clone, the henchmen and Fembots, the catchphrases everyone still quotes, and the real stories behind the jokes. Expect questions on the many roles, the director and cast, the villain's schemes and his hairless cat, the Bond parodies, the title fight with the makers of James Bond, and the box-office numbers. It suits movie-trivia nights and anyone who can do the pinky-to-the-mouth gesture. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and characters, and the source sentence appears under each question. Question stems are kept clean, so it works for a broad crowd.
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Q 01Who created the Austin Powers character and stars as both the hero and Dr. Evil?
Mike Myers
All three films were directed by Jay Roach.
Q 02How many films are there in the original Austin Powers series?
Three
All three were directed by Jay Roach and released by New Line Cinema.
Q 03Who directed all three Austin Powers films?
Jay Roach
Roach went on to direct Meet the Parents and political dramas like Recount.
Q 04In what year was the first film, International Man of Mystery, released?
1997
It was modest at the box office at first, then grew a huge following on home video.
Q 05Austin Powers is cryogenically frozen in which decade and revived in the 1990s?
The 1960s
He is unfrozen to face Dr. Evil, who froze himself at the same time.
Q 06Which villain is Austin Powers' arch-nemesis, and his secret twin brother?
Dr. Evil
Both are played by Mike Myers.
Q 07Dr. Evil is chiefly a parody of which James Bond villain?
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Myers said the voice owed most to Donald Pleasence's Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.
Q 08What is the name of Dr. Evil's hairless cat?
Mr. Bigglesworth
He started as a fluffy white Persian but came out of the cryo-capsule bald, played by a Sphynx cat.
Q 09What breed is the bald cat that plays Dr. Evil's pet after the pair are thawed out?
A Sphynx cat
The hairlessness is explained as a thawing error, a joke on Blofeld's fluffy Persian.
Q 10Who plays Austin's love interest Vanessa Kensington in the first film?
Elizabeth Hurley
Vanessa is later revealed to be a Fembot in the sequel's opening.
Q 11Who plays Austin's exposition-heavy handler, Basil Exposition?
Michael York
His character's name is a wink at his role of explaining the plot.
Q 12Who plays Dr. Evil's second-in-command, Number Two?
Robert Wagner
Rob Lowe plays the younger version in the flashbacks.
Q 13Which actor plays the younger Number Two in the sequel's 1969 scenes?
Rob Lowe
Lowe does an uncanny impression of Robert Wagner's delivery.
Q 14Who plays Dr. Evil's rebellious son, Scott Evil?
Q 21Which actor plays Mini-Me?
Verne Troyer
Danny DeVito played the character in the film-within-a-film Austinpussy.
Q 22In which film does Mini-Me first appear?
The Spy Who Shagged Me
He returns in the third film, Goldmember.
Q 23Which extra character does Myers add to his roster of roles in the second film?
Fat Bastard
The obese Scottish henchman was Myers' third role in that film.
Q 24Which agent helps Austin in the 1969 storyline of the second film?
Seth Green
Scott keeps pointing out the obvious flaws in his father's overcomplicated schemes.
Q 15Who plays Dr. Evil's henchwoman, Frau Farbissina?
Mindy Sterling
She heads Dr. Evil's "military wing" and screams her orders.
Q 16In the first film, what does Dr. Evil threaten to detonate in the Earth's core?
A nuclear warhead
The scheme is called Project Vulcan.
Q 17What are Dr. Evil's female android assassins called?
Fembots
Austin defeats them by overloading their systems with a striptease.
Q 18In what year was the second film in the series released?
1999
It out-grossed the entire lifetime take of the first film in its opening weekend.
Q 19In the second film, what does Dr. Evil steal from Austin by travelling back to the 1960s?
His "mojo"
Dr. Evil defines mojo as Austin's libido or life force.
Q 20What does Dr. Evil name his one-eighth-size clone in the second film?
Mini-Me
On seeing the clone, Dr. Evil declares "Breathtaking. I shall call him... Mini-Me."
Felicity Shagwell
She is played by Heather Graham.
Q 25Which Madonna song, from the second film's soundtrack, won a Grammy in 2000?
Beautiful Stranger
Myers appears in character in the music video, directed by Brett Ratner.
Q 26In what year was the third film, Goldmember, released?
2002
It was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year in the US and Canada.
Q 27How many separate roles does Myers play in Goldmember?
Four
He plays Austin, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard and the title villain Goldmember.
Q 28Which pop star plays Foxxy Cleopatra in Goldmember?
Beyoncé
It was one of Beyoncé's first major film roles.
Q 29Which veteran actor plays Nigel Powers, Austin's dad, in Goldmember?
Michael Caine
Caine was himself a 1960s British spy icon, from The Ipcress File.
Q 30The title villain Goldmember is from which country?
The Netherlands
His real name is Johan van der Smut.