The Mask Trivia
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50 free The Mask trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free The Mask trivia questions with answers. The Mask turned a violent Dark Horse comic into a Tex Avery cartoon come to life, made Jim Carrey a superstar in the same year as Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber, and introduced the world to Cameron Diaz. This The Mask trivia quiz covers the 1994 film scene by scene: Stanley Ipkiss, Tina, Dorian Tyrell, Lieutenant Kellaway, Milo the dog, the Coco Bongo, Cuban Pete and the Mask of Loki, plus the casting near-misses, the ILM effects, the box office, the original comic's Big Head, the 1995 animated series and the 2005 sequel Son of the Mask. The 50 questions run from easy for anyone who has seen the film to hard for fans who know the comics and the production history. Every answer is checked against documented production records and the source comics.
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Q 01Which one-word catchphrase does Jim Carrey's green-faced hero hiss in The Mask?
Smokin'!
Smokin'!: he stretches the word out after flinging Tina around the dance floor, and the same character gave the film its other catchphrase, 'Somebody stop me!'
Q 02Where is The Mask set?
Edge City
Edge City: the film gives it a deliberately retro, 1940s look so that it would not date, and the 2005 sequel moved the action on to Fringe City.
Q 03In The Mask, where does Stanley Ipkiss find the mask?
Floating in the harbour
Floating in the harbour: he jumps in to save what looks like a drowning man and comes up with a clump of rubbish and an old mask.
Q 04In The Mask, a psychiatrist says the mask looks like a likeness of which Norse god?
Loki
Loki: the doctor says the god of mischief caused so much trouble that Odin banished him from Valhalla, and Stanley wonders whether he was banished into the mask.
Q 05Which actress made her acting debut as nightclub singer Tina Carlyle in The Mask?
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz: Tina was scripted as a good girl who turns out bad, but people warmed to the first-time actress so quickly that the part was rewritten.
Q 06Who was director Chuck Russell's first choice to play Tina in The Mask, before she backed out?
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith: she agreed, then left at the last minute for a small part in Naked Gun 33 1/3, and a crushed Russell thought the film should be cancelled.
Q 07What is the name of the nightclub where Tina sings in The Mask?
The Coco Bongo
The Coco Bongo: the doormen turn Stanley away as himself, so the Mask robs a bank to pay for a far grander entrance.
Q 08Which 1943 MGM cartoon inspired the nightclub dance sequence in The Mask?
Red Hot Riding Hood
Red Hot Riding Hood: Stanley watches Tex Avery's short at home, but director Chuck Russell said he was told he could show only the howling Wolf, not the showgirl Red.
Q 09In The Mask, what does the Mask's last balloon animal turn out to be?
A Tommy gun
A Tommy gun: cornered by a street gang, he twists up a giraffe and a poodle for them first, then opens fire with the balloon and sends them running.
Q 10In The Mask, what breed is Stanley's dog Milo?
Jack Russell
Jack Russell: when the dog gets the mask on in the finale, he turns into a snarling cartoon of himself and takes on Tyrell's gang.
Q 11In The Mask, how does Milo help Stanley escape from his police cell?
He fetches the guard's keys
He fetches the guard's keys: Stanley then takes Lieutenant Kellaway hostage to get out of the station and back to the club.
Q 12Which song does the Mask perform to distract the police in the park?
Cuban Pete
Cuban Pete: Desi Arnaz had sung the rumba in the 1940s, and the Mask's version gets the whole squad singing and dancing along instead of arresting him.
Q 13Who plays the gangster Dorian Tyrell in The Mask?
Peter Greene
Peter Greene: his Tyrell gets hold of the mask himself late in the film, and where it made Stanley a cartoon prankster it turns the gangster into a hulking monster.
Q 21The Mask was first planned as the start of what, before Chuck Russell pushed for comedy?
A horror franchise
A horror franchise: the comic was a blood-soaked 'splatterpunk' book, and Russell decided its killings and one-liners would only work on screen as cartoon comedy.
Q 22Which two actors were on The Mask's shortlist in case Jim Carrey said no?
Nicolas Cage and Matthew Broderick
Nicolas Cage and Matthew Broderick: director Chuck Russell kept them on his list, but the script had been written for Carrey, who read it and said it felt written for him.
Q 23Which sketch show was Jim Carrey starring in when he was cast in The Mask?
In Living Color
Q 14What is the mask made of in the 1994 film The Mask?
Wood
Wood: the psychiatrist dismisses it as nothing more than a piece of wood, whereas the mask Stanley buys in the original comic is carved from jade.
Q 15Which reporter betrays Stanley to Tyrell for a $50,000 bounty in The Mask?
Peggy Brandt
Peggy Brandt: the 'Ask Peggy' advice columnist hides him from the police first, then sells him out, saying she can't afford to lose her condo.
Q 16Which comedian plays Charlie Schumaker, Stanley's best friend and co-worker, in The Mask?
Richard Jeni
Richard Jeni: his Charlie gets the film's last gag, diving after the mask once Tina has thrown it away, only for the dog to swim off with it.
Q 17Who plays Lieutenant Mitch Kellaway, the detective hunting the Mask?
Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert: his Kellaway ends the film still trying to arrest Stanley, until the mayor steps in, calls Stanley a hero and summons the lieutenant to his office.
Q 18How does the Mask finally dispose of Dorian Tyrell?
Flushes him down the club's fountain
Flushes him down the club's fountain: the Mask paints a flush handle beside the water and pulls it, sending Tyrell screaming down the drain.
Q 19Which comic publisher created The Mask, from which the film was loosely adapted?
Dark Horse
Dark Horse: its comic is far bloodier than the film, with a Stanley who uses the mask to take murderous revenge on anyone he holds a grudge against.
Q 20In the original comics behind The Mask, what is the green-faced character called?
Big Head
Big Head: in the comics the mask keeps changing hands, so Stanley is only the first of several wearers, among them the detective who hunts him in the film.
In Living Color: a studio executive sent the comic's creator a tape of Carrey contorting through one sketch, and he rang back to say, 'That's The Mask!'
Q 24Which word does the Mask spell aloud in The Mask before adding 'Because I gotta!'?
Party
Party: he announces 'It's party time!' and spells P-A-R-T, turning the final letter into the question 'Why?' before answering himself.
Q 25Which effects house created the computer animation for The Mask?
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic: director Chuck Russell said its artists reckoned Carrey's rubber face had saved about a million dollars of planned effects.
Q 26Which 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme film came from the same comics publisher as The Mask?
Timecop
Timecop: the publisher's founder dreamed up that story too, and the buzz around The Mask won his company an eight-film deal before its first weekend's takings were even in.
Q 27Which film beat The Mask for the Best Visual Effects Oscar?
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump: its trick of dropping Tom Hanks into old archive footage beat the other two nominees, The Mask's cartoon elasticity and True Lies.
Q 28When The Mask finished its 1994 run, which was the only superhero film to have out-grossed it worldwide?
Batman
Batman: Tim Burton's 1989 film had taken about $411 million to The Mask's $351 million, a total reached without a famous hero, from a little-known independent comic.
Q 29The Mask's nightclub scenes helped bring which musical style back into fashion in the 1990s?
Swing
Swing: the film arrived as a retro scene was growing in Los Angeles clubs, four years before the craze peaked across America in 1998.
Q 30Which real band plays on stage at the nightclub in The Mask?
Royal Crown Revue
Royal Crown Revue: the Los Angeles band plays 'Hey Pachuco' for the Mask's big dance with Tina, and signed to Warner Bros. soon after the film.