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49 free Harley Quinn trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Harley Quinn was supposed to pop out of a cake in one episode of Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. Instead she became, in Jim Lee's words, the fourth pillar of DC Comics. Paul Dini built her on his friend Arleen Sorkin's voice, Bruce Timm borrowed the Golden Age Daredevil's colours, and Mad Love gave her a tragic origin that won the Eisner and Harvey awards. These 49 questions follow her from cartoon to comics to screen: Joker's Favor, the Days of Our Lives jester, Harlequin and Columbine, Arkham Asylum, the mallet, Bud and Lou, The Batman Adventures #12, the 1999 canon debut, Karl Kesel's Quinntets, Gotham City Sirens and Bensonhurst, the New 52 chemical vat, Palmiotti and Conner's Coney Island, the kiss in issue #25, Stephanie Phillips, Mistah J and Red, Nana Harley, Margot Robbie, Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey, Lady Gaga's Lee Quinzel, Mia Sara, Kaley Cuoco and Kite Man. Easy questions stick to the famous names; the expert tier asks about Plastic Man, Holly Chance, Yo-Yo and the hyena named Bruce. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who voiced the Joker opposite Harley in Batman: The Animated Series, the show that introduced her?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill. While the rest of the cast sat in headphones he stood up and acted the part out, and the actress playing Harley said she sometimes forgot her own lines watching him.
Q 02In which 1992 Batman: The Animated Series episode did Harley Quinn debut?
Joker's Favor
Joker's Favor. She was meant as a one-off henchwoman, but when the rough footage came back the producers saw 'there's something here' and soon brought her back.
Q 03What is Harley Quinn's real full name?
Harleen Frances Quinzel
Harleen Frances Quinzel. Paul Dini took the surname from a teacher of his at Emerson College named Quenzel, changed the spelling, and said he was sure the man never knew.
Q 04Harley Quinn's name is a pun on Harlequin, a stock clown from which theatrical tradition?
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte. Her designer borrowed the Italian clown's jester hat, ruff and diamonds, but placed only a few diamonds on her suit because a costume covered in them could not be animated.
Q 05Which actress inspired and first voiced Harley Quinn?
Arleen Sorkin
Arleen Sorkin. It was her first voiceover job, and she found the voice by singing Adelaide's Lament from Guys and Dolls in the car on the way to the studio.
Q 06On which soap opera did Paul Dini see a college friend play the jester who inspired Harley?
Days of Our Lives
Days of Our Lives. Dini thought the jester outfit 'kind of cute', modelled his wisecracking henchwoman on his friend's screen persona, and then asked her to do the voice.
Q 07From which Golden Age character did Harley's designer take her red and black colour scheme?
Daredevil
Daredevil. Not Marvel's hero but a 1940s namesake from another publisher, whose two-tone split suit her designer remembered as red and black and admitted he 'kind of stole'.
Q 08What was Harley's profession before she met the Joker?
Psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum
Psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum. Her creators wanted a surprise in her origin: not just a hench girl but a doctor whose own patient had got into her head.
Q 09What is Harley Quinn's signature weapon?
An oversized mallet
An oversized mallet. It suits her clown act: Harley favours gag weapons such as pop guns, and the oversized hammer is the one that nearly every version of her keeps.
Q 10What are the names of Harley Quinn's pet hyenas?
Bud and Lou
Bud and Lou. A clown's pets needed comedians' names, so they are called after Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the double act behind the 'Who's on First?' routine.
Q 11In which 1994 one-shot comic did Harley's two creators first tell her origin story?
Mad Love
Mad Love. It reversed the usual traffic between screen and page: the comic came first and won an Eisner award, and only five years later was it adapted as an episode of the cartoon.
Q 12Harley entered mainstream DC continuity in 1999 during which Batman storyline?
No Man's Land
No Man's Land. In the one-shot, Batman: Harley Quinn, she finally has the Joker at her mercy and is about to finish him when he says sorry, and she forgives him on the spot.
Q 13Which comic series, a tie-in to the animated show, gave Harley her first appearance in print in 1993?
The Batman Adventures
Q 21Who played the Joker opposite Harley in the 2016 film Suicide Squad?
Jared Leto
Jared Leto. He was left disappointed by how little of his performance survived the edit, saying he had shot enough Joker material for a whole film of its own.
Q 22After Suicide Squad opened in 2016, Harley Quinn became that year's most popular what in both the US and the UK?
Halloween costume
Halloween costume. Google's costume tracker had her as the most-searched character in America, and when she was named Britain's top choice, lookalikes paraded through London.
Q 23In the comics and on screen, which official forces Harley to join the Suicide Squad?
Amanda Waller
The Batman Adventures. Because the book was based on the cartoon and stood outside DC's main line, her debut in issue 12 did not make her part of the regular Batman comics, which took years more.
Q 14What did a serum from Poison Ivy give Harley besides enhanced strength and agility?
Immunity to toxins
Immunity to toxins. Ivy took pity on her after the Joker tried to get rid of her by firing her off in a rocket, and the dose also left her strong enough to hold her own against Batman.
Q 15Which filmmaker named his daughter Harley Quinn after the character?
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith. The studio had given him the bat used on screen in Suicide Squad, and when he passed it on to Harley Quinn Smith she cried tears of joy.
Q 16At the end of her origin story, what does the Joker send that makes a heartbroken Harley forgive him?
A flower and a note
A flower and a note. She has just sworn off him for good in her Arkham cell when she spots them; her creator compared it to taking a crumb of affection and turning it into a whole cake.
Q 17Which 2009 series teamed Harley with Catwoman and Poison Ivy?
Gotham City Sirens
Gotham City Sirens. The team fell apart when Harley broke into Arkham meaning to kill the Joker and instead let him talk her into rejoining him, betraying her two partners.
Q 18Harley's accent gives away her hometown as which New York City borough?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn. The accent came first, from the actress who originated her, and Paul Dini later made the borough her official hometown in the comics to match it.
Q 19In the New 52 Suicide Squad origin, how does the Joker transform the future Harley Quinn?
Pushes her into a chemical vat
Pushes her into a chemical vat. The 2011 retelling made her origin a copy of his: it happens at the same chemical plant where he was transformed, to change her the way he was changed.
Q 20Which writing duo's 2013 series moved Harley out of Gotham and made her a landlord?
Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner
Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner. They agreed to write her only if they could do it their way, away from her old setting, and their run was the one that separated her from the Joker for good.
Amanda Waller. The writer who put Harley on Waller's team reasoned that no real authority would leave her locked up in the same institution as the Joker, so he moved her to another prison.
Q 24Which publisher called Harley the 'fourth pillar' of DC after Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman?
Jim Lee
Jim Lee. He said it as DC's co-publisher after her 2013 solo series had become one of the company's best-selling books every month and set off a run of spin-offs.
Q 25What nicknames does Harley use for the Joker?
Mistah J and Puddin'
Mistah J and Puddin'. The pet names sweeten a relationship her own creator calls abusive: by his account the Joker loves what he turned her into more than who she is.
Q 26What does Harley call Poison Ivy?
Red
Red. Harley's pet name for her has outlasted every change between them: best friends and partners in crime at first, they became a couple in the comics in the 2010s.
Q 27Why is Harley on her own when she first teams up with Poison Ivy in 1993?
The Joker has fired her
The Joker has fired her. Paul Dini had wanted to write a story where she goes off without him, and he chose Ivy as her partner because she was 'the strongest contrast to Harley'.
Q 28Which comic-relief hero did her first series' writer want as Harley's new love interest, only for DC to refuse?
Plastic Man
Plastic Man. Karl Kesel pitched the stretchy ex-crook as a romance that wasn't the Joker, was turned down, and says the idea later grew into a heroine of his own, Impossible Jones.
Q 29In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Harley is revealed as grandmother to which characters?
The Dee Dee Twins
The Dee Dee Twins. Harley had seemed to fall to her death years before; in the film's last minutes an elderly, reformed Harley bails the pair out of jail, and they call her Nana Harley.
Q 30Which voice actress took over Harley in the Batman: Arkham games and has played her in many other projects since?
Tara Strong
Tara Strong. When the 2016 film was cast, her fans protested that she ought to be playing the part on screen; she told them to chill out and said she approved of the choice.