Q 01/05

In Diner, what is never shown of Elyse, the bride whose football quiz drives the plot?

A) Her hands

B) Her test paper

C) Her face

D) Her wedding gown

Answer · why

C) Her face

Her face is kept off screen from start to finish, so the woman the whole test is about stays a stranger even at her own reception.

Q 02/05

Which actor played hard-drinking rich kid Fenwick in Diner two years before starring in Footloose?

A) Kevin Bacon

B) Tim Daly

C) Matt Dillon

D) Sean Penn

Answer · why

A) Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon had just quit the soap Guiding Light when the audition came, and he read for the part with a 103-degree fever that he felt suited the wooz...

Q 03/05

How does Eddie first respond in Diner when his fiancée Elyse fails his football quiz by two points?

A) He demands a retest

B) He cancels the wedding

C) He lowers the passing mark

D) He blames the questions

Answer · why

B) He cancels the wedding

He cancels the wedding on the spot, with both sets of parents waiting on the result, then changes his mind during a night out with his best man.

Q 04/05

Barry Levinson made his directing debut with Diner and later won a directing Oscar for which film?

A) Bugsy

B) Sleepers

C) Avalon

D) Rain Man

Answer · why

D) Rain Man

Rain Man won him the directing Oscar and took Best Picture too, six years after his own Diner script had lost in the screenplay category.

Q 05/05

Two years after Diner came out, Baltimore's beloved Colts left town overnight for which city?

A) Phoenix

B) Indianapolis

C) Jacksonville

D) Memphis

Answer · why

B) Indianapolis

Indianapolis got the Colts on March 29, 1984, when the franchise moved out in the middle of the night as Baltimore threatened to seize the team by emi...