The Wedding Singer Trivia
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This Wedding Singer trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers on the 1998 romantic comedy that turned Adam Sandler into a leading man and paired him with Drew Barrymore for the first time. It covers the story beat by beat: Robbie Hart left at the altar in Ridgefield, New Jersey, Julia the waitress and her bond-trader fiance, the meltdown at the reception, the rapping neighbour Rosie, and the flight to Las Vegas where Billy Idol helps out over the intercom. There are also rounds on how the film got made and what came after: Tim Herlihy's radio-show inspiration for setting it in 1985, the uncredited cameos and rewrites, the budget and the box office fight with Titanic, the two new-wave soundtrack albums, and the 2006 Broadway musical that earned five Tony nominations, plus the Sandler-Barrymore reunions in 50 First Dates and Blended. It works for a movie night, an 80s-themed party, a bridal shower game or a pub quiz picture round. Difficulty runs from easy plot points to expert production details, and every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the film's own credits before it went in.
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Q 01In what year was The Wedding Singer released in cinemas?
1998
The Wedding Singer opened in US cinemas on February 13, 1998, the day before Valentine's Day, and debuted in second place at the box office that weekend.
Q 02Who directed The Wedding Singer?
Frank Coraci
Frank Coraci directed The Wedding Singer, his first studio feature; he and Sandler had been friends since film school, and he went on to direct The Waterboy and Click.
Q 03In which year is The Wedding Singer set?
1985
The Wedding Singer is set in 1985; Robbie opens the film singing Dead or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)', a 1985 hit, and Glenn drives a DeLorean.
Q 04Robbie Hart plies his trade in which New Jersey town?
Ridgefield
Robbie Hart works in Ridgefield, New Jersey, the Bergen County town where the film sets his wedding gigs; the Broadway musical kept the same setting.
Q 05What job does Julia Sullivan have when she meets Robbie?
Waitress at the reception hall
A new waitress at the reception hall where he performs; writer Tim Herlihy said test audiences did not miss Sandler in the scenes she carried alone.
Q 06Who plays Julia Sullivan?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore plays Julia Sullivan; she had approached Sandler about working together, and The Wedding Singer became the first of three films the two made as a pair.
Q 07Julia's fiancé Glenn Gulia makes his money doing what?
Bond investing
Glenn Gulia makes his money in bond investing; played by Matthew Glave, he flaunts his wealth and, on a double date, admits to Robbie that he cheats on Julia and will keep doing so.
Q 08Who breaks the news to Robbie, moments before the ceremony, that Linda is not coming?
His older sister Kate
Kate is played by Jodi Thelen and her husband Andy by Frank Sivero. Linda later explains she wanted the would-be rock star, not a wedding singer.
Q 09Why does Linda say she jilted Robbie?
She wanted the rock star he planned to be, not a wedding singer
She wanted the rock star he planned to be, not a wedding singer; Angela Featherstone's Linda later turns up wanting him back and answers his door claiming to be his fiancée just as Julia arrives.
Q 10Which frequent Sandler collaborator plays Robbie's best friend Sammy?
Allen Covert
Allen Covert plays Sammy; a college friend of Sandler's, he has appeared in most Happy Madison films and took the lead in Grandma's Boy in 2006.
Q 11Christine Taylor, who plays Julia's cousin Holly, was known for playing which TV character on film?
Marcia Brady
Christine Taylor played Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and A Very Brady Sequel (1996); in The Wedding Singer she is Julia's man-hungry cousin Holly.
Q 12In The Wedding Singer, Alexis Arquette's keyboardist in Robbie's band is an impersonation of which flamboyant 1980s pop star?
Boy George
Boy George said he found the impersonation, complete with 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me', hilarious; Arquette was the sibling of Rosanna, Patricia and David.
Q 13Which 1979 hip-hop classic does Robbie's elderly singing student Rosie perform at her anniversary party?
Rapper's Delight
Q 21Which SNL veteran plays Mr. Simms, the bank manager Robbie asks for a job?
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon, an SNL cast member alongside Sandler, plays Mr. Simms, the bank manager who interviews Robbie after he decides he needs a steady income; Robbie does not get the job.
Q 22Which actress plays Julia's mother Angie in The Wedding Singer, having also played Judy Geller, Ross and Monica's mother, on Friends?
Christina Pickles
Christina Pickles played Judy Geller across the entire ten-year run of Friends; in the film Julia confides in Angie that she no longer loves Glenn.
Q 23Roughly what was The Wedding Singer's production budget?
$18 million
Rosie, played by Ellen Albertini Dow, raps the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit 'Rapper's Delight' at her anniversary party; her version appears on the film's soundtrack album.
Q 14Which wedding anniversary does Robbie's singing student Rosie celebrate late in the film?
50th
Rosie celebrates her 50th wedding anniversary; Robbie, who has been giving her singing lessons in exchange for meatballs, performs with her at the party.
Q 15Which real rock star plays himself on the flight and helps Robbie win Julia back?
Billy Idol
Billy Idol plays himself, seated in first class on the flight; he helps Robbie serenade Julia over the intercom and keeps Glenn away. His own 'White Wedding' is on the soundtrack album.
Q 16What is the name of the song Robbie writes for Julia and sings over the plane's intercom?
Grow Old with You
'Grow Old with You', written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy, is the ballad Robbie sings to Julia over the plane's intercom; it appears on the film's soundtrack and in the stage musical.
Q 17Where do the passengers confine Glenn after he tries to attack Robbie on the plane?
In an airplane lavatory
Glenn is shoved into an airplane lavatory, and the flight attendants and a first-class passenger hold the door while Robbie finishes his song and kisses Julia.
Q 18In The Wedding Singer, where do Julia and Glenn plan to elope after Julia finds Linda answering Robbie's door?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas; Robbie boards the same flight without knowing it, and the musical moves the whole showdown into a Vegas chapel full of celebrity impersonators.
Q 19Who makes an uncredited cameo as David Veltri, the drunken best man at the opening wedding?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi plays David Veltri, the drunken best man, in an uncredited cameo; he and Sandler had first worked together on Airheads in 1994.
Q 20Jon Lovitz reprised his Wedding Singer role as Jimmie Moore in an episode of which sitcom?
The Goldbergs
Jon Lovitz reprised Jimmie Moore, Robbie's rival wedding singer, on The Goldbergs, the ABC sitcom set in 1980-something, in an episode that paid tribute to the film.
The Wedding Singer's production budget was about $18 million, a sum its US opening weekend alone exceeded.
Q 24The Wedding Singer opened in second place at the US box office behind which holdover?
Titanic
Titanic, still number one two months into its run, kept The Wedding Singer in second place over the Valentine's weekend of February 13-15, 1998; Sandler's film opened with about $18.8 million.
Q 25Which studio released The Wedding Singer?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, which had released Austin Powers the year before, distributed The Wedding Singer; Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo produced it for the studio.
Q 26Which radio show inspired Tim Herlihy to set the film in the 1980s?
Lost in the '80s
Sandler had pitched a comedy about a wedding singer left at the altar; Herlihy said his own recent marriage changed the tone of the script.
Q 27Which future Knocked Up director did uncredited rewrites on the script with Sandler?
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow, Sandler's former roommate, did uncredited rewrites on the script; he went on to direct The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005 and Knocked Up in 2007.
Q 28Sandler and the film's director first became friends as students at which college?
NYU
Sandler and the director met as students at NYU, where Sandler graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in 1988; the actor who plays Sammy was a classmate there too.
Q 29Screenwriter Tim Herlihy makes a cameo as which character?
Rudy, a bartender
Fellow screenwriter Steven Brill plays Glenn's buddy, and model Shanna Moakler is a flight attendant.
Q 30The bar mitzvah boy is played by Michael Shuman, who grew up to join which rock band?
Queens of the Stone Age
Michael 'Mikey Shoes' Shuman, the bar mitzvah boy, grew up to join Queens of the Stone Age as bassist in 2007 and played on ...Like Clockwork and Villains.