Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Trivia
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60 free Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the one with Dad. Steven Spielberg's 1989 film sent Harrison Ford's archaeologist after the Holy Grail and his kidnapped father, put Sean Connery in a tweed suit and rimless glasses, and became the highest-grossing film in the world that year. This quiz has 60 questions on the whole film: the 1912 Boy Scout prologue and River Phoenix, the Cross of Coronado, Venice's rat-filled catacombs, Brunwald Castle, the book-burning in Berlin, the Zeppelin, the tank chase in the Spanish desert, the three trials and the knight who has waited 700 years. It also digs into the making of it: the abandoned Monkey King script, how Connery reshaped his role, where each sequence was shot, the record-setting opening weekend, the Oscar it won and the LucasArts games. It starts easy and works up to details for people who have read the making-of book. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or run it as the movie round at trivia night.
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Q 01The Last Crusade was the first Indiana Jones film released under which rating, created after the outcry over Temple of Doom?
PG-13
PG-13 grew out of complaints about Temple of Doom's violence, and Spielberg, unhappy with how dark that film had turned out, steered The Last Crusade back to the lighter spirit of Raiders.
Q 02Which spy series had Spielberg hoped to direct before Lucas offered him Indiana Jones instead?
James Bond
James Bond: Spielberg wanted to make a 007 film when Lucas pitched him Indiana Jones, and years later he insisted that only Sean Connery, the former 007, could play Indy's father.
Q 03What does the Holy Grail turn out to look like when Indy finally finds it in The Last Crusade?
A plain, humble cup
A plain, humble cup: Elsa remarks that it would never be made of gold, Indy calls it the cup of a carpenter, and he drinks from it himself before carrying water to his father.
Q 04Which young actor plays the 13-year-old Indiana Jones in the 1912 prologue?
River Phoenix
River Phoenix had played Harrison Ford's son in The Mosquito Coast, and Ford recommended him as the young actor who most resembled him at that age.
Q 05The Last Crusade's prologue was shot among red-rock arches outside which Utah town?
Moab
Moab lies a few miles from Arches National Park, where the shoot moved after Native American representatives objected to filming among Colorado's Mesa Verde cliff dwellings.
Q 06What artifact does young Indy grab from graverobbers in The Last Crusade prologue and recover in 1938?
The Cross of Coronado
The Cross of Coronado: young Indy insists it belongs in a museum, and once he wins it back on a storm-lashed ship he hands it to Marcus Brody for exactly that.
Q 07How does The Last Crusade's prologue explain the scar on Indy's chin?
He whips himself fending off a lion
He whips himself fending off a lion: grabbing a bullwhip for the first time in a circus car, young Indy cracks it into his own chin, a gag written to match Harrison Ford's real scar.
Q 08In The Last Crusade, Henry Jones Sr. reveals that Indiana took his nickname from what?
The family dog
The family dog was called Indiana, an in-joke: George Lucas named his hero after his own Alaskan Malamute, the same dog that inspired Chewbacca.
Q 09How does young Indy finally escape the graverobbers aboard the circus train in The Last Crusade?
He vanishes through a magic box
He vanishes through a magic box in 'Doctor Fantasy's Magic Caboose', named for producer Frank Marshall's amateur magic act; the trick was filmed in one unbroken shot on the real train.
Q 10Who plays Marcus Brody, the museum curator who "got lost in his own museum"?
Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott returns from Raiders, where Marcus was a dignified museum man; here he is rewritten as comic relief, hopeless once he leaves his library.
Q 11Which actress plays Dr. Elsa Schneider, the art professor secretly working with the Nazis?
Alison Doody
Alison Doody, a young Dubliner, won a part written for an older woman after Amanda Redman turned it down.
Q 12Walter Donovan, the businessman who sends the Joneses after the Grail, is played by which English actor?
Julian Glover
Julian Glover was first put forward for the film's SS colonel, but Spielberg saw a genial menace in him and cast him as the American traitor instead.
Q 13What is the name of the secret society, led by Kazim, that protects the Grail?
Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword
Q 21Which ancient Middle Eastern site stands in for the Grail temple in The Last Crusade?
Petra
Petra's Treasury supplies the facade, but behind it lies only a bare rock chamber; the temple's interior was a set built at Elstree Studios in England.
Q 22In the second Grail trial, which name must Indy spell out on the lettered stones to pass safely?
Iehova
Iehova: Indy first steps on J and nearly drops through the floor, then remembers that in Latin the name Jehovah begins with an I.
Q 23How was the "leap of faith" crossing over the ravine created for The Last Crusade?
A miniature with painted backgrounds
Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword: its men set the catacombs ablaze around Indy, yet once he convinces Kazim he only wants his father, Kazim tells him where Henry is held.
Q 14In The Last Crusade, where does the inscribed shield in the Venice catacombs say the path to the Grail begins?
Alexandretta
Alexandretta is the old name of İskenderun, now in Turkey; Indy sends Marcus ahead to the city with the map, where the Nazis promptly capture him.
Q 15In which country is Brunwald Castle, where the Nazis hold Henry Jones Sr.?
Austria
Austria is the setting, but the real fortress is Bürresheim Castle in western Germany, judged too small on film and enlarged with a matte painting.
Q 16Which SS officer, played by Michael Byrne, commands the castle Nazis and dies going over a cliff in a tank?
Ernst Vogel
Ernst Vogel's plunge was filmed with a quarter-scale model tank driven off a fifty-foot cliff on location, as a real tank could not be stopped safely at the edge.
Q 17In Berlin, Indy retrieves his father's diary at what kind of Nazi event?
A book-burning rally
A book-burning rally: Indy slips in disguised as a German officer and takes the diary back from Elsa, who insists she cares about the Grail, not the Nazis.
Q 18How does Henry Jones Sr. down the German fighter on the beach in The Last Crusade?
He scares gulls into its path
He scares gulls into its path by flapping his umbrella at them; real gulls proved unusable on the shoot, so white birds and feathered models doubled for the flock.
Q 19In The Last Crusade, how does Elsa bring about Donovan's death?
She picks him a false Grail
She picks him a false Grail, and one sip ages him to dust in seconds; Spielberg refused to film the decay unless it played out in one unbroken shot.
Q 20How does Elsa die at the end of The Last Crusade?
She falls reaching for the Grail
She falls reaching for the Grail after it slips into a crevasse; Indy nearly follows, stretching for it himself, until his father quietly tells him to let it go.
A miniature with painted backgrounds: the model bridge was painted to vanish against the cliff from one camera angle, and a puppet cast the shadow Harrison Ford's bluescreen take lacked.
Q 24Which character delivers the verdict "He chose... poorly" in The Last Crusade?
The Grail Knight
The Grail Knight, last of three crusaders who found the Grail, has guarded it for centuries and mistakes Indy for a fellow knight come to defeat him.
Q 25Which Henry Jones Sr. line did Sean Connery improvise on the set of The Last Crusade?
"She talks in her sleep."
"She talks in her sleep." That ad-lib from Connery, explaining how Henry knew Elsa was a Nazi, stopped filming while everyone laughed, so Spielberg kept it in.
Q 26Indy teaches archaeology, but what is his father's academic field in The Last Crusade?
Medieval literature
Medieval literature is his chair, but Sean Connery refused to play a mere bookworm and modelled Henry on Richard Francis Burton, the Victorian explorer-scholar.
Q 27George Lucas's abandoned treatment for a third film was titled Indiana Jones and the what?
Monkey King
Monkey King: borrowed from Chinese legend, the story sent Indy to Africa, and the producers had begun scouting locations there before Spielberg and Lucas shelved it.
Q 28Chris Columbus's rejected third Indiana Jones script opened with Indy battling what in Scotland?
A ghost
A ghost: the Gremlins and Goonies writer opened with a murderous baron haunting Scotland, and later in the same script had Indy killed in battle and brought back to life.
Q 29Which playwright rewrote much of The Last Crusade's dialogue without receiving a screen credit?
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard went uncredited, yet Spielberg later said he was responsible for almost every line of dialogue in the film.
Q 30When Indy comes face to face with Hitler in Berlin, what does the Führer do with the Grail diary?
Signs his autograph in it
Signs his autograph in it: taking the priceless diary for an admirer's autograph book, Hitler scrawls his name and hands it straight back to the disguised Indy.