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Q 01Who co-created Spider-Man with Steve Ditko?
Stan Lee
Stan Lee first handed the strip to Jack Kirby, then rejected Kirby's opening pages, saying they made the hero look too heroic, and turned to Ditko instead.
Q 02In which New York City borough was Peter Parker raised by his aunt and uncle?
Queens
Queens it is: after a 1989 comic printed a real Forest Hills address for Aunt May's house, the family living there, who really were called Parker, received Spider-Man's fan mail for decades.
Q 03In Toei's 1978 Japanese Spider-Man TV series, what did the hero summon to fight towering monsters?
A giant robot
A giant robot called Leopardon backed up this Spider-Man; Toei then carried the idea into its Super Sentai shows, the franchise later adapted in America as Power Rangers.
Q 04In the original comics, whose death taught Peter Parker that 'with great power comes great responsibility'?
Uncle Ben
Uncle Ben was killed by a burglar Peter had let escape; the famous line itself was narration in the original comic, not dialogue.
Q 05Which actor played Norman Osborn in Spider-Man (2002) and returned to the role in No Way Home?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe insisted on wearing the 580-piece armoured costume himself, arguing that a stuntman could not convey the character's body language; it took half an hour to put on.
Q 06Who played Mary Jane Watson in the 2002-2007 Spider-Man film trilogy?
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst's upside-down kiss in the rain was miserable to shoot: water ran into her masked co-star's nose until he could barely breathe.
Q 07What does Peter Parker call the wrist-worn devices that fire his webbing?
Web-shooters
Web-shooters are Peter's own invention in the comics, but the 2002 film had the webbing grow from his wrists, an idea kept from an earlier unfilmed script that split fans when it leaked.
Q 08Which US president shared the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man in a special issue marking his inauguration?
Barack Obama
Barack Obama got the 2009 cover after Marvel learned he had collected Spider-Man comics as a boy; inside, Spider-Man stops the Chameleon from spoiling the swearing-in.
Q 09Who played Peter Parker in the 2002 live-action film 'Spider-Man'?
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire nearly lost the sequel: when back trouble put him in doubt, Jake Gyllenhaal was in line to replace him, but Maguire kept the part in the end.
Q 10The Green Goblin learned Peter Parker's secret after using a gas to dull which of the hero's abilities?
His spider-sense
His spider-sense was nullified by the gas, which let the Goblin stalk Spider-Man unnoticed until he found that the man under the mask was a college student, his own son's best friend.
Q 11In which comic book did Spider-Man make his very first appearance?
Amazing Fantasy #15
Amazing Fantasy #15 was the anthology's final issue, yet it sold so well that publisher Martin Goodman, who had doubted a spider hero could work, gave Spider-Man his own series within months.
Q 12Who played Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone played Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, in which Gwen dies falling inside a clock tower.
Q 13In her famous 1966 entrance, Mary Jane tells Peter, 'Face it, Tiger... you just hit' what?
The jackpot
Q 21Whose 2005 New Avengers series made Spider-Man a full-time Avenger?
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis opened the series with a mass breakout from the Raft, a prison for super-powered criminals; the heroes who rush to contain it, Spider-Man among them, become the new team.
Q 22Which high-school football star bullies Peter Parker while hero-worshipping Spider-Man?
Flash Thompson
Flash Thompson never guesses that his idol and his favourite victim are the same person; once he matures, the two become close friends in college.
Q 23Which high school did Peter Parker attend in the original comics?
Midtown High School
The jackpot line ended a long-running gag: for issue after issue Peter had wriggled out of meeting the 'nice girl' niece his aunt kept trying to set him up with.
Q 14What is the profession of John Jameson, the Spider-Man supporting character who became Man-Wolf?
Astronaut
Astronaut John Jameson is saved by Spider-Man when his space mission goes awry in The Amazing Spider-Man #1; a ruby he later finds on the Moon turns him into Man-Wolf.
Q 15Who directed the 2002 live-action film 'Spider-Man'?
Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi made his name with the low-budget Evil Dead horror films, and he gave their star, his old friend Bruce Campbell, a cameo as the wrestling ring announcer.
Q 16Which director helmed 'The Amazing Spider-Man' film released in 2012, starring Andrew Garfield?
Marc Webb
Marc Webb had made just one feature, the indie romance (500) Days of Summer, when the studio chose him over candidates including David Fincher and Kathryn Bigelow.
Q 17Which crime boss, now Daredevil's archenemy, debuted as a Spider-Man villain in 1967?
Kingpin
Kingpin first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #50; he became Daredevil's defining foe only in 1981, when writer-artist Frank Miller borrowed him for that series.
Q 18In which crossover event did Spider-Man acquire his black symbiote costume?
Secret Wars
Secret Wars #8 showed how he got the suit months after readers first saw him wearing it in The Amazing Spider-Man #252; the idea for a black costume had come from a fan.
Q 19Miles Morales's uncle Aaron Davis leads a double life as which masked criminal?
The Prowler
The Prowler is the uncle Miles adores; in Into the Spider-Verse, Aaron learns who is under the mask, refuses to kill his nephew and is shot by his own boss for it.
Q 20In the 1973 story where Gwen Stacy dies, the art shows the Brooklyn Bridge, but the text names which crossing?
George Washington
The George Washington Bridge is named in the dialogue of The Amazing Spider-Man #121 (1973), though Gil Kane's art clearly shows the Brooklyn Bridge; the 'snap' sound effect implies the web's whiplash killed Gwen.
Midtown High School is where the comics' Peter is a brilliant but unpopular loner; the MCU renames it the Midtown School of Science and Technology and puts him on its academic decathlon team.
Q 24In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Peter exhausts himself halting which runaway vehicle packed with passengers?
A subway train
A subway train with sabotaged controls: stopping it takes all of Peter's strength, and the passengers he saved then try to shield their exhausted hero from the villain.
Q 25In Spider-Man: Homecoming, what is the name of the AI assistant built into Peter's upgraded suit?
Karen
Karen, voiced by Jennifer Connelly, becomes Peter's guide once he and Ned disable the suit's tracker and unlock the advanced features hidden behind its 'training wheels' protocol.
Q 26At which New York landmark does the three-Spider-Man final battle of No Way Home take place?
The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is where the three Peters lure the visiting villains, armed with cures they have developed rather than any plan to kill them.
Q 27Who played Harry Osborn in the 2002-2007 Spider-Man film trilogy?
James Franco
James Franco first screen-tested for Peter Parker himself, then was cast as best friend Harry Osborn, who takes up his father's weapons as the New Goblin in Spider-Man 3.
Q 28Felicia Hardy, Spider-Man's on-off love interest, operates under which costumed identity?
Black Cat
Black Cat was created by writer Marv Wolfman for the Spider-Woman comic; when he stopped writing that series, he moved the cat burglar to The Amazing Spider-Man, where she debuted in 1979.
Q 29Under which alias is the Spider-Man villain Sandman, born William Baker, best known?
Flint Marko
Flint Marko is the name William Baker took as a criminal; sand irradiated at a nuclear test site gave him his powers, and he later reformed for long enough to serve as a reserve Avenger.
Q 30Which tabloid buys Peter Parker's photos of Spider-Man?
The Daily Bugle
The Daily Bugle did not debut with Spider-Man: the modern paper turned up in another Marvel series before The Amazing Spider-Man #1 introduced its offices and its hero-hating publisher.