Stoner Movie Trivia
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47 free Stoner Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
The stoner comedy has a canon. It starts with Reefer Madness being laughed at in 1970s midnight screenings, gets its founding text when Cheech & Chong drive a van made of weed across the border in Up in Smoke, and runs through Spicoli, Craig and Smokey, Thurgood and Buttercup the police horse, Harold and Kumar's quest for sliders, Dale and Saul, and a teddy bear from Boston. This quiz has 47 questions covering the whole genre: the classics and the cult favorites, the plots, the famous lines, the cameos, the directors who made their debuts here, the box office bombs that became hits on video, and the odd crossovers into horror, fantasy and documentary. It opens with easy ones any fan will nail and finishes with details for the people who can name every smoker in Half Baked's cameo montage. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or make it the movie round of a 4/20 trivia night.
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Q 01Which 1978 film, Cheech & Chong's big-screen debut, is credited with establishing the stoner comedy genre?
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke outraged some commentators in 1978 yet became a surprise smash, and in 2024 the Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry as the film that arguably founded the stoner genre.
Q 02In Cheech & Chong's first film, the duo's burning marijuana van helps them win what?
A battle of the bands
A battle of the bands: smugglers had built the van's body from "fiberweed", and when it catches fire outside the rock club the smoke pours in and gets the whole crowd high.
Q 03In Fast Times at Ridgemont High, what does stoner surfer Spicoli have delivered to Mr. Hand's history class?
A pizza
A pizza: Spicoli argues that class is "our time", so Mr. Hand agrees, takes the box away and invites the other students up to help themselves to the slices.
Q 04Cheech Marin left California to dodge the Vietnam draft and met Tommy Chong in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Vancouver: Chong hired Marin in 1969 for an improv troupe that played the Shanghai Junk, a strip club owned by Chong's family.
Q 05In Nice Dreams (1981), Cheech & Chong get rich selling marijuana out of what kind of vehicle?
An ice cream truck
An ice cream truck: the pair pose as ice cream sellers, but the strain, grown by a friend, slowly turns smokers into lizards, among them the narcotics sergeant on their trail.
Q 06By what title is the 1930s anti-drug film, later an ironic midnight-movie comedy, best known?
Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness came back in the 1970s as a campus comedy: legalization campaigners screened it to raise money, and New Line's founder, spotting a faulty copyright notice, released it himself on the college circuit.
Q 07Which magazine began handing out the Stony Awards for stoner films and TV in 2000?
High Times
High Times gave its winners a trophy in the shape of a bong; the first ceremony, held in New York in 2000, was hosted by the Upright Citizens Brigade, with a young Amy Poehler in the troupe.
Q 08Which actor plays Jeff Spicoli, the perpetually stoned surfer, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Sean Penn
Sean Penn's stoner surfer rescued the film: a nervous Universal opened it small with almost no advertising, and word of mouth about Spicoli pushed the studio into widening the release.
Q 09Dazed and Confused follows Texas teenagers through which day of school in 1976?
The last day of school
The last day of school, 28 May 1976: once classes end, the new seniors drive to the junior high and hunt down the incoming freshmen for a ritual spanking with homemade wooden paddles.
Q 10Who replaced Chris Tucker as Ice Cube's sidekick in Next Friday (2000)?
Mike Epps
Mike Epps came in as Craig's cousin Day-Day; Ice Cube has said Tucker was offered $10 to 12 million to return but no longer wanted to swear or smoke marijuana on camera.
Q 11In Half Baked, kind-hearted Kenny lands in jail for feeding junk food to which diabetic animal, killing it?
A police horse
A police horse called Buttercup: the kindergarten teacher pities the tired-looking animal during a munchie run, and his friends start dealing marijuana stolen from a research lab to raise his bail.
Q 12Which comedian co-wrote Half Baked with Dave Chappelle and later co-created Chappelle's Show?
Neal Brennan
Neal Brennan was a teenage doorman at a Greenwich Village comedy club when he met Chappelle, a regular on its stage, and began pitching him jokes.
Q 13In Half Baked's cameo montage of smoker types, who plays the nostalgic old-timer?
Willie Nelson
Q 21In the 2008 sequel, Harold and Kumar are wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay en route to which city?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam has to wait: on the flight, passengers mistake Kumar's smokeless bong for a bomb, and the pair are branded terrorists and sent to the prison camp.
Q 22Kal Penn left what job in 2010 to film A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
A White House post
A White House post: Penn had quit the TV drama House in 2009 to join the Obama administration's Office of Public Engagement, left in mid-2010 to play Kumar again, and was back at his desk that November.
Q 23In Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen's Dale Denton works in what job when he witnesses a murder?
Process server
Willie Nelson plays the smoker forever telling you that you should have been there in the old days; Tommy Chong is in the film too, but as a prison inmate known as the Squirrel Master.
Q 14What cocktail does the Dude drink throughout The Big Lebowski?
White Russian
White Russian: the Coens modelled the Dude largely on Jeff Dowd, a producer they got to know around their first film, Blood Simple, who drank the cocktail himself and really was called the Dude.
Q 15The Big Lebowski's tangled kidnapping plot is the Coen brothers' homage to which author of The Big Sleep?
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler: Joel Coen wanted "a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant", and Ethan liked having a pothead, not a private eye, feel his way through the intrigue.
Q 16How High (2001) stars which two rappers as stoners who get into Harvard with help from a friend's ghost?
Method Man and Redman
Method Man and Redman ace their entrance exams thanks to weed grown in the ashes of a dead friend: smoking it summons his ghost, who feeds them every answer.
Q 17In Dude, Where's My Car?, what extraterrestrial device did Jesse and Chester unknowingly acquire?
The Continuum Transfunctioner
The Continuum Transfunctioner was hiding in plain sight: when Chester finally solves his Rubik's Cube, it changes shape into the device, which is powerful enough to destroy the universe.
Q 18In Dude, Where's My Car?, Jesse and Chester wake up with which two words tattooed on their backs?
Dude and Sweet
Dude and Sweet: each asks what his tattoo says and takes the other's honest one-word answer for an exclamation, so the exchange loops; the screenwriter says some fans now wear the pair as matching tattoos.
Q 19Which actor plays a debauched, fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar films?
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris was written into the first draft without being asked: he found out from a friend who was auditioning, had his agents track the script down and warily agreed to meet the writers.
Q 20Under what alternate title was the first Harold & Kumar film released in some international markets?
Get the Munchies
Get the Munchies is how British audiences know it; the quest was a fiction at home too, since Cherry Hill, the pair's New Jersey destination, had no White Castle and the film's one was a set built in Toronto.
Process server: Dale is parked outside a drug lord's house, about to hand him a summons, when he sees the killing; the joint he throws away is a strain so rare that it leads the killers to his dealer.
Q 24Who earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing the gentle, couch-bound weed dealer in Pineapple Express?
James Franco
James Franco was best known for scowling through the Spider-Man films in expensive suits; a grungy wig and baggy clothes made him, in his co-star's words, a whole different guy.
Q 25Which director made Pineapple Express and then the medieval stoner fantasy Your Highness?
David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green had made his name with quiet independent dramas such as George Washington; the producers knew that work and, he says, thought hiring him for a stoner action comedy so weird it might work.
Q 26This Is the End (2013) was the directorial debut of which duo?
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, long-time writing partners, stretched their 2007 short Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse into a feature in which every star plays a warped version of their real self.
Q 27In Ted, the talking teddy bear and his best friend John live in which US city?
Boston
Boston: Seth MacFarlane voices the bear in a thick local accent, and the finale is a chase through Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox.
Q 28John and Ted's favorite movie, whose star Sam J. Jones shows up to party with them, is what?
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon: Sam J. Jones plays himself in an extended cameo, and says the comedy's success brought his 1980 film a new generation of fans, with fathers, sons and grandchildren asking for autographs.
Q 29Super Troopers follows bored, syrup-chugging state troopers in a fictional town in which state?
Vermont
Vermont: with budget cuts about to close their station, the troopers, who pass traffic stops betting on how often they can say "meow", have to crack a marijuana-smuggling ring to save their jobs.
Q 30What is the job of Allen Covert's character, Alex, in Grandma's Boy?
Video game tester
Video game tester: when his roommate blows the rent money, Alex has to move in with his grandmother and her two friends, and the game he has been designing in secret ends up outshining the company prodigy's.