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40 free Thanos trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Thanos is the rare screen villain who gets what he wants. Avengers: Infinity War ends with him winning, and the purple warlord has been a fixture of memes and arguments ever since. He is also much older than the films: the Mad Titan has been menacing Marvel's heroes on the page since the 1970s. This quiz covers both lives. The film questions follow his hunt for the Infinity Stones, the allies and children he uses along the way, the heroes who come closest to stopping him, and how he finally meets his end. The comic questions go back to where he came from: who invented him and why, what drives him on the page, and the strange company he keeps in stories such as The Infinity Gauntlet. It starts with questions most Marvel fans can answer and works towards properly obscure trivia about casting, cartoons, video games and behind-the-scenes stories. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so it suits casual viewers, comic readers and anyone setting a Marvel round for quiz night.
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Q 01Which pop star appears as Eros, the brother of Thanos, in a mid-credits scene of Marvel's Eternals?
Harry Styles
Harry Styles had been on director Chloé Zhao's radar since his role in the war film Dunkirk. In the comics, Eros is a carefree adventurer who has fought his brother alongside the Avengers.
Q 02On which website did a Thanos fan forum ban half of its own members to copy the villain's snap?
Reddit staff approved the random purge of over 300,000 accounts in July 2018, the largest ban the site had ever carried out. One of the directors of Avengers: Infinity War was among those thrown out.
Q 03Which Avenger uses the Infinity Stones to turn Thanos and his army to dust in Avengers: Endgame?
Iron Man
Iron Man pays for the snap with his life, ending the villain where he began: Thanos made his comic-book debut in a 1973 issue of The Invincible Iron Man.
Q 04In The Infinity Gauntlet comic, Thanos wipes out half the universe to woo the embodiment of what?
Death
Death, known in the comics as Mistress Death, still rejects him after the snap. The films dropped her and gave Thanos a population-control motive instead.
Q 05In a 2019 Simpsons couch gag, which family member does Thanos spare when he snaps the rest away?
Maggie
Maggie is the only Simpson left after Thanos takes the family's spot on the couch and uses the Gauntlet on the rest. The gag opened the season 30 episode The Girl on the Bus.
Q 06Which actor, famous since his youth for The Goonies, took over the role of Thanos in 2014?
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin signed a multi-film deal and later shot Infinity War and Endgame back-to-back, performing the villain through motion capture.
Q 07Which website hid a clickable Thanos Gauntlet that made half the page vanish in 2019?
Google marked the release of Avengers: Endgame with a small Gauntlet that snapped its fingers when clicked, then made half the search results disappear. The icon's Time Stone could undo it.
Q 08Which online shooter let whoever grabbed the Gauntlet become Thanos in a limited-time 2018 mode?
Fortnite
Fortnite got the crossover because the directors of Avengers: Infinity War were fans who played it during breaks in production. The Gauntlet dropped onto the island at random.
Q 09Which Game of Thrones star plays Eitri, who forged the Infinity Gauntlet for Thanos?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage plays Eitri as a giant in Avengers: Infinity War, because the Dwarves of the forge world Nidavellir are gigantic. Thanos forced them to make the Gauntlet that holds the Stones.
Q 10Which Avenger beheads Thanos early in Avengers: Endgame, about three weeks after the snap?
Thor
Thor strikes in a rage once Thanos reveals he has destroyed the Stones so the snap can never be undone. The screenwriters killed the villain early at a producer's suggestion.
Q 11Whom does Thanos tearfully sacrifice to win the Soul Stone in Avengers: Infinity War?
Gamora
Gamora is the adopted daughter Thanos considers his favourite, and the Soul Stone can only be won by giving up a loved one. The filmmakers built his story on that father-daughter bond.
Q 12In which fictional country does Thanos snap his fingers at the end of Avengers: Infinity War?
Wakanda
Wakanda is where the Avengers make their stand, hoping its scientists can lift the Mind Stone out of Vision before Thanos arrives. He takes it anyway and completes the Gauntlet.
Q 13Which Avenger does Thanos beat in a bare-knuckle fight at the start of Avengers: Infinity War?
Hulk
Hulk's defeat shows that Thanos is a skilled hand-to-hand fighter even without the Stones. A dying Asgardian then sends the loser to Earth, where he warns of the invasion to come.
Q 21On which barren planet does Thanos find the Soul Stone, kept by an old Captain America villain?
Vormir
Vormir's shrine had been found years earlier by one of Thanos's own agents, who destroyed the map and lied to him about it. He was never fooled.
Q 22Which Asgardian fakes loyalty to Thanos, then dies trying to stab him, in Avengers: Infinity War?
Loki
Loki had just surrendered the Space Stone to save his brother's life. His actor said the scene was there to show how powerful Thanos is before the heroes ever face him.
Q 23Which alien army does Thanos lend out for the invasion of New York in the 2012 film The Avengers?
The Chitauri
The Chitauri came with a sceptre that secretly held the Mind Stone, so Thanos gave away one Infinity Stone in a failed bid to win another.
Q 14Which sorcerer hands Thanos the Time Stone on Titan to save the life of a fellow hero?
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange had already used the Stone to view millions of possible futures, seeing only one in which the Avengers win.
Q 15Which hero ruins the plan to pull the Gauntlet off Thanos on Titan by attacking him in a rage?
Star-Lord
Star-Lord lashes out in grief just as his allies have Thanos pinned and the Gauntlet almost off his hand. The villain breaks free and overpowers them all.
Q 16In Marvel Comics, as in real astronomy, Thanos's birthplace Titan is a moon of which planet?
Saturn
Saturn's moon houses a colony of Eternals in the comics, and Thanos was born there to two of them. The films turned Titan into a doomed planet instead.
Q 17Thanos's design was bulked up to resemble which DC Comics villain from Jack Kirby's New Gods?
Darkseid
Darkseid became the model when editor Roy Thomas saw a thinner early sketch and said that anyone stealing a New God should at least take the really good one.
Q 18Which Marvel heroine beat Thanos with only her sidekick Tippy-Toe for help in a Christmas special?
Squirrel Girl
Squirrel Girl's victory is played as a joke, and the all-seeing Watcher steps in to confirm she beat the real Thanos and not a clone. Her writer made a running gag of her toppling Marvel's biggest villains.
Q 19In Deadpool 2, which character is mockingly called Thanos because one actor plays both roles?
Cable
Cable, a time-travelling soldier, reached American cinemas three weeks after Avengers: Infinity War, so one star played two Marvel heavies in a single spring.
Q 20In Spider-Man: Far From Home, what name is given to the five years when Thanos's victims were gone?
The Blip
The Blip caught on: later Marvel series such as WandaVision and Hawkeye use it for both the vanishing and the return, though a tie-in novel had called the event the Decimation.
Q 24Which hero nearly kills Thanos in Avengers: Endgame, until he orders his own ship to open fire?
Scarlet Witch
Scarlet Witch is avenging Vision, yet this Thanos has arrived from 2014 and has never met her. He saves himself by ordering his warship to rain missiles on the battlefield.
Q 25On which mining colony, built inside a giant severed head, does Thanos seize the Reality Stone?
Knowhere
Knowhere is the severed head of an ancient Celestial and home to the Collector's museum. By the time the heroes get there, Thanos already has the Stone.
Q 26Which future Guardian of the Galaxy was created in the comics purely to kill Thanos?
Drax
Drax began as Arthur Douglas, a human whose car Thanos attacked; the entity Kronos put his spirit in a powerful new body. Both characters debuted in the same 1973 comic.
Q 27Which writer-artist dreamed up Thanos in a college psychology class before his 1973 comic debut?
Jim Starlin
Jim Starlin squeezed the character into the one issue he had been offered, doubting his comics career would last more than a few weeks. He was still writing Thanos stories four decades later.
Q 28The name Thanos echoes Thanatos, a self-destructive drive described by which psychoanalyst?
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud set this drive against Eros, his name for the instinct toward life. In the comics, Eros is also the name of Thanos's fun-loving brother.
Q 29Thanos looks unlike his fellow Eternals because he carries the gene of which monstrous cousin race?
The Deviants
The Deviants gave Thanos a look that so shocked his own mother that she tried to kill him, until his father stopped her.
Q 30In The Infinity Gauntlet comic, which self-declared granddaughter of Thanos steals the Gauntlet?
Nebula
Nebula takes it while Thanos has left his body behind to become one with the cosmos, then banishes him to drift through space. He ends up helping the heroes win it back.