Indiana Jones Trivia
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107 free Indiana Jones trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
55 free Indiana Jones trivia questions with answers. It belongs in a museum, but first it belongs in a quiz. This set covers the whole Indiana Jones story: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny, plus The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the LucasArts and MachineGames video games, and the Disneyland ride. The early questions are for anyone who has seen the films once (what Indy is afraid of, who plays his father's old friend Sallah, which rating Temple of Doom helped invent). From there it digs into production lore: how wide the boulder really was, what the melting faces were made of, which uncredited playwright polished the Last Crusade script, and how many rats were bred for the Venice catacombs. Every answer has been checked against the published production history and carries a linked source, so when someone at your table insists the tank was a Mark IV you can settle it on the spot. Good for movie nights, pub quiz rounds, or anyone who owns a leather jacket for reasons they will not explain.
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Q 01Which creatures is Indiana Jones famously terrified of?
Snakes
Snakes have haunted him since boyhood: The Last Crusade opens with a young Indy tumbling into a heap of writhing snakes while fleeing through a circus train.
Q 02At the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where does the Ark finally end up?
In a government warehouse
In a government warehouse: Indy is told only that 'top men' are studying the Ark, and the last shot shows it nailed into a crate and wheeled away among thousands just like it.
Q 03In The Last Crusade, Indy and his father are racing the Nazis to find what?
The Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is what Indy's father, a lifelong Grail scholar, was hunting when he vanished, and the diary of clues he posts to Indy becomes the thing the Nazis chase across Europe.
Q 04Who plays Marion Ravenwood, first seen out-drinking a customer in a Nepal bar?
Karen Allen
Karen Allen won the part on the strength of her film debut in Animal House, then returned 27 years later for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Marion and Indy finally marry.
Q 05Indy's loyal Egyptian digger friend Sallah is played by which actor?
John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies called Sallah a favourite role, yet turned down a cameo as a wedding guest in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because he felt the character deserved more than one scene.
Q 06Kate Capshaw plays which Shanghai nightclub singer in Temple of Doom?
Willie Scott
Willie Scott was written as the opposite of tough Marion Ravenwood, so Kate Capshaw bleached her brown hair blonde for the part; seven years later she married the film's director, Steven Spielberg.
Q 07Which child actor made his screen debut as Short Round, Indy's sidekick in Temple of Doom?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan had only tagged along to his brother's audition, but the casting director saw him coaching from behind the camera and asked him to try; decades later he won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Q 08George Lucas named Indiana Jones after what?
His dog
His dog, an Alaskan Malamute called Indiana, rode in the passenger seat of his car and also inspired Chewbacca; The Last Crusade nods to her by giving young Indy a Malamute of his own.
Q 09Raiders of the Lost Ark has the Nazis excavating which buried Egyptian city?
Tanis
Tanis is a real city in the Nile Delta, but no sandstorm ever swallowed it as the film claims; in 1939 French archaeologist Pierre Montet found intact royal tombs there, still packed with gold.
Q 10The violence of Temple of Doom helped prompt the creation of which MPAA rating?
PG-13
PG-13 was Spielberg's own idea: after parents complained about his PG-rated film, he phoned ratings chief Jack Valenti and asked for a step between PG and R, and it was in place within weeks.
Q 11Who directed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?
James Mangold
James Mangold was Harrison Ford's pick: the two had just worked together on The Call of the Wild, so when Spielberg stepped aside after directing all four earlier films, Ford put his name forward.
Q 12Which actor was first cast as Indiana Jones but lost the role when CBS held him to a TV contract?
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck had to say no because CBS would not release him from Magnum, P.I.; a Hollywood strike then delayed the series, so he could have made both after all.
Q 13In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indy survives a nuclear test by climbing into what?
A refrigerator
Q 21The child-enslaving, heart-ripping cult in Temple of Doom worships the goddess Kali and is called what?
The Thuggee
The Thuggee were real: gangs of robbers who strangled travellers on India's roads until the British hunted them down from the 1830s, and their name gave English the word 'thug'.
Q 22The temple at the climax of The Last Crusade is really Al-Khazneh, the Treasury, in which ancient city?
Petra
Petra supplied only the doorway: behind the Treasury's facade are a few small empty rooms, so the knight's chamber was built at Elstree Studios, while King Hussein and Queen Noor hosted the crew on location.
Q 23Which country stood in for Egypt during the desert shoot of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Tunisia
A refrigerator, lead-lined, is hurled clear of the blast with Indy inside, and the scene gave English a new phrase: to 'nuke the fridge', said of a film series that has gone too far, modelled on 'jump the shark'.
Q 14In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, a young Indy meets which former US president in British East Africa in 1909?
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt really was on safari there in 1909, collecting specimens for the Smithsonian; in the episode Indy befriends a Maasai boy and comes away troubled by animals being shot for museum displays.
Q 15Which Last of Us voice actor plays Indy in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle?
Troy Baker
Troy Baker supplies the voice and movement under Harrison Ford's likeness, and won the part even though Bethesda's Todd Howard had told him to his face that he was not what they wanted.
Q 16Which actress plays Soviet agent Irina Spalko in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
Cate Blanchett
Cate Blanchett had wanted to play a villain for a couple of years and said yes at once; she invented so much of Spalko herself that Spielberg named her his favourite villain of the series.
Q 17Who plays Mutt, the motorcycle-riding greaser revealed to be Indy's son?
Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf signed on without reading the script or knowing his part; Dial of Destiny later writes Mutt out, saying he enlisted to spite his father and was killed in Vietnam.
Q 18In Dial of Destiny, Indy's goddaughter Helena Shaw is played by whom?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Fleabag, was told to model the grifting Helena on Barbara Stanwyck's con artist in The Lady Eve, a brief she laughed off as 'an impossible feat'.
Q 19Which actor plays the ex-Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller in Dial of Destiny?
Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen, already a Bond villain and TV's Hannibal Lecter, was digitally de-aged for the film's wartime opening and said of his younger face, 'I sense a smell of plastic.'
Q 20The Shanghai nightclub in the opening of Temple of Doom is named after which Star Wars character?
Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan lends the club its name, and the Busby Berkeley-style dance number inside it is there because Lucas kept reminding Spielberg that he had always wanted to shoot a musical.
Tunisia's 130-degree heat and local food laid most of the crew low with dysentery; Spielberg stayed well on cans he had brought along, and a sick Harrison Ford cut the big sword fight down to one gunshot.
Q 24John Williams' Raiders score was nominated for an Oscar but lost to which film's score?
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire won for Vangelis's score; the Raiders March it beat was really two tunes in one, because Spielberg liked both themes John Williams played him and asked for them to be joined.
Q 25Which Star Wars star wrote the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode in which Indy romances the spy Mata Hari?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher was in demand as a writer after her novel Postcards from the Edge, and her script sends a teenage Indy on leave from the trenches to Paris, where he falls for the dancer.
Q 26Harrison Ford wears a beard in his one Young Indiana Jones TV appearance because he had grown it for which movie?
The Fugitive
The Fugitive needed the beard for its early scenes, so when the TV bookend was shot in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where Ford has his ranch, the middle-aged Indy had one too.
Q 27LucasArts' classic 1992 point-and-click adventure sends Indiana Jones in search of which lost city?
Atlantis
Atlantis was the designers' own idea: asked to turn an unused film script into a game, they turned it down and went looking for a legend of their own.
Q 28Dial of Destiny's New York chase crosses a ticker-tape parade celebrating what?
The return of the Apollo 11 astronauts
The return of the Apollo 11 astronauts fills Manhattan with ticker tape as Indy, framed for the murder of two colleagues, flees through the parade, then an anti-war protest, and down into the subway.
Q 29Which actor plays the teenage Indiana Jones in the 1912 prologue of The Last Crusade?
River Phoenix
River Phoenix had played Harrison Ford's son in The Mosquito Coast, and Ford recommended him as the young actor who looked most like he had at that age; Phoenix prepared by studying Ford, not Indy.
Q 30After India's government objected to the Temple of Doom script, the location shoot moved to which country?
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka had a gorge right beside a dam under construction near Kandy, so the British engineers building the dam strung the film's rope bridge across it.