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150 free Batman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
10 free Batman trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true Batman fan? Put your knowledge of the Dark Knight to the test with our exciting 150-question trivia quiz. From his iconic rogues gallery to his gadgets and memorable movie moments, this quiz covers everything Batman. See how many questions you can answer correctly and discover just how devoted a Gotham City enthusiast you really are!
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Q 01In which comic book did Batman make his debut in 1939?
Detective Comics #27
Detective Comics #27 carried only Bob Kane's name: he had sold the Bat-Man to the editor without mentioning Bill Finger, who wrote that first story and went uncredited for decades.
Q 02What were the first names of Bruce Wayne's murdered parents?
Thomas and Martha
Thomas and Martha Wayne died when a mugger grabbed for Martha's pearl necklace and shot them both in front of their young son.
Q 03Batman famously refuses to use which kind of weapon?
Guns
Guns have been off-limits since 1940: after a few early stories showed Batman firing a pistol, editor Whitney Ellsworth ruled that he would never again carry a gun or kill.
Q 04The Joker first appeared in which 1940 comic book issue?
Batman #1
Batman #1 was meant to kill the Joker off: he is stabbed in his second story there, until editor Whitney Ellsworth had a panel added to show that he had survived.
Q 05Who serves as Bruce Wayne's loyal butler, confidante, and surrogate father figure?
Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth arrived in 1943 as a bumbling would-be detective played for laughs; later retellings made him the guardian who raised Bruce after the murders.
Q 06Which orphaned circus acrobat became the first Robin, Batman's vigilante partner, in 1940?
Dick Grayson
Dick Grayson was added because, as writer Bill Finger put it, Batman had no one to talk to; the boy sidekick nearly doubled the comics' sales.
Q 07In 1960 Batman was one of seven original members of which superhero team?
The Justice League
The Justice League revived DC's 1940s Justice Society for new readers, swapping 'Society' for 'League' to echo the baseball leagues that children followed.
Q 08In the 1960s Batman TV series, a switch hidden in a bust of which writer opens the way to the Batcave?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's bust in Bruce Wayne's study hides the switch: flip it and a bookcase slides away to reveal the two Batpoles down to the cave.
Q 09Who played the Caped Crusader in the 1966–68 live-action Batman television series?
Adam West
Adam West won the part after the producer saw him play a James Bond-style spy in a Nestlé Quik commercial; once the series ended he was typecast for years.
Q 10What is the psychiatric hospital that houses many of Gotham City's criminally insane villains?
Arkham Asylum
Arkham Asylum is Gotham's notorious institution for the criminally insane, serving as a recurring setting and home to many of Batman's most dangerous foes.
Q 11Bob Kane first sketched Batman in 1939 after editors asked for more heroes like which runaway success?
Superman
Superman's 1938 hit in Action Comics had the editors scrambling for more costumed heroes; Kane sketched a bat-winged figure and writer Bill Finger reworked it into Batman.
Q 12Which alias does Bruce Wayne use when posing as a gangster in Gotham's underworld?
Matches Malone
Matches Malone was a real small-time crook in the comics: when a ricochet from his own gun killed him, Batman quietly took over his name, moustache and loud suits.
Q 13The Joker's grinning look was inspired by Conrad Veidt's character in which 1928 film?
The Man Who Laughs
Q 21In the comics, which mob boss threw the acid that scarred district attorney Harvey Dent?
Sal Maroni
Sal Maroni lashed out in court when the prosecutor produced his lucky two-headed silver dollar as evidence, hurling a vial of acid into his face.
Q 22Bane, who broke Batman's back in the 1993 'Knightfall' saga, gets his strength from which super-steroid?
Venom
Venom was forced on Bane as a prison test subject and made him strong enough to break Batman, yet his dependence on the drug is the weakness his enemies exploit.
Q 23Harley Quinn first appeared as a one-off henchwoman in which Batman production?
Batman: The Animated Series
The Man Who Laughs gave the Joker his face, yet Conrad Veidt's Gwynplaine, whose grin was carved into him as a boy, is the film's tragic hero and not its villain.
Q 14In 1988 DC let readers decide by phone poll whether the Joker would kill which Robin?
Jason Todd
Jason Todd lost the 900-number vote by just 72 calls out of more than 10,000: the Joker had already beaten him with a crowbar and left him beside a time bomb, and the poll decided whether he survived.
Q 15Damian Wayne, a later Robin, is Bruce Wayne's son with which woman?
Talia al Ghul
Talia al Ghul raised Damian in secret and handed him to Batman at about ten years old, a trained killer whose existence his father had never suspected.
Q 16Alfred the butler first appeared in 1943 in which comic?
Batman #16
Alfred debuted in Batman #16 (April 1943), created by writer Don Cameron and artist Bob Kane as a portly, clean-shaven comic-relief butler; he was redrawn slim with a moustache within a year.
Q 17Which Joker line became the slogan of the marketing campaign for The Dark Knight (2008)?
Why so serious?
'Why so serious?' was also the name of the alternate reality game that promoted the film, sending fans after the Joker's clues long before it opened.
Q 18Under what name did Catwoman make her 1940 debut?
The Cat
The Cat wore no costume in 1940: she was a jewel thief unmasked from an old-woman disguise, and Batman seemed to let her escape by blocking Robin's leap after her.
Q 19What is the Penguin's real name?
Oswald Cobblepot
Oswald Cobblepot carries an umbrella because, in several tellings, his mother made him after his father died of pneumonia caught in the rain; bullies supplied the bird nickname.
Q 20The Riddler was created by Bill Finger and which artist, debuting in Detective Comics #140 in 1948?
Dick Sprang
Artist Dick Sprang co-created the Riddler with writer Bill Finger in Detective Comics #140 (October 1948); Sprang was the defining Batman artist of the 1940s-50s, ghosting for Bob Kane.
Batman: The Animated Series meant her as a walk-on; writer Paul Dini modelled her on his friend Arleen Sorkin, whom he had seen play a jester in a soap opera's dream sequence.
Q 24The Scarecrow's lanky look and civilian surname were inspired by which Washington Irving character?
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane, the lanky schoolmaster of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', haunts the villain's backstory too: young Jonathan is bullied at school for looking like him.
Q 25Ra's al Ghul has extended his life for centuries using what?
Lazarus Pits
Lazarus Pits restore the dying and can even raise the dead, but each bath leaves the bather insane for a time, a price Ra's al Ghul has paid for centuries.
Q 26The 1966 TV Batmobile was built by George Barris from which decade-old concept car?
Lincoln Futura
Lincoln Futura was a one-off show car that George Barris had bought from Ford for $1; given three weeks, he turned it into the Batmobile, which sold for $4.62 million in 2013.
Q 27The Batcave first appeared not in the comics but in which medium in 1943?
A film serial
A film serial gave Batman 'The Bat's Cave' in 1943, entered through a grandfather clock; the comics took up the cave within months, and the clock became its usual door.
Q 28Bill Finger said he found the name Gotham where?
In the New York phone book
In the New York phone book Bill Finger spotted 'Gotham Jewelers' and said 'That's it', having already tried and dropped Civic City, Capital City and Coast City.
Q 29Arkham Asylum takes its name from the fictional Massachusetts town created by which horror writer?
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft set his horror stories in Arkham, a fictional Massachusetts town; inside the comics, though, the asylum is named for its founder's mother, Elizabeth Arkham.
Q 30Which sign-off closed the 1960s Batman TV series' cliffhanger episodes?
Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!
'Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!' made sense because the show first aired twice a week: Wednesday's episode left the heroes in a trap and Thursday's got them out.