Grown Ups
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
7correct to beat the crowd
40 free Grown Ups trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Grown Ups brought Adam Sandler and four fellow comedians together as childhood teammates who meet again thirty years after their big win, this time with wives, children and old grudges in tow. Critics were unkind, audiences turned up anyway, and a second film followed in 2013. This quiz covers the story of the reunion weekend, the families and their running jokes, the supporting cast and cameos, where the film was shot, and how it fared at the box office and on awards night. It suits fans who have seen the film more than once, and anyone putting together a movie night round on 2010s comedies. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
30 of 40 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01In which sport do Lenny Feder and his friends win a 1978 junior high championship in Grown Ups?
Basketball
Basketball brings the five together in 1978 and again thirty years on, when a rival who never accepted the result demands a rematch by the lake.
Q 02Over which holiday weekend do the five friends and their families share a lake house in Grown Ups?
Fourth of July
Fourth of July fireworks close the film, watched by all five families after a weekend that began with their old coach's funeral.
Q 03Which color does a pool chemical turn urine in Grown Ups, as Donna Lamonsoff warns her father?
Blue
Blue water gives the game away after Eric Lamonsoff ignores his daughter's warning about the chemical, one of several ways the families cause chaos at the park.
Q 04Which make of sports car did Adam Sandler buy his four Grown Ups co-stars as a thank-you gift?
Maserati
Maserati sports cars went to all four co-stars after Grown Ups became Sandler's biggest worldwide hit at the box office.
Q 05Which Oscar-nominated star of Frida plays Roxanne, the wife of Lenny Feder, in Grown Ups?
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek plays Roxanne, who gives up a work trip abroad when she sees what the weekend is doing for her children.
Q 06Which of the five lead actors in Grown Ups is the only one who did not return for Grown Ups 2?
Rob Schneider
Rob Schneider skipped Grown Ups 2, so only four of the old teammates feature when Lenny moves his family back to their hometown.
Q 07Which actor plays Wiley, who crashes into a shed on the zipline and ends Grown Ups in a full-body cast?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi plays Wiley, a friend of Lenny's old rival Dickie Bailey. He had already worked with Adam Sandler on Airheads, The Wedding Singer and Big Daddy.
Q 08In the roulette game the friends play in Grown Ups, which object do they launch into the air?
An arrow
An arrow is fired straight up in the game, and the first round ends when it comes down on Rob Hilliard, who then snaps at his wife's offer of holistic healing.
Q 09Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and David Spade of Grown Ups all joined which TV show in the 1990–91 season?
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is where the stars met, and Norm Macdonald, who has a cameo in Grown Ups, is a fellow veteran of the sketch show.
Q 10How does the rematch against Dickie Bailey's team end for Lenny Feder in Grown Ups?
He misses on purpose
He misses on purpose: Lenny later tells his wife he let Dickie's family win so that his own children would learn what losing feels like.
Q 11What is the nickname of Robert Ferdinando, the coach whose death reunites the five friends in Grown Ups?
Buzzer
Buzzer is the coach who took the boys to a lake house to celebrate their 1978 title, and the five scatter his ashes together three decades later.
Q 12To which city are Lenny Feder's family due to fly for his wife Roxanne's fashion show in Grown Ups?
Milan
Milan is the trip Roxanne agrees to scrap, though Lenny later admits he had cancelled the flight before the family even left home.
Q 13Which Hollywood job has made Lenny Feder, a father of three spoiled children, wealthy in Grown Ups?
Talent agent
Talent agent Lenny is the group's big success, and he secretly cancels a family trip so that his children can have a normal vacation for once.
Q 21In which US state was Grown Ups filmed, with Chebacco Lake standing in for the fictional Amoskeag Lake?
Massachusetts
Massachusetts hosted the shoot, which was based in Essex County in 2009. Adam Sandler himself grew up just over the border in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Q 22Woodman's, the real restaurant where Dickie Bailey works in Grown Ups, is said to have invented which dish?
Fried clams
Fried clams were born at Woodman's in 1916, by its own account, when Chubby Woodman dropped clams into the oil he used for potato chips.
Q 23Grown Ups overtook which Adam Sandler comedy, an Oscar nominee for its makeup, as his biggest worldwide hit?
Click
Q 14Eric Lamonsoff claims to co-own a company making what in Grown Ups, before admitting he was laid off?
Lawn furniture
Lawn furniture is Eric's cover story: he had lost his job and kept up the act all weekend to avoid humiliation, until Lenny and Kurt offer to help him start a business.
Q 15In Grown Ups, what does Dickie Bailey insist should have ruled out Lenny Feder's 1978 winner?
His foot was out of bounds
His foot was out of bounds, Dickie says, and the grudge over that 1978 title is what drives him to demand a rematch.
Q 16Which real New England slide park, later seen in The Way, Way Back, features in Grown Ups?
Water Wizz
Water Wizz, a family-owned park open since 1982, played a larger part in The Way, Way Back three years after Grown Ups.
Q 17What is the name of Eric and Sally Lamonsoff's four-year-old son, who is still breastfed, in Grown Ups?
Bean
Bean is weaned at last during the trip to the slides, when his father Eric teaches him to drink cow's milk.
Q 18Which secret does Rob Hilliard admit in Grown Ups, though all his friends already know it?
He wears a toupee
He wears a toupee, as his friends had long worked out. The confession comes in a round of truth-telling that also exposes Eric's lost job.
Q 19Which child in Grown Ups delivers the line that won the 2011 MTV Movie Award for Best Line from a Movie?
Becky Feder
Becky Feder is Lenny's five-year-old daughter and youngest child, played by Alexys Nycole Sanchez, and her line about a sweet treat gave the film an MTV Movie Award win.
Q 20Which director of Big Daddy and You Don't Mess with the Zohan made Grown Ups and appears in it as a referee?
Dennis Dugan
Dennis Dugan directed Grown Ups, one of his many films with Adam Sandler, and he came back to direct Grown Ups 2 as well.
Click, the 2006 comedy about a universal remote control, had been Sandler's top earner worldwide until Grown Ups passed it four years later.
Q 24Which production company, founded by Adam Sandler in 1999, made Grown Ups alongside Relativity Media?
Happy Madison
Happy Madison takes its name from two of Sandler's 1990s comedies, and Grown Ups became the highest-grossing film it had produced.
Q 25Adam Sandler wrote Grown Ups with which co-writer of the David Spade comedy Joe Dirt?
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf shares the screenplay credit with Sandler and returned for Grown Ups 2, when Sandler's regular writing partner Tim Herlihy joined them.
Q 26Which Schubert piece does Rob Hilliard sing in Grown Ups, a performance left off the soundtrack album?
Ave Maria
Ave Maria is performed on screen by the hippie of the group, while the album itself is rock from acts such as Journey, Cheap Trick and The Kinks.
Q 27Which future Disney Channel star of Jessie and Descendants plays Lenny Feder's son Keithie in Grown Ups?
Cameron Boyce
Cameron Boyce played the spoiled Keithie as a child actor and returned for Grown Ups 2, by which time he was starring in Jessie.
Q 28China Anne McClain, Kurt McKenzie's daughter in Grown Ups, later led which Disney Channel series?
A.N.T. Farm
She won the lead role of Chyna Parks in 2011 and sang the theme song, Exceptional, herself. A.N.T. Farm ran on Disney Channel until 2014.
Q 29Which comedian plays Dickie Bailey, the childhood rival who demands a rematch in Grown Ups?
Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn plays Dickie, now a chef at a seafood restaurant, and he returned to the role in Grown Ups 2.
Q 30Which Bridesmaids star plays Deanne McKenzie, the pregnant wife of Kurt, in Grown Ups?
Maya Rudolph
Maya Rudolph plays Deanne, who is expecting her third child during the reunion, and she went on to appear in Grown Ups 2 as well.