Justice Society of America
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50 free Justice Society of America trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Long before the Justice League, DC's heroes had already learned to share a meeting table. The Justice Society of America gathered the publisher's wartime stars into one book, vanished when superheroes fell out of fashion, and returned as the elder statesmen of the DC Universe, training the generations that followed. This quiz is built around the members. It covers the founders and the powers that made them famous, the heroines and proteges who joined later, the children and heirs who took up their names, and the villains who kept coming back. It also takes in the comics that told the story and the films and television series that put the team on screen. It suits long-time comics readers and newer fans who met these characters at the cinema or on television. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing who is who on the roster.
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Q 01Debuting in winter 1940, the Justice Society of America holds which distinction in comic book history?
First superhero team
The first superhero team in comic books brought together heroes owned by two different publishers, so readers got a table full of headliners for a dime.
Q 02Which famous heroine joined the Justice Society in the 1940s but was mostly kept on as the team's secretary?
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman made her very first appearance in the team's own comic, but a rule sidelining heroes who had solo titles kept her out of most adventures.
Q 03Which Justice Society member, Helena Wayne, is the daughter of Batman and Catwoman on a parallel world?
Huntress
Huntress debuted in 1977 during the team's revival, drawn by Joe Staton from sketches that combined elements of her two famous parents.
Q 04Editor Julius Schwartz renamed the revived Justice Society the Justice League, inspired by which sport's popularity?
Baseball
Baseball's National League and American League were so popular that Schwartz swapped the word Society for League when the heroes were relaunched in 1960.
Q 05Which former James Bond actor played Justice Society sorcerer Kent Nelson in the 2022 film Black Adam?
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan wore a motion-capture suit on set to play the team's senior sorcerer, who wields a golden helmet of immense magical power.
Q 06Which Justice Society member, Kara Zor-L, is Superman's cousin from an alternate universe?
Power Girl
Power Girl first appeared in 1976 as one of the young heroes the veteran team took on as proteges, a group briefly called the Super Squad.
Q 07Which Justice Society founder wears a golden helmet that links him to Nabu, a Lord of Order?
Doctor Fate
Doctor Fate pays a price for that power: the original wearer, archaeologist Kent Nelson, gradually lost control of his own life to the being that empowers him.
Q 08Which original Flash, a Justice Society founder, wears a winged metal helmet modelled on the god Mercury?
Jay Garrick
Jay Garrick gained his speed by accidentally inhaling hard water vapour in a college lab, and the helmet was later said to be his father's from World War I.
Q 09Which Justice Society chairman, played by Edi Gathegi in the 2025 film Superman, fights with floating T-Spheres?
Mister Terrific
Mister Terrific, Michael Holt, is ranked the third-smartest man in the world and was elected chairman by his teammates without ever seeking the job.
Q 10Which teenage Justice Society member got her own live-action television series in 2020, starring Brec Bassinger?
Stargirl
Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore, was named and modelled after her creator's sister Courtney, who died in the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800.
Q 11Which comic book series introduced the Justice Society of America in its third issue?
All Star Comics
All Star Comics gave the team a gentle start: the heroes simply sat around a table at their first meeting and took turns telling stories of their solo exploits.
Q 12Which writer created the Justice Society with editor Sheldon Mayer and returned in 1960 to create the Justice League?
Gardner Fox
Gardner Fox scripted the team's adventures until 1947, then came back thirteen years later to rebuild the same idea for a new generation of readers.
Q 13Which Justice Society chairman, a reincarnated Egyptian prince, appeared in every one of the team's 1940s adventures?
Hawkman
Q 21Which heroine, florist Dinah Drake, became the Justice Society's second female member in the late 1940s?
Black Canary
Black Canary joined as a skilled fighter with no superpowers at all; the sonic scream that fans know best was added to the character much later.
Q 22Which size-changing Justice Society member did Noah Centineo play in the 2022 film Black Adam?
Atom Smasher
Atom Smasher, Albert Rothstein, inherited his powers from a supervillain grandfather and first fought crime under the name Nuklon.
Q 23Which honorary Justice Society member, Ma Hunkel, fought crime in long johns with a cooking pot on her head?
Red Tornado
Red Tornado was one of the first superhero parodies, and at the team's first meeting she had to leave before applying because her trousers split.
Hawkman is the only member to appear in every Golden Age story of the team, and he held the chair from the eighth issue until the 1951 finale.
Q 14Which railroad engineer became the original Green Lantern, a Justice Society founder whose ring fails against wood?
Alan Scott
Alan Scott survived a railroad bridge collapse thanks to a magic lantern, whose green flame then told him how to fashion a ring from its metal.
Q 15Which Justice Society founder, chemist Rex Tyler, gets his super-strength from a vitamin called Miraclo?
Hourman
Hourman's name is a time limit: each dose of the vitamin works for only sixty minutes, and later stories revealed that it was addictive.
Q 16Which Justice Society founder fought crime in a green business suit, fedora and World War I gas mask?
The Sandman
The Sandman, Wesley Dodds, needed the mask himself: it shielded him from the sleeping gas that his gun fired to sedate criminals.
Q 17Which Justice Society founder is the ghost of murdered policeman Jim Corrigan, sent back to punish criminals?
Spectre
The Spectre began with a grim origin in 1940: thugs sealed the detective in a barrel of cement and threw it into the water.
Q 18Which Justice Society member, surgeon Charles McNider, was blinded by a gangster's grenade and keeps a trained owl?
Doctor Mid-Nite
Doctor Mid-Nite can see in total darkness, so he fights with blackout bombs that blind his enemies; he is one of the earliest disabled superheroes.
Q 19Which Justice Society member, master of a wish-granting genie, replaced the Flash when the speedster got a solo title?
Johnny Thunder
Johnny Thunder at first had no idea the genie existed; only later did he learn the magic word that summons his living Thunderbolt.
Q 20Which Justice Society member, heavyweight boxing champion Ted Grant, is credited with training Batman to fight?
Wildcat
Wildcat took up his costume after being framed for murder, and later stories gave him nine lives through a magician's altered curse.
Q 24Which Justice Society member, astronomer Ted Knight, flies using a gravity rod of his own invention?
Starman
Starman passed his inventions on: after the veteran heroes were aged out of action in 1994, he retired and left the family name to his sons.
Q 25Which Justice Society hero, Sylvester Pemberton, began as a child crimefighter with an adult sidekick?
Star-Spangled Kid
The Star-Spangled Kid was unique in reversing the usual formula; decades later he renamed himself Skyman and led a team of second-generation heroes.
Q 26Which daughter of the original Green Lantern is the twin sister of the shadow-wielding hero Obsidian?
Jade
Jade was given up for adoption by her mother, the villain Thorn, and only met her brother again when the two were teenagers.
Q 27Which wind-controlling Justice Society heroine, Maxine Hunkel, did Quintessa Swindell play in the film Black Adam?
Cyclone
Cyclone is the granddaughter of an honorary member from the 1940s, and in the comics she keeps a pet monkey named Frankie.
Q 28Which actor played Carter Hall, the winged leader of the Justice Society, in the film Black Adam?
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge's character was meant to have Hawkgirl at his side, but she could not be used in the film and another heroine took her place.
Q 29Which 1980s superhero team was formed by the children and heirs of Justice Society members?
Infinity, Inc.
Infinity, Inc. began as an act of rebellion: several proteges were denied admission to their elders' team, so they formed a group of their own.
Q 30On which parallel world did DC place the Justice Society once the Justice League had taken over the main one?
Earth-Two
Earth-Two let its heroes be older than their modern counterparts, which later allowed stories as drastic as the death of that world's Batman.