Mask (1985 Film)
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40 free Mask (1985 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mask is the 1985 drama that proved Cher could carry a film. She plays Rusty Dennis, a hard-living biker who refuses to let anyone write off her teenage boy Rocky, a bright and funny kid with a rare disorder that has reshaped his face. The story is true, and the real family's life was every bit as dramatic as the one on screen. This quiz covers the film from every side: what happens to Rocky in class, at home and at summer camp; the actors behind the bikers, grandparents and classmates; the fight over the soundtrack; the prizes the film won and the one its star was denied; and how the real Rocky and Rusty compare with their screen versions. It is written for fans of Cher, lovers of 1980s cinema and anyone who has never forgotten the film. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you knowing more about a much-loved true story.
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Q 01Which actor, later nominated for an award for Pulp Fiction, played teenager Rocky Dennis in the 1985 film Mask?
Eric Stoltz
Eric Stoltz was born in 1961, the same year as the real Rocky, and his performance earned a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor.
Q 02The 1985 film Mask, with Cher as a biker mother, won its only Academy Award in which category?
Best Makeup
Best Makeup went to Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek for Rocky's face. Westmore became best known for Star Trek, and his career also included creating make-up kits for CIA spies overseas.
Q 03For playing Rusty Dennis in the 1985 film Mask, Cher shared the Best Actress prize at which film festival?
Cannes
Cannes split its Best Actress award between Cher and Norma Aleandro of The Official Story, in a year when Mask was also in the running for the festival's top prize.
Q 04The actor who played Rocky in Mask was originally the lead of which 1985 blockbuster, then replaced weeks into filming?
Back to the Future
Back to the Future shot for five weeks with him as Marty McFly before Michael J. Fox took over, because he was playing the comedy as something far more serious.
Q 05Denied an Oscar nomination for Mask, Cher presented at the 1986 ceremony in a spidery black outfit by which designer?
Bob Mackie
Bob Mackie made the feathered headdress and bare-midriff ensemble, later nicknamed her Oscar revenge dress, and Cher joked while presenting about how a serious actress should dress.
Q 06Cher, overlooked by the Academy for the 1985 film Mask, soon won the Best Actress Oscar for which 1987 romantic comedy?
Moonstruck
Moonstruck brought Cher the Oscar that Mask had not, and Billboard later ranked the role first among film performances by musicians.
Q 07Which future star of The Golden Girls played Rocky's grandmother, Evelyn, in the 1985 film Mask?
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty began playing the elderly Sophia later that same year, although she was really a year younger than Bea Arthur, who played her daughter.
Q 08In the 1985 film Mask, what does Rocky Dennis collect and trade with his best friend Ben?
Baseball cards
Baseball cards are a passion Rocky also shares with his grandparents, and at the end his biker family leave some 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers cards at his grave.
Q 09Which sci-fi series built a 1997 episode around a disfigured outcast who idolises Cher after watching her in Mask?
The X-Files
The X-Files episode The Post-Modern Prometheus ends with Mulder and Scully taking the creature, known as the Great Mutato, to a Cher concert.
Q 10Which director of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon made the 1985 film Mask?
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich shot Mask with László Kovács, the cinematographer he worked with more often than any other, on what was his first feature in about four years.
Q 11Which actor, later the Stranger who narrates The Big Lebowski, plays Rusty's biker boyfriend Gar in the 1985 film Mask?
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott's Gar is a father figure to Rocky, and the character was based on Bernie Tullis, who became the real Rusty's third husband.
Q 12Which future Jurassic Park star played Diana, the blind girl Rocky falls for at summer camp, in the 1985 film Mask?
Laura Dern
Laura Dern won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's New Generation Award after Mask, a year before she starred in Blue Velvet.
Q 13Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, Rocky's rare bone disorder in the 1985 film Mask, is commonly known by which nickname?
Lionitis
Q 21The director of the 1985 film Mask sued the studio for $19 million, claiming it had violated which contractual right?
Final cut
Final cut was the privilege he said the studio breached by changing the music without his approval; he withdrew the suit at the urging of a Directors Guild committee.
Q 22In the 1985 film Mask, Rusty and her boyfriend Gar ride with which motorcycle gang?
The Turks
The Turks act as Rocky's extended family in the film, and the real Rocky's home was likewise a gathering place for his mother's biker friends.
Q 23In the 1985 film Mask, Rocky wins over his history class with a lively retelling of which ancient conflict?
The Trojan War
Lionitis causes calcium to build up in the skull, gradually disfiguring the face; in the few cases on record, most patients died in childhood.
Q 14The 1985 film Mask is set among bikers in which Los Angeles County city in the San Gabriel Valley?
Azusa
Azusa is where the film places Rusty and Rocky, although the real Rocky was born in Glendora, the next city to the east.
Q 15In the 1985 film Mask, where do Rocky and his best friend Ben dream of taking a motorcycle trip?
Across Europe
Across Europe is the route Rocky marks with tacks on a wall map, and the plan collapses when Ben has to move away.
Q 16In the 1985 film Mask, what does Rocky hand the blind Diana to show her what billowy clouds are like?
Cotton balls
Cotton balls stand in for clouds, and Rocky then explains colours by temperature: a warm rock for red and pink, a frozen one for icy blue.
Q 17In the 1985 film Mask, where does the junior high principal, Mr. Simms, first want to send Rocky?
A special education school
A special education school was his plan because he assumed Rocky was intellectually disabled; Rusty faces him down, and Rocky later graduates with prizes in three subjects.
Q 18How does Rocky Dennis die at the end of the 1985 film Mask, hours after his biker family come to visit?
In his sleep
In his sleep is how Rusty finds him the next morning, after the school phones to ask why he is absent, and she later pins his travel map back on the wall.
Q 19Which Hollywood studio released the 1985 film Mask and clashed with its director over the soundtrack?
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures previewed the finished film at its studios in February 1985 for the campers and staff of the summer camp where scenes had been shot.
Q 20Which rocker's songs filled the 1985 theatrical release of Mask, though Rusty Dennis said her son barely knew of him?
Bob Seger
Bob Seger's music was put in while the director was away for the Christmas holiday in 1984, and none of it appeared on the film's soundtrack album.
The Trojan War retelling helps turn wary classmates into friends, and Rocky is soon tutoring some of them for three dollars an hour.
Q 24Camp scenes in Mask were shot at Camp Bloomfield, a real camp for blind children near which California city?
Malibu
Malibu's Camp Bloomfield, in the Santa Monica Mountains, hosted blind and visually impaired children free of charge from 1958 until the Woolsey fire destroyed it in 2018.
Q 25At summer camp in the 1985 film Mask, Rocky and Diana share a first kiss at a dance themed on which holiday?
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is the theme of the camp dance; when camp ends, Diana's parents are horrified by Rocky's appearance and forbid her to spend time with him.
Q 26Which piece of Rocky's schoolwork is heard in voice-over as his biker family visit his grave at the end of Mask?
A poem
A poem that Rocky wrote for English class is recited in his own voice while Rusty, Gar and the others leave flowers at his headstone.
Q 27In the 1985 film Mask, what does Rocky leave around the house during a party to push Rusty to get clean?
Rehab pamphlets
Rehab pamphlets set off a furious argument between mother and son, and Rocky takes a summer job as a camp counsellor's aide partly to get away from home.
Q 28After camp in the 1985 film Mask, Rocky takes a bus to find Diana at what kind of place near Griffith Park?
Riding stables
Riding stables are where Rocky learns that her parents kept his calls and messages from her and are sending her away to a boarding school.
Q 29When the real Rocky Dennis of Mask died in 1978, his body was donated for genetic research to which university?
UCLA
UCLA's medical centre had diagnosed him as a small child, when doctors expected him to die before his seventh birthday; he lived to sixteen.
Q 30Anna Hamilton Phelan, who wrote the 1985 film Mask, earned an Oscar nomination for which 1988 Sigourney Weaver drama?
Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist came to her from the head of the studio that released Mask, which was her first screenplay and began as a draft in a writing workshop.