50 free Revenge of the Nerds trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Revenge of the Nerds trivia quiz covers the 1984 comedy and everything it spawned: the Tri-Lambs versus the Alpha Betas at Adams College, the panty raid and the pig-release, the javelin, the Homecoming carnival, and the pep-rally speech, plus Nerds in Paradise in Fort Lauderdale, The Next Generation and Nerds in Love. It also gets into how the film was made: the magazine article that inspired it, the University of Arizona's on-again off-again permission to shoot on campus, the $6-8 million budget, the deleted Las Vegas scene, the cancelled 2007 remake and the real Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity founded at UConn because of the movie. The cast questions stretch from Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards to Ted McGinley, Curtis Armstrong, Bernie Casey, James Cromwell and John Goodman, and to who took over Gilbert when Edwards skipped the third film. Easy questions for anyone who has seen it once; hard ones for people who know the name of Ogre's character in full. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the four films and their cast, and each question quotes the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01At which fictional college is the film set?
Adams
Faber is Animal House's college; the nerds' school was played mostly by a real Tucson campus.
Q 02Which jock fraternity torments the nerds throughout the film?
The Alpha Betas
Their sister sorority is Pi Delta Pi; the jocks burn down their own house and take over the freshman dorm.
Q 03Which national fraternity reluctantly accepts the nerds on probationary status?
Lambda Lambda Lambda
U.N. Jefferson leads the historically Black fraternity and grants full membership only after the nerds fight back against the jocks.
Q 04Who plays Lewis Skolnick, the film's lead nerd?
Robert Carradine
He is part of the Carradine acting dynasty and later co-hosted a TBS nerd competition with a fellow Tri-Lamb co-star.
Q 05Which future ER star plays Gilbert Lowe?
Anthony Edwards
Two years later he was Goose in Top Gun; he did not return for the third film, so Gilbert was recast with Mike Greenwood.
Q 06By what nickname is Curtis Armstrong's lewd nerd character known?
Booger
He is the one who brings cannabis to rescue the nerds' dull first party.
Q 07Which actor plays Alpha Beta leader Stan Gable?
Ted McGinley
The director spotted him on the cover of a 'Men of USC' calendar; he later joined Married... with Children.
Q 08What is the full name of Donald Gibb's hulking Alpha Beta character?
Frederick Aloysius 'Ogre' Palowaski
Gibb also played the Kumite fighter Ray Jackson in Bloodsport; Ogre is inducted into the Tri-Lambs at the end of the sequel.
Q 09Which future Roseanne star plays Coach Harris?
John Goodman
He backs the jocks' takeover of the freshman dorm and berates them after they lose the carnival.
Q 10Which former NFL wide receiver plays Tri-Lamb national leader U.N. Jefferson?
Bernie Casey
He played for the 49ers and Rams before becoming a blaxploitation leading man, and later turned up in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Q 11Which future Babe star plays Lewis's father, Mr. Skolnick?
James Cromwell
He returned for Nerds in Paradise as well.
Q 12Which future thirtysomething Emmy winner plays Arnold Poindexter?
Timothy Busfield
He was later Danny Concannon on The West Wing and Mark in Field of Dreams.
Q 13Which nerd character is a child prodigy?
Harold Wormser
Andrew Cassese played him in the first two films; Sean Whalen took over in The Next Generation.
Q 14Larry B. Scott's Lamar Latrelle is notable as what kind of character for a 1984 studio comedy?
Q 21Roughly what was the film's budget?
$6–8 million
It grossed about $40.9 million domestically after opening on July 20, 1984.
Q 22How do the jocks and the Pi Delta Pis sabotage the nerds' first party?
They release pigs into the house
The nerds retaliate with hidden cameras in the sorority house and liquid heat in the jocks' jockstraps.
Q 23How do the nerds outsell the jocks at the Homecoming charity fundraiser?
Selling pies containing nude photos of the sorority
An openly gay fraternity member
Scott later played Tasty-Taste, a Flavor Flav parody, in Fear of a Black Hat.
Q 15Brian Tochi (Toshiro Takashi) later voiced which Ninja Turtle in the live-action films?
Leonardo
He was also Cadet Nogata in the Police Academy sequels.
Q 16Betty Childs is played by Julia Montgomery, previously known for which soap opera?
One Life to Live
She played Samantha Vernon from 1976 to 1981 and returned as Betty in the third and fourth films.
Q 17Who directed Revenge of the Nerds?
Jeff Kanew
He had edited Ordinary People and went on to direct Gotcha!, Tough Guys and Troop Beverly Hills.
Q 18The film was inspired by a Los Angeles magazine article about whom?
Silicon Valley computer programmers
The article shared the movie's title.
Q 19Where were most of the film's exterior scenes shot?
University of Arizona
Administrators revoked permission two weeks after granting it, then relented on condition the crew avoid anything 'of a questionable nature with regards to taste'.
Q 20Where were the film's interior scenes shot?
Old Tucson Studios
The nerds' gym home was really the university's Bear Down Gymnasium.
The photos came from the surveillance cameras they planted in the Pi Delta Pi house.
Q 24Which sorority of nerdy women, led by Judy, allies with the Tri-Lambs?
Omega Mu
They fill in when the Pi Delta Pis stand the nerds up, and team up again for the carnival competitions.
Q 25How do the nerds finally clinch the Homecoming carnival?
An electronic musical number
Their song 'They're So Incredible' was written and performed for the film by Ollie E. Brown under the name Revenge.
Q 26Which of these songs appears in the film but not on its soundtrack album?
Burning Down the House
Talking Heads' hit is joined by Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' and Queen's 'We Are the Champions' as songs heard on screen but absent from the album.
Q 27A Revenge of the Nerds scene at a Tri-Lambda convention in which city was cut because a Fox executive felt mocked?
Las Vegas
Producers Ted Field and Peter Samuelson also fought off calls for a more violent ending, citing Gandhi's passive resistance as the nerds' model.
Q 28Why did the director cast Matt Salinger as an Alpha Beta brother?
He loved The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger later played Captain America in the unreleased 1990 film.
Q 29A real Tri-Lamb fraternity inspired by the film was founded in 2006 where?
University of Connecticut
Unlike the film's version it is open to all races and orientations, with chapters in Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Washington state.
Q 30A remake slated for 2007 was cancelled after two weeks of filming; which of these actors was in its cast?
Adam Brody
Kristin Cavallari, Katie Cassidy and Jenna Dewan were also cast; Emory University pulled out after reading the script.