60 free Superbad trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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 60 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?
Greg Mottola
Mottola went on to direct Adventureland and Paul, both also featuring Bill Hader.
Q 02Which writing duo wrote the Superbad screenplay, starting when they were teenagers?
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
They gave the two lead characters their own first names.
Q 03Who produced Superbad?
Judd Apatow
It came out just two months after Knocked Up, prompting one critic to call 2007 the year Apatow and Rogen saved movie comedy.
Q 04The two lead characters share their first names with the two screenwriters. What are they called?
Seth and Evan
The pair also based the loner Steven Glanzberg on a real classmate at their school.
Q 05What name is printed on Fogell's fake ID?
McLovin
The one-word name is what makes the liquor store clerk suspicious in the first place.
Q 06Fogell's fake ID is a driver's licence from which US state?
Hawaii
A replica in the special-edition DVD looked so much like the real thing that it caused a controversy in that state.
Q 07Which retailer pulled the special-edition DVD in one state because of its replica fake ID?
Walmart
The DVD, UMD and Blu-ray all came out on December 4, 2007.
Q 08Christopher Mintz-Plasse had no professional headshots when he auditioned for Fogell. What did he use instead?
A photo from his camera phone
It was his film debut, and he earned an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance.
Q 09How old was Christopher Mintz-Plasse during filming, requiring his mother on set for his sex scene?
17
Because he was legally a minor, California law required a parent present.
Q 10Bill Hader plays which of the two police officers?
Officer Slater
Hader was an SNL cast member at the time; the role got him booked on TRL and The Tonight Show.
Q 11Seth Rogen appears on screen as which character?
Officer Michaels
He was originally meant to play the teenage lead, but was judged too old and too big by the time it was made.
Q 12Rogen was originally slated to play the role that went to Jonah Hill. Why was he recast?
His age and physical size
The script took seven years to reach the screen, and Rogen was pushing 25 by the time cameras rolled.
Q 13Which character, Seth's crush, invites him to a party at her house?
Jules
Stone dyed her hair red to play the part.
Q 21Superbad topped the US box office for how many weeks in a row?
2
It opened with about $33 million from 2,948 theaters and held on to number one the following weekend.
Q 22Roughly how much did Superbad gross worldwide?
$170 million
Against a budget under $20 million, that made it the top-grossing high school comedy of its day.
Q 23Superbad's production budget was roughly how much?
$20 million
It opened at number one with about $33 million in its first weekend alone.
Q 24Which 2012 Jonah Hill film overtook Superbad as the highest-grossing US high school comedy?
Q 14Martha MacIsaac plays which character, Evan's love interest?
Becca
A future Disney Channel star plays her younger self in a flashback.
Q 15The actress playing Seth's love interest dyed her hair what colour for the role?
Red
She was a natural blonde; the film earned her a Young Hollywood Award for Exciting New Face.
Q 16Superbad was the feature film debut of Mintz-Plasse and which future two-time Oscar winner?
Emma Stone
She had unsuccessfully auditioned for Heroes shortly before, later calling that her rock-bottom moment.
Q 17The script is loosely based on the writers' Grade 12 year at Point Grey Secondary School in which city?
Vancouver
Fogell's request to be dropped at 13th and Granville is a nod to a real Vancouver sushi joint.
Q 18In which US state is the film's high school set?
Nevada
Filming actually took place around Los Angeles, with a South Bay high school standing in for the school.
Q 19Fogell asks the cops to drop him at '13th and Granville', a nod to the writers' favourite hometown what?
All-you-can-eat sushi restaurant
Fogell himself was reportedly based on a real friend of Rogen and Goldberg.
Q 20Where did Superbad hold its premiere on August 13, 2007?
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
It went into wide release four days later.
21 Jump Street
Hill co-wrote the story for that one as well as starring in it.
Q 25What was the headline of Roger Ebert's three-star review of Superbad?
McLovin It
He compared it to Animal House, 'except that it's more mature, as all movies are.'
Q 26Superbad's approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes is roughly what?
88%
Metacritic gave it 76/100 and audiences graded it A− on CinemaScore.
Q 27Which classmate takes Fogell upstairs at the party before the cops burst in?
Nicola
She runs off when the cops kick the door in.
Q 28At the first party, Seth dances with a drunk guest who turns out to be the host's fiancée. What is her name?
Jacinda
The dance leaves a stain on his jeans and starts the brawl that gets the police called.
Q 29Which actress plays the drunk fiancée Seth dances with at the first party?
Carla Gallo
Gallo was a regular in the Apatow orbit, appearing in Undeclared and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Q 30Which actor, sibling of a bigger star, plays classmate Greg?
Dave Franco
It was one of his earliest screen roles, well before Now You See Me and Neighbors.