Austin Powers Trivia
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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 01What is Austin Powers' middle name?
Danger
Danger is literally his middle name: the clerk returning his 1960s belongings reads out "Danger Powers", turning the old action-hero boast into paperwork.
Q 02Which musician wrote "Soul Bossa Nova", the instrumental used as the Austin Powers theme?
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones wrote and recorded the instrumental long before the films, and its second life as Austin's theme earned him a cameo as himself in Goldmember.
Q 03Who directed all three Austin Powers films?
Jay Roach
Jay Roach is the husband of Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs, who played beside Myers in Ming Tea, the mock-1960s band where the Austin character began.
Q 04Which Star Wars star plays the group therapist counselling Dr. Evil and Scott in the first Austin Powers film?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher plays the therapist, and her group session is quickly derailed by Dr. Evil's account of his own bizarre childhood.
Q 05What is Austin Powers' cover job in swinging London?
Fashion photographer
Fashion photographer is his cover, the same one Dean Martin's screen spy Matt Helm hid behind in the 1960s films that helped inspire Austin.
Q 06In the first Austin Powers film, what does Dr. Evil want attached to the heads of his sharks?
Laser beams
Laser beams were the plan, but sharks had gone on the endangered species list while he was frozen, so his staff could only offer ill-tempered sea bass.
Q 07Dr. Evil is chiefly a parody of which James Bond villain?
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is the template, white lap cat included, and Myers credited Donald Pleasence's take on him in You Only Live Twice.
Q 08What is the name of Dr. Evil's hairless cat?
Mr. Bigglesworth
Mr. Bigglesworth went into the cryogenic capsule a long-haired white Persian and came out bald, his fur lost to an error in the thawing.
Q 09What breed is the bald cat that plays Dr. Evil's pet after the pair are thawed out?
A Sphynx
A Sphynx named Ted Nude-Gent played the bald pet, whose missing fur the film blames on a fault in the thawing process.
Q 10Who plays Austin's love interest Vanessa Kensington in the first film?
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley plays Vanessa, daughter of Austin's 1960s sidekick Mrs. Kensington, who is assigned to help him adjust to the 1990s.
Q 11Who plays Austin's exposition-heavy handler, Basil Exposition?
Michael York
Michael York's Basil waves away the second film's time-travel paradox: he tells a cross-eyed Austin, and then the audience, not to worry about it and just enjoy themselves.
Q 12Who plays Dr. Evil's second-in-command, Number Two?
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner's Number Two cares more for the business than the evil: in the first film's finale he turns on his boss and offers Austin a business proposition instead.
Q 13Which actor plays the younger Number Two in the second Austin Powers film?
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe won the part with an impression: his take on the older henchman's actor made Myers crack up on a golf course, and the script arrived with Lowe's name already on it.
Q 21Which actor plays Dr. Evil's tiny clone in the Austin Powers sequels?
Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer broke into films as the stunt double for the infant in Baby's Day Out, years before the clone role made him famous.
Q 22Which comedy star plays Dr. Evil's henchman Mustafa in the first two Austin Powers films?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell's Mustafa is tipped into a fire pit for failing his boss, then keeps calling up that he is still alive, only very badly burned.
Q 23Which character did Mike Myers add to his roster of roles in the second Austin Powers film?
Fat Bastard
Fat Bastard's thick Scottish voice is one Myers reused: he later pushed to re-record all of Shrek's lines in a similar accent.
Q 14Who plays Dr. Evil's rebellious son, Scott Evil?
Seth Green
Seth Green plays Scott, the one sane voice in the lair, who keeps asking why nobody simply shoots Austin instead of staging an elaborate death.
Q 15Who plays Dr. Evil's henchwoman, Frau Farbissina?
Mindy Sterling
Mindy Sterling plays the screaming Frau as a send-up of Rosa Klebb, the stern SPECTRE officer in From Russia with Love.
Q 16In the first Austin Powers film, what does Dr. Evil threaten to detonate in the Earth's core?
A nuclear warhead
A nuclear warhead, hijacked from the breakaway republic of Kreplachistan, is to be drilled down to the core so that volcanoes erupt all over the world.
Q 17What are Dr. Evil's female android assassins called?
Fembots
Fembots are built to be irresistible, but Austin out-seduces them with a striptease until their systems overload and their heads explode.
Q 18In the second Austin Powers film, Dr. Evil names his Moon weapon after which real rock band?
The Alan Parsons Project
The Alan Parsons Project gets the honour because a Dr. Parsons invented the device, and Scott has to point out that the name already belongs to a prog rock band.
Q 19In the second film, what does Dr. Evil steal from Austin by travelling back to the 1960s?
His mojo
His mojo, defined in the film as the libido or life force, is extracted from his frozen body in 1969, and in 1999 Austin feels it vanish mid-seduction.
Q 20In the second Austin Powers film, what does Dr. Evil name his one-eighth-size clone?
Mini-Me
Mini-Me becomes the favourite at once, and Dr. Evil's actual son Scott spends two films competing with a nearly silent clone for affection.
Q 24Which agent helps Austin in the 1969 storyline of the second Austin Powers film?
Felicity Shagwell
Felicity Shagwell is a CIA agent, played by Heather Graham, who gets Austin out of an assassination attempt at his London pad and then joins his mission.
Q 25Which Madonna song from the second Austin Powers film's soundtrack won a Grammy in 2000?
Beautiful Stranger
Beautiful Stranger won the Grammy for best song written for a film, and in its video Myers turns up in character as Austin to watch Madonna sing in a club.
Q 26Which real director is filming a Hollywood version of Austin's life in the opening of Austin Powers in Goldmember?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg plays himself: the opening action sequence turns out to be his film set, with Tom Cruise cast as Austin.
Q 27Which former child star plays the undercover agent with a distracting facial mole in Austin Powers in Goldmember?
Fred Savage
Fred Savage plays Number Three, a mole inside Dr. Evil's organisation who also has a large mole on his face, which Austin cannot stop mentioning.
Q 28Which pop star plays Foxxy Cleopatra in Goldmember?
Beyoncé
Beyoncé's Foxxy sends up the blaxploitation heroines of the 1970s, with a name borrowed from Pam Grier's Foxy Brown.
Q 29Which veteran actor plays Nigel Powers, Austin's dad, in Goldmember?
Michael Caine
Michael Caine's Nigel spoofs his own 1965 spy Harry Palmer from The Ipcress File, whose thick horn-rimmed glasses had already inspired Austin's.
Q 30The title villain Goldmember is from which country?
The Netherlands
The Netherlands is his home, which sets up Nigel Powers' line that he hates only two things: people intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.