50 free The Fate of the Furious trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This The Fate of the Furious trivia quiz covers the 2017 eighth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, the one where Dom turns on his family. The plot questions run from the Cuban-mile race in Havana and the EMP heist in Berlin to the prison break, the hacked 'zombie cars' of New York, the nuclear football, the Russian submarine chase and the rooftop dinner where Dom finally names his son. The harder half covers the production and the business: the director who replaced James Wan and why, the film's original title, the cast members who did and did not return, Helen Mirren's uncredited debut as Magdalene Shaw, the horse killed by a flying iceberg prop in Iceland, the city that doubled for Manhattan, the composer, and the box office numbers that gave it the biggest worldwide opening ever at the time. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test franchise devotees. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the rest of the saga, try our Fast and Furious quiz.
30 of 50 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Who directed The Fate of the Furious?
F. Gary Gray
Vin Diesel announced the Straight Outta Compton director on The Tonight Show in October 2015.
Q 02Where are Dom and Letty on their honeymoon when the film opens?
Havana
Universal had to get approval from both the U.S. and Cuban governments to shoot there.
Q 03What car does Dom drive in the opening race against Raldo?
A 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline
It is his cousin Fernando's car; the Impala is what Dom wagers, and the Fairlane is Raldo's.
Q 04What does Dom do with the car he wins in the opening race?
Lets the loser keep it, saying his respect is enough
Political economist Richard Feinberg called the Cuban sequence a Hollywood love letter and a parable of mutual respect.
Q 05Who plays the cyberterrorist Cipher?
Charlize Theron
She was confirmed in April 2016 alongside the actor who plays her enforcer.
Q 06What does the team steal from a military outpost at the start of Hobbs's off-the-books mission?
An EMP device
Dom double-crosses the team during the getaway and drives off with it for Cipher.
Q 07Where does Hobbs end up after the EMP mission goes wrong?
In the same prison as Deckard Shaw
Mr. Nobody engineers the pair's escape so they can join the hunt for Dom.
Q 08What is God's Eye, which Cipher steals from the team's base?
A mass surveillance program written by Ramsey
Cipher had earlier hired Mose Jakande to steal it in Furious 7 and Owen Shaw to steal the Nightshade EMP.
Q 09What leverage does Cipher hold over Dom?
His ex-lover Elena and their baby son
Dom did not know the child existed until Cipher showed him the photo on her phone in Cuba.
Q 10Who plays Elena Neves?
Elsa Pataky
The Spanish actress had played the Rio police officer since Fast Five; Cipher has her killed in front of Dom.
Q 11What does Cipher send Dom to steal in New York City?
The Russian defence minister's nuclear football
Cipher hacks hundreds of cars into a 'zombie' swarm to trap the motorcade, a sequence largely shot in Ohio.
Q 12Whom does Dom secretly recruit to rescue his son from Cipher's plane?
Magdalene Shaw, the Shaw brothers' mother
He offers to get her sons out of government custody in exchange; an Oscar-winning British dame plays her, uncredited.
Q 13Which actress makes her franchise debut as the Shaw brothers' mother?
Helen Mirren
Q 21Who plays Little Nobody, the young agent working under Mr. Nobody?
Scott Eastwood
Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody, introduced in Furious 7, was always meant to span multiple films.
Q 22Which character from the third film was contracted to appear but dropped out for NCIS: New Orleans?
Sean Boswell
Lucas Black had signed on for Furious 7, this film and F9 back in 2013.
Q 23Which director was let go from the film after saying he wanted to make The Conjuring 2?
James Wan
Universal offered the job back after Justin Lin chose a Star Trek sequel instead, but Wan declined, citing the toll Furious 7 had taken on his health.
She announced the role herself in an interview with Elle in June 2016; the part is uncredited.
Q 14Who is Cipher's right-hand man, Connor Rhodes, played by?
Kristofer Hivju
The Game of Thrones actor's character kills Elena and is killed by Dom in the finale.
Q 15What does Dom activate at the Russian military base with the EMP?
A nuclear submarine
Cipher hijacks it to start a nuclear war, and the team chases it across the ice in their cars.
Q 16How does Dom deal with the heat-seeking missile Cipher fires at his Charger?
Lures it into the pursuing submarine
The blast destroys the sub, and Dom shelters behind the family's cars as they form a wall around him.
Q 17Who rescues Dom's son from Cipher's plane?
Deckard and Owen Shaw
Deckard faked his death with his mother's help; the baby-in-a-carrier shootout became the film's most talked-about scene.
Q 18How does Cipher escape at the end?
By parachuting from her plane
She returns in F9 and Fast X, still played by Theron.
Q 19What does Dom name his son?
Brian
A tribute to Brian O'Conner, the character played by the late Paul Walker.
Q 20Why does Hobbs turn down getting his DSS job back?
To spend more time with his daughter
Dwayne Johnson had hinted at a Hobbs spin-off as early as 2015; it arrived in 2019.
Q 24Which film did Justin Lin choose to direct instead of returning to the franchise?
Star Trek Beyond
Lin had directed four Fast films in a row, from the third to the sixth.
Q 25What was the film's title when Vin Diesel first announced it at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards?
Fast 8
It was retitled The Fate of the Furious in December 2016, four months before release.
Q 26How much was Vin Diesel paid for the film?
$20 million
He also produced, and was the first cast member to confirm his return.
Q 27Where did principal photography begin in March 2016?
Mývatn, Iceland
Strong winds blew a plastic iceberg prop into a paddock there, injuring two horses, one of them fatally.
Q 28Which U.S. city stood in for Manhattan, as it had in earlier franchise films?
Cleveland
Some scenes were also shot in New York itself, along with Atlanta.
Q 29Who composed the score, returning after scoring the third, fourth, fifth and seventh films?
Brian Tyler
Tyler had skipped Fast & Furious 6, which was scored by Lucas Vidal.
Q 30Where did the film hold its world premiere?
Berlin
April 4, 2017, ten days before the U.S. release; part of the plot is set in the city.