50 free Mad Max trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
Miller was a hospital emergency-room doctor in Sydney when he met producer Byron Kennedy at a summer film school in 1971.
Q 02What is Max's surname?
Rockatansky
He starts the series as the top pursuit man of the Main Force Patrol before the biker gang murders his wife and infant son.
Q 03Which actor played Max in the first three films?
Mel Gibson
He was an American-born NIDA graduate with one previous screen role, 1976's Summer City, when he was cast.
Q 04Under what title was Mad Max 2 released in the United States?
The Road Warrior
American distributors were worried that few people had seen the original, so they dropped the number.
Q 05Which pop star plays Aunty Entity, ruler of Bartertown, in Beyond Thunderdome?
Tina Turner
She also sang both of the film's songs, and 'We Don't Need Another Hero' reached number 2 in the US.
Q 06Who plays Max in Mad Max: Fury Road?
Tom Hardy
Hammer and Renner were the other two finalists, and Heath Ledger, Eric Bana and even Eminem were considered along the way.
Q 07Who plays Imperator Furiosa in Fury Road?
Charlize Theron
Back in the early 2000s, when Mel Gibson was still attached, he suggested Sigourney Weaver for the female lead.
Q 08Who plays the young adult Furiosa in the 2024 prequel?
Anya Taylor-Joy
Miller considered digitally de-ageing Charlize Theron but decided the technology hadn't beaten the uncanny valley.
Q 09Which Thor actor plays the warlord Dementus in Furiosa?
Chris Hemsworth
Dementus leads the Biker Horde, kidnaps Furiosa from the Green Place and has her mother killed in front of her.
Q 10In the 1979 film, what is the name of the law-enforcement agency Max works for?
Main Force Patrol
Its officers are called 'the Bronze' by the gangs; the film's police uniforms were vinyl because real leather was too expensive.
Q 11What is the name of the biker-gang leader who terrorises Max's family in the first film?
Toecutter
Max forces him into the path of a semi-trailer; the actor, Hugh Keays-Byrne, would return 36 years later as Immortan Joe.
Q 12What is the nickname of Max's partner Jim Rains, who is burned alive in his ute in the first film?
Goose
Steve Bisley, Gibson's drama-school friend, played him; the burning scene got the film banned in New Zealand because it echoed a real gang incident.
Q 13Max's black supercharged Pursuit Special was built from which Australian car?
A Ford Falcon XB
Its supercharger sticking through the bonnet was purely cosmetic and didn't actually work.
Q 21In Mad Max 2, what weapon does the Feral Kid use to kill Wez's companion?
A metal boomerang
He catches it with an improvised mail glove; the eight-year-old speaks only in growls and grunts throughout.
Q 22What is the twist at the end of Mad Max 2 when the tanker finally crashes?
It was full of sand
The settlers had smuggled the real fuel out in oil drums inside their smaller vehicles while everyone chased the decoy.
Q 23Which actor plays the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 and pilot Jedediah in Beyond Thunderdome?
Bruce Spence
Time described his Gyro Captain as 'a deranged parody of the World War I aerial ace'.
Q 14Roughly what was the production budget of the original Mad Max?
A$400,000
Miller and Kennedy helped fund it by doing three months of emergency medical calls, Kennedy driving while Miller doctored.
Q 15Which 1999 release took Mad Max's twenty-year Guinness record for most profitable film?
The Blair Witch Project
Both were made for peanuts; Blair Witch's marketing budget alone would have covered several Mad Maxes.
Q 16What did the US distributor do to the first film's dialogue for its 1980 release there?
Redubbed it with new voices
'Oi!' became 'Hey!', 'windscreen' became 'windshield' and 'proby' became 'rookie'.
Q 17Who composed the scores for the first two Mad Max films, sharing a name with a famous rock guitarist?
Brian May
Miller wanted a Gothic, Bernard Herrmann-style score and hired him after hearing his music for the thriller Patrick.
Q 18Where in and around which Australian city was the original Mad Max filmed?
Melbourne
The crew closed roads without permits and avoided walkie-talkies because their frequency clashed with the police radio.
Q 19Mad Max 2 was shot in the outback around which mining town in New South Wales?
Broken Hill
Fury Road was supposed to return there in 2010, until unexpected rain covered the desert in wildflowers.
Q 20What is the name of the masked leader of the marauders besieging the refinery in Mad Max 2?
Lord Humungus
Miller imagined him as a former military officer with severe facial burns who may have served alongside the settlers' leader Pappagallo.
Q 24Empire magazine named which mohawked Mad Max 2 biker the greatest movie henchman of all time?
Wez
Miller has said Wez and Max are near mirror images of each other; Vernon Wells went on to play Bennett in Commando.
Q 25In Beyond Thunderdome, Bartertown's electricity comes from a refinery in 'Underworld' that runs on what?
Methane from pig manure
Pig Killer is serving a sentence shovelling it there for the crime of slaughtering a pig to feed his children.
Q 26Who runs Underworld in Beyond Thunderdome, a dwarf engineer who rides on his giant bodyguard's shoulders?
Master
Together they're 'Master Blaster'; Max only wins the Thunderdome duel by blowing a whistle, because Blaster can't stand high-pitched noise.
Q 27The tribe of children Max meets in Beyond Thunderdome are descended from survivors of what crash?
A Qantas Boeing 747
They believe Max is 'Captain Walker' come to fly them to 'Tomorrow-morrow Land'; critics compared them to Peter Pan's Lost Boys.
Q 28Which Beyond Thunderdome song, sung by the actress playing Aunty Entity, hit No. 2 in the US?
We Don't Need Another Hero
'One of the Living', the other Thunderdome song, won her a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Q 29Beyond Thunderdome is dedicated to which co-creator of the series, killed in a helicopter crash in 1983?
Byron Kennedy
Miller nearly abandoned the film after his producing partner's death and brought in George Ogilvie to co-direct while he grieved.
Q 30Beyond Thunderdome is the only Mad Max film with which MPAA rating?
PG-13
Its violence was toned down compared with the films before and after it, which are all R-rated.