Scarface Trivia
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50 free Scarface trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
47 free Scarface trivia questions with answers. Scarface flopped with critics in 1983 and then became one of the most quoted films ever made. This quiz covers the whole story of Tony Montana - the Mariel boatlift, Freedomtown, the chainsaw in the motel, Frank and Elvira, Sosa's Bolivia, the New York hit Tony would not finish and the mansion shootout under 'The World Is Yours'. It also goes behind the camera: Oliver Stone writing the script in Paris to escape his own cocaine habit, the director who was replaced, the actors considered for Manny and Elvira, why Miami would not let them film there, the three X ratings and the 17-3 appeal, the 226 F-words, Pacino's burned hand, and the Montecito mansion that played a Miami palace. A final section covers Howard Hawks's 1932 original with Paul Muni, the coin-flipping George Raft and the X motif. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen it once; the rest reward people who own the anniversary edition. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Who directed the 1983 Scarface?
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma got involved after pursuing Al Pacino for the lead in Blow Out; Pacino pitched him a remake instead and sent over a videotape of the 1932 original.
Q 02Who wrote the screenplay for the 1983 Scarface?
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone researched the script in South Florida with access to prosecutors' and organized-crime files; the Broward County bureau that helped him is thanked in the end credits.
Q 03Why did the screenwriter of the 1983 Scarface move to Paris to write the script?
To break his cocaine addiction
To break his cocaine addiction: he believed he could not quit while in the United States, and has said he wrote the script completely clean because the drug is 'very destructive to the brain cells'.
Q 04Which veteran director was attached to the 1983 Scarface for a time before leaving the project?
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet left over creative differences, but by the screenwriter's account his was the idea that reshaped the remake: make the Prohibition gangster a Cuban refugee in the cocaine trade.
Q 05Scarface producer Martin Bregman, who was also Al Pacino's manager, had earlier produced which Pacino film?
Serpico
Serpico came first: Bregman had spotted Pacino in a stage play and become his manager, and Scarface began when the actor phoned him after watching the 1932 original.
Q 06In Scarface, which weapon does Tony Montana introduce as 'my little friend'?
A grenade launcher
A grenade launcher, fixed to his rifle, is what he fires at the gunmen storming his mansion moments before he dies; the line ranks 61st on the American Film Institute's list of movie quotes.
Q 07Al Pacino's Tony Montana arrives in Miami as part of which real 1980 event?
The Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift began when Fidel Castro opened the port of Mariel in 1980; about 125,000 Cubans reached Florida, and the film's opening text claims he packed the boats with 'the dregs of his jails'.
Q 08Who plays Manny Ribera, Tony Montana's best friend, in Scarface?
Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer, born in Havana, was the only Cuban among the leads and helped Al Pacino with his Cuban Spanish; the role brought him a Golden Globe nomination.
Q 09Which actress plays Elvira Hancock in Scarface?
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer was little known beyond Grease 2, and the director at first refused even to audition her; the producer insisted, and the part made her a star.
Q 10How do Sosa's men kill Omar Suarez in Scarface?
Hanging him from a helicopter
Hanging him from a helicopter while Tony watches from the ground: Sosa has learned that Omar is a police informant, and uses the moment to warn Tony never to cross him.
Q 11At which Miami nightclub do gunmen try to kill Tony Montana in Scarface?
The Babylon
The Babylon is where two gunmen open fire on Tony's table in the middle of the floor show; he gets away with a shoulder wound, works out who sent them and takes over the whole operation that night.
Q 12Who plays Tony Montana's sister Gina in Scarface?
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio came to Gina from the Broadway stage, and the part proved her breakout: three years later she was Oscar-nominated for The Color of Money.
Q 13Which actor plays Miami drug lord Frank Lopez in Scarface?
Robert Loggia
Q 21Which of Frank Lopez's lessons does Tony Montana ignore in Scarface?
Don't get high on your own supply
Don't get high on your own supply is Frank's second lesson, after never underestimating the other guy's greed; by the end Tony is slumped behind a mound of cocaine as the killers close in.
Q 22Why does Tony Montana call off the bombing Sosa has ordered in Scarface?
A family is with the target
A family is with the target: the journalist has his wife and family in the car, so Tony shoots Sosa's bomber before he can set off the charge, and a furious Sosa turns on him.
Q 23In Scarface, Tony Montana's body falls into a fountain beneath a sign bearing which motto?
Robert Loggia plays Frank as a dealer gone soft: caught ordering a hit on his protégé, he grovels and offers money and his girlfriend for his life, and Tony has him shot anyway.
Q 14Which future Amadeus star plays Omar Suarez in Scarface?
F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham plays Omar, the Lopez lieutenant who gives Tony his first drug job and is later branded an informant by Sosa; the next year he appeared as Salieri in Amadeus, the role that won his Oscar.
Q 15What is Mel Bernstein's day job in Scarface?
Police detective
Police detective Mel Bernstein is on Frank Lopez's payroll and tries to sell Tony protection as well; Tony shoots him minutes after dealing with Frank.
Q 16How do Tony and Manny earn their green cards in Scarface?
By killing a former Castro official
By killing a former Castro official: a Miami dealer wants the man dead, and Tony stabs him during a riot in the Freedom Town refugee camp, joking that he kills Communists for fun.
Q 17In Scarface, which weapon do Colombian dealers use to kill Angel while Tony is forced to watch?
A chainsaw
A chainsaw, in a beachside motel shower, with Tony held at gunpoint until his friends burst in; the sequence was one of the few filmed in Florida, on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive.
Q 18After a sting operation, which charge leaves Tony Montana facing prison in Scarface?
Tax evasion
Tax evasion is the one count his lawyer can't beat after Tony is caught laundering cash with undercover agents; Sosa offers to make it disappear in return for help with a killing.
Q 19In Scarface, Tony's first cocaine deal is with Colombians, but which country does he visit to meet the kingpin Sosa?
Bolivia
Bolivia is Sosa's base; Tony, sent there only as Frank's messenger, negotiates a huge deal of his own, and Frank's fury at it starts the feud that kills him.
Q 20Why does Tony Montana shoot his best friend Manny near the end of Scarface?
He finds him with Gina
He finds him with Gina, his sister, and fires before learning that the two had just married and were planning to surprise him with the news.
The World Is Yours
The World Is Yours is lifted from the 1932 original, where the slogan flashes on a travel company's billboard outside the gangster's window and is still blazing when he lies dead in the street.
Q 24Who fires the shot that kills Tony Montana in Scarface?
A hitman behind him
A hitman behind him fires as Tony, on his balcony, rages at the attackers below; the raid is Sosa's revenge for a killing Tony refused to carry out.
Q 25Which subtitle did censors make the 1932 Scarface carry before they would pass it?
The Shame of the Nation
The Shame of the Nation was the tag the Hays Office demanded, along with a preachy foreword and a new ending in which Tony is tried and hanged; some states saw that version and others the original shootout.
Q 26Which Clint Eastwood film beat Scarface at the box office when both opened on the same weekend in 1983?
Sudden Impact
Sudden Impact took $9.7 million that weekend to Scarface's $4.6 million, so the future cult favorite opened in second place; it went on to earn about $45 million in North America.
Q 27Which rating did the MPAA first give Scarface before an appeal?
X
X, for excessive and cumulative violence and for language; its makers appealed, and a board of theater owners, studio executives and distributors voted 17 to 3 for an R.
Q 28Which tycoon produced the 1932 Scarface and battled censors for months to release it?
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes bankrolled it, fought the censors for months rather than accept every cut, then withdrew it from circulation; it was rarely seen again until his estate sold the rights in 1979.
Q 29The 1983 Scarface packs in more than 200 of which thing, more than one a minute?
Uses of the F-word
Uses of the F-word: tallies run from 207 to 226 in 170 minutes, and the ratings board cited the film's language alongside its violence in its first ruling.
Q 30Why was most of Scarface shot in Los Angeles instead of Miami?
Cuban-American groups protested
Cuban-American groups protested that the script painted refugees as criminals, and a Miami commissioner moved to deny city permits; the tourist board is also said to have turned the crew away.