Q 01/05

John Hughes wrote National Lampoon's Vacation, but who directed it?

A) Rob Reiner

B) John Landis

C) Ivan Reitman

D) Harold Ramis

Answer · why

D) Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis shot it as a genuine road trip, starting in Colorado in July 1982 and working through dozens of locations in under two months.

Q 02/05

National Lampoon's Vacation was based on a John Hughes short story with which title?

A) Vacation or Bust

B) My Summer Vacation

C) The Last Family Vacation

D) Vacation '58

Answer · why

D) Vacation '58

Vacation '58 sends its family to the real Disneyland, and it is Walt Disney himself who ends up shot in the leg by the father.

Q 03/05

Producer Matty Simmons said a Paramount executive told him Vacation would never make a movie because it was too what?

A) Episodic

B) Expensive

C) Crude

D) Sentimental

Answer · why

A) Episodic

Episodic, said Jeffrey Katzenberg, then at Paramount; Simmons shot back that a road trip is 'supposed to be episodic', and one Warner Bros. executive ...

Q 04/05

What slogan does Walley World go by in National Lampoon's Vacation?

A) The World's Greatest Theme Park

B) The Happiest Place in California

C) America's Favorite Family Fun Park

D) Fun for the Whole Family, Guaranteed

Answer · why

C) America's Favorite Family Fun Park

America's Favorite Family Fun Park is Disneyland in thin disguise: John Hughes's story sent the family to the real park, but the film was not allowed ...

Q 05/05

What has the dealer done to Clark's old car by the time he tries to refuse the Family Truckster?

A) Sold it to another customer

B) Sent it to auction

C) Lost the keys

D) Crushed it flat

Answer · why

D) Crushed it flat

Crushed it flat: 'like a pancake', as Clark tells Ellen, which is why he drives home in a station wagon he never ordered.