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The Avengers Quiz: Bring Your Best Answers Together

The big scenes are easy to remember. How many of the little details stayed with you?

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

The Avengers: Saving the World Is Apparently a Group Project

Several powerful people are asked to work together against a threat too large for any one of them to handle. Unfortunately, each has a different idea of what being in charge should look like. Their first challenge is staying in the same room without starting another fight. Once the danger reaches the streets, the arguing has to give way to an actual plan.

Pick your answers carefully. This team already has enough people making bold guesses.

1. Who directed The Avengers?
- Joss Whedon
- Kenneth Branagh
- Joe Johnston
- Jon Favreau
Whedon wrote the screenplay too, and his version of the team is built on the bickering. The film set a record for a domestic opening weekend, and he came back for Age of Ultron. Branagh, Johnston and Favreau made Thor, Captain America and Iron Man.
2. Which villain drives the main invasion plot?
- Ronan
- Loki
- Ultron
- Thanos
Loki arrives through the Tesseract portal at the start, having been lent the Chitauri army by a go-between for Thanos, who appears in the first post-credits scene. Ultron is the villain of the second Avengers film and Ronan belongs to Guardians of the Galaxy.
3. Who plays Loki?
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- David Tennant
- Tom Hiddleston
- Lee Pace
Hiddleston had auditioned to play Thor before Branagh cast him as the brother instead. The film gives him the Stuttgart speech demanding that a crowd kneel, and the beating from the Hulk that ends with him pressed into Stark's floor and called a puny god.
4. What powerful blue cube is stolen at the start?
- The Casket of Ancient Winters
- The Aether
- The Orb
- The Tesseract
The cube was last seen in Captain America: The First Avenger, where it fell into the ocean with Red Skull's plane, and S.H.I.E.L.D. has been using it to design weapons. Erik Selvig builds the device that turns its energy into the portal over Stark Tower.
5. Who leads S.H.I.E.L.D. and pushes to assemble the team?
- Nick Fury
- Phil Coulson
- Alexander Pierce
- Maria Hill
Fury revives the Avengers Initiative after the World Security Council has shelved it, and uses Coulson's death to push the team together. He throws down the agent's bloodied Captain America cards, which were really in Coulson's locker, not his pocket.
6. Who plays Nick Fury?
- Morgan Freeman
- Denzel Washington
- Laurence Fishburne
- Samuel L. Jackson
Jackson's Fury first appeared after Iron Man's credits in 2008, inviting Stark to discuss the Avengers Initiative, and he had signed on for nine films. The Fury of the Ultimate Marvel comics had been drawn to look like Jackson years before, with his blessing.
7. Who plays Bruce Banner in this film?
- Bill Bixby
- Edward Norton
- Mark Ruffalo
- Eric Bana
Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton, who had played Banner in The Incredible Hulk four years earlier, and was the first to play the Hulk himself as well, in a motion-capture suit. His Banner's secret, offered on Park Avenue, is that he is always angry.
8. What is Thor's hammer called?
- Mjolnir
- Gungnir
- Hofund
- Stormbreaker
Mjolnir meets Captain America's shield in the forest fight with Iron Man, and the clang flattens the trees around them, which ends the brawl. Gungnir is Odin's spear, Hofund is Heimdall's sword and Stormbreaker is the axe Thor forges in Infinity War.
9. What is Black Widow's real name?
- Wanda Maximoff
- Maria Hill
- Natasha Romanoff
- Yelena Belova
Natasha was introduced in Iron Man 2 and is first seen here tied to a chair in Russia, running an interrogation while appearing to be its subject. She later uses the same trick on Loki, who lets slip that his plan hinges on the Hulk.
10. What is Hawkeye's real name?
- Scott Lang
- Sam Wilson
- Clint Barton
- Bucky Barnes
Jeremy Renner's Barton had a cameo in Thor, drawing a bow on the newcomer from a crane in the crater, and here spends the first half of the film working for Loki. Natasha knocks him out of it with a blow to the head, which she calls cognitive recalibration.
11. Which hero does Loki control with his scepter early in the film?
- Hawkeye
- Thor
- Captain America
- Iron Man
The scepter touches Barton's chest at the desert research facility in the opening, and Loki takes Selvig the same way. Later, in Stark Tower, it clinks uselessly against Tony's arc reactor. Its blue stone turns out, in Age of Ultron, to be the Mind Stone.
12. What is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s huge flying aircraft carrier called?
- The Raft
- The Triskelion
- The Helicarrier
- The Quinjet
The Helicarrier rises out of the ocean on four turbines, and Barton's team knocks one out, so Iron Man has to spin it back up by hand. The Raft is the prison in Civil War and the Triskelion is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in The Winter Soldier.
13. Which alien army attacks Earth through the portal?
- The Kree
- The Skrulls
- The Outriders
- The Chitauri
The Chitauri were borrowed from Marvel's Ultimates comics, and the entire army drops dead when Iron Man carries the nuke through the portal and destroys their mothership. The Kree arrive with Guardians of the Galaxy and the Skrulls with Captain Marvel.
14. Which city is the setting of the climactic battle?
- San Francisco
- New York City
- Chicago
- Washington, D.C.
The portal opens over Stark Tower, on Park Avenue above Grand Central, but much of the street fighting was shot in Cleveland, where East 9th Street was dressed as Manhattan. Washington is the setting of The Winter Soldier's finale two years later.
15. What food do the exhausted heroes eat in the final post-credits scene?
- Shawarma
- Pizza
- Tacos
- Dumplings
Tony brings up shawarma mid-battle, having spotted a place nearby, and the scene of the team eating in silence was shot after the premiere and slipped in at the last minute. Chris Evans had grown a beard for another film, hence Cap's hand over his face.

All the answers

1. Who directed The Avengers?

Joss Whedon

Whedon wrote the screenplay too, and his version of the team is built on the bickering. The film set a record for a domestic opening weekend, and he came back for Age of Ultron. Branagh, Johnston and Favreau made Thor, Captain America and Iron Man.
2. Which villain drives the main invasion plot?

Loki

Loki arrives through the Tesseract portal at the start, having been lent the Chitauri army by a go-between for Thanos, who appears in the first post-credits scene. Ultron is the villain of the second Avengers film and Ronan belongs to Guardians of the Galaxy.
3. Who plays Loki?

Tom Hiddleston

Hiddleston had auditioned to play Thor before Branagh cast him as the brother instead. The film gives him the Stuttgart speech demanding that a crowd kneel, and the beating from the Hulk that ends with him pressed into Stark's floor and called a puny god.
4. What powerful blue cube is stolen at the start?

The Tesseract

The cube was last seen in Captain America: The First Avenger, where it fell into the ocean with Red Skull's plane, and S.H.I.E.L.D. has been using it to design weapons. Erik Selvig builds the device that turns its energy into the portal over Stark Tower.
5. Who leads S.H.I.E.L.D. and pushes to assemble the team?

Nick Fury

Fury revives the Avengers Initiative after the World Security Council has shelved it, and uses Coulson's death to push the team together. He throws down the agent's bloodied Captain America cards, which were really in Coulson's locker, not his pocket.
6. Who plays Nick Fury?

Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson's Fury first appeared after Iron Man's credits in 2008, inviting Stark to discuss the Avengers Initiative, and he had signed on for nine films. The Fury of the Ultimate Marvel comics had been drawn to look like Jackson years before, with his blessing.
7. Who plays Bruce Banner in this film?

Mark Ruffalo

Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton, who had played Banner in The Incredible Hulk four years earlier, and was the first to play the Hulk himself as well, in a motion-capture suit. His Banner's secret, offered on Park Avenue, is that he is always angry.
8. What is Thor's hammer called?

Mjolnir

Mjolnir meets Captain America's shield in the forest fight with Iron Man, and the clang flattens the trees around them, which ends the brawl. Gungnir is Odin's spear, Hofund is Heimdall's sword and Stormbreaker is the axe Thor forges in Infinity War.
9. What is Black Widow's real name?

Natasha Romanoff

Natasha was introduced in Iron Man 2 and is first seen here tied to a chair in Russia, running an interrogation while appearing to be its subject. She later uses the same trick on Loki, who lets slip that his plan hinges on the Hulk.
10. What is Hawkeye's real name?

Clint Barton

Jeremy Renner's Barton had a cameo in Thor, drawing a bow on the newcomer from a crane in the crater, and here spends the first half of the film working for Loki. Natasha knocks him out of it with a blow to the head, which she calls cognitive recalibration.
11. Which hero does Loki control with his scepter early in the film?

Hawkeye

The scepter touches Barton's chest at the desert research facility in the opening, and Loki takes Selvig the same way. Later, in Stark Tower, it clinks uselessly against Tony's arc reactor. Its blue stone turns out, in Age of Ultron, to be the Mind Stone.
12. What is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s huge flying aircraft carrier called?

The Helicarrier

The Helicarrier rises out of the ocean on four turbines, and Barton's team knocks one out, so Iron Man has to spin it back up by hand. The Raft is the prison in Civil War and the Triskelion is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in The Winter Soldier.
13. Which alien army attacks Earth through the portal?

The Chitauri

The Chitauri were borrowed from Marvel's Ultimates comics, and the entire army drops dead when Iron Man carries the nuke through the portal and destroys their mothership. The Kree arrive with Guardians of the Galaxy and the Skrulls with Captain Marvel.
14. Which city is the setting of the climactic battle?

New York City

The portal opens over Stark Tower, on Park Avenue above Grand Central, but much of the street fighting was shot in Cleveland, where East 9th Street was dressed as Manhattan. Washington is the setting of The Winter Soldier's finale two years later.
15. What food do the exhausted heroes eat in the final post-credits scene?

Shawarma

Tony brings up shawarma mid-battle, having spotted a place nearby, and the scene of the team eating in silence was shot after the premiere and slipped in at the last minute. Chris Evans had grown a beard for another film, hence Cap's hand over his face.