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50 free Batman: Arkham trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
When Batman: Arkham Asylum arrived in 2009, licensed superhero games had a poor reputation. A small British team changed that with one tense night inside Gotham's most notorious hospital, and the sequels that followed grew into a walled-off city, a snowbound prequel and a finale that let players loose across Gotham itself. This quiz covers the whole series: the plots and their twists, the rogues' gallery and the actors who voice it, the gadgets and combat that other games borrowed, and the stories behind the making of each chapter, including the handheld, virtual reality and animated spin-offs. It is written for players who have finished the games and for Batman fans who know the comics and films better than the controller. The opening questions are the friendliest; later rounds reward anyone who hunted down every last trophy.
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Q 01Which actor, already the hero's voice in Batman: The Animated Series, plays Batman in Batman: Arkham Asylum?
Kevin Conroy
Kevin Conroy returned alongside two fellow cast members from the 1990s cartoon, and also voices Thomas Wayne in the game. He stayed in the role for Arkham City and Arkham Knight.
Q 02Which actor won a BAFTA for voicing the Joker in Batman: Arkham City, a role he first played on television?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill took the Performer prize at the 2012 BAFTA games awards, having voiced the villain since the 1992 animated series. He called Arkham City his farewell to the part, then came back for Arkham Knight.
Q 03Which villain traps Batman in toxin-fuelled nightmares in Arkham Asylum, then has Gotham evacuated in Arkham Knight?
Scarecrow
Scarecrow returns in Arkham Knight voiced by John Noble, and his threat clears a city of six million people. Near the end he unmasks Batman as Bruce Wayne on live television.
Q 04Which former Robin, thought killed by the Joker, is unmasked as the militia commander in Batman: Arkham Knight?
Jason Todd
Jason Todd, the second Robin, blames Batman for abandoning him to torture. He ends up saving his old mentor in the finale and is playable as Red Hood in an add-on.
Q 05Which vehicle is drivable for the first time in Batman: Arkham Knight, with a Battle mode that turns it into a tank?
Batmobile
The Batmobile was dropped from Arkham City because it could not handle the broken terrain. For Arkham Knight the designers widened Gotham's streets and made buildings taller to suit it.
Q 06On which night is Batman: Arkham Origins set, as eight assassins arrive in snowy Gotham chasing a bounty on Batman?
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is when the $50 million bounty draws the killers to Gotham, with Batman only in his second year on the job. The story add-on Cold, Cold Heart then moves on to New Year's Eve.
Q 07Which character has her own playable campaign in Batman: Arkham City, at first offered as a console download?
Catwoman
Catwoman fights with a whip, bolas and clawed gauntlets. Late in development the team added a choice to let her leave the city with her loot, a change made in two days.
Q 08Which villain never appears in person in Batman: Arkham Asylum and is heard only through Batman's hacked radio?
Riddler
The Riddler is heard but never seen in the first game. In the prequel Arkham Origins he appears as a rogue hacker calling himself Enigma, before he takes the famous name.
Q 09Which part of Batman's costume did one Batman: Arkham Asylum developer reportedly spend two years animating?
His cape
His cape needed more than 700 animations and sound effects to move believably, a detail shared by Eidos president Ian Livingstone.
Q 10Which London studio followed its debut, Urban Chaos: Riot Response, by creating the Batman: Arkham series?
Rocksteady Studios
Rocksteady Studios was founded in 2004 by Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill with staff from the defunct Argonaut Games. Publisher Eidos offered the little-known team the Batman licence after seeing a prototype.
Q 11Which psychiatrist runs the Arkham City prison and reveals in the opening scene that he knows Batman is Bruce Wayne?
Hugo Strange
Hugo Strange was picked as the main antagonist because knowing the secret leaves Batman exposed in a way he had never been. Strange ends the game mortally wounded by his own hidden master.
Q 12Which crime lord's identity does the Joker steal in Batman: Arkham Origins to place a huge bounty on Batman?
Black Mask
Black Mask is really Roman Sionis, head of Janus Cosmetics, and the Joker had been posing as him for days. The steel mill that carries the Sionis name becomes the Joker's hideout in Arkham City.
Q 13Which character swaps a jester hat for a nurse-inspired outfit in Batman: Arkham Asylum, voiced by Arleen Sorkin?
Q 21Which writer of Batman: The Animated Series scripted Batman: Arkham Asylum and co-wrote its sequel, Arkham City?
Paul Dini
Paul Dini was approached by DC Comics in 2007 to devise an original Batman story built for play, not adapted from a film. He was absent from Arkham Knight, which the studio wrote in-house.
Q 22Which mercenary does Amanda Waller recruit for her task force in the post-credits scene of Batman: Arkham Origins?
Deathstroke
Deathstroke is asked to join the Suicide Squad, a scene that first raised the idea of a Squad game in the series. Earlier that night Batman beats him aboard a gun-runner's ship.
Q 23Which assassin deduces that Batman is Bruce Wayne in Arkham Origins, then loses the memory to a steroid's side effects?
Bane
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn lost her classic full-body costume in the redesign. Tara Strong took over the voice from Arkham City onwards, and the character got a story expansion named for her revenge.
Q 14Which visual mode highlights enemies and clues in the Batman: Arkham games, reworked because players left it on?
Detective Vision
Detective Vision proved so useful in Arkham Asylum that some players wore it for almost the whole game, hiding the art. The sequel made enemy blows blur it instead of adding a time limit.
Q 15Which villain refuses to join the alliance against Batman in Arkham Knight, then dies saving Gotham from a toxin cloud?
Poison Ivy
Poison Ivy empowers an ancient tree to neutralise the gas across the city, and the effort kills her. In Arkham Asylum she was a boss who overran the island with giant mutant plants.
Q 16Which villain, cut from Batman: Arkham Asylum for lacking a grudge against Batman, creates the cure in Arkham City?
Mr. Freeze
Mr. Freeze was left out of the first game because he would not care about the other villains' plans. In the sequel he is the one scientist able to treat the infection, once Batman frees him from a kidnapper.
Q 17Which actor voices the Joker in Batman: Arkham Origins after playing both Robin and Two-Face in Arkham City?
Troy Baker
Troy Baker took over the Joker from the series regular for the prequel, then voiced the masked Arkham Knight as well. He returned for the VR sequel Arkham Shadow as both the Joker and Harvey Dent.
Q 18Which villain poses as a healthy Joker throughout Batman: Arkham City and turns out to be the final boss?
Clayface
Clayface plays the part at the ailing villain's own request. In Arkham Asylum he was only a cameo, taking the guise of other characters to trick the player into freeing him.
Q 19Which of Batman's abilities was secretly disabled in pirated computer copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum?
Gliding
Gliding stopped working in copied games, so pirates could not get past a certain point. The trick drew press coverage as a novel kind of copy protection.
Q 20Which studio developed Batman: Arkham Origins while the series' creators were busy building Arkham Knight?
WB Games Montréal
WB Games Montréal was handed the prequel because Warner Bros. felt the wait for the next main entry would be too long. The same team had earlier adapted Arkham City for the Wii U.
Bane injects himself with a steroid called TN-1 that turns him into a hulking beast but wipes his memory. Before that he breaks into the Batcave and nearly kills Alfred.
Q 24Which villain's sewer lair holds the only spores that can make an antidote in Batman: Arkham Asylum?
Killer Croc
Killer Croc stalks Batman through the tunnels and even drags another villain underwater mid-chase. In the prequel he is the first of the hired assassins Batman has to beat.
Q 25Whose blood completes the cure in Batman: Arkham City, leading Batman to an underground lair and a Lazarus Pit?
Ra's al Ghul
Ra's al Ghul turns out to be the true mastermind behind the prison city. He kills himself to avoid capture, and a later Arkham Knight mission has assassins trying to restore his health.
Q 26Which formula does Dr. Penelope Young develop in Batman: Arkham Asylum, turning the Joker's men into monsters?
Titan
Titan is a stronger form of the Venom drug, meant to help patients survive harsh therapies. The Joker had secretly paid for the research, and his overdose is what leaves him dying in the sequel.
Q 27The combat of Batman: Arkham Asylum was first built as which kind of game before the final system took shape?
Rhythm action
Rhythm action was the first of three attempts at the fighting system. The second, a 2D prototype of coloured circles crashing into each other, became the basis of the finished version.
Q 28Which game matched the 96 scored by Batman: Arkham City on PlayStation 3, Metacritic's highest-rated release of 2011?
Skyrim
Skyrim scored 96 on Xbox 360, level with Arkham City on PlayStation 3. Metacritic split them by a few decimal points and named the Batman game its 2011 Game of the Year.
Q 29Which edition of Batman: Arkham Knight did Warner Bros. pull from sale after launch over severe performance problems?
Windows PC
Windows PC sales were suspended while an outside partner studio, Iron Galaxy, worked on fixes, and the game did not return until late October 2015. The console editions had launched in June.
Q 30Under which codename does Barbara Gordon feed Batman intelligence from Gotham's clock tower in Batman: Arkham Knight?
Oracle
Oracle appears to die in Arkham Knight, a scene later revealed as a toxin-induced hallucination. An add-on set years earlier shows her in the field as Batgirl.