Q 01/05

Which puzzle does Chris Gardner solve in a taxi to impress a brokerage manager in The Pursuit of Happyness?

A) A sliding tile puzzle

B) A Rubik's Cube

C) A cryptic crossword

D) A wooden tangram

Answer · why

B) A Rubik's Cube

A Rubik's Cube had gone on sale worldwide only the year before, so solving one still looked like genius. The feat earns Chris a shot at a stockbroker ...

Q 02/05

Which medical devices does Chris Gardner stake his entire savings on in The Pursuit of Happyness?

A) Portable heart monitors

B) Electric wheelchairs

C) Bone-density scanners

D) Digital thermometers

Answer · why

C) Bone-density scanners

Bone-density scanners were his pitch to doctors as a handy improvement on standard X-rays. Shifting the very last one takes him almost the whole film.

Q 03/05

Christopher is five in The Pursuit of Happyness, but what was Chris Gardner's real son when they were homeless?

A) A toddler

B) A teenager

C) A ten-year-old

D) A six-year-old

Answer · why

A) A toddler

A toddler is what Christopher Jr. really was, about 19 months old when his father took sole charge of him. The film aged him to five.

Q 04/05

Dan Castellaneta, who plays Alan Frakesh in The Pursuit of Happyness, is famous as the voice of which cartoon father?

A) Peter Griffin

B) Fred Flintstone

C) Hank Hill

D) Homer Simpson

Answer · why

D) Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson has won Castellaneta four Emmys, and he also voices Krusty the Clown and Grampa. The family began as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.

Q 05/05

Why is Chris Gardner arrested the night before his big interview in The Pursuit of Happyness?

A) Unpaid parking tickets

B) Running from a taxi

C) Dodging a restaurant bill

D) Trespassing overnight

Answer · why

A) Unpaid parking tickets

Unpaid parking tickets cost him a night in a cell, so he runs to the interview straight from jail. The real Gardner was held for ten days over $1,200 ...