Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
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50 free Mad Max 2: the Road Warrior trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mad Max 2, released in America as The Road Warrior, is the film that turned a cheap Australian revenge thriller into a legend. A lone driver, a besieged band of settlers and a horde of marauders meet in the outback, and almost nobody stops to talk. Its look has been copied by films, comics, games and festivals ever since. This quiz covers the whole ride: the story and its famous twist, the heroes and villains, the actors behind them and where they turned up next, the gruelling outback shoot, the prizes the film won and lost, and the many things it went on to inspire. The early questions suit anyone who has seen the film once. Later rounds are for fans who know the crew, the cars and the stories from the set. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01Brian May scored Mad Max 2, but he is not the Brian May who plays guitar in which rock band?
Queen
Queen has its own Brian May, an English guitarist with no link to the film. The Mad Max 2 composer was an Adelaide-born conductor who also scored the first Mad Max.
Q 02Mel Gibson moved to Sydney at age 12 and found fame in Mad Max 2, but in which country was he born?
United States
The United States is his birthplace: he was born in Peekskill, New York, before his family emigrated. The Road Warrior then became his first hit back in America.
Q 03Which profession did Mad Max 2 director George Miller practise for several years before making films?
Doctor
Doctor was his first career: Miller trained in medicine in Sydney and worked as a physician. He named Max Rockatansky after Carl von Rokitansky, a pioneering pathologist.
Q 04Which animated film about penguins won an Academy Award for George Miller, the director of Mad Max 2?
Happy Feet
Happy Feet won Miller the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a long way from the wasteland. He also produced and co-wrote the talking-pig hit Babe.
Q 05What kind of face covering hides the features of the marauders' hulking leader in The Road Warrior?
A hockey mask
A hockey mask hides his face, months before Jason Voorhees first wore one in Friday the 13th Part III. Above it, his bald, stitched scalp stays on show.
Q 06What is really inside the tanker that Max drives through the final chase of Mad Max 2?
Sand
Sand pours out of the wrecked tanker, which was a decoy all along. The settlers had hidden the real fuel in drums inside their other vehicles.
Q 07Hawk and Animal took their name, face paint and spiked armor from The Road Warrior to star in what?
Pro wrestling
Pro wrestling made stars of the Road Warriors, a tag team later billed as the Legion of Doom. They were among the first wrestlers to bring a movie theme into the ring.
Q 08Max's loyal dog in Mad Max 2 inspired Dogmeat, a four-legged companion in which video game series?
Fallout
Fallout gave players Dogmeat after its art director kept the film running in his office. In Fallout 2, a man named Mel appears to avenge the dog if a player kills him.
Q 09Which music star ruled Bartertown in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the follow-up to Mad Max 2?
Tina Turner
Tina Turner played Aunty Entity, the ruthless ruler of Bartertown. The third film was also Mel Gibson's last outing as Max.
Q 10Vernon Wells, the mohawked biker of Mad Max 2, fought Arnold Schwarzenegger as Bennett in which film?
Commando
Commando gave him his best-known Hollywood role, the villain Bennett. Wells had worked in a quarry and played in rock bands before he took up acting.
Q 11What weapon does the growling wild boy of Mad Max 2 hurl at the marauders?
A metal boomerang
A metal boomerang is his weapon, and an early throw kills the companion of the mohawked biker. That grudge is why the biker keeps lunging at the boy in the final chase.
Q 12Which British actor replaced Mel Gibson as Max when the series returned with Mad Max: Fury Road?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy took over the role in 2015, thirty years after Gibson last played it. Fury Road went on to win six Academy Awards.
Q 13What was Max's job before the world fell apart, as footage from the first film recalls in Mad Max 2?
A police officer
Q 21What title and name does the marauders' muscle-bound warlord go by in Mad Max 2?
Lord Humungus
Lord Humungus was pictured by George Miller as a badly burned former soldier. Miller even thought he might once have served alongside the settlers' leader.
Q 22Which mohawked biker from Mad Max 2 did Empire magazine name the greatest movie henchman of all time?
Wez
Wez topped Empire's list in 2011. George Miller saw the snarling biker and Max as near mirror images of each other.
Q 23What is the name of the idealistic leader of the settlers, played by Mike Preston, in Mad Max 2?
Pappagallo
Pappagallo gets a past in the film's novelisation: a top oil-company executive who lost his family and fled to the wasteland. He dies during the final chase.
A police officer on highway duty, he quit after a biker gang killed his family and then hunted the gang down. The patched leathers he still wears are his old uniform.
Q 14Which firearm does Max carry through the wasteland in both Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome?
A sawn-off shotgun
A sawn-off shotgun is his weapon of choice in both films. In the third he has to hand it over, with the rest of his arsenal, to enter Bartertown.
Q 15What kind of facility have the settlers fortified against the marauders' daily attacks in Mad Max 2?
An oil refinery
An oil refinery is their fortress, still producing fuel in a world that has run dry. The set was built among the Pinnacles, stony outcrops in the New South Wales outback.
Q 16Which lanky actor played the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2 and later the Mouth of Sauron?
Bruce Spence
Bruce Spence, who stands 2.01 metres tall, played the scavenging pilot. He came back in the third film as a different flyer, Jedediah.
Q 17Which Japanese director, famed for samurai epics, was among George Miller's inspirations for Mad Max 2?
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was an influence on the script, and it showed. The Washington Post's review likened Miller to Kurosawa, Peckinpah and Leone.
Q 18Virginia Hey, Mad Max 2's Warrior Woman, later played a blue-skinned alien priestess in which series?
Farscape
Farscape cast her as Zhaan, a part that meant shaving her head and eyebrows. Years earlier she had appeared on Top of the Pops with The Buggles.
Q 19Dean Semler, who shot the desert chases of Mad Max 2, later won an Oscar for filming which western?
Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves won him the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. He also shot Waterworld, whose co-writer called Mad Max 2 a major inspiration.
Q 20In the prologue of Mad Max 2, what kind of catastrophe has left the world fighting over petrol?
A global war
A global war choked off the oil and toppled governments, the narrator explains. The first film had shown a society that was only starting to break down.
Q 24Which Mad Max 2 character turns out to be the narrator, looking back on Max as an old man?
The Feral Kid
The Feral Kid, who only growls on screen, grows up to be chief of his people and tells the story. His adult voice belongs to the actor Harold Baigent.
Q 25Which herding breed, also called the cattle dog, is Max's only companion in Mad Max 2?
Blue heeler
Blue heeler is the nickname of the Australian Cattle Dog, and the film simply calls him Dog. He saves Max by turning the tables when the Gyro Captain springs an ambush.
Q 26Which animal does Max snatch barehanded before it can bite him in The Road Warrior?
A snake
A snake strikes at him and he simply catches it. His reflexes are tested again in Fury Road by a two-headed lizard, which he stamps on.
Q 27Which gas gives the marauder leader's vehicle its bursts of speed in Mad Max 2?
Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide lets the mohawked biker, borrowing his leader's car, catch Max and run him off the road. That wreck is the end of Max's Pursuit Special.
Q 28How do the marauders' leader and his mohawked lieutenant both die at the climax of Mad Max 2?
In a head-on collision
In a head-on collision: the warlord's car slams into Max's tanker while the biker is fighting Max. The surviving marauders give up the chase soon after.
Q 29What does Max wear on his left leg in Mad Max 2, the legacy of a gunshot in the first film?
A knee brace
A knee brace helps him walk after the shot that blew out his left knee. The brace turns up again decades later in Fury Road.
Q 30Max's black Pursuit Special, wrecked in Mad Max 2, is a modified version of which Australian muscle car?
Ford Falcon
The Ford Falcon in question was a 1973 XB GT hardtop. A duplicate was built to be rolled and blown up, so the original car survived the shoot.