The Nick Fury Trivia Quiz
Scoring:
Questions 1-8 are worth 1 point each as they are the easier ones for any Fury fan.
Questions 9-17, being a little more difficult, count for 2 points each.
Questions 18-25, being difficult even for serious Fury fans, are worth 3 points each.
Finally, there's a bonus question for #26 worth anywhere from 0 to 4 points depending on how good you are.
Be warned, this trivia quiz is for Nick Fury fans - the casual Marvel fan may likely get blown out by most of these questions.
So grab pen and paper and keep track of your answers. At the bottom of this page you will find the answer key. Good luck!
One Point Round
1. What is Nick Fury's middle name? Now c'mon, I gave the answer away in the first paragraph of my fanpage!
2. What are the two versions for what the acronym "SHIELD" stands for?
3. What comic book was Nick Fury's first appearence?
4. The first appearence of SHIELD was in what comic book?
5. What two organizations did Nick Fury belong to between being in the US Army and being director of SHIELD?
6. We all know that LMD stands for "Life Model Decoy" but who invented the LMD technology?
7. Where did Nick Fury grow up?
8. What does A.I.M. stand for?
Two Point Round
9. Can you recite Hydra's slogan exactly from memory?
10. The two men most often named as the creators of Nick Fury are Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. But there was a third member of the creative team behind Nick. Who is he?
11. What is Val's full name?
12. Who was the doctor who first injected Nick with the Infinity Formula in France during WWII?
13. Why does Nick Fury no longer have to take further injections of the Infinity Formula?
14. SHIELD agent Jimmy Woo was a member of what organization prior to joining SHIELD?
15. How did dear ol' Nick lose sight in his left eye?
16. What's Nick's friendly nickname for Wolverine?
17. Why did the Punisher pursue (and at first seemingly succeed in) assasinating Nick Fury?
Three Point Round
18. We know Nick's brother was Jacob or "Jake", but what is Nick Fury's sister's name?
19. When Marvel and DC united to create the "Amalgam" line of books which merged Marvel and DC characters together for new takes, what was the title that came out of combining Nick Fury with a DC character?
20. Who was the first rogue SHIELD agent to become a stand-alone super-villain?
21. What is the name of Dum Dum's wife?
22. Okay, above we asked what the 2 versions for the acronym SHIELD are. Pushing it to the highest difficulty level, in what year did the second version of the acronym come into effect? (ouch, didn't think we'd ask for dates, did you?)
23. Who was the only writer to write for both the Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD series and the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos series?
24. Who was SHIELD's first director (not counting the still unknown story behind this "Fallen Angel" character)?
25. Who was Scorpio (his real name), what evil organization did he help form, what was his weapon called, and who is his nephew? Since indivdually these are easy questions, you must get all 4 parts for the 3 points.
Bonus Question (1-4 pts.)
26. What's "Dum Dum" Dugan's real full name (excluding, of course, "Dum Dum" and Dugan)? One point for each name within his full name.
Answer Key
Questions 1-8 score 1 point for each correct answer:
1. Joseph is Nick Fury's middle name.
2. SHIELD stood first for "Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division" and second for "Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage and Logistics Directorate."
3. Nicholas Fury first appeared in Marvel Comics in Sgt. Fury & his Howling Commandos #1.
4. SHIELD, and Nick Fury as an agent of SHIELD, first appeared in the now classic Strange Tales #135.
5. After leaving the US Army, Nick worked for the OSS (Office of Secret Services) and then the CIA before accepting the directorship of SHIELD.
6. As with most of SHIELD's high-tech hardware, the LMD technology was invented by Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man).
7. Nick grew up in Hell's Kitchen (Clinton), NYC (same as Daredevil!)
8. A.I.M. stands for Advanced Ideas Mechanics.
Questions 9-17 score 2 points for each correct answer:
9. Hydra's often used mantra is "Hail HYDRA! Immortal HYDRA! We will never be destroyed! Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place!"
10. Dick Ayers was the third member of the creative team behind Nick Fury. Dick was also Nick's longest running penciller for the "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos" title.
11. Val's full name is Countessa Valentina Allegra De La Fontaine.
12. Professor Berthold Sternberg was the doctor who first injected Nick with the Infinity Formula.
13. Nick Fury no longer has to take Infinity Formula injections because after so many years of taking the drug his body began to naturally produce the serum which keeps him perpetually young.
14. Jimmy Woo was a member of the FBI prior to joining SHIELD.
15. Nick lost his left eye due to shrapnel from a grenade that exploded near him during a mission in Germany during WWII. At first Nick recovered his sight in the eye after the injury. However, as predicted by his doctor at the time, years later the old wound eventually caused Fury to lose sight in the left eye permanently. This was the trick Marvel used when they told the story of the origin of the eye patch in WWII but had to explain how in the early sixties Nick Fury showed up here and there in cameos as a CIA operative without the eye patch. Somewhere between appearing as a government liason to the Fantastic Four and becoming director of SHIELD, he permanently lost sight in that eye.
16. Nick jokingly refers to Logan as "Canucklehead."
17. The Punisher was gunning for Fury's life becuase he was operating under a posthypnotic suggestion that Nick Fury was responsible for killing his family many years ago.
Questions 18-25 score 3 points for each correct answer:
18. Nick's sister's name is Dawn (last seen in Hulk #344 for Nick's "funeral").
19. When Marvel and DC united to create the "Amalgam" line of books, they merged Nick Fury with Bruce Wayne to create "Bruce Wayne, Agent of SHIELD." On a side note, Bat-Man (Bruce Wayne's alter-ego_ was merged with Wolverine to create Dark-Claw. And Sgt. Rock showed up too in this issue as a compaion to Sgt. Fury.
20. Marvin Flumm, a.k.a. Mentallo, was the first rogue SHIELD agent to become a stand-alone super-villain. See Strange Tales #141. While there may have been Hydra infiltrators inside SHIELD prior to this, none of those namesless hoods became a super-villain on their own within the Marvel Universe.
21. Mary Dugan is Dum Dum's wife. I warned you these were tough!
22. 1991 was the year the second version of the SHIELD acronym come into effect. 3 points for this answer, but since it was so hard, give your self 1 point if you guessed either 1990 or 1992 for being so close.
23. Roy Thomas was the only writer to write for both the Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD series and the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos series.
24. Again, seeing as how the "Fallen Angel" is yet to be identified, he could be the correct answer to this question as identified by the Fury one-shot issue which followed the Nick Fury vs. SHIELD limited series. According to that one-shot. Rick Stoner was SHIELD's first director, who Fury was passed over for the first time around. When Stoner was killed by Hydra shortly into his directorship, Nick Fury was reconsidered and subsequently offered the position.
25. Scorpio was Jacob "Jake" Fury, Nick's younger brother. Twisted by his hatred for Nick, he helped create the organization called the Zodiac and used an energy weapon called the Cosmic Key. His nephew is Scorpio, Nick's long lost son who spent most of his life mistakenly believing he was Jacob Fury's son (see the Scorpio Connection). Again, to get the 3 points you must have gotten all 4 parts of this question correct - no partial points!
Bonus Question (1-4 pts.) One point for each name within his full name
26. "Dum Dum" Dugan's real full name (excluding "Dum Dum" and Dugan) is Thaddeus (Timothy) Aloysius Cadwallander {Dugan}.
And now the scoring:
0-20 points: You're a SHIELD Agent Cadet - go back to basic training!
21-39 points: Not bad, you're a SHIELD field operative - decent job!
40-50 points: Wow - consider yourself a SHIELD Deputy Director in waiting!
51-54: You MUST be Nick Fury himself! Congrats, it must be nice to be SHIELD's Director, what with that high salary, perks, penthouse suite and all!