The Room (2003 Film)
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50 free The Room (2003 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Room is the rare flop that refused to disappear. Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed and starred in his 2003 melodrama about Johnny, Lisa and Mark, and almost nobody saw it. Then a handful of delighted viewers started bringing their friends, and a failed drama became one of the most popular midnight movies in the world. This quiz covers the whole phenomenon. Expect questions on the story and its strangest scenes, the lines fans shout along with, the cast, the troubled shoot and its mysterious money, the rituals of a late-night showing, and the memoir, the Hollywood retelling and the later projects that followed. It suits anyone getting ready for a first viewing party, a fan who can recite the rooftop scene by heart, or a quiz host building a bad-movie night round. The opening questions are the famous moments. Later ones reward viewers who have read up on how the film was made, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which objects do fans of The Room throw at screenings, echoing a framed photo in Johnny's home?
Plastic spoons
Plastic spoons fly whenever the unexplained framed photo of a spoon comes into shot. The habit began among the first fans, who went back to mock the film during its original 2003 run.
Q 02In which city is The Room set, even though most of it was filmed on a Los Angeles soundstage?
San Francisco
San Francisco appears mainly in second-unit footage. Even the rooftop where so much of the story happens was a studio set, with the skyline added behind the actors.
Q 03Greg Sestero recalls a planned subplot of The Room where Johnny's flying car revealed him as what?
A vampire
A vampire was the planned twist, because Tommy Wiseau was fascinated by them. He asked the crew to work out how Johnny's Mercedes-Benz could fly across the skyline.
Q 04What are Johnny and his friends wearing when they toss a football in an alley in The Room?
Tuxedos
Tuxedos are never explained, and nothing in the scene affects the plot. Asked about it for the DVD, Tommy Wiseau said only that playing football without protective equipment is fun and challenging.
Q 05The Room's line "You are tearing me apart, Lisa!" copies which actor Tommy Wiseau tried to emulate?
James Dean
James Dean shouts "You're tearing me apart!" in Rebel Without a Cause. Wiseau modelled himself on all four of these stars, and above all on Dean's performance in Giant.
Q 06Which Hollywood advertisement for The Room did Tommy Wiseau keep paying for over five years?
A billboard
A billboard on Highland Avenue showed Tommy Wiseau's face in extreme close-up with one eye in mid-blink. It stayed up so long that it became a minor tourist attraction.
Q 07Film professor Ross Morin famously called The Room the bad-movie equivalent of which classic?
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane was the comparison he reached for, in the phrase "the Citizen Kane of bad movies". Entertainment Weekly joined in by calling Tommy Wiseau "the Orson Welles of crap".
Q 08Which actor directed The Disaster Artist and won a Golden Globe for playing Tommy Wiseau in it?
James Franco
James Franco cast his younger brother Dave as Greg Sestero. The story follows the friendship that produced The Room.
Q 09Tommy Wiseau said he funded The Room partly by importing which goods from Korea?
Leather jackets
Leather jackets were his answer when Entertainment Weekly asked about a budget of roughly $6 million. Otherwise he has stayed secretive about where the money came from.
Q 10Audience rituals at The Room screenings are often likened to those for which older cult film?
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the usual comparison. Fans of Tommy Wiseau's film dress as its characters, toss footballs to each other and yell its lines back at the actors.
Q 11Dan Janjigian, The Room's menacing Chris-R, competed in which sport at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh took him to the Salt Lake City Games for Armenia, where his two-man sled finished 33rd. With no track to train on, he had practised on a wheeled sled in the streets of San Jose.
Q 12With which greeting does Johnny begin almost every conversation in The Room?
Oh, hi!
"Oh, hi!" opens nearly every exchange Johnny has, usually followed by the other character's name. Much of the dialogue is just as repetitive, and Johnny's most of all.
Q 13In The Room, which diagnosis does Lisa's mother announce in passing, never to be mentioned again?
Breast cancer
Q 21During the party fight in The Room, Johnny taunts Mark by calling him which animal?
A chicken
"You're just a chicken!" Johnny yells, then follows it with a string of "cheep, cheep" noises. The fight starts after Mark and Lisa flaunt their affair in front of the guests.
Q 22Where did Greg Sestero first meet Tommy Wiseau, years before the pair made The Room together?
In an acting class
They met in an acting class, where Sestero came to admire his classmate's boldness. Wiseau promised him a co-starring role if he ever raised the money for a movie.
Q 23In The Room, what is the profession of Peter, the friend Mark nearly throws off the rooftop?
Psychologist
Breast cancer comes up halfway through a chat about planning a party. Lisa says everything will be fine, and the illness is never raised again.
Q 14In The Room, what does Johnny attach to the downstairs phone to find out who Lisa's lover is?
A tape recorder
A tape recorder captures Lisa's intimate call to Mark at the end of the story. Johnny had set the trap after overhearing her admit the affair to her mother.
Q 15At Johnny's birthday party in The Room, which false announcement does Lisa make to distract him?
She is pregnant
She is pregnant, Lisa claims, and Johnny proudly tells the whole party. She soon admits to her friends that there is no baby, saying she told him that "to make it interesting".
Q 16In The Room, what is the occupation of Chris-R, who pulls a gun on Denny on the rooftop?
A drug dealer
A drug dealer, Chris-R wants money that Denny owes him. The story never explains the debt or how the two ended up fighting on the roof.
Q 17Adult Swim aired The Room three times between 2009 and 2011 as programming for which occasion?
April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day became the movie's regular slot. In 2012 the channel played only its first twenty seconds, then switched to the long-retired Toonami block as that year's prank.
Q 18A 2016 documentary concluded that the secretive Tommy Wiseau was born in which European country?
Poland
Poland, in the city of Poznań in 1955, was the documentary's finding. Wiseau had long claimed an American upbringing, and only in 2017 confirmed that he was originally from Europe.
Q 19After audiences laughed at The Room, Tommy Wiseau began describing his romantic drama as what?
A black comedy
A black comedy is how he later described it, claiming the laughs were intended. Audiences and some of the cast still regard it as a poorly made drama.
Q 20During The Room's first run, which two-word sign did one theater post inside its ticket window?
No refunds
"No refunds" hung beside a review blurb reading "This film is like getting stabbed in the head." A Variety reporter wrote that most viewers asked for their money back within 30 minutes.
Psychologist Peter guesses that Mark's secret lover is Lisa, and Mark answers by hanging him over the edge. Seconds later Mark apologises and the two carry on talking as if nothing had happened.
Q 24Greg Sestero says Mark in The Room was named for which actor, whose first name Wiseau misheard?
Matt Damon
Matt Damon had starred in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the thriller that moved Tommy Wiseau to start writing. He borrowed the actor's name for Johnny's best friend and got it slightly wrong.
Q 25Adverts for The Room promised a film "with the passion of" which playwright admired by Tommy Wiseau?
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams wrote the highly emotional chamber plays that Wiseau loved performing in drama school. The tagline on the advertising managed to misspell the playwright's first name.
Q 26Which word completes Mark's insult in The Room: "Leave your stupid comments in your..."?
"Leave your stupid comments in your pocket!" comes straight after Mark complains "You don't understand anything, man." The film's leading lady has named it her favourite line in the whole movie.
Q 27What was Greg Sestero allowed to keep on while filming his bedroom scenes as Mark in The Room?
His jeans
His jeans stayed on because Sestero was uncomfortable shooting the sex scenes. He had only taken the part after Tommy Wiseau fired the original Mark on the first day of filming.
Q 28Which actress played Lisa in The Room after first being cast in the smaller part of Michelle?
Juliette Danielle
Juliette Danielle moved up to the lead when the original Lisa was dismissed. She left the profession soon after the release, then returned in 2012 once the movie had found its cult audience.
Q 29Which producer of The Disaster Artist also plays Sandy Schklair, a key member of The Room's crew?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen also produced the adaptation through his company Point Grey, which bought the rights to the memoir in 2014. He was also among the original movie's celebrity fans.
Q 30The Room's rooftop was a soundstage set; which technique put the city skyline behind the actors?
Green screen
Green screen let the crew drop in exterior views of the city afterwards. Greg Sestero blames such built sets, for scenes that could have been shot on location, for inflating the budget.