Brad Pitt Trivia
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50 free Brad Pitt trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Brad Pitt left the University of Missouri two weeks short of a journalism degree, drove to Los Angeles, and spent years in soap operas, Pringles ads and a shelved Yugoslav co-production before a hitchhiker in Thelma & Louise made him a star. Since then he has played a vampire, a mountaineer, a Traveller boxer nobody can understand, Achilles, Jesse James, Billy Beane, a stuntman and a Formula One driver, and built Plan B into a company that wins Best Picture. This quiz runs the full career: the early TV guest spots, the breakthrough years with Redford and Fincher, the Ocean's films, the Tarantino roles, the Oscar record as actor and producer, the Make It Right houses in New Orleans, the Miraval studio, the face-blindness admission and the minor planet that carries his name. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a film-buff quiz night.
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Q 01Brad Pitt grew up in Missouri but was born in Shawnee, in which neighbouring state?
Oklahoma
Oklahoma. Shawnee is home to Oklahoma Baptist University, where his parents had met as students; they married in 1962 and their first child arrived the following year.
Q 02In which Missouri city did Brad Pitt grow up?
Springfield
Springfield. At Kickapoo High School there he was on the golf, swimming and tennis teams and sang in the musicals, though the career he had in mind was advertising art director.
Q 03What did Pitt major in at the University of Missouri before leaving for Los Angeles?
Journalism
Journalism. With graduation in sight he walked away just short of his degree and drove to Los Angeles, where he took odd jobs, chauffeuring a limousine among them, while he studied acting.
Q 04Pitt's first leading film role was shot in 1988 in which now-vanished country?
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia. The Dark Side of the Sun, shot on the Adriatic coast with Pitt as a young American seeking a cure for a skin disease, went unseen until 1997: by legend a casualty of the war, though he blames its quality.
Q 05On which primetime soap did Pitt play Randy, boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter, in 1987–88?
Dallas
Dallas. Randy lasted four episodes, one of several bit parts Pitt picked up in his first year of screen work while paying the rent with odd jobs such as dressing as a chicken outside a fast-food restaurant.
Q 06In 1988 Pitt appeared in a TV commercial for which snack brand?
Pringles
Pringles. In the ad a carload of shirtless surfers, Pitt among them, break down by the beach and are rescued by girls carrying tubes of the crisps.
Q 07Pitt played Billy Canton, a drug addict exploiting a runaway, in which 1990 NBC TV movie?
Too Young to Die?
Too Young to Die? The runaway was played by Juliette Lewis, and three years later the pair were reunited as a serial killer and his partner in the road movie Kalifornia.
Q 08Pitt's breakout role as hitchhiking thief J.D. came in which 1991 road movie?
Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise. Ridley Scott at first thought Pitt too young for the part, and he got it only after William Baldwin and then a second actor dropped out.
Q 09Who directed Pitt as Paul Maclean in A River Runs Through It (1992)?
Robert Redford
Robert Redford. He later said he cast Pitt less for his audition than for an 'inner conflict' he found interesting; Pitt himself counts the performance among his weakest.
Q 10Pitt's cameo as the couch-bound stoner Floyd came in which 1993 film?
True Romance
True Romance. Floyd barely leaves the sofa, yet he moves the plot: he is the one who cheerfully tells the mobsters where the drug deal is going to happen.
Q 11Which vampire did Pitt play in Interview with the Vampire (1994)?
Louis de Pointe du Lac
Louis de Pointe du Lac. Author Anne Rice hated the casting at first and even urged the studio to have Pitt and Tom Cruise swap parts; once she saw the film she took it all back.
Q 12Which character earned Pitt his first Golden Globe nomination in Legends of the Fall?
Tristan Ludlow
Tristan Ludlow. Director Edward Zwick's memoir says Pitt tried to quit after a flat read-through days before filming, and disliked the final cut for playing down his character's madness.
Q 13Pitt was engaged to which co-star from the 1995 thriller Seven?
Gwyneth Paltrow
Q 21Pitt starred opposite which actress in the 2001 romantic comedy The Mexican?
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts. For all the star billing, the script keeps the two apart for most of the film; they were properly reunited later that year in Ocean's Eleven.
Q 22Pitt's Emmy-nominated Friends guest role was a man holding a grudge against which character?
Rachel Green
Rachel Green. His Will Colbert, a schoolmate she used to bully, proudly announces at Thanksgiving dinner that he and Ross once founded a club devoted to hating her.
Q 23What is the name of Pitt's character in the Ocean's trilogy?
Rusty Ryan
Rusty Ryan. Danny Ocean's right-hand man helps recruit the crew, then tries to call the whole heist off on learning it is really about winning back Danny's ex-wife.
Gwyneth Paltrow. She was cast at his suggestion, after her audition for Legends of the Fall had impressed him, and the two were a couple from 1994 to 1997.
Q 14Who directed 12 Monkeys, which brought Pitt his first Oscar nomination?
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam. He at first thought Pitt wrong for the fast-talking asylum inmate Jeffrey Goines and was talked round by his casting director; the part then won Pitt a Golden Globe.
Q 15In The Devil's Own (1997) Pitt played an IRA man opposite which actor?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford. Pitt threatened to walk out early in the shoot over an unfinished script, and afterwards called the result the most irresponsible bit of film-making he had ever seen.
Q 16Which Austrian mountaineer did Pitt play in Seven Years in Tibet?
Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer. Just months before the film opened, a German magazine revealed from archive files that the real climber had joined the SS in 1938, which he went on to call a mistake of his youth.
Q 17In Meet Joe Black (1998), Pitt plays the personification of what?
Death
Death. The film remakes 1934's Death Takes a Holiday, and part of its audience reportedly came only for the first Phantom Menace trailer, walking out as soon as it had played.
Q 18To look right as Tyler Durden, Pitt had pieces of what removed for Fight Club?
His front teeth
His front teeth. He had a dentist chip them so that Tyler Durden would not flash a film star's perfect smile, then had them rebuilt once the shoot was over.
Q 19Fight Club premiered at which film festival in 1999?
Venice
Venice. The film then fell short at the box office, and only after its DVD release the following year did it turn into the cult classic it is today.
Q 20Who directed Snatch, in which Pitt plays a near-unintelligible Irish Traveller boxer?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie. Pitt's Mickey, a bare-knuckle champion, is ordered to throw a fight, gets up off the canvas and knocks his man out anyway, having quietly bet on himself.
Q 24In 2002 Pitt ran through Los Angeles in a gorilla suit for which MTV reality series?
Jackass
Jackass. He came back for a second episode as the victim of his own staged abduction, and that year also popped up in George Clooney's first film as a director.
Q 25Pitt's first voice role in a film came in which 2003 DreamWorks animation?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. He took the part after Russell Crowe dropped out, and the film flopped so badly that DreamWorks never made another hand-drawn feature.
Q 26Filming on Troy was delayed for weeks when Pitt injured which part of his body?
His Achilles tendon
His Achilles tendon. He was playing Achilles, the warrior whose only weak spot was his heel, and the injury shut the production down for weeks.
Q 27Pitt co-founded Plan B Entertainment with his manager Brad Grey and which actress?
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston. The two were married at the time; after their 2005 divorce Pitt became the company's sole owner, and it went on to produce Best Picture winners including 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight.
Q 28Who directed Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)?
Doug Liman
Doug Liman. He nearly lost both stars before filming: Nicole Kidman left for another film, Pitt walked out after her, and he came back only once a new leading lady was in place.
Q 29Who directed Babel (2006), the film Pitt calls one of the best decisions of his career?
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Babel was his third film with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and it ended the partnership: the two fell out over who deserved the credit, and the writer was kept away from the Cannes premiere.
Q 30Plan B produced which 2006 Best Picture winner for which only Graham King could collect the Oscar?
The Departed
The Departed. Pitt and his partners had bought the remake rights to the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs in 2003; he was set to act in it too, but gave up the part, stayed on as producer and made Babel instead.