50 free The Fugitive trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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
All three of the other names were auditioned or considered for the part before Ford took it.
Q 02What is the name of the Deputy U.S. Marshal who leads the hunt for Kimble in the film?
Samuel Gerard
The TV series' Gerard was a police lieutenant named Philip; the film renamed him Samuel and made him a marshal.
Q 03What kind of surgeon is Richard Kimble in the film?
Vascular
The TV-series Kimble was a small-town paediatrician; the film made him a Chicago vascular specialist.
Q 04Kimble escapes custody after the prison bus crashes into the path of what?
An oncoming train
The wreck was filmed for real, in a single take, using a locomotive with its engine removed.
Q 05Who directed the 1993 film?
Andrew Davis
Davis had shot several earlier films in Chicago, which is why Ford pushed to film there.
Q 06The film is based on a 1960s TV series that was itself loosely inspired by the trial of which real doctor?
Sam Sheppard
Sheppard, convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife, insisted a 'bushy-haired man' had done it; F. Lee Bailey later won him a retrial.
Q 07Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive?
Tommy Lee Jones
It was the film's only win from seven nominations, which included Best Picture.
Q 08How many Academy Award nominations did The Fugitive receive?
7
The nominations included Best Picture, cinematography, sound and editing; every one of its team of editors was recognised.
Q 09For how many weeks was The Fugitive the number-one film at the U.S. box office?
6
It knocked Rising Sun off the top spot and went on to earn nearly $368 million worldwide.
Q 10The Fugitive was the third-highest-grossing film of 1993 worldwide. Roughly how much did it gross?
$368 million
About $184 million of that came from the U.S. and Canada, where an estimated 44 million tickets were sold.
Q 11Which 1999 film finally broke The Fugitive's record for the biggest August opening weekend?
The Sixth Sense
The Fugitive had taken the record from Unforgiven and held it for six years.
Q 12The 1998 sequel U.S. Marshals brought back Gerard and his team. Who plays the fugitive they chase?
Wesley Snipes
Ford's Kimble does not appear, though the hospital he worked at gets a mention.
Q 13Kimble's colleague Dr. Charles Nichols is played by which Dutch actor?
Jeroen Krabbé
The part was recast after the original choice, Richard Jordan, fell ill with a brain tumour; Jordan died three weeks after the film opened.
Q 21During which Chicago event does Kimble lose Gerard in the crowd?
The St. Patrick's Day parade
The scene was shot during the real 1993 parade, with Mayor Richard M. Daley visible marching in it.
Q 22Another feature film was shooting during the same 1993 Chicago parade as The Fugitive. Which one?
Blink
Michael Apted's thriller and Davis's crew occasionally ran into each other along the route in 21-degree cold.
Q 23The one-armed man, Fredrick Sykes, lives in which historic Chicago neighbourhood?
Pullman
Ford uses the pay phone in the Pullman Pub and runs along the rooflines of the neighbourhood's rowhouses.
Q 14Which actor was originally cast as Dr. Nichols but had to be replaced after falling ill?
Richard Jordan
Jordan, best known for Logan's Run and Gettysburg, died in August 1993, three weeks after the film's release.
Q 15Which two actors did the director consider for the role of Gerard before the part went to Jones?
Gene Hackman and Jon Voight
Jones ended up with the Oscar and a sequel of his own; Hackman and Voight both worked with Davis on other films.
Q 16Ford said he took the role partly to do what for a part, something the Warner Bros. chairman had refused?
Grow a beard
Chairman Robert Daly said he was 'paying for Harrison Ford's face' and wanted it unobstructed; Kimble shaves early in the film anyway.
Q 17The bus-and-train wreck was staged on which scenic rail line?
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
The wreckage was left in place outside the Dillsboro depot and can still be seen from the excursion trains.
Q 18Roughly how much did the wreck sequence cost to film?
$1 million
The wreck took weeks to plan and was rehearsed with a boxcar and a log car before the single real take.
Q 19Though set in rural Illinois, most of the film's location shooting outside Chicago took place in which state?
North Carolina
Bryson City, Dillsboro and Sylva in Jackson County stood in for Illinois; a few scenes were shot in Blount County, Tennessee.
Q 20Kimble's famous leap into the water was filmed at which dam?
Cheoah Dam
The dam sits at Deals Gap on the North Carolina-Tennessee line; some of the interior spillway shots were done in Chicago's old freight tunnels.
Q 24According to the director, whose idea was it to film in Chicago?
Ford's
Ford grew up in Chicago and had seen Davis's earlier films shot there; Davis had assumed the winter weather would be too harsh.
Q 25Which cinematographer, hired a week into production of The Fugitive, earned an Oscar nomination?
Michael Chapman
Chapman, who shot Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, said he only took the job for the money and never got on with Davis.
Q 26Per Davis, credited screenwriter David Twohy's main contribution to the finished film was which sequence?
The train crash
Davis said he never met Twohy; the pharmaceutical plot was worked out on set by Davis, Ford, Jones and others, uncredited.
Q 27Which actress's role as a potential love interest for Kimble was cut down heavily in editing?
Julianne Moore
The filmmakers decided a romance for a man hunting his wife's killer was unworkable; Moore survives as the doctor who catches him at the hospital.
Q 28Which future Glee star, as Dr. Kathy Wahlund, rewrote her scene with Ford just before shooting it?
Jane Lynch
She recalled that Ford simply did not like the scene as written, which was typical of a shoot where pages changed daily.
Q 29Because of Ford's limited availability, how long did Davis have to finish the film between wrap and release?
10 weeks
Seven editing suites ran around the clock at Warner Hollywood Studios, and every editor got an Oscar nomination for it.
Q 30Who composed the film's score?
James Newton Howard
The soundtrack came out on Elektra in 1993; a complete-score edition followed from La-La Land Records in 2009.