50 First Dates Trivia
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This 50 First Dates trivia quiz has 48 free questions with answers and covers the 2004 romantic comedy from the waffle house to the glaciers: Henry Roth the commitment-shy marine vet, Lucy Whitmore and her fictional Goldfield's syndrome, the pineapple-picking car crash, the daily birthday charade run by Marlin and Doug, the 'Good Morning Lucy' tape, Ula, Alexa, Willy the penguin, Jocko the walrus and Ten-Second Tom. It also digs into the making of the film — the original title, the rewrites that moved it from Seattle to Hawaii, the Oahu locations at Kualoa Ranch and Sea Life Park, the reggae-cover soundtrack, the MTV Movie Award, the mixed reviews and the many international remakes. Early questions suit anyone who has seen it once on a rainy Sunday; later ones reward fans who know which songs did not make the soundtrack and where the cafe really is. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Which director of Nutty Professor II and Get Smart also made 50 First Dates?
Peter Segal
Peter Segal: he said yes while still finishing another Adam Sandler film and had just 48 hours off before the cameras rolled, a schedule he says turned his hair white.
Q 02In 50 First Dates, what is Henry Roth's job?
Marine veterinarian
Marine veterinarian: Adam Sandler's character treats the animals at a Hawaiian sea park, which is why Lucy notices at their first breakfast that his hands smell of fish, and tells him she loves it.
Q 03In 50 First Dates, what is Lucy Whitmore's profession?
Art teacher
Art teacher: she tells Henry she teaches at a junior high, and by the end of the film she is giving art classes at the brain-injury clinic that treats her.
Q 04In 50 First Dates, where does Lucy eat breakfast every morning?
The Hukilau Cafe
The Hukilau Cafe: its staff are in on the family's secret, so they play along each morning and keep a wary eye on any stranger who joins her table.
Q 05In 50 First Dates, what is the fictional name of Lucy's form of amnesia?
Goldfield's syndrome
Goldfield's syndrome: the doctor credits it to a brilliant Lithuanian psychiatrist, but the condition was made up for the film, and a BMJ review said it matched no known disorder.
Q 06In 50 First Dates, what were Lucy and her father doing on the day of the crash?
Picking a birthday pineapple
Picking a birthday pineapple: the outing was a family tradition for her father's birthday, which is why he and her brother restage that same birthday every day.
Q 07In 50 First Dates, which animal causes Lucy's car crash?
A cow
A cow: when Lucy later asks how it is doing, Henry says it is the same as her, and has to be convinced every day that it is a cow.
Q 08In 50 First Dates, which thriller do Lucy's father and brother rewatch every night?
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense: it was her present to her father that day, so every evening the two men unwrap it again, sit through it again and gasp that Bruce Willis is a ghost.
Q 09In 50 First Dates, which Beach Boys song does Lucy sing only on days she has met Henry?
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Wouldn't It Be Nice: it was her parents' song, and hearing her sing it in her studio, the first change in her routine since the crash, persuades her father to let Henry keep meeting her.
Q 10Who plays Lucy's bodybuilding, lisping brother Doug in 50 First Dates?
Sean Astin
Sean Astin: he went straight from three films as the hobbit Samwise Gamgee to playing Doug, who helps his father restage the same day for Lucy.
Q 11Who plays Ula, Henry's marijuana-smoking best friend, in 50 First Dates?
Rob Schneider
Rob Schneider: his Ula keeps lining Henry up with dates, explaining that with five children and an unhappy marriage he has to live vicariously through his friend.
Q 12In 50 First Dates, what kind of bird is Henry's friend Willy?
Penguin
Penguin: Willy waddles around the sea park at Henry's side, and Henry jokes that the bath he gave him today will have to be given all over again tomorrow.
Q 13In 50 First Dates, what kind of animal is Henry's friend Jocko?
A walrus
A walrus: Jocko was played by Sivuqaq, a star of a California theme park, and the director said a kiss from him nearly sucked the cheek off his face.
Q 21Where does Lucy wake up in the final scene of 50 First Dates?
On a boat in Alaska
On a boat in Alaska: she looks out at glaciers instead of palm trees, and goes up on deck to find Henry, her father and a young daughter she never knew she had.
Q 22The script for 50 First Dates was originally titled Fifty First what?
Kisses
Kisses: that was still the title when Adam Sandler signed on in December 2002, and Drew Barrymore says it was the script under that name that she fell for.
Q 2350 First Dates opened in American cinemas in 2004 on the eve of which holiday?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day: the film opened on Friday the 13th of February and still went straight to number one at the American box office.
Q 14Who plays Dr. Keats, the brain-injury specialist, in 50 First Dates?
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd: the Ghostbusters star plays the doctor with a bedside manner all his own, breaking off from Lucy's brain scans to crack jokes at her family's expense.
Q 15In 50 First Dates, how long does hospital patient Tom's memory last before it resets?
Ten seconds
Ten seconds: he lost part of his brain in a hunting accident and reintroduces himself with 'Hi, I'm Tom' several times a minute, a character the director admits was pure comic licence.
Q 16In 50 First Dates, what does Lucy's father Marlin do for a living?
Fisherman
Fisherman: Lucy tells Henry that her dad and brother go to sea for months at a time, which is why she calls the smell of fish the best smell in the world.
Q 17In 50 First Dates, how does Henry help Lucy start each day knowing the truth?
A video from friends and family
A video from friends and family: Henry sees that what hurts Lucy most is being lied to, and a New York care home later copied the idea with morning videos for residents with dementia.
Q 18In 50 First Dates, what makes Lucy realise that far more time has passed than she thinks?
A ticket for expired plates
A ticket for expired plates: she storms out to tell the officer her tags are good for months yet, and the pretence her family has kept up for a year falls apart on the spot.
Q 19In 50 First Dates, why does Lucy break up with Henry?
His abandoned voyage
His abandoned voyage: Henry had spent ten years preparing to sail to Bristol Bay for his research, and Lucy refuses to be the reason he never goes.
Q 20After their breakup in 50 First Dates, how does Lucy show that some memory of Henry has stuck?
She paints his portrait
She paints his portrait: her studio at the clinic is full of pictures of a man she says she dreams about almost every night, though she still has no idea who he is.
Q 24On which Hawaiian island was most of 50 First Dates shot?
Oahu
Oahu: the crew worked on the island's windward side and North Shore, though several aquarium and animal scenes were shot at a theme park in California.
Q 25Which Hawaiian ranch, also a Jurassic Park location, provided the road Lucy drives each day in 50 First Dates?
Kualoa Ranch
Kualoa Ranch: the family estate has hosted so many shoots that it now runs movie-site tours, and the film's country road runs through its Kaʻaʻawa Valley.
Q 26What was the first film Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore made together?
The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer: Barrymore says she sought Sandler out before that 1998 film, telling a man who barely knew her that the two of them were cinematic soul mates.
Q 27How did Drew Barrymore get 50 First Dates moving?
She wrote Sandler a letter
She wrote Sandler a letter: Barrymore says she sat at a typewriter in tears, certain she had found the film the two of them were supposed to make next.
Q 28Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore won which MTV Movie Award for 50 First Dates?
Best On-Screen Team
Best On-Screen Team: they beat Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom of Pirates of the Caribbean, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence of Bad Boys II, and Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson of Starsky & Hutch.
Q 29The clinic in 50 First Dates is funded by auto-parts tycoon T.B. Callahan of Sandusky, Ohio, echoing which 1995 comedy?
Tommy Boy
Tommy Boy: its hero is Tommy Callahan, heir to an auto-parts firm in Sandusky, Ohio, and the film was an earlier hit for the director of 50 First Dates.
Q 30What kind of music dominates the 50 First Dates soundtrack album?
Reggae covers of 80s and 90s hits
Reggae covers of 80s and 90s hits: UB40 took on the Police, Ziggy Marley the Cars and Wyclef Jean the Outfield, and the album went on to top Billboard's reggae chart.