Zombieland Trivia
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50 free Zombieland trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Zombieland started life in 2005 as a TV pilot script by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, became Ruben Fleischer's first feature in 2009, and turned a $24.7 million opening weekend into a cult comedy built on a notebook of survival rules and one man's search for a Twinkie. Its four leads go by place names, its celebrity cameo was written for a different actor, and its amusement-park finale was filmed in a small Georgia theme park. These 50 questions cover both films: the 2009 original and 2019's Double Tap, plus the cancelled Amazon pilot and the tie-in mobile game. Easy questions stick to the cast, the cars and the rules everyone remembers; harder ones ask about the Metallica opening, the Sitges and Critics' Choice nods, the evolved zombie strains and who directed the pilot. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick something up even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a movie-night round.
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Q 01Who directed Zombieland, making his feature directorial debut?
Ruben Fleischer
Ruben Fleischer. He says he is no horror fan and took the job for the comedy, treating the zombies as window-dressing on a buddy road movie.
Q 02Which pair wrote Zombieland and later wrote Deadpool?
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. They first wrote it as a TV pilot, and it became a movie only when its first-time director gave the road trip a destination: an amusement park.
Q 03Who plays Columbus, the rule-following narrator of Zombieland?
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg. His Columbus's greatest fear is clowns, so the finale makes him face a zombie clown to rescue Wichita.
Q 04In Zombieland, a mutated strain of what turned people into zombies?
Mad cow disease
Mad cow disease. Two months after it jumped to humans, Columbus finds so few people left that he renames the country the United States of Zombieland.
Q 05Which actress plays Wichita in Zombieland?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone. Her Wichita is a con artist who robs the two men of their truck and guns minutes after meeting them, by passing her sister off as a bite victim.
Q 06Who plays Little Rock, the 12-year-old sister in Zombieland?
Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin. She was 12 when she played the pint-sized con artist, and she came back a decade later for a sequel in which Little Rock runs away to find people her own age.
Q 07Which snack is Tallahassee hunting for throughout Zombieland?
Twinkies
Twinkies. When he finally finds a crashed Hostess truck, it holds nothing but Sno Balls, and he flies into a rage.
Q 08Why do Zombieland's survivors call each other by city names instead of real ones?
To avoid getting attached
To avoid getting attached. Among the four leads, the rule holds until the film's final minutes, when Wichita at last tells Columbus her real name.
Q 09What real name does Wichita reveal to Columbus at the end of Zombieland?
Krista
Krista. She says it as she kisses him, moments after he has fought through a zombie-filled amusement park to get her down from a ride.
Q 10In Zombieland, where is the narrator heading from Austin, Texas, to look for his parents?
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio. He never gets there: on the road Wichita tells him the city has been burned to a ghost town, so he stays with the group.
Q 11In Zombieland, what is Tallahassee driving when he first picks up Columbus?
An armored Escalade
An armored Escalade. The sisters soon con him out of it, and its replacement is a yellow Hummer that happens to be full of guns.
Q 12Which amusement park are the sisters trying to reach in Zombieland?
Pacific Playland
Pacific Playland. The Los Angeles park is rumored to be zombie-free, until the sisters switch on its rides and lights and draw every zombie nearby.
Q 13Whose Los Angeles mansion do the survivors hole up in during Zombieland?
Bill Murray's
Bill Murray's. He plays himself, alive and made up as a zombie so he can play golf in peace, until a prank on Columbus gets him shot.
Q 21Which Metallica song plays over Zombieland's opening credits?
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls. The gory slow-motion titles play like a music video for a reason: making those was the director's job before this, his first film.
Q 22In Zombieland, Columbus's first zombie kill is his neighbor, played by which actress?
Amber Heard
Amber Heard. Her character is known only as 406, her apartment number: bitten on the way home, she dozes off on his couch and wakes up hungry.
Q 23In Zombieland, Tallahassee enters a grocery store playing which instrument to draw out the zombies?
A banjo
A banjo. Once it has drawn out the store's three zombies, he kills them with it, a metal bat and a pair of hedge clippers.
Q 14Zombieland's celebrity cameo was originally written for which actor?
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze. He was too ill with cancer to film it, so the writers offered the part to about a dozen other stars, rewriting the jokes for each.
Q 15Which actor plays Tallahassee in Zombieland?
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson. He also landed the film's celebrity cameo: when the star first cast dropped out a week before filming, he phoned a friend.
Q 16During which board game in Zombieland does Columbus realize who 'Buck' really was?
Monopoly
Monopoly. Tallahassee had been mourning a 'puppy named Buck', and over the board Columbus works out that Buck was his young son, lost to the zombies.
Q 17What is rule #1 on Columbus's survival list in Zombieland?
Cardio
Cardio. In his telling, the first people the zombies caught were the ones too out of shape to outrun them.
Q 18Which Zombieland rule does Tallahassee inspire?
Enjoy the little things
Enjoy the little things. 'I hate to give credit to anyone who looks like Yosemite Sam, but I'm writing it down,' Columbus says, making it rule number 32.
Q 19Which rule does Columbus flip to its opposite in Zombieland's amusement-park finale?
Don't be a hero
Don't be a hero. With Wichita trapped on a ride and a zombie clown in his way, he decides some rules are meant to be broken, and rule 17 becomes 'Be a hero'.
Q 20What is the sisters' own survival rule in Zombieland?
Trust no one
Trust no one. Wichita adds 'just you and me', and the sisters live by it, twice getting the drop on the two men before anyone agrees to a truce.
Q 24Before the outbreak in Zombieland, Columbus was a shut-in hooked on which online game?
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft. Being a shut-in is what saved him: holed up for weeks with pizza and Code Red Mountain Dew, he was avoiding people long before they were zombies.
Q 25In Zombieland, Tallahassee says he hasn't cried so hard since which film?
Titanic
Titanic. The joke lands in the film's saddest scene: he is weeping over the young son he lost to the zombies, whom he had passed off as a puppy.
Q 26Zombieland took which film's zombie box-office record?
Dawn of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead. The 2004 remake had opened bigger, but Zombieland held on better and passed its whole North American run in just 17 days.
Q 27Zombieland's opening weekend roughly matched what figure?
Its production budget
Its production budget. Earning back its $23.6 million cost in three days had the writers talking sequel that same week, though the follow-up took a decade to arrive.
Q 28In Zombieland: Double Tap, Columbus proposes to Wichita with which famous gem?
The Hope Diamond
The Hope Diamond. The grand gesture backfires: Wichita feels smothered, and by morning she and her sister have left a note and driven off.
Q 29Zombieland's amusement-park finale was mostly shot at a theme park in which state?
Georgia
Georgia. Tax incentives drew the production there, so Wild Adventures in Valdosta had to pass for a park in Los Angeles.
Q 30In Zombieland: Double Tap, Tallahassee is stuck riding in which kind of vehicle he despises?
A minivan
A minivan. The grudge is ten years old: in the first film he takes a crowbar to one in a rage rather than drive it.