70 free Car Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Some films are about people who happen to drive. Car movies are the other kind, where the Mustang, the Charger, the Trans Am or the beat-up VW bus is a character with its own arc. This quiz covers the whole garage: chase classics like Bullitt and The French Connection, outlaw road films like Vanishing Point and Two-Lane Blacktop, racing dramas from Le Mans to Ford v Ferrari, and the comedies, from Smokey and the Bandit to Talladega Nights, that made cars funny. You will be asked which car Steve McQueen drove, why Bumblebee stopped being a Beetle, how many cars Memphis Raines had to steal in one night, and what speed a DeLorean needs to leave 1985. There are gimme questions for casual movie fans and genuinely tough ones about auction prices, filming locations and the real races behind the fiction. Every answer has been verified against the film's production record and links to its source, so when a friend insists the Bluesmobile was a Plymouth you can prove otherwise.
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Q 01What model of car does Steve McQueen drive through San Francisco in Bullitt?
Ford Mustang GT
Two Highland Green 1968 Mustangs were used, and the hero car sold at auction in 2020 for $3.7 million.
Q 02What car do the hitmen drive in the Bullitt chase?
Dodge Charger
The black 440 Magnum Chargers were reportedly faster than the Mustang, and stunt drivers had to hold back so the hero could keep up.
Q 03Bullitt won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Film Editing
Frank P. Keller's cutting of the roughly ten-minute chase is the reason the sequence is still taught in film schools.
Q 04The hero car from Bullitt sold at Mecum Auctions in January 2020 for roughly how much?
$3.7 million
It had sat in a family garage for decades after Steve McQueen himself tried and failed to buy it back.
Q 05Who directed the 1983 horror film Christine, about a murderous car?
John Carpenter
Carpenter took the job partly because The Thing had flopped the year before and he needed a hit.
Q 06Christine, the possessed car in the Stephen King story, is what make and model?
1958 Plymouth Fury
The production bought more than 20 Plymouths, many of them Belvederes and Savoys, and painted them red to play the same car.
Q 07In Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale plays which real-life racing driver?
Ken Miles
Matt Damon plays Carroll Shelby, and the film was retitled Le Mans '66 in several European countries.
Q 08Ford v Ferrari builds toward which race?
The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
Ford's GT40s finished 1-2-3, but a staged photo finish cost Miles the individual win that the film's ending turns on.
Q 09Who wrote and directed Baby Driver (2017)?
Edgar Wright
Wright choreographed the chases to the soundtrack, so the gear changes and gunfire land on the beat.
Q 10Why does Baby, the getaway driver in Baby Driver, constantly listen to music?
To drown out his tinnitus
A childhood car crash left him with the ringing, and the film's set-piece chases are cut to whatever is playing in his earbuds.
Q 11Baby Driver is set in which American city?
Atlanta
The story was moved there for tax credits, and the opening chase uses a red Subaru WRX the studio asked for because it looked 'sexier'.
Q 12In Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), how many cars must Memphis Raines steal in a single night?
50
Nicolas Cage's crew gives each target a woman's name, and 'Eleanor' is the one that always gets away.
Q 13'Eleanor', the unicorn car in the 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds, is depicted as what?
A 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang
In the original 1974 film, Eleanor was a yellow 1971 Mustang; the remake's grey fastback was styled by Chip Foose.
Q 21In Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise plays a NASCAR rookie named what?
Cole Trickle
Robert Duvall plays his crew chief, and Cruise met Nicole Kidman, cast as his neurosurgeon, on the set.
Q 22Who directed Days of Thunder (1990)?
Tony Scott
It reunited the Top Gun team of Scott, Cruise and producers Simpson and Bruckheimer, and was shot around Charlotte and Daytona Beach.
Q 23In Talladega Nights, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Jean Girard, a rival from which racing series?
Formula One
Girard reads Camus and drinks macchiatos in the pits, and John C. Reilly's Cal Naughton Jr. is Ricky's 'Shake and Bake' partner.
Q 14Herbie the Love Bug is what kind of car?
A Volkswagen Beetle
He wears racing number 53 and red, white and blue stripes, and first raced in Disney's The Love Bug in 1968.
Q 15What racing number does Herbie carry?
53
The number was reportedly chosen by producer Bill Walsh after Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale.
Q 16Which actress rescues Herbie from a junkyard in Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)?
Lindsay Lohan
Her character Maggie Peyton takes him NASCAR racing, and Michael Keaton plays her father.
Q 17Mad Max: Fury Road was filmed mainly in which country?
Namibia
Rain had turned the Australian outback green, so George Miller moved the shoot to the Namib desert.
Q 18Charlize Theron's character in Mad Max: Fury Road, the driver of the War Rig, is called what?
Imperator Furiosa
She has a prosthetic left arm, and the film won six Academy Awards, more than any other 2015 release.
Q 19Max's black Pursuit Special in the original 1979 Mad Max was built from what car?
A Ford Falcon XB GT
The 'last of the V8 Interceptors' was an Australian-market Ford that never sold in the United States.
Q 20The 1979 Mad Max held a Guinness World Record for what?
Highest box-office-to-budget ratio
George Miller said the whole picture cost between $350,000 and $400,000, and it launched Mel Gibson's career.
Q 24Ron Howard's Rush (2013) dramatizes the rivalry between Niki Lauda and which driver?
James Hunt
The film follows the 1976 season, when Lauda returned six weeks after being burned at the Nürburgring and lost the title by a single point.
Q 25In the 1969 film The Italian Job, the gold heist takes place in which city?
Turin
The Minis raced through the Fiat factory's rooftop test track and down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church.
Q 26Which small cars carry the gold in the 1969 Italian Job?
Mini Coopers
BMC would not donate the cars, so the production had to buy them at trade price while Fiat offered as many of its own as they wanted.
Q 27How does the 1969 Italian Job end?
With a coach teetering over a cliff edge
Michael Caine's Charlie Croker gets the last line — 'Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea' — and the film cuts to black.
Q 28What does the Bandit drive in Smokey and the Bandit?
A Pontiac Trans Am
Sales of the black-and-gold Trans Am roughly doubled in the two years after the film came out.
Q 29What cargo is the Bandit hired to bootleg from Texarkana back to Georgia in Smokey and the Bandit?
400 cases of Coors beer
Coors was not sold east of the Mississippi at the time, which made hauling it across state lines bootlegging.
Q 30Smokey and the Bandit was the directorial debut of which former stuntman?
Hal Needham
Needham had doubled for Reynolds for years; the film finished 1977 second at the box office behind only Star Wars.