Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Trivia
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47 free Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 arrived in May 2017 as the fifteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with James Gunn again writing and directing and Kurt Russell joining as Ego, the Celestial who turns out to be Peter Quill's father. It premiered in Tokyo, grossed more than $860 million worldwide, picked up an Oscar nomination for its visual effects, and gave Baby Groot a dance number over the opening credits. This quiz digs into the story (the Anulax batteries, the Ravager mutiny, the cavern of skeletons, Yondu's sacrifice), the cast and cameos (who plays Ayesha, who voices Mainframe, which Farscape star turns up as an admiral), and the production: the 8K camera, the working title, the alien race Marvel's lawyers nearly vetoed, the perfect test-screening score and the trillion-polygon planet at the centre of it all. There are box-office and home-media numbers for the stat-minded too. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play through in sets of ten or print it out for a Marvel movie night.
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Q 01Who plays Peter Quill, the self-styled Star-Lord, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt has said that playing a son who meets his long-lost father reopened his grief for his own, wounds he felt would never be totally healed.
Q 02Which Marvel film came out next after Vol. 2?
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Spider-Man: Homecoming followed two months later, in July 2017. Marvel had first pencilled in Vol. 2 itself for late July before moving it up to the first weekend of May.
Q 03Who plays Ego, revealed in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to be Peter Quill's father?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell was the leading man's idea: the director admitted he had not thought of him until then. The opening scene shows Russell digitally restored to his 1980 self.
Q 04Baby Groot dances through the opening battle of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to which ELO song?
Mr. Blue Sky
Mr. Blue Sky plays while the team's fight with a giant monster is pushed into the background behind him. The film's director danced the routine himself as the animators' reference.
Q 05In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which song does Ego call possibly Earth's greatest composition?
Brandy
Brandy plays over the film's very first scene, set in 1980. Ego later likens himself to its sailor, who loves the sea more than the girl, to explain why he left Quill's mother.
Q 06Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 earned its one Oscar nomination, at the 90th Academy Awards, in which category?
Best Visual Effects
Best Visual Effects: the nomination honoured the artists behind Ego's living planet and a dancing Baby Groot, but on the night the Oscar went to Blade Runner 2049.
Q 07High Priestess Ayesha leads which genetically engineered golden race?
Sovereign
The Sovereign do their fighting at a distance: when the Guardians cross them, they send a fleet of golden attack pods, each flown by remote control from a battle room at home.
Q 08What do the Guardians protect from the Abilisk in the opening job?
Anulax batteries
Anulax batteries: the fee for guarding them is a prisoner, Gamora's sister Nebula. Rocket then pockets a few on the way out, and the clients come after the whole team.
Q 09In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Quill compares himself and Gamora to a couple from which TV show?
Cheers
Cheers: he means Sam and Diane, who never admit their feelings because "the ratings would go down". Quill was taken from Earth in 1988, so his references stop there.
Q 10Which Ravager leads the mutiny against Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Taserface
Taserface chose the name himself to inspire fear, and gets laughed at for it. In 2012 the director had called the comics original the dumbest character ever and vowed never to film him.
Q 11Which Ravager leader had exiled Yondu's crew for child trafficking?
Stakar Ogord
Stakar Ogord cast Yondu out for breaking the Ravager code by delivering children to Ego. He relents only at the end, when he brings the Ravager fleets to honour Yondu's funeral.
Q 12Ego belongs to which ancient race of god-like beings?
Celestials
Celestials: Ego says he began as a lone mind adrift in space, built a planet around himself layer by layer over millions of years, then made a human body to go looking for other life.
Q 13What does Ego admit he gave Meredith Quill?
A brain tumor
A brain tumor: Ego says he loved Meredith so much that one more visit to Earth would have kept him there, so he killed her. The confession snaps Quill out of his trance.
Q 21Which studio returned Ego's film rights to Marvel in a character-swap deal?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox handed Ego over in return for Marvel's permission to change the powers of Negasonic Teenage Warhead in Deadpool, a swap one of that film's writers later confirmed.
Q 22In the comics, who is Peter Quill's father, the role Ego takes in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
J'son
J'son, ruler of the Spartax empire, is Star-Lord's father in the comics. The director said early on that the film would use someone else, and a rights swap with another studio freed up Ego.
Q 23The 1980 opening sequence with young Ego is set in which US state?
Missouri
Q 14Whose song Father and Son plays over Yondu's funeral at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens: the director chose the 1970 ballad after hearing Howard Stern try to play it on his radio show. It follows Yondu's last words to Quill, that Ego "wasn't your daddy".
Q 15Who takes up Yondu's telekinetic arrow and control-fin in the credits scenes?
Kraglin
Kraglin, Yondu's first mate, inherits the fin and the arrow but not the skill: his first big whistle sends the arrow round a corner and straight into Drax.
Q 16In a mid-credits scene of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, what has happened to Groot?
He grows into a teenager
He grows into a teenager: Quill walks into a room overrun with vines and tells a sulky Groot, who will not look up from his video game, to clean it up.
Q 17Who plays Mantis in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Pom Klementieff
Pom Klementieff, a French actress then best known for Spike Lee's Oldboy, won the part after the director had auditioned hundreds of actors for it.
Q 18Which actress plays Ayesha, the golden High Priestess, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Elizabeth Debicki
Elizabeth Debicki, already 6 ft 3 in, was put in platform shoes that raised her to 6 ft 7 in, because the director wanted his priestess to tower over the hero.
Q 19Which Vol. 2 star recorded his lines in 16 languages?
Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel had one phrase to master in each, since every line Groot has here is "I am Groot". He had recorded six languages for the first film and went up to 16 for the sequel.
Q 20Who acted out Rocket's movements on set during the filming of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Sean Gunn
Sean Gunn, the director's brother, played Rocket on set for the other actors to work with, and also appears as one of Yondu's Ravagers. Bradley Cooper supplies the voice.
Missouri: the scene was shot in St. Charles, near where the director grew up. Asked later about his father, Quill can say only that he "ain't from Missouri".
Q 24In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Stan Lee tells the Watchers about his time as what?
A FedEx delivery man
A FedEx delivery man: that was his cameo in Captain America: Civil War, which is set after this film. The director owned up: "I screwed up; I wasn't thinking."
Q 25In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Ego briefly takes on the likeness of which TV star?
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff: as a boy Quill carried the Knight Rider star's photo and told other children he was his father, so Ego puts on that face in the middle of their fight.
Q 26Which actor is seen dancing, in Thor: Ragnarok costume, in the end credits of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum, dancing as the Grandmaster months before Ragnarok opened. Marvel's Kevin Feige said they put it in for fun, since in the comics he is the Collector's brother.
Q 27Miley Cyrus has an uncredited voice cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as which Ravager?
Mainframe
Mainframe has a single line in a credits scene. The director offered Cyrus the part after admiring the tone of her voice while watching her as a coach on The Voice.
Q 28Who plays the Ravager captain Aleta Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh appears for a few seconds in a credits scene. The director cast her because he is, in his own words, "a big fan of '90s Hong Kong films".
Q 29In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Yondu gleefully declares that he is which fictional character?
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins: Quill says Yondu looks like her as he floats down holding his arrow. Yondu has never heard of her, asks "Is he cool?" and takes the name with pride.
Q 30After the first film shot in England, where was Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 made?
Pinewood Atlanta Studios
Pinewood Atlanta Studios: the director said its 18 sound stages let the whole production fit on a single lot. The first film had been shot entirely in Britain.