Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Trivia
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49 free Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever had to carry on without Chadwick Boseman, and this quiz covers how it did: T'Challa's off-screen death, the vibranium hunt in the Atlantic, Namor rising out of the water to threaten Ramonda, Riri Williams at MIT, the flooding of Wakanda, Shuri's visit to the Ancestral Plane and the beach duel that ends with an alliance instead of a conquest. The early questions suit anyone who has seen it: who plays Namor, what his kingdom is called, who becomes the new Black Panther, who sings the closing song. Later ones dig into the making of it: the working title, the story Ryan Coogler had written before Boseman died, why Namor lives in Talokan and not Atlantis, what his ankle wings sound like, the four-and-a-half-hour first cut, Letitia Wright's injury, the French defence minister's complaint and the Oscar the film won. Every answer has been checked against production reporting and the film's own record, and each question links to its source. Our Black Panther trivia covers the comics and the 2018 film; this page is devoted to the sequel.
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Q 01Who composed the score for Wakanda Forever, returning from the first film?
Ludwig Göransson
Ludwig Göransson wrote a new theme for Shuri rather than lean on the first film's Oscar-winning music. T'Challa's own theme plays over his funeral procession.
Q 02Who steps forward to challenge for Wakanda's throne at the end of the film?
M'Baku
M'Baku steps out of the royal ship where the crowd expects the Black Panther, and announces that she will not be coming. In the first film he fought T'Challa for the throne and lost.
Q 03How does T'Challa die at the start of Wakanda Forever?
From a terminal illness
From a terminal illness that the film never names. Shuri is still in her lab, trying to recreate the heart-shaped herb she hopes will cure him, when her mother arrives to say he has died.
Q 04At T'Challa's funeral, the people of Wakanda dress in which colour?
White
White, not black: the crowd drums and dances behind the coffin in a procession closer to a celebration, until a royal ship hovers overhead and lifts the king into the sky.
Q 05Who plays Namor in Wakanda Forever?
Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Tenoch Huerta Mejía could not swim when Coogler offered him the sea king. Asked whether he could, he answered that he had never drowned, took the part, and spent months in swimming lessons.
Q 06How does Shuri end her final fight with Namor?
She spares him and offers peace
She spares him and offers peace: a vision of her mother stops the killing blow, and she tells Namor to yield so that neither people suffers more for revenge. He yields and calls off his army.
Q 07By what divine name do the Talokanil refer to Namor?
K'uk'ulkan
K'uk'ulkan, the feathered serpent god: born with winged ankles and able to breathe air as well as water, he was taken by his people for the deity. Namor, he says, is only what his enemies call him.
Q 08Wakanda Forever changes the meaning of Namor's name from the comics' 'Avenging Son' to what?
'Child without love' in Spanish
'Child without love' in Spanish: a priest calls the boy 'niño sin amor' as he and his people cut down the colonisers enslaving his mother's village, and he keeps the last syllables as his name.
Q 09Who is Riri Williams?
An MIT student who built the vibranium detector
An MIT student who built the vibranium detector, as a class project rather than for the CIA. Dominique Thorne had auditioned for Shuri in the first film, missed out, and was offered Riri years later by phone.
Q 10How does Queen Ramonda die?
She drowns saving Riri Williams
She drowns saving Riri Williams when Namor's attack floods the palace. The actress objected, telling Coogler he would rue the day; he answered that in this world to die is not really to die.
Q 11Which character does Shuri meet in the Ancestral Plane after taking the herb?
Killmonger
Killmonger appears where she hoped to find her mother. He says she took the herb out of a thirst for revenge, as he once did, and asks whether she will be noble like her brother or take care of business like him.
Q 12Who takes over as general of the Dora Milaje after Okoye is stripped of the title?
Ayo
Ayo, long the second-in-command, takes over. Queen Ramonda had stripped Okoye of her rank for failing to keep Shuri safe when Namor's warriors carried the princess off.
Q 13Which actress joins Wakanda Forever as the Dora Milaje warrior Aneka?
Michaela Coel
Michaela Coel, creator of I May Destroy You, said what sold her on the part was that Aneka is queer, as in the comics: she wanted to show that to Ghana, where her family is from.
Q 21What must Riri Williams leave behind in Wakanda when she goes home at the end of Wakanda Forever?
Her flying armour
Her flying armour stays behind: Shuri tells her she can't let her take it home. Riri does not leave empty-handed, though, because Shuri has had her dad's old car rebuilt and shipped to her.
Q 22Which CNN anchor appears as himself in Wakanda Forever, reporting on Wakanda?
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper anchors two CNN broadcasts in the film. The news crawl beneath him slips in nods to other Marvel stories: one item is about Ant-Man's memoir, and another mentions New Asgard.
Q 23In the comics, Namor rules which legendary lost realm, renamed Talokan for Wakanda Forever?
Atlantis
Q 14Where has Nakia been living since the Blip when Ramonda seeks her out?
Haiti
Haiti, where she works at a school. Ramonda finds her there and remarks that she was missed at T'Challa's funeral; Nakia admits she stayed away because she was afraid of how final it would be.
Q 15What is revealed in Wakanda Forever's only credits scene?
Nakia and T'Challa had a son
Nakia and T'Challa had a son, Toussaint, raised in secret, who tells Shuri his Wakandan name is T'Challa. Producer Nate Moore said a second stinger would not have felt appropriate after so emotional an ending.
Q 16Which disease, brought by the Spanish, drives Namor's ancestors into the sea in Wakanda Forever?
Smallpox
Smallpox is ravaging his mother's village in 1571. A plant found underwater cures them when they swallow it, but it turns their skin blue and leaves them unable to breathe air.
Q 17Who arrests Everett Ross in Wakanda Forever for passing intelligence to Wakanda?
His ex-wife, the new CIA director
His ex-wife, the new CIA director, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, has him arrested after learning he was talking to Queen Ramonda in secret. Okoye later breaks him out of custody.
Q 18What was Wakanda Forever's working title during production?
Summer Break
Summer Break was a cover name, the kind studios choose to avoid attention when filing permits and hiring crew, and it is still on the cover of the published screenplay. The first film was shot as Motherland.
Q 19After Namor floods the capital in Wakanda Forever, where do its people take refuge?
The Jabari mountains
The Jabari mountains: the tribe that long kept itself apart from the rest of Wakanda now shelters the capital's refugees in camps on its own land.
Q 20What halted Wakanda Forever's filming in November 2021?
Letitia Wright was recovering from a stunt injury
Letitia Wright was recovering from a stunt injury: an accident in Boston that August fractured her shoulder and left her concussed, and the studio told the crew there was only so much it could do without Shuri.
Atlantis in the comics is a Greek-styled paradise. Coogler and Marvel rebuilt it for the screen as a hidden Mesoamerican civilisation, and brought in historians of Maya culture to get it right.
Q 24Who plays CIA agent Everett Ross in Wakanda Forever?
Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman's Ross owes Wakanda his life: in the first film he was gravely wounded protecting Nakia and Shuri's technology saved him, which is why he risks his CIA career to help the queen here.
Q 25Ryan Coogler suggested which animal sound for Namor's ankle wings late in Wakanda Forever's sound edit?
Rattlesnakes
Rattlesnakes: he floated the idea in the last two weeks of the sound edit, warning that it might be a bad one, and the editors found the rattle was what made the wings ominous and Namor sound dangerous.
Q 26Which costume designer returned from the first film to dress both Wakanda and Talokan in Wakanda Forever?
Ruth E. Carter
Ruth E. Carter said the hardest part was the sea: clothes are not meant to be worn underwater for eight hours and used again the next day, so her team had to rethink which fibres could go in the water.
Q 27Which Academy Award did Wakanda Forever win?
Best Costume Design
Best Costume Design was its one win from five nominations. Accepting it, the designer said the Oscar was for her mother, who had died that week aged 101, and asked Chadwick Boseman to take care of her.
Q 28Which Wakanda Forever star earned the first acting Oscar nomination for a Marvel Studios film?
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett was nominated as Queen Ramonda, the first acting nod for any Marvel film. She had already won the Golden Globe for the role, but the Oscar went to Jamie Lee Curtis.
Q 29Which singer made her long-awaited return to music with 'Lift Me Up', Wakanda Forever's lead single?
Rihanna
Rihanna sings it as a farewell to Chadwick Boseman. Co-writer Tems said she wanted the song to feel like a warm embrace from all the people she had lost, as if she could sing to them now.
Q 30Which Bob Marley song, covered by Tems, played over Wakanda Forever's teaser trailer?
No Woman, No Cry
No Woman, No Cry, sung by Tems, gives way to Kendrick Lamar's Alright as the teaser turns from grief to a glimpse of a new clawed hero. It drew 172 million views in its first day.