Us (2019 Film)
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50 free Us (2019 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Jordan Peele followed his debut with a home-invasion nightmare in which a family on holiday is confronted by silent, red-clad copies of themselves. Us drew huge crowds in 2019 and has been picked apart by fans ever since, because almost every prop, song and costume turns out to mean something. This quiz covers the whole film: the Wilson family and their doubles, the 1986 prologue on the boardwalk, the cast and the people behind the camera, the music, the box office, and the nods to other films that Peele tucked into the background. Every answer comes with a short explanation. It is written for people who have seen the film at least once. Casual viewers will find plenty they remember, and repeat viewers will be tested on the details that only show up on a second watch. Expect spoilers, including the ending.
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Q 01Which 1980s charity event do the Tethered re-create at the end of the film Us?
Hands Across America
Hands Across America asked people to link up in a line across the country in May 1986 to fight hunger and homelessness. An advert for it plays on a TV in the opening scene.
Q 02Which Oscar-winning actress plays both Adelaide Wilson and her double Red in the film Us?
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o confirmed her casting by posting the poster on Instagram. Her dual performance earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination, though the Oscars passed her over.
Q 03Which household tool do the red-suited Tethered carry as their weapon of choice in Jordan Peele's Us?
Scissors
Scissors, giant gold ones, seem to echo the paper-doll chain cut in the underground classroom: two matching blades joined at one point, made to separate what is connected.
Q 04Which animals overrun the underground facility hidden beneath the funhouse in the film Us?
Rabbits
Rabbits are the only food the abandoned Tethered have, eaten raw. Jordan Peele said he chose the animals simply because he finds them scary.
Q 05The red jumpsuits worn by the Tethered in the film Us were designed as a nod to which 1980s pop star?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson wore red in the Thriller video and a single glove on stage, and young Adelaide wears a Thriller T-shirt when she is taken. Jordan Peele called him the patron saint of duality.
Q 06Which Oscar-winning 2017 horror hit did Jordan Peele write and direct immediately before making Us?
Get Out
Get Out won Jordan Peele the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Unhappy with the genre confusion around it, he set out to make his next project a full-on horror story.
Q 07Which 1995 hip-hop hit plays in the Wilsons' car before an eerie remix scores the climax of Us?
I Got 5 on It
I Got 5 on It, by the duo Luniz, was slowed into the orchestral Tethered Mix for the trailer. Viewers liked the remix so much that it was edited into the final fight.
Q 08Which ability, a clue to the final twist, sets Red apart from every other Tethered in the film Us?
Speaking
Speaking is beyond every other Tethered, who only grunt and howl to one another. Red's own voice is a strained rasp, as if it has barely been used in years.
Q 09Which Bible verse appears on a homeless man's sign and recurs as a number motif in the film Us?
Jeremiah 11:11
Jeremiah 11:11 warns of a disaster that nobody will be able to escape. Its digits also turn up on a bedside alarm clock and on the roof of an ambulance.
Q 10In which California city, famed for its seaside boardwalk, do the Wilsons vacation in the film Us?
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz and its Beach Boardwalk host both the 1986 prologue and the present-day attack. Filming began there in July 2018.
Q 11How does Jason Wilson send his masked double into a burning car near the end of the film Us?
By walking backwards
By walking backwards, Jason uses what he worked out earlier in a closet: his double copies his every move. The mirrored boy steps back into the flames.
Q 12What does the closing flashback of Jordan Peele's Us reveal that young Adelaide did in 1986?
Swapped places with Red
She swapped places with Red, choking the real Adelaide and trapping her underground. The heroine the audience has followed all along is the Tethered one.
Q 13Which Black Panther actor plays Gabe Wilson, the father of the family, in Jordan Peele's Us?
Winston Duke
Q 21What is the name of the Tylers' virtual assistant, which mishears a plea for help in the film Us?
Ophelia
Ophelia shares her name with the doomed heroine of Hamlet. One critic listed the gadget among the wrong things that the film's characters worship.
Q 22Which historically Black university, host of an early Us screening, appears on Gabe's sweatshirt?
Howard
Howard University fans spotted the grey sweatshirt in the first trailer, months before the director and stars brought a private screening to the campus.
Q 23In Us, Zora Wilson claims the government adds which substance to tap water to control minds?
Fluoride
Fluoride is Zora's conspiracy theory, aired during a family car ride. It is one of several early hints that the authorities in this story are hiding something.
Winston Duke rose to fame as M'Baku in the Marvel films. He was born in Tobago and moved to Brooklyn at the age of nine.
Q 14The aerial shot that introduces the Wilsons in Us echoes the opening of which Stanley Kubrick film?
The Shining
The Shining also opens with an aerial sweep over wooded mountains as a lone car heads toward trouble. New York Times critic Manohla Dargis called it Peele's most obvious guiding star.
Q 15To which country do the Wilsons decide to flee by driving along the coast in the film Us?
Mexico
Mexico is the plan once the TV news shows doubles killing people all over the city. The family only gets as far as the boardwalk, where a burning car blocks the road.
Q 16Which Emmy-winning actress plays Kitty Tyler, the Wilsons' wealthy friend, in Jordan Peele's Us?
Elisabeth Moss
Elisabeth Moss, the star of Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale, also plays Kitty's double, Dahlia. A year later she led another horror hit, The Invisible Man.
Q 17Jordan Peele said Us was inspired by Mirror Image, an episode about an evil double from which TV series?
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone told that story in 1960, with a woman meeting her double at a bus depot. Peele went on to host and produce a revival of the series in 2019.
Q 18In Us, Kitty Tyler asks her smart speaker for the police; which rap group's protest song plays instead?
N.W.A
N.W.A recorded the anti-police anthem that the device takes as a music request. It keeps blaring through the fight when the Wilsons reach the house.
Q 19Which Beach Boys hit is playing in the Tyler family's home when their doubles attack in the film Us?
Good Vibrations
Good Vibrations, the sunny 1966 single, plays on as the Tylers are killed. Jordan Peele likes to take something that feels safe and make it sinister.
Q 20Which comedian was Jordan Peele's partner in a Comedy Central sketch show before Peele directed Us?
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key was Peele's Mad TV castmate before their own sketch series ran from 2012 to 2015. Two years after it ended, Peele re-emerged as a horror director.
Q 24Jordan Peele saw the Wilsons in Us as an archetypal foursome; which role did he assign to father Gabe?
The jester
The jester, or fool, is Gabe. In the same scheme Adelaide is the leader, Zora the warrior and young Jason the magician.
Q 25Which object does Adelaide use to stab Red during their final fight beneath the funhouse in Us?
A fireplace poker
A fireplace poker ends the duel only after Red has dodged every attack. Adelaide wins when she stops lunging and lets Red come to her.
Q 26Which name, shared with a god of the underworld, belongs to Jason Wilson's masked double in Us?
Pluto
Pluto is a pyromaniac whose mask hides facial scars. His sister's name, Umbrae, comes from the Latin for shadows.
Q 27Which mechanical bird springs out to startle young Adelaide inside the hall of mirrors in the film Us?
An owl
An owl makes the child jump in 1986. When Adelaide returns to the funhouse as an adult, she shows no fear of it, a contrast fans read as a hint of the twist.
Q 28Which nursery rhyme does young Adelaide whistle in the Us hall of mirrors before her double joins in?
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Itsy Bitsy Spider tells of a creature washed down that climbs back up again, much like the Tethered. The tune returns, faintly, during the final fight.
Q 29At which festival did Us premiere as the opening-night film, pushing its cinema release back a week?
South by Southwest
South by Southwest gave the film its opening-night slot in Austin in March 2019, so the studio moved the cinema release back a week to follow it.
Q 30The opening weekend of Us was the biggest for an original live-action film since which 2009 release?
Avatar
Avatar had opened to about $77 million a decade earlier. The newcomer took just over $71 million, at the time the best debut ever for an original horror story.