Field of Dreams Trivia
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49 free Field of Dreams trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free Field of Dreams trivia questions with answers. Field of Dreams (1989) built a ballpark in an Iowa cornfield and people did indeed come. This quiz covers the whole story: Ray Kinsella hearing "If you build it, he will come", Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of the Black Sox stepping out of the corn, the trip to Boston for Terence Mann, Fenway Park, Moonlight Graham in Chisholm, Minnesota, Mark trying to buy the farm, Karin choking on a hot dog, and the game of catch with Dad at the end. The easy questions are for anyone who has cried at that final scene. The harder ones cover W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe and why J. D. Salinger became Terence Mann, Tom Hanks turning the lead down, the corn that would not grow, the 1,500 cars in the closing shot, James Horner's score, the Oscar nominations, the real Moonlight Graham, and the MLB games later played on the Dyersville site, including Tim Anderson's walk-off homer into the corn. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, the novel, the real Shoeless Joe and the MLB games, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays Ray Kinsella, the Iowa farmer who builds the ballpark in Field of Dreams?
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner. He was already signed to the thriller Revenge, so the whole shoot was scheduled around him and had to finish before he left to make it.
Q 02Which word completes the voice's whisper in Field of Dreams: 'If you build it, … will come'?
He
He. The line is 'If you build it, he will come', number 39 on the AFI's list of great movie quotes, yet so many fans remember 'they' that the director calls it a Mandela effect.
Q 03Outside which Iowa town does the real Field of Dreams farm stand?
Dyersville
Dyersville. The diamond was left behind when the 1988 shoot ended, and fans began turning up at the Lansing family's farm within weeks of the film's release.
Q 04After Field of Dreams came out, which team of locals in old-time uniforms began entertaining visitors at the Iowa field?
The Ghost Players
The Ghost Players. Locals, some of them extras from the film, ordered old White Sox jerseys and walked out of the corn to greet fans, and the act grew into a Sunday comedy show.
Q 05In Field of Dreams, who plays the first ghost to step out of the corn?
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta. He bats right-handed in the film, though the real Shoeless Joe Jackson hit left-handed.
Q 06What scandal were the ghostly White Sox players banned from baseball for?
Fixing the 1919 World Series
Fixing the 1919 World Series. Eight players were accused of taking gamblers' money to lose it; a jury acquitted them in 1921, yet all eight were banned from the game for life.
Q 07Who plays Ray's wife, Annie, in Field of Dreams?
Amy Madigan
Amy Madigan. Her real husband, the actor Ed Harris, is among the names fans have guessed for the film's mysterious Voice, though the director says nobody has yet guessed right.
Q 08What is the name of Ray and Annie's daughter in Field of Dreams?
Karin
Karin. Gaby Hoffmann made her film debut in the part, and it is Karin, before any of the adults, who says people will pay to come and watch the ghosts play.
Q 09At a PTA meeting in Field of Dreams, what does Annie Kinsella talk the town out of doing?
Banning an author's books
Banning an author's books. Annie calls the ringleader a Nazi cow and wins a show of hands for free speech, and the row is what tells Ray whose pain the voice wants him to ease.
Q 10Who plays Terence Mann, the reclusive author Ray tracks down in Field of Dreams?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones. His character is the film's invention: in the novel Ray kidnaps a real, living author, and the studio feared a lawsuit if he appeared on screen.
Q 11In the novel behind Field of Dreams, which real writer does Ray seek out?
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger. Kinsella borrowed the name Ray Kinsella from a Salinger short story, so that one of the author's own characters could turn up at his door and take him to a ball game.
Q 12Field of Dreams lost its original title, Shoeless Joe, after test audiences assumed the story was about what?
A homeless man
A homeless man. The director hated the replacement, Field of Dreams, and asked the studio to test it once more hoping it would flop; its scores went up instead.
Q 13The all-American baseball novel behind Field of Dreams was written by W. P. Kinsella, who was which nationality?
Canadian
Q 21In Field of Dreams, at which protest-era campus did Ray Kinsella study and meet his wife, Annie?
Berkeley
Berkeley. Brooklyn-raised Ray says he picked the college farthest from home to drive his father up the wall, and that his real major was the Sixties.
Q 22In Field of Dreams, who is Mark, the man who keeps pressing Ray to sell the farm?
Annie's brother
Annie's brother. Timothy Busfield's Mark can't even see the ballplayers until the film's last minutes, when he suddenly begs Ray to keep the farm.
Q 23Who turns out to be the catcher at the end of Field of Dreams?
Ray's father
Ray's father. Ray gave up playing ball with him as a teenager and never made peace before he died; here, facing him as a young man, he finally asks for a game of catch.
Canadian. Born in Edmonton, he was teaching English in Alberta when a Boston editor urged him to turn his short story about Shoeless Joe Jackson into a novel.
Q 14At which ballpark do Ray and Terence Mann watch a game in Field of Dreams?
Fenway Park
Fenway Park. Ray believes only he can see the scoreboard's message about a long-forgotten ballplayer, until Terence Mann admits, as they part, that he saw it too.
Q 15Which two future stars were teenage extras in Field of Dreams' ballpark crowd?
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The two were school friends, and within a decade of sitting in that crowd they shared an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting.
Q 16What does the voice tell Ray at the ballpark in Field of Dreams?
Go the distance
Go the distance. It is the third of the voice's messages, and the company that later bought the real field took the phrase as its name.
Q 17In Field of Dreams, what is the baseball nickname of Archie Graham, the player who never got to bat?
Moonlight
Moonlight. W. P. Kinsella found Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham's line, one game and no at-bats, while leafing through a baseball encyclopedia, and saved the name for a novel.
Q 18In which Minnesota town does Ray find Doc Graham?
Chisholm
Chisholm. The real Graham spent decades as the mining town's school doctor and handed out free eyeglasses to children whose families couldn't afford them.
Q 19Which screen legend plays the elderly Doc Graham in Field of Dreams?
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster. James Stewart had turned the part down, and the director wanted a star who had been an athlete in his youth; it was Lancaster's last cinema film.
Q 20What ends young Archie Graham's time as a ballplayer in Field of Dreams?
Saving a choking child
Saving a choking child. The moment he steps off the field he becomes old Doc Graham again and can never go back, and he tells a stricken Ray that it's okay.
Q 24What is Ray's father's name in Field of Dreams?
John
John. Ray grows sure the voice means Terence Mann when he finds that the author once named the hero of a story John Kinsella.
Q 25What did teenage Ray call his father's hero in Field of Dreams?
A criminal
A criminal. He meant Shoeless Joe Jackson; Ray had refused to play catch from the age of 14, said it as he left home at 17, and next came back for his father's funeral.
Q 26The eventual star of Field of Dreams was first left off the casting list because he had just made which baseball film?
Bull Durham
Bull Durham. The director assumed nobody would make two baseball films in a row, until a Universal executive slipped the star the script and he said yes.
Q 27Who wrote and directed Field of Dreams?
Phil Alden Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson. He spent years trying to get the novel filmed, then fought the studio over its change of title and lost.
Q 28Why were the interior scenes of Field of Dreams shot first?
The corn was taking too long to grow
The corn was taking too long to grow. In the drought of 1988 the crew dammed a creek on the farm to irrigate it, and theirs became the only tall corn around.
Q 29In the closing credits of Field of Dreams, the mysterious Voice is listed as being played by whom?
Himself
Himself. The director has kept the speaker's identity secret for decades, and says every name fans have put forward so far is wrong.
Q 30In Field of Dreams' final shot, what did the waiting drivers flick to fake movement?
High beams
High beams. From the helicopter the line of real cars, driven by locals, looked like lights strung along the road until the director had them switch between low and high beams.