Animal House Trivia
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69 free Animal House trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
59 free Animal House trivia questions with answers. National Lampoon's Animal House cost $3 million, was shot in six weeks at the University of Oregon, and became the highest-grossing comedy of its era. This quiz covers the whole story: the Deltas and the Omegas, Dean Wormer's double secret probation, the toga party and Otis Day, the food fight, the homecoming parade, and the cast of near-unknowns that included Kevin Bacon, Karen Allen and Tom Hulce alongside John Belushi and Donald Sutherland. Easy questions ask who played Bluto and what the college was called. The hard ones want to know which singer was Landis's backup for Bluto, how much Sutherland's flat fee cost him, and where the first preview screened. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz or anyone who has ever shouted 'Toga!'. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its spin-off and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01The Deltas' road trip to find dates takes them to a women's college named for which poet?
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson College is where Otter wins the Deltas their dates by posing as the grieving fiancé of a student who has just died.
Q 02What is the name of the Delta fraternity's rival house?
Omega Theta Pi
Omega Theta Pi, the most prestigious house on campus, became the clear villains after John Landis insisted a script full of unlikeable frat boys needed good guys and bad guys.
Q 03What do Otter and Boon hit at Neidermeyer and his ROTC cadets in Animal House?
Golf balls
Golf balls: the two are practicing their swings when they spot Neidermeyer tormenting Flounder on the drill field, and they agree that nobody but the Deltas gets to do that to a Delta pledge.
Q 04Dean Wormer warns Flounder that being "fat, drunk and" what "is no way to go through life"?
Stupid
Stupid completes the dean's verdict on Flounder's 0.2 grade average, and producer Matty Simmons later took the whole line as the title of his book about making the film.
Q 05Animal House shares its 1962 setting with which earlier nostalgia hit?
American Graffiti
American Graffiti had asked "Where were you in '62?"; Animal House's writers picked the same year as the last innocent one before the Kennedy assassination.
Q 06What special status does Dean Wormer put the Deltas on?
Double secret probation
Double secret probation is the dean's instant comeback on being told the Deltas are already on ordinary probation; he backs it with a "little-known codicil" in the college constitution.
Q 07What do the Deltas hum as Otter leads them out of their disciplinary hearing in Animal House?
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner: Otter recasts the charges as a slur on the whole country, announces that the Deltas won't sit and listen to it, and marches them out, leaving a furious dean vowing to revoke their charter.
Q 08Which future star made his big-screen debut in Animal House as fraternity pledge Chip Diller?
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon was still at acting school when he was cast, and the hit changed nothing at first: he went straight back to waiting tables at the bar where he worked.
Q 09Before Animal House, the actor who plays Flounder tried to get discovered by tucking his headshot into what?
Pizza boxes
Pizza boxes: he delivered for a pizzeria and slipped his photo into orders he hoped were bound for producers, and the story goes that the film's producer, Matty Simmons, opened one.
Q 10Which actress plays Katy, Boon's exasperated girlfriend, in Animal House?
Karen Allen
Karen Allen's Katy gets a wry send-off in the closing title cards: she and Boon marry in 1964 and divorce in 1969.
Q 11Which star plays Dave Jennings, the pot-smoking English professor in Animal House?
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland spent just two days on set and insisted on a flat fee rather than a share of the takings, a choice that cost him millions once the film became a hit.
Q 12Which 1950s screen star did John Landis hope to cast as Dean Wormer's wife, Marion?
Kim Novak
Kim Novak fitted Landis's plan to fill the comedy with serious actors who would play it straight; he didn't get her, and stage actress Verna Bloom took the part.
Q 13Animal House's parade finale was filmed on the Main Street of which Oregon town?
Cottage Grove
Cottage Grove, some twenty miles south of the Eugene campus, lent its Main Street for the homecoming chaos, and the closing credits thank the town's people by name.
Q 21What was Ramis and Kenney's early Animal House treatment, putting Charles Manson in a high school, called?
Laser Orgy Girls
Laser Orgy Girls went nowhere: publisher Matty Simmons balked at putting sex and drugs among high-schoolers on film, so he had the writers move their story to college.
Q 22Which comedy star was the producers' first choice to play Otter but turned Animal House down?
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase chose Foul Play with Goldie Hawn instead, to the relief of a director who wanted unknowns and thought so big a star would unbalance the film.
Q 23The writers wanted which Saturday Night Live star to play the motorcycle-riding D-Day in Animal House?
Dan Aykroyd
Q 14The man who opened his Oregon campus to the Animal House crew had once misjudged which earlier hit?
The Graduate
The Graduate was turned away from Berkeley while he was an administrator there and went on to be a classic, which is said to have made him slower to refuse a second raunchy script.
Q 15Whose real office on the Oregon campus doubles as Dean Wormer's in Animal House?
The university president's
The university president's own office became Dean Wormer's, even though he had agreed to the shoot only on condition that the school was never named on screen.
Q 16Animal House took more than $140 million at the box office on roughly what production budget?
$3 million
$3 million was all the studio would risk on what it saw as a silly little movie that might make a couple of bucks; the film took more than forty times that.
Q 17Which later comedy co-written by Animal House's Harold Ramis went on to out-gross it?
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters, which Ramis also starred in for Animal House producer Ivan Reitman, took far more; it was not the first comedy to pass the film, though, since Tootsie, released in 1982, got there first.
Q 18According to Animal House's closing title cards, what became of the motorcycle-riding Delta known as D-Day?
Whereabouts unknown
Whereabouts unknown is all the cards say of Daniel Simpson Day, the only Delta they lose track of; fittingly, the dean had already found he had no grade point average, with every course incomplete.
Q 19Larry Kroger, the freshman hero of Animal House, first appeared in a humor magazine's parody of what?
A high school yearbook
A high school yearbook: the magazine's hit 1964 High School Yearbook Parody was presented as Larry Kroger's own copy, and its everyman owner was later sent to college as the film's hero.
Q 20Which Delta is played on screen by Animal House co-writer Doug Kenney?
Stork
Stork is Kenney's cameo, with co-writer Chris Miller alongside him as Hardbar; the third writer, Harold Ramis, lost the part he wanted and was too proud to appear as an extra.
Dan Aykroyd stayed with Saturday Night Live instead, and the part he passed up made the name of stage actor Bruce McGill.
Q 24How did John Belushi fit Animal House's Oregon shoot around Saturday Night Live?
He commuted to New York weekly
He commuted to New York weekly: Monday to Wednesday on set, then a flight east for the live show, which left him little time to hang out with the rest of the cast.
Q 25Which singer did Landis meet as a backup in case Belushi turned down Bluto?
Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf was only insurance: the writers had built Bluto for Belushi from their first meeting, agreeing that every great animal house needs a great animal.
Q 26Landis and Belushi described Bluto as a cross between which two characters?
Harpo Marx and the Cookie Monster
Harpo Marx and the Cookie Monster both have bottomless appetites and sweet natures, which is what Landis wanted from a character who has almost no lines.
Q 27Which star of a classic TV crime drama did John Landis meet about playing Dean Wormer, only to be turned down?
Jack Webb
Jack Webb, Dragnet's deadpan Sergeant Friday, sat through the meeting with a Scotch and a cigarette while the long-haired young director pitched, then passed on the part.
Q 28Who plays Dean Wormer in Animal House?
John Vernon
John Vernon, the mayor in Dirty Harry, was cast because the director wanted real screen heavies rather than comedians, so that the dean's menace would be played completely straight.
Q 29In Animal House's closing title cards, Bluto is revealed to have become what?
A United States Senator
A United States Senator: the last card reads "Senator & Mrs. John Blutarsky, Washington, D.C.", a fine result for a man whose grade point average the dean reads out as zero point zero.
Q 30According to Animal House's closing title cards, Pinto went on to become what?
An editor at National Lampoon
An editor at National Lampoon is an in-joke: Pinto was the college nickname of co-writer Chris Miller, who really did write for the magazine behind the film.