Dazed and Confused Trivia
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43 free Dazed and Confused trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Dazed and Confused trivia questions with answers. Dazed and Confused lost money in cinemas and then became one of the most quoted films of the 1990s. This quiz covers both halves of that story. There are questions on the film itself - the last day of school in May 1976, the hazing, the pledge nobody signs, the moontower, the drive to Houston for concert tickets - and on how it was made: the six million dollar budget with a tenth of it spent on music, the mixtapes the director sent his cast, the hotel full of nineteen-year-olds, and the Led Zeppelin song that one band member refused to release. There is also the lawsuit. Three of the director's former classmates, whose surnames are Wooderson, Slater and Floyd, sued him for defamation eleven years after release. Every answer here is written against a sourced account with the sentence that establishes it attached.
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Q 01In Dazed and Confused, what does Coach Conrad demand that his football players sign?
A pledge to stay off drugs
A pledge to stay off drugs, due in by the end of the day. Pink alone holds out, and at dawn he tells the coach he might play next season but will never sign it.
Q 02On which day is Dazed and Confused set?
The last day of school in 1976
The last day of school in 1976, 28 May. Before the bell, a history teacher warns her class that the coming Bicentennial really celebrates aristocrats who did not want to pay their taxes.
Q 03In which Texas city was Dazed and Confused shot?
Austin
Austin stood in for a town the film never names, one modelled on the much smaller East Texas place where its director had gone to high school.
Q 04The success of which Richard Linklater film got Dazed and Confused financed?
Slacker
Slacker caught the eye of Universal producer Jim Jacks while Linklater was promoting it in 1991. Jacks flew him to Los Angeles, and his idea for a 1970s high-school film became a studio project.
Q 05Roughly a sixth of Dazed and Confused's budget went on what?
Song rights
Song rights: the studio wanted cheaper re-recordings, but Linklater insisted on the original 1970s hits and gave up his own soundtrack royalties to get them.
Q 06Which Texas prison town, where Richard Linklater went to high school, supplied several Dazed and Confused character names?
Huntsville
Huntsville, where names such as Slater and Floyd belonged to real schoolmates of his. Three of them took the film's makers to court over the characters in 2004.
Q 07Which actor plays the senior bully who leads the paddling of freshmen in Dazed and Confused?
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, years before his fame, plays the bully. His character flunked his final year, which is why he is back for a second summer of hazing.
Q 08Where did Matthew McConaughey first meet Don Phillips, the casting director of Dazed and Confused?
In a hotel bar
In a hotel bar, where a classmate tending bar pointed Phillips out. The two got on so loudly that they were thrown out, and Phillips told him to come in and read the next day.
Q 09Which character does Matthew McConaughey play in Dazed and Confused?
David Wooderson
David Wooderson, a twentysomething still hanging around the high-school crowd, was written as a small part to be cast locally. It grew as the shoot went on, much of it improvised on the spot.
Q 10Where did Matthew McConaughey say he got the line 'alright, alright, alright' for Dazed and Confused?
A live Jim Morrison recording
A live Jim Morrison recording, on which the singer barks 'all right' four times. McConaughey reasoned that his character had three of the four things he cared about, so he said it three times.
Q 11Which Dazed and Confused scene was the first Matthew McConaughey ever shot for the film?
The Top Notch hamburger scene
The Top Notch hamburger scene, at a real drive-in. He asked for half an hour alone to work out who his character was, then rolled up and improvised his first lines.
Q 12Why was Shawn Andrews's part as Pickford cut back in Dazed and Confused, with his scenes passing to Matthew McConaughey?
His behaviour with the cast
His behaviour with the cast, by Linklater's account: Andrews never clicked with the others, so the big closing scene planned for Pickford went to McConaughey's character instead.
Q 13What position does Randall 'Pink' Floyd play for his high-school football team in Dazed and Confused?
Q 21Which actor was nearly cast as the bully O'Bannion?
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn auditioned for O'Bannion and came close, but the part went to Ben Affleck after a search through Texas, New York and Los Angeles.
Q 22How did Richard Linklater help Dazed and Confused's cast find their characters' musical taste?
He made each of them a mixtape
He made each of them a mixtape before the shoot. The girls got plenty of Joni Mitchell, while the freshman Mitch got glam and prog, as the kid who would be first to buy the Ramones.
Q 23Which Led Zeppelin song did Richard Linklater want to close Dazed and Confused?
Rock and Roll
Quarterback
Quarterback, and the star of the team, which is why his coach frets about the 'wrong crowd' he runs with and ends up lecturing him about his 'loser' friends.
Q 14What happens to the incoming freshman girls during the hazing in Dazed and Confused?
They are covered in condiments
They are covered in condiments, ketchup and mustard above all, then made to propose marriage to senior boys and driven through a car wash in the back of pickup trucks.
Q 15Which Dazed and Confused character delights in paddling the freshman Mitch Kramer?
Fred O'Bannion
Fred O'Bannion is the night's chief bully until the younger boys lure him outside and get even. He is last seen breaking his own paddle in a tantrum.
Q 16Where do Pink and his friends smoke marijuana as night turns to dawn in Dazed and Confused?
On the football field
On the football field, at the 50-yard line, where the police find them and summon the coach. It was among the last scenes shot, with lines worked out with the actors on the night.
Q 17Where are Pink and his friends heading in the final scene of Dazed and Confused?
Houston, for Aerosmith tickets
Houston, for Aerosmith tickets, which Pink calls the top priority of the summer as he walks away from his coach. The drive down the highway was the last scene of the shoot.
Q 18At which pool hall do the teenagers of Dazed and Confused gather once the keg party is cancelled?
The Emporium
The Emporium is where the night's threads cross: Mitch springs his revenge on a senior there, and its crowd moves on to an outdoor keg party thrown in place of the cancelled one.
Q 19What did the crew build in a park for the keg party scenes of Dazed and Confused?
A replica moontower
A replica moontower went up because the park has none. The real ones are towering street lights of the late 1800s, built to bathe whole neighbourhoods in a glow like moonlight.
Q 20Why did Dazed and Confused need a double for the young actor playing Mitch in his baseball scenes?
He couldn't pitch
He couldn't pitch: he had talked up his baseball to win the part, so a Little League player in a wig threw for him, filmed from behind, while a team of young extras jeered.
Rock and Roll was meant to blare over the final drive and the credits. Linklater recorded a personal plea to the band and kept the song in his sound mix while he waited, but the permission never came.
Q 24Which Led Zeppelin member refused to let Dazed and Confused use one of the band's songs?
Robert Plant
Robert Plant said no even though Jimmy Page had agreed, and a furious Linklater wrote in his production diary that he would 'boycott Plant for life'.
Q 25Which Aerosmith song plays over the slow-motion opening of Dazed and Confused?
Sweet Emotion
Sweet Emotion opens the film yet appears on neither of its two soundtrack albums, which became big sellers without it. Bob Dylan's 'Hurricane' is missing from them too.
Q 26Which Dazed and Confused cast member briefly performs a song she wrote herself in the film?
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich put 'The Alien Song' on her debut album in 1994. A poster sold her as the cast's best-known name, yet her role had been cut right back.
Q 27Dazed and Confused took only $8 million in cinemas; where did it then find its audience?
On home video
On home video. Its distributor had opened it on fewer than 200 screens, and it was the tapes and discs of the years that followed that made it a cult favourite.
Q 28In Slater's stoned history lesson in Dazed and Confused, which Founding Father grew marijuana as a cash crop?
George Washington
George Washington, says Slater, walked in each day to find that Martha had 'a big fat bowl waiting for him'. Martha, he concludes, was one hip lady.
Q 29What does Wooderson call his Chevrolet Chevelle in Dazed and Confused?
Melba Toast
Melba Toast gets a proud inventory of its parts, ending on its '390 horsepower'. The actor behind Wooderson built him on four loves: his car, getting high, rock music and girls.
Q 30How did the 2004 defamation suit brought by three of Richard Linklater's old classmates over Dazed and Confused end?
It was dismissed
It was dismissed. The three men, whose surnames match characters in the film, had filed in New Mexico because its time limit for such claims is longer than that of Texas.