The Fate of the Furious Trivia
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42 free The Fate of the Furious trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 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.
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Q 01Who directed The Fate of the Furious?
F. Gary Gray
F. Gary Gray had car-chase form: his 2003 remake of The Italian Job, remembered for its Mini Cooper getaway, starred two of the actors he directs again here.
Q 02In The Fate of the Furious, where are Dom and Letty honeymooning when the story opens?
Havana
Havana needed sign-off from both governments, because this was the first big-studio Hollywood film to shoot in Cuba since the embargo began in the 1960s.
Q 03In The Fate of the Furious, what does Dom do with the car he wins in the opening race?
Lets the loser keep it
Lets the loser keep it: "Your respect is good enough for me," Dom tells him, then tosses his cousin the keys to his own Impala to make up for the car he raced.
Q 04Who plays the cyberterrorist Cipher in The Fate of the Furious?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays a villain who wages war from a keyboard: she turns Dom against his own crew by holding hostage a baby son he never knew he had.
Q 05Who plays the crew's tech expert Tej Parker in The Fate of the Furious?
Ludacris
Ludacris owes the part to another rapper: Ja Rule turned down half a million dollars to return for the second film, so its director phoned him instead and a new character was written.
Q 06In The Fate of the Furious, where does Hobbs land after the botched EMP job?
In the same prison as Deckard Shaw
In the same prison as Deckard Shaw, the man he put there: the two trade insults from facing cells until the doors spring open, then punch their way out through a full-scale riot.
Q 07In The Fate of the Furious, what is God's Eye, which Cipher steals?
A mass surveillance program written by Ramsey
A mass surveillance program written by Ramsey, it can find anyone through any camera, and this film reveals that Cipher was secretly behind the earlier plot to snatch it.
Q 08Who plays Elena Neves, the mother of Dom's son, in The Fate of the Furious?
Elsa Pataky
Elsa Pataky first played her as a Rio police officer in Fast Five; here the pregnancy she kept from Dom becomes the leverage that turns him against his crew.
Q 09In The Fate of the Furious, what must Dom steal for Cipher in New York?
The Russian defence minister's nuclear football
The Russian defence minister's nuclear football is snatched from his motorcade after Cipher hacks more than a thousand cars and sends them driverless through Manhattan: "It's zombie time."
Q 10In The Fate of the Furious, what question from Ramsey silences the two crewmates competing for her?
What's my last name?
"What's my last name?" she asks, and neither man can answer; she tells them to let her know when they have worked it out and walks off, leaving them bickering.
Q 11Which actress makes her Fast & Furious debut as the Shaw brothers' mother in The Fate of the Furious?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren asked for the job: by Vin Diesel's account she came up to him at a party and said she wanted to be in one of these films with him, and a week later she was written in.
Q 12Which Game of Thrones actor plays Cipher's enforcer Connor Rhodes in The Fate of the Furious?
Kristofer Hivju
Kristofer Hivju, the series' wildling Tormund, plays the henchman who kills Elena on Cipher's order, a score Dom settles personally the moment he hears his son is safe.
Q 13In The Fate of the Furious, how does Dom cross the finish line of the opening street race?
In reverse and on fire
Q 21Which director passed on The Fate of the Furious to make a Conjuring sequel instead?
James Wan
James Wan chose to return to horror, the genre that made his name, and with the series' longtime director busy too, the studio had a release date set and nobody to direct.
Q 22Which 2016 film did Justin Lin choose to direct rather than make an eighth Fast & Furious film?
Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Beyond lured him away after he had directed four Fast films in a row, though not for good: he came back to the franchise to direct its ninth instalment.
Q 23What working title did Vin Diesel give The Fate of the Furious at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards?
Fast 8
In reverse and on fire: driving the slowest car on the island, he overcooks a makeshift nitrous boost, the engine bursts into flames, and he spins round to win backwards by a nose.
Q 14In The Fate of the Furious, how does Dom beat Cipher's heat-seeking missile?
Lures it into the pursuing submarine
Lures it into the pursuing submarine: he breaks away from his crew so the missile strikes the vessel instead, and they ring him with their cars to shield him from the blast.
Q 15In The Fate of the Furious, who ranks eleventh on Interpol's most-wanted list?
Roman
Roman learns that the others all made Interpol's top ten while he just missed the cut, and what really stings is that Ramsey, the newest recruit, came in at number ten.
Q 16In The Fate of the Furious, how does Cipher get away at the end?
By parachuting from her plane
By parachuting from her plane: cornered by an intruder, she points out that only one of them has a parachute and jumps, which left the villain free to return in later films.
Q 17In The Fate of the Furious, what does Dom name his baby son?
Brian
Brian is announced over the closing rooftop barbecue, in honour of Dom's absent best friend Brian O'Conner, the role Paul Walker played until his death during the previous film's shoot.
Q 18In The Fate of the Furious, why does Hobbs refuse his old job?
To spend more time with his daughter
To spend more time with his daughter: handed full reinstatement, he glances at her, says that after 16 years it is time for a little break, and adds, "Daddy's staying home."
Q 19Who plays Little Nobody, Mr. Nobody's rule-bound young trainee, in The Fate of the Furious?
Scott Eastwood
Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, plays a character invented for this film, a by-the-book agent who snaps "Don't call me that" when the crew saddle him with the nickname.
Q 20In The Fate of the Furious, what does the agency call its garage of seized supercars?
The Toy Shop
The Toy Shop holds every vehicle seized from East Coast drug dealers, and the crew is turned loose to choose, one of them making straight for a bright orange supercar that could hardly be less discreet.
Fast 8 closed his speech, a tribute to Paul Walker that ended "until Fast 8", and the real title only arrived sixteen months later, in a teaser for the first trailer.
Q 24Where did filming on The Fate of the Furious begin in March 2016?
Mývatn, Iceland
Mývatn, Iceland is a lake in the country's north, and the cars-on-ice chase that the story sets in Russia was really driven across its frozen surface.
Q 25Which U.S. city stood in for Manhattan in The Fate of the Furious?
Cleveland
Cleveland had doubled for New York before, in Spider-Man 3, and this time its downtown hosted the stunt in which cars were dropped out of a building's windows onto the street.
Q 26Which composer, who later wrote Formula 1's official theme, scored The Fate of the Furious?
Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler had already scored four earlier instalments, and a year later the sport itself hired him; he went to a race to hear the engines up close before recording his theme with a London orchestra.
Q 27In which European capital, where Dom first betrays his crew, did The Fate of the Furious hold its world premiere?
Berlin
Berlin hosted the premiere ten days before the American release; in the story it is where Dom rams Hobbs off the road and makes off with the stolen EMP device.
Q 28The Fate of the Furious was the first series entry since which film not to feature Paul Walker?
Tokyo Drift
Tokyo Drift, back in 2006, was the last one made without him; after the actor's death his character was written out alive rather than killed off, and the producer said simply that he "has moved on".
Q 29By The Fate of the Furious, critics said the franchise had moved from street racing and heists into which genre?
Spy films
Spy films: Variety's review fretted about the crew becoming "a pack of world-saving James Bonds", while another cheered a gang of low-rent gearheads turned government-funded super spies.
Q 30Which Fast film hit $1 billion before The Fate of the Furious?
Furious 7
Furious 7 got there in 2015, lifted in part by audiences saying goodbye to Paul Walker, and its successor followed two years later with about $1.24 billion worldwide.