Q 01/05

Who directed Trading Places?

A) Ivan Reitman

B) John Hughes

C) Harold Ramis

D) John Landis

Answer · why

D) John Landis

John Landis took the film because its script read like a 1930s screwball comedy in the Capra and Sturges mould: an old-fashioned social comedy that wa...

Q 02/05

Trading Places opened behind which chart-topping sequel?

A) Superman III

B) Return of the Jedi

C) Sudden Impact

D) Staying Alive

Answer · why

B) Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi was in its third weekend and still took $12 million. Trading Places opened in third place but, in its co-writer's words, 'just kept...

Q 03/05

In which city is the brokerage Duke & Duke based in Trading Places?

A) Philadelphia

B) Boston

C) New York City

D) Chicago

Answer · why

A) Philadelphia

Philadelphia supplied the streets and exteriors, but the director admits that many of the interiors that are supposed to be there were really filmed i...

Q 04/05

What is the name of Eddie Murphy's street hustler in Trading Places?

A) Axel Foley

B) Reggie Hammond

C) Billy Ray Valentine

D) Chandler Jarrell

Answer · why

C) Billy Ray Valentine

Billy Ray Valentine is first seen begging as a blind, legless Vietnam veteran, a con that ends when two cops hoist him off his cart and he thanks them...

Q 05/05

Which commodity do the heroes of Trading Places trade to bankrupt the Duke brothers?

A) Pork bellies

B) Orange juice

C) Coffee beans

D) Crude oil

Answer · why

B) Orange juice

Orange juice futures hit $1.42 a pound on the trading floor and crash to 29 cents within minutes; the heroes sell at the peak and buy back at the bott...