60 free Anchorman trivia questions with answers. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy opened to lukewarm reviews in 2004 and became one of the most quoted comedies ever made. This quiz covers the whole legend: Ron and Veronica, Brick, Champ and Brian, Baxter the dog, the Channel 4 news team brawl and its cameos, the abandoned bank-robber plot that became Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, and the 2013 sequel with its 24-hour news network, Jack Lime, Harrison Ford and the largest celebrity fight scene in comedy history. The easy questions ask which city Ron works in and who plays Veronica. The hard ones want to know which director walked away from the script, who really played the jazz flute solo, and which beer brought back its 1970s cans because of the sequel. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz round or a group chat that still says 'that escalated quickly'. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and their cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In which city is Ron Burgundy's Channel 4 news team based in the first Anchorman film?
San Diego
The real city appears almost only in aerial shots; the film was mostly shot in Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.
Q 02Who plays Ron Burgundy?
Will Ferrell
Ferrell has called Ron his favourite character he has ever played.
Q 03Who plays Veronica Corningstone?
Christina Applegate
Amy Adams, Leslie Mann and Maggie Gyllenhaal all auditioned for the part.
Q 04What is the name of Ron Burgundy's dog?
Baxter
He is punted off a bridge by a motorcyclist, survives, and later talks a bear out of attacking Ron.
Q 05What job does Brick Tamland hold at the station?
Weatherman
Steve Carell's performance impressed producer Judd Apatow enough to develop The 40-Year-Old Virgin with him.
Q 06Who plays sportscaster Champ Kind?
David Koechner
John C. Reilly was originally considered for the role.
Q 07Which actor plays field reporter Brian Fantana?
Paul Rudd
Stiller, Odenkirk and Livingston were all considered for the role.
Q 08Who directed both Anchorman films?
Adam McKay
The first film was his directorial debut; he later won an Oscar for adapting The Big Short.
Q 09Who produced Anchorman?
Judd Apatow
He also appears in the film as a news station employee.
Q 10What is the call sign of Ron's station?
KVWN
It is Channel 4; Wes Mantooth's rival station in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy is KQHS Channel 9.
Q 11Which studio released the first Anchorman film in 2004?
DreamWorks
Paramount took over for the sequel after acquiring the DreamWorks catalogue in 2006.
Q 12Roughly what was the first Anchorman's production budget?
$26 million
It earned about $90.6 million worldwide, almost all of it in North America.
Q 13Which film kept Anchorman out of the number one spot on its opening weekend?
Spider-Man 2
Anchorman opened to $28.4 million and dropped to third the following week.
Q 14Who plays rival anchor Wes Mantooth?
Q 21How does Ron get himself fired in the first film?
He reads an obscene sign-off planted on the teleprompter
A colleague had tipped Veronica off that Ron reads anything put in front of him.
Q 22What zoo animal event brings every news team in San Diego to the climax of the first film?
A panda giving birth
A rival anchor shoves Veronica into the Kodiak bear enclosure during the coverage.
Q 23Into which animals' enclosure is Veronica pushed at the zoo?
Kodiak bears
Vince Vaughn
He returned uncredited for the sequel and hinted his character's mother Dorothy might appear.
Q 15Which actor plays the motorcyclist who punts Ron's dog off the bridge?
Jack Black
Danny Trejo tends bar and Seth Rogen plays a cameraman named Scotty in the same film.
Q 16Who plays the Public News anchor in the news-team brawl?
Tim Robbins
Luke Wilson plays Frank Vitchard and Ben Stiller plays Spanish-language anchor Arturo Mendez in the same fight.
Q 17Ben Stiller's cameo in the first film is as which character?
Arturo Mendez
He fronts the Spanish-language news team that joins the melee.
Q 18Which real newsman narrates the first Anchorman film?
Bill Kurtis
Retired Philadelphia anchor Mort Crim later claimed to be Ferrell's inspiration for Ron.
Q 19Who plays station director Ed Harken?
Fred Willard
Ferrell and McKay had originally wanted Ed Harris for the part.
Q 20Which actor was considered for Brick Tamland before Steve Carell?
James Spader
Alec Baldwin was considered for Frank Vitchard and Dan Aykroyd for Garth Holliday.
Baxter's return convinces the bear to spare the whole team.
Q 24According to the epilogue, Brick Tamland ends up as a political adviser to which president?
George W. Bush
He is also married with 11 children; Brian ends up hosting a Fox reality show called Intercourse Island.
Q 25Which NFL commentator gets Champ Kind fired in the epilogue by accusing him of harassment?
Terry Bradshaw
Ron and Veronica, meanwhile, end up co-anchoring a CNN-style World News Center.
Q 26What was the original, abandoned plot of the first film about?
Hippie bank robbers called The Alarm Clock
Test audiences hated it, so the panda story was shot instead and the outtakes became Wake Up, Ron Burgundy.
Q 27An early draft parodied which survival film, with the newsmen stranded after a plane crash?
Alive
That version also had the team fleeing ninja-star-wielding orangutans.
Q 28Which acclaimed director agreed to shepherd Ferrell and McKay's script but quit over its weirdness?
Paul Thomas Anderson
He later joked, 'I blew that opportunity.'
Q 29What was the title of the companion film built from Anchorman outtakes, released to DVD in December 2004?
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
It was bundled with the home release of the original and reuses the Alarm Clock storyline.
Q 30In Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, what do the Alarm Clock members do after five years in prison?
Invent the Macintosh and make billions
Their manifesto had championed recycling, electric cars and personal computers, which everyone found absurd.