Q 01/05

Ferris cons his way into the snooty restaurant Chez Quis by claiming to be Abe Froman, the 'King' of what?

A) Pizza

B) Sausage

C) Popcorn

D) Steak

Answer · why

B) Sausage

Sausage: 'Abe Froman, the Sausage King of Chicago' wins him a table for three after some frantic phone trickery, and the title lives on today on T-shi...

Q 02/05

What false family news does Ferris's friend phone in to get Sloane excused from school?

A) Her father is in hospital

B) Her grandmother has died

C) Her house has flooded

D) Her brother is missing

Answer · why

B) Her grandmother has died

Her grandmother has died: Rooney, sure the caller is Ferris, demands to see the body, then has to grovel when Ferris rings in on the other line at tha...

Q 03/05

Ferris's girlfriend Sloane is played by which actress?

A) Ally Sheedy

B) Molly Ringwald

C) Mia Sara

D) Kristy Swanson

Answer · why

C) Mia Sara

Mia Sara: she was only 18, and recalled that Hughes, who wanted an older actress to give Sloane some dignity, almost fell out of his chair when she to...

Q 04/05

Who plays Ferris's resentful sister Jeanie?

A) Cindy Pickett

B) Ami Dolenz

C) Edie McClurg

D) Jennifer Grey

Answer · why

D) Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey: she and Matthew Broderick, feuding siblings on screen, quietly became a couple during the shoot.

Q 05/05

Which real-life economist and speechwriter plays the droning economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

A) Paul Krugman

B) Milton Friedman

C) Ben Stein

D) George Will

Answer · why

C) Ben Stein

Ben Stein, a former Nixon speechwriter with an economics background, improvised his monotone lecture on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act; Hughes liked his ...