Black Panther Trivia
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119 free Black Panther trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
65 free Black Panther trivia questions with answers. Black Panther debuted in Fantastic Four #52 in July 1966, three months before the Black Panther Party existed, and Jack Kirby's first sketches called him the Coal Tiger. Fifty-two years later the film version became the first superhero movie nominated for Best Picture and the first Marvel Studios film to win an Oscar. This quiz runs 119 questions across all of it: the Lee and Kirby comics, Don McGregor's Panther's Rage, Christopher Priest's Everett Ross and the Dora Milaje, T'Challa's marriage to Storm, Shuri and Ta-Nehisi Coates's run, plus the 2018 film (the Oakland opening, the Busan car chase, Ludwig Göransson's Senegal research, Ruth E. Carter's 700 costumes), Chadwick Boseman's career, and Wakanda Forever with Namor and Talokan. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know what King Solomon's Frog is. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a Marvel movie night, a comic-shop pub quiz or a family round.
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Q 01The Black Panther first appeared in 1966 as a guest star in which superhero team's comic?
The Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four met him in issue #52, where T'Challa lures the team to Wakanda and takes them on one by one to test himself; the debut made him mainstream American comics' first Black superhero.
Q 02Which writer and artist created the Black Panther?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Kirby later returned to write, pencil and edit a solo Black Panther series in 1977, but it lasted only 15 issues.
Q 03The Black Panther was mainstream comics' first Black superhero; which Marvel hero followed in 1969 as the first African American one?
The Falcon
The Falcon arrived in 1969; as a Marvel editor put it, the Panther 'preceded him, but wasn't American'. The two are tied together in the comics as well: T'Challa built the harness that lets the Falcon fly.
Q 04T'Challa gains his enhanced abilities by consuming the essence of what?
The heart-shaped herb
The heart-shaped herb is reserved for whoever holds the Black Panther title; in the comics T'Challa earned his dose by defeating his own uncle in ritual combat.
Q 05Which Marvel anthology title carried the 1970s Black Panther storyline "Panther's Rage"?
Jungle Action
Jungle Action was reprinting 1950s strips about white jungle lords until proofreader Don McGregor told Marvel how dated that looked; the editors gave the book to T'Challa and let McGregor write it.
Q 06In a 1976 storyline, T'Challa went to Georgia to fight which group?
The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan story, written by Don McGregor, was never finished as planned: Marvel cancelled the comic mid-arc in 1976 and relaunched the Panther in a new series.
Q 07To avoid echoing a political party, the Black Panther briefly took which name in 1972?
Black Leopard
Black Leopard lasted only months: the switch was meant to steer clear of the Black Panther Party, but T'Challa was back under his own name before the year was out.
Q 08Christopher Priest's 1998 Black Panther series made which State Department attorney its viewpoint character?
Everett K. Ross
Everett K. Ross, the self-proclaimed 'Emperor of Useless White Boys', was Priest's way of walking new readers into Wakanda; the films later remade him as a CIA agent.
Q 09The Dora Milaje, T'Challa's bodyguards and ceremonial brides-in-waiting in the comics, bear a name said to mean what?
Adored ones
Adored ones: each rival tribe supplied a daughter to guard the king as a ceremonial wife-in-training, a tie meant to keep Wakanda's tribes from civil war.
Q 10Which actress plays Okoye, general of the Dora Milaje, in the Black Panther films?
Danai Gurira
Danai Gurira is also a playwright: her drama Eclipsed reached Broadway in 2016 with her future Black Panther co-star Lupita Nyong'o in the lead.
Q 11In 2006, during Reginald Hudlin's run, T'Challa married which member of the X-Men?
Storm
Storm. Their wedding fell in the middle of Marvel's Civil War crossover, and the leaders of both warring camps came as guests but left still at odds.
Q 12Who plays Zuri, Wakanda's elder statesman and spiritual guide, in the 2018 film Black Panther?
Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker. The young Zuri of the 1992 flashback is another Whitaker, Denzel, who had played Forest's son in The Great Debaters.
Q 13T'Challa and his bride replaced which two members of Marvel's first family?
Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman
Q 21In the Black Panther films, most Wakandans worship which panther goddess?
Bast
Bast. She is borrowed from Bastet, the cat goddess of ancient Egypt, while M'Baku's Jabari tribe reject her and pray to the gorilla god Hanuman instead.
Q 22Which comedian voices Griot, a Wakandan ship's AI, in the 2018 film Black Panther?
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah. The South African comedian, then host of The Daily Show, voices the AI that guides a CIA agent as he flies a Wakandan jet by remote control in the final battle.
Q 23T'Challa's father, King T'Chaka, is killed by a bomb at a UN conference in which European city?
Vienna
Vienna. T'Chaka was there for the ratification of the Sokovia Accords, and the blast sent T'Challa after the wrong man in his first outing as the Black Panther.
Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman. Reed and Sue took time off to work on their own marriage after Civil War, so the newlyweds filled in on the team.
Q 14In the comics, which relative of T'Challa took over as the Black Panther in 2009?
His sister
His sister Shuri took the mantle in 2009 after a near-fatal attack by Doctor Doom left T'Challa in a coma, long before Wakanda Forever gave her the suit on screen.
Q 15Before writing Black Panther in 2016, Ta-Nehisi Coates was a national correspondent for which magazine?
The Atlantic
The Atlantic. Coates was still its national correspondent when Marvel called, and his first Black Panther issue became the best-selling comic of April 2016.
Q 16What was the title of Coates's first Black Panther storyline, in which T'Challa faces a popular uprising?
A Nation Under Our Feet
A Nation Under Our Feet. Coates took the title from historian Steven Hahn's 2003 book on Black political struggle in the rural South, from slavery to the Great Migration.
Q 17After the popular uprising in Coates's first Black Panther storyline, Wakanda is reformed into what?
A constitutional democracy
A constitutional democracy. T'Challa has a council draft a constitution and stays on as king, but only as a figurehead who represents Wakanda without ruling it.
Q 18What is Erik Killmonger's Wakandan birth name in the comics?
N'Jadaka
N'Jadaka. In the comics he is a Wakandan-born orphan who ends up in America; the 2018 film flips it, making him the American-born son of a Wakandan prince.
Q 19Killmonger ends his first fight with T'Challa by throwing him off what?
Waterfall
A waterfall. The duel at Warrior Falls comes from the comics: the pair fight above the same falls in Killmonger's 1973 debut storyline, restaged on film 45 years later.
Q 20In the comics, at which university did Killmonger study while plotting revenge?
MIT
MIT. He left with an engineering doctorate, then approached T'Challa in the United States to arrange his own return to Wakanda, where he turned on him.
Q 24In the comics, T'Challa was sent abroad to graduate from which university?
Oxford
Oxford. He left with a doctorate in physics, then went home and won the Black Panther mantle by defeating his own uncle in ritual combat.
Q 25In the comics, Wakanda's secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, are known in English as what?
War Dogs
War Dogs. The comics' Hatut Zeraze are feared enforcers, but the 2018 film reuses the name for Wakanda's undercover spies abroad, Nakia among them.
Q 26Who voiced T'Challa in the 2010 animated Black Panther series on BET?
Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Hounsou. The series exists because Reginald Hudlin, who wrote the comic arc it adapts, was running entertainment at BET when it was developed.
Q 27Which Avenger's signature gear is made of vibranium, the rare metal mined in Wakanda?
Captain America
Captain America. Vibranium soaks up the force of every blow on his shield, and the metal debuted in a 1966 Daredevil comic, five months before the Black Panther himself.
Q 28The Antarctic form of vibranium is nicknamed "Anti-Metal" because it does what?
Dissolves other metals
Dissolves other metals. It gives off vibrations that break the bonds in nearby metal and turn it liquid, the reverse of Wakanda's vibranium, which soaks vibrations up.
Q 29According to the opening of the 2018 film Black Panther, what first brought vibranium to Wakanda?
A meteorite
A meteorite. The film's opening says it struck Africa millions of years ago, and that the five tribes who settled on it lived at war until the first Black Panther united four of them.
Q 30Who directed the 2018 film Black Panther?
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Coogler. His talks with Marvel had cooled, then restarted after his boxing drama Creed opened strongly in late 2015, and he was confirmed that January.