Q 01/05

Keith, Watts and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful are named in tribute to which rock band?

A) Led Zeppelin

B) The Rolling Stones

C) The Velvet Underground

D) The Beach Boys

Answer · why

B) The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones supplied all three names: Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and the 1967 album track Miss Amanda Jones. Writer John Hughes meant it as ...

Q 02/05

Some Kind of Wonderful retells which earlier John Hughes film with the sexes of the lead characters switched?

A) Pretty in Pink

B) Sixteen Candles

C) Weird Science

D) The Breakfast Club

Answer · why

A) Pretty in Pink

Pretty in Pink had its ending reshot after test audiences rejected the best friend winning, so Hughes told the story again with a boy at its centre.

Q 03/05

The actors who play Keith and Amanda in Some Kind of Wonderful were both cast in which 1985 blockbuster?

A) The Goonies

B) The Jewel of the Nile

C) Back to the Future

D) St. Elmo's Fire

Answer · why

C) Back to the Future

Back to the Future kept one of them as Lorraine but replaced the other with Michael J. Fox several weeks into the shoot.

Q 04/05

Which future Full House star plays Keith's youngest sister, Cindy, in Some Kind of Wonderful?

A) Jodie Sweetin

B) Andrea Barber

C) Mary-Kate Olsen

D) Candace Cameron

Answer · why

D) Candace Cameron

Candace Cameron took the small part of Cindy Nelson in the same year that she began her long run as D.J. Tanner.

Q 05/05

In Some Kind of Wonderful, Keith spends his college savings on which gift for Amanda Jones?

A) Diamond earrings

B) A string of pearls

C) A gold bracelet

D) A silver locket

Answer · why

A) Diamond earrings

Diamond earrings swallow the whole fund, which infuriates his father, and by the final scene Keith has given them to Watts instead.