X-Men: Days of Future Past Trivia
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48 free X-Men: Days of Future Past trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This X-Men: Days of Future Past trivia quiz covers Bryan Singer's 2014 time-travel epic, the film that united the original X-Men cast with the First Class generation. The easy questions cover the setup: the Sentinel apocalypse of 2023, Kitty Pryde sending Wolverine's mind back to 1973, a broken Charles Xavier on his serum, Magneto locked under the Pentagon, Bolivar Trask and the assassination Mystique must not carry out. The harder ones dig into the future X-Men at the Chinese temple, the Paris Peace Accords, the plastic gun, RFK Stadium, the rewritten timeline and the En Sabah Nur post-credits scene. Behind the scenes it covers Chris Claremont and John Byrne's 1981 comic, Matthew Vaughn's Kennedy magic-bullet idea and his exit for Kingsman, why Wolverine replaced Kitty as the traveller, Rachel Summers in the first draft, the Montreal shoot, Kelsey Grammer's secret cameo, the Quicksilver kitchen sequence, John Ottman scoring and editing, the lawsuit that pulled Singer from publicity, the Rogue Cut and the record $746 million gross. Every answer was checked against the film's encyclopaedia entry before publishing. For more, try our X-Men movies and Wolverine movies quizzes.
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Q 01Which fellow director did Bryan Singer consult about time travel before making X-Men: Days of Future Past?
James Cameron
James Cameron, the maker of The Terminator, spent two hours talking it through with him; Singer came away insisting on fixed rules, with Wolverine as the story's 'observer'.
Q 02Which Jim Croce song plays during Quicksilver's slow-motion showpiece in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Time in a Bottle
Time in a Bottle plays as he strolls round the walls, nudging guards and bullets aside; the sequence runs to only 29 shots, yet took a team of 70 artists seven months.
Q 03Who plays Bolivar Trask, the scientist behind the Sentinels, in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage said the part attracted him because it was 'not written to be a dwarf'; the writer credits his humanity with making audiences hope the villain would be spared.
Q 04In X-Men: Days of Future Past, whose power sends a person's consciousness into the past?
Kitty Pryde's
Kitty Pryde's phasing is stretched into a new power for the film: in the comic she makes the trip herself, but in 1973 the character would have been 'negative-20 years old', the writer said.
Q 05Why is Wolverine, not Professor X, sent back to 1973 in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Only he can survive it
Only he can survive it: a trip that far back would kill anyone who cannot heal, and the writers liked that the ageless Hugh Jackman could plausibly play himself in both eras.
Q 06In X-Men: Days of Future Past, where do the future X-Men make their final stand against the Sentinels?
A remote Chinese temple
A remote Chinese temple, imagined by the designer as a monastery built so high that no road reaches it; a rushed schedule meant only part was built, and the rest is digital.
Q 07As an April Fools' joke, Bryan Singer announced which pop star's casting in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga was to play the singing mutant Dazzler, the director tweeted; Variety reported it as real casting news and then had to pull its story.
Q 08In X-Men: Days of Future Past, what does Magneto secretly thread into Trask's prototype Sentinels so he can control them?
Steel
Steel, ripped from railway tracks while he rides the train carrying them, is laced through the machines; Trask had built them without metal precisely so that Magneto could not touch them.
Q 09Why has young Xavier lost his telepathy in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
A serum that lets him walk suppresses it
A serum that lets him walk suppresses it: the writers called his arc 'accepting the chair', so they invented a cure for his legs that he must give up to get his powers back.
Q 10In X-Men: Days of Future Past, why is Magneto in prison when Logan arrives in 1973?
For assassinating John F. Kennedy
For assassinating John F. Kennedy, officially; he insists he was trying to save the president, a fellow mutant whose power, in the writer's unfilmed backstory, was persuasion.
Q 11Who plays Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Evan Peters
Evan Peters's speedster belongs to both the X-Men and the Avengers in the comics, which is why Marvel's own studio could put a separate Quicksilver, Aaron Taylor-Johnson's, into Age of Ultron.
Q 12In X-Men: Days of Future Past, where does Quicksilver's celebrated super-speed sequence take place?
The Pentagon kitchen
The Pentagon kitchen: he is there to spring Magneto from his cell, and when guards open fire he saunters round the walls rearranging everyone, a scene shot at about 3,000 frames a second.
Q 13In X-Men: Days of Future Past, where does Mystique first try to kill Trask?
The Paris Peace Accords
Q 21Who is seen building pyramids in the post-credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past?
En Sabah Nur
En Sabah Nur is the name a kneeling crowd chants as a grey-skinned youth raises a pyramid by thought alone; the writer called it a signal to hardcore fans, and the part was recast afterwards.
Q 22Which comics creators wrote the 1981 'Days of Future Past' storyline?
Chris Claremont and John Byrne
Chris Claremont and John Byrne told it in just two issues of The Uncanny X-Men; in their version the killing that dooms the future is a senator's, Robert Kelly, not a Sentinel-maker's.
Q 23In the first draft of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which comics character sent Wolverine's mind back in time?
The Paris Peace Accords summit gives her a way in; the heroes stop her, but the fight spills into the square outside and shows mutants to the world's cameras.
Q 14Which US president authorises the Sentinel programme in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon signs off after mutants are exposed on camera, and pays for it in the climax, when Magneto tears his bunker out through the front of the White House.
Q 15In X-Men: Days of Future Past, what does Magneto lift to barricade the White House?
RFK Stadium
RFK Stadium is torn from the ground and set down around the White House; the real thing was only photographed, and the scene was shot on a small baseball field with no stands at all.
Q 16In X-Men: Days of Future Past, how does Mystique subdue Magneto in the climax?
With a plastic gun
With a plastic gun, the one firearm he can neither stop nor turn aside; the same thinking is why Trask built his first Sentinels without metal.
Q 17In X-Men: Days of Future Past, what convinces Mystique to spare Trask?
Xavier's telepathic appeal
Xavier's telepathic appeal works because it leaves the choice to her: the writers decided that physically stopping Mystique was not enough, since she could simply try again another day.
Q 18A teaser for X-Men: Days of Future Past ran in the credits of which rival studio's 2014 superhero film?
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 carried it free of charge: its director still owed Fox a film under an old contract, and Fox let him make Sony's sequel only in return for the plug.
Q 19Which two X-Men, killed off in the series' third film, are alive again when X-Men: Days of Future Past ends?
Jean Grey and Scott Summers
Jean Grey and Scott Summers were the writer's one firm demand: he had co-written the film that killed them and said he brought them back partly 'out of personal guilt'.
Q 20How is Logan pulled from the Potomac in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Rescued by a shapeshifter posing as Stryker
Rescued by a shapeshifter posing as Stryker: the writer first had the real Stryker seize him, found that 'such a downer', and gave Mystique a disguise that mirrors her earlier rescue of mutant soldiers.
Rachel Summers
Rachel Summers, the daughter of two X-Men in the comics, had the job in the first draft; introducing her and her absent parents took so much explaining that the writer handed it to someone already on screen.
Q 24Matthew Vaughn said it would be fun to cast which actor as a young Wolverine in a 1970s-set X-Men film?
Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy 'or someone' was his idea for a middle chapter, with Days of Future Past saved for the finale; Fox read his script, said it was 'too good' to wait for, and skipped straight to it.
Q 25Which spy film did Matthew Vaughn direct next after stepping down from X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Kingsman: The Secret Service came first for him: he hoped another director would make the next X-Men film while he was away and that he would return for this one, but Fox would not wait.
Q 26Where was X-Men: Days of Future Past principally shot?
Montreal
Montreal stood in for almost everywhere: its streets became a European capital with digital rooftops added, and the scenes set in Washington were filmed there too.
Q 27In X-Men: Days of Future Past, how does the young Xavier get to speak with his older self?
Through Logan's mind
Through Logan's mind: reading the time traveller's memories, the young Xavier finds his older self there, who urges him to hope again; only then does he go back to Cerebro to track Mystique down.
Q 28Who makes an uncredited cameo as the future Beast in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer was flown in on 'the tiniest jet' to keep it quiet; the cameo was added late because the writers wanted audiences to know the 'sweet, young' Beast of 1973 survives.
Q 29Who both edited and scored X-Men: Days of Future Past?
John Ottman
John Ottman returned to the series after more than a decade away, brought back his own X2 title theme and even toyed with the Fox fanfare; he has cut and scored nearly all of the director's films since The Usual Suspects.
Q 30In X-Men: Days of Future Past, whose role was cut to a cameo in cinemas, then restored in a later home version?
Anna Paquin's Rogue
Anna Paquin's Rogue was the goal of a rescue subplot the writer decided did 'not service the main story'; 17 minutes went back in for 2015's Rogue Cut.