Super Hero Before & After Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aquaman of La Mancha

Aquaman was created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger and was first published by D.C. Comics in 1941. "Man of La Mancha" is a 1964 musical that won five Tony Awards. It was also made into a movie in 1972 starring Peter O'Toole.

Answer: Night of the Living Deadpool

The 1968 movie "Night of the Living Dead" had a production budget of only $114,000 but became a cult classic grossing an estimated $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. "Deadpool" is a 2016 superhero comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a local ex-soldier of fortune who gets cancer and goes through extreme procedures for a cure.

Instead, the procedures turn him into an ugly superhero with an attitude and a need to enact revenge against the doctor who made him that way.

Answer: Flash Gordon Lightfoot

"Flash Gordon" is a comic strip hero that was first published on January 7, 1934. Buster Crabbe played Flash on film in the '30s and early '40s. In 1980, actor Sam Jones played Flash on the big screen with background music supplied by the rock bad "Queen". Gordon Lightfoot's song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was a song commemorating the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in a storm on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.

Answer: Men in Black Widow

"Men in Black" is a 1997 movie starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. It is about a secret agency that polices aliens living on planet Earth. Agent "K" (Tommy Lee Jones), is actually training agent "J" (Will Smith) to be his replacement. Black Widow is a character created by Stan Lee, scripter Don Rico, and artist Don Heck in 1964.

She was introduced as a Russian spy and one of Iron Man's enemies. Later she was recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D. and became an "Avenger".

Answer: Batman On The Moon

Batman was introduced by D.C. Comics in 1939. He also goes by the names "Caped Crusader", "The Dark Knight", and "The World's Greatest Detective". The 1999 movie "Man On The Moon" was the story of comedian Andy Kaufman's life from the time he started stand-up comedy, until his untimely death from lung cancer at age 35 in 1984.

Answer: Casualties of War Machine

In the 1989 movie "Casualties of War", Private First Class Max Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) decides to inform his superiors about the kidnap and rape of the Vietnamese girl, which leads to the court martial of some of the soldiers in his unit. "War Machine" was first introduced in the "Iron Man" comic book in in 1979.

He has been Iron Man's sidekick and friend in "Iron Man 2", "Iron Man 3", "Avengers: Age of Ultron", and "Captain America: Civil War".

Answer: Soylent Green Hornet

The 1973 movie "Soylent Green" takes place in the year 2022. The world is polluted, overpopulated, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, one of which is called Soylent Green. At the end of the movie it is discovered that Soylent Green is actually recycled and processed dead humans.

The "Green Hornet" started out as a radio show in the 1930s. Green Hornet is the alter ego of Britt Reid, a successful newspaper publisher who, by night, fights crime in the city with his sidekick Kato.

In the 1960s TV show, Kato was played by Bruce Lee.

Answer: Seth Green Lantern

Along with being the voice of Chris Griffin on the TV show "Family Guy", Seth Green is the creator and producer of Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken". "Green Lantern" is a comic book superhero created in 1940. He is an officer for an interstellar law enforcement agency called the Green Lantern Corps.

Answer: Space Ghost Rider

After "Space Ghost" finished its run in the 1960s, the character re-emerged in the 1990s as the host for his own fictional late-night talk show called "Space Ghost Coast to Coast". "Ghost Rider" is about stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze who, in order to save his father's life, makes a pact with the devil.

He later finds out that the deal he made was with a demon called Mephisto. At night, whenever evil is around, Johnny turns into "Ghost Rider" and battles the evil.

Answer: Uncle Buck Rogers

The 1989 movie "Uncle Buck" is a comedy about a married couple that have to leave town on personal business and must leave their children under the care of their uncle who enjoys drinking and smoking, and earns his living by betting on rigged horse races. Buck Rogers first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine, "Amazing Stories".

His first name at that time was Anthony. His name was changed to "Buck" on January 7, 1929 when the comic strip hit newspapers.