Black Widow (2021 Film) Trivia
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50 free Black Widow (2021 Film) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Black Widow gave Natasha Romanoff her solo film after eleven years in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and this quiz covers the whole of it: the fake family in Ohio in 1995, the flight to Norway, the Budapest apartment fight, breaking Alexei out of prison, Melina's farm and the airborne Red Room that finally falls out of the sky. It also covers the post-credits scene at Natasha's grave that set up Hawkeye. The early questions are the ones any Marvel fan can answer: who plays Yelena, who is Red Guardian, what neutralises the Widows' mind control. Later ones dig into how the film got made, from the 65 directors Marvel met before hiring Cate Shortland to the actress who passed on Yelena, the composer swapped out late in post-production, the working title on location in Surrey, the 13 BMWs wrecked in Budapest and the settlement Scarlett Johansson reached with Disney. Every answer has been checked against production reporting and the film's own record, and each question links to its source. For the wider franchise, see our Marvel Cinematic Universe trivia; this page stays with the 2021 film.
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Q 01Which Disney+ series opened Phase Four ahead of the delayed Black Widow?
WandaVision
WandaVision opened Phase Four in January 2021 while Black Widow, pushed back three times from May 2020, waited until July; it ended up the phase's first film but its fourth release.
Q 02Who directed Black Widow?
Cate Shortland
Cate Shortland had a champion in Scarlett Johansson, who admired her drama Lore and pushed for her through a search that lasted more than six months and dozens of candidates.
Q 03Between which two MCU films is Black Widow mostly set?
Civil War and Infinity War
Civil War and Infinity War bracket the story because, Kevin Feige said, a prequel should stand on its own; he pointed to Better Call Saul as the model rather than retell Natasha's origin.
Q 04In the 1995 prologue, in which US state is Natasha's fake family living undercover?
Ohio
Ohio is the cover: two Russian agents pose there as a suburban couple with two unrelated girls as their daughters, until they steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and flee the country by plane.
Q 05Who plays Yelena Belova in Black Widow?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh had been on Marvel's list since late 2018; the studio opened the field to other actresses, then came back to her after her reviews for the wrestling comedy Fighting with My Family.
Q 06Which actress reportedly turned down the role of Yelena before it was cast?
Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan was among the actresses Marvel looked at in early 2019 and is reported to have said no; the studio then went back to the performer it had favoured since the previous autumn.
Q 07Alexei Shostakov, Natasha and Yelena's father figure, is better known by which superhero name?
Red Guardian
Red Guardian in his prime appears only in flashback, and it was filmed last: the actor playing Alexei bulked up to 280 pounds for the prison scenes, then lost about 60 during the shoot.
Q 08Which Oscar-winning actress plays Melina Vostokoff, the mother figure and Red Room scientist?
Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz plays her as an ambiguous mother figure, but in the comics Melina turns villain as Iron Maiden, a storyline Weisz said she would be 'very interested' in if it were written.
Q 09Who plays General Dreykov, head of the Red Room?
Ray Winstone
Ray Winstone found the reshoots 'soul-destroying' and told Marvel to recast the part; he came back, he said, only because he was contracted to and would otherwise have ended up in court.
Q 10Who is revealed to be under Taskmaster's mask in Black Widow?
Antonia Dreykov
Antonia Dreykov, the general's daughter, was believed dead in the bombing Natasha used to defect; the writer wanted the villain to be a loose end from her past rather than the comics' mercenary Tony Masters.
Q 11Which former Bond girl plays Taskmaster in Black Widow?
Olga Kurylenko
Olga Kurylenko's casting was kept secret until release, and the mimic's borrowed fighting styles were so hard to perform that it took several stunt doubles to play the part alongside her.
Q 12How does Natasha overcome the pheromone lock that stops any Widow from attacking Dreykov?
She breaks her own nose
She breaks her own nose to sever the nerve that carries smell, so the pheromone can no longer reach her; she had goaded Dreykov into landing the first punch.
Q 13In Black Widow, what does the Red Room turn out to be?
A secret aerial facility
Q 21Which studio first bought the Black Widow film rights in 2004, with David Hayter to direct?
Lionsgate
Lionsgate lost its nerve: David Hayter said that three days after the heroine film Aeon Flux opened badly, the studio told him it was not the time for this one, and the rights went back to Marvel.
Q 22Which actress was in early talks to play Black Widow in Iron Man 2 before Johansson?
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt lost the part against her will: Fox invoked an option left over from The Devil Wears Prada and made her do the Jack Black comedy Gulliver's Travels, so Scarlett Johansson stepped in.
Q 23Chloé Zhao pulled out of the running to direct Black Widow partly because it clashed with which of her films?
Nomadland
A secret aerial facility: a flying fortress hidden in the clouds, held up by its own engines and styled on Soviet brutalist architecture, which ends the film crashing back to earth in flames.
Q 14In which city did Natasha and Clint Barton carry out the mission first hinted at in The Avengers?
Budapest
Budapest was a running joke between the two Avengers for nine years; the film reveals it as the bombing of Dreykov's office that bought Natasha her place in S.H.I.E.L.D., and the shame she still carries.
Q 15Who supplies Natasha with a remote safehouse and, later, a Quinjet?
Rick Mason
Rick Mason's actor, O-T Fagbenle, first auditioned to play Taskmaster before the script changed; his Quinjet scene was added in reshoots because test audiences liked seeing him with Natasha.
Q 16Who visits Yelena at Natasha's grave in Black Widow's post-credits scene?
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, now Yelena's employer, blames one of the Avengers for her sister's death and names him as her next target.
Q 17Which comedy star makes an uncredited cameo in Black Widow's post-credits scene?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was meant to make her Marvel debut here, but the film's delays let The Falcon and the Winter Soldier introduce her first, the one change Kevin Feige said the pandemic forced on Phase Four.
Q 18Which TV spy drama inspired the premise of Black Widow?
The Americans
The Americans gave the director and her star the template of a manufactured spy family, which is why the pivotal scene is not a fight but a family dinner, table-read days before it was shot.
Q 19Alexei boasts of once fighting which Avenger, a duel the MCU timeline makes impossible?
Captain America
Captain America is the rival Alexei was built to match, and he swears they fought in the 1980s. The timeline rules it out, but the film's writer said Alexei believes every word he says.
Q 20Jessica Gao's rejected Black Widow pitch leaned so heavily on which hero that Marvel gave her that hero's series?
She-Hulk
She-Hulk was Gao's favourite, so she wrote her into a high-school-reunion caper for Natasha; a Marvel executive said it felt like a She-Hulk film with Black Widow in it, and the series followed.
Nomadland, she said, was the right story for her, and it won her the Oscar for Best Director; Marvel got her anyway for Eternals, which she began writing while still shooting it.
Q 24In which country did Black Widow begin principal photography in May 2019?
Norway
Norway plays itself: Natasha lies low in a remote safehouse there until Taskmaster attacks her car, and set photos surfaced the day after cameras rolled.
Q 25Which piece of her own clothing does Yelena give Natasha as a keepsake at the end of Black Widow?
A vest
A vest: Natasha is wearing it in Avengers: Infinity War, so the film explains a costume audiences had already seen three years earlier, a detail the writer said turned out to matter far more than he expected.
Q 26Black Widow's car chase went through 13 identical SUVs supplied by which carmaker?
BMW
BMW provided the X3s, and the stunt team rebuilt them to misbehave: the main cars swapped their electronic handbrake for a hydraulic one so that they would slide on cue.
Q 27Which James Bond film does Natasha watch, quoting along, while hiding in her safehouse?
Moonraker
Moonraker plays on her television until the power cuts out, and Natasha speaks Roger Moore's quip about a python with a crush on him along with him.
Q 28Which composer replaced Alexandre Desplat on Black Widow late in post-production?
Lorne Balfe
Lorne Balfe built the score from a fictitious Russian folk tune, the sort of song he imagined the sisters hearing as children, while listening to a lot of Prokofiev and Stravinsky.
Q 29Black Widow's opening credits feature a slowed-down cover of which Nirvana song?
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Smells Like Teen Spirit, in a dreamy cover by Think Up Anger with singer Malia J, plays over footage of the Widow programme that the title designers shot and then aged to look like 8mm film and VHS.
Q 30Which 1971 hit is young Yelena's favourite song, played as her fake family flees in the 1995 prologue?
American Pie
American Pie comes back years later, when Alexei sings it to calm Yelena, his proof that his bond with her was real even if the family was a cover.