100 free Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness handed Marvel to Sam Raimi and let him make a horror film, and this quiz covers all of it: the one-eyed Gargantos on a New York street, Wanda's apple orchard, the Kamar-Taj siege, the tumble through universes with America Chavez, the Illuminati's chamber on Earth-838, the musical duel between two Stranges and the corpse that gets up and fights. Early questions are the ones any Marvel fan knows: who plays America Chavez, what the Darkhold does, who sits on the Illuminati. Later ones dig into how the film got made and unmade: the director who left over creative differences, the three weeks Michael Waldron had to write a new script, the working title, why the monster is called Gargantos and not Shuma-Gorath, the Bond actor who declined a cameo, where the Illuminati massacre was filmed, and why the trailer got the film blocked in China. Every answer has been checked against production reporting and the film's own record, and each question links to its source. Our Marvel Cinematic Universe trivia covers the wider franchise; this page is for the multiverse.
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Q 01Who directed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness?
Sam Raimi
He had sworn off superhero films after the reaction to Spider-Man 3, but the challenge of getting the film shooting fast, and his love of the character, won him over.
Q 02Which director left the film in January 2020 citing creative differences?
Scott Derrickson
He had directed the 2016 original and went straight on to make The Black Phone; he stayed on as an executive producer.
Q 03Which Loki head writer was hired to write the new script?
Michael Waldron
He was given three weeks for a first draft, which he called 'almost impossible', before the pandemic delay let him and Raimi start from scratch.
Q 04Who plays America Chavez?
Xochitl Gomez
Marvel had wanted to introduce the character for years and picked this film because her powers relate to the multiverse.
Q 05How does America Chavez travel between universes?
By punching open star-shaped doorways
She cannot control the power consciously at first, which is why the film starts with her being chased by a demon.
Q 06Which Disney+ series sets up Wanda's turn to villainy in the film?
WandaVision
Elizabeth Olsen shot the two back-to-back and asked for script changes so the film would evolve Wanda rather than repeat the series.
Q 07Which sorceress sacrifices herself at Kamar-Taj to destroy the Darkhold and break Wanda's spell?
Sara
Sheila Atim plays her; the Darkhold prop was designed for WandaVision and reused for the film.
Q 08What does Wanda use the Darkhold to do, taking over her counterpart in another universe?
Dreamwalk
A sorceress named Sara sacrifices herself to burn the book and break the spell, so Wanda goes to Mount Wundagore to do it again.
Q 09What is the designation of the main MCU universe in the film?
Earth-616
The alternate world with the Illuminati is Earth-838; the Strange who dies at the start is from Earth-617.
Q 10Which mountain is the source of the Darkhold's power?
Mount Wundagore
Wanda finally brings it down herself, destroying every copy of the Darkhold across the multiverse.
Q 11Which character holds the title of Sorcerer Supreme on Earth-616 in this film?
Wong
Benedict Wong was delighted to stand 'toe-to-toe' with Strange and trained with a former rugby league player for his added action scenes.
Q 12Which six characters make up the Illuminati of Earth-838?
Mordo, Peggy Carter, Black Bolt, Maria Rambeau, Reed Richards, Charles Xavier
They executed their own universe's Strange after he caused an incursion while trying to defeat Thanos.
Q 13Which actor plays Reed Richards in the Illuminati scene?
Q 21Which comics Illuminati member did Waldron omit because Coogler had reserved him for Wakanda Forever?
Namor
An early draft also had an Earth-838 Hope van Dyne on the team, killed by Wanda clapping her hands.
Q 22The one-eyed tentacled monster resembling Shuma-Gorath is called what, for rights reasons?
Gargantos
Its eye was modelled on Elizabeth Olsen's to foreshadow the villain; the Shuma-Gorath name belongs to Heroic Signatures.
Q 23What physical change does Strange develop at the end of the film as a consequence of using the Darkhold?
A third eye
Waldron said the ending felt too happy, so they added a horror-style final twist to show 'the bill comes due'.
John Krasinski
His footage was shot in reshoots to replace a planned Daniel Craig cameo; Olsen filmed the death scene opposite a stand-in and never met him.
Q 14Which character did Daniel Craig reportedly turn down over COVID risk to his family?
Balder the Brave
He judged that a single day's filming was not worth the risk; Krasinski's Reed Richards took the slot.
Q 15Which actor's Charles Xavier appears, combining his Fox X-Men films with the 1990s animated series?
Patrick Stewart
He initially denied being in the film after the Super Bowl trailer, then admitted it; his entrance uses the X-Men '97 version of the cartoon theme.
Q 16Which Illuminati member had Hayley Atwell previously voiced in What If...?
Captain Carter
Atwell disliked how her character's death was played as a joke and pushed for a different approach to the scene.
Q 17Lashana Lynch's Illuminati member is an alternate version of which character?
Maria Rambeau as Captain Marvel
She assumed she would be playing an ancestor of Rambeau and was surprised to learn she was an alternate Captain Marvel.
Q 18Anson Mount reprises Black Bolt from which short-lived Marvel TV series?
Inhumans
He shot his scenes during reshoots; his and Reed Richards's costumes were finished with visual effects because of pandemic travel limits.
Q 19Which real London location doubled as the chamber where Wanda massacres the Illuminati?
The British Museum
CGI added a new room with a glass entrance and statues; other shoots used Freemasons' Hall and Richmond Park.
Q 20Which film did Waldron watch as inspiration for introducing the Illuminati only to have Wanda kill them?
Aliens
He liked how that film's 'badass' space marines get slaughtered to establish how scary the creatures are.
Q 24Which character does Charlize Theron introduce in the mid-credits scene?
Clea
Waldron saved her for the credits so Strange's story with Christine Palmer could be resolved first.
Q 25Sam Raimi's frequent collaborator Bruce Campbell cameos as the vendor of what?
A Pizza Poppa food stall
He also gets the post-credits scene, still slapping himself under Strange's spell.
Q 26Which surgeon and former Strange colleague does Michael Stuhlbarg reprise?
Nicodemus West
An Earth-838 version was planned, with his severed head found in an elevator like Ray Arnold's arm in Jurassic Park, but scheduling killed it.
Q 27What was the film's working title?
Stellar Vortex
Principal photography began in London in November 2020, delayed six months by the pandemic.
Q 28Where were several New York City blocks and the Sanctum Sanctorum sets built?
Longcross Studios in Surrey
Production designer Charlie Wood built them; the final week of shooting was at Burrow Hill Cider Farm in Somerset.
Q 29Which composer, a longtime Raimi collaborator, replaced Michael Giacchino when Raimi took over?
Danny Elfman
He still quoted Giacchino's Strange theme, the way he had used Silvestri's Avengers theme in Age of Ultron.
Q 30Which song from Wanda's Disney+ series plays when she is first introduced in the film?
'WandaVision!'
It comes from the episode 'Don't Touch That Dial', written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.