This Spider-Man movie trivia quiz has 80 free questions with answers and covers every film version of the wall-crawler: Sam Raimi's trilogy with Tobey Maguire, Marc Webb's two Amazing Spider-Man films with Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland's run through the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to No Way Home, the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse animated films, and the Venom spin-offs. Questions range from easy casting and villain checks to hard production trivia: budgets, opening-weekend records, cancelled sequels, composers, cameos and the strange history of the film rights before Sony got them. It suits a movie night, a Marvel fan quiz or a warm-up before the next release. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources for the individual films, so the box-office figures and credits are the real ones, not half-remembered ones.
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Q 01Who directed the 2002 Spider-Man film starring Tobey Maguire?
Sam Raimi
Raimi came to the job from the Evil Dead films and Darkman, and shot the film in Los Angeles and New York through 2001.
Q 02Sam Raimi picked Tobey Maguire for Peter Parker after seeing him in which 1999 film?
The Cider House Rules
Maguire signed a three-picture deal and went on to play the role across the whole trilogy.
Q 03Which actor played Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002)?
Willem Dafoe
Dafoe returned to the role nearly two decades later, again clashing with a Spider-Man in a New York finale.
Q 04Spider-Man (2002) was the first film ever to gross how much in a single weekend?
$100 million
Its $114.8 million debut beat Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the biggest opening weekend to that point.
Q 05Who composed the score for the first two Raimi Spider-Man films?
Danny Elfman
Elfman had already written the theme for Raimi's Darkman and the Batman films' brooding fanfare before this job.
Q 06Kirsten Dunst played which character in the Raimi trilogy?
Mary Jane Watson
Dunst was cast only a month before filming began in January 2001.
Q 07During the famous upside-down kiss in Spider-Man (2002), what made the shot difficult for Tobey Maguire?
Rain water pouring into his nose
Maguire was hanging upside down in a rain scene, and the water ran straight into his nostrils between takes.
Q 08In Raimi's trilogy, how does Peter Parker produce his webbing?
Organically from his wrists
It was one of the biggest changes from the comics, where a teenage Peter invents web-shooters in his bedroom.
Q 09Who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004)?
Alfred Molina
Molina was cast in February 2003 and later reprised the role, still surprised at how the character was received.
Q 10Spider-Man 2 won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Visual Effects
It was the only Oscar win for the Raimi trilogy, taken at the 77th Academy Awards.
Q 11Altogether, the practical Doctor Octopus tentacles built for Spider-Man 2 weighed roughly how much?
100 pounds
Each of the four foam-rubber arms was eight feet long, so puppeteers were needed for every scene.
Q 12In Spider-Man 2, the big set-piece fight with Octavius takes place on top of what?
A subway train
The sequence ends with Peter stopping the runaway train and being carried unmasked by the passengers.
Q 13Spider-Man 2 was named one of the top ten films of 2004 by which organization?
American Film Institute
Roger Ebert also called it the best superhero movie since Superman in 1978.
Q 21Who directed The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Marc Webb
Webb had made exactly one previous feature, the indie romance (500) Days of Summer.
Q 22Which actor played Dr. Curt Connors, the Lizard, in The Amazing Spider-Man?
Rhys Ifans
Dylan Baker had played Connors in the Raimi sequels without ever transforming, a payoff fans never got.
Q 23Who composed the score for The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
James Horner
It was one of Horner's last big franchise scores; he died in a plane crash in 2015.
How did The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) depart from the Raimi trilogy in depicting Peter's abilities?
Q 14At its 2007 release, Spider-Man 3 held which distinction?
Most expensive film ever made
Estimates for its budget ran from $258 million to $350 million.
Q 15Spider-Man 3 set a new record with what opening-weekend gross?
$151.1 million
It also set an IMAX opening record of $4.8 million the same weekend.
Q 16Who played Flint Marko, the Sandman, in Spider-Man 3?
Thomas Haden Church
Church had just been Oscar-nominated for Sideways when he took the role of the shape-shifting convict.
Q 17Which actor played Eddie Brock in Spider-Man 3?
Topher Grace
Grace was best known as Eric Forman on That '70s Show when he was cast as Peter's rival photographer.
Q 18Who played Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3 (2007)?
Bryce Dallas Howard
Howard's Gwen is Peter's physics lab partner, a far smaller role than the character would get five years later.
Q 19Who scored Spider-Man 3 after the composer of the first two films declined to return?
Christopher Young
Young had scored Raimi's Drag Me to Hell and The Grudge, and reused the earlier themes throughout.
Q 20Sony cancelled Sam Raimi's planned Spider-Man 4 in which year?
2010
Raimi walked away rather than rush a script he was unhappy with, and Sony rebooted the series two years later.
He builds artificial web-shooters
The reboot leaned closer to the comics, where Peter's engineering of the shooters is part of his character.
Q 25In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Stan Lee's cameo has him playing what?
A school librarian
Oblivious to the Lizard fight behind him, he listens to classical music on headphones as the school is wrecked.
Q 26Who played Ben Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Martin Sheen
Sally Field played May opposite him, giving Peter two Oscar-nominated guardians.
Q 27Which actor played Max Dillon in The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Jamie Foxx
Foxx returned as a very different-looking version of the character in a later Spider-Man film.
Q 28Paul Giamatti's character Aleksei Sytsevich in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 becomes which villain?
The Rhino
Giamatti's mechanized armor appears only in the film's final minutes, setting up sequels that never came.
Q 29Which composer, working with a group called The Magnificent Six, scored The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Hans Zimmer
The Magnificent Six included Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr of the Smiths.
Q 30Which villain-team spin-off from Drew Goddard was planned after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but never made?
Sinister Six
The plans died when Sony and Marvel Studios agreed in 2015 to share the character instead.