Q 01/05

Before Planes, Trains and Automobiles, writer-director John Hughes was best known for which kind of film?

A) Teen comedies

B) Holiday family films

C) Horror spoofs

D) Action thrillers

Answer · why

A) Teen comedies

Teen comedies. After Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he said half the reviews of this story about two grown men bega...

Q 02/05

What is Neal Page's job in Planes, Trains and Automobiles?

A) Insurance underwriter

B) Practising architect

C) Corporate accountant

D) Advertising executive

Answer · why

D) Advertising executive

Advertising executive. John Hughes had worked in advertising himself, and based the story on a trip home from New York that went as badly wrong as Nea...

Q 03/05

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

A) Novelty doorbells

B) Venetian blind cords

C) Bathroom scales

D) Shower curtain rings

Answer · why

D) Shower curtain rings

Shower curtain rings, 'the best in the world', he says. Neal throws the job back at him in their motel-room row, imagining strangers who hear Del's na...

Q 04/05

In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which holiday is Neal Page trying to get home for?

A) Independence Day

B) Easter

C) Thanksgiving

D) Christmas

Answer · why

C) Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Paramount opened the film on the day before the holiday in 1987, and with so few other films set around it, it found a second life throu...

Q 05/05

What does Del do on the freeway at night that nearly gets him and Neal killed?

A) Falls asleep at the wheel

B) Drives the wrong way

C) Runs out of petrol

D) Skids on black ice

Answer · why

B) Drives the wrong way

Drives the wrong way. When a motorist across the divide shouts a warning, Del decides the man is drunk ('How would he know where we're going?') and en...