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50 free The Longest Yard trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Longest Yard has been told more than once, and each telling keeps the same irresistible setup: a disgraced quarterback lands in prison and is pushed into building a team of convicts to take on the guards. The 1974 original mixed bone-crunching football with a streak of rebellion, and the 2005 remake packed its roster with comedians, wrestlers and former professional players. This quiz covers both films. Expect questions on the plot and its dirty tricks, the characters on each side of the line of scrimmage, the famous faces in the cast, where the films were shot, how they fared with awards voters, and the overseas remakes that changed the sport. It suits anyone who grew up quoting the remake, fans of 1970s cinema who know the original scene by scene, and football-movie regulars looking for a round that goes beyond the final score.
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Q 01Which comedian plays disgraced quarterback Paul Crewe in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard?
Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler scored what was then the biggest opening of his career with the film, which took $47.6 million in its first weekend.
Q 02Which star of the 1974 original returns in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard as coach Nate Scarborough?
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds led the inmates as Paul Crewe in 1974, then came back three decades later to coach the man who inherited his role.
Q 03Which stand-up star plays the inmate who helps Paul Crewe recruit his team in the 2005 Longest Yard?
Chris Rock
Chris Rock won a BET Comedy Award for the part, a well-connected inmate who befriends Crewe and rounds up players for him.
Q 04What name do the inmates give their football team in The Longest Yard, also the title of the 2001 British remake?
Mean Machine
Mean Machine was also the title the 1974 film itself carried in British cinemas, decades before a remake set in an English prison borrowed it.
Q 05Which Friends star makes an uncredited appearance as Paul Crewe's girlfriend Lena in the 2005 Longest Yard?
Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox took the cameo the year after Friends ended, and her character's car is the one Crewe wrecks on his way to a prison sentence.
Q 06Which chart-topping rapper plays the speedy running back Earl Megget in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard?
Nelly
Nelly's Megget is the first of Deacon Moss's circle to join, and the guards' taunting of him is what finally brings the others onto the team.
Q 07The inmate Cheeseburger Eddy in the 2005 Longest Yard is known for smuggling in food from which chain?
McDonald's
McDonald's is where Eddy's contraband comes from, and when he is not dealing burgers he lines up at tight end for the inmates.
Q 08Why is Paul Crewe crossing the field when the warden orders him shot in The Longest Yard?
Retrieving the game ball
Retrieving the game ball is all he is doing, and he carries it back to hand to the beaten warden as a parting gift.
Q 09Which inmate, Paul Crewe's closest ally in prison, is killed by a booby trap meant for Crewe in The Longest Yard?
Caretaker
Caretaker dies in both the 1974 and 2005 films, and the uniforms he arranged before his death fire up the team on the day of the match.
Q 10After the final whistle of the 2005 Longest Yard, two inmates celebrate by drenching the warden with what?
Gatorade
Gatorade is poured over him by Deacon and Battle, moments after Crewe hands the beaten warden the football.
Q 11Which scandal ended Paul Crewe's career as an NFL quarterback before the events of The Longest Yard?
Point shaving
Point shaving ties Crewe to his reported inspiration, Jack Molinas, an NBA All-Star banned in the 1950s for betting on his own team's games.
Q 12In the 2005 Longest Yard, a football-mad warden has Paul Crewe transferred from California to a prison in which state?
Texas
Texas is where the warden runs his guards' team and eyes a run for governor, so a famous inmate quarterback is worth pulling strings for.
Q 13Inmate coach Nate Scarborough in the 2005 Longest Yard is a former winner of which college football award?
Heisman Trophy
Q 21Which captain of the guards refuses the warden's order to shoot Paul Crewe at the end of The Longest Yard?
Knauer
Knauer hands the rifle back in the 1974 film out of respect for the man who beat him, and his 2005 counterpart vows to clear Crewe's name.
Q 22Paul Crewe's drunken police chase in the 2005 Longest Yard is in his girlfriend's car of which luxury make?
Bentley
Bentley replaced the Citroën SM of the 1974 film, a Maserati-engined French grand tourer that Crewe takes without asking.
Q 23The elderly inmate Pop in the 1974 Longest Yard has spent 30 years inside for doing what to a guard?
Punching him
Punching him cost Pop three decades because that guard rose to be warden, yet Pop's verdict that it was worth it sends Crewe back onto the field.
Heisman Trophy winner is how the remake bills him, while the 1974 film's Nate is a former pro who scores a touchdown on a bad knee.
Q 14In the 2005 Longest Yard, the inmates secretly swap guard Engelhardt's steroids for which substance?
Estrogen
Estrogen is the inmates' answer to the guards flooding their practice field, one of several dirty tricks the two sides trade before kickoff.
Q 15Which former NFL player, later a Brooklyn Nine-Nine star, plays Cheeseburger Eddy in the 2005 Longest Yard?
Terry Crews
Terry Crews auditioned for a different part, but the film's leading man reshaped a role for him after seeing White Chicks.
Q 16Which former Wimbledon midfielder stars as a jailed ex-England captain in the 2001 British remake of The Longest Yard?
Vinnie Jones
Vinnie Jones plays a banned star who coaches fellow inmates against the warders, with soccer replacing the gridiron game.
Q 17Which football-obsessed prison warden pressures Paul Crewe into building an inmate team in The Longest Yard?
Rudolph Hazen
Rudolph Hazen runs a semi-pro team of guards in the 1974 film and wants a title badly enough to blackmail his most famous inmate.
Q 18Which item in Paul Crewe's cell is rigged with a deadly explosive in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard?
A radio
A radio replaces the booby trap of the 1974 film, where a light bulb filled with flammable fluid was set to go off at the flick of a switch.
Q 19Which play seals the inmates' narrow victory over the guards at the end of the 2005 Longest Yard?
A two-point conversion
A two-point conversion wins it by the slimmest margin, whereas the 1974 inmates clinch their 36-35 victory with a touchdown as time runs out.
Q 20At halftime of the big game in The Longest Yard, the warden threatens Paul Crewe with what unless he loses?
A murder charge
A murder charge is the threat: the warden offers to name Crewe as an accomplice in his friend's killing unless the inmates lose heavily.
Q 24Paul Crewe loses a one-on-one contest in which sport to Deacon Moss while recruiting in the 2005 Longest Yard?
Basketball
Basketball goes badly for Crewe, but his refusal to quit wins over Earl Megget, and members of rap group D12 play the other convicts on court.
Q 25In the 2005 Longest Yard, the inmates' surprise uniforms come from a cousin working at which sportswear brand?
Reebok
Reebok kit arrives through a late teammate's family contact, whereas the 1974 inmates wear professional uniforms stolen from the guards.
Q 26Which future US president, then a Southern governor, backed the 1974 Longest Yard shoot inside a working prison?
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter's cooperation earned a thank-you in the end credits, after a riot at an Oklahoma penitentiary forced the production to find a new prison in Georgia.
Q 27Albert S. Ruddy, who wrote the story for the 1974 Longest Yard, had just produced which Best Picture winner?
The Godfather
The Godfather made him an Oscar winner; he had earlier co-created the sitcom Hogan's Heroes and would win again for Million Dollar Baby.
Q 28The 1974 Longest Yard beat The Front Page to the best musical or comedy film prize at which awards ceremony?
Golden Globes
Golden Globes voters also nominated its leading man, its villainous warden and a newcomer in the cast, but only the film itself won.
Q 29Which DreamWorks animated film opened in US cinemas on the same day as the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard?
Madagascar
Madagascar shared the weekend, and the prison comedy's debut was then the second biggest ever for a film that failed to open at number one.
Q 30Which Dallas Cowboys great nicknamed the Playmaker plays inmate leader Deacon Moss in the 2005 Longest Yard?
Michael Irvin
Michael Irvin's character joins the team only after seeing guards abuse a fellow inmate; the real receiver entered the Hall of Fame two years later.