Wolf of Wall Street Trivia
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48 free Wolf of Wall Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is Martin Scorsese's three-hour, record-breakingly profane account of Jordan Belfort's rise and fall, and it remains his highest-grossing film. This Wolf of Wall Street trivia quiz covers the movie in detail: Black Monday, the boiler room, Stratton Oakmont, Donnie Azoff, Naomi, Aunt Emma and the Swiss account, the Steve Madden IPO, the Lemmon 714 quaaludes, the yacht, the FBI and the ending. It also covers how it was made and received: the Warner Bros. false start, the Red Granite money later tied to the 1MDB scandal, the animals on set, Jonah Hill's tiny fee, the Guinness record for swearing, the box office and the five Oscar nominations. And it looks at the real people, from Belfort's 22 months in prison and Tommy Chong cellmate to Danny Porush and Steve Madden. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01Who directed The Wolf of Wall Street?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese. When the project stalled he made Shutter Island with DiCaprio instead, then returned to it and out-grossed that film to set the box-office record of his career.
Q 02Wolf of Wall Street writer Terence Winter created which HBO drama?
Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire. Winter began adapting Belfort's memoir in 2007, three years before that series aired; the film then stalled for so long that his show reached the screen first.
Q 03Which market crash costs the young Belfort his first Wall Street job?
Black Monday
Black Monday. With no Wall Street firm hiring after the crash, he takes a job at a Long Island boiler room and discovers the 50 percent commissions on penny stocks.
Q 04Which actor plays Belfort's chest-thumping mentor Mark Hanna?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey. Mark Hanna was a real broker whose name the film kept: Belfort's memoir credits him with the same crude lunchtime lessons, and he too was later convicted of stock fraud.
Q 05What respectable-sounding name does Belfort give his boiler-room firm in 1989?
Stratton Oakmont
Stratton Oakmont. Behind the blue-blooded name was a penny-stock shop that began as a franchise of a tiny brokerage, run out of a friend's car dealership.
Q 06In the film, which magazine's exposé brands Belfort 'The Wolf of Wall Street'?
Forbes
Forbes. The real 1991 article called him a twisted Robin Hood who robbed the rich to pay himself, but its writer never used the wolf nickname that the film credits to the magazine.
Q 07Jonah Hill's character Donnie Azoff is based on which real co-founder of Belfort's firm?
Danny Porush
Danny Porush. The character was renamed after he threatened to sue, and he calls the memoir a distant relative of the truth and the film a distant relative of the memoir.
Q 08Which shoe company's IPO makes Belfort a fortune in three hours in 1993?
Steve Madden
Steve Madden. The designer went to prison for his part in the stock fraud, yet his company kept him on its payroll as creative and design chief while he was behind bars.
Q 09In whose name does Belfort open his Swiss bank account?
Naomi's Aunt Emma
Naomi's Aunt Emma. As a British citizen she sits beyond the easy reach of US investigators; the real aunt, Patricia, did carry money to Switzerland for Belfort.
Q 10How do Brad's wife Chantalle and her parents carry Belfort's cash onto flights to Europe?
Taped to their bodies
Taped to their bodies. Chantalle's family hold Swiss passports, so they can make the trip again and again; Belfort's real friend with Swiss in-laws did much of his smuggling too.
Q 11Which long-banned quaalude does Belfort's voice-over call 'the Holy Grail' when Donnie produces a bottle?
Lemmon 714
Lemmon 714. The old pills seem to do nothing, so the pair swallow more, and the delayed hit arrives while Belfort is at a country club pay phone.
Q 12Which car does Belfort wreck while crawling home on quaaludes?
A Lamborghini Countach
A Lamborghini Countach. The film upgraded the wreck: by Belfort's own account, the car he smashed up on the drive home that night was a Mercedes.
Q 13The real yacht Belfort lost in a storm off Italy once belonged to which fashion designer?
Coco Chanel
Q 21Which actress says she lost a Wolf of Wall Street part for being 'too old', though DiCaprio is nine years older?
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde. She says the feedback first reached her as 'too sophisticated', which she took as a compliment until she learned the word actually used was 'old'.
Q 22The Wolf of Wall Street set a Guinness World Record for the most what in one film?
Swear words
Swear words. Guinness counted 506 uses of a single expletive, about 2.8 a minute, but the record fell within a year to Swearnet: The Movie.
Q 23What was Chance, the four-year-old chimpanzee in The Wolf of Wall Street, taught to do for his scenes?
Roller skate
Coco Chanel. Belfort, high at the time, insisted his captain sail into rough seas; the yacht went down and everyone aboard had to be rescued by the Italian navy.
Q 14Who is arrested in Miami and then hands Belfort to the FBI in a plea deal?
Swiss banker Saurel
Swiss banker Saurel. Belfort's narration marvels that of the thousands of bankers in Geneva, his was the one careless enough to be arrested on American soil, in a case unrelated to him.
Q 15While wearing a wire for the FBI, how does Belfort warn Donnie to say nothing?
Slips him a written note
Slips him a written note. It tells Donnie not to incriminate himself, but the slip of paper ends up with the FBI, and an agent holds it up when he comes to arrest Belfort.
Q 16What does Belfort do for a living after prison in The Wolf of Wall Street's final scene?
Hosts sales seminars
Hosts sales seminars. The emcee who welcomes DiCaprio to the stage in that last scene is the real Jordan Belfort, making a cameo in his own life story.
Q 17What does Belfort ask people to sell him in The Wolf of Wall Street's most quoted challenge?
A pen
A pen. He springs the test on his first recruits and repeats it in the closing shot, but he did not invent it: the challenge is an old job-interview exercise.
Q 18Which director appears uncredited as Dwayne, the boss of the Long Island penny-stock firm?
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze. He got the part through the casting director the film shared with his own Her: she had heard him read lines opposite auditioning actors and decided he could act.
Q 19Which independent company stepped in to finance The Wolf of Wall Street after a major studio dropped it?
Red Granite
Red Granite. A film about financial fraud was itself allegedly paid for with stolen money: prosecutors said the company's funds had been looted from a state investment fund.
Q 20How much did Jonah Hill say he was paid for The Wolf of Wall Street?
$60,000
$60,000. Hill wanted the part so badly that he took the union minimum and asked for the contract that same night, so nobody could change their mind before he signed.
Roller skate. He glides through the trading floor in a suit, a scene that led the group Friends of Animals to call for a boycott before the film had even opened.
Q 24Where does Belfort fly his brokers by jumbo jet for his bachelor party?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas. The mid-air party on the way there was not in the memoir: DiCaprio heard about it in his own meetings with the real Belfort and brought it to the director.
Q 25Which cartoon hero is on TV when Belfort saves Donnie from choking?
Popeye
Popeye. As the sailor downs his spinach on screen, Belfort snorts cocaine to cut through the quaaludes, then gets up and revives his choking partner.
Q 26At which awards did DiCaprio win Best Actor for playing Jordan Belfort?
The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes. His three-hour fraud epic competed in the Musical or Comedy category, and he told the room he never thought he would win Best Actor for a comedy.
Q 27The Wolf of Wall Street was the first major Hollywood release sent to US cinemas entirely without what?
Film prints
Film prints. It went out only as digital files, as its studio became the first big one to abandon the reels of 35mm film that cinemas had relied on since movies began.
Q 28Cinemas in which country showed The Wolf of Wall Street with about 45 minutes cut out?
The UAE
The UAE. Viewers there complained the censored version was almost impossible to follow, while Kenya's film board went further and banned it outright.
Q 29On which holiday did The Wolf of Wall Street open in US cinemas?
Christmas Day 2013
Christmas Day 2013. It had been due in mid-November, but the first cut ran well over three hours, and the trims that followed also spared it an NC-17 rating.
Q 30How long did the real Jordan Belfort serve in prison for his stock fraud?
22 months
22 months. His sentence was four years, but he had worn a wire and testified against his own partners and brokers, and the time came off for it.