Remember the Titans Trivia
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This Remember the Titans trivia quiz has 36 free questions with answers and covers the 2000 Disney film from every angle: Denzel Washington and Will Patton as coaches Boone and Yoast, the young cast that included Ryan Gosling, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison, Wood Harris and Ryan Hurst, the plot beats from Gettysburg camp to the last-play championship, Trevor Rabin's score and the soul and rock soundtrack, the Georgia locations, and the box office run that made it Denzel's biggest opener at the time. It then digs into the true story: the 1971 T. C. Williams Titans of Alexandria, Virginia, the real Herman Boone and Bill Yoast, Gerry Bertier's actual accident and Paralympic career, and the many places the movie bent the facts. Early questions are gentle enough for anyone who has seen it once; the later ones reward people who know the history behind the film. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries, biographies and contemporary reporting before publishing, so you can settle arguments with confidence.
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Q 01Who directed Remember the Titans?
Boaz Yakin
Boaz Yakin: he took on the film while trying to rebound from the failure of his previous movie, A Price Above Rubies.
Q 02In Remember the Titans, what is Coach Boone told will happen if the Titans lose once?
He will be fired
He will be fired: the board wants Coach Yoast back in charge, but the Titans go through the whole season unbeaten.
Q 03Which actor plays assistant coach Bill Yoast in Remember the Titans?
Will Patton
Will Patton: the real Bill Yoast had been the favourite for the head coaching job before officials chose Boone instead.
Q 04Which blockbuster producer made Remember the Titans?
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer: he made it through Technical Black, a company he set up for gentler films than his usual action hits.
Q 05Who wrote the screenplay for Remember the Titans?
Gregory Allen Howard
Gregory Allen Howard: he only discovered the story after moving from Los Angeles to Virginia.
Q 06Remember the Titans' team formed after what?
Three schools merged
Three schools merged: juniors and seniors from three high schools were all sent to T. C. Williams, making one giant school.
Q 07In Remember the Titans, what does Coach Yoast lose by threatening to expose a rigged game?
A Hall of Fame place
A Hall of Fame place: in real life there was no Virginia High School Hall of Fame in 1971, so that storyline is invented.
Q 08Where do the Titans go for their preseason training camp in the film?
Gettysburg College
The real team did tour Gettysburg, though former players say it was much less dramatic than the movie's version.
Q 09Which school do the Titans face in the state championship game in Remember the Titans?
George C. Marshall High School
George C. Marshall High School: the real Titans did beat Marshall in their closest game, but it was the fifth game of the regular season.
Q 10In real life, most of the unbeaten 1971 Titans' wins came in what kind of game?
Shutouts
Shutouts: nine of the 13 wins were shutouts, and the real state final was a 27-0 rout, not the film's last-play thriller.
Q 11In Remember the Titans, when is Gerry Bertier paralysed in a car accident?
The night the semifinal is won
The night the semifinal is won: in real life his crash came only after the Titans had already won the state title.
Q 12Which sport wins Gerry a Paralympic gold medal at the end of Remember the Titans?
Shot put
Shot put: the real Bertier did take up wheelchair track and field after his injury.
Q 13In Remember the Titans, which song does the team sing at Gerry's funeral?
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Q 21Which actress plays Gerry Bertier's girlfriend in Remember the Titans?
Kate Bosworth
Kate Bosworth: the girlfriend she plays was invented to show the bad attitudes of the time, not based on Gerry's real girlfriend.
Q 22Which Titans player in Remember the Titans was invented and did not exist on the real team?
Ray Budds
Ray Budds: real Titans said a player like him would have been cut in camp, and Gerry never had to throw a teammate off the team.
Q 23Who composed the film's score?
Trevor Rabin
Rabin composed twelve cues, but only one, "Titans Spirit", made it onto the soundtrack album.
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye: it was recorded as a throwaway B-side, but the label released it as a single and it hit number one.
Q 14What happened to the real Herman Boone in 1979?
Removed as coach
Removed as coach: several of his assistant coaches had publicly turned against him before he lost the job.
Q 15Which character does Ryan Gosling play?
Alan Bosley
Gosling, then 19, had just been dropped by his agent because of the stigma of children's TV; this small role preceded his breakthrough in The Believer.
Q 16Which character does Hayden Panettiere play in Remember the Titans?
Sheryl Yoast
Sheryl Yoast: the film shows her as the coach's only child, but the real Sheryl had three sisters.
Q 17In Remember the Titans, what nickname does quarterback Ronnie Bass go by?
Sunshine
Sunshine: the real Ronnie Bass says the film's locker-room scene where he kisses Gerry never happened.
Q 18Which Titan does Scrubs star Donald Faison play in Remember the Titans?
Petey Jones
Petey Jones: the film sends him in to replace a struggling teammate mid-game, but that did not happen during a game in real life.
Q 19In Remember the Titans, Wood Harris plays which of the team's captains?
Julius Campbell
Julius Campbell: the real Julius and Gerry were friends, but players say their bond was not the pivotal integration story the film makes it.
Q 20Which actor plays Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans?
Ryan Hurst
Ryan Hurst: unlike the film's clean-cut captain, the real Bertier had long hair in 1971, like most of his teammates.
Q 24The composer of the Remember the Titans score earlier played guitar in which progressive rock band?
Yes
Yes: before turning to film music, he wrote Owner of a Lonely Heart, which became the band's only US number one.
Q 25From 2002, NBC used 'Titans Spirit', from Remember the Titans, over its closing credits for which event?
The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games: the same film theme later played as Barack Obama left the stage after his 2008 election victory speech.
Q 26Which position does team captain Gerry Bertier play in Remember the Titans?
Linebacker
Linebacker: after a car crash left him paralysed, the real Bertier travelled the country speaking up for disabled people's rights.
Q 27In Remember the Titans, Herman Boone arrives in Alexandria from which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina: the real Boone left in 1969 after being told the town of Williamston was not ready for a black head coach.
Q 28Which studio released Remember the Titans in 2000?
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures: the screenwriters kept most of the real Coach Boone's swearing out of the PG-rated film.
Q 29Which comedy knocked Remember the Titans off the top of the US box office in its second weekend?
Meet the Parents
Meet the Parents: its famous lie-detector scene wasn't in the script until Robert De Niro raised the idea.
Q 30The film's screenwriter had already drafted which boxing biopic before he discovered the Titans story?
Ali
Studio delays meant that film reached theaters after Remember the Titans, even though he wrote it first.