The Fast and the Furious (2001)
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49 free The Fast and the Furious (2001) trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Before the franchise went to space, The Fast and the Furious was a $38 million undercover-cop movie built from a Vibe magazine article about New York street racers. Rob Cohen relocated it to Los Angeles, Paul Walker pitched it as Days of Thunder meets Donnie Brasco, and a supporting actor named Vin Diesel had to be talked into playing Dominic Toretto. These 49 questions cover the film from the Civics at the port to the Chevelle in Baja: Brian's Eclipse and the ten-second car, the Supra, Dom's Charger, Race Wars, Johnny Tran, the railroad-crossing race. Then the production story: the actor the studio wanted as Toretto, the film Eminem chose instead, the actress Mia was written for, Roger Corman's title, 78 wrecked cars, Cohen's pizza cameo and the DVD that outsold everything but Pearl Harbor. The hard tier goes to the Wii port, the Paris screening and the San Bernardino airport. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something either way. Play it solo or print it for family movie night.
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Q 01What surname is on the fake licence Brian O'Conner carries while undercover in The Fast and the Furious?
Spilner
Spilner: Dom reads 'Brian Earl Spilner' off the licence after breaking up a brawl outside his shop, says it sounds like a serial killer's name and tells Brian not to come back.
Q 02With no cash for the buy-in, what does Brian stake to enter his first street race in The Fast and the Furious?
His car's pink slip
His car's pink slip: Brian bets ownership of the car against the others' $2,000 each, loses, and hears Dom's verdict in front of the crowd: 'You never had me! You never had your car!'
Q 03The Fast and the Furious grew out of a 1998 article in which magazine?
Vibe
Vibe: the piece was written by Ken Li, then a young newspaper reporter; the film rights were optioned, and producer Neal Moritz pitched the idea to his studio as the next big thing.
Q 04The Fast and the Furious began as an article on which city's street racing?
New York
New York: the piece followed a man named Rafael Estevez through the city's illegal street races, and the script was later rewritten for the car culture of Los Angeles.
Q 05Which gas, injected for a burst of speed, fries Brian's engine when he overuses it in his first race against Dom?
Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide, or NOS: Dom mocks him afterwards for 'granny shifting' and tells him he is lucky the shot did not blow the welds on his intake.
Q 06Jesse, the crew's engine genius in The Fast and the Furious, says which condition kept him out of a school like MIT?
ADD
ADD: when Brian tells him he belongs at MIT, Jesse shrugs that he has 'that attention disorder', and adds that engines are the one thing that calms him down.
Q 07In The Fast and the Furious, Michelle Rodriguez plays which character?
Letty Ortiz
Letty Ortiz: Rodriguez and her co-stars were sent to a driving school in Las Vegas before the shoot, where her one complaint was that nobody would let her go faster than 80 miles per hour.
Q 08In The Fast and the Furious, what does Brian keep ordering at the Torettos' lunch counter?
A tuna sandwich
A tuna sandwich: 'no one likes the tuna here,' sneers one of Dom's crew, telling him to try Fatburger instead, and the argument becomes the brawl that first brings Brian to Dom's notice.
Q 09In The Fast and the Furious, Rick Yune plays which rival gang leader?
Johnny Tran
Johnny Tran: he and his cousin Lance machine-gun Brian's car when it strays onto their turf, and their rivalry with Dom's crew ends with the cousins being chased down on their motorcycles.
Q 10Which studio released The Fast and the Furious?
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures: the studio made it for a modest $38 million with no big star, and the series it started has since taken more than $7 billion at the box office.
Q 11The Fast and the Furious opened at number one in June 2001, beating which sequel released the same weekend?
Dr. Dolittle 2
Dr. Dolittle 2: the Eddie Murphy comedy opened in more cinemas but took $25 million to the street racers' $40 million, more in three days than the winner had cost to make.
Q 12The Fast and the Furious took roughly how much at cinemas worldwide?
$200 million
$200 million: a little more than that, in fact, over five times its $38 million cost, which earned it a sequel two years later.
Q 13Brian and Dom test their rebuilt car by out-running which make of sports car on the Pacific Coast Highway?
Ferrari
Q 21In The Fast and the Furious, what cargo do the hijacked trucks carry?
Electronic goods
Electronic goods: when a garage full of the same gear turns up, agents raid a rival crew, only to learn that every item was bought legally, which swings suspicion back to Dom.
Q 22In The Fast and the Furious, what does Brian owe Dom after losing their first race?
A ten-second car
A ten-second car: one fast enough to finish a drag race in ten seconds. Brian pays up only after their final race, handing Dom the keys to his own car so that Dom can get away before the police arrive.
Q 23In The Fast and the Furious, Jesse gambles away which car of his father's?
Volkswagen Jetta
Ferrari: the F355's driver is the film's own producer, Neal H. Moritz, in a cameo, and the win sends Brian and Dom off to lunch at a seafood shack in Malibu.
Q 14In The Fast and the Furious, Brian works undercover at which performance parts shop?
The Racer's Edge
The Racer's Edge: Brian rents a room in the back as part of his cover, and when Dom tries to get him sacked after their first run-in, it is the owner, Harry, who talks Dom round.
Q 15In The Fast and the Furious, what car does Brian bring to his first street race?
1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse
1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse: it does not last the night, because after the race Brian strays onto a rival gang's turf and they shoot the car until it explodes.
Q 16In The Fast and the Furious, Dom arrives at the first street race in which car?
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-7: Dom wins in it, then has to stash it in a parking garage and run when the police arrive, which is how he ends up being rescued by the driver he has just beaten.
Q 17In The Fast and the Furious, Brian delivers which wrecked car to Dom's garage to be rebuilt?
A Toyota Supra
A Toyota Supra: the crew laugh at the wreck until Dom lifts the bonnet and sees what is under it, and the whole crew then set about rebuilding it together.
Q 18Dom's father's car, driven in the final chase of The Fast and the Furious, is a 1970 model from which maker?
Dodge
Dodge: Dom tells Brian that he and his father built the 900-horsepower Charger together but that he has never driven it, because it scares him; he finally takes it out for the last chase.
Q 19In the scene after the credits of The Fast and the Furious, Dom drives through Mexico in which car?
Chevrolet Chevelle SS
Chevrolet Chevelle SS: the red 1970 coupe carries Dom through Baja, and he is still driving it when he returns to Los Angeles in the fourth film, Fast & Furious.
Q 20In The Fast and the Furious, the truck hijackers drive three modified examples of which car?
Honda Civic
Honda Civic: so when a racer orders performance parts for three Civics, Brian breaks into his garage that night, and is caught there by Dom, whose own crew are the real hijackers.
Volkswagen Jetta: Jesse's car is badly outmatched, and when he loses he drives off in a panic instead of handing it over, which sets up the film's final act.
Q 24Brian and Dom's final drag race in The Fast and the Furious finishes at what?
A railroad crossing
A railroad crossing: Dom says he used to race there in high school, and both cars clear the tracks a moment ahead of a train before a truck pulls out and wrecks Dom's car.
Q 25In The Fast and the Furious, Ted Levine plays which LAPD sergeant, Brian's boss?
Tanner
Tanner: the sergeant running Brian's undercover job is played by the actor best known as the serial killer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, and later as the police captain in Monk.
Q 26Who plays Edwin in The Fast and the Furious?
Ja Rule
Ja Rule: by the sequel director's account he turned down $500,000 to come back, so the part was rewritten as a new character, Tej, and offered to Ludacris, who became a regular of the series.
Q 27In The Fast and the Furious, director Rob Cohen makes a cameo as what?
A pizza delivery man
A pizza delivery man: his Pizza Hut driver is turned back from the street the racers have closed off, and the film's producer turns up on screen later on as well.
Q 28Paul Walker pitched his dream film as Donnie Brasco crossed with which racing movie?
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder: Walker wanted to play an undercover cop and a racing driver at once, so director Rob Cohen and producer Neal Moritz brought him a magazine article about street racing.
Q 29Paul Walker and director Rob Cohen first worked together on which 2000 thriller?
The Skulls
The Skulls: when that secret-society thriller was finished, Cohen and its producer asked Walker what he wanted to do next, the conversation that led to The Fast and the Furious.
Q 30Brian's first race car is destroyed when he and Dom stray into which Los Angeles-area district, a rival gang's turf?
Little Saigon
Little Saigon: the gang's leader lets the pair go, then turns back with his cousin and sprays the car with submachine-gun fire until it explodes, leaving Brian and Dom to get home by taxi.