Q 01/05

What does Forrest say he earned after only five years of playing football?

A) A professional contract

B) A college degree

C) A Heisman Trophy

D) A coaching job

Answer · why

B) A college degree

A college degree is the punchline of his football years; he has barely been handed it when an Army recruiter asks whether he has given any thought to ...

Q 02/05

Home from China, Forrest says he was 'famouser even than' which children's TV star?

A) Howdy Doody

B) Captain Kangaroo

C) Mister Rogers

D) Soupy Sales

Answer · why

B) Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is his yardstick for being a national celebrity; the fame lands him a talk-show chair, where the star in the next seat welcomes him h...

Q 03/05

In Vietnam, Forrest says his platoon was 'always looking for this guy named' what?

A) Victor

B) Mike

C) Charlie

D) Romeo

Answer · why

C) Charlie

Charlie was soldiers' slang for the Viet Cong, short for the radio code Victor Charlie; Forrest takes it for one man's name and recalls the patrols as...

Q 04/05

What was the full given name of Forrest's Army friend, known to everyone as 'Bubba'?

A) William Harrison Black

B) Thomas Jefferson Green

C) Benjamin Buford Blue

D) John Paul White

Answer · why

C) Benjamin Buford Blue

Bubba's full name was Benjamin Buford Blue, a shrimp-obsessed Army recruit; Forrest later names the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company after him.

Q 05/05

What does Forrest offer the nurse beside him on the bench as he begins his story?

A) A stick of gum

B) A chocolate

C) A peppermint

D) A cigarette

Answer · why

B) A chocolate

A chocolate from the box he holds out to her; he says he could eat about a million and a half of them, then gives Mama's line in the past tense: life ...