Green Lantern Trivia
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50 free Green Lantern trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Green Lantern trivia quiz covers both the comics and the 2011 film. On the comics side it runs from Alan Scott's magic ring in All-American Comics in 1940 through Julius Schwartz's science-fiction reinvention as Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of Oa, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner and the newer Lanterns, the ring's weakness to wood, the oath, the Green Arrow team-up years and Geoff Johns's Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night. On the film side it covers Martin Campbell's Green Lantern (2011): Ryan Reynolds as Hal, Blake Lively as Carol Ferris, Mark Strong's Sinestro, Peter Sarsgaard's Hector Hammond, Parallax, the CGI suit, the New Orleans shoot, the $200 million budget, the 66% second-weekend drop and the cancelled sequel that Deadpool has been mocking ever since. Cast trivia includes the actors who nearly played Hal and the Oscar winner voicing a bird-like alien. Every answer was checked against the character's and the film's encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more DC, try our DC Comics, Justice League and superhero quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays Hal Jordan in the 2011 Green Lantern film?
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds has joked about the part ever since: in a Deadpool 2 credits scene his time-travelling hero shoots the actor just as he finishes reading the Green Lantern script.
Q 02What is Hal Jordan's job when the ring finds him?
Test pilot
Test pilot: he flies for Ferris Aircraft, where Carol Ferris, the executive who hired him, soon becomes his long-running love interest as well as his boss.
Q 03Which dying alien Green Lantern passes his ring to Hal?
Abin Sur
Abin Sur, mortally wounded, crash-lands on Earth and orders his ring to find a worthy successor; it picks Hal and carries him bodily to the wreck.
Q 04Which planet is headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps?
Oa
Oa is the base of the Guardians, the small blue-skinned immortals who founded the Corps and carved the universe into sectors for its members to patrol.
Q 05Finish the Green Lantern oath: 'In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my' what?
Sight
Sight: the oath runs on to 'beware my power, Green Lantern's light', and a Lantern recites it while recharging the ring at a lantern-shaped battery.
Q 06Which emotion powers the Green Lantern rings?
Willpower
Willpower: the ring turns thought into solid green light, so it can build anything its wearer imagines, but only for as long as their resolve holds.
Q 07In the 2011 film Green Lantern, a Guardian who tried to master a forbidden energy became which world-devouring villain?
Parallax
Parallax is a fallen Guardian in the film; in the comics it is an ancient entity that once took over Hal Jordan's own mind and sent him on a rampage against the Corps.
Q 08Who plays Sinestro, Hal Jordan's stern mentor, in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Mark Strong
Mark Strong kept the pencil moustache and widow's peak of the comics, a look the character's creators are said to have borrowed from the actor David Niven.
Q 09What does Sinestro do in the mid-credits scene of the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Puts on the yellow ring
He puts on the yellow ring and his green suit turns yellow with it, setting up a villain's turn for a sequel that was never made.
Q 10Who plays Hector Hammond, the scientist whose head swells grotesquely, in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard's Hammond is infected while examining a dead alien and gains mind powers at the cost of his sanity, turning on his own father, a senator played by Tim Robbins.
Q 11Who plays aircraft executive Carol Ferris in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Blake Lively
Blake Lively's Carol Ferris is more than a love interest in the comics, where an alien gem turns her into the villain Star Sapphire and sets her against Hal.
Q 12Which Oscar winner voices the bird-like Lantern Tomar-Re in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush said the artwork won him over: having voiced an owl and a pelican, he thought he could improve on them as a creature half bird, half fish and part lizard.
Q 13Who voices the drill-sergeant Lantern Kilowog in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Michael Clarke Duncan
Q 21Green Lantern opened at number one in June 2011, then lost the top spot a week later to which Pixar sequel?
Cars 2
Cars 2 took the weekend as Green Lantern's takings fell 66 per cent, dropping it to third place behind the comedy Bad Teacher as well.
Q 22DC's studio chiefs pitched the 2026 HBO series Lanterns as a Green Lantern story in the style of which crime drama?
True Detective
True Detective was the stated model: Lanterns sends two Green Lanterns to investigate a murder in small-town Nebraska, a case on Earth that opens onto a far larger mystery.
Q 23Who composed the score for the 2011 film Green Lantern?
James Newton Howard
Michael Clarke Duncan, the Oscar-nominated giant of The Green Mile, voiced the Corps' hulking trainer; in the comics the pug-faced Kilowog went on to join the Justice League.
Q 14Which superhero-film director plays engineer Tom Kalmaku in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi was a New Zealand filmmaker taking a small part as Hal's friend; within a decade he had directed Thor: Ragnarok and won an Oscar.
Q 15Who plays government agent Amanda Waller in the 2011 film Green Lantern?
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett joined nine days after shooting had begun and was the big screen's first live-action Waller, five years before Viola Davis took the role in Suicide Squad.
Q 16Who directed Green Lantern (2011)?
Martin Campbell
Martin Campbell had relaunched James Bond with Casino Royale, but later said superhero films were never his cup of tea and that he should not have taken the job.
Q 17Which writer-director, hired for Green Lantern in 2007, later said he had 'nothing to do with the finished product'?
Greg Berlanti
Greg Berlanti was fired as both writer and director yet kept his name on the film, and said he went on being blamed for a script that was never shot as he wrote it.
Q 18Which comedian was to star in a 2004 action-comedy version of Green Lantern scripted by Robert Smigel?
Jack Black
Jack Black was to play a lazy goof wholly unfit to be a hero, but Warner Bros. dropped the comedy once word of it met scorn from fans online.
Q 19Which US city doubled for Coast City when the 2011 film Green Lantern was shot?
New Orleans
New Orleans stood in for Hal Jordan's Californian home town only after a plan to make the film at Fox Studios in Sydney was dropped and the shoot moved to Louisiana.
Q 20Which Looney Tunes star ended up with Hal Jordan's ring after a dry-cleaning mix-up in a 2003 cartoon?
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck became 'the Green Loontern' in an episode of Duck Dodgers, a spoof that nonetheless treated the Corps and its best-loved members with real affection.
James Newton Howard had scored a DC hero before: Hans Zimmer, hired for Batman Begins, asked the director whether his old friend could share the job, and the pair wrote The Dark Knight together too.
Q 24Mogo, one of the strangest members of the Green Lantern Corps, first seen in a 1985 Alan Moore story, is what?
A living planet
A living planet: Mogo shows its allegiance by growing a belt of foliage around its equator in the shape of the Corps' lantern symbol, and its first story was titled 'Mogo Doesn't Socialize'.
Q 25Which film replaced Green Lantern as the launch of DC's shared film universe?
Man of Steel
Man of Steel took over the job in 2013, after Green Lantern's poor reviews and thin takings sank the plan to build a shared universe on Hal Jordan.
Q 26What was the job of Alan Scott, the original 1940 Green Lantern, before a magic lantern spoke to him?
Railroad engineer
Railroad engineer: after a train wreck at a collapsed bridge, the flame in a green lantern told him how to make a ring from the lantern's metal.
Q 27Which material was the one weakness of the original 1940s Green Lantern's ring?
Wood
Wood beat the ring from the start: in his first adventure a crook simply clubbed him, and a villain called the Sportsmaster later armed himself with bats and mallets.
Q 28Which editor reinvented Green Lantern as science-fiction hero Hal Jordan in 1959?
Julius Schwartz
Julius Schwartz kept the name, the ring and the lantern but threw out the magic, making his new hero one officer in a whole corps of space police.
Q 29Hal Jordan's original look was modelled by artist Gil Kane on which actor?
Paul Newman
Paul Newman had once been Gil Kane's neighbour, and the artist gave his cocky new hero the film star's face and easy charm.
Q 30Which Green Lantern, a high-profile African-American superhero, was originally chosen as Hal's alternate?
John Stewart
John Stewart refuses to wear a mask, and as a trained architect he is said to build his ring creations from the inside out, down to the last nut and bolt.