Mad Max Trivia
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49 free Mad Max trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Mad Max trivia quiz covers all five films in George Miller's saga: the guerrilla-shot 1979 original that made Mel Gibson a star, Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US), Beyond Thunderdome with Tina Turner, the six-Oscar Fury Road with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, and the 2024 prequel Furiosa with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. There is a question or two on the Avalanche video game as well. Expect questions on the Pursuit Special Interceptor and which Ford Falcon it really was, Toecutter, Lord Humungus, Aunty Entity, Immortan Joe and Dementus, Bartertown and the Citadel, the American redub of the first film, the Guinness record it held for twenty years, the Namibia shoot, the 150 vehicles built for Fury Road, and the songs, scores and Oscars. Roughly a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the films, a third are medium, and the rest are for wasteland obsessives. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Who created the Mad Max franchise, directing or co-directing every film in it?
George Miller
George Miller has directed every Mad Max film through Furiosa (2024), sharing Beyond Thunderdome with George Ogilvie; he was an emergency-room doctor first, and the crash injuries he treated fed the original's violence.
Q 02What is Mad Max's surname?
Rockatansky
Rockatansky: the series' creator, a trained doctor, borrowed the name from Carl von Rokitansky, a 19th-century Austrian pathologist who pioneered a method of examining organs at autopsy.
Q 03Which actor played Max in the first three Mad Max films?
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson was a drama-school graduate with one film behind him; the director had flown to Los Angeles for an American name, found one would swallow the whole budget, and cast an unknown instead.
Q 04Under what title was Mad Max 2 released in the United States?
The Road Warrior
Warner Bros. released Mad Max 2 in the United States in 1982 as The Road Warrior, dropping the sequel number because the 1979 original had barely been seen there.
Q 05Which pop star plays Aunty Entity, ruler of Bartertown, in Beyond Thunderdome?
Tina Turner
Tina Turner got the part because, while writing the script, the filmmakers kept describing Aunty as 'someone like Tina Turner'; when it came to casting they simply asked her, and she said yes.
Q 06Who plays Max in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy took over as Max after a long search that came down to him, Armie Hammer and Jeremy Renner; Heath Ledger and Eric Bana had been considered earlier in the film's drawn-out development.
Q 07Who plays Imperator Furiosa in Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron phoned the director to say Furiosa could never get by in a mechanics' room with long hair, then shaved her own head for the part, which he took as proof of her commitment.
Q 08Which actress took over as Furiosa for the 2024 prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy took over because the director ruled out digitally de-ageing the Fury Road star, saying the technology still left an uncanny-valley effect; Alyla Browne plays Furiosa as a child.
Q 09Which Australian star plays the warlord Dementus in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga?
Chris Hemsworth
Chris Hemsworth, cast against type as the villain, leads the Biker Horde that kidnaps the young Furiosa; his father raced motorbikes and knew stunt riders from the original trilogy.
Q 10In the 1979 film Mad Max, which law-enforcement agency does Max work for?
Main Force Patrol
The Main Force Patrol, or MFP, is poorly funded, yet its captain gets a supercharged Pursuit Special built purely to tempt a weary Max into staying on the force.
Q 11Which biker-gang leader terrorises Max's family in the first Mad Max film?
Toecutter
Toecutter leads the bikers who run down Max's wife and infant son; Max then hunts him along the highway until he rides head-on into an oncoming semi-trailer.
Q 12What is the nickname of Jim Rains, Max's motorcycle-cop partner in the first Mad Max film?
Goose
Goose is ambushed and burned in a borrowed ute; New Zealand banned the film until 1983, reportedly because the scene echoed a real gang incident there shortly before its release.
Q 13Max's black supercharged Pursuit Special was built from which Australian car?
A Ford Falcon XB
The Pursuit Special is a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT hardtop; its bonnet-mounted Weiand supercharger was a non-functioning prop, spun by an electric motor for the camera.
Q 21In Mad Max 2, what weapon does the Feral Kid use to kill one of the marauders?
A metal boomerang
A metal boomerang, which the Feral Kid catches in a mail glove; his victim is the companion of the gang leader's lieutenant, who comes after the Kid for revenge in the finale.
Q 22What is the twist at the end of Mad Max 2 when the tanker finally crashes?
It was full of sand
It was full of sand: the tanker Max drove was a decoy, and the settlers had smuggled the real fuel out in oil drums inside their smaller vehicles while the marauders chased him.
Q 23Which actor, later the Mouth of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings, plays pilots in Mad Max 2 and Beyond Thunderdome?
Bruce Spence
Q 14Roughly what was the production budget of the original Mad Max?
A$400,000
A$400,000 at most, much of it raised from friends and family in A$10,000 lots; the director topped it up with three months of emergency medical call-outs, his producer driving the car.
Q 15Which 1999 release took Mad Max's twenty-year Guinness record for most profitable film?
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project grossed almost US$250 million; its famous shoestring budget covered only the shoot, and finishing the film for cinemas pushed the real cost past US$200,000.
Q 16What did the US distributor do to Mad Max's dialogue for the film's 1980 American release?
Redubbed it with new voices
Redubbed it with new voices: American actors replaced the Australian accents, the star's included, and the slang was swapped out, so 'windscreen' became 'windshield' and 'proby' became 'rookie'.
Q 17Who composed the scores for the first two Mad Max films?
Brian May
Brian May here is not Queen's guitarist but an Adelaide-born namesake, a conductor who led an ABC show band on Australian radio and television before scoring Mad Max and Mad Max 2.
Q 18In and around which Australian city was the original Mad Max filmed?
Melbourne
Melbourne: the crew began by shutting roads around the city without permits, until Victoria Police grew so curious about the film that officers started closing the roads and escorting the cars for them.
Q 19Mad Max 2 was shot in the outback around which Australian mining town?
Broken Hill
Broken Hill, New South Wales: the director was among the first to film there and prized a mining town's welders and workshops on the desert's edge, and crews have used it as a base ever since.
Q 20Who is the masked leader of the marauders besieging the refinery in Mad Max 2?
Lord Humungus
Lord Humungus, a giant in a hockey mask, offers the besieged settlers their lives if they will just walk away and leave him the refinery's fuel.
Bruce Spence's two pilots are separate characters: the Gyro Captain of Mad Max 2 ends up leading the settlers north, while Jedediah of Beyond Thunderdome is a sky bandit with a small son.
Q 24Which mohawked marauder, armed with a wrist-mounted crossbow, hunts Max in Mad Max 2?
Wez
Wez, played by Vernon Wells, is after more than fuel: once his young lover is killed in front of him the siege becomes a personal vendetta, and he hunts the killer through the final chase.
Q 25In Beyond Thunderdome, Bartertown's electricity comes from a refinery in 'Underworld' that runs on what?
Methane from pig manure
Methane from pig manure: the animals matter so much to Bartertown that the convict Pig Killer is sentenced to shovel their dung, his crime being to slaughter one to feed his children.
Q 26Who runs Underworld in Beyond Thunderdome, a dwarf engineer who rides on his giant bodyguard's shoulders?
Master
Master is the only one who knows how to run the machinery that powers Bartertown, so he stages 'embargoes', cutting the town's energy until its ruler admits in public who is really in charge.
Q 27In Beyond Thunderdome, the tribe of children Max meets were stranded by what crash?
A Qantas Boeing 747
A Qantas Boeing 747 came down in the desert, and the adults who went for help never returned; the children left behind take Max for its pilot, Captain Walker, come back to fly them home.
Q 28Which Beyond Thunderdome song, sung by the actress playing Aunty Entity, hit No. 2 in the US?
We Don't Need Another Hero
'We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)' plays over the end credits; it stalled at No. 2 in September 1985 because another film theme, John Parr's 'St. Elmo's Fire', was sitting at No. 1.
Q 29Beyond Thunderdome is dedicated to which co-creator of the Mad Max series, killed in a helicopter crash in 1983?
Byron Kennedy
Byron Kennedy, producer of the first two films, was 33 when he died in the crash; his grieving partner nearly abandoned the third film, which ends on a card reading 'For Byron'.
Q 30What MPAA rating did Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome receive in the United States?
PG-13
PG-13, a rating introduced only the summer before for films too intense for a PG; the series' other four films, from the 1979 original to Furiosa, were all rated R.