Q 01/05

In which Oregon town is the film set, and where were its town scenes shot?

A) Astoria

B) Newport

C) Tillamook

D) Seaside

Answer · why

A) Astoria

The town later turned the old county jail seen in the opening chase into the Oregon Film Museum, which opened on the film's 25th anniversary.

Q 02/05

What is the name of the legendary pirate whose treasure the Goonies are hunting?

A) Black Bart Roberts

B) One-Eyed Willy

C) Peg-Leg Pete

D) Captain Flint

Answer · why

B) One-Eyed Willy

When Mikey finally meets him he lifts the eyepatch and finds bare bone underneath, which is why he got the name.

Q 03/05

Which future Lord of the Rings actor plays Mikey Walsh?

A) Elijah Wood

B) Sean Astin

C) Dominic Monaghan

D) Billy Boyd

Answer · why

B) Sean Astin

It was his film debut at 13; his mother Patty Duke had played his abusive mother in a TV movie four years earlier.

Q 04/05

Who directed The Goonies?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) Joe Dante

C) Richard Donner

D) Robert Zemeckis

Answer · why

C) Richard Donner

Spielberg supplied the story and produced through Amblin, and Sean Astin later wrote that the two men were like co-directors on set.

Q 05/05

Which screenwriter, later the director of Home Alone, wrote The Goonies?

A) Chris Columbus

B) John Hughes

C) Lawrence Kasdan

D) Bob Gale

Answer · why

A) Chris Columbus

He wrote Gremlins and Young Sherlock Holmes in the same stretch before directing Adventures in Babysitting in 1987.