Road House Trivia
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46 free Road House trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Road House trivia questions with answers. Pain don't hurt, and neither does this Road House trivia quiz. It covers Patrick Swayze's 1989 cult classic from top to bottom: Dalton the philosophy-degree bouncer, the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, Frank Tilghman, Wade Garrett, Brad Wesley and his mansion across the lake, Jimmy Reno and the fight that broke Swayze's ribs, Doc Clay, Emmett's barn, the monster truck, and Jeff Healey playing behind chicken wire. There are questions on the making of it too: the actress originally cast as Doc, the California towns that played Missouri, the five Razzie nominations, the box office, the off-Broadway musical, the MST3K obsession and the NYPD training video. A final round covers Road House 2 and Doug Liman's 2024 remake with Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor and the Florida Keys, including the streaming-versus-cinema fight behind it. Easy questions first, deep cuts later. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the films and their stars, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays the bouncer Dalton in the 1989 film?
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze plays Dalton and performed many of his own stunts; the film came two years after his breakout in Dirty Dancing.
Q 02What is the name of the bar Dalton is hired to clean up?
The Double Deuce
The Double Deuce is the rough-and-tumble Jasper bar Dalton is hired to tame; its house band plays behind chicken wire to dodge thrown bottles.
Q 03In which state is the town of Jasper, where Dalton's new bar sits?
Missouri
Jasper is in Missouri, though the film was shot in California, mostly around Newhall, Valencia and Canyon Country.
Q 04Where is Dalton working when the film opens?
A club in New York City
The film opens at a club in New York City, where Dalton is working the door when a small-town bar owner arrives to recruit him.
Q 05Who owns the bar in Jasper and hires Dalton?
Frank Tilghman
Frank Tilghman owns the bar; he tells Dalton to clean the place up and gives him full authority over the staff.
Q 06Who plays the crime lord Brad Wesley?
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara, who originated Brick in Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays Brad Wesley and earned a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor.
Q 07Where does Dalton live while in Jasper?
A barn owned by a farmer named Emmett
Dalton rents a loft in a barn owned by a farmer named Emmett, across the lake from the mansion he later learns belongs to Brad Wesley.
Q 08Who plays Dr. Elizabeth "Doc" Clay?
Kelly Lynch
Kelly Lynch plays Dr. Elizabeth Clay, the Jasper doctor who stitches up Dalton's knife wound and becomes his love interest.
Q 09Which actress was originally cast as Doc before being replaced?
Annette Bening
Annette Bening was originally cast as Doc and was replaced early in production; the producers felt she lacked chemistry with the lead.
Q 10Who plays Dalton's mentor, the ageing bouncer Wade Garrett?
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott plays Wade Garrett, Dalton's grizzled mentor, who comes to Jasper to back him up against Wesley's crew.
Q 11How does Wesley decide which of Dalton's friends to kill?
A coin toss
Wesley settles it with a coin toss between Elizabeth and Wade Garrett, then sends his men after the one the coin picks.
Q 12What is written on the note pinned to the knife in Wade Garrett's body?
"It was Tails"
The note pinned to the knife reads "It was Tails", Wesley's taunt that Wade Garrett, not Elizabeth, was the friend chosen to die.
Q 13How does Dalton kill Wesley's henchman Jimmy Reno?
He rips out his throat
Dalton rips out Jimmy's throat with his bare hand, the same move that haunts him from his past, and Elizabeth is horrified when she sees it.
Q 21How much did Road House gross worldwide on its 1989 release?
$61 million
Road House grossed about $61 million worldwide, roughly half of it from its North American theatrical run.
Q 22What was the film's budget?
$15 million
The budget was about $15 million; United Artists released the film in May 1989 to harsh reviews.
Q 23How many stars did Roger Ebert give Road House?
Two and a half
Ebert gave it two and a half stars, writing that it sat "right on the edge between the good-bad movie and the merely bad".
What was Dalton's first name, glimpsed on a hospital chart and confirmed in the sequel?
Q 14Who plays Jimmy Reno, the henchman Dalton fights to the death?
Marshall Teague
Marshall Teague plays Jimmy Reno, Wesley's most dangerous henchman, whom Dalton fights on the lakeshore after Jimmy firebombs the farmhouse.
Q 15Which Canadian blues guitarist leads the house band in the 1989 film?
Jeff Healey
Jeff Healey, the Toronto-born blues-rocker, leads the house band as Cody, playing his guitar flat across his lap.
Q 16How did the guitarist who leads the house band lose his sight?
Retinoblastoma as a baby
The guitarist lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer, as a baby; his eyes were surgically removed at age one and he took up guitar at three.
Q 17Who composed the film's score?
Michael Kamen
Kamen also scored Die Hard and Lethal Weapon for producer Joel Silver.
Q 18Which monster truck appears in the film, built specifically for it?
Bigfoot #7
Bigfoot #7 was built for the film and, on Wesley's orders, is driven through the showroom of the local car dealership, crushing the cars inside.
Q 19Who directed the 1989 film?
Rowdy Herrington
Rowdy Herrington directed, with Joel Silver producing; the film opened on May 19, 1989.
Q 20How many Golden Raspberry nominations did Road House receive?
5
It won none, but Razzie founder John Wilson later listed it among the 100 most enjoyably bad movies ever made.
James
A hospital chart in the film reads James Dalton, and Road House 2 confirms James as his first name; the 2024 remake renames him Elwood Dalton.
Q 25Who is the protagonist of the 2006 direct-to-video sequel Road House 2?
Dalton's son, DEA agent Shane Tanner
Shane Tanner, Dalton's son and a DEA agent played by Johnathon Schaech, defends his uncle's Louisiana bar; Dalton is said to have been murdered before the story.
Q 26Which cult show's Crow T. Robot was obsessed with Road House and wrote a carol about its star?
Mystery Science Theater 3000
On Mystery Science Theater 3000, Crow penned a Christmas carol in honour of the film's lead actor during the 1991 riff of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
Q 27Which police force used a Road House scene in retraining on staying nice under pressure?
The NYPD
The NYPD used Dalton's "be nice" speech while retraining about 22,000 officers after the 2014 death of Eric Garner.
Q 28In which Family Guy episode does Peter buy a Road House DVD and start roundhouse-kicking everything?
"Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"
In "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag" (2009) Peter kicks everything in sight after watching Road House; the episode was dedicated to the film's lead actor, who had died that September of pancreatic cancer.
Q 29Which martial artist from The Last Dragon starred in the 2003 off-Broadway musical spoof of Road House?
Taimak
Taimak, the star of The Last Dragon, led the 2003 spoof, whose sprawling title promises him "wearing a blonde mullet wig".
Q 30Which MMA star was announced to lead a Road House remake in 2015 that was quietly cancelled?
Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey was announced as the lead of a Road House remake in 2015, with Nick Cassavetes set to write and direct; the project quietly died.