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44 free Fight Club trivia questions with answers. The first rule is famous, but the rest of Fight Club rewards a closer look. This quiz covers David Fincher's 1999 film and Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel: the Narrator and Tyler Durden, Marla, Bob and Project Mayhem, the twist and the ending, the actors who were nearly cast, Brad Pitt's chipped teeth, the Dust Brothers score, the Pixies song, the box-office disappointment and the DVD cult that followed, plus the comic-book sequels. It starts with questions any fan can answer and climbs to production and publishing details only obsessives know. Difficulty ratings are shown so you can pick your battles; we do not recommend actually fighting over them. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, the novel, the characters and the sequels, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Who directed Fight Club?
David Fincher
He was coming off Seven and The Game, and 20th Century Fox released the result on October 15, 1999.
Q 02Who wrote the 1996 novel the film is based on?
Chuck Palahniuk
It was his first published novel, and it began life as a seven-page short story in a 1995 anthology.
Q 03Which actor plays the unnamed Narrator?
Edward Norton
The studio had wanted a 'sexier marquee name' such as Damon or Sean Penn; Fox eventually offered Norton $2.5 million.
Q 04What does Tyler Durden claim to sell for a living when the Narrator meets him?
Soap
The soap is made from fat stolen from liposuction clinics, sold back to the department stores whose customers supplied it.
Q 05Which actress plays Marla Singer?
Helena Bonham Carter
The other three were all considered; Fincher thought Witherspoon too young and cast Bonham Carter after The Wings of the Dove.
Q 06Which rock singer plays Robert 'Bob' Paulsen?
Meat Loaf
He wore a 90-pound fat harness for the part; police kill Bob during a Project Mayhem mission.
Q 07Which future Oscar winner plays Angel Face, the blond recruit the Narrator beats to a pulp?
Jared Leto
He shaved his head and bleached the rest; the beating is the moment the Narrator admits he wanted to destroy something beautiful.
Q 08What is the Narrator's job?
Automobile recall coordinator
He applies a formula: if the cost of a recall exceeds the cost of settlements, the company does not recall.
Q 09Which kind of support group does the Narrator's doctor first send him to?
Testicular cancer
The doctor wants him to see what real pain looks like; instead he discovers that crying there cures his insomnia.
Q 10Where does the Narrator first meet Tyler Durden?
On a business flight
Tyler calls him a 'single-serving friend'; when the Narrator gets home his apartment has exploded.
Q 11What favour does Tyler ask before letting the Narrator stay with him?
To punch him as hard as he can
The exchange of blows outside the bar becomes the first fight club, in the bar's basement.
Q 12What is the first rule?
You do not talk about it
The second rule is the same; the novel lists eight rules in total.
Q 13How does the Narrator extort money from his boss?
By beating himself up in the office
He stages it so the boss appears to have assaulted him, then uses the hush money to expand fight club.
Q 21What did Brad Pitt do to his teeth for the role?
Had a dentist chip pieces off
He also trained in boxing, taekwondo, grappling and soapmaking with Norton, and was paid $17.5 million.
Q 22Which actor did producer Ross Bell meet about playing Tyler Durden?
Russell Crowe
Producer Art Linson, joining late, met Pitt about the same part, and Pitt got it.
Q 23Roughly what was Fight Club's production budget?
$63-65 million
It grossed just $37 million in North America and about $101 million worldwide, which counted as a disappointment.
Q 14What does Tyler turn fight club into?
Project Mayhem
Its members, nicknamed space monkeys, carry out ever-more destructive anti-capitalist acts.
Q 15Who blew up the Narrator's apartment?
Tyler, to free him from consumerism
The confession comes late; the earlier apartment scene labels every IKEA possession on screen like a catalogue.
Q 16What does Marla call the Narrator when he phones her near the end?
Tyler
It is the moment the truth lands: Tyler has been taking over during the Narrator's blackouts all along.
Q 17What is the ultimate objective of the organisation fight club becomes?
To erase debt records by blowing up credit-company skyscrapers
The Narrator goes to the police, only to find the officers are Project Mayhem members with orders to castrate him.
Q 18How does the Narrator finally get rid of Tyler?
He shoots himself through the cheek
He reasons the gun in Tyler's hand must really be in his own; Tyler dies, he survives, and he takes Marla's hand as the towers fall.
Q 19Which song plays over the collapsing buildings and end credits?
Where Is My Mind? by Pixies
Black Francis wrote it about scuba diving in the Caribbean; the film gave the 1988 track a second life.
Q 20Which duo composed the film's score after Radiohead turned it down?
The Dust Brothers
Thom Yorke declined because he was still recovering from the stress of promoting OK Computer.
Q 24At which festival did Fight Club premiere in September 1999?
Venice
The reception was divided; Roger Ebert later gave it two stars and called it a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy.
Q 25How much did Fight Club earn over its opening weekend in North America?
$11 million
That was across 1,963 theatres, and the underperformance soured Fox chief Bill Mechanic's relationship with Rupert Murdoch.
Q 26Roughly how many DVD and video copies had Fight Club sold within ten years of release?
More than 6 million
The June 2000 DVD, with its stacked commentaries, is where the cult was really built.
Q 27For which Academy Award was Fight Club nominated?
Best Sound Editing
It was the film's only nomination; Helena Bonham Carter did win the Empire Award for Best British Actress.
Q 28How many days did filming last?
138
The shoot ran from July to December 1998 and burned through more than 1,500 rolls of film, three times the average.
Q 29How many sets did production designer Alex McDowell build for the film?
More than 70
Jeff Cronenweth shot them in Super 35; the opening title sequence is a 90-second trip through the Narrator's brain.
Q 30What does Tyler point out to the audience midway through the film?
The cue mark, or 'cigarette burn'
Before he formally appears, Tyler is also spliced into single frames of the film, out of focus, like a devil on the shoulder.