Black Panther Quiz for Experts | Movies

Answer: Brothers

After a brief prologue explaining the history of Wakanda, vibranium, and the Black Panther, the film opens in Oakland in 1992, where N'Jobu is going over the plans for a job with his right hand man, James. They are interrupted by two Dora Milaje, Wakanda's all-female special forces, who signal the arrival of the Black Panther, Wakanda's sovereign and protector. "My King," N'Jobu says at the sight of T'Chaka, as he falls to the floor kneeling. "Come, baby brother," T'Chaka says after the formalities are dispensed with, "Let me see how you are holding up." Their reunion takes on a more serious tone after N'Jobu asks about the situation back home. "Not so good," T'Chaka says. "There has been an attack." He describes how an Afrikaner arms dealer named Ulysses Klaue infiltrated Wakanda's vibranium stores and made off with a quarter ton of the precious metal, which he couldn't have accomplished without help from someone on the inside. T'Chaka's insinuation isn't lost on N'Jobu, who asks his brother why he is here. "I want you to look me in the eyes and tell me why you betrayed Wakanda," T'Chaka says. When N'Jobu denies his involvement, James reveals himself to be Zuri, a fellow Wakandan spy, and produces evidence that implicates N'Jobu. "Prince N'Jobu," T'Chaka says, "You will return home at once where you will face the Council and inform them of your crimes."

The scene cuts to the group of boys playing basketball at the foot of the apartment block, as they notice the strange lights of a Wakandan aircraft as it moves across the night sky.

Answer: T'Challa overpowers M'Baku and convinces him to yield.

Wakanda was founded by five tribes, who settled at the site of a vibranium meteorite landing in Africa. The meteorite affected the area's plant life, creating the heart-shaped herb which is the source of the Black Panther's powers. The first Black Panther united four of the tribes under his rule, but the Jabari tribe chose to fend for themselves in the mountains.

Following the events of "Captain America: Civil War", Prince T'Challa is poised to inherit the throne from his father, King T'Chaka, who perished in the United Nations bombing in Vienna. At the coronation ceremony, Zuri, now Wakanda's High Shaman, gives T'Challa a potion to strip away the power of the Black Panther so that he may face any challenger without an unfair advantage. "Victory in ritual combat comes by yield or death," Zuri explains. "If any tribe wishes to put forth a warrior, I now offer a path to the throne." After representatives from the river, border, mining, and merchant tribes all decline to challenge Prince T'Challa to the throne, a Jabari contingent emerges from the mouth of a cave. "We have watched and listened from the mountains," announces M'Baku, leader of the Jabari. "And now you want to hand the nation over to this prince who could not even keep his own father safe? We will not have it." T'Challa accepts M'Baku's challenge, and they seem evenly matched as they begin to fight, until a swipe from M'Baku's weapon causes T'Challa to flip over and lose both his spear and his shield. T'Challa continues fighting barehanded, but M'Baku gets T'Challa in a hold and delivers a series of headbutts. The situation seems dire for T'Challa, when he notices his mother, Ramonda, watching from the crowd of spectators. "Show him who you are!" she shouts to her son.

T'Challa breaks free from M'Baku's hold and hits back, flipping him into a leg choke at the edge of the waterfall. M'Baku can't break free, but refuses to concede. "Yield! Don't make me kill you!" T'Challa says. "I would rather die," M'Baku replies, as the crowd begins to chant T'Challa's name. "You have fought with honor! Now yield. Your people need you," T'Challa implores. About to pass out from the chokehold, M'Baku taps T'Challa's leg, signaling his surrender. T'Challa releases M'Baku and rises to his feet, to the cheers of the crowd. "I now present to you, King T'Challa the Black Panther!" Zuri proclaims.

Answer: Vibranium

Erik Killmonger stands admiring the artifacts in the West African exhibit of the Museum of Great Britain in London. A museum director appears with her coffee to provide him with the history of each piece. When she misidentifies a mining tool as a seventh century artifact from Benin, Killmonger corrects her. "Nah," he says, "It was taken by British soldiers in Benin, but it's from Wakanda. And it's made out of vibranium." He offers to take it off their hands, which prompts the bemused museum director to say that the museum's artifacts aren't for sale. "How do you think your ancestors got these?" Killmonger asks the director. "You think they paid a fair price? Or did they take it, like they took everything else?" The museum director collapses from the poison that had been added to her coffee, which provides Killmonger and Ulysses Klaue (who shows up masquerading as an emergency technician) the distraction they need to take out the guards and make off with the vibranium artifact.

Wakanda leveraged the properties of vibranium to make stunning technological advancements, but decided to hide from the outside world, posing as a third world nation while disguising their power behind a protective barrier. Killmonger has a plan to put an end to all of that.

Answer: Agent Ross

T'Challa leads a team to a casino in Busan, which is where their intelligence indicates the deal with Klaue is going down. The stakes are high for T'Challa, who had promised W'Kabi, the leader of the border tribe whose parents were killed by Klaue during his 1992 attack, that he would bring Klaue back to Wakanda to answer for his crimes, or "kill him where he stands". Things in Busan become complicated when the American buyer is revealed to be CIA Agent Everett Ross, who T'Challa first encountered during the events of "Captain America: Civil War". Ross confirms that the CIA's interest in Klaue relates to the attack in Sokovia from "Avengers: Age of Ultron", and tells T'Challa that they can work something out "when the dust settles". T'Challa informs him pointedly that he isn't here to make a deal.

After Klaue arrives, a fight breaks out and a car chase ensues. T'Challa manages to capture Klaue but he is forced to bring him to a CIA black site to get him out of the public eye. As Ross begins to interrogate him, Killmonger breaks into the site and makes off with Klaue, but not before catching the attention of T'Challa, who notices that the ring Killmonger wears on a chain around his neck bears a striking resemblance to the ring that he inherited from T'Chaka. Agent Ross also takes a bullet to his spine while shielding Nakia from danger during the firefight. T'Challa stabilizes Ross and takes him back to Wakanda, where his sister, Shuri, uses their advanced medical technology to save his life.

Answer: Killmonger is N'Jobu's son.

Upon returning to Wakanda from South Korea, T'Challa pays a visit to Zuri in the garden of the heart-shaped herb. "What happened to my uncle N'Jobu? My father told me he disappeared. There was a man today wearing a ring identical to this one," T'Challa says, holding up his own vibranium ring. When Zuri says that it's not possible, T'Challa loses his patience. "Do not tell me what is possible. Tell me the truth!" he says. "Some truths are too much to bear," Zuri replies. T'Challa pushes Zuri, who eventually comes clean. "Your uncle took a war dog assignment in America," Zuri begins reluctantly. "Your father placed me there to observe unbeknownst to him. Your uncle fell in love with an American woman. They had a child. The hardships he saw there radicalized your uncle."

In a flashback, we go back to the scene from the start of the film and see N'Jobu explaining to T'Chaka his motivations for helping Klaue steal the vibranium. When T'Chaka informs N'Jobu that he will return to Wakanda to answer for his crimes, we see N'Jobu pull out a gun from his waistband and point it at Zuri. T'Chaka immediately springs into action, disarming N'Jobu and digging his claws into his chest, killing him instantly. Back in Wakanda, a guilt-stricken Zuri finishes his story. "Your father killed his own brother to save my life," he tells T'Challa. "And the child?" T'Challa asks. "We left him," Zuri says. "We had to maintain the lie." The scene cuts to the group of boys playing basketball at the start of the film, looking up to the sky at the departing Wakandan aircraft. One of them is the young Killmonger.

Answer: To challenge T'Challa to the throne

Like his father before him, Killmonger wants to use Wakanda's technological advances to help liberate the billions of disenfranchised and disadvantaged black people all over the world, and he intends to do this from a position of power. "I'm standing in your house," he tells the elders of the Tribal Council in Wakanda, "Serving justice to a man who stole your vibranium and murdered your people. Justice your King couldn't deliver." T'Challa approaches Killmonger and asks him what he wants. "I want the throne," Killmonger says, exercising his blood right to challenge T'Challa's rule.

In the challenge pool, T'Challa once again drinks the death herb to strip away the powers of the Black Panther, so that he can face Killmonger. They fight, but T'Challa holds back and gives him a chance to yield, which he quickly learns is a mistake. Killmonger overpowers T'Challa and is about to wound him mortally when Zuri intervenes and is killed by Killmonger. Enraged, T'Challa gets on his feet but is easily subdued by Killmonger, who lifts him up on his shoulders and tosses him over the edge of the pool into the falls below. "Nah," he tells the shocked onlookers. "I'm your King."

In the garden of the heart-shaped herb, Killmonger drinks the potion conferring the powers of the Black Panther and visits the ancestral plane, where he sees his father, N'Jobu. When he emerges from the trance, he orders the shamans to burn the remaining heart-shaped herb plants. As the shamans set fire to the garden, Nakia manages to harvest the heart of one plant and escapes through the catacombs.

Answer: He is harboring T'Challa in a healing hut.

Nakia spirits Shuri and Ramonda away from the challenge pool to safety after T'Challa's defeat, and liberates Agent Ross from his room. Together, they take the heart-shaped herb to the Jabari, hoping that they can convince M'Baku to use it to lead an army against Killmonger. "This is why we are here; to offer this to you. An outsider sits on our throne. Only you can help us stop him," Nakia explains, as they kneel before M'Baku. "Come with me," he says.

He leads them to a healing hut, where an unconscious T'Challa is lying on a bed of snow. "Impossible. Is he breathing?" Nakia asks in disbelief. "He is in a coma, barely clinging to life," M'Baku explains. "One of our fishermen found him at the edge of the river border. He brought him to me." Ramonda carries out the ritual by pouring the potion made from the heart-shaped herb into T'Challa's mouth and buries him in snow. In the ancestral plane, T'Challa confronts his father. "Why didn't you bring the boy home?" he asks. "You were wrong to abandon him." T'Chaka tries to explain. "I chose my people. I chose Wakanda," he tells his son. "You were wrong!" T'Challa says. "All of you were wrong to turn your backs on the rest of the world. We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is right. No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He is a monster of our own making. I must take the mantle back. I must right these wrongs."

T'Challa awakens and rises from the snow, his health and powers restored. He thanks his host for rescuing him, but M'Baku doesn't want to hear about it. "I owed you a great debt," he explains, referencing T'Challa's compassion in sparing him during his earlier challenge. "A life for a life. Consider it paid."

Answer: On a maglev train track

Killmonger watches as a Wakandan talon fighter that took off with a load of vibranium weapons explodes in mid-air, and T'Challa emerges from the wreckage. The appearance of T'Challa, back from the dead, galvanizes those present to choose their sides. W'Kabi and the border tribe align with Killmonger, while Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight for T'Challa. At the same time, Shuri, Nakia and Agent Ross have to figure out how to stop the remaining talon fighters from leaving Wakanda with more vibranium tech. Shuri uses a Kimoyo bead to allow Agent Ross to remotely pilot a royal talon fighter. As Ross engages in a dogfight in the skies over Wakanda, the rest of our heroes clash with Killmonger and the border tribe on the ground. Killmonger throws Nakia down a hill and disarms Shuri and is about to kill her, until T'Challa tackles him and they both fall down a mine shaft.

T'Challa and Killmonger land on the train tracks and resume fighting, when T'Challa gets an idea. "Shuri! Turn on the train on the bottom track," he says into his communicator. "The stabilizers will deactivate your suit. You won't have protection!" she replies. "Neither will he," T'Challa says. Shuri starts the train and as the maglev barrels down the track towards T'Challa and Killmonger, the sonic stabilizers installed alongside the tracks begin to activate. The two continue fighting until separated by the train, and Killmonger finally understands the reason for his malfunctioning suit. "I don't need a suit to kill you. Your reign is over," he says. The train clears, and T'Challa leaps at Killmonger.

Answer: He chooses to die rather than be taken prisoner.

Killmonger attacks T'Challa with a spear as another train approaches, pushing him right to the edge of the track. T'Challa waits for Killmonger to strike but deftly dodges the parry and punches him in the arm, causing him to let go of the spear and send it flying up above them. The spear falls through the air as the train passes, and just before the sonic stabilization wears off and his suit reforms, T'Challa catches the blade and brings it round swiftly into Killmonger's chest. Defeated, Killmonger removes his mask and sits slumped on the train tracks. "My pops said Wakanda was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen," he tells T'Challa. "He promised he was gonna show it to me one day. You believe that? Kid from Oakland running around believing in fairy tales."

T'Challa helps Killmonger to his feet and to the elevator. They ride up to the mouth of the mine at the outcrop of Mount Bashenga, as the sun begins to set over Wakanda. Killmonger kneels as he takes in the spectacle. "It's beautiful," he says between ragged breaths. "Maybe we can still heal you," T'Challa offers. "Why? So you can just lock me up?" Killmonger asks. "Nah. Just bury me in the ocean, with my ancestors that jumped from ships. 'Cause they knew death was better than bondage." Killmonger pulls the spear out from his wound and collapses to the ground, choosing to die rather than become a prisoner.

Answer: Wakanda will share its technology with the world.

With order restored in Wakanda, T'Challa takes Shuri to the apartment building in Oakland where N'Jobu met his end. A group of children are playing basketball at the foot of the building. "When you said you would take me to California for the first time, I thought you meant Coachella, or Disneyland. Why here?" Shuri asks. "This is where our father killed our uncle," T'Challa explains. "They're tearing it down," Shuri observes as she looks at the building. "Good." T'Challa informs Shuri that he bought the building and plans to open the first Wakandan International Outreach Center there. "Nakia will oversee the social outreach. And you will spearhead the science and information exchange," he tells a surprised but delighted Shuri. T'Challa disengages the cloaking device on the royal talon fighter, which lands next to the children playing basketball. The amazed children begin to examine the ship, as Shuri goes over to speak to them.

In the mid credits sequence, T'Challa leads a contingent before the United Nations Assembly to make an announcement. "My name is King T'Challa, son of King T'Chaka," he says. "I am the sovereign ruler of the nation of Wakanda and for the first time in our history we will be sharing our knowledge and resources with the outside world. Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we as brothers and sisters on this Earth should treat each other. Now more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe." An ambassador leans towards his microphone and asks, "With all due respect, King T'Challa, what can a nation of farmers have to offer the rest of the world?" Nakia, Okoye and Agent Ross share a look, as T'Challa smiles enigmatically.