Q 01/05

Clueless is loosely adapted from which Jane Austen novel?

A) Persuasion

B) Northanger Abbey

C) Mansfield Park

D) Emma

Answer · why

D) Emma

Emma came second: Heckerling first invented a heroine who is always positive, then remembered the headstrong Austen character she had read about in co...

Q 02/05

Clueless writer-director Amy Heckerling made her name with which earlier teen comedy?

A) Fast Times at Ridgemont High

B) Revenge of the Nerds

C) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

D) Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Answer · why

A) Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High came out in 1982; eleven years later Fox asked her for a TV show about a high school's popular kids, and that pitch grew ...

Q 03/05

While researching Clueless, Amy Heckerling sat in on classes at which Los Angeles-area school?

A) Beverly Hills High

B) Santa Monica High

C) Harvard-Westlake

D) Hollywood High

Answer · why

A) Beverly Hills High

Beverly Hills High is where she noticed 'these girls in a constant state of grooming'; she set the film in the city because it struck her as 'a hyper-...

Q 04/05

In Clueless, which word in Cher's debate speech did Alicia Silverstone mispronounce by accident, a slip the director kept?

A) Bosnians

B) Kuwaitis

C) Haitians

D) Somalis

Answer · why

C) Haitians

Haitians came out as 'Hay-tee-ans' because Silverstone did not know the word, and Heckerling stopped the crew from correcting her so Cher would keep h...

Q 05/05

Which film kept Clueless off the top of the US box office on its opening weekend in July 1995?

A) Batman Forever

B) Waterworld

C) Pocahontas

D) Apollo 13

Answer · why

D) Apollo 13

Apollo 13 held first place in its fourth weekend, but a teen comedy that other studios had passed on still took $10.6 million from 1,653 theatres.