Revenge of the Nerds Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
49 free Revenge of the Nerds trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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.
30 of 49 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01At which fictional college is Revenge of the Nerds set?
Adams
Adams College: Lewis and his best friend arrive as freshmen to study computer science, and a fraternity crowd is chanting 'nerds' at them before they have even unpacked.
Q 02Why do the Alpha Betas take over the freshman dorm at the start of Revenge of the Nerds?
Their own house burned down
Their own house burned down: the jocks set it alight themselves, fooling about with 188-proof liquor and a lighter, and their coach then pressures the dean into handing them the freshman dorm.
Q 03Revenge of the Nerds was the first film from which production company, whose name later became a famous record label?
Interscope
Interscope: founder Ted Field produced the film himself and says he came up with its title; in 1990 he co-founded Interscope Records.
Q 04Who plays Lewis Skolnick, the lead nerd in Revenge of the Nerds?
Robert Carradine
Robert Carradine arrived on campus early in full nerd costume and went through fraternity rush for real; no house would have him, which convinced him he had the part right.
Q 05Which future ER star plays Gilbert Lowe in Revenge of the Nerds?
Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards filmed only a few brief scenes for the sequel, reportedly because he was committed to another project, and by the third film the part was played by someone else.
Q 06By what nickname is Curtis Armstrong's lewd nerd character known in Revenge of the Nerds?
Booger
Booger was the first key role cast: the writers decided that if they could get Curtis Armstrong, fresh from Risky Business, they had a hit, and he says strangers still shout the name at him.
Q 07Which actor plays Alpha Beta leader Stan Gable in Revenge of the Nerds?
Ted McGinley
Ted McGinley's villain comes round in the end: in the third film Stan Gable confesses in court that he is a nerd himself, and by the fourth he turns up as one of them.
Q 08What do the nerds use to sabotage the Alpha Betas' jockstraps in Revenge of the Nerds?
Liquid heat
Liquid heat: the prank on the football team, along with a hidden-camera raid on the sorority house, is what finally convinces the national Tri-Lamb president to grant the nerds full membership.
Q 09Which actor plays Coach Harris, the Alpha Betas' football coach, in Revenge of the Nerds?
John Goodman
John Goodman played the bullying coach four years before Roseanne made him a household name, and remembers the director running 'a very loose ship' on which he made up a lot of his lines.
Q 10Which former NFL player plays Tri-Lamb national leader U.N. Jefferson in Revenge of the Nerds?
Bernie Casey
Bernie Casey was a Pro Bowl receiver who also published poetry and painted; Sports Illustrated profiled him in 1969 as a 'poet, painter and wide receiver'.
Q 11Which actor plays Lewis's father, Mr. Skolnick, in Revenge of the Nerds?
James Cromwell
James Cromwell, billed here as Jamie Cromwell, came back in every sequel, turning up in court to stand by his son in one of them, a decade before his Oscar-nominated farmer in Babe.
Q 12Which future thirtysomething star plays Arnold Poindexter in Revenge of the Nerds?
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield says he danced through his audition to 'Billie Jean' on a Walkman and the director offered him the part on the spot, his first substantial film role.
Q 13Which of the nerds in Revenge of the Nerds is a child prodigy?
Harold Wormser
Q 21Who becomes Greek Council president after the nerds win the Homecoming carnival in Revenge of the Nerds?
Gilbert Lowe
Gilbert Lowe: winning the carnival gives the Tri-Lambs the right to name the president, ending Stan Gable's habit of using the office to block every complaint against his own fraternity.
Q 22How do the Alpha Betas and Pi Delta Pis sabotage the nerds' first party in Revenge of the Nerds?
They release pigs inside
They release pigs inside, just as the party has finally come to life; the nerds agree not to answer with violence and plan pranks of their own instead.
Q 23How do the nerds outsell the Alpha Betas at the Homecoming charity fundraiser in Revenge of the Nerds?
Harold Wormser is no bystander: during the nerds' raid on the sorority house, the child genius and Lamar are the two who install the hidden cameras.
Q 14In Revenge of the Nerds, Larry B. Scott's Lamar Latrelle is written as what kind of character?
An openly gay fraternity member
An openly gay fraternity member: Larry B. Scott played Lamar in all four films, and Lamar's wobbling javelin throw helps the Tri-Lambs through the Greek Games.
Q 15Brian Tochi, who plays Takashi in Revenge of the Nerds, later voiced which Ninja Turtle in the live-action films?
Leonardo
Leonardo: Tochi voiced the Turtles' leader in the first three live-action films; in Nerds, a co-star claims his 'Looks like salad' over the pile of jockstraps was made up on the spot.
Q 16Betty Childs is played by Julia Montgomery, previously known for which soap opera?
One Life to Live
One Life to Live, where she played Samantha Vernon; her Nerds character is missing from the first sequel, then returns in the two TV films as Lewis's wife.
Q 17Who directed Revenge of the Nerds?
Jeff Kanew
Jeff Kanew thought the script 'sounds stupid' when the studio sent it, then realised he related to it; four years earlier he had edited the Oscar-winning Ordinary People.
Q 18Under Greek Council rules in Revenge of the Nerds, what must the nerds find before they can start a fraternity?
An outside sponsor
An outside sponsor: the council demands the backing of a national fraternity, and every one turns the nerds down except the all-Black Lambda Lambda Lambda, which takes them on trial.
Q 19Where were most of the exterior campus scenes in Revenge of the Nerds shot?
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: its administrators refused the 'too raunchy' script, then relented after negotiations with the producers.
Q 20Fox first aired the TV sequel Nerds in Love in 1994 with which gimmick, sold through 7-Eleven stores?
Scratch-and-sniff cards
Scratch-and-sniff cards: Fox called it 'aroma-vision', flashing an on-screen prompt when it was time to sniff each card, and Variety's critic reported that they smelled mostly of Kool-Aid.
Pies with nude photos
Pies with nude photos: each plate hides a picture taken by the cameras the nerds planted in the sorority house, a prank one of the film's own writers now says he regrets.
Q 24Which sorority of nerdy women, Judy's, allies with the Tri-Lambs in Revenge of the Nerds?
Omega Mu
Omega Mu: Judy calls in her sorority sisters when the Pi Delta Pis accept the nerds' party invitation only to stand them up, and the two houses then compete as a team at the Homecoming carnival.
Q 25How do the nerds finally clinch the Homecoming carnival in Revenge of the Nerds?
An electronic musical number
An electronic musical number: tied for first going into the last event, the nerds win the loudest applause with a Devo-like electro-rap, Poindexter sawing away on his violin.
Q 26Which Queen anthem is heard in Revenge of the Nerds?
We Are the Champions
We Are the Champions: yet it was left off the film's soundtrack album, as were the Michael Jackson and Talking Heads hits heard on screen.
Q 27Nerds in Paradise was filmed on location during which annual event, using the crowds as extras?
Spring break
Spring break: holidaying students filled the backgrounds; the script was first set in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, but moved to an American beach resort because shooting there was faster and cheaper.
Q 28In Revenge of the Nerds, Alpha Beta brother Danny Burke is played by the son of which famously reclusive novelist?
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger's son Matt made his film debut as the jock, and six years later the recluse's boy was playing Captain America.
Q 29A real Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity inspired by Revenge of the Nerds was founded in 2006 at which university?
University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut: it began as a joke among friends unhappy with what campus fraternities had become, and grew into the founding chapter of a real Lambda Lambda Lambda.
Q 30Which star of The O.C. had the idea for a Revenge of the Nerds remake that shut down two weeks into filming?
Adam Brody
Adam Brody was a co-producer on the remake, which stopped for good in November 2006 after the university hosting the shoot threw the production off campus.