Liar Liar Trivia
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99 free Liar Liar trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Liar Liar trivia questions with answers. Released in March 1997, Liar Liar gave Jim Carrey one of the cleanest comic premises of the decade: a fast-talking Los Angeles lawyer whose son wishes, on his fifth birthday, that his dad could not tell a lie for a single day. This quiz covers the whole film, from the plot beats (the impounded car, the boardroom roast, the men's-room beating, the mobile stairway on the runway) to the cast, the production stories and the box office run that made it the top-grossing film of 1997 for a while. The easy questions ask who directed it, what Fletcher does for a living and what Max wishes for; the harder ones want the actors originally imagined for the role, the studio that finally said yes, the record its opening weekend broke and the Twilight Zone episode critics compared it to. It suits anyone who still shouts "the pen is blue" and anyone who wants a solid Jim Carrey round for a 90s movie night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its cast and its director, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who directed Liar Liar?
Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac. After a 2007 bike crash he gave away much of his fortune and swapped his Los Angeles mansion for a Malibu trailer park.
Q 02Liar Liar's writers first built Fletcher's big court case around which crime, before deciding it wasn't funny?
Murder
Murder. The writers swapped the killing for a cheating wife chasing half her husband's fortune, a case a comedy could play for laughs.
Q 03In Liar Liar, Fletcher tests his curse by trying to say a blue pen is which color?
Red
Red. He strains to say it and shouts 'royal blue' instead, then loses a wrestling match with the pen when he tries to write the lie down.
Q 04What does Fletcher call the tickling hand monster he chases Max with in Liar Liar?
The Claw
The Claw. Audrey's new boyfriend Jerry later tries his own version on Max at the airport, and it falls painfully flat.
Q 05Why does Fletcher miss Max's birthday party in Liar Liar?
He is sleeping with his boss
He is sleeping with his boss. He phones Audrey claiming a problem on a new case, and the broken promise drives Max to make his birthday wish.
Q 06In Liar Liar, what happens to Fletcher's car after a traffic cop pulls him over?
It is impounded
It is impounded. He gets it back with a fresh scratch, and when he starts to threaten the attendant the only honest answer he can give is 'Nothing!'
Q 07In Liar Liar, Fletcher's client Samantha Cole wants to get around what?
A prenuptial agreement
A prenuptial agreement. It cuts her off with nothing if she is unfaithful, and her husband's lawyers have her affair on tape.
Q 08In Liar Liar, Fletcher objects to a tape for which honest reason?
It's devastating to my case
It's devastating to my case. The judge overrules him on the spot, and Fletcher, still unable to fib, replies 'Good call!'
Q 09In Liar Liar, Audrey considers moving with Max to which city?
Boston
Boston. Her boyfriend Jerry has a job waiting there and proposes, and she warns Fletcher that one more broken promise to Max will settle it.
Q 10In Liar Liar, Miranda tries to get Fletcher fired by baiting him into insulting whom?
Mr. Allan, a senior partner
Mr. Allan, a senior partner. Fletcher unloads a string of honest insults, and the boss roars with laughter and says he loves a good roast.
Q 11In Liar Liar, where does Fletcher beat himself up in an attempt to delay the trial?
The men's room
The men's room. The judge offers to adjourn unless Fletcher feels able to continue, and the curse forces him to admit that he does.
Q 12What fact lets Fletcher win Samantha Cole's case honestly in Liar Liar?
She married as a minor
She married as a minor. Samantha had doctored her age to wed at 17 without her parents' consent, so Fletcher argues the contract she signed was never valid.
Q 13After Fletcher wins her case in Liar Liar, what does Samantha Cole go after next?
Custody of the children
Q 21Which future comedy director did an uncredited rewrite of Liar Liar?
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow. A decade before directing Knocked Up he was a regular Jim Carrey collaborator, quietly punching up big studio comedies without taking a credit.
Q 22Which British actor was keen to star in Liar Liar before a personal scandal forced him out?
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant. He was seriously interested but dropped out in the wake of the Divine Brown scandal, and the script found its way to Jim Carrey instead.
Q 23Rumor has it Jim Carrey passed on which 1997 comedy role to make Liar Liar?
Dr. Evil in Austin Powers
Custody of the children. Her husband is plainly the devoted parent, and she wants them mainly for the extra child support.
Q 14Why is Fletcher held in contempt after the verdict in Liar Liar?
He demands the decision be reversed
He demands the decision be reversed. Warned he is one word from contempt, Fletcher shouts 'I hold myself in contempt!' and is dragged off to a cell.
Q 15Who bails Fletcher out of jail in Liar Liar?
Greta
Greta. His honesty had cost him her goodwill earlier that day, but she posted bail after hearing he had gone 'all noble' at the trial.
Q 16In Liar Liar, what does Fletcher commandeer at the airport to chase Audrey and Max's plane?
A mobile stairway
A mobile stairway. He gets the plane to stop, then crashes and ends the chase on a stretcher with both legs broken.
Q 17In Liar Liar's final scene, a year on, what does Max say he wished for?
Rollerblades
Rollerblades. The lights come up on his parents kissing, so Fletcher assumes Max wished them back together, and gets a flat no.
Q 18Jim Carrey pops up at the end of Liar Liar as which of his In Living Color characters?
Fire Marshall Bill
Fire Marshall Bill. He stands in the crowd of rescue workers behind the lead actors after the runway crash, a background gag that is easy to miss.
Q 19In Liar Liar, Fletcher tells a traffic cop that why he was stopped depends on what?
How long you followed me
How long you followed me. His exact words are 'Depends on how long you were following me', and he goes on to confess every offence of the drive.
Q 20Why does Max's 'unwish' fail to free Fletcher in Liar Liar?
He didn't mean it
He didn't mean it. Max says he truly meant the birthday wish, but only made the unwish because his dad told him to, so the curse holds.
Dr. Evil in Austin Powers. Director Jay Roach has dismissed the story as just a rumor, saying Mike Myers always planned to play the villain himself.
Q 24Which producer took on the Liar Liar pitch after studios all over Hollywood had rejected it?
Brian Grazer
Brian Grazer. He happened to be hunting for a movie about a lawyer when the writers dropped by his company for a general meeting, years after shelving the idea.
Q 25In Liar Liar, Max tells Fletcher that real beauty is on the inside, quoting whom?
His teacher
His teacher. Fletcher shoots back that it's 'just something ugly people say', a put-down that slips out while he argues grown-ups sometimes need to lie.
Q 26Liar Liar was Universal's second-biggest three-day opener at the time, behind which film?
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park. Part of the reason was reach: Universal booked Liar Liar aggressively, opening it in 2,845 theaters at once.
Q 27Dragged off to jail in Liar Liar, Fletcher screams that he is which sports star?
Jose Canseco
Jose Canseco. Fletcher had given Max baseball gear and promised a game of catch that evening, and being locked up means breaking his word again.
Q 28Which animated film finally broke Liar Liar's March opening-weekend record in 2002?
Ice Age
Ice Age. Fox had shut its hand-drawn animation studio in 2000 after Titan A.E. flopped, staking its future on computer animation instead, and this hit proved the gamble right.
Q 29Liar Liar opened at number one, knocking which 1997 re-release off the top of the chart?
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi. The special edition lost more than half its audience in its second weekend and slid to third, behind a newly opened music biopic.
Q 30Which Jennifer Lopez film knocked Liar Liar off the top of the box office after three weeks?
Anaconda
Anaconda. Lopez's biopic Selena had opened in second place behind Liar Liar three weeks earlier, and her giant-snake thriller finally pushed it off the top.