13 Going on 30 Trivia
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79 free 13 Going on 30 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Thirty, flirty and thriving. This 13 Going on 30 trivia quiz has 79 free questions with answers about the 2004 comedy in which Jenna Rink wishes her way out of a humiliating thirteenth birthday and wakes up seventeen years later as a Fifth Avenue magazine editor. The questions cover the plot beat by beat, from the Six Chicks and the wishing dust to the rebrand presentation and the wedding at Matty's parents' house, along with the cast, the mostly-eighties soundtrack and the production stories behind the film. Some questions are easy for anyone who has seen the movie once; others dig into the actresses who were considered before Jennifer Garner, the future Oscar winner hiding among the Six Chicks, why Mark Ruffalo nearly quit during rehearsals, and what happened when the story became a stage musical two decades later. It works as a sleepover round, a movie-night warm-up or a solo test of how well you really know the film. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its cast and its soundtrack, and each question links to the page and sentence that supports it.
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Q 0113 Going on 30 opened a week before which teen comedy?
Mean Girls
Mean Girls opened on April 30, 2004 and went straight to number one, pushing 13 Going on 30 down to third place in its second weekend.
Q 02Who directed 13 Going on 30?
Gary Winick
Gary Winick came from independent film: his company InDigEnt made low-budget digital features, and he sold his own Tadpole at Sundance before taking on this studio comedy.
Q 03In 13 Going on 30, young Jenna says: "I don't want to be original, Matty, I want to be" what?
Cool
Cool is what she picks over Matty's advice to be an original; at 30 she has got her wish and admits to him that she has no real friends.
Q 04Why does newly adult Jenna refuse to get into Lucy's car?
She never rides with strangers
She never rides with strangers, and to a 13-year-old mind Lucy is one; Lucy, who thinks they are best friends, just tells her she is being paranoid.
Q 05What is the nickname of Lucy Wyman, the leader of the school's ruling clique?
Tom-Tom
Tom-Tom has shed the nickname by 30: Jenna only learns that Lucy, her co-editor and best friend, is her old tormentor when Matty shows her their high school yearbook.
Q 06Under what title was 13 Going on 30 released in Australia?
Suddenly 30
Suddenly 30 was the Australian title, and it is the literal one: Jenna wakes one morning as a 30-year-old with no memory of the seventeen years in between.
Q 07The writers of 13 Going on 30 had earlier written which Mel Gibson film?
What Women Want
What Women Want, in which Mel Gibson's ad man starts hearing women's thoughts, was the same writers' first magic-premise hit; they reworked the trick here with a birthday wish.
Q 08In 13 Going on 30, how does young Jenna answer Matty's "Arrivederci"?
"Au revoir"
"Au revoir" completes the best friends' private goodbye; when Jenna starts the routine at 30, the grown-up Matty just says he'll see her, and gives the old reply only after she calls him back.
Q 09In which US state does 13-year-old Jenna live in 13 Going on 30?
New Jersey
New Jersey is where a miserable adult Jenna flees home to her parents, and her mother's advice about learning from mistakes sends her back to Manhattan to put things right.
Q 10What is the name of the popular clique Jenna longs to join in 13 Going on 30?
The Six Chicks
The Six Chicks are a closed shop, as Matty points out: a seventh member is mathematically impossible. In the life her wish creates, Jenna ends up leading them.
Q 11How does Jenna persuade the popular girls to come to her thirteenth birthday party?
By doing their homework
By doing their homework: Jenna offers to write the clique's group project, and they collect it at her party and then walk out on her.
Q 12What handmade gift does young Matty give Jenna for her birthday?
A dollhouse
A dollhouse stays with Matty through seventeen years of estrangement, and he hands it back to Jenna on his wedding day.
Q 13What does Matty sprinkle on his gift to make it magic?
Wishing dust
Wishing dust comes with a promise to make all her dreams come true; it showers onto Jenna as she makes her wish, and she wakes up aged 30.
Q 21In 13 Going on 30, in which New York neighbourhood does Jenna track down the adult Matty?
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is where Jenna turns up expecting her best friend, only for Matty to tell her they have not spoken since high school.
Q 22What is adult Matty's profession in 13 Going on 30?
Photographer
Photographer: his pictures are nothing like her glossy magazine's usual style, which is exactly why Jenna hires him for her pitch.
Q 23In 13 Going on 30, Matty's fiancee Wendy wants him to move with her to which city?
Chicago
Chicago is where Wendy presents the TV weather; she is pressing Matty to join her there rather than start their marriage as a commuter couple.
Q 14What is the name of Jenna's teenage crush in 13 Going on 30?
Chris Grandy
Chris Grandy is the bait in the popular girls' prank: they tell Jenna he wants a turn alone with her, then leave the party with him.
Q 15The popular girls trick Jenna into which party game at her thirteenth birthday?
Seven minutes in heaven
Seven minutes in heaven leaves Jenna blindfolded in a closet waiting for her crush while every guest slips out of the house; it is Matty who opens the door.
Q 16In 13 Going on 30, Jenna wishes to be "thirty and flirty and" what?
Thriving
Thriving ends a phrase Jenna has just read in her favourite magazine, in an article selling 30 as the perfect age, which is why that is the age she wishes for.
Q 17What does young Matty call the popular girls Jenna invites to her party in 13 Going on 30?
Clones
Clones is his word for girls he finds totally unoriginal; Jenna insists they are her friends, then has to admit that the truth is only "almost".
Q 18In 13 Going on 30, adult Jenna is an editor at which fashion magazine?
Poise
Poise is the magazine 13-year-old Jenna holds up to say she wants to look like "these people"; her mother's answer is that they aren't people, they're models.
Q 19What is the name of the rival magazine that is beating Jenna's own in 13 Going on 30?
Sparkle
Sparkle keeps beating Jenna's magazine to its own ideas, which convinces her boss that someone on his staff is leaking them.
Q 20Which British actor plays editor-in-chief Richard Kneeland in 13 Going on 30?
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis is best known for motion-capture creatures that hide him completely; here he shows his own face as Jenna's prissy editor-in-chief.
Q 24In 13 Going on 30, what does Jenna's make-or-break presentation at the magazine propose?
A rebrand
A rebrand is forced on the magazine: its owners will pull the plug unless sales recover, so Jenna pitches pages of real women in place of models.
Q 25In 13 Going on 30, how does Lucy land the top job at the rival magazine?
She uses Jenna's presentation
She uses Jenna's presentation, taking the whole pitch to the rival; to do it she tricks Matty into signing over his work by telling him Jenna had dropped it.
Q 26In 13 Going on 30, whom does Lucy unmask as the magazine's real saboteur?
Jenna herself
Jenna herself: in the years she cannot remember, she had been passing ideas to the rival in return for the promise of its editor-in-chief job.
Q 27In 13 Going on 30, where does Matty's wedding take place?
At his childhood home
At his childhood home, next door to the house Jenna grew up in: when he turns her down, she walks over to her parents' place and breaks down.
Q 28Which Talking Heads song is on the 13 Going on 30 soundtrack?
"Burning Down the House"
"Burning Down the House" dates from 1983, and one reviewer grumbled that hits like it were too old for a girl turning 13 in 1987, as if the script had sat unrevised for years.
Q 29Who plays the 13-year-old Jenna in 13 Going on 30?
Christa B. Allen
Christa B. Allen has kept the role alive as an adult: on Halloween 2020 one of her most-watched videos recreated grown-up Jenna's getting-ready scene, dress and all.
Q 30The young Jenna of 13 Going on 30 again played a teenage Jennifer Garner in which 2009 film?
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past retells A Christmas Carol with Matthew McConaughey as a womaniser haunted by his exes; Garner is the one who got away, so the flashbacks needed her younger self.