Crocodile Dundee Trivia
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48 free Crocodile Dundee trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Crocodile Dundee was made for under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to sell an outback hero to America, and it ended up the highest-grossing Australian film ever. This quiz covers the whole trilogy: Sue's trip to Walkabout Creek, the 'love bite' scar, the subway finale, the Colombian cartel of the sequel, and the art-smuggling plot of the Los Angeles film. It also takes in Paul Hogan's road from Harbour Bridge rigger to Golden Globe winner, and the real saltwater crocodile who lived to 90. It suits an 80s movie night, an Australia-themed quiz, or anyone who has ever said 'that's not a knife' in a bad accent. The opening questions are gentle; the closing ones dig into filming locations, box-office records and the 2018 Super Bowl hoax sequel. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the three films, the character and Paul Hogan, and each question links to the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In Crocodile Dundee, which animal does Mick mesmerise when it blocks a bush track?
A buffalo
A buffalo named Charlie played the scene and later became a tourist draw at the Adelaide River Inn in the Northern Territory; when he died in 2000 the pub had him stuffed and put on show.
Q 02Which actress plays reporter Sue Charlton in Crocodile Dundee?
Linda Kozlowski
Linda Kozlowski had a small role in Dustin Hoffman's Broadway Death of a Salesman; he lent her his Malibu beach house while she looked for work in California and recommended her for the film.
Q 03Which film alone out-grossed Crocodile Dundee in America in 1986?
Top Gun
Top Gun stayed narrowly ahead in North America, even though Crocodile Dundee, released four months after it, held the number one spot for nine weekends in a row.
Q 04Which television director, who had made Paul Hogan's sketch show, was hired to direct Crocodile Dundee?
Peter Faiman
Peter Faiman had directed The Paul Hogan Show, and Hogan built his first film around the people he already worked with on television, his manager and his co-writer among them.
Q 05Rod Ansell, the bushman whose story inspired Crocodile Dundee, shunned his luxury Sydney hotel bed to sleep where?
On the floor
On the floor, in his bush bedroll, was where Rod Ansell slept when a TV chat show flew him to Sydney to talk about his two months stranded in the wild, and that interview caught Paul Hogan's eye.
Q 06In Crocodile Dundee, what is the fictional Northern Territory township where Sue first meets Mick?
Walkabout Creek
Walkabout Creek is fiction, but its pub is real: the outback hotel used for the bar scenes later took the film's name and became a tourist stop as the Walkabout Creek Hotel.
Q 07In Crocodile Dundee, who owns Newsday, the newspaper Sue writes for?
Her father
Her father, Sam Charlton, owns the paper, though Sue has only told Mick that he sells newspapers; when Mick sees the family's weekend house, she admits he sells a lot of them.
Q 08In Crocodile Dundee, what does Mick call the crocodile scar on his leg when Sue asks about it?
A love bite
'A love bite' is Mick's verdict on the wound; the story that brought Sue out had a crocodile taking half his leg and leaving him to crawl a hundred miles, which he calls a slight exaggeration.
Q 09Who is Mick Dundee's business partner back in the Northern Territory?
Wally Reilly
Wally Reilly, played by John Meillon, laughs off the idea of Mick in a big city until Sue says the paper would pay, then decides that a man should broaden his horizons.
Q 10In Crocodile Dundee, who hears Mick's famous line about what counts as a knife?
A street mugger
A street mugger asks Mick for a light, then for his wallet; Sue urges him to hand it over because the youth has a knife, and Mick answers by drawing his own, far bigger one.
Q 11In Crocodile Dundee, how does Mick scare off the drunken 'city cowboys' hunting by spotlight?
Has a kangaroo shoot back
Has a kangaroo shoot back: Mick makes it look as if one caught in the hunters' spotlight is firing at them, and they flee yelling that it's got a gun while he mutters 'Good one, Skippy'.
Q 12Which star of Storm Boy and Rabbit-Proof Fence plays Neville Bell, Mick's friend, in Crocodile Dundee?
David Gulpilil
David Gulpilil plays Nev, a 'real city boy' who calls the corroboree a drag; when Sue raises her camera he says she can't take his photograph, not for his spirit's sake but because her lens cap is on.
Q 13In Crocodile Dundee, what is Sue doing at the water's edge when the crocodile lunges at her?
Q 21Which UK channel drew 21.8 million viewers to Crocodile Dundee's television premiere on Christmas Day 1989?
BBC One
BBC One's screening drew the biggest audience on record for a single Christmas Day broadcast, a mark still unbeaten in 2019; the 1986 EastEnders episode remembered for 30 million viewers needed a repeat to get there.
Q 22What did Paramount add to the title of Crocodile Dundee for American audiences?
Quotation marks
Quotation marks went around 'Crocodile' because the studio feared Americans would expect a swamp-monster film; it also trimmed several minutes and dropped slang that test audiences did not understand.
Q 23Which Golden Globe did the film's star win for the role in 1987?
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
Filling her canteen
Filling her canteen is as far as Sue gets after setting off alone to prove she can cope in the bush without Mick; he is close behind and kills the crocodile before it can drag her under.
Q 14Burt, the real crocodile who appeared in Crocodile Dundee, spent his last years as an attraction in which city?
Darwin
Darwin's Crocosaurus Cove kept Burt from 2008 until he died in 2024, thought to be over 90; in 2018 he 'predicted' France's World Cup win there by snapping at the French flag instead of Croatia's.
Q 15Which national park supplied most of the wilderness scenery in Crocodile Dundee?
Kakadu
Kakadu and its crocodiles went onto the tourist map with the film, and in 1988 a hotel built in the shape of a giant crocodile opened in the park's township of Jabiru.
Q 16In Crocodile Dundee, which landmark New York hotel puts Mick up in a luxury suite?
The Plaza
The Plaza gives Mick a suite so big that he asks Sue how many of them are staying there, and when the bellman waits for a tip he wonders aloud if the room has to be paid for in advance.
Q 17In Crocodile Dundee, what does Mick tell Irving the hotel doorman he plans to do next?
Go on walkabout across America
Go on walkabout across America is his answer once he believes Sue is engaged to Richard; asked how long he will be gone, he says as long as it takes, and wants the quickest way out of town.
Q 18How does Mick reach Sue across the packed subway platform at the end of Crocodile Dundee?
Walks over the crowd
Walks over the crowd: commuters relay Sue's shouted messages down the platform, the last being that she loves him, and Mick, told they are jammed in like sheep, crosses on their heads and raised hands.
Q 19In his New York hotel bathroom, what does Mick Dundee first take the bidet for?
A second toilet
A second toilet is his first thought: he calls Sue in to see that 'some nitwit's put two dunnies in here'; she leaves him to work out what it is for, and he shouts his guess down to her from the window.
Q 20Which film did Crocodile Dundee overtake to become the highest-grossing film ever in Australia?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial had held the Australian record since 1983; Crocodile Dundee took it in 1986 and kept it until Titanic sailed past twelve years later.
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy went to Hogan at the Golden Globes in January 1987 for playing Mick Dundee, a role he had written for himself.
Q 24For which Academy Award was Crocodile Dundee nominated?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay was its one Oscar nomination, shared by Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell; they lost to Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters on a night when Hogan was also one of the hosts.
Q 25Which two stars shared hosting duties with Paul Hogan at the 1987 Academy Awards?
Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn
Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn made up the trio with Hogan; Hawn had co-hosted once before, in 1976, while Chase was asked back to front the following year's ceremony alone.
Q 26Before television fame, Paul Hogan worked as a rigger on which structure?
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger Hogan wrote to the talent show New Faces claiming to be Australia's leading tap-dancing knife-thrower, went on to send up its harsh judges, and walked off with a television career.
Q 27Paul Hogan's tourism ads promised a 'shrimp on the barbie'; what do Australians call a shrimp?
Prawn
Prawn is the word at home; the ad said 'shrimp' because it was written for American viewers, and the campaign made Hogan a familiar face in the US two years before the film.
Q 28Which outback town did Paul Hogan falsely give as his birthplace when he first applied to appear on television?
Lightning Ridge
Lightning Ridge was simply the first place that came to mind when Hogan filled in a talent-show application; he was really a city boy, but he says the opal town's people sent him presents all the same.
Q 29Which criminals do Mick and Sue face in Crocodile Dundee II?
A Colombian drug cartel
A Colombian drug cartel led by Luis Rico is the enemy: Sue's ex-husband photographs Rico committing a murder and mails her the pictures before he is killed, so the cartel comes after her.
Q 30John Cornell, who directed Crocodile Dundee II, had filled which of these roles on the first film?
Producer
Producer John Cornell had steered Hogan's career from the start, as his manager and as his sidekick Strop on television, and he shared the first film's writing credit before taking the director's chair for the sequel.