50 free Doctor Strange Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Doctor Strange movies trivia quiz covers both of the Sorcerer Supreme's solo MCU films: Scott Derrickson's Doctor Strange (2016) and Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). The easy questions cover the cast, the car crash, Kamar-Taj, the Cloak of Levitation and the famous bargain with Dormammu; the harder ones dig into the three Sanctums, the Eye of Agamotto's secret, Mordo's exit, the Darkhold, dreamwalking, America Chavez and the Illuminati. Behind the scenes it covers the Alex Cox and Stan Lee script that ended on Easter Island, why Tilda Swinton was cast as the Ancient One, the Nepal shoot after the 2015 earthquake, the Escher and Monument Valley influences, Michael Giacchino at Abbey Road, Scott Derrickson's exit from the sequel, Sam Raimi's horror touches, the British Museum massacre set, Bruce Campbell's Pizza Poppa, the $350 million budget and the Saudi Arabia release dispute. Every answer was checked against the two films' encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more Marvel, try our MCU and Avengers quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Dr. Stephen Strange?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Marvel had talks with Joaquin Phoenix first; he decided blockbusters would never be 'fulfilling'.
Q 02What is Stephen Strange's profession before the accident?
Neurosurgeon
Cumberbatch compared his arrogance to the Sherlock Holmes he played on TV.
Q 03Who directed Doctor Strange (2016)?
Scott Derrickson
The Sinister director was hired in June 2014 and co-wrote the script with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill.
Q 04Who plays the Ancient One?
Tilda Swinton
The character is a Tibetan man in the comics; the writers said adapting him faithfully was an unwinnable Kobayashi Maru.
Q 05Who plays the villain Kaecilius?
Mads Mikkelsen
Derrickson framed him as the Saruman to a bigger Sauron; his makeup took two to three hours.
Q 06Which paraplegic who regained the use of his legs points Strange toward Kamar-Taj?
Jonathan Pangborn
Benjamin Bratt plays him; Mordo drains his mystical energy in the post-credits scene.
Q 07In which city is Kamar-Taj located?
Kathmandu
The comics' Tibet was moved to Nepal, and the crew shot there months after the 2015 earthquake.
Q 08Earth's magical shield is generated by three Sanctums in New York and which two other cities?
London and Hong Kong
Kaecilius destroys that one first, then attacks New York.
Q 09What relic does Strange secretly learn to bend time with?
The Eye of Agamotto
It turns out to contain the Time Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones.
Q 10Which entity, from a realm where time does not exist, does Kaecilius contact?
Dormammu
Cumberbatch himself provided the motion capture and part of the voice, at his own suggestion.
Q 11How does Strange defeat the film's cosmic big bad?
With an endless time loop that forces a bargain
The entity kills him over and over, then gives up and takes the zealots with him.
Q 12What has the Ancient One secretly been drawing power from to prolong her life?
The Dark Dimension
The revelation is what turns Mordo against her and, eventually, against all sorcerers.
Q 13What does Mordo tell Pangborn in the post-credits scene?
Earth has 'too many sorcerers'
Q 21Roughly how much did Doctor Strange (2016) gross worldwide?
$678 million
It became the biggest single-character introduction film in the MCU at the time.
Q 22Doctor Strange (2016) earned an Academy Award nomination in which category?
Best Visual Effects
It lost to The Jungle Book.
Q 23What is Stan Lee reading on the bus in his Doctor Strange cameo?
The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley's mescaline memoir, a nod to the film's psychedelic visuals.
Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mordo was deliberately not villainous at first, unlike in the comics.
Q 14Which Asgardian appears in the mid-credits scene of Doctor Strange?
Thor
He and Loki are looking for Odin, which is picked up in Thor: Ragnarok.
Q 15What is Rachel McAdams's character, Christine Palmer, known as in the comics?
Night Nurse
Marvel chose her over Clea to keep a link to Strange's ordinary New York life.
Q 16Under what working title was Doctor Strange shot?
Checkmate
Cinematographer Ben Davis called it Marvel's Fantasia; the sequel got its own code name.
Q 17Which mobile video game did Derrickson cite as a visual influence, alongside M. C. Escher?
Monument Valley
He also drew on the Steve Ditko comics, surrealist art and 'experimental, fractal videos from YouTube'.
Q 18Who composed the score for Doctor Strange (2016)?
Michael Giacchino
It was recorded at Abbey Road, where Paul McCartney overheard one of the cues.
Q 19Whose 1989 script, co-written with Stan Lee, had Strange fight the villain on Easter Island?
Alex Cox
Bob Gale had written an even earlier 1986 script for New World Pictures.
Q 20Where did Doctor Strange hold its world premiere in October 2016?
Hong Kong
Fitting, since the film's climax destroys the Hong Kong Sanctum.
Q 24Who directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Sam Raimi
Derrickson left over creative differences in January 2020, and Raimi added his horror sensibility.
Q 25Who is the main villain of Multiverse of Madness?
The Scarlet Witch
Writer Michael Waldron called her 'the biggest best bullet' they had, continuing her arc from WandaVision.
Q 26Who plays America Chavez?
Xochitl Gomez
She originates from a universe called the Utopian Parallel and travels by punching star-shaped doorways.
Q 27What is the name of the corrupting book of dark magic Wanda uses?
The Darkhold
Its opposite, the Book of Vishanti, is what Strange and Chavez go looking for.
Q 28What is the term for using the dark book to possess your counterpart in another universe?
Dreamwalking
Strange does it himself at the end, into his own corpse, and grows a third eye as a result.
Q 29Which mountain is the source of the dark book's power?
Mount Wundagore
Wanda brings it down at the end, destroying every copy of the book across the multiverse.
Q 30What is the designation of the universe where Strange meets the Illuminati?
Earth-838
Earth-616 is the main MCU reality in the film's own numbering.