Friday Movie Trivia
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45 free Friday Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
42 free Friday Movie trivia questions with answers. You got knocked out. This quiz covers the whole Friday franchise: the 1995 original written by Ice Cube and DJ Pooh, Next Friday in Rancho Cucamonga and Friday After Next at Christmas, plus the animated series and the two decades of stop-start news about Last Friday. Forty-two questions run through Craig and Smokey's $200 problem, Deebo and Big Worm, Willie's fists-not-guns speech, the Bye Felicia meme, the Joker Brothers, Money Mike and the Santa Claus robber. The easy questions ask who plays Smokey and how much Craig and Smokey owe Big Worm; the hard ones want the comics considered for Smokey before Chris Tucker, the studio that funded the film on one condition, the actress who coached Tucker over spaghetti and which two actors appear in all three films. It suits anyone who quotes the movie every Friday and anyone settling an argument about which sequel made the most money. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the three films and the franchise, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who plays Smokey, the small-time weed dealer, in the original Friday?
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker flopped his first audition, turning up unprepared straight off the road, and won Smokey only after the casting director sent him away to study and let him read again.
Q 02What does Craig's father, Willie Jones, do for a living in the original Friday?
Dog catcher
Dog catcher Willie Jones nags his jobless son to learn the trade, yet he also gives the film its moral, telling Craig to put down the gun, use his fists and live to fight another day.
Q 03How much money do Craig and Smokey owe Big Worm, and by what time?
$200 by 10 p.m.
Smokey has smoked the weed he was meant to sell, so Big Worm demands his $200 by 10 p.m. that night, or else.
Q 04Who directed Friday, in his feature debut after a career making music videos?
F. Gary Gray
F. Gary Gray had shot Ice Cube's music videos, and Cube chose him as 'a talented director from the hood' who needed no teaching about the world of the script; he later made The Italian Job and Straight Outta Compton.
Q 05Ice Cube co-wrote the Friday screenplay with which DJ and producer?
DJ Pooh
DJ Pooh co-wrote Friday with Ice Cube, basing Smokey on his own stint dealing weed, and was originally going to play the part himself.
Q 06Which actor plays Craig's father Willie, famous for telling Craig to use his fists instead of a gun?
John Witherspoon
John Witherspoon plays Willie Jones in all three films; he said the scene made his comic character serious, a father who finds a gun on his son and tells him to use his fists and live to fight another day.
Q 07Which actress plays Debbie, the neighbour Craig ends up with at the end of Friday?
Nia Long
Nia Long plays Debbie, and she is the reason for the climax: Craig finally squares up to the neighbourhood bully after he knocks Debbie to the ground.
Q 08Which catchphrase that swept social media in the 2010s began as a line in Friday?
Bye, Felicia
'Bye, Felicia' is Craig's brush-off to Felisha, the neighbourhood mooch forever asking to borrow things; Ice Cube called it a throwaway line, and the meme even misspells her name.
Q 09Who plays Big Worm, the drug supplier who gives Craig and Smokey their deadline?
Faizon Love
Faizon Love plays Big Worm, who deals from an ice-cream truck with rollers in his hair; Love said he picked the look himself, hoping to wear 'one of the great perms'.
Q 10In Friday, where does the cash that Deebo pockets after strong-arming Smokey come from?
Burgled from neighbour Stanley's house
Burgled from neighbour Stanley's house, the haul matches Smokey's debt to the dollar, but Deebo, who forced him into the break-in, keeps every cent and the debt stands.
Q 11Which line does Smokey deliver straight to the camera to close Friday?
I was just bullshittin'!
'I was just bullshittin'!' comes seconds after Smokey swears down the phone to Big Worm that he is through with weed; he hangs up, lights a joint and adds, 'And you know this, man!'
Q 12Which studio, nicknamed 'the house that Freddy built', financed and released Friday?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema put up about $3.5 million but, Ice Cube says, would not have the co-writer pencilled in as Smokey, judging him short of screen experience, which threw the part open.
Q 13Which better-known pair, one an SNL alumnus, did Friday's director pass over for Smokey?
Q 21Who plays Craig's cousin Day-Day in the sequels?
Mike Epps
Mike Epps plays Day-Day in both Next Friday and Friday After Next, his first major film role, and went on to star with Ice Cube again in All About the Benjamins.
Q 22Why has Craig's uncle Elroy moved to the suburbs by the time of Next Friday?
He won the lottery
He won the lottery and bought a house in the suburbs, but by the time Craig arrives the winnings are gone and the place is about to be seized over unpaid property taxes.
Q 23What are the three criminal siblings in Next Friday known as?
The Joker Brothers
Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson
Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson were the bigger names, but the director fought for a newcomer instead, later saying Rock was 'very New York' for a story set in South Central Los Angeles.
Q 14Which actress, Friday's neighbourhood mooch, coached the future Smokey over a home-cooked dinner before his second audition?
Angela Means
Angela Means put a pot of spaghetti on and, with a castmate, drilled him line by line after his first reading flopped; by the time the food was gone, she said, he had become Smokey.
Q 15Friday was written partly as a reaction to which kind of film?
Violent hood dramas like Boyz n the Hood
Ice Cube wanted to counter the grim image of South Central in violent hood dramas like Boyz n the Hood, in which he had starred; 'We had fun in the hood,' he said.
Q 16What cost-saving idea did Friday's writers briefly consider before a studio signed on?
Shooting in black and white
Ice Cube and his co-writer briefly considered shooting Friday in black and white to save money, and had even thought about financing it themselves.
Q 17For its 20th anniversary, Friday returned to U.S. cinemas for one night only on which fitting date?
April 20
April 20, 2015 fell on a Monday, but the stoner comedy's one-night director's-cut return was booked for 4/20, weed culture's unofficial holiday, rather than for any Friday.
Q 18Which director, who made his debut in 1992, named Friday among his 20 favourite films released since that year?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino ranked only the top of his list: Battle Royale came first, and he said The Matrix would have been second had its sequels not spoiled it; Friday sat among the unranked rest.
Q 19Which rapper turned Deebo, Friday's neighbourhood bully, into a verb on a 2024 diss track?
Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar raps the bully's name as a verb on Not Like Us, boasting that he can do it to any rival rapper as easily as a free throw; the song went on to win Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys.
Q 20In Next Friday, Craig is sent to live with his uncle and cousin in which city?
Rancho Cucamonga
Craig's father ships him off to Uncle Elroy's house in suburban Rancho Cucamonga after the bully who terrorised their street breaks out of prison seeking revenge.
The Joker Brothers, Joker, Lil' Joker and Baby Joker, are drug dealers, and Craig ends up stealing their cash to pay the back taxes that threaten his uncle's house.
Q 24How did Next Friday explain Smokey's absence after the actor declined to return?
He checked into rehab
He checked into rehab, Craig says in the opening narration, which makes an honest man of Smokey: the first film ends with him promising to get clean and then lighting up. He is seen only in old footage.
Q 25What is the name of Ice Cube's production company, which made Next Friday its first film?
Cube Vision
Next Friday was the first film produced by Cube Vision, the company Ice Cube founded to make his own projects; it later produced the Barbershop and Ride Along franchises.
Q 26Which music-video director, later of Daddy Day Care and Paul Blart: Mall Cop, made his feature debut with Next Friday?
Steve Carr
Steve Carr made his feature debut with Next Friday after directing music videos; Marcus Raboy then debuted with Friday After Next, so each film had a first-time feature director.
Q 27Next Friday, made without Smokey, opened at No. 1; how did its box office compare with the original's?
About twice as much
About twice as much: the 2000 sequel took $59.8 million worldwide against the original's $28 million, even though the first film's scene-stealer had refused to come back.
Q 28Deebo escapes prison in Next Friday with which relative?
His brother Tyrone
His brother Tyrone, played by Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz, breaks out with him, and the two set off after Craig still shackled together.
Q 29Friday After Next takes place on which day?
Christmas Eve
Friday After Next is set on Christmas Eve; it opens with a burglar dressed as Santa Claus robbing Craig and Day-Day's apartment of their rent money and presents.
Q 30What jobs do Craig and Day-Day take in Friday After Next?
Security guards at a strip mall
Security guards at a strip mall is the work the cousins grab after a thief makes off with their rent money and the landlady demands it by nightfall; their fathers' rib joint sits in the same mall.