Q 01/05

In The Breakfast Club, what punishment brings the five students together on a Saturday?

A) Detention

B) Summer school

C) Community service

D) A field trip

Answer · why

A) Detention

Each must write a 1,000-word essay on who they think they are; the finished essay gives the film its closing narration.

Q 02/05

Which actor was first cast as Bender in The Breakfast Club, then switched to Andrew Clark?

A) Alan Ruck

B) Emilio Estevez

C) Judd Nelson

D) John Cusack

Answer · why

B) Emilio Estevez

The Bender role came down to Judd Nelson and John Cusack.

Q 03/05

The Breakfast Club was shot entirely at a real closed high school in which state?

A) Michigan

B) New Jersey

C) Illinois

D) Ohio

Answer · why

C) Illinois

Maine North High School in Des Plaines had shut down three years earlier; the film cost only $1 million.

Q 04/05

What nickname did the media give the young actors of The Breakfast Club and similar mid-80s films?

A) The Brat Pack

B) The Rat Pack

C) The Bratz

D) The Frat Pack

Answer · why

A) The Brat Pack

The name riffed on Sinatra's Rat Pack and the actors mostly hated it.

Q 05/05

Clueless is loosely adapted from which Jane Austen novel?

A) Emma

B) Persuasion

C) Northanger Abbey

D) Mansfield Park

Answer · why

A) Emma

Director Amy Heckerling relocated the 1815 matchmaker to Beverly Hills.