Bring It On Trivia
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58 free Bring it on trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Bring It On trivia quiz covers the 2000 cheerleading movie that Roger Ebert ended up calling the Citizen Kane of cheerleader movies: Torrance Shipman inheriting a squad that stole its routines, the East Compton Clovers coming to take their crown, the cursed Spirit Stick, the car wash, Sparky Polastri's spirit fingers and the finals in Daytona Beach. It also asks how the film got made, from Jessica Bendinger's Clueless-meets-Strictly-Ballroom pitch and the twenty-eight studios that passed on it to the four-week cheer camp the cast had to survive and the stars who auditioned and lost. Then it keeps going through the whole franchise: the six sequels with none of the original cast, Hayden Panettiere and Solange in All or Nothing, the Sharks and the Jets in In It to Win It, Christina Milian in Malibu, the masked squad in Worldwide Cheersmack, the slasher finale Cheer or Die, and the Broadway musical with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Easy questions ask which team wins Nationals; hard ones want the fictional college of Bring It On Again and the film's original working title. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and the musical, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who plays Torrance Shipman, the newly elected captain of the Toros?
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst turned the part down at first, and the producers went back to her after Marley Shelton, their next pick, took a rival cheerleader film.
Q 02Who plays Isis, captain of the Clovers?
Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Union met the director several times to work out how Isis should be portrayed, and the role became her breakthrough.
Q 03Who plays Missy Pantone, the transfer gymnast who joins the Toros?
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku's Missy tells Torrance the Toros' routine is a rip-off, and a visit to the rival squad proves it was stolen.
Q 04Who plays Cliff Pantone, Missy's music-loving brother and Torrance's love interest?
Jesse Bradford
Jesse Bradford: the filmmakers saw hundreds of young actors for Cliff before deciding that nobody fit the part like him.
Q 05Which two future stars both auditioned for the role of Cliff Pantone?
James Franco and Jason Schwartzman
Franco was a year away from Freaks and Geeks fame; Schwartzman had just made Rushmore.
Q 06Torrance's squad, the Toros, cheer for which San Diego high school?
Rancho Carne
Rancho Carne High: after the Clovers mock the Toros' stolen routine at a home game there, the humiliated squad decides it needs a new one.
Q 07The Clovers come from a high school in which Los Angeles-area community?
East Compton
East Compton's Clovers had never made Nationals: their school couldn't afford the trip, and the Toros kept stealing their routines.
Q 08How does Missy recognise the Toros' routines as stolen?
Her old school played the Clovers' school
Her old school played the Clovers' school, so Missy had seen those routines before, and she drove Torrance to Los Angeles to watch the originals.
Q 09Which former Toros captain secretly videotaped the Clovers' routines and passed them off as her own?
Big Red
Big Red: Isis remembers a redhead with a video camera, and after Regionals Big Red turns up to blame Torrance for running the squad into the ground.
Q 10Torrance fears she is cursed after dropping what at summer cheer camp?
The Spirit Stick
The Spirit Stick must never touch the ground, yet Torrance dropped it on purpose: the new seniors' camp dare was to drop it in front of everyone.
Q 11Which Toros cheerleader is injured in Torrance's first practice as captain, opening the spot Missy fills?
Carver
Carver is out until after Nationals, and Missy, a gymnast, only tries out for the spot because the school has no gymnastics team.
Q 12How do the Toros raise the money to hire a professional choreographer?
A car wash
A car wash raised the money, and the choreographer it paid for promptly put the whole squad on a diet.
Q 13What is the name of the infamous choreographer the Toros hire?
Sparky Polastri
Sparky Polastri came recommended by Torrance's college boyfriend, Aaron, who assured her the cheer association looks the other way.
Q 21Which Bring It On character is gay and entirely comfortable about it?
Les
Les jokes that Jan is the straight one while he is "controversial", and the LA Times praised the film for including a gay cheerleader at ease with himself.
Q 22Who directed Bring It On, in his theatrical film debut?
Peyton Reed
Peyton Reed had directed the Upright Citizens Brigade's TV sketch show, and that connection is how he brought in UCB's Ian Roberts to play the choreographer.
Q 23Which everyday task becomes a wordless flirting scene for Torrance and Cliff in Bring It On?
Brushing their teeth
Brushing their teeth: the director wanted a quiet breather in a breathless movie, so the writer built a flirting scene with no dialogue at all.
Q 14In Bring It On, what is the signature move in the hired choreographer's routine?
Spirit Fingers
Spirit Fingers were in the script from the start, yet the writer and a producer both say the line only took off once Ian Roberts played it.
Q 15After Regionals in Bring It On, why must the Toros start over before Nationals?
Other squads bought the same routine
Other squads bought the same routine: the choreographer had been peddling it up and down the coast, and another team performed it at Regionals.
Q 16In Bring It On, where are the national cheerleading championships held?
Daytona Beach, Florida
Daytona Beach, Florida: after the Regionals mix-up, the Toros still get a bid there because they are the defending champions.
Q 17How do the Clovers finally get the money to attend Nationals?
By writing to a local talk show host
By writing to a local talk show host; Isis turned down the sponsorship check Torrance got from her father's company.
Q 18In Bring It On, where do the Toros finish at Nationals?
Second
Second, behind the Clovers: when Isis tells Torrance the Toros were good, Torrance answers that the Clovers were better.
Q 19What does Cliff make for Torrance that she draws inspiration from before Nationals?
A mixtape
A mixtape: Cliff made it for her, but after seeing her kiss Aaron he cut her off.
Q 20After Regionals, what does Torrance's college boyfriend Aaron urge her to do?
Step down as captain
Step down as captain: Aaron tells her she's just not captain material and suggests letting Courtney and Whitney take over the squad.
Q 24Bring It On's director later took over which Marvel film from Edgar Wright?
Ant-Man
Ant-Man: Edgar Wright left the project in 2014 over differences in his vision of the film with Marvel, and Bring It On's director took over.
Q 25Who wrote the screenplay for Bring It On?
Jessica Bendinger
Jessica Bendinger's pitch drew more than two dozen rejections before Beacon Pictures finally said yes.
Q 26What was Bring It On's working title?
Cheer Fever
Cheer Fever: the title the film finally took echoes the challenge Isis leaves Torrance with before Nationals, telling her to "bring it".
Q 27Bring It On's writer pitched it as "Clueless meets" which dance film?
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom, set at the cheerleading nationals: the whole idea, she said, was to put cheerleading and hip hop together.
Q 28Bring It On's screenwriter later wrote and directed which gymnastics comedy?
Stick It
Stick It, which she also directed, follows a rebellious ex-gymnast whom a judge orders back into training after a bike stunt lands her in court.
Q 29Bring It On's makers said its ending was modelled on which sports film?
Rocky
Rocky: like Rocky going the distance with Apollo Creed and still losing, the Toros were always meant to lose to the Clovers.
Q 30Marley Shelton was in talks to play Torrance but chose which rival teen comedy instead?
Sugar & Spice
Sugar & Spice, about cheerleaders who rob a bank: losing her left Bring It On close to its start date with no lead.