Hulk Trivia
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50 free Hulk trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Hulk trivia quiz covers more than sixty years of the Incredible Hulk, from the debut issue its two creators built out of Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, through the alter egos, villains, cousins and sons of the comics, to the television series that gave the world a catchphrase and the films that put three different actors under the green. You will find questions on the origin story and the colour the character was supposed to be, the writers who reshaped him, the debut of a certain clawed Canadian in his pages, the Planet Hulk saga and its condensed movie version, She-Hulk's origin, the make-up tricks and casting stories of the 1978 series, the 2003 film, the 2008 reboot and the Avengers years. Easy questions suit a family movie night; the harder ones on issue numbers, creators and behind-the-scenes decisions will test serious Marvel readers. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia entries, and each question shows its explanation and source after you answer.
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Q 01Which writer and artist created the Hulk in 1962?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby mixed two horror classics: a misunderstood monster in the mould of Frankenstein's and the split self of Jekyll and Hyde.
Q 02What colour was the Hulk's skin in his very first issue?
Grey
Grey proved too hard to print: the shade shifted from page to page, at times coming out greenish, so the Hulk was simply made green from issue two.
Q 03Before anger became the trigger, what first turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk in his earliest comics?
Nightfall
Nightfall did it at first: Banner became the Hulk each evening whatever his mood, and only later did rage take over as the trigger.
Q 04Whom did Banner save from the bomb test that turned him into the Hulk?
Rick Jones
Rick Jones strayed onto the test site and Banner shoved him into a trench; at first he was the only person who knew the secret, and the only one who could calm the Hulk.
Q 05What official full name fixed Stan Lee's mix-up after he called the Hulk's alter ego 'Bob'?
Robert Bruce Banner
Robert Bruce Banner was Lee's cheeky fix: when readers caught the slip, he declared in print that this was the full name, "so we can't go wrong no matter what we call him".
Q 06General Ross hunted the Hulk for years before he was transformed into which character himself?
Red Hulk
Red Hulk was the general's own bargain: after years chasing the monster he made a deal with a band of supervillains for the same kind of power, and later served as an Avenger.
Q 07How many issues did the original The Incredible Hulk comic run before it was cancelled?
Six
Six issues was all the first series managed, yet the Hulk would not stay cancelled: he lived on as a guest star and won a regular slot in Tales to Astonish the next year.
Q 08In 1963 the Hulk made his first guest appearance in which other Marvel comic?
The Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four #12 gave the Hulk his first brawl with the Thing, a grudge match Marvel has replayed ever since; months later he co-founded the Avengers and quit almost at once.
Q 09Which future fan favourite made his debut as an antagonist in The Incredible Hulk #180–181 in 1974?
Wolverine
Wolverine arrived as a Canadian government agent sent to stop the Hulk; within a year Marvel had moved him into a new X-Men team, where he became its breakout star.
Q 10Which green-skinned super-genius, introduced in Tales to Astonish, became the Hulk's nemesis?
The Leader
The Leader is the Hulk turned inside out: the radiation that gave Banner brute strength gave a chemical-plant labourer named Samuel Sterns a towering intellect instead.
Q 11What is the name of the Hulk's cunning gangster alter ego?
Joe Fixit
Joe Fixit is the Hulk as a schemer rather than a smasher: in this form he hired himself out as an enforcer in Las Vegas.
Q 12Which writer began a 12-year Incredible Hulk run in 1987 and gave Banner dissociative identity disorder?
Peter David
Peter David wrote the Hulk as three warring personalities sharing one body, and closed his run in 1998 by killing off Betty Ross, Banner's great love.
Q 13In the "Planet Hulk" storyline, the Hulk is exiled by the Illuminati and crash-lands on which planet?
Sakaar
Sakaar is where the exile backfires: the Hulk leads a revolt, becomes the planet's ruler and marries Caiera, until his ship explodes and he heads home for revenge.
Q 21Who played Jennifer Walters in the Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law?
Tatiana Maslany
Tatiana Maslany's She-Hulk talks straight to the audience, and in the finale breaks out through the Disney+ menu to demand that Marvel's bosses rewrite her ending.
Q 22Which network aired The Incredible Hulk television series from 1978 to 1982?
CBS
CBS ordered the weekly show after two 1977 TV movies drew strong ratings, then cancelled it early in its fifth season when a new network chief decided it was getting tired.
Q 23Who played Dr. David Banner in the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk?
Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby was the producer's first choice, a TV star who he felt gave the show class, and Bixby signed on because the scripts were about people rather than monsters.
Q 14What are the names of the Hulk's two sons by Queen Caiera?
Skaar and Hiro-Kala
Skaar and Hiro-Kala were both born after the Hulk left: Skaar first met his father as an enemy before the two made peace, while Hiro-Kala tried to destroy the Earth.
Q 15Which tyrannical future version of the Hulk rules a world where most heroes are dead?
The Maestro
The Maestro is undone by his own origin: the present-day Hulk sends him back in time to the bomb test that created them both, and the blast kills him.
Q 16Which hero of myth took over the Hulk's own comic as its title character in 2008?
Hercules
Hercules took over after World War Hulk left the book's star a prisoner: Marvel simply renamed it The Incredible Hercules and kept the numbering going.
Q 17Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's acclaimed horror-tinged 2018 series ran for 50 issues under what title?
The Immortal Hulk
The Immortal Hulk takes its title literally: Banner can be killed, but the Hulk always comes back, his power traced to a hellish realm called the Below-Place.
Q 18In the comics, how did lawyer Jennifer Walters gain her She-Hulk powers?
A blood transfusion from her cousin
A blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner saved her life after a mob boss had her shot, and unlike him she keeps her own mind when she turns green.
Q 19Marvel rushed out She-Hulk to secure what?
A trademark
A trademark, the story goes: with the Hulk a TV hit, Marvel feared the show's makers would invent a female Hulk of their own, as its producer had done with The Bionic Woman.
Q 20Which writer-artist's Sensational She-Hulk run made her aware she was a comic book character?
John Byrne
John Byrne had She-Hulk argue with him across the page, tear through to the next one to grab a fleeing villain and even take a short cut over the advertisements.
Q 24Which bodybuilder played the Hulk in the 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk?
Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno spent three hours in make-up for each shoot, wore a wig of dyed yak hair and waited between takes in a refrigerated trailer so that he would not sweat the green off.
Q 25Which future action star was considered for the TV Hulk but reportedly thought too short for the part?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 6 ft 2, is said to have been judged too small, though the producer has recalled that he was busy; the 7 ft 2 Richard Kiel, Jaws in the Bond films, got the job first.
Q 26Producer Kenneth Johnson said he renamed the TV Hulk's Bruce Banner "David" to avoid what?
Comic-book style alliterative names
Comic-book style alliterative names like Lois Lane and Clark Kent bothered him, he said, and he wanted the show as far from its comic origins as he could get.
Q 27What was the profession of Jack McGee, who pursued the Hulk across America in the TV series?
Tabloid reporter
Tabloid reporter McGee was modelled on Javert, the relentless policeman of Les Misérables, the novel the show's creator happened to be reading when he was offered the Hulk.
Q 28Which Marvel hero teamed up with the Hulk in the 1989 TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk?
Daredevil
Daredevil's alter ego, the blind lawyer Matt Murdock, crosses paths with Banner, and the film doubled as a try-out for a Daredevil series that was never made.
Q 29The makers of the TV Hulk borrowed its wandering-hero format from which 1960s series?
The Fugitive
The Fugitive supplied the engine: like Dr Kimble, Banner drifts from town to town helping strangers, with one dogged pursuer always a step behind him.
Q 30What is the title of the melancholy piano theme that closes each episode of TV's The Incredible Hulk?
"The Lonely Man"
"The Lonely Man" plays on solo piano as Banner takes to the road at each episode's end, and thirty years on the 2008 film quoted it on piano as a tribute to the series.