Saturday Night Fever Trivia
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49 free Saturday Night Fever trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
46 free Saturday Night Fever trivia questions with answers. Released in December 1977, Saturday Night Fever turned a fabricated magazine article about Brooklyn disco kids into one of the defining films of the decade, made John Travolta an Oscar-nominated movie star, and pushed the Bee Gees' soundtrack past everything else in record-shop history until Thriller came along. This quiz covers the film from every angle: the plot in Bay Ridge, the real 2001 Odyssey club, the dance contest, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the actors and the people behind the camera. The easy questions ask who plays Tony Manero, where he works and which band wrote the songs; the harder ones want the director who was fired a month before shooting, the songs the dance scenes were originally shot to, the actresses considered for Stephanie, why the PG version was delayed, and the chart records the soundtrack singles set in the spring of 1978. It suits disco nostalgics, 70s film buffs and anyone building a music-and-movies quiz night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its soundtrack, its songs and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Before Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta was a TV heartthrob as Vinnie Barbarino on which sitcom?
Welcome Back, Kotter
Welcome Back, Kotter made him a teen idol, but ABC would not release him from it to star in Days of Heaven, so the lead went to Richard Gere.
Q 02In which Brooklyn neighborhood does Tony Manero live?
Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge still claims the film: in 2025 a local artist had a plaque fixed to the promenade bench where Tony opens up to Stephanie, dedicated to 'all the Brooklyn dreamers'.
Q 03What is the name of the discotheque where Tony is king of the dance floor?
2001 Odyssey
2001 Odyssey was a real club at 802 64th Street in Brooklyn, since demolished; locals harassed the shoot there, and someone even threw a firebomb at the building.
Q 04Where does Tony work during the week?
A hardware store
A hardware store: his boss fires him for taking an afternoon off without leave, then hands the job back and promises him a future there.
Q 05In Saturday Night Fever's opening credits, what does Tony buy at a walk-up window and eat stacked double?
Two slices of pizza
Two slices of pizza from Lenny's on 86th Street: in 2018 Travolta went back to the pizzeria, drew a crowd of fans and ate a couple more.
Q 06Saturday Night Fever was based on a 1976 New York magazine article by which music writer?
Nik Cohn
Nik Cohn was also hired to adapt his own article for the screen, but his draft was set aside and he gets no screenwriting credit on the film.
Q 07What was the title of the magazine article that inspired Saturday Night Fever?
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night ran with a note insisting everything in it was factual; two decades later its author admitted he had made it up.
Q 08The writer behind Saturday Night Fever later admitted his article's hero was largely modeled on whom?
An English mod he knew
An English mod he knew: the writer confessed 20 years on that he hardly knew Brooklyn and had largely modeled his hero on a Shepherd's Bush mod from the Sixties.
Q 09Who directed Saturday Night Fever?
John Badham
John Badham, whose sister Mary played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, was hired less than a month before filming, after the first director left over 'conceptual disagreements'.
Q 10John G. Avildsen was dropped as Saturday Night Fever's director weeks before winning an Oscar for which movie?
Rocky
Rocky won him the Best Director Oscar weeks after he left over 'conceptual disagreements'; before going he had brought in Rocky's boxing trainer to get Travolta into shape.
Q 11Which music impresario, manager of the Bee Gees, produced Saturday Night Fever?
Robert Stigwood
Robert Stigwood signed Travolta to a three-film, $1 million deal in 1976 and bought the film rights to the magazine article that same year.
Q 12In Saturday Night Fever, a girl kisses Tony on the dance floor and squeals that she just kissed whom?
Al Pacino
Al Pacino hangs over the whole film: a Serpico poster dominates Tony's bedroom, and he struts out in his briefs shouting 'Attica!', the chant from Dog Day Afternoon.
Q 13Travolta's Tony Manero earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination, but which actor won that year?
Richard Dreyfuss
Q 21In Saturday Night Fever, Tony is fired for skipping work to help Stephanie do what?
Move into a new apartment
Move into a new apartment: there Tony meets the older man who is moving out, and an upset Stephanie admits she had an affair with him to help her career.
Q 22Why does Tony drop Annette as his partner for the contest in Saturday Night Fever?
He spots a better dancer
He spots a better dancer, Stephanie, and trades up; the partnership had been Annette's idea, and he had agreed only on condition it stayed strictly about dancing.
Q 23Which Bee Gees hit is on the Saturday Night Fever album although it is never heard in the film?
Jive Talkin'
Richard Dreyfuss won for The Goodbye Girl. Travolta's was the film's only Oscar nomination: the Bee Gees' chart-topping songs were passed over entirely.
Q 14Tony's older brother Frank Jr. disappoints his parents by leaving what?
The Catholic priesthood
The Catholic priesthood: his exit breaks their mother's heart, yet he is the one who tells Tony to do what he thinks is right, not what the family tries to jam him into.
Q 15In Saturday Night Fever, what does Tony angrily protest that his father has hit at the dinner table?
His hair
His hair: he has just spent the scene before primping for his night out, and wails that he works on it a long time only for his father to hit it.
Q 16In Saturday Night Fever, which gang does the hospitalized Gus blame for beating him up?
The Barracudas
The Barracudas get their hangout rammed with Bobby's car in revenge, only for Gus to admit afterwards that he is not sure they were the ones who beat him.
Q 17What does Tony do with his trophy and prize money after the dance contest?
Gives them to the Puerto Rican couple
Gives them to the Puerto Rican couple: Tony is convinced they danced better and that the judging was biased, and he rounds on his friends as hypocrites.
Q 18From which bridge does Bobby C. fall to his death near the end of Saturday Night Fever?
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is Tony's obsession as well as his friends' playground: in a quieter scene he reels off its history and dimensions to impress Stephanie.
Q 19After Bobby's death, how does Tony reach Manhattan at the end of Saturday Night Fever?
On the graffiti-covered subway
On the graffiti-covered subway: he rides it until morning, then turns up at Stephanie's door to apologize and announce that he is not going back home.
Q 20What news is Bobby C. desperate to talk over with Tony throughout Saturday Night Fever?
His girlfriend is pregnant
His girlfriend is pregnant and he feels pressed to marry her; Tony forgets a promise to call him, and Bobby throws that back at him moments before his fatal fall.
Jive Talkin', the group's 1975 comeback number one, was first sent to radio stations in plain white packaging with no name on it, because programmers had written the Bee Gees off.
Q 24Who plays Annette, the neighborhood girl infatuated with Tony, in Saturday Night Fever?
Donna Pescow
Donna Pescow had trained her native Brooklyn accent away at drama school, so she had to return to her parents' home and relearn it to play Annette.
Q 25Which future sitcom star made her screen debut as the flirtatious dancer Connie in Saturday Night Fever?
Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher got one saucy line, asking Tony if he is as good in bed as he is on the dance floor; years later she co-created and starred in The Nanny.
Q 26What did Saturday Night Fever's crew line the real disco's walls with?
Aluminum foil
Aluminum foil and Christmas lights did the walls on the cheap, while the flashing floor installed for the film cost about $15,000.
Q 27Travolta recalls first dancing his Saturday Night Fever numbers to Boz Scaggs and which other artist?
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs were his dance music at first, Travolta has said, because the Bee Gees were not involved in the film in the beginning.
Q 28Which song plays as Tony struts down the street in Saturday Night Fever's opening credits?
Stayin' Alive
Stayin' Alive has since found a second career in first-aid classes: researchers found its 103 beats a minute almost perfect for timing CPR chest compressions.
Q 29Which singer performs 'If I Can't Have You' on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack after a song swap with the Bee Gees?
Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Elliman had been in line for the ballad 'How Deep Is Your Love' until the group's manager insisted they keep it; she got the disco number instead and took it to number one.
Q 30Which instrumental on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack had already been a US number one for Walter Murphy?
A Fifth of Beethoven
A Fifth of Beethoven was nearly a one-man record: Murphy played most of the parts himself, yet his label insisted on billing it to an invented 'Big Apple Band'.