Wayne's World Trivia
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This Wayne's World trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and covers the 1992 film, the sequel and the Saturday Night Live sketches that spawned them. Expect questions on Aurora, Illinois, the AMC Pacer Mirthmobile and the Bohemian Rhapsody headbang, Cassandra and Crucial Taunt, Benjamin Kane, Noah Vanderhoff and Frankie Sharp, Stan Mikita's Donuts, the No Stairway rule, the T-1000 cameo, Alice Cooper's Milwaukee lecture and the Scooby-Doo and mega happy endings. It also digs into the origins on Canadian TV, Beev and the Aerosmith jam on SNL, the margarine incident, the Guns N' Roses song that nearly was, and Wayne's World 2: Waynestock, Jim Morrison, Del Preston, Christopher Walken, Kim Basinger, Charlton Heston and the Passport to Pimlico script that got the sets chainsawed. Easy questions suit anyone who has said 'Schwing!'; the hard ones are for people who own the VCR board game. Every answer has been checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the films and sketches, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Backstage with a rock idol in Wayne's World, Wayne and Garth chant which phrase?
We're not worthy!
We're not worthy! The rocker they bow to later said Myers and Carvey dragged the chant out for minutes of outtakes trying to make him laugh, and fans still kneel to him in airports.
Q 02A sign in the Wayne's World guitar shop stops Wayne from playing which rock classic?
Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven: the sign reads 'No Stairway', and Wayne gasps 'Denied!' Licensing rules let him play only a few notes, and even those were changed for home video.
Q 03In which Illinois city do Wayne and Garth broadcast their public-access show?
Aurora
Aurora, a real city near Chicago, embraced the joke: for the film's 25th anniversary in 2017 it staged months of events, including a replica of Wayne's basement.
Q 04Which Queen song do Wayne, Garth and friends headbang to in the car?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody: the scene sent the 1975 single back up the US chart to number 2, and a video mixing in clips from the film won Queen an MTV Video Music Award.
Q 05What make and model is the Mirthmobile, Garth's car in Wayne's World?
An AMC Pacer
An AMC Pacer: the baby-blue 1976 car with flame decals no longer ran when it turned up on Pawn Stars in 2015, but it was restored, stereo and all, and auctioned a year later.
Q 06Who plays Cassandra Wong, the singer and bassist Wayne falls for?
Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere, a trained singer, performed her own songs in the film; she walked away from the final round of a Baywatch audition to go for the part.
Q 07What is the name of Cassandra's band in Wayne's World?
Crucial Taunt
Crucial Taunt is the heavy metal band Cassandra fronts; the film runs through three different endings before the group finally lands its record deal.
Q 08Which actor plays Benjamin Kane, the slick TV producer in Wayne's World?
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe was a Brat Pack heartthrob with no name for comedy; after playing the smarmy Benjamin he went on to more of it in Tommy Boy and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Q 09Which rock star lectures Wayne and Garth backstage on the history of Milwaukee?
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper turned up expecting only to perform a song; he was handed pages of freshly written dialogue on the set and memorised the history lesson on the spot.
Q 10In Wayne's World, which guitar does Wayne covet in a shop window and buy with his $5,000?
A 1964 Fender Stratocaster
A 1964 Fender Stratocaster in classic white: Cassandra wins Wayne over by spotting it as 'pre-CBS', built the year before the broadcaster bought Fender, the era collectors chase.
Q 11Lying on a car hood in Wayne's World, Garth asks if Wayne ever found which cartoon character attractive?
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny, when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny: Wayne answers with a flat no, and Garth hastily agrees that neither did he, he was just asking, as planes roar low over the hood they are lying on.
Q 12Which catchphrase did the Wayne's World sketches and film help popularise?
'... Not!'
'... Not!' tacked onto a sincere-sounding sentence spread so widely that the American Dialect Society voted it Word of the Year for 1992.
Q 13Which Terminator 2 character pulls Wayne over in a Wayne's World cameo, asking about a boy?
The T-1000
Q 21Which SNL cast member cameos as the well-informed security guard at the Milwaukee concert in Wayne's World?
Chris Farley
Chris Farley made his film debut as the guard, who knows a record mogul's travel plans in suspicious detail; he came back in the sequel as a different character, Milton.
Q 22What language does Wayne learn to impress Cassandra in Wayne's World?
Cantonese
Cantonese: Wayne learns enough to tell Cassandra she looks pretty, and she tells him she picked up her English at college and from the Police Academy movies.
Q 23Which sitcom's opening credits do Wayne and Garth recreate when they drive to Milwaukee in Wayne's World?
Laverne & Shirley
The T-1000: Robert Patrick reprised his shape-shifting cop the year after Terminator 2, holding up a photo and asking if Wayne has seen this boy; Wayne screams and speeds off.
Q 14Who directed Wayne's World?
Penelope Spheeris
Penelope Spheeris got the job partly because her heavy-metal documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, showed she understood headbangers; she was 45.
Q 15Which song plays whenever Wayne gazes at Cassandra in Wayne's World?
Dream Weaver
Dream Weaver: Gary Wright re-recorded his mid-1970s hit specially for the film, where it swells the moment Wayne first sees Cassandra on stage.
Q 16In Wayne's World, Wayne refuses to bow to any sponsor while showing off a takeout box from which chain?
Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut: the scene mocks product placement by doing it, as Wayne and Garth sneer at selling out while plugging Doritos, Reebok, Nuprin and Pepsi.
Q 17What is the donut shop in Wayne's World where Garth's dream woman works?
Stan Mikita's Donuts
Stan Mikita's Donuts is Mike Myers's homage to Tim Hortons, a chain named for a hockey star; he renamed it for a Chicago Blackhawks great to suit the Illinois setting.
Q 18In Wayne's World, what kind of business does the show's sponsor Noah Vanderhoff own?
Video arcades
Video arcades: Noah's Arcade, billed as Chicago's largest chain, bankrolls the slicker new show, and Wayne is fired after insulting Vanderhoff on air.
Q 19Record boss Frankie Sharp in Wayne's World is played by Frank DiLeo, the real-life manager of which pop star?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson: DiLeo managed him from 1984 to 1989 and was called back in 2009 for the This Is It concerts; on screen he also played the gangster Tuddy in Goodfellas.
Q 20Wayne and Garth replay the ending of Wayne's World as a parody of which cartoon?
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo: in the do-over, Benjamin is unmasked as Old Man Withers, who runs the haunted amusement park, before the pair opt for a third, 'mega happy' ending.
Laverne & Shirley: the pair chant 'Schlemiel! Schlimazel!' outside the Shotz Brewery, where the sitcom's two heroines capped bottles in 1950s Milwaukee.
Q 24Which song by Sweet does Cassandra's band cover in Wayne's World?
Ballroom Blitz
Ballroom Blitz: the actress sang the cover herself, and the soundtrack album spent two weeks at number one in April 1992, knocking a different Garth, Garth Brooks, off the top.
Q 25Wayne's World was only the second film based on an SNL sketch; which comedy was the first?
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers began as an SNL musical act for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, and their live album had already topped the US chart before the 1980 film was made.
Q 26By Mike Myers's account, which band did the studio want for the Wayne's World headbanging scene instead of Queen?
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses, says Myers, who had no jokes for them and fought for Queen. The film's director calls that an urban myth, having fallen out with the band over an earlier documentary.
Q 27After Hawaii and Texas, Wayne's blue-screen tour in Wayne's World stalls with 'Hi, I'm in...' which state?
Delaware
Delaware: the new studio's effects whisk the hosts to Hawaii and Texas with a gag for each, but for the First State Wayne can only announce where he is.
Q 28Which rock band jammed with Wayne and Garth in the SNL sketch ranked the show's most unforgettable moment?
Aerosmith
Aerosmith: Tom Hanks, hosting that night in 1990, played their deadpan roadie Barry, Garth's cousin, before the band tore through the Wayne's World theme with Wayne on guitar.
Q 29Who played Garth's father, Beev, in the early Wayne's World sketches on SNL?
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman's Beev was the first guest on the very first sketch in February 1989, quizzed by Wayne about why he had moved the pop cooler in his convenience store.
Q 30What does Wayne tell an overexcited Garth to take on their Wayne's World show?
His Ritalin
His Ritalin: Wayne was already telling Garth to take it in the SNL sketches. Dana Carvey modelled Garth, gadget tinkering and all, on his older brother Brad, an engineer.