The Batman (2022) Trivia
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48 free The Batman (2022) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Matt Reeves's The Batman rebooted the Dark Knight as a rain-soaked detective story: a second-year vigilante chasing a serial killer who leaves riddles for him across a corrupt Gotham. This 48-question quiz covers the whole production, from Ben Affleck's aborted version and Robert Pattinson's 2019 casting to the Leavesden soundstages, the StageCraft volume and Michael Giacchino's score. You will be asked about the cast behind the Riddler, Catwoman, the Penguin and Falcone, the comics and New Hollywood thrillers that shaped the script, the viral rataalada.com campaign, the March 2022 release, the $772 million gross and the Oscar nominations, and what came next: The Penguin on HBO and The Batman: Part II. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone, share your score, or print the set for movie night.
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Q 01Who directed The Batman?
Matt Reeves
Matt Reeves took over after Ben Affleck stepped down as director, then rebuilt the story from scratch around a younger Batman outside the DC Extended Universe.
Q 02Who stars as Bruce Wayne in The Batman?
Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson's casting drew a fan petition to reverse it, but he called the reaction 'less vitriolic than I was expecting' and said being the underdog was more fun.
Q 03Which piece of music is the first thing heard in The Batman?
Ave Maria
Ave Maria opens the film in place of the usual action scene because the director wanted viewers off-kilter, and the villain's theme is a minor-key twist on its melody.
Q 04Which actor plays the Riddler in The Batman?
Paul Dano
Paul Dano had himself wrapped in plastic wrap under the costume, reasoning that the Riddler would take extreme care not to leave DNA at a crime scene.
Q 05Who plays Selina Kyle in The Batman?
Zoë Kravitz
Zoë Kravitz studied footage of cats and lions fighting to work out how Selina should move in a fight.
Q 06Which actor is unrecognisable under prosthetics as the Penguin in The Batman?
Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell tested the disguise by walking into a Burbank Starbucks in character and ordering an oat-milk latte, drawing only 'a couple of stares'.
Q 07Who plays Lieutenant Jim Gordon in The Batman?
Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright looked to real Black police figures for his Gordon, among them Eric Adams, the former NYPD captain who became mayor of New York.
Q 08Which actor plays crime boss Carmine Falcone in The Batman?
John Turturro
John Turturro decided that Falcone needed 'a mask', so he went to the shop where he buys his own vintage glasses and chose the pair the mobster wears.
Q 09Who plays Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman?
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis had played the ape leader Caesar for the same director in two Planet of the Apes films, and was sounded out for Alfred while they finished the second.
Q 10Which actor makes a late cameo as the Joker in The Batman?
Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan was announced as playing a Gotham policeman called Stanley Merkel, and the director even shot fake scenes with him in that role to hide the cameo.
Q 11What is the Riddler's real name in The Batman?
Edward Nashton
Edward Nashton comes from the comics, where one story makes it the villain's birth name before he changes it to the punning Edward Nygma.
Q 12What is the Riddler's day job in The Batman?
Forensic accountant
Forensic accountant is his day job, and it is at work that he discovers a renewal fund set up by Thomas Wayne has become a slush fund for the corrupt.
Q 13Which Gotham official is the Riddler's first victim in The Batman?
Mayor Don Mitchell Jr.
Mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is killed at home in the middle of his re-election campaign, and the Riddler leaves a greeting card at the scene addressed 'To the Batman'.
Q 21Which cinematographer of Dune also shot The Batman?
Greig Fraser
Greig Fraser built every shot around Bruce Wayne's point of view, strapping cameras to the vehicles so the Batmobile chase is seen the way its drivers see it.
Q 22The Batman's LED-wall sets were pioneered on which TV series?
The Mandalorian
The Mandalorian's wall of LED screens, known as StageCraft, let the crew shoot the rooftop Bat-Signal scenes in a sunset glow they could never have held on location.
Q 23Who composed the score for The Batman?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino was so excited that he finished the main theme in October 2019, months before filming began, which let the studio use it in the trailers.
Q 14Selina Kyle works as a waitress at which Gotham nightclub in The Batman?
Iceberg Lounge
The Iceberg Lounge is run by the Penguin, and Batman first walks in to ask about a city official who was seen leaving the club with a young woman.
Q 15Who is elected mayor of Gotham during The Batman?
Bella Reál
Bella Reál wins the election, only for the Riddler's armed followers to turn up at her victory celebration in a flooding arena.
Q 16Where is the Riddler locked up after his arrest in The Batman?
Arkham State Hospital
Arkham State Hospital is where the Riddler finds a friend in the next cell, a closing scene the director kept to show that Gotham's troubles were far from over.
Q 17The Riddler's trail leads Batman to the ruins of what kind of institution?
An orphanage
An orphanage first funded by Thomas Wayne, it was left to rot after his murder as his renewal money was siphoned off, the root of the Riddler's grudge.
Q 18Under what working title was The Batman shot?
Vengeance
Vengeance is also what this Batman first calls himself, growling 'I'm vengeance' at a street gang, before the story pushes him to stand for hope instead.
Q 19In which city did filming of The Batman begin in January 2020?
London
London was where the cameras first rolled, but the pandemic shut the set two months later with only about a quarter of the film shot.
Q 20Which Warner Bros. studio, home of Harry Potter, housed The Batman's Gotham sets?
Leavesden
Leavesden had hosted only three days of resumed filming in September 2020 when the shoot stopped again: the film's star had tested positive for COVID-19.
Q 24Which Nirvana song plays twice in The Batman?
Something in the Way
Something in the Way was playing as the director wrote the first act, and it led him to model his reclusive Bruce Wayne on Kurt Cobain.
Q 25Ben Affleck's abandoned version of The Batman would have pitted him against which villain?
Deathstroke
Deathstroke was to be played by Joe Manganiello, cast in 2016 while Affleck was still set to direct; the script was shelved when he stepped away and the film restarted from scratch.
Q 26The Batman's star screen-tested in a Batsuit made for whom?
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer's suit from Batman Forever was the only old one that fitted; its new wearer found it far too small and called the test an arduous experience.
Q 27Which comic about a serial killer preying on Gotham's mob families inspired The Batman?
The Long Halloween
The Long Halloween gave the film its killer who exposes ties between Gotham's pillars and its criminals, and the idea that Catwoman is a mob boss's daughter.
Q 28The Batman's director credits its voyeuristic binocular opening to which filmmaker?
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock's films treat watching as voyeurism, the director said, so he opened with the audience spying alongside the killer instead of with an action scene.
Q 29Batman and Gordon's partnership was compared to the reporters in which 1970s film?
All the President's Men
All the President's Men was the model: the director saw the pair as Woodward and Bernstein, meeting in secret to work out how high the corruption goes.
Q 30The Batman's director compared the underestimated Penguin to which member of The Godfather's Corleone family?
Fredo
Fredo was the director's note to his actor: like him, this Penguin is crippled by feeling insignificant in a crime family of stronger, more capable men.