50 free My Big Fat Greek Wedding trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding cost $5 million, never topped the box office for a single weekend, and still became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in American history. This quiz covers the whole franchise. Forty-two questions take in Toula Portokalos and Ian Miller, Gus and Maria, Aunt Voula, Dancing Zorba's, the pottery-class cover story, the baptism, the ugly bridesmaid dresses and the house next door. Behind the scenes there is Nia Vardalos's one-woman show, the executives who wanted the family made Hispanic, Rita Wilson dragging Tom Hanks to see it, John Corbett being cast in a Toronto bar, the East York house that played the Portokalos home, the Oscar nomination and the lawsuits over Hollywood accounting. The 2003 sitcom, the 2016 sequel with its unsigned marriage certificate, and the 2023 trip to Gus's village all get questions too. Easy questions ask which city the family lives in; hard ones want the Second City connection and the film that finally beat its 'never number one' record. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and cast, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who wrote and stars in My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
Nia Vardalos
She earned an Oscar nomination for the screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for the performance.
Q 02In which city is the film set?
Chicago
It was actually shot mostly in Toronto and inspired by Vardalos's family in Winnipeg.
Q 03What is the name of the Portokalos family restaurant?
Dancing Zorba's
Toula meets Ian there while he is waiting for a friend.
Q 04How old is Toula when the film begins?
30
Her father Gus wants her married with children as soon as possible.
Q 05What is Toula's full first name?
Fotoula
Her father is Costas 'Gus' Portokalos.
Q 06What is Ian Miller's job?
High school teacher
In the sequel he has become principal at their daughter's high school.
Q 07What does Toula tell her parents she wants to study at college?
Computers
Gus is distraught, thinking she means to leave him, until Maria talks him round.
Q 08Toula goes to work at which relative's business after her makeover?
Aunt Voula's travel agency
Ian spots her through the agency window and asks her to dinner.
Q 09What does Toula fear Ian will remember her as from the restaurant?
'Frump girl'
He remembers her and stays interested anyway.
Q 10What class does Toula pretend to be taking as a cover for seeing Ian?
Pottery
A family friend catches them kissing in a parking lot and the secret is out.
Q 11What does Ian agree to do to win over Toula's family?
Be baptised into the Greek church
Gus's objection was that Ian is not a member of the church.
Q 12What mistake appears on the wedding invitations?
Ian's mother's name is misspelled
The family also design hideous bridesmaid dresses.
Q 13What gift do Gus and Maria reveal at the wedding reception?
A house for Toula and Ian
It turns out to be right next door to their own.
Q 21What was the film's production budget?
$5 million
It grossed $368.7 million worldwide, a return in the thousands of percent.
Q 22How much did My Big Fat Greek Wedding gross worldwide?
$368.7 million
That made it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2002.
Q 23What was unusual about the film's run to a record domestic gross for a romantic comedy?
It never had a number one weekend
It held the record for the biggest gross without a No. 1 weekend until Sing in 2016.
Q 14In the film's epilogue set six years later, Toula and Ian walk their daughter to what?
Her first day of Greek school
Her name is Paris, and she is a teenager by the time of the sequel.
Q 15The film began as a one-woman monologue show of what length?
45 minutes
It was developed in the HBO Workshop and Vardalos marketed it through Greek Orthodox churches.
Q 16The show was based on the writer's own family in which Canadian city?
Winnipeg
And on her own marriage to a non-Greek, the actor Ian Gomez.
Q 17Which actress with Greek heritage saw the show and convinced her husband Tom Hanks to see it too?
Rita Wilson
Hanks's company Playtone then offered to produce the film exactly as Vardalos envisioned it.
Q 18Studio executives wanted to change the family's ethnicity to what before Playtone stepped in?
Hispanic
They also wanted a known actress such as Marisa Tomei in the lead; Vardalos refused.
Q 19How was John Corbett cast as Ian Miller?
Overheard in a Toronto bar lamenting a missed audition
He was in town shooting Serendipity; Vardalos and producer Gary Goetzman offered him the part on the spot.
Q 20The Portokalos family house is a real home in which Toronto suburb?
East York
It kept most of its movie ornamentation until 2021, and also played the house next door.
Q 24Which 2016 animated film took the record for the highest-grossing movie never to top the weekly box office?
Sing
Domestically the Greek Wedding took $241,438,208, still the biggest romantic comedy ever.
Q 25The film received an Academy Award nomination in which category?
Best Original Screenplay
Vardalos also won Best Debut Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Q 26Who directed the first film?
Joel Zwick
Kirk Jones directed the 2016 sequel and Vardalos herself directed the third.
Q 27Which member of NSYNC appears in the film as cousin Angelo?
Joey Fatone
He returned for both sequels.
Q 28Michael Constantine, who plays Gus, won an Emmy in 1970 for playing a principal on which series?
Room 222
He was born Gus Efstratiou and died in 2021, making the second film his last.
Q 29Andrea Martin, who plays Aunt Voula, is a two-time Tony winner best known for which sketch series?
SCTV
She holds the record for the most nominations for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Q 30John Corbett was best known before the film as Chris Stevens on which series?
Northern Exposure
He also played Aidan Shaw on Sex and the City and released two country albums.