50 free Dumb and Dumber trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
45 free Dumb and Dumber trivia questions with answers. A hundred actors turned down Lloyd Christmas, Jeff Daniels was offered $50,000 to go away, and the result was one of the biggest comedies of the 1990s. This Dumb and Dumber trivia quiz covers the whole road trip: Providence to Aspen, the briefcase and Mary Swanson, the headless parakeet, the Mutt Cutts van and the minibike, the hitchhiker with the ulcer, Sea Bass, the laxative coffee, Nicholas Andre and the FBI agent at the gas station. Behind the camera it gets into the Farrelly brothers' debut, John Hughes's original 'Ski Nuts' idea, Carrey's real chipped tooth and $7 million fee, the Stanley Hotel, Todd Rundgren's score, the box office, the MTV Movie Awards, and what came after: the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, the prequel nobody wanted and Dumb and Dumber To. About half the questions are for anyone who has quoted the movie; the rest are for people who know which state they drove across by mistake. Every answer is checked against a cited source shown under the question.
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Q 01Which sibling filmmakers made Dumb and Dumber as their first feature?
The Farrellys
Peter directed and co-wrote it with Bobby and Bennett Yellin; the hit launched their careers.
Q 02What are the full names of the two main characters?
Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey plays Lloyd, Jeff Daniels plays Harry.
Q 03In which city do Lloyd and Harry live at the start of the film?
Providence, Rhode Island
Early scenes were shot there, including the skyline and the Big Blue Bug.
Q 04Where are they driving to return the briefcase?
Aspen, Colorado
The Aspen scenes were actually filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado and Park City, Utah.
Q 05What is Lloyd's job at the start of the film?
Limousine driver
He drives Mary Swanson to the airport, falls for her, and gets fired for leaving the scene of an accident.
Q 06What is Harry's job at the start of the film?
Dog groomer
He is fired for arriving late to a dog show with the dogs covered in food.
Q 07Who plays Mary Swanson?
Lauren Holly
She and Carrey won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss and later had a brief marriage.
Q 08What is in the briefcase Mary leaves at the airport?
Ransom for her kidnapped husband
Lloyd thinks it is a lost bag; the crooks Mental and Shay were meant to collect it.
Q 09What happens to Harry's parakeet?
It is decapitated
Lloyd later sells the headless bird to a blind boy, Billy in 4C; Roger Ebert admitted the joke made him laugh out loud.
Q 10What is distinctive about the van Harry drives?
It is shaped like a dog
The Mutt Cutts van gets traded partway to Aspen; the cartoon later named it Otto.
Q 11What do Harry and Lloyd put in the hitchhiking crook's burger?
Chili peppers
Mental had planned to slip them rat poison; the peppers aggravate his ulcer instead.
Q 12Which state do the boys drive through all night after Lloyd's wrong turn?
Nebraska
Police were waiting for them on the road to Colorado.
Q 13What do they trade the van for?
A minibike
It breaks down on the way home, leaving them to walk back to Rhode Island.
Q 14What does Lloyd put in Harry's coffee in revenge for the ski date?
Q 21Roughly how many actors turned down the role of Lloyd?
100
Steve Martin and Martin Short were among them.
Q 22How did Carrey achieve Lloyd's distinctive front teeth?
Removing a cap from a real broken tooth
He chipped it in a childhood fight and had it capped; the crown came off for filming.
Q 23The directors had only heard of Jim Carrey as 'the white guy' on which sketch show?
In Living Color
A screening of Ace Ventura convinced them.
Q 24Which filmmaker conceived the idea as 'Ski Nuts', then sold it and removed his name from the credits?
Laxatives
The result unfolds in Mary's broken toilet, one of the film's most notorious scenes.
Q 15Who turns out to be the mastermind behind Bobby Swanson's kidnapping?
Nicholas Andre
The Swanson family friend, played by Charles Rocket, is furious to find the ransom replaced with IOUs.
Q 16Beth, the woman Harry flirts with at the gas station, is revealed to be what?
An FBI agent
She fitted Harry with a bulletproof vest before the showdown.
Q 17Which real NHL star plays the trucker Sea Bass?
Cam Neely
The Boston Bruins winger returned as Sea Bass in the 2014 sequel.
Q 18How much was Jim Carrey paid for the film?
$7 million
Ace Ventura's success gave him leverage; Jeff Daniels got roughly $50,000.
Q 19Roughly how much was Jeff Daniels paid?
$50,000
New Line offered the low fee hoping the dramatic actor would say no; his agent warned the role would kill his career.
Q 20Which actor was proposed as Carrey's co-star before New Line balked at his fee?
Nicolas Cage
Cage wanted $2 million more; Oldman and Cage were reportedly the original choices for the pair.
John Hughes
John Hughes sold the concept to the Farrelly brothers and asked to be left out of the writing credits.
Q 25Which famous Colorado landmark stood in for the 'Danbury'?
The Stanley in Estes Park
The same hotel inspired Stephen King's The Shining.
Q 26Where was the airport scene filmed?
Salt Lake City International
Street scenes were also shot in Salt Lake City, plus Ogden and American Fork Canyon.
Q 27Who composed the film's score?
Todd Rundgren
His 1978 song 'Can We Still Be Friends?' also appears in the film.
Q 28Which band's video for 'The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead' featured Jeff Daniels as Harry?
Crash Test Dummies
Deadeye Dick's 'New Age Girl' was the soundtrack's chart single, reaching number 27.
Q 29What was the film's budget?
$17 million
It grossed $247.3 million worldwide.
Q 30How much did Dumb and Dumber gross worldwide?
$247 million
It opened at number one with $16.4 million on December 16, 1994 and topped the holiday season.