148 Fun Facts About Fight Club

In Fight Club, where do Tyler and the Narrator raid dumpsters at night for raw material?

A liposuction clinic's dumpsters supply it: Tyler calls the bagged human fat pay dirt, saying it has just the right salt balance for what he makes.

In Fight Club, what was Bob before illness brought him to the Narrator's support group?

A champion bodybuilder: Bob says the steroids he used left him bankrupt and divorced, with two grown children who will not return his calls.

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden says we are free to do anything only after what?

We've lost everything, Tyler says; by then the Narrator's condo and all he owned have gone up in an explosion, a loss Tyler treats as a liberation.

Under fight club's third rule, what ends a bout?

Someone says stop or goes limp, and it is over: nobody keeps score because, as the Narrator puts it, fight club was not about winning or losing.

How do the Narrator and Marla settle their turf war over support meetings in Fight Club?

They split the groups up, haggling night by night over who gets which illness, and part by exchanging phone numbers.

Which rock singer plays Robert 'Bob' Paulsen?

Meat Loaf played Bob, wearing a heavy fat harness for the part; Bob is later shot dead by police during one of Tyler's missions.

Which future Oscar winner plays Angel Face, the blond recruit the Narrator beats to a pulp?

Jared Leto's Angel Face is beaten until he is no longer beautiful; asked why he did it, the Narrator says he felt like destroying something beautiful.

What is the Narrator's job in Fight Club?

He is an automobile recall coordinator: if a recall costs more than the expected out-of-court settlements, his company does not recall the car.

In Fight Club, the insomniac Narrator's doctor sends him to which kind of support group to see real pain?

Testicular cancer: the doctor wants him to see what actual pain looks like; instead he discovers that crying there cures his insomnia.

Where does the Narrator first meet Tyler Durden?

On a business flight, where Tyler introduces himself as a salesman; that night the Narrator finds his apartment destroyed by an explosion and phones him.

What favour does Tyler ask before letting the Narrator stay with him?

Tyler asks the Narrator to punch him as hard as he can; their brawl in the bar's parking lot grows into fight club in the basement.

What is the second rule of fight club?

You do not talk about it: the second rule simply repeats the first, louder, before Tyler moves on to how a fight is run.

How does the Narrator extort money from his boss in Fight Club?

By beating himself up in the office, he makes it look as if his boss attacked him, then leaves with months of pay that bankroll fight club.

What nickname does Tyler give Project Mayhem's shaven-headed recruits in Fight Club?

Space monkeys: as a recruit's head is shaved, Tyler calls him a monkey ready to be shot into space, willing to sacrifice himself for the cause.

What career does store clerk Raymond Hessel admit he abandoned when Tyler holds him at gunpoint?

Veterinarian: Tyler keeps Raymond's driving licence and promises to check that he is on his way back to school within six weeks.

Which false name is on the Narrator's nametag when Bob first hugs him in Fight Club?

Cornelius is the name Bob reads off the tag before telling him he can cry; held tight, the Narrator finally does, and sleeps soundly that night.

What is Project Mayhem's ultimate objective in Fight Club?

Erasing debt records: Project Mayhem plants explosives beneath the towers of credit-card companies so that every balance is wiped at once.

How does the Narrator finally get rid of Tyler Durden?

He shoots himself through the cheek, reasoning that the gun in Tyler's hand must really be in his own; Tyler vanishes and the Narrator survives.

Which song plays over the final scene and end credits of Fight Club?

Where Is My Mind? by Pixies closes the film; Black Francis wrote it about a small fish that would not stop chasing him as he swam on a tropical trip.

Which duo composed Fight Club's score after Radiohead turned it down?

The Dust Brothers had never scored a feature film, which is what Fincher wanted; he loved their sample-heavy production on Beck's Odelay.

What did Brad Pitt do to his teeth to play Tyler Durden?

Brad Pitt had a dentist chip pieces off his front teeth so Tyler would not have a perfect smile, then had them restored once filming ended.

Which actor did producer Ross Bell meet about playing Tyler Durden?

Producer Ross Bell met Russell Crowe about playing Tyler Durden; Art Linson, who joined late, met Brad Pitt for the same part, and Pitt got it.

In Fight Club, what does the Narrator say drops to zero 'on a long enough timeline'?

Everyone's survival rate: the line returns as Tyler marches a store clerk out at gunpoint, a scare meant to push him back to the life he gave up.

At which festival did Fight Club premiere in September 1999?

Fight Club premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 1999, where the reception was sharply divided.

With an opening-weekend crowd that was 61% male, Fight Club was dubbed 'the ultimate' what by Variety?

Anti-date flick, Variety wrote, while calling the gender mix decent; the film took about $11 million that weekend, short of the $15 million Fox had hoped for.

In Tyler Durden's 'you are not your job' speech in Fight Club, which item of clothing are you also not?

Your khakis: the rant also rules out your bank balance, your car and the contents of your wallet, then says what you are, the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

In Fight Club's basement speech, Tyler Durden calls his generation the middle children of what?

History: Tyler says they have no Great War and no Great Depression to define them, so their great war is spiritual and their depression is their lives.

What colour is the scuffed leather jacket Tyler Durden wears in Fight Club and on its poster?

Red: costume designer Michael Kaplan said Fincher, usually 'the prince of black and gray', told him he could not go too far with Tyler's wardrobe.

In Fight Club, which job does Tyler Durden work at the luxurious Pressman Hotel?

Banquet waiter: Tyler secretly fouls the soup before serving it, which is why the Narrator calls him the guerrilla terrorist of the food service industry.

What does Tyler Durden point out to the audience midway through Fight Club?

Tyler points out the cue mark, or 'cigarette burn', in the top-right corner of the frame that warns the booth a reel change is coming.

Which magazine named Tyler Durden the greatest movie character of all time in 2008?

Empire's readers voted Tyler Durden top of its 100 greatest movie characters in 2008; the magazine reasoned that he is how modern man would like to see himself.

What did The New York Times call Fight Club on its tenth anniversary?

The defining cult movie of our time, the paper wrote in 2009, ten years after Fox executives had judged the same film a costly misfire.

Where does the Narrator wake up at the end of the novel Fight Club, unlike the film?

He wakes in a mental hospital, where staff reveal themselves as Project Mayhem members who look forward to Tyler's return.

Which real-life prank collective inspired the organisation Tyler builds out of fight club?

The Cacophony Society, a prank collective Palahniuk belonged to, inspired Project Mayhem; the fighting grew from a camping-trip brawl he came back from bruised.

Which 1997 Henry James adaptation persuaded Fincher to cast Helena Bonham Carter as Marla?

The Wings of the Dove had just earned her an Oscar nomination; Brad Pitt urged Fincher to watch it, and he found her 'exquisitely emotional'.

Which honour did the novel Fight Club win in 1997?

The Oregon Book Award for Best Novel went to a book whose publisher, Palahniuk says, had offered a 'kiss-off' advance meant to make him walk away.

What does Tyler Durden say has us 'working jobs we hate' to buy things we don't need?

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, Tyler says, so a whole generation ends up pumping gas and waiting tables: 'slaves with white collars'.

What name does the Narrator go by in Fight Club 2?

The Narrator goes by Sebastian in Fight Club 2: ten years on he is married to Marla with a son and stuck in suburban boredom, until Tyler resurfaces.

What is the Narrator's power animal in Fight Club's guided meditation?

In the guided meditation the Narrator's power animal is a penguin that tells him 'Slide'; later Marla appears in the ice cave in its place.

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden calls his generation one of men raised by whom?

Women: Tyler says it as the two men talk over their fathers, and adds that he doubts another woman is the answer they need.

Which media mogul's fury at Fight Club helped cost studio chief Bill Mechanic his job in 2000?

Rupert Murdoch asked what kind of sick person would make such a film, Mechanic recalls; the weak North American run soured things further, and he was out by June 2000.

Which troubled Hollywood star did costume designer Michael Kaplan take as his model for Marla Singer?

Judy Garland 'for the millennium', Kaplan told Helena Bonham Carter: not the girl from The Wizard of Oz but the later star whose life was falling apart.

Which 1988 Pixies album includes the song that closes Fight Club?

Surfer Rosa was recorded by Steve Albini, who moved microphones into the studio's bathroom to get the echo he wanted on some of the vocals.

Which Fox 2000 Pictures head bought the film rights to Fight Club for $10,000?

Laura Ziskin, head of Fox 2000 Pictures, bought the rights for $10,000 after listening to a taped reading of the shortened script.

Which New Zealand director was producer Ross Bell's top choice for Fight Club, but busy on another film?

Peter Jackson was Bell's top choice but was busy shooting The Frighteners in New Zealand; Bryan Singer was sent the book and never read it.

Which earlier Fox film gave Fincher an unpleasant experience that made him hesitate to take Fight Club?

Alien 3 left Fincher so bruised by studio interference that he all but disowned it; a meeting with Fox 2000's chief persuaded him to come back.

How did Fincher describe the early Fight Club script that had no narration?

Fincher called the narration-free early draft 'sad and pathetic'; he believed the humour came from the Narrator's voice, so a voice-over was added.

On which street is Tyler's dilapidated house in Fight Club?

Paper Street gives Tyler's business its name, and his house there, alone beside a paper mill, later becomes the crowded barracks of his followers.

What did Edward Norton do to his body over the course of the Fight Club shoot?

Starved himself thinner: he and Brad Pitt agreed the Narrator should waste away while Tyler lifted and tanned, growing more idealised as the film went on.

Which 'sexier marquee name' did the studio want for the Narrator instead of Edward Norton?

Matt Damon and Sean Penn were both floated as bigger names; Fincher held out, saying Penn was 'too wise, too knowing' to play the guileless Narrator.

Edward Norton won David Fincher over for Fight Club by playing whose lawyer in a 1996 film?

Larry Flynt's lawyer argues before the Supreme Court in The People vs. Larry Flynt; watching Norton's speech, Fincher said 'That's the guy', because the Narrator needed that flood of words.

In Fight Club, which shade is the boss's tie when the Narrator decides it 'must be Tuesday'?

Cornflower blue: the Narrator tells the weekdays apart by his boss's ties, and the shade recurs in the novel, where the boss picks it for an icon.

Which chemical does Tyler pour on the Narrator's hand to leave a kiss-shaped burn?

Tyler kisses the back of the Narrator's hand and pours lye on it, insisting he embrace the pain instead of escaping into meditation.

Why did Fincher reject the studio's preferred Marla, Reese Witherspoon?

He felt she was too young for Marla, whatever the studio wanted, and kept looking until Helena Bonham Carter won him over.

Which actress declined Marla Singer because of her television shooting schedule?

Sarah Michelle Gellar was offered Marla but her Buffy the Vampire Slayer schedule ruled it out; Helena Bonham Carter took the part.

Which stand-up comedian was Fincher's first choice to play Marla Singer?

Janeane Garofalo was his first pick; Fincher said she balked at the sex scenes, though she has since said she accepted and was then dropped.

Which screenwriter did Fincher bring in for an uncredited revision of the Fight Club script?

Andrew Kevin Walker did an uncredited polish, so the film thanks him another way: three of its detectives are named Andrew, Kevin and Walker.

Why did Fincher keep the novel's homoerotic overtones in Fight Club?

Fincher kept the homoerotic overtones to make audiences uncomfortable, saying it accentuated the surprise of the film's twists.

Which company paid half of Fight Club's budget?

New Regency co-financed the film; when costs rose and Fincher refused to cut them, its head Arnon Milchan threatened to pull out before being won back.

Which real boxing incident inspired the makeup design of one fight club extra's injury?

Tyson biting Holyfield in 1997 inspired makeup artist Julie Pearce's ear with missing cartilage for one extra; she studied MMA and pay-per-view boxing for realism.

In Fight Club, what does Marla say her second-hand dress was?

A bridesmaid's dress, bought for a dollar: Marla says it was loved intensely just once, then tossed out like a Christmas tree left by the road.

What is the first rule of Project Mayhem in Fight Club?

You do not ask questions: Bob recites it when the Narrator asks what the men have been up to, and his housemates stonewall him with it from then on.

Which later, simpler Fincher film did he contrast with the truck-heavy Fight Club shoot?

Panic Room takes place almost entirely in one house; of Fight Club, Fincher complained he spent his time watching trucks being loaded and unloaded.

In Fight Club, what giant object does a Project Mayhem stunt blast loose in a corporate plaza?

A globe sculpture is blasted free to roll into a coffee bar: the mission was to destroy a piece of corporate art and trash a chain café in one go.

Fight Club was the first film on which Jeff Cronenweth worked as what?

Director of photography for the first time, Cronenweth lit the basement fights with cheap clip-on work lamps, reasoning that is what the club itself would rig up.

What kind of makeup did Helena Bonham Carter wear to give Marla a 'smack-fiend patina'?

Bonham Carter wore opalescent makeup to give Marla a 'smack-fiend patina', set against the film's heavily desaturated costumes and sets.

How does Tyler appear on screen before the Narrator ever meets him in Fight Club?

Tyler was inserted in single frames, subliminal flashes Fincher said were there because the Narrator is only starting to create him in his mind.

Which shot type was Tyler never filmed in with a group of people, to hide Fight Club's twist?

Tyler was never filmed in two shots with a group of people, and was kept out of over-the-shoulder shots whenever he was planting ideas in the Narrator.

Fight Club reunited Brad Pitt and David Fincher, who first worked together on which serial-killer thriller?

Seven, in 1995, starred Pitt as a young detective; its box-office success is what made Fincher a credible choice for a film as risky as Fight Club.

Fight Club's opening titles pull back through the Narrator's brain, starting from which part of it?

The fear centre is where the shot begins because it follows the impulses his terror sets off, racing out through the brain until the camera leaves by a pore in his skin.

Which effects house created the computer-generated brain in Fight Club's title sequence?

Digital Domain got the job only in January 1999, after budget worries had held the sequence back, leaving a short turnaround for a shot Fincher had always planned.

In Fight Club, Tyler Durden asks why 'guys like you and I' know the meaning of which word?

Duvet: it is just a blanket, Tyler says, and nothing a hunter-gatherer would need a word for, so what the two of them have become is consumers.

What job does Tyler Durden hold at a cinema in Fight Club?

Tyler works nights as the projectionist, splicing flashes of pornography into family films at the reel changes.

Why did Radiohead's Thom Yorke turn down the chance to score Fight Club?

Burnt out after OK Computer, Yorke said no even though the film's two stars wrote urging him to do it; he has said he feels a pang every time he sees it.

Which song on the Fight Club soundtrack features a monologue by Tyler Durden?

This Is Your Life echoes the film's line 'This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time', and sets a Tyler monologue voiced by Brad Pitt to music.

What does the Narrator call Marla for attending support groups for diseases she lacks?

A tourist is his word for her; with Marla watching he can no longer cry at the meetings, so his insomnia returns.

What first homework does Tyler set fight club's members?

Start a fight with a stranger and lose: harder than it sounds, the Narrator finds, because most people will do just about anything to avoid a fight.

In Fight Club, the Narrator says that if he had which growth he would name it Marla?

A tumour: he goes on to call her the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it.

Which proposed Fight Club marketing image did Fox executives dismiss as 'a bad joke'?

A bar of pink soap stamped with the title was the ad agency's proposal; executives scoffed, yet the soap ended up on the theatrical poster.

What form did Fincher's two early Fight Club trailers, fronted by Pitt and Norton, take?

Fake public service announcements were Fincher's idea, but the studio thought they did not sell the film and built its own campaign around the fight scenes instead.

During which TV broadcasts did the studio advertise Fight Club, to Fincher's protest?

Fox ran Fight Club ads during World Wrestling Federation broadcasts; Fincher protested that wrestling was the wrong context for the film.

What does Tyler finally pour over the Narrator's chemical burn to neutralise it?

Vinegar ends it, but Tyler holds the bottle back until the Narrator accepts that someday he is going to die.

What does Tyler make the Narrator promise three times about Marla?

Never to mention him to her, or to anyone: the Narrator gives his word, and Tyler later accuses him of breaking it.

In Fight Club, Tyler says Martha Stewart is polishing the brass on what?

The Titanic: 'it's all going down', Tyler says, so a perfect home is wasted effort; his advice to the Narrator is to never be complete and to evolve instead.

In Fight Club, what does the Narrator's boss find left in the office copier?

The boss finds the typed rules of fight club in the copier and reads them aloud; the Narrator deflects by musing that whoever wrote them might just snap.

When Tyler phoned his father at 25 to ask 'Now what?', what was the reply?

Get married, his father said, having answered 'Get a job' to the same question after college, advice the Narrator says he was given too.

In Fight Club, why does airport security hold the Narrator's suitcase on the night his condo explodes?

It was vibrating: the officer explains that modern bombs do not tick, and that nine times out of ten the culprit is an electric razor.

Fight Club's two-disc special edition DVD was designed to look wrapped in what?

Brown cardboard and twine wrapped the deluxe edition of the release that rescued the film: after sinking in cinemas, Fight Club did so well on DVD that it moved into profit.

Fight Club's Blu-ray opens with a prank menu for which Drew Barrymore comedy from the same year?

Never Been Kissed was Fincher's top choice for the fake menu, and he went to Barrymore herself for approval before tricking viewers with it.

Which critic dismissed Fight Club as 'a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy'?

Roger Ebert thought the first act might have made a great film, but called the second act pandering and the third trickery.

Which Kubrick film did critics compare Fight Club to over fears of copycat violence?

A Clockwork Orange had been blamed for copycat attacks in Britain, and Kubrick had it pulled from cinemas there; some critics worried that Fight Club would be imitated too.

In Fight Club, what kind of poems does the newly serene Narrator send round his office?

Haiku: one reads 'Worker bees can leave / Even drones can fly away / The queen is their slave', sent to colleagues while he plays the Zen master.

In Fight Club, what does a doctor tell the sleepless Narrator to chew instead of taking pills?

Valerian root and more exercise are all the doctor will offer, adding that if he wants to see real pain he should go and look at people who are truly ill.

What is the Narrator's last line to Marla?

You met me at a very strange time in my life, he says, taking her hand as the first buildings fall outside the window.

Which film beat Fight Club in the one Oscar category where it was nominated?

The Matrix won, so Fight Club's Oscar night went the way of its box office, badly; its comeback came at home, with more than six million DVD and video copies sold in ten years.

Whom do Tyler's men ambush in a hotel bathroom to stop a crackdown on fight clubs?

The police commissioner is pinned down by waiters who are secretly members and ordered to call off his 'rigorous investigation'.

What pattern did mailbox bomber Luke Helder try to make on a US map, echoing a Fight Club scene?

A smiley face was the plan; Helder planted 18 pipe bombs before his arrest in rural Nevada left the smile unfinished.

Which church's pastor, Mark Driscoll, was described as obsessed with Fight Club?

Mars Hill was the Seattle megachurch whose former members told a reporter that Driscoll was 'obsessed' with Fight Club and talked about it all the time.

Which Dreamcast game was inspired by Fight Club's anti-establishment themes?

Jet Set Radio took shape just as the film reached cinemas, and its makers folded that anti-authority streak into a game about graffiti-tagging skaters.

In Fight Club, which brand gets a whole planet in the Narrator's daydream of corporate-named space?

Starbucks: 'Planet Starbucks' follows the IBM Stellar Sphere in his list, while in the novel the planet belongs to Denny's instead.

In Tyler's vision of the future, people stalk elk around the ruins of which New York landmark?

Rockefeller Center: in the same speech, people wear leather clothes that last a lifetime and climb the kudzu vines wrapped around the Sears Tower.

Which John Hughes movie was mashed up with Fight Club in a 2010 viral video?

Ferris Bueller's Day Off became 'Ferris Club', a Funny or Die recut with Ferris as Tyler and Cameron as the narrator, billed as the classic's real psychological truth.

Which 19th-century novelist's characters brawl in a 2010 viral mash-up with Fight Club?

Jane Austen's heroines, among them Lizzie Bennet, Emma and the Dashwoods, start an underground boxing club in the spoof trailer, which drew nearly 200,000 views in two days.

What name does the Fight Club script give the Narrator, though he goes unnamed on screen?

Jack is what the screenplay calls him on every page, so many fans do too, though the film's credits list the character only as the Narrator.

Which Reader's Digest-style phrase does the novel's Narrator keep repeating?

'I am Joe's [blank]' apes old magazine articles narrated by a man's organs, which he reads from the stacks left behind in Tyler's house.

Fincher likened Fight Club to which earlier classic about a restless son at odds with his elders?

The Graduate was his comparison, and its screenwriter, Buck Henry, was even approached to adapt Fight Club, though the job went to another writer.

Tyler jokes that the Narrator's father, starting a new family every six years, was setting up what?

Franchises: the Narrator later borrows the word for Tyler himself, who is opening fight clubs in city after city.

Which car do Tyler and the Narrator smash as a symbol of Baby Boomer marketing?

Volkswagen New Beetle: Norton said he and Pitt added the bashing because the car sold the baby boomers' youth culture back to his own generation.

In Fight Club, which furniture retailer's products fill the Narrator's apartment in a visual-effects walkthrough?

IKEA furniture fills the apartment in the catalogue-style walkthrough; Norton said Gen X was told it could find happiness through home furnishing.

What do the Narrator and Tyler discover they both own when they first meet?

The same briefcase: when the Narrator phones that night needing a place to stay, it is how he reminds Tyler who he is.

Which actor, later an FBI agent in Fincher's Mindhunter, plays the Mechanic in Fight Club?

Holt McCallany's Mechanic rides in the back during the deliberate car crash, answering that before he dies he would like to build a house.

What is the name of the bar owner in whose basement fight club meets?

Lou, played by Peter Iacangelo, owns the tavern whose basement hosts fight club; Tyler absorbs Lou's beating and laughs until Lou lets them keep the room.

What do the Project Mayhem police officers attempt to do to the Narrator on Tyler's orders?

Castrate him is the standing order Tyler left for anyone who interferes with Project Mayhem, himself included; the Narrator escapes.

After crashing the car on purpose, Tyler tells the Narrator they have just had what?

A near-life experience: Tyler had let the car drift into oncoming traffic until the Narrator stopped trying to control everything.

In Palahniuk's novel, where does the Narrator first meet Tyler Durden?

A nude beach: Tyler is dragging driftwood logs upright in the sand so that, for a moment, their shadow forms a giant hand.

In Fight Club, what does the bloodstained Narrator reply when his boss asks whether the blood is his?

Some of it, he says, and is sent home for the day with orders to come back in clean clothes.

In the Fight Club novel, what drug does Marla overdose on before Tyler rescues her?

Xanax, she says, and not a 'for-real suicide'; Tyler answers when she rings the house again and goes to her hotel room, which is how the two of them meet.

In the Fight Club novel, Tyler means the falling Parker-Morris Building to crush which keeper of the past?

The national museum is Tyler's real target: the 191-floor tower is meant to topple onto it, ending what he calls the world of 'those ancient people'.

In the Fight Club novel, why does the final bomb fail?

Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives, a recipe the Narrator notes has never worked for him, so the Parker-Morris bomb fails to go off.

In the Fight Club novel's final chapter, whom does the Narrator picture sitting behind a long walnut desk?

God sits there with diplomas on the wall and asks why he caused so much pain; the Narrator believes he has died and reached Heaven.

How does Tyler return the Narrator's missed payphone call in Fight Club?

He dials star 69, the last-call-return code, explaining that he never picks up his phone.

Which Palahniuk novel was rejected as too disturbing before Fight Club, then published in 1999?

Invisible Monsters was turned down as too disturbing; only after Fight Club's success was a revised version given a second chance.

According to Tyler, mixing gasoline with which grocery item makes napalm?

Frozen orange juice concentrate is the first of three napalm recipes in the novel; the film has Tyler mention it to the Narrator minutes after they meet.

Palahniuk said Fight Club was really which classic novel 'updated a little'?

Palahniuk called Fight Club 'The Great Gatsby, updated a little': 'apostolic' fiction in which a surviving apostle tells the story of his hero.

Which musician joined Palahniuk and Fincher on a planned Fight Club stage musical?

Trent Reznor was writing the music as early as 2004, by Palahniuk's account; the show missed its target, the film's tenth anniversary, and in 2015 was still being planned as a rock opera.

Which painting does the novel's Narrator say he wants to 'wipe my ass with'?

The Mona Lisa, along with burning the Louvre and smashing the Elgin Marbles; a mechanic from fight club later throws the same wish back at him.

What must a Project Mayhem applicant endure to get in?

Three days on the porch without food, shelter or encouragement; Bob is told he is too old and too fat, and still gets in.

What insult does Palahniuk claim to have coined in Fight Club, saying 'I stand by it' in 2017?

Snowflake, he said, came from the novel's 'You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake'; dictionary editors agree the modern insult likely began there, though Missouri used the word politically in the 1860s.

Where did Palahniuk announce a Fight Club sequel in 2013?

San Diego Comic-Con heard the news in 2013: the story would resume ten years on, when Tyler returns and kidnaps the Narrator and Marla's son.

Which company published the ten-issue Fight Club 2 series?

Dark Horse Comics trailed the series with a giveaway issue on Free Comic Book Day in May 2015, weeks before the first of its ten issues went on sale.

Project Mayhem recruits must arrive with cash set aside for what?

Their own burial: the kit list ends with personal burial money because, Tyler says in the novel, even cremating a pauper costs at least $300.

What do Project Mayhem's members chant after Bob is shot dead on a mission?

His name is Robert Paulson: the Narrator insists the dead man had a name, and members in other cities turn his protest into a ritual chant.

What radical explanation does Fight Club 2 give for Tyler Durden?

A meme that spreads between people: the Narrator learns he is only the latest man in many generations whose life Tyler has steered and destroyed.

In the Fight Club film, the Narrator says dying Chloe looks like whose skeleton being extra nice to everybody?

Meryl Streep's, in the film; Palahniuk's novel and the draft screenplay both give the skeleton to Joni Mitchell instead.

After the explosion in Fight Club, what does the Narrator admit his kitchen held instead of food?

Condiments: 'a houseful of condiments and no food', he says, before the police suggest that a pilot light went out and slowly filled the condo with gas.

Which film does Tyler quote as the terrified clerk Raymond runs off into the night?

Forrest Gump: Tyler calls 'Run, Forrest, run!' after him, then says tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond's life.

Which rock musician is unlocked as a playable character in the 2004 Fight Club game?

Fred Durst is the reward for finishing story mode, which left reviewers asking why: the rap-rock singer appears in neither the film nor the novel.

Which US president appears as a fighter in the PS2 Fight Club game?

Abraham Lincoln can be unlocked as a hidden fighter; in the film he is Tyler's pick when the two men choose famous figures they would fight: 'Big guy, big reach.'

In Fight Club, which historical figure does the Narrator say he would fight?

Gandhi, says the Narrator, and Tyler calls it a good answer before naming a pick of his own, a 'big guy' with a 'big reach'.

Palahniuk describes his own work as belonging to which genre?

Transgressional fiction is his own label; he rejects being called a nihilist and says he is a romantic whose ideas others simply do not believe in.

Where does Marla get the clothes she sells to a thrift store?

From laundromat dryers: Marla walks up to an unwatched machine as if it were hers and lifts out other people's jeans and shirts while the Narrator trails behind.

Which symbol shapes the 'clever' coffee table the Narrator says he had to have?

A yin-yang: he lists it among the catalogue buys he made because, he says, he had become a slave to the nesting instinct.

What kind of furniture set does the Narrator wonder 'defines me as a person'?

A dining set is what he wonders about while phoning in catalogue orders; where people once read pornography, he says, they now read the Horchow Collection.

Fight Club was shot from July to December 1998 in and around which city?

Los Angeles and its surroundings supplied the locations, some chosen for what the city lights did in the background of the film's many night scenes.

Which 2003 film did Edward Norton make to settle the Paramount obligation that delayed his Fight Club deal?

The Italian Job settled it: Norton had promised Paramount a future film at a reduced salary, and co-star Seth Green said he took the part under duress.

A 'Gentlemen's Fight Club' begun in California in 2000 drew members mostly from which industry?

Tech workers from Silicon Valley made up most of the Menlo Park club, swinging frying pans and tennis rackets at each other in a garage, then hobbling back to their desks.

In Fight Club, where do Project Mayhem's men put Bob's body after he is killed on a mission?

In the garden behind the house: the men call the body evidence to be got rid of, the Narrator rages that it is a person, and later he tells detectives where to dig.

In Fight Club, which celebrity does the Narrator say he would fight?

William Shatner is his pick; Tyler, who answers first after asking 'Alive or dead?', chooses Hemingway.