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Black Panther Quiz: A Royal Test of Movie Memory

You have seen the movie. Now see how much of it you can bring back.

Published 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-24 15 questions

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Black Panther: A New Crown Comes with Old Problems

A new king returns home ready to lead, only to discover that the hardest challenges are not waiting politely at the border. A dangerous challenger forces him to question the stories he grew up with and the choices his country has made. Family, loyalty, and duty pull in different directions. The action is grand, but the real struggle is deciding what kind of leader he wants to become.

Take your place. The questions are ready when your memory is.

1. What is Black Panther's real name?
- N'Jadaka
- T'Challa
- N'Jobu
- M'Baku
T'Challa inherits the throne after his father T'Chaka is killed in the bombing in Captain America: Civil War, where the character first appeared. The other three names belong to his uncle, his cousin and a rival chieftain.
2. Who plays T'Challa?
- Chadwick Boseman
- John Boyega
- Michael B. Jordan
- Daniel Kaluuya
Boseman had played Jackie Robinson and James Brown before Marvel cast him, and he debuted as T'Challa in Civil War. He died of colon cancer in 2020, having kept the diagnosis private through the shoot, and the sequel was rewritten around his absence.
3. Who directed Black Panther?
- Antoine Fuqua
- F. Gary Gray
- Ryan Coogler
- Ava DuVernay
Coogler was barely into his thirties and had made two features, Fruitvale Station and Creed. He brought his regular collaborators along, including cinematographer Rachel Morrison and composer Ludwig Göransson, whose score won the Oscar.
4. What country does T'Challa rule?
- Wakanda
- Sokovia
- Genosha
- Latveria
Wakanda poses as a poor farming nation and hides its cities behind a cloaking shield, having never been colonized; the film's big argument is whether to keep that up. Sokovia is from Age of Ultron; Genosha and Latveria belong to the X-Men and Doctor Doom.
5. Which rare metal is central to Wakanda's technology?
- Uru
- Palladium
- Adamantium
- Vibranium
A vibranium meteorite struck Wakanda in the distant past, and the metal's ability to absorb and release energy powers everything from the royal lab to the magnetic trains. Captain America's shield is made of it, which is how outsiders know it exists at all.
6. What is T'Challa's inventive younger sister called?
- Ayo
- Nakia
- Okoye
- Shuri
Shuri runs Wakanda's design group and builds the new Panther suit, which stores kinetic energy from blows and releases it, and she gets most of the film's jokes at her brother's expense. She took over as Black Panther in Wakanda Forever.
7. Who plays Shuri?
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Letitia Wright
- Florence Kasumba
- Danai Gurira
Wright is a Guyanese-born British actress who had been in Black Mirror, and she later led an episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe. Her jab at her brother's sandals in the lab, borrowed from a Vine meme, got one of the film's biggest laughs.
8. What is the name of Wakanda's elite female guard?
- The Jabari Council
- The Midnight Angels
- The Dora Milaje
- The Golden Tribe
The Dora Milaje are an all-female royal guard drawn from every tribe, with vibranium spears and shaved heads; in the comics they were originally also the king's prospective wives, a detail the film drops. The Jabari are the mountain tribe who shun the throne.
9. Who commands the Dora Milaje?
- Nakia
- Okoye
- Shuri
- Ramonda
Okoye is the general of the Dora Milaje and her loyalty is to the throne itself, whoever sits on it, which is why she stays on under the usurper and ends up facing her own husband W'Kabi in the final battle. Danai Gurira, of The Walking Dead, plays her.
10. In which American city do the film's 1992 prologue and its final scene take place?
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Oakland
- Atlanta
Oakland is Coogler's hometown, and the film opens there in 1992 with T'Chaka confronting his brother N'Jobu in a housing project, the night that sets up everything that follows. T'Challa returns at the end to buy the same block for an outreach center.
11. What name does the challenger Erik Stevens use?
- Zemo
- M'Baku
- Klaue
- Killmonger
Erik Stevens is a former special forces soldier and T'Challa's cousin, born N'Jadaka and raised in Oakland after his father was left dead there. Killmonger is his military nickname; Klaue, the arms dealer with the sonic arm, is an accomplice he soon discards.
12. Who plays Killmonger?
- Daniel Kaluuya
- Sterling K. Brown
- Winston Duke
- Michael B. Jordan
Jordan had been Coogler's lead in both Fruitvale Station and Creed, and he took the part partly to play against his usual likability, keeping to himself on set to stay in character. Daniel Kaluuya plays W'Kabi and Sterling K. Brown plays Erik's father.
13. Who leads the mountain-dwelling Jabari tribe?
- W'Kabi
- M'Baku
- N'Jobu
- Zuri
M'Baku leads the Jabari, who worship the gorilla god Hanuman and want nothing to do with vibranium technology; he challenges T'Challa at Warrior Falls and loses. Winston Duke plays him, and the character's comic-book name, Man-Ape, was quietly dropped.
14. Which South Korean city is the setting of the casino mission and car chase?
- Seoul
- Daegu
- Busan
- Incheon
The casino is where Klaue is selling a stolen Wakandan artifact to the CIA's Everett Ross, and the chase that follows runs through the city's streets with Shuri driving the car by remote from her lab. The sequence was shot on location in Busan.
15. What plant gives the Black Panther enhanced abilities?
- The heart-shaped herb
- The golden lotus
- The silver vine
- The moonflower
The herb grows only in Wakanda, mutated by the vibranium in the soil, and the drink made from it gives the king his strength and a trip to the ancestral plane. Killmonger has the whole crop burned after he takes the throne, and Nakia saves a single plant.

All the answers

1. What is Black Panther's real name?

T'Challa

T'Challa inherits the throne after his father T'Chaka is killed in the bombing in Captain America: Civil War, where the character first appeared. The other three names belong to his uncle, his cousin and a rival chieftain.
2. Who plays T'Challa?

Chadwick Boseman

Boseman had played Jackie Robinson and James Brown before Marvel cast him, and he debuted as T'Challa in Civil War. He died of colon cancer in 2020, having kept the diagnosis private through the shoot, and the sequel was rewritten around his absence.
3. Who directed Black Panther?

Ryan Coogler

Coogler was barely into his thirties and had made two features, Fruitvale Station and Creed. He brought his regular collaborators along, including cinematographer Rachel Morrison and composer Ludwig Göransson, whose score won the Oscar.
4. What country does T'Challa rule?

Wakanda

Wakanda poses as a poor farming nation and hides its cities behind a cloaking shield, having never been colonized; the film's big argument is whether to keep that up. Sokovia is from Age of Ultron; Genosha and Latveria belong to the X-Men and Doctor Doom.
5. Which rare metal is central to Wakanda's technology?

Vibranium

A vibranium meteorite struck Wakanda in the distant past, and the metal's ability to absorb and release energy powers everything from the royal lab to the magnetic trains. Captain America's shield is made of it, which is how outsiders know it exists at all.
6. What is T'Challa's inventive younger sister called?

Shuri

Shuri runs Wakanda's design group and builds the new Panther suit, which stores kinetic energy from blows and releases it, and she gets most of the film's jokes at her brother's expense. She took over as Black Panther in Wakanda Forever.
7. Who plays Shuri?

Letitia Wright

Wright is a Guyanese-born British actress who had been in Black Mirror, and she later led an episode of Steve McQueen's Small Axe. Her jab at her brother's sandals in the lab, borrowed from a Vine meme, got one of the film's biggest laughs.
8. What is the name of Wakanda's elite female guard?

The Dora Milaje

The Dora Milaje are an all-female royal guard drawn from every tribe, with vibranium spears and shaved heads; in the comics they were originally also the king's prospective wives, a detail the film drops. The Jabari are the mountain tribe who shun the throne.
9. Who commands the Dora Milaje?

Okoye

Okoye is the general of the Dora Milaje and her loyalty is to the throne itself, whoever sits on it, which is why she stays on under the usurper and ends up facing her own husband W'Kabi in the final battle. Danai Gurira, of The Walking Dead, plays her.
10. In which American city do the film's 1992 prologue and its final scene take place?

Oakland

Oakland is Coogler's hometown, and the film opens there in 1992 with T'Chaka confronting his brother N'Jobu in a housing project, the night that sets up everything that follows. T'Challa returns at the end to buy the same block for an outreach center.
11. What name does the challenger Erik Stevens use?

Killmonger

Erik Stevens is a former special forces soldier and T'Challa's cousin, born N'Jadaka and raised in Oakland after his father was left dead there. Killmonger is his military nickname; Klaue, the arms dealer with the sonic arm, is an accomplice he soon discards.
12. Who plays Killmonger?

Michael B. Jordan

Jordan had been Coogler's lead in both Fruitvale Station and Creed, and he took the part partly to play against his usual likability, keeping to himself on set to stay in character. Daniel Kaluuya plays W'Kabi and Sterling K. Brown plays Erik's father.
13. Who leads the mountain-dwelling Jabari tribe?

M'Baku

M'Baku leads the Jabari, who worship the gorilla god Hanuman and want nothing to do with vibranium technology; he challenges T'Challa at Warrior Falls and loses. Winston Duke plays him, and the character's comic-book name, Man-Ape, was quietly dropped.
14. Which South Korean city is the setting of the casino mission and car chase?

Busan

The casino is where Klaue is selling a stolen Wakandan artifact to the CIA's Everett Ross, and the chase that follows runs through the city's streets with Shuri driving the car by remote from her lab. The sequence was shot on location in Busan.
15. What plant gives the Black Panther enhanced abilities?

The heart-shaped herb

The herb grows only in Wakanda, mutated by the vibranium in the soil, and the drink made from it gives the king his strength and a trip to the ancestral plane. Killmonger has the whole crop burned after he takes the throne, and Nakia saves a single plant.