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49 free Catwoman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Catwoman has been stealing scenes since Batman #1 in 1940, when Bill Finger and Bob Kane introduced 'the Cat' as a jewel thief Batman might have let get away on purpose. She vanished for twelve years under the Comics Code, came back green-suited in the sixties, got a Frank Miller origin in Year One, a solo series in 1993 and a wedding that never happened in 2018. These 49 questions cover the comics and the screen: the amnesiac flight attendant origin, Holly Robinson and Eiko Hasigawa, the Calabrese crime family, Zatanna's mindwipe, Hush and the stolen heart, Gotham City Sirens, Helena on Earth-Two and Joëlle Jones's cowl. Then the actresses: Julie Newmar's home-made Lurex suit, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether, Michelle Pfeiffer replacing Annette Bening, Halle Berry accepting her Razzie with an Oscar in hand, Anne Hathaway thinking she was up for Harley Quinn and Zoë Kravitz at the Iceberg Lounge. Easy questions stick to names and films; the expert tier asks about Lois Lane #70, Emma Peel, the Cheetah swap in Super Friends and the Pokémon studio behind Catwoman: Hunted. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01What kind of criminal was Catwoman when she first appeared in a 1940 Batman comic?
A jewel thief
A jewel thief known only as 'the Cat', she had no cat costume yet: she spent the story disguised as an old woman to steal a necklace aboard a yacht.
Q 02Catwoman debuted as 'the Cat' in 1940's Batman #1, the same issue that introduced which villain?
The Joker
The Joker shared her debut issue and seemed to die in it, stabbed in the chest, before a final panel revealed that he was still alive.
Q 03Who created Catwoman?
Bill Finger and Bob Kane
Bill Finger and Bob Kane wrote her as a temptation as much as a foe: at the end of her first story Batman appears to let her escape, getting in Robin's way as she jumps overboard.
Q 04What is Catwoman's signature weapon in the modern comics?
A bullwhip
A bullwhip is her trademark, and in her modern origin she learns to fight from Ted Grant, the heavyweight boxing champion who is also the hero Wildcat.
Q 05What is usually blamed for Catwoman vanishing from print between 1954 and 1966?
The Comics Code Authority
The Comics Code Authority began policing comics in 1954, just after psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's attack on the medium had singled her out as 'vicious', and she sat out the next twelve years.
Q 06After twelve years away, Catwoman returned to comics in 1966 in a title starring which Superman character?
Lois Lane
Lois Lane's own comic hosted the comeback: Catwoman hypnotises the reporter into becoming her costumed ally, then uses a magic wand to turn Superman into a cat.
Q 07Which 1987 story by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli rewrote Catwoman's origin?
Batman: Year One
Batman: Year One recast Selina as a woman scraping by in Gotham's red-light district, who takes in a young runaway and then quits to rob the city's rich and powerful in a cat costume.
Q 08Which mob boss does Selina suspect may be her father in Batman: Dark Victory?
Carmine Falcone
Carmine Falcone is never proved to be her father in the comics, which leave it at circumstantial evidence, but the 2022 film The Batman settled it: there Selina is his daughter.
Q 09Which writer and artist relaunched Catwoman in 2001 with 'Trail of the Catwoman'?
Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke
Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke began with Selina believed dead: their back-up strip follows private eye Slam Bradley, hired by Gotham's mayor to find out what became of her.
Q 10Which TV heroine's leather catsuit inspired Selina's 2001 costume, according to the comic's writer?
Emma Peel
Emma Peel's catsuit from The Avengers was his wife's suggestion, the writer said, while the new flying helmet and goggles were borrowed from Snoopy's dogfighting gear.
Q 11What colour was Catwoman's catsuit in the 1960s comics?
Green
Green was her colour on the page in those years, even though the hit TV series that had just made her famous again dressed its Catwoman in black.
Q 12Which magician did Catwoman push out of a window after learning she had mindwiped her into reforming?
Zatanna
Zatanna works her magic by speaking spells backwards, so Selina first gagged her with duct tape to stop her saying a word.
Q 13Which villain does Selina shoot in the head in a 2006 issue of Catwoman?
Black Mask
Black Mask had tortured her sister Maggie and promised to kill her friends one by one, certain that she would never break her rule against killing.
Q 21In the 1966 Batman film, Catwoman woos Bruce Wayne while posing as a journalist from which country?
The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union's 'Miss Kitka' charms Bruce Wayne so thoroughly that Batman is heartbroken when her mask slips off at the end and his new love turns out to be Catwoman.
Q 22In the 1970s Earth-Two stories, the daughter of a married Bruce Wayne and Selina becomes which hero?
Huntress
Huntress is born from her mother's death: Selina is blackmailed into one last job as Catwoman and killed, and her daughter puts on a costume to bring the blackmailer to justice.
Q 23Who designed Catwoman's revamped 2018 costume, trading goggles for a cowl?
Joëlle Jones
Q 14What is the name of the daughter Selina gives birth to after Infinite Crisis?
Helena
Helena did not stay long: deciding that life as Catwoman was too dangerous for a child, Selina had Batman help fake both their deaths and gave her up for adoption.
Q 15What does the villain Hush surgically remove from Selina in a 2008 Batman storyline?
Her heart
Her heart is cut out by Hush, a surgeon, as a way to hurt Batman; Doctor Mid-Nite keeps her alive until Batman wins it back and it can be returned to her body.
Q 16With which two villains does Catwoman team up in Gotham City Sirens?
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn move in with her at an abandoned animal shelter, after a weakened Selina suggests the three work together in a Gotham without Batman.
Q 17What is the vocation of Maggie, the sister Selina fights to protect in the 1989 series Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper?
A nun
A nun at a Gotham mission, Maggie is abducted by the pimp Selina once worked for, and the story ends with Selina killing him to save her.
Q 18In the first episode of the TV series Gotham, what does the young Selina Kyle witness from a fire escape?
The Waynes' murder
The Waynes' murder happens in the alley below her hiding place, and what she saw becomes her bargaining chip with Detective Gordon, who is hunting the killer.
Q 19Which writer had Batman propose to Catwoman in a 2017 comic?
Tom King
Tom King had Bruce kneel with a ring in Batman #24 and Selina say yes eight issues later, then built towards a wedding that she walks away from at the last minute.
Q 20Why does Selina call off her wedding to Bruce Wayne on the day itself, in a 2018 comic?
Marrying would unmake Batman
Marrying would unmake Batman, she decides: a contented Bruce could no longer be Gotham's hero. Readers then learn that the doubt had been planted as part of a scheme by Bane.
Joëlle Jones drew the new look for a solo series she went on to write and draw herself; it launched the same day as the wedding issue and follows Selina out of Gotham.
Q 24Who first played Catwoman in the 1966 Batman TV series?
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar reworked the costume herself, dropping its gold belt from her waist to her hips to show off her figure.
Q 25Who played Catwoman in the third season of the 1960s Batman series?
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt took over the part in 1967; the next year her blunt criticism of the Vietnam War at a White House lunch sent her American career into a long decline.
Q 26Which former Miss America played Catwoman in the 1966 Batman film?
Lee Meriwether
Lee Meriwether was Catwoman on the big screen only: when she joined the TV series a year later it was as someone else, Lisa Carson, the woman King Tut kidnaps to be his bride.
Q 27Which shimmering fabric was the catsuit of the 1960s TV Catwoman made from?
Black Lurex
Black Lurex, a fabric woven with metallic yarn, is what made the suit shimmer on screen; one of the costumes is now in the Smithsonian.
Q 28Who played Selina Kyle in Batman Returns (1992)?
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer did the film's strangest stunt for real: offered fake birds for the scene where Catwoman pops one into her mouth, she chose the live one.
Q 29In Batman Returns, Selina Kyle is the secretary of which corrupt tycoon?
Max Shreck
Max Shreck shoves her through a high window after she discovers that his proposed power plant is a sham, built to drain and hoard Gotham's electricity.
Q 30Which actress was first cast as Catwoman in Batman Returns but had to withdraw when she became pregnant?
Annette Bening
Annette Bening bowed out just before shooting began, setting off a scramble for the part in which Sean Young reportedly turned up at the studio in a home-made Catwoman costume.