Daredevil Trivia
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60 free Daredevil trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Daredevil trivia quiz covers the Man Without Fear in every medium: the Marvel comics from Stan Lee and Bill Everett's 1964 debut through Frank Miller and Born Again, the 2003 Ben Affleck film and its director's cut, the Netflix series with Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, and the Disney+ revival Daredevil: Born Again. The easy questions cover Matt Murdock, Foggy, Karen Page, Kingpin, Elektra and Bullseye; the harder ones dig into the hallway fights, the yellow costume, the radar sense, Wally Wood, Ann Nocenti and Bendis. Behind the scenes it covers Vin Diesel, Guy Pearce and Matt Damon passing on the 2003 film, why Ben Urich worked for the New York Post, Colin Farrell's Irish Bullseye, Coolio's deleted subplot, Charlie Cox nearly being cast as Foggy, why the Netflix show was cancelled, Kevin Feige's phone call, the Born Again creative overhaul and Fisk becoming mayor of New York. Every answer was checked against the relevant encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more Marvel, try our MCU, Marvel and superhero quizzes.
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Q 01How was Matt Murdock, the future Daredevil, blinded as a child?
A chemical accident
A chemical accident: he shoved a pedestrian out of a runaway truck's path, and radioactive liquid from its load splashed his eyes, blinding him but sharpening every other sense.
Q 02Why is Matt Murdock's father, a boxer, murdered in Daredevil's origin story?
He refused to throw a fight
He refused to throw a fight because Matt was watching from the crowd, so the gangster who managed him had him killed soon after; avenging him becomes Daredevil's first mission.
Q 03Which New York neighbourhood is Daredevil's home turf?
Hell's Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen is a real Manhattan district, also called Clinton; Matt's father pushed him to study so he could escape it, and he grew up to protect it instead.
Q 04Who created Daredevil in 1964?
Stan Lee and Bill Everett
Stan Lee and Bill Everett are the credited creators, though Jack Kirby had already drawn the first cover and seems to have helped design the first costume; Everett had created Namor the Sub-Mariner in 1939.
Q 05Daredevil's heightened senses were inspired by a co-creator's legally blind daughter, who found which of her own senses sharper?
Hearing
Hearing: she said she could tell who was approaching by sound alone, and she and her father 'took that and played with it' while inventing the hero.
Q 06What colours was Daredevil's original 1964 costume?
Black, yellow and red
Black, yellow and red. The busy acrobat-style suit lasted just six issues before a new artist swapped it for the simpler, more devilish all-red tights that stuck.
Q 07Who was Matt's blind martial-arts mentor in the comics?
Stick
Stick. The grizzled sensei made such a mark that the creators of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles spoofed him as Splinter, their rat ninja master.
Q 08Which writer-artist's early-1980s run brought film noir and ninjas to Daredevil and made the title a hit?
Frank Miller
Frank Miller. When he arrived as penciller, Marvel's money men wanted the low-selling book cancelled; his editor-in-chief kept it alive, arguing the 'Miller kid' would make it catch on.
Q 09Which writer introduced the Daredevil villain Bullseye in 1976?
Marv Wolfman
Marv Wolfman, co-creator of Blade and the New Teen Titans, later asked off the title, saying he never found the thing that made Daredevil his.
Q 10In the 1986 comics storyline 'Born Again', who sells Daredevil's secret identity for drug money?
Karen Page
Karen Page. Matt's former secretary, by then a heroin addict, traded the secret for a fix; it reached the Kingpin, who froze Murdock's finances and left him homeless.
Q 11Which villain with dissociative identity disorder did Ann Nocenti introduce?
Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary. Ann Nocenti said she wanted to shatter every female stereotype into fragments yet keep all the pieces in one woman: sweet, shy Mary and violent Typhoid.
Q 12Which filmmaker wrote 'Guardian Devil', the 1998 Marvel Knights relaunch drawn by Joe Quesada?
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith. The Clerks director had Daredevil care for a newborn who may or may not be the Antichrist, a story that grew out of his own struggles with his faith.
Q 13Who first played Daredevil in live action, in the 1989 TV film The Trial of the Incredible Hulk?
Rex Smith
Q 21Where was the 2003 Daredevil film mostly shot, despite its Manhattan setting?
Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles. The shoot was first slated for Vancouver, but it ended up on Los Angeles streets standing in for New York, where almost the whole story takes place.
Q 22Which band has two songs on the 2003 Daredevil film's soundtrack, including its debut single?
Evanescence
Evanescence. 'Bring Me to Life' and 'My Immortal' are both on it; the label had pushed for a male co-vocalist, and the first song's guest rap was a compromise Amy Lee never wanted.
Q 23Which rapper's subplot was restored in the R-rated director's cut of the 2003 Daredevil film?
Coolio
Rex Smith. His Daredevil wore plain black rather than red, and the TV film doubled as a pilot for a Daredevil series that never got made.
Q 14Who plays Matt Murdock in the 2003 Daredevil film?
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck. A lifelong fan who had already written the foreword to a Daredevil collection, he got a part all three of the others had been offered or had circled.
Q 15Who wrote and directed the 2003 Daredevil film?
Mark Steven Johnson
Mark Steven Johnson. Matt Damon later said he passed on the lead because he didn't quite believe in the script or the director; Johnson went on to make Ghost Rider.
Q 16Who plays Elektra Natchios in the 2003 Daredevil film?
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner. The plan, as the director recalls it, was to follow her 2005 Elektra spin-off with a second Daredevil if it succeeded; it didn't, and the sequel never came.
Q 17Who plays the Kingpin in the 2003 Daredevil film?
Michael Clarke Duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan. His first reaction was that the Kingpin had always been white; the director said the studio already thought him the best actor for it, then asked him to add 40 pounds to his 290.
Q 18Which Irish actor plays the assassin Bullseye in the 2003 Daredevil film?
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell. The director let him keep his own accent and gave him a pile of the comics to study; he called Bullseye too over-the-top a showman for method acting.
Q 19Why does the 2003 Daredevil film's Ben Urich work for the New York Post, not the Daily Bugle?
Sony held the Bugle rights
Sony held the Bugle rights. The fictional paper came bundled with another Marvel hero's film licence, which is said to be why the film gave Urich a job at a real tabloid instead.
Q 20Which future Marvel Studios director plays Matt Murdock's best friend and partner in the 2003 Daredevil film?
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau. The film's director recalls Seth Rogen reading for the part too and seeming far too young; it was a first Marvel film for the man who went on to direct Iron Man.
Coolio. He plays a murder suspect Matt represents in court, a whole storyline that vanished when the director was told to cut half an hour from the cinema version.
Q 24On which holiday did the 2003 Daredevil film open in American cinemas?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day. The director had sold it to the studio as a love story; it topped that weekend's box office and went on to about $179 million worldwide.
Q 25Which studio released the 2003 Daredevil film?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox. Fox first optioned the hero, let the rights lapse and watched him go to Columbia, then got him back as distributor when New Regency bought the rights.
Q 26Who plays Matt Murdock in Netflix's Daredevil and in Daredevil: Born Again?
Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox. Marvel's Joe Quesada picked him out two years early, while another studio still owned the hero's screen rights, even though Cox had never read the comics.
Q 27Who plays Wilson Fisk in Netflix's Daredevil and in Born Again?
Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent D'Onofrio. His crime boss is never called 'Kingpin' in the first season: the showrunner felt naming both hero and villain in the final minutes would be 'a little too much'.
Q 28Who created the Netflix Daredevil series, with Steven S. DeKnight as first-season showrunner?
Drew Goddard
Drew Goddard. He wrote the first two episodes, then stepped down to direct a Sinister Six film that was never made, staying on the series only as a consultant.
Q 29Which actress plays Matt's secretary-turned-partner in Netflix's Daredevil and in Born Again?
Deborah Ann Woll
Deborah Ann Woll. She set out to play both of the comics' versions of the character at once: a kind soul who is 'a little bit attracted to danger' and goes looking for it.
Q 30In Netflix's Daredevil, Rosario Dawson's Claire Temple blends the comics' Temple with which other character?
Night Nurse
Night Nurse. The scripts first used that name outright, until word came back that Marvel's film side had plans for her, so the show borrowed a more obscure comics name.