The Fugitive Trivia
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47 free The Fugitive trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This The Fugitive trivia quiz covers the 1993 thriller from top to bottom: Dr. Richard Kimble's escape from the prison bus, the one-armed man, the dam jump, the St. Patrick's Day parade, and the pharmaceutical conspiracy that Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones and director Andrew Davis were still writing on set. There are questions on the casting that almost happened, where the train crash was really filmed, the box-office records it set, and the seven Oscar nominations. The last stretch of the quiz goes back to the 1963 ABC series with David Janssen, whose two-part finale was watched by a bigger share of American homes than any episode before it, and to the U.S. Marshals sequel that brought Gerard back without Kimble. Roughly a third of the questions are easy if you have seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which cinematographer was hired a week into shooting. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Who plays Dr. Richard Kimble in the 1993 film The Fugitive?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford took the part over from Alec Baldwin, who had been cast first; a year earlier he had replaced Baldwin as Jack Ryan in Patriot Games too.
Q 02Who plays Helen Kimble, the wife whose murder puts her husband on the run, in the 1993 film The Fugitive?
Sela Ward
Sela Ward, then a star of the TV drama Sisters, is seen mostly in fragments: the film opens on Helen's murder and returns to it in Kimble's dreams and flashbacks.
Q 03What kind of surgeon is Dr. Richard Kimble in the 1993 film The Fugitive?
Vascular
Vascular surgery is his field, and the film trades on the skill: disguised as a janitor, Kimble rereads a boy's X-ray and wheels him straight to the operating room.
Q 04In The Fugitive, Kimble escapes custody when his crashed prison bus is struck by what?
An oncoming train
The bus rolls onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train; the wreck was staged for real and in a single take, and the wrecked locomotive and bus were left beside the line as a tourist attraction.
Q 05Who directed the 1993 film The Fugitive?
Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis came straight from the Steven Seagal hit Under Siege and was hired only after the lead role changed hands; the project had earlier belonged to director Walter Hill.
Q 06The Fugitive is often said to echo the murder case of which real doctor, a link the show's creator always denied?
Sam Sheppard
Sam Sheppard was convicted in 1954 of killing his wife Marilyn and blamed a bushy-haired intruder; the Supreme Court threw out the verdict and a second jury acquitted him twelve years later.
Q 07Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive?
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones collected the film's only Oscar with his head shaved for his next role, as Ty Cobb, and told the audience: "I am not really bald."
Q 08Which Fugitive actor saved his own character from dying?
Joe Pantoliano
Joe Pantoliano's Cosmo Renfro was meant to die in the final fight until the actor asked, "What if there's a sequel?"; he was back as Renfro in U.S. Marshals five years later.
Q 09In The Fugitive, Gerard orders a hard-target search of every farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and what?
Doghouse
Doghouse ends the list in the speech Gerard gives at the crash site, after reckoning that a man on foot for 90 minutes at four miles an hour can be no more than six miles away.
Q 10Which 1999 film finally broke The Fugitive's record for the biggest August opening weekend?
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense took a record The Fugitive had set against the odds: its script was still being rewritten as it shot, and its editors had only weeks to cut it for the August opening.
Q 11Who plays the fugitive Gerard's team chases in the 1998 sequel U.S. Marshals?
Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes plays a new man on the run: the sequel kept the hunters and dropped the hunted, bringing back Gerard's deputies and adding Robert Downey Jr. as an agent on the team.
Q 12Which Dutch actor plays Dr. Charles Nichols in The Fugitive?
Jeroen Krabbé
Jeroen Krabbé, the Bond villain of The Living Daylights, was summoned from Holland overnight after the first actor cast as Nichols fell ill, and the character's earlier scenes had to be shot again with him.
Q 13Which actor was first cast as Dr. Nichols in The Fugitive but had to be replaced after falling ill?
Richard Jordan
Q 21Kimble's defence lawyer in The Fugitive is played by the father of which Chicago-raised film star?
John Cusack
John Cusack's father, Dick, plays the lawyer Kimble phones for money; the marshals are taping the line, and a sound in the background tells Gerard his man is back in Chicago.
Q 22Which cinematographer earned an Oscar nomination for The Fugitive?
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman, who shot Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, competed with himself that summer: The Fugitive knocked Rising Sun, another of his films, off the top of the US box office.
Q 23On which US network did the original Fugitive series air from 1963 to 1967?
ABC
ABC nearly let the show stop without an ending: programming executive Leonard Goldberg had to argue for a finale against colleagues who feared closure would hurt the reruns.
Richard Jordan, known for Logan's Run and for Gettysburg, was replaced after a brain tumour was diagnosed during filming; he died on 30 August 1993, weeks after the film's release.
Q 14Which actor plays Fredrick Sykes, the one-armed man in The Fugitive?
Andreas Katsulas
Andreas Katsulas plays Sykes, a hired killer who came for Kimble himself; the surgeon had been called out to operate that night, so it was Helen he found at home.
Q 15In The Fugitive, which hotel hosts the medical conference where Kimble finally confronts Nichols?
The Hilton Chicago
The Hilton Chicago, then called the Chicago Hilton and Towers, lent its real ballroom and basement laundry: the fight starts in the middle of a speech and ends among the laundry bags.
Q 16Which future network news anchor plays a TV newscaster in The Fugitive?
Lester Holt
Lester Holt was anchoring the evening news at Chicago's WBBM-TV when the film shot in the city, and he reads the news on screen as one of its reporters; he took over NBC Nightly News in 2015.
Q 17Though set in Illinois, The Fugitive's escape scenes outside Chicago were mostly filmed in which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina left a mark on the film: its star hurt himself shooting the escape there and carried the injury through the shoot, so Kimble's limp is real.
Q 18Kimble's famous leap from a dam in The Fugitive was filmed at which real dam?
Cheoah Dam
Cheoah Dam, on the Little Tennessee River, supplied only the drop: the storm-drain tunnels that lead Kimble to its edge were filmed back in Chicago and cut together with it.
Q 19During which Chicago event does Kimble lose Gerard in the crowd?
The St. Patrick's Day parade
Kimble slips into the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown; the scene was shot during the real March 1993 parade, with Mayor Richard M. Daley visible marching in it.
Q 20In The Fugitive, the one-armed man Fredrick Sykes lives in which historic Chicago neighbourhood?
Pullman
Pullman, built in the 1880s as a company town for railcar workers, is where Kimble breaks into Sykes's house, then phones Gerard and leaves the line open so the marshals can trace it.
Q 24Which actress was cast as a love interest for Kimble in The Fugitive, only for the romance to be dropped?
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore's Dr. Anne Eastman was written as a romance, but the filmmakers decided a man hunting his wife's killer could not fall for someone new; she remains as the doctor who catches him at the hospital.
Q 25Which future Glee star plays Dr. Kathy Wahlund, a colleague who helps Kimble in The Fugitive?
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch plays Dr. Kathy Wahlund, the lab colleague who helps Kimble work out that the diseased liver samples from the drug trial had been swapped for healthy ones.
Q 26Who played Richard Kimble in the 2000 CBS television remake of The Fugitive?
Tim Daly
Tim Daly's Kimble never reached the end of his run: CBS cancelled the remake after a single season in 2001, leaving its cliffhanger unresolved.
Q 27Who composed the score for The Fugitive?
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard thought his score a near-failure while writing it and said he was "completely shocked" when it earned an Oscar nomination.
Q 28What is the name of the drug at the centre of the conspiracy in The Fugitive?
Provasic
Provasic is the new drug Kimble had found to cause liver damage; the tissue samples he sent for review were swapped to hide the harm, and his discovery is the motive for the conspiracy.
Q 29In The Fugitive, which pharmaceutical company is behind the drug Kimble found to damage the liver?
Devlin-MacGregor
Devlin-MacGregor, the fictional pharmaceutical giant sponsoring the drug trial, employs Sykes as a security man and stands to lose a fortune if the drug's liver toxicity comes out.
Q 30Disguised as a janitor, Kimble searches which Chicago institution's records for patients with prosthetic arms?
Cook County Hospital
Cook County Hospital's prosthetics clinic records give Kimble a list of one-armed men; his detour to correct a misdiagnosed boy's chart is what tips off Dr. Eastman and security.