Rush Hour Trivia
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50 free Rush Hour trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
44 free Rush Hour trivia questions with answers. Rush Hour paired Jackie Chan with Chris Tucker in 1998 and made $245 million, then went to Hong Kong, Las Vegas and Paris for two sequels. This quiz covers all three films: Soo Yung's kidnapping and the Juntao twist, the $50 million ransom Carter accidentally negotiates, Ricky Tan and Zhang Ziyi's Hu Li, the counterfeit superdollars that extras tried to spend, Kenji on the Eiffel Tower, Roman Polanski's cameo, Chris Tucker's $25 million payday, and the strange fact that Rotten Tomatoes exists because of the first film. Easy questions ask where each film is set and who plays whom. The hard ones want the real Chinatown restaurant, the studio that dropped the script, the actor Chan wanted as Carter and the Vegas hotel used for the casino. It suits a movie night or a 90s-nostalgia quiz round. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and their stars, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What plays over the end credits of Rush Hour, as in many Jackie Chan films?
A blooper reel
A blooper reel runs under the credits, as in Chan's earlier films, and it ends with Chan gloating as Chris Tucker fails to get out three words of Chinese.
Q 02In Rush Hour, Carter erupts when Lee touches his radio and puts on which band?
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are 'great American music', Lee protests, and Carter warns him never to touch a Black man's radio; in the sequel Lee gets even with 'Don't you ever touch a Chinese man's CD.'
Q 03Which Michael Jackson song does Carter sing at a karaoke bar in Rush Hour 2?
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough is Carter's choice in a bar full of Triad gangsters; Chris Tucker was a real-life friend of Jackson's and appeared in his 'You Rock My World' video the same year.
Q 04The first Rush Hour opens on the last night of which country's rule over Lee's home city?
Britain
Britain handed the city back to China at midnight that night, June 30, 1997; at a farewell banquet, the art treasures recovered in Lee's raid are toasted as a parting gift.
Q 05Whose kidnapping sets the plot of the first Rush Hour in motion?
The Chinese consul's daughter
The Chinese consul's daughter, Soo Yung, is snatched on her way to school; her father sends for Lee, and the FBI, wanting no outsider on the case, hands him to the LAPD to be kept busy.
Q 06Who is unmasked as Rush Hour's crime lord, Juntao?
Commander Thomas Griffin
Commander Thomas Griffin, Lee's own superior, is Juntao: Carter spots him on a Chinatown surveillance tape, and he demands the ransom as payment for the art treasures Lee seized from him.
Q 07In Rush Hour, Carter asks if the kidnappers demanding $50 million think they took whom?
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton, then the president's daughter, is his benchmark; having answered the call and said he was the FBI, Carter ends up taking down the kidnapper's terms himself.
Q 08Where does the climax of the first Rush Hour take place?
The Los Angeles Convention Center
The Los Angeles Convention Center is hosting an exhibition of Chinese art where the ransom is to be handed over; the villain falls from the rafters, and Carter catches Lee with a huge flag.
Q 09Which real Chinatown restaurant in Rush Hour later put up a sign boasting of it?
Foo Chow
Foo Chow is where Carter is told to look for Juntao, and the ransom drop is set for the alley behind it; the restaurant's wall later proclaimed 'Rush Hour was shot here'.
Q 10In Rush Hour, Carter tells Lee his policeman father was killed during what?
A traffic stop
A traffic stop, in daylight, by 'some punk who didn't want no ticket': his father's partner never got out of the car to back him up, which is why Carter insists on working alone.
Q 11Which studio originally bought the Rush Hour script before putting it in turnaround?
Disney's Hollywood Pictures
Disney's Hollywood Pictures developed it for over a year before studio chief Joe Roth let it go: he doubted the script, its second-time director and Jackie Chan's pull with American audiences.
Q 12Which studio ultimately made and released Rush Hour?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema said yes because it had just had a hit with the same director and Chris Tucker, and Rush Hour repaid it with the studio's biggest opening weekend up to then.
Q 13Which comedian turned down Rush Hour's Carter role to make Holy Man, and later said he regretted it?
Eddie Murphy
Q 21Where does Rush Hour 2 begin, with Carter on vacation?
Hong Kong
Hong Kong was meant to be Carter's holiday, promised at the end of the first film, but a bombing that kills two Americans puts Lee on a case and Carter on the hunt with him.
Q 22Who plays the Triad boss Ricky Tan in Rush Hour 2?
John Lone
John Lone, the emperor of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, plays Ricky Tan, who was the police partner of Lee's father before turning Triad, and who turns out to be his killer.
Q 23Which Chinese star plays the assassin Hu Li in Rush Hour 2?
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi, fresh from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, made her Hollywood debut as Hu Li while speaking only a smattering of English; she gave her press interviews through an interpreter.
Eddie Murphy chose Holy Man, a box-office bomb, over Rush Hour; in 2025 he named it with Ghostbusters and Who Framed Roger Rabbit as his three 'wish I would have done' movies.
Q 14Which comedian says he turned down Jackie Chan's offer to co-star in Rush Hour?
Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence told the story on The Tonight Show in 2024: 'Wasn't enough money.' He added that he was happy for Chris Tucker, saying 'that's what it was supposed to be.'
Q 15Which Jackie Chan film topped the US box office in 1996, paving his way to Rush Hour?
Rumble in the Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx was shot in Vancouver, mountains and all, yet it made Chan a draw in America; a young director then pitched him a buddy-cop film as an equal lead, not a sidekick.
Q 16Which MTV Movie Award did Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker win for the first Rush Hour?
Best On-Screen Duo
Best On-Screen Duo was theirs in 1999, but Best Fight got away: their nominated brawl lost to Ben Stiller wrestling a small dog in There's Something About Mary.
Q 17Which animated film ended Rush Hour's two weeks at No. 1 in the US in October 1998?
Antz
Antz opened on October 2, 1998, ahead of Pixar's rival insect film A Bug's Life, after a public feud between DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg and Pixar's Steve Jobs and John Lasseter.
Q 18Which website did a Jackie Chan fan rush to launch for Rush Hour?
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes was coded in two weeks by Senh Duong, who wanted it live for the film's planned August 1998 opening; the release then slipped to September, and the site launched without it.
Q 19What did Jackie Chan say he disliked about his own performance in the first Rush Hour?
His English
His English: 'I didn't like the movie. I still don't like the movie,' Chan said in 2002, adding that he didn't know what Chris Tucker was saying either.
Q 20Which future Entourage star plays the Versace salesman who dresses Carter and Lee in Rush Hour 2?
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven's salesman takes the two cops for a couple, offering to wrap Lee in silk as well because he loves it when couples dress alike; he became Ari Gold three years later.
Q 24What are Ricky Tan and Steven Reign laundering through the Red Dragon casino in Rush Hour 2?
Counterfeit $100 bills
Counterfeit $100 bills, $100 million of them, are being washed through the casino; they are near perfect, and the only way to spot one is to burn it, because the ink burns red, not black.
Q 25When extras tried to spend Rush Hour 2's realistic prop money, which agency seized and destroyed it?
The Secret Service
The Secret Service, which guards the currency as well as the president, seized the fake cash after extras and passers-by tried to spend it on the Las Vegas Strip, then ordered the prop house to stop printing.
Q 26Which Oscar-nominated actor appears uncredited as Kenny, the restaurant owner and informant, in Rush Hour 2?
Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle went unbilled as Kenny, an ex-con who hides a gambling den behind his Crenshaw restaurant, and it is his tip about a free-spending customer that puts Carter on the villains' trail.
Q 27What does Hu Li tape into Lee's mouth at the casino in Rush Hour 2?
A grenade
A grenade, which she threatens to set off by remote and 'blow your 32 teeth into your brain'; Lee and Carter get it out moments before she presses the detonator.
Q 28Where do Lee and Carter head at the very end of Rush Hour 2?
New York City
New York City is Lee's wish: asked what he has always wanted, he says to see the Knicks play at Madison Square Garden, and Carter, flush from the casino tables, makes it first class.
Q 29At the start of Rush Hour 3, what job has Carter been reduced to?
Directing traffic
Directing traffic is the duty he has been busted down to, done to the strains of Prince's 'Do Me, Baby'; he abandons the junction when the police radio reports that the ambassador Lee is guarding has been shot.
Q 30Which Las Vegas hotel, closed for good months earlier, was dressed as Rush Hour 2's Red Dragon casino?
The Desert Inn
The Desert Inn had shut in August 2000, so the crew were free to dress its casino and stage an explosion there; it was the old resort's last job before Steve Wynn pulled it down.