Superbad Trivia
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58 free Superbad trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Superbad is the 2007 comedy that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started writing as teenagers, that gave Jonah Hill his first lead, launched Emma Stone and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and turned a fake Hawaii driver's licence into a cultural artefact. This Superbad trivia quiz covers the whole thing: the plot of that one long night, from the liquor-store robbery to the two cops doing donuts in their cruiser, the characters and who played them, the real Vancouver high school the story is based on, where it was filmed, the Bootsy Collins soundtrack, the reviews, the box office and the McLovin DVD that got pulled from Walmart shelves. The 58 questions start easy (who plays Fogell?) and end with production details only a commentary-track obsessive will know, so it suits a movie night with friends or a 2000s film round at pub quiz. Every answer has been checked against documented sources on the film's cast, production and release, not scraped from another trivia list.
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Q 01Who directed Superbad before making the Simon Pegg alien comedy Paul?
Greg Mottola
Greg Mottola. Superbad was his first feature in eleven years: after The Daytrippers in 1996 he moved into television, directing the college sitcom Undeclared for the same producer.
Q 02Which later comedy had Superbad's Jonah Hill, Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse all playing themselves?
This Is the End
This Is the End. Superbad's writers directed it and had fun with their friends' images: the gentle Michael Cera plays himself as a leering, drug-fuelled lout.
Q 03Who produced Superbad?
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow. He pushed the script for years while studios balked at its language; only after his own R-rated comedies became hits did one agree to make it.
Q 04What interrupts Fogell just as the liquor store cashier accepts his fake ID?
A robber knocks him down
A robber knocks him down. The hold-up brings two police officers to the store, who take his statement and then, to his amazement, offer him a lift.
Q 05What name is printed on Fogell's fake ID?
McLovin
McLovin. Seth and Evan are appalled that the licence carries only that single name, yet the liquor store cashier takes it and starts ringing up the sale.
Q 06Fogell's fake ID is a driver's licence from which US state?
Hawaii
Hawaii. Plastic copies of the licence were packed with a special-edition DVD, and Honolulu's mayor asked for sales to stop, fearing teenagers would doctor and use them.
Q 07Which retailer pulled the special-edition Superbad DVD in one state because of its replica fake ID?
Walmart
Walmart. The plastic licence came in a bonus pack sold only in its stores, and the chain cleared the packs from its shelves there after city officials complained.
Q 08With no professional headshots for his Fogell audition, what did Christopher Mintz-Plasse send instead?
A photo from his camera phone
A photo from his camera phone. Casting director Allison Jones said the amateur snapshot sold her at a glance: he looked like a kid who 'had probably seen the inside of a locker'.
Q 09Who had to be on the Superbad set for 17-year-old Christopher Mintz-Plasse's sex scene?
His mother
His mother. For legal reasons she had to be there because he was a minor; he remembered it as awkward for him, while she, he said, had the time of her life.
Q 10Bill Hader plays which of the two police officers?
Officer Slater
Officer Slater. Hader never auditioned: after he hit it off with the writers on another film, the producer simply told him there was a cop part and he would be playing it.
Q 11What convinced the filmmakers to cast Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Fogell after his audition?
His co-star instantly disliked him
His co-star instantly disliked him. Jonah Hill complained that the newcomer talked over his lines and insulted him in improvisations, which persuaded the others he was perfect as Seth's irritating friend.
Q 12Why did Seth Rogen hand the lead role he had planned to play to Jonah Hill?
He looked too old
He looked too old. The part was meant for Rogen as a teenager, but about a decade passed before the film was made, and by then he was playing adults in other comedies.
Q 13Which Superbad character, Seth's crush, invites him to a party at her house?
Q 21What does Seth pour stolen beer into so he can sneak it out of the first party?
Laundry detergent jugs
Laundry detergent jugs. It was no invention: the writers had smuggled beer the same way as teenagers and put the trick straight into the script.
Q 22Superbad cost roughly $20 million to make; about how much did it gross worldwide?
$170 million
$170 million. That was more than eight times its cost, for a script that had sat unmade for years because studios thought it too crude for a film about teenagers.
Q 23Which Canadian actor told Seth Rogen he had to cast Michael Cera as Evan?
Jay Baruchel
Jules
Jules. To impress her, Seth volunteers to bring all the alcohol for the party, a promise that rests entirely on Fogell's brand-new fake ID.
Q 14Which Ivy League college has Evan got into, leaving Seth behind?
Dartmouth
Dartmouth. Seth could not get in and is bound for a state school, and his hurt boils over when he learns Evan plans to room there with Fogell.
Q 15The actress playing Seth's love interest dyed her hair what colour for the role?
Red
Red. She is naturally blonde, and the dye job stuck: audiences so took to her as a redhead that she kept the colour for years afterwards.
Q 16Which future Oscar winner made her feature film debut in Superbad?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone. She first watched herself on screen sitting with her mother and Bill Hader at the back of a packed cinema, where the laughter 'blew the roof off the place'.
Q 17Superbad is loosely based on its writers' own high school days in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Vancouver. The real Fogell, an old classmate who still lived there, went to a premiere and joked that his friends had made him the butt of every joke.
Q 18Seth Rogen says Sony ruled Jonah Hill's Superbad character too vile to touch which of its products on screen?
A PlayStation
A PlayStation. Rogen, who had based the character on himself, called the studio's note very insulting but gave way, so in the video-game scene only Evan is seen playing.
Q 19Fogell asks to be dropped at 13th and Granville, where the writers' regular high-school haunt was what?
All-you-can-eat sushi restaurant
All-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. Rogen explained the line in 2019, replying to a fan who tweeted that she had once served him at a shop on that very corner.
Q 20What does the driver who hits Seth offer the boys so they won't report him?
A lift to a boozy party
A lift to a boozy party. The boys accept because their own plan has just collapsed, but the party's host throws their driver out soon after they arrive.
Jay Baruchel. Rogen had never seen Arrested Development and took the tip on trust while the two were making Fanboys; at the auditions nobody else was as funny.
Q 24Which 2012 film overtook Superbad as the highest-grossing high school comedy in the US?
21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street. Five years on, Jonah Hill went back to high school as an undercover cop and beat his own record.
Q 25Roger Ebert wrote that Superbad reminded him a little of which older comedy, though it was 'more mature'?
Animal House
Animal House. His punchline was 'as all movies are'; he gave Superbad three and a half stars and heard a 'deep, sad yearning' beneath its foul language.
Q 26Fogell says his fake ID was a toss-up between the name he chose and which other name?
Muhammad
Muhammad. Asked why he didn't pick something ordinary, Fogell snaps that it is the most commonly used name on Earth and tells Seth to read a book.
Q 27In Superbad, which classmate takes Fogell upstairs before the police burst in?
Nicola
Nicola. Fogell had been admiring her at school that morning; after a night riding with two policemen he finds the nerve to charm her, until they kick the door in.
Q 28In Superbad, how does the last party's host end up with a black eye?
Seth passes out and headbutts her
Seth passes out and headbutts her. She has just gently refused to kiss him while he is drunk, and he keels over convinced he has ruined his chance.
Q 29Which 1960s hit does a terrified Evan sing for a room of strangers at the first party?
These Eyes
These Eyes. Michael Cera sings The Guess Who's ballad himself; he also filmed a take of the 'Thong Song', which he had hoped would make the final cut.
Q 30Which actor, sibling of a bigger star, plays classmate Greg?
Dave Franco
Dave Franco. James Franco's younger sibling is credited as 'Greg the Soccer Player', the classmate Seth taunts over a primary-school accident with the line 'People don't forget'.