Spider-Man Movie Trivia
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This Spider-Man movie trivia quiz has 117 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 01Tobey Maguire's performance in which film won him the role of Peter Parker?
The Cider House Rules
The director cast Maguire after seeing him play Homer Wells in The Cider House Rules, and Maguire went on to play the role across the whole trilogy.
Q 02Which actor played Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002)?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe was cast in November 2000 and returned nearly two decades later, again clashing with a Spider-Man in a New York finale.
Q 03Spider-Man (2002) was the first film ever to gross how much in a single weekend?
$100 million
Spider-Man was the first film to pass $100 million in one weekend, opening to $114.8 million and beating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone's record.
Q 04Who 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 05Kirsten Dunst played which character in the Raimi trilogy?
Mary Jane Watson
Dunst was cast as Mary Jane Watson in December 2000, only a month before filming began in January 2001.
Q 06During the upside-down kiss in Spider-Man (2002), what made the shot difficult for Tobey Maguire?
Rain water pouring into his nose
Rain water pouring into his nose made it hard to breathe as Maguire hung upside down in the rain scene.
Q 07In Raimi's trilogy, how does Peter Parker produce his webbing?
Organically from his wrists
Raimi's Peter shoots webbing organically from his wrists, one of the trilogy's biggest departures from the comics, where the teenage Peter engineers his own devices.
Q 08Who played Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2 (2004)?
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina was cast as Doctor Octopus in February 2003 and reprised the role seventeen years later in No Way Home.
Q 09Spider-Man 2 won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Visual Effects
Spider-Man 2 won Best Visual Effects at the 77th Academy Awards, the only Oscar for the Raimi trilogy.
Q 10Which novelist wrote an early screenplay draft for Spider-Man 2?
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, wrote a draft of Spider-Man 2 and shares its screen-story credit.
Q 11In Spider-Man 2, the big set-piece fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus takes place on top of what?
A subway train
A subway train carries the fight, which ends with Peter stopping the runaway train and being carried unmasked by the passengers.
Q 12Spider-Man 2 was named one of the top ten films of 2004 by which organization?
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute put Spider-Man 2 on its list of the ten best films of 2004, and Roger Ebert called it the best superhero movie since 1978's Superman.
Q 13At its 2007 release, Spider-Man 3 held which distinction?
Most expensive film ever made
Q 21Who 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.
Q 22What belonging of his father's does Peter find in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
A briefcase
Peter discovers his father Richard's old briefcase in the Parkers' basement; its hidden papers on cross-species genetics lead him to Oscorp and Curt Connors.
Q 23In The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Stan Lee's cameo has him playing what?
A school librarian
Lee plays the school librarian, listening to classical music on headphones, oblivious to the Lizard fight wrecking the library behind him.
With a budget estimated at $258 million, Spider-Man 3 was the most expensive film ever made when it opened in May 2007, a mark Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End passed weeks later.
Q 14Spider-Man 3 set a new record with what opening-weekend gross?
$151.1 million
Spider-Man 3 opened to $151.1 million domestically on May 4-6, 2007, the biggest opening weekend to that point, a record it held until The Dark Knight in 2008.
Q 15Who 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 16Which 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 17Who 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 18Sony cancelled Sam Raimi's planned Spider-Man 4 in which year?
2010
Sony announced in January 2010 that Spider-Man 4 was cancelled after its director walked away rather than rush a script he disliked; the reboot followed in 2012.
Q 19Who directed The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Marc Webb
Webb had made exactly one previous feature, the indie romance (500) Days of Summer.
Q 20Which actor played Dr. Curt Connors, the Lizard, in The Amazing Spider-Man?
Rhys Ifans
Rhys Ifans played Curt Connors, whose lizard-DNA serum regrows his lost arm and turns him into the Lizard; Dylan Baker had played an untransformed Connors in Spider-Man 2 and 3.
Q 24Who played Ben Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen played Ben Parker opposite Sally Field's May; Ben's shooting, after Peter lets a convenience-store thief walk past him, drives the reboot's first act.
Q 25Which actor played Max Dillon in The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx later returned as a very different-looking Electro in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Q 26Paul Giamatti's character Aleksei Sytsevich in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 becomes which villain?
The Rhino
Sytsevich returns in the film's final minutes inside a mechanized armor as the Rhino, a setup for sequels that were never made.
Q 27Which composer, working with a group called The Magnificent Six, scored The Amazing Spider-Man 2?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer assembled The Magnificent Six, including Pharrell Williams and Johnny Marr of the Smiths, to score The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Q 28Which villain-team spin-off from Drew Goddard was planned after The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but never made?
Sinister Six
Drew Goddard's Sinister Six film was announced in 2013 but died after Sony and Marvel Studios agreed in February 2015 to share Spider-Man instead.
Q 29Tom Holland's Spider-Man first appeared in which film?
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War gave Holland his airport-battle debut, a year before Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Q 30Who directed Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)?
Jon Watts
Jon Watts, previously known for the low-budget thriller Cop Car, directed Homecoming and its two sequels, completing the Tom Holland trilogy.