60 free Fall Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
56 free Fall Movie trivia questions with answers. Some films just belong to autumn: New York in falling leaves, prep-school sweaters, Thanksgiving road trips, small-town Halloweens. This quiz covers the ones people rewatch every fall, from When Harry Met Sally and You've Got Mail to Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Rushmore, Knives Out, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Coraline, plus the Halloween shelf: Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, Beetlejuice, Casper, Halloweentown, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloween and Scream. Questions range from easy (which candy is in E.T.) to genuinely tricky (which university stood in for Georgetown, which company made the Ghostface mask). It works for a movie night warm-up, a fall party round or a pub quiz in October or November. Every answer has been checked against each film's Wikipedia entry, and the source appears once you have answered.
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Q 01Who directed the 1989 autumn romance 'When Harry Met Sally...'?
Rob Reiner
Nora Ephron wrote the script, and Reiner's own mother delivered the film's most famous line in the deli scene.
Q 02At which Manhattan deli was the 'I'll have what she's having' scene in 'When Harry Met Sally...' filmed?
Katz's Delicatessen
The customer who says the line is Estelle Reiner, mother of the director, and the deli still marks the table with a sign.
Q 03'Dead Poets Society' is set in 1959 at which fictional boarding school?
Welton Academy
Real filming took place at St. Andrew's School in Delaware after scouts looked at more than 70 campuses.
Q 04Who won the Oscar for writing 'Dead Poets Society'?
Tom Schulman
He took Best Original Screenplay; Robin Williams and Peter Weir were both nominated but went home empty-handed.
Q 05What Latin phrase does John Keating teach his students in 'Dead Poets Society'?
Carpe diem
The American Film Institute later ranked the line as one of the 100 greatest movie quotes.
Q 06In 'Good Will Hunting', Will works as a janitor at which institution?
MIT
His genius is spotted by a professor after he solves a problem left on a hallway blackboard.
Q 07Which two friends wrote 'Good Will Hunting' and won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for it?
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Robin Williams won Best Supporting Actor the same night; the film had nine nominations in all.
Q 08Who directed 'Good Will Hunting'?
Gus Van Sant
Made for around $10-16 million, it grossed roughly $226 million worldwide.
Q 09In which Massachusetts town is 'Hocus Pocus' set?
Salem
The witches are woken on Halloween night by a teenage newcomer who does not believe in them.
Q 10Which director of 'Hocus Pocus' later made the 'High School Musical' films?
Kenny Ortega
The film opened in July 1993 and flopped, only becoming a Halloween staple through years of TV reruns.
Q 11What object must be lit by a virgin to bring the Sanderson sisters back in 'Hocus Pocus'?
The Black Flame Candle
The rules also require a full moon on All Hallows' Eve, which is why the sisters had waited 300 years.
Q 12'Hocus Pocus 2' arrived in 2022 on which streaming service?
Disney+
The sequel came 29 years after the original and reunited Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy.
Q 13'You've Got Mail' takes its title from the greeting used by which online service?
AOL
It was Nora Ephron's highest-grossing film, taking about $250 million worldwide.
Q 21In 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles', Neal Page is trying to get home to which city for Thanksgiving?
Chicago
John Hughes wrote, produced and directed the 1987 comedy, pairing Steve Martin with John Candy.
Q 22What does John Candy's character Del Griffith sell in 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'?
Shower curtain rings
He passes them off as earrings to a busload of strangers to raise cash for the trip.
Q 23Wes Anderson's 'Rushmore' was co-written with which actor, who also appears in most of his films?
Owen Wilson
The prep school was played by St. John's School in Houston, Anderson's own alma mater.
Q 14In 'You've Got Mail', what is the name of Kathleen Kelly's independent children's bookstore?
The Shop Around the Corner
It is a nod to the 1940 film the story remakes, itself adapted from a Hungarian play called Parfumerie.
Q 15Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' adapts a 1970 novel by which author?
Roald Dahl
George Clooney voices the fox and the film picked up Oscar nominations for animated feature and score.
Q 16What are the names of the three farmers who hunt the title character in 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'?
Boggis, Bunce and Bean
Dahl's rhyme about the trio (one fat, one short, one lean) is repeated by the animals in the film.
Q 17What is the surname of the witch family played by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman in 'Practical Magic'?
Owens
The story comes from Alice Hoffman's 1995 novel about a family of witches under a curse.
Q 18'Practical Magic' was shot in Coupeville, Washington, on which Puget Sound island?
Whidbey Island
The famous seaside house was a set built on nearby San Juan Island and torn down after filming.
Q 19Which detective does Daniel Craig play in 'Knives Out'?
Benoit Blanc
Rian Johnson wrote and directed the film, which earned an Oscar nomination for its original screenplay.
Q 20Who plays the crime novelist Harlan Thrombey, whose death sets 'Knives Out' in motion?
Christopher Plummer
Ana de Armas plays his nurse Marta, whose inability to lie without vomiting becomes a plot device.
Q 24Who plays the precocious student Max Fischer in 'Rushmore'?
Jason Schwartzman
It was his film debut; Bill Murray plays the industrialist Herman Blume who becomes his rival in love.
Q 25Which company's first feature film was 'Coraline' (2009)?
Laika
Henry Selick directed the stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novella and it earned an Oscar nomination.
Q 26In 'Coraline', what does the Other Mother want to sew onto Coraline's eyes?
Buttons
Coraline and her parents have just moved into the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon.
Q 27Which Peanuts character waits in the pumpkin patch in 'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'?
Linus
The 1966 special was only the third Peanuts cartoon ever made, with music by jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.
Q 28What does Charlie Brown get instead of candy while trick-or-treating in the Great Pumpkin special?
Rocks
Meanwhile Snoopy, as the World War I Flying Ace, battles the Red Baron from his doghouse.
Q 29Who provides Jack Skellington's singing voice in 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'?
Danny Elfman
Elfman also wrote every song; Chris Sarandon handles Jack's spoken lines.
Q 30'The Nightmare Before Christmas' was the first animated film nominated for which Oscar?
Best Visual Effects
Disney released it under its Touchstone label, worried the Gothic look was too scary for kids.