Q 01/05

Mike Judge co-wrote Idiocracy with which screenwriter, who later wrote Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3?

A) Judd Apatow

B) Adam McKay

C) Etan Cohen

D) Seth Rogen

Answer · why

C) Etan Cohen

Cohen, a Harvard Lampoon alumnus, had written for Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill. He is not the Coen brother of the similar-soundin...

Q 02/05

What is Joe Bauers's job in the US Army before the experiment?

A) Cook

B) Mechanic

C) Librarian

D) Chaplain's assistant

Answer · why

C) Librarian

He is selected because tests show he is the most statistically average person in the armed forces, not for any talent.

Q 03/05

Who plays Joe Bauers?

A) Owen Wilson

B) Jason Bateman

C) Luke Wilson

D) Ron Livingston

Answer · why

C) Luke Wilson

His real-life older brother Andrew Wilson also appears, as the monster-truck rehabilitation officer Beef Supreme.

Q 04/05

Joe and Rita are meant to sleep for one year. How long do they actually stay in hibernation?

A) 100 years

B) 250 years

C) 500 years

D) 1,000 years

Answer · why

C) 500 years

The base is shut down after a sex scandal involving the commanding officer and Rita's pimp, and the project is simply forgotten.

Q 05/05

Who plays Rita?

A) Tina Fey

B) Amy Poehler

C) Maya Rudolph

D) Kristen Wiig

Answer · why

C) Maya Rudolph

She was a Saturday Night Live cast member at the time; the same year she had her first prominent film role in A Prairie Home Companion.