50 free A Walk to Remember trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A reverend's daughter with one sweater, a rebel who needs help with his lines, and a promise not to fall in love: A Walk to Remember has been making people cry since Nicholas Sparks published it in 1999 and Mandy Moore and Shane West filmed it in 2002. These 50 questions cover both versions: Adam Shankman and screenwriter Karen Janszen, the Wilmington shoot on borrowed Dawson's Creek sets, the book's dedication to Sparks's sister Danielle, Jamie's wish list and the tattoo, the leukemia reveal, the telescope and the comet, the wedding in her mother's church, the critics who hated it and the audiences who gave it an A, the soundtrack and the Cry video, plus the novel's 1958 setting, Landon's congressman father, The Christmas Angel, the $247 in the charity jars and the ambiguous ending Sparks chose for his sister. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, and each explanation adds one more detail. Play it solo or print it for a movie night quiz.
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Q 01Who directed the 2002 film A Walk to Remember?
Adam Shankman
He went on to direct Hairspray and Rock of Ages.
Q 02Which author wrote the novel the film is based on?
Nicholas Sparks
It was his third published novel, written in the summer of 1999.
Q 03Who plays Landon Carter?
Shane West
The director arranged to meet him after spotting him in a magazine.
Q 04Which singer plays Jamie Sullivan in her first film role?
Mandy Moore
She has called it the work she is most proud of, cliches and all.
Q 05Which studio released the film?
Warner Bros. Pictures
The author sold it the rights in December 1998, months before the novel was even published.
Q 06In which decade is the novel set, before the film moved it to the present day?
The 1950s
Producers worried a period piece would not draw teenagers.
Q 07Where was the film shot in the spring of 2001?
Wilmington, North Carolina
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was filming in the same town at the same time.
Q 08Many of the film's sets were borrowed from which TV series?
Dawson's Creek
The school, the hospital and Landon's home all came from the show.
Q 09The book and film are dedicated to whose memory?
The author's sister
Danielle Sparks Lewis died of breast cancer in 2000; the author said Jamie was in many ways his younger sister.
Q 10On what date was the film released in theaters?
January 25, 2002
It opened third at the box office behind Black Hawk Down and Snow Dogs.
Q 11Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide?
$47.5 million
It cost about $11.8 million to make.
Q 12In which North Carolina town is the story set?
Beaufort
In the novel the town's minister writes the school play himself.
Q 13Which is NOT part of the punishment the principal gives Landon?
Coaching the junior football team
He chooses the chores over expulsion after a prank leaves a student badly hurt.
Q 14What is Jamie's father's profession?
Q 21What illness does Jamie reveal she has?
Leukemia
She tells Landon she has no plans for the future because treatment has not worked.
Q 22What career goal does Landon's mother discover on his private list?
Going to medical school
He says Jamie inspires him to be better.
Q 23How does Landon's estranged father eventually help?
He pays for private home care
Landon visits him in tears to say thank you, and the two reconcile.
Minister
Landon has to ask his permission before Jamie will go on a date.
Q 15Jamie famously owns only one of which item of clothing?
A sweater
The author's real sister was known at school for always wearing an ugly one.
Q 16What condition does Jamie set before agreeing to help Landon learn his lines?
He must not fall in love with her
He dismisses it as impossible.
Q 17What does Landon do on stage at the end of the play that was not in the script?
He kisses Jamie
Jamie has just stunned the audience with her singing.
Q 18What is the name of Landon's spiteful ex-girlfriend?
Belinda
She circulates a doctored photo of Jamie, and Landon shocks his friends by defending her.
Q 19Which two items from Jamie's wish list does Landon help her tick off on their first date?
Being in two places at once and getting a tattoo
He takes her to the state line so she can stand in two places at once.
Q 20Jamie compares her faith to which natural force?
The wind
Landon returns to the image at the docks in the final scene.
Q 24What does Landon build so Jamie can see a one-time comet?
A telescope
Jamie's father helps him finish it in time.
Q 25At what location do Landon and Jamie hold their wedding?
Her late mother's church
Her wish in the novel was a church full of people and her father walking her down the aisle.
Q 26How many years after Jamie's death does the film's closing scene take place?
Four
Landon has finished college and been accepted to medical school.
Q 27According to Reverend Sullivan, who or what was Jamie's miracle?
Landon himself
Landon had assumed her yearbook wish to witness a miracle went unfulfilled.
Q 28Daryl Hannah's on-set look included which mishap?
A collagen injection that swelled her lips
She wore a brown wig for the role; the swelling faded by the end of the shoot.
Q 29Why could the film's Jamie only work ten hours a day during the shoot?
She was a minor
The shoot had originally been planned for 50 days.
Q 30How did the director first find his Landon?
In a magazine
He wanted someone who could swing from angry and self-hating to madly in love.