Shazam! Trivia
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50 free Shazam! trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Shazam! trivia quiz covers both DC Extended Universe films: David F. Sandberg's Shazam! (2019) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023). The easy questions cover what everyone remembers: Billy Batson, the magic word, Freddy Freeman, the wizard, the foster family and the Seven Deadly Sins. The harder ones go into the plot details, from Sivana's 8-Ball and the Eye to Steve the sentient pen, the Golden Apple, Ladon the dragon and the dome inspired by The Simpsons Movie. Behind the scenes it covers the long road from a John August script to Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam spin-off, why the hero could not be called Captain Marvel, the iPhone audition that won Zachary Levi the role, the Toronto shoot under the working title Franklin, the Superman cameo without Henry Cavill, the Wonder Woman cameo that marketing spoiled, the mid-credits Justice Society scene that Johnson vetoed, and the box office fall from $368 million to $134 million. Every answer was checked against the two films' encyclopaedia entries before publishing. For more DC, try our DC movies and Justice League quizzes.
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Q 01Who plays the adult superhero form of Billy Batson in Shazam!?
Zachary Levi
Zachary Levi sent in a self-tape for the grown-up Freddy, and the director watched it and decided he was clearly the lead instead.
Q 02Who plays teenage Billy Batson in Shazam!?
Asher Angel
Asher Angel, then a lead on Disney Channel's Andi Mack, won the part over Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard, who later admitted he was disappointed to lose it.
Q 03Which Sony comic-book film did Shazam! director David F. Sandberg read the script for, then pass on?
Venom
Venom. He met with Sony about it but was already heading toward Shazam! and chose not to chase the job; Venom went on to gross $856 million with another director.
Q 04Who plays the villain Dr. Thaddeus Sivana in Shazam!?
Mark Strong
Mark Strong had played DC's Sinestro in 2011's Green Lantern, which ended by teasing him as the villain of a sequel that was never made.
Q 05Who plays the ancient wizard who gives Billy his powers in Shazam!?
Djimon Hounsou
Djimon Hounsou took the role after Ron Cephas Jones dropped out over a scheduling clash, and his casting stayed under wraps until filming had finished.
Q 06In Shazam!, what is the name of the wizard's mystic temple in another dimension?
The Rock of Eternity
The Rock of Eternity. Once the Sins are locked away again, Billy and Freddy decide to keep the wizard's temple as their own superhero lair.
Q 07In Shazam!, where is young Sivana when the wizard first summons him?
His father's car
His father's car, on a snowy road in 1974. The wizard rejects him and sends him back, and the boy's panic causes the crash that costs his father the use of his legs.
Q 08In Shazam!, through which toy do the Seven Deadly Sins send young Sivana a message to find them?
A Magic 8-Ball
A Magic 8-Ball. Moments after the wizard rejects the boy, its window reads 'Find us', and he spends the rest of his life hunting for a way back.
Q 09Shazam! director David F. Sandberg had never heard of the hero while growing up in which country?
Sweden
Sweden. He grew up there on better-known heroes and said a character few people knew brought far less to live up to.
Q 10In Shazam!, what does Billy learn when he finally tracks down his birth mother?
She left him on purpose
She left him on purpose. A teenage mother who felt out of her depth, she watched the police find the lost boy and decided others would raise him better.
Q 11What are the names of Billy's foster parents in Shazam!?
Victor and Rosa Vasquez
Victor and Rosa Vasquez both grew up in the foster system themselves, which is why they now open their home to six children.
Q 12Who plays Freddy Freeman, Billy's superhero-obsessed foster brother, in Shazam!?
Jack Dylan Grazer
Jack Dylan Grazer, fresh from a breakout turn in 2017's It, plays the foster brother who films Billy's power tests and turns the new hero into a viral star.
Q 13Which of Billy's foster siblings in Shazam! is the college-bound 'den mother' of the group?
Mary Bromfield
Q 21In Shazam!, whose likeness appears as the hologram of the wizard's previous champion, Teth-Adam?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson. He had once been cast as Black Adam, this film's intended villain, but the character was held back for a solo film and he stayed on as an executive producer.
Q 22An earlier Shazam! film stalled in 2013 because which DC hit had revived a hero with similar powers?
Man of Steel
Man of Steel. Director Peter Segal said its hero's resurgence left DC unsure how to launch a character with powers so alike that DC had once sued over him.
Q 23What was the Shazam character originally called before DC renamed him for the New 52?
Captain Marvel
Mary Bromfield. Grace Fulton plays her, and in the sequel she also took over Mary's superhero form, which Michelle Borth had played in the first film.
Q 14Where is Billy when he is first transported to the wizard in Shazam!?
On a subway car
On a subway car. Billy has just stood up for Freddy against two school bullies and is fleeing them when the train carries him off to the wizard.
Q 15In Shazam!, what replaces one of Sivana's eyes and makes him the vessel of the Sins?
A magical orb
A magical orb. With the Sins living inside it, Sivana overpowers the wizard, then turns them on his own father and brother.
Q 16Which of his powers does Billy discover only by accident, while escaping Sivana in Shazam!?
Flight
Flight. Speed, strength and lightning all turn up in his tests with Freddy, but he only finds he can fly when Sivana has him beaten and he panics.
Q 17Where does the final battle of Shazam! take place?
A winter carnival
A winter carnival. Cornered there, Billy uses the wizard's staff to share his powers, turning his five foster siblings into adult superheroes too.
Q 18In Shazam!, which Sin does Billy goad into leaving Sivana, rendering him powerless?
Envy
Envy. Billy had noticed that Sivana can be hurt once all seven Sins are out of his body, so he taunts the last one until it comes out to fight.
Q 19Which DC hero does Billy bring to lunch at school in the final scene of Shazam!?
Superman
Superman. Henry Cavill wasn't available, so the hero is seen only from the neck down, played by the star's stunt double.
Q 20Which character, a talking caterpillar, appears in the mid-credits scene of Shazam!?
Mister Mind
Mister Mind, an old comics villain with mind-control powers. The director said the scene was no plan for a sequel, just a way to open a door, and the worm's bigger role in the follow-up was dropped.
Captain Marvel. Marvel Comics held the trademark for its own hero of that name, so from the 1970s DC had to sell his comics under the title Shazam!
Q 24Shazam!'s star said the film would feel like which earlier movie, 'but with super powers'?
Big
Big. The studio had pitched the film to its director in the same words, and he said that was all it took: 'Sign me up!'
Q 25Under what working title was Shazam! shot in Toronto?
Franklin
Franklin, presumably a nod to Benjamin Franklin, whose kite-and-lightning experiment suits a hero powered by a thunderbolt.
Q 26Which song plays as Billy shoots lightning for tips on Philadelphia's 'Rocky steps' in Shazam!?
Eye of the Tiger
Eye of the Tiger, the Rocky III anthem. The show ends badly: a stray bolt knocks a bus off a bridge, and Billy has to catch it before it hits the ground.
Q 27Shazam! composer Benjamin Wallfisch pictured a 14-year-old being handed what, with no limits?
A 100-piece orchestra
A 100-piece orchestra. He wanted the score to sound as if an exuberant kid had written it, then recorded it in London with exactly that many players and a 40-voice choir.
Q 28Shazam! opened three weeks before which 2019 superhero film?
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame. With that juggernaut on its way, the far cheaper Shazam! had to earn fast: it led the US box office for two weekends and finished on about $368 million worldwide.
Q 29Which collectible does Freddy hurl at Sivana in the wizard's lair, drawing blood, in Shazam!?
A replica Batarang
A replica Batarang. It nicks Sivana's head and he bleeds, which shows Billy that the villain can be hurt once the Sins have left his body.
Q 30Which country was Shazam!'s highest-grossing international market?
China
China, where it took more than $40 million. The 2023 sequel managed only about $6 million there across its whole run.