Bad Grandpa
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40 free Bad Grandpa trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bad Grandpa took the Jackass formula somewhere new in 2013. Instead of a string of unconnected stunts, it follows one character, the 86-year-old Irving Zisman, on a long drive with his young grandson Billy, and the strangers they meet along the way are members of the public who believe every word. This quiz covers the story and its most notorious set pieces, the people on screen and behind the scenes, how the film was made and sold, and how it fared with critics, at the box office and during awards season. It is written for anyone who has seen the film at least once. Fans of the franchise will find a few behind-the-scenes questions to chew on, but most of it rewards simply remembering what happened and to whom.
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Q 01Where does Irving Zisman stash his late wife's body for the cross-country drive in Bad Grandpa?
The trunk of his car
The trunk of his car is where Irving puts her, with help from two unwitting furniture movers. He is meant to be in mourning, but the film opens with him celebrating being single again.
Q 02Irving Zisman crashes his car into a giant statue of which animal outside a diner in Bad Grandpa?
A penguin
A penguin, the diner's giant mascot, is wrecked beyond repair, and a furious man from the restaurant keeps insisting that the elderly driver fix it.
Q 03In an early Bad Grandpa prank, Irving Zisman gets a body part trapped in what as onlookers gape?
A vending machine
A vending machine traps him in the gag that the Rotten Tomatoes critics' consensus singled out as one of the film's timeless pleasures.
Q 04At a funeral near the start of Bad Grandpa, what is knocked over in front of the horrified mourners?
The coffin
The coffin goes over and the body spills out, a prank that critics picked out alongside the pageant as one of the most skilfully staged in the film.
Q 05Which Jackass star plays 86-year-old Irving Zisman, the title character of Bad Grandpa?
Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville first played Irving in the final season of the Jackass TV series, and the lecherous pensioner kept turning up in the films until he got one of his own.
Q 06At which game does Irving Zisman horrify the players beside him by drinking something in Bad Grandpa?
Bingo
Bingo players mark their cards with ink dabbers, and Irving swigs the lime-green contents of his in front of the pensioners sitting next to him.
Q 07What kind of faulty machine hurls Irving Zisman through a plate-glass shop window in Bad Grandpa?
A kiddie ride
A kiddie ride outside a shop seems to be broken when Billy tries it, then fires his grandfather through the window the moment he climbs on.
Q 08Which part of Bad Grandpa's production earned the Jackass series its first Oscar nomination?
The old-age makeup
The old-age makeup that turned a stuntman in his forties into an 86-year-old was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 2014 Oscars, where it lost to a serious drama.
Q 09Reviewers likened Bad Grandpa's road trip of pranks on real people to which 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen film?
Borat
Borat set the template: an invented character crossing America whose victims are real. Bad Grandpa was the first Jackass film to hang its stunts on a story in the same way.
Q 10During Bad Grandpa, Billy walks up to men he has never met and asks them to become what?
His new dad
His new dad is what Billy asks baffled strangers to be, in a running gag that critics praised for the young actor's comic timing.
Q 11Why can Billy's mother Kimmie no longer look after him at the start of Bad Grandpa?
She is going to jail
She is going to jail for breaking her parole, so the boy is left with a grandfather who had been looking forward to his freedom.
Q 12Irving Zisman must deliver Billy to his father in which state at the end of Bad Grandpa's road trip?
North Carolina
North Carolina is where Billy's deadbeat father is waiting, and Irving has until two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon to hand the boy over in Raleigh.
Q 13Irving Zisman topples a tower of champagne glasses during a group photo at which event in Bad Grandpa?
A wedding reception
Q 21Bad Grandpa is dedicated to which Jackass cast member, who died in a car crash in 2011?
Ryan Dunn
Ryan Dunn, a Jackass regular since the TV series, died aged 34 in June 2011, and Bad Grandpa was the team's first cinema release after his death.
Q 22Which Matthew McConaughey drama beat Bad Grandpa to the only Oscar it was nominated for?
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club took the award at the 2014 ceremony, where it also won both of the male acting Oscars.
Q 23Bad Grandpa opened at number one in North America, ending the three-week reign of which 2013 sci-fi hit?
Gravity
Gravity had led the box office for three weekends before a $32 million debut from a prank comedy pushed it into second place.
A wedding reception is ruined twice over: after the glasses collapse, Irving falls onto the table and flattens the cake as well.
Q 14Bad Grandpa .5, a version with over 40 minutes of unused footage, premiered in 2014 on which TV network?
MTV
MTV, the channel where Jackass began in 2000, showed the longer cut with its extra outtakes and interviews a few weeks before it reached DVD and Blu-ray.
Q 15Early in Bad Grandpa, how does Irving Zisman try to send Billy to his father without making the trip himself?
Ship him as a parcel
Ship him as a parcel is Irving's first idea, so he takes the boy to be posted across the country like a package. The attempt fails and the two hit the road.
Q 16What do Irving and Billy make for themselves in a supermarket before leaving without paying in Bad Grandpa?
Sandwiches
Sandwiches of stolen bread, ham and mustard are put together right there in the store, and an angry manager then blocks Irving's way back to his car.
Q 17Hoping to meet women, Irving Zisman ends up dancing for a horrified crowd at what kind of venue in Bad Grandpa?
A male strip club
A male strip club is where Irving joins in the dancing, to the disgust of the women in the audience. Variety predicted it would be the film's most talked-about sequence.
Q 18Which piece of furniture springs shut on Irving Zisman, trapping him between its two halves, in Bad Grandpa?
An adjustable bed
An adjustable bed, spring-loaded for the stunt, clamps shut on him like a pair of jaws. It is one of only a handful of big physical stunts in a film built mostly on pranks.
Q 19Critics compared Billy's pageant finale in Bad Grandpa to which earlier road-trip comedy?
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine was the comparison that both Variety and TheWrap reached for, since Billy's big scene sends up the world of children's beauty contests.
Q 20Where do Irving and Billy finally dispose of the body they have carried across America in Bad Grandpa?
In a river
In a river is where she ends up, thrown from a bridge by the pair once Billy is safely back in his grandfather's care.
Q 24Which Bad Grandpa co-writer won a screenwriting Oscar for Her on the night Bad Grandpa lost its own nomination?
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze, a co-creator of Jackass, had two films at the 2014 Oscars: the romance he wrote and directed, and the prank comedy he co-wrote and produced.
Q 25Which Hollywood studio released Bad Grandpa in cinemas, as it had the three Jackass films before it?
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures had released all three earlier Jackass films, and this one took in about ten times its $15 million budget worldwide.
Q 26Which director of all the main Jackass films also directed and co-wrote Bad Grandpa?
Jeff Tremaine
Jeff Tremaine co-created Jackass, had directed all three of its earlier cinema releases and went on to direct the two sequels that followed.
Q 27Which Oscar-nominated actress from Capote plays the dead wife of Irving Zisman in Bad Grandpa?
Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener, twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress, is credited as the late Mrs Zisman, whose death leaves her husband ready to party as the film begins.
Q 28Which glam-metal hit blasts out when Billy's pageant routine turns into a striptease in Bad Grandpa?
Cherry Pie
Cherry Pie, the Warrant single, kicks in after the routine opens with a gentle old sea song, at which point a prop boat becomes a stage and the pageant mothers look on in shock.
Q 29Bad Grandpa's director went on to make which 2019 Netflix biopic about the rock band Mötley Crüe?
The Dirt
The Dirt was a film he said he had wanted to make ever since reading the band's memoir of the same name in 2002.
Q 30The boy who plays Billy in Bad Grandpa had played the son of which actor's character in The Fighter?
Christian Bale
Christian Bale played a former boxer in that 2010 drama, released three years before Bad Grandpa turned his young screen son into a comedy lead.