Goonies Trivia
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60 free Goonies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
58 free Goonies trivia questions with answers. The Goonies is the treasure hunt a whole generation grew up quoting, and this quiz goes well past "Hey you guys!" Fifty-eight questions cover the Walsh brothers, Chunk's confession, Data's gadgets, the Fratellis and their hideout, One-Eyed Willy's booby traps and the ship nobody wanted to keep, plus the songs, the wrestlers in Cyndi Lauper's video and the real Oregon town that still throws a party for the film every year. It starts with the easy stuff any fan can answer and works up to production trivia and what happened to the cast afterwards, from Josh Brolin's Oscar nomination to Ke Huy Quan's Academy Award and the Goonie who became his lawyer. If you run a movie round at trivia night, the whole set is free to lift. Every answer was checked against the film's credits, the Wikipedia articles on the movie and its cast, and the Wikiquote transcript, and each question carries its source. No fan-forum guesses, no recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01In which Oregon town is the film set, and where were its town scenes shot?
Astoria
The town later turned the old county jail seen in the opening chase into the Oregon Film Museum, which opened on the film's 25th anniversary.
Q 02What is the name of the legendary pirate whose treasure the Goonies are hunting?
One-Eyed Willy
When Mikey finally meets him he lifts the eyepatch and finds bare bone underneath, which is why he got the name.
Q 03Which future Lord of the Rings actor plays Mikey Walsh?
Sean Astin
It was his film debut at 13; his mother Patty Duke had played his abusive mother in a TV movie four years earlier.
Q 04Who directed The Goonies?
Richard Donner
Spielberg supplied the story and produced through Amblin, and Sean Astin later wrote that the two men were like co-directors on set.
Q 05Which screenwriter, later the director of Home Alone, wrote The Goonies?
Chris Columbus
He wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes in the same stretch before directing Adventures in Babysitting in 1987.
Q 06Why are the Goonies about to lose their homes?
A country club is expanding onto the land
The man behind the foreclosures is Elgin Perkins, whose spoiled son Troy is Brand's rival for Andy.
Q 07Where do the boys find the treasure map and the 1632 doubloon?
In the Walshes' attic
Mrs. Walsh warns Rosalita that Mr. Walsh does not like anyone up there, which is exactly why the boys go rummaging.
Q 08Which crime family uses the derelict coastal restaurant as their hideout?
The Fratellis
Jake, Francis and Mama are the ones on the run; the fourth member, chained up in the basement, turns out to be the hero of the ending.
Q 09Which Goonie gets locked in a freezer and then abducted by the crooks?
Chunk
He was on his way to fetch the police, but the car he flagged down belonged to the very people he was reporting.
Q 10What is Sloth's real first name?
Lotney
He is the middle son of the family, chained up and much abused by his mother and brothers until Chunk befriends him.
Q 11Before playing Sloth, John Matuszak had been the first overall pick in the NFL draft for which team?
Houston Oilers
He spent most of his career with the Raiders and retired with two Super Bowl rings before turning to acting.
Q 12Which candy bar does Chunk offer Sloth when they first meet?
Baby Ruth
Chunk introduces himself first as Lawrence, adding that people sometimes call him Chunk, before tossing over the bar.
Q 13Complete Chunk's line as he abandons the group in the restaurant: 'But... I smell...'
Ice cream
The smell leads him into the walk-in freezer, and later Sloth finds him a tub of Rocky Road there.
Q 21Andy has to play which unusual instrument correctly to keep the floor from collapsing?
An organ made of bones
After hitting a wrong note she protests that she is not Liberace, and Mikey warns that one more error will leave them all flat.
Q 22What is the name of the pirate's ship the Goonies find in the grotto?
The Inferno
The full-size replica was built on a Burbank soundstage and scrapped afterwards because nobody wanted to take it.
Q 23Why was the cast's first look at the pirate ship also their characters' first look at it?
Donner banned them from seeing it until the reveal was filmed
Q 14Which flavour of ice cream does Sloth chuckle over when he raids the hideout's freezer?
Rocky Road
The moment is one of the few in the film where the character gets to be gentle rather than frightening.
Q 15Which sitcom actor's real-life sister has a cameo as Chunk's sister on the beach at the end?
Jeff Cohen
Cohen also showed up to work with chickenpox rather than risk being recast, and the spots are reportedly visible during the Truffle Shuffle.
Q 16Which Goonie is a James Bond fanatic who builds his own gadgets?
Data
His swing across to the Goon Docks is scored with the Bond theme, and his 'Pinchers of Peril' save him from a fall.
Q 17Which language does Mouth speak fluently, which he uses to terrify the Walshes' new housekeeper?
Spanish
His 'translations' for Rosalita involve drugs in the drawers and torture devices in the attic, and she concludes she is working in a madhouse.
Q 18Which future Oscar nominee made his film debut as Brand Walsh?
Josh Brolin
He was later a finalist with Johnny Depp for the lead in 21 Jump Street, lost the part, and the two became close friends.
Q 19After kissing someone in the dark cave, Andy asks Stef what question about Brand?
Whether he wears braces
The kiss actually landed on Mikey, which Brand only works out on the beach when Andy asks what happened to his braces.
Q 20Whose skeleton do the Goonies find in the tunnels, still carrying candles?
Chester Copperpot
The kids had already read about him in the attic: a reclusive scavenger who claimed to have the key to One-Eyed Willy and then vanished.
The trick worked almost too well: the cast was so overwhelmed on the first take that the reveal had to be reshot, and the version in the film is take two.
Q 24Mikey tells the others not to take treasure from where, calling it Willy's tribute?
The scales in front of his skeleton
The Fratellis ignore the warning and grab that treasure too, springing the last booby trap and bringing the grotto down.
Q 25What do the Goonies discover their last 'candle' actually is?
A stick of dynamite
The blast caves in the grotto, and it is Sloth who holds up the rocks long enough for everyone, Fratellis included, to escape.
Q 26Which item of Mikey's turns out to be full of jewels, saving the Goon Docks?
His marble bag
Rosalita finds it just as the foreclosure papers are about to be signed; the Fratellis had forgotten to search it.
Q 27Which sea creature is mentioned in the ending but only because its scene was cut from the film?
An octopus
The deleted attack survives as level seven of the 1985 Datasoft video game, so players got the scene cinema audiences never saw.
Q 28Which singer had a top-ten hit with 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough' from the soundtrack?
Cyndi Lauper
She later admitted she hated the song and refused to perform it live for years until Australian audiences in 2004 demanded it.
Q 29Which then-unknown band appears as female pirates in the two-part 'Goonies 'R' Good Enough' video?
The Bangles
Lauper was musical director of the soundtrack and brought her friends in; the video also crams in Spielberg and a roster of WWF wrestlers including André the Giant.
Q 30Which composer wrote The Goonies score, including the 'Fratelli Chase' theme reused in many trailers?
Dave Grusin
The score went unreleased for 25 years until a 5,000-copy CD in 2010; he won his Oscar three years after the film for The Milagro Beanfield War.