Scarlet Witch
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
49 free Scarlet Witch trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Scarlet Witch started out as a reluctant villain in X-Men #4 in 1964, a probability-bending member of Magneto's Brotherhood. Six decades of retcons later she has been an Avenger, Vision's wife, the mother of two magically conjured sons, the author of M-Day and, in Elizabeth Olsen's hands, the grieving sitcom star of WandaVision and the villain of Multiverse of Madness. These 49 questions cover both halves of her story: the comics, from Cap's Kooky Quartet to Immortus, House of M and the High Evolutionary retcon, and the MCU, from Sokovia and the Mind Stone through Westview, Agatha Harkness, the Darkhold and Mount Wundagore. Expect creators, storylines, actors and plot twists. Every answer is sourced from Wikipedia's coverage of the character, the series and the films, so you can check anything that surprises you. Play in sets of 10 and see if you know your chaos magic.
30 of 49 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01In WandaVision, Wanda's fantasy world moves through decades of which kind of TV show?
Sitcoms
Sitcoms. Each early episode copies a different era's style, and the makers had lunch with Dick Van Dyke to learn how his 1960s show was done.
Q 02Who created the Scarlet Witch?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. On the back of an early page, Kirby scribbled names he tried and dropped for her, including Jinx, Witch Woman and Miss Witch.
Q 03She is best known as an Avenger, but the Scarlet Witch first appeared in which Marvel comic?
The X-Men
The X-Men. She arrived in 1964 as a reluctant villain fighting its mutant heroes, and it was another year before she switched sides and became an Avenger.
Q 04Who is the Scarlet Witch's twin brother?
Quicksilver
Quicksilver. Fiercely protective of his sister, he left villainy with her and joined the Avengers a year after their debut.
Q 05Which villain team did the Scarlet Witch belong to when she debuted?
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She and her brother were reluctant members who wanted shelter from persecution, not conquest, and both left to become heroes a year later.
Q 06In the comics, what was the Scarlet Witch's original power when she debuted in 1964?
Manipulating probability
Manipulating probability. Her 'hex' made unlikely accidents befall her enemies; only later did writers recast it as true magic that rewrites reality.
Q 07Which actor plays the Vision, Wanda's android partner, in the MCU?
Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany. He had only been a voice in the films, as Tony Stark's AI butler J.A.R.V.I.S., until Age of Ultron gave the character a body.
Q 08What are the superhero names of the Scarlet Witch's reincarnated sons?
Wiccan and Speed
Wiccan and Speed. The two Young Avengers worked out that they were the reborn souls of the twins Wanda had lost, then set out to find her.
Q 09The Scarlet Witch joined a 1965 Avengers line-up led by Captain America, nicknamed what?
Cap's Kooky Quartet
Cap's Kooky Quartet. The founders all stepped away at once, leaving Captain America with three reformed villains.
Q 10What name do the comics and the MCU both give the Scarlet Witch's reality-bending magic?
Chaos magic
Chaos magic. In WandaVision a rival witch names it for her: 'This is chaos magic, Wanda. And that makes you the Scarlet Witch.'
Q 11From whom does Wanda learn witchcraft in the comics?
Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness. The ancient witch first turned up in the comics as the Fantastic Four's nanny, then took Wanda on as a pupil and turned her hexes into real spells.
Q 12Which Marvel villain was written for over thirty years as the father of Wanda and her twin?
Magneto
Magneto. A 1982 miniseries made him their father, and the idea stuck until a 2014 crossover revealed the twins were not his children after all.
Q 13Which demon absorbed Wanda's twin sons in John Byrne's run?
Mephisto
Mephisto. In that story the twins were shards of the demon's own soul, so he took them back, and Wanda's memory of them was wiped.
Q 21The Scarlet Witch married the Vision in a 1975 double wedding alongside which future Guardian of the Galaxy?
Mantis
Mantis. The same ceremony wed her to an alien being inhabiting the body of her dead lover, the Swordsman, and the pair then left Earth for the stars.
Q 22Krakoa's mutants cursed Wanda as 'the Pretender' until her resurrection spell earned her which new title?
The Redeemer
The Redeemer. Her spell let even long-dead mutants be revived, adding some twenty million to the queue, among them everyone killed on Genosha.
Q 23Which elder god claims to have infused Wanda with magic at her birth?
Chthon
Chthon. He marked the newborn in the hope of one day taking her body as his vessel, and he has tried to possess her since.
Q 14The husband-and-wife songwriters of which Disney film wrote WandaVision's theme songs?
Frozen
Frozen. Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote a new theme in the style of each TV era the show visits, after its director, an old college friend, pitched it to them.
Q 15What colour is the rebuilt Vision sent to destroy Wanda in the WandaVision finale?
White
White. Wanda's own Vision stops the ghostly copy with a debate about the Ship of Theseus, unlocking its memories until it flies off instead of fighting.
Q 16Which 2004 storyline saw Wanda turn on her teammates and destroy their mansion?
Avengers Disassembled
Avengers Disassembled. A stray remark about motherhood brought back the memory of her lost twins, and she turned on the team she blamed for losing them.
Q 17In which 2005 crossover does Wanda warp reality and then depower most mutants?
House of M
House of M. Three words did it: she said 'No more mutants', and all but a handful of the world's mutants lost their powers, a day the comics call M-Day.
Q 18In Avengers: The Children's Crusade, an amnesiac Wanda is found engaged to marry which villain?
Doctor Doom
Doctor Doom. Her reborn sons track her to his kingdom of Latveria, where she has lost her memory, and the dictator wants her power for himself.
Q 19A 2015 retcon credited Wanda and Pietro's powers to which geneticist's experiments?
The High Evolutionary
The High Evolutionary. The twist meant the twins had never been mutants at all: their gifts came from his tampering with them as infants.
Q 20In the MCU, which Hydra leader oversaw the experiments that gave Wanda and her brother their powers?
Baron Strucker
Baron Strucker. The twins volunteered for his tests with Loki's sceptre, and they proved to be the only subjects to survive them.
Q 24On which mountain were the Maximoff twins experimented on as children?
Mount Wundagore
Mount Wundagore. The twins were looked after there by Bova, a cow whom the mountain's resident scientist had given humanoid form.
Q 25Who plays the Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Elizabeth Olsen
Elizabeth Olsen. Director Joss Whedon had first called Saoirse Ronan his 'prototype' for the part, then cast Olsen a few months later, in 2013.
Q 26Wanda first appears in the MCU in a mid-credits scene after which Captain America film?
The Winter Soldier
The Winter Soldier. The 2014 scene shows her and her brother as caged Hydra test subjects, a year before the pair's full debut in Age of Ultron.
Q 27Which fictional Eastern European country is the MCU Wanda from?
Sokovia
Sokovia. A missile killed her parents in their flat there, and a second one, stamped with the Stark name, lay unexploded beside the trapped twins for two days.
Q 28Which Infinity artefact did Hydra use to awaken Wanda's powers in the MCU?
The Mind Stone
The Mind Stone. It was hidden inside Loki's sceptre, and WandaVision later revealed that it had only woken a magic she was born with.
Q 29Which Avenger does Wanda fail to subdue with visions in Age of Ultron?
Clint Barton
Clint Barton. Hawkeye catches her creeping up on him and tells her: 'I've done the whole mind control thing. Not a fan.'
Q 30In which city does Wanda accidentally kill Wakandan aid workers in Civil War?
Lagos
Lagos. She flings a suicide bomber's blast skyward to save Captain America, it tears into a building, and the deaths become the case for putting the Avengers under UN control.