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Hard Marvel Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our marvel set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard round is publishing history: the 1939 founding name, the title that introduced Spider-Man, the year the Fantastic Four appeared, and the writers behind Deadpool and the long X-Men run. These are the facts that get credited to the wrong person most often.
14 hard marvel trivia questions with answers
In which year did the Fantastic Four first appear in a Marvel comic?
Answer: 1961 Fantastic Four number one is generally treated as the start of the Marvel Age.
Which comic book title introduced Spider-Man in 1962?
Answer: Amazing Fantasy The character appeared in issue fifteen, the title's final issue.
What was Marvel Comics called when it was founded in 1939?
Answer: Timely Comics It traded as Atlas in the 1950s before adopting the Marvel name.
Which artist co-created Black Panther with Stan Lee in 1966?
Answer: Jack Kirby The character debuted in the pages of Fantastic Four.
Which writer created the character Deadpool with artist Rob Liefeld?
Answer: Fabian Nicieza Deadpool first appeared in New Mutants in 1991.
Which writer's long run on Uncanny X-Men in the 1970s and 1980s defined the modern team?
Answer: Chris Claremont His run lasted more than fifteen years.
Which Marvel superhero was co-created by Bill Everett in 1939 and can breathe underwater?
Answer: Namor the Sub-Mariner Namor is one of the company's oldest surviving characters.
Which Marvel Cinematic Universe film was released first, in the sequence of the four Avengers team films?
Answer: The Avengers It was released in 2012 and directed by Joss Whedon.
Which actor played Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch Benedict Wong plays the separate character Wong.
Which actor played T'Challa in the 2018 film Black Panther?
Answer: Chadwick Boseman Michael B. Jordan played the antagonist Killmonger in the same film.
Which fictional radiation is responsible for the Hulk's transformation?
Answer: Gamma radiation Cosmic rays gave the Fantastic Four their powers instead.
How many Infinity Stones are there in Marvel continuity?
Answer: Six They were originally called Infinity Gems in the comics.
Which Marvel villain is the adoptive father of Gamora and Nebula?
Answer: Thanos Thanos was created by Jim Starlin and debuted in 1973.
Which surname belongs to the Fantastic Four member known as Mister Fantastic?
Answer: Richards Reed Richards is the team's scientist and leader.
Answer key
- 1961
- Amazing Fantasy
- Timely Comics
- Jack Kirby
- Fabian Nicieza
- Chris Claremont
- Namor the Sub-Mariner
- The Avengers
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Chadwick Boseman
- Gamma radiation
- Six
- Thanos
- Richards
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