Q 01/05

What does John Candy's chatty salesman Del Griffith sell for a living in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

A) Novelty greeting cards

B) Shower curtain rings

C) Vacuum cleaners

D) Life insurance

Answer · why

B) Shower curtain rings

Shower curtain rings are the trade of Del Griffith, and a line he speaks in the film later gave the 2025 documentary John Candy: I Like Me its title.

Q 02/05

For which Christmas blockbuster did John Candy shoot his entire cameo as a travelling bandleader in one 23-hour day?

A) Home Alone

B) Scrooged

C) The Santa Clause

D) A Christmas Story

Answer · why

A) Home Alone

Home Alone paid Candy just $414 for the day, a favour to its writer, and he was the one actor allowed to improvise his lines.

Q 03/05

Which supernatural comedy offered John Candy the role of accountant Louis Tully before Rick Moranis took it?

A) Beetlejuice

B) The Witches of Eastwick

C) Ghostbusters

D) Poltergeist

Answer · why

C) Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters went ahead with Moranis after Candy's ideas for the character clashed with the filmmakers', though Candy still turns up in the music vide...

Q 04/05

Which hockey superstar joined John Candy and Bruce McNall in buying the Toronto Argonauts in 1991?

A) Mario Lemieux

B) Mark Messier

C) Gordie Howe

D) Wayne Gretzky

Answer · why

D) Wayne Gretzky

Wayne Gretzky and Candy came in as minority partners beside majority owner Bruce McNall, and the team won the league title in their first season as ow...

Q 05/05

Which country's first Olympic bobsled team does John Candy's disgraced coach train in Cool Runnings?

A) Jamaica

B) Barbados

C) Trinidad and Tobago

D) The Bahamas

Answer · why

A) Jamaica

Jamaica really did send a debut bobsled team to the 1988 Winter Olympics, and Cool Runnings was the last Candy film released in his lifetime.