Knocked Up Trivia
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50 free Knocked up trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Knocked Up arrived in June 2007 and turned Seth Rogen into a leading man, made Judd Apatow the decade's dominant comedy brand and gave the world Kristen Wiig telling Katherine Heigl that she legally couldn't be asked to lose weight. It grossed $219 million on a $25 million budget, made the AFI's ten best list, and later became a flashpoint when Heigl called it 'a little sexist'. This quiz covers the whole film and its afterlife: the plot beats (the E! promotion, the empty ring box, the fantasy baseball draft, the Bar Mitzvah gynecologist), the cast and the many cameos, who almost played Alison, the Freaks and Geeks connections, the Loudon Wainwright soundtrack, the box office, reviews and awards, the Heigl controversy, and the This Is 40 spin-off. It starts easy and works up to details for people who have watched the unrated cut more than once. Every answer has been checked against documented production and release records, so it is safe for a movie night or a 2000s-comedy quiz round.
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Q 01Knocked Up was writer-director Judd Apatow's follow-up to which 2005 comedy hit?
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Knocked Up's tagline sold it as 'from the director of' that hit, and its scene-stealing sidekick Seth Rogen was promoted to leading man for the first time.
Q 02In Knocked Up, Pete says marriage is like an unfunny version of which sitcom?
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond. The problems are all the same, Pete tells Ben, with one catch: a sitcom is over in 22 minutes, and marriage 'lasts forever'.
Q 03Who plays Alison Scott, the newly promoted TV reporter, in Knocked Up?
Katherine Heigl
Katherine Heigl, then best known for Grey's Anatomy. The film made her a big-screen star, and she startled its makers months later by calling it 'a little sexist'.
Q 04Which cable channel has just given Alison an on-air job in Knocked Up?
E! Entertainment
E! Entertainment promotes Alison from assistant to on-camera interviewer, and the night out to celebrate is the night she meets Ben. Her new bosses become the people she most needs to hide the pregnancy from.
Q 05What kind of website do Ben and his roommates half-heartedly work on in Knocked Up?
A celebrity nudity site
A celebrity nudity site, Flesh of the Stars, logging exactly when famous actresses appear naked in films. Then Pete tells Ben the idea already exists as Mr. Skin, and the housemates find a site exactly like theirs.
Q 06How does Ben support himself before Alison's pregnancy in Knocked Up?
An injury compensation payout
An injury compensation payout. A postal truck ran over his foot in high school, he tells Alison, and the fourteen thousand dollars he got from British Columbia has somehow lasted him ever since.
Q 07Which actor is Alison interviewing when morning sickness first hits her in Knocked Up?
James Franco
James Franco, playing himself. Alison gulps in the middle of a question and has to bolt from the set, which is the first sign, eight weeks after her night with Ben, that she might be pregnant.
Q 08Who play Alison's sister Debbie and her husband Pete in Knocked Up?
Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd
Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Mann is married to the director, who kept an eye on his family by casting their two real daughters as the couple's children.
Q 09What does Debbie discover Pete has secretly been sneaking out at night to do in Knocked Up?
Play in a fantasy baseball draft
Play in a fantasy baseball draft: Debbie, sure he is having an affair, follows him to a stranger's house and finds a room of men picking players. He has been slipping off to the cinema alone as well.
Q 10What does Ben propose to Alison with in Knocked Up?
An empty ring box
An empty ring box, which Ben calls a promise: he has picked out a ring at De Beers and will fill the box once he can afford it. Alison, still hiding the pregnancy at work, says it is too soon.
Q 11Where do Ben and Pete go on their road trip after their relationships collapse in Knocked Up?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas. Back in their hotel room after Ben flees a Cirque du Soleil show in a panic, the two men wonder whether the women they have lost will take them back, and both decide to go home.
Q 12What are Ben and Pete on when they realise they need to save their relationships in Knocked Up?
Psychedelic mushrooms
Psychedelic mushrooms, which Pete says he got from a roadie for the Black Crowes. Under their influence the two men admit what they have lost and decide to go home and take responsibility.
Q 13Why does a doorman turn Debbie and Alison away in Knocked Up?
Q 21Which 1980s sitcom mom plays Alison's mother, who urges her to end the pregnancy, in Knocked Up?
Joanna Kerns
Joanna Kerns, the kindly Maggie Seaver of Growing Pains, plays a far colder parent here. Over lunch she tells Alison to 'take care of it' and move on, for the sake of her career.
Q 22Who play Alison's passive-aggressive bosses, Jack and Jill, in Knocked Up?
Alan Tudyk and Kristen Wiig
Alan Tudyk and Kristen Wiig. Alison hides her pregnancy for fear they will fire her; when it comes out, they put her on air interviewing pregnant celebrities to win over female viewers.
Q 23Which TV host's Knocked Up cameo won him a Teen Choice Award for his 'hissy fit'?
Ryan Seacrest
One is too old, the other is pregnant
One is too old, the other is pregnant. The doorman hates saying it and admits the rules of his job make him sick, and his honesty tips Debbie into a tearful speech about where her life has gone.
Q 14Which comedian plays the club doorman who turns Debbie and Alison away in Knocked Up?
Craig Robinson
Craig Robinson turns a bit part into a confession. After first brushing the two women off, his doorman takes Debbie aside and admits how much he hates having to decide who gets in.
Q 15Where is Alison's gynecologist when she goes into labour in Knocked Up?
At a Bar Mitzvah
At a Bar Mitzvah in San Francisco, three days from home, after promising the couple he never took vacations. Ben leaves him a furious voicemail, and Alison has to give birth with a stand-in.
Q 16Which future Hangover star plays the brusque doctor who delivers Alison's baby in Knocked Up?
Ken Jeong
Ken Jeong was the real thing: a licensed physician making his feature film debut as a doctor. The part opened enough doors that he gave up medicine for comedy.
Q 17What do Ben and Alison end up having in the theatrical cut of Knocked Up?
A girl
A girl. Alison doesn't want to know and has sworn Ben to secrecy, but in the heat of their break-up row at the doctor's office he blurts it out anyway.
Q 18Which actress was originally cast as Alison before dropping out of Knocked Up?
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway. The director said she withdrew because she didn't want real footage of a woman giving birth used to suggest it was her; the film kept its three shots of the baby crowning.
Q 19In Knocked Up, which Steven Spielberg film does Ben rave about to his housemates at the nightclub?
Munich
Munich. In every other film about Jews, Ben complains, 'we're the ones getting killed'; this one is Eric Bana hitting back, and the housemates agree it may even help their chances that night.
Q 20Which Ghostbusters star plays Ben's overjoyed father in Knocked Up?
Harold Ramis
Harold Ramis plays the film's warmest character, a man simply delighted to become a grandfather. When Ben later begs him for advice, though, he points out that he has been divorced three times.
Ryan Seacrest sends himself up, fuming between takes about a pop star who has kept him waiting and the young celebrities ruining his day. The film also won the teen voters' comedy prize.
Q 24Which four Knocked Up housemates share their first names with the actors who play them?
Jason, Jay, Jonah and Martin
Jason, Jay, Jonah and Martin: Segel, Baruchel, Hill and Starr kept their own names because the parts were built on them. The director taped the four improvising at his house before he finished the script.
Q 25Which cancelled 1999 series, produced by Apatow, gave Knocked Up its leading man and two of his housemates?
Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks lasted a single season, and its producer has been reuniting his 'TV children' on film ever since. A third housemate came from his other short-lived show, Undeclared.
Q 26Which studio released Knocked Up on June 1, 2007?
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures. The hit brought the studio a lawsuit as well as profits: a Canadian author sued it and the director, claiming the film borrowed from her pregnancy memoir of the same name.
Q 27Knocked Up had its world premiere in March 2007 at which festival?
South by Southwest
South by Southwest, in Austin, on March 12. Variety's critic, reviewing it there, called it 'uproarious' and predicted it would stay in cinemas all summer, and it did spend eight weeks in the top ten.
Q 28Roughly how much did Knocked Up gross worldwide?
$219 million
$219 million, about two-thirds of it in the US and Canada. Not bad for a comedy that cost no more than $30 million and rested on a leading man in his first starring role.
Q 29Which film denied Knocked Up a number-one opening?
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, in its second weekend, took $44 million. Knocked Up's $30.7 million in second place still covered its whole budget in three days.
Q 30Which folk singer-songwriter composed Knocked Up's soundtrack album, Strange Weirdos, with Joe Henry?
Loudon Wainwright III
Loudon Wainwright III, who also turns up on screen as Alison's gynecologist, Dr. Howard. His folk album sits oddly beside the film itself, whose forty or so pop and hip-hop songs are all missing from it.