12 Angry Men
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99 free 12 Angry Men trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
12 Angry Men is ninety-six minutes in one room, and it has been taught in schools, quoted by a Supreme Court justice and remade in Russia, India, China and Korea. Reginald Rose wrote it after a stint of jury duty, Henry Fonda bought it after seeing a kinescope of the live 1954 broadcast, and Sidney Lumet shot it in twenty-one days on a budget smaller than most films' catering bill, tightening the lenses scene by scene until the room felt like a box. These 99 questions cover the case and the craft: the eighteen-year-old defendant, the switchblade, the elevated train, the woman with the marks on her nose, the torn photograph and the names exchanged on the courthouse steps. Every juror gets a question, from Martin Balsam's foreman to Robert Webber's ad man, with the television originals Robert Cummings and Franchot Tone thrown in. Production questions take in Boris Kaufman's seven-minute opening take, the 396 diagrams that came out right, Faith Hubley as script supervisor, the Orion-Nova budget and the Oscar that went to a Frenchman who spoke no English. Easy questions stick to Fonda, Lumet and the verdict; the hardest ask about the Hindi remake, the Japanese homage and Hey Arnold!. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a classic movie night.
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Q 01Who directed 12 Angry Men, his feature debut?
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet had spent years directing television drama, and he rehearsed the cast for two weeks before filming began, so his first feature could be shot in about three.
Q 02Who wrote the screenplay of 12 Angry Men, adapting his own 1954 teleplay?
Reginald Rose
Reginald Rose also co-produced the film, and he and its star deferred their salaries to get it made.
Q 03Whose film beat 12 Angry Men to Best Picture?
David Lean
David Lean's war epic The Bridge on the River Kwai dominated that year's Oscars, so the small jury-room drama went home with nothing.
Q 04Who plays Juror 8, the lone initial holdout, in 12 Angry Men?
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda reportedly saw a recording of the live television play, wanted the part for himself, and co-produced the film, deferring his own salary.
Q 05Who plays the abrasive Juror 3, the last to change his vote, in 12 Angry Men?
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb's juror stands alone for guilty at the end, and gives way only when he breaks down sobbing the words 'not guilty'.
Q 06Who plays Juror 4, the cool, analytical stockbroker, in 12 Angry Men?
E. G. Marshall
E. G. Marshall's stockbroker holds out on the strength of the eyewitness across the street, and gives way at once when her testimony is shown to be doubtful.
Q 07Which actor plays Juror 7, the wisecracking salesman, in 12 Angry Men?
Jack Warden
Jack Warden's salesman jokes his way through a murder case and changes his vote without giving a reason, which earns him a furious lecture from the immigrant juror.
Q 08Who plays Juror 10, the loud-mouthed bigot, in 12 Angry Men?
Ed Begley
Ed Begley's garage owner is beaten without a word of argument: as his tirade goes on, the others get up one by one and turn their backs.
Q 09Who plays Juror 1, the jury foreman, in 12 Angry Men, three years before he was the detective in Psycho?
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam's foreman runs every count around the table, and is one of the later jurors to change his own vote.
Q 10Which actor, later the voice of Piglet, plays the meek Juror 2 in 12 Angry Men?
John Fiedler
John Fiedler's bank clerk is bullied into silence early on, but by the end he is standing up to the loudest men in the room.
Q 11Which future Odd Couple star plays Juror 5 in 12 Angry Men?
Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman's juror grew up in a slum like the defendant's, and takes it personally when another juror says such places breed criminals.
Q 12What is Juror 8's profession, mentioned in passing in 12 Angry Men?
An architect
An architect, he is the juror who asks to see a floor plan of the witness's flat, and uses it to test the old man's story.
Q 13Who plays the elderly Juror 9 in 12 Angry Men, a part he had already played in the 1954 TV version?
Joseph Sweeney
Joseph Sweeney was one of only two actors kept from the live broadcast, and his frail old juror casts the first vote to join the holdout.
Q 21In 12 Angry Men, the woman who says she saw the killing watched it through the windows of what?
A passing elevated train
A passing elevated train, whose roar, Juror 8 argues, would have drowned out the threat the old man downstairs swore he heard.
Q 22In 12 Angry Men, what late realisation about the woman across the street undoes her eyewitness testimony?
She wore glasses
She wore glasses: the oldest juror spots on her nose the same marks the stockbroker's spectacles leave on his, and nobody wears glasses to bed.
Q 23In his final outburst in 12 Angry Men, Juror 3 tears up a photograph of himself with whom?
His son
Q 14In 12 Angry Men, the immigrant Juror 11, who speaks up for American democracy, works as what?
A watchmaker
A watchmaker and a refugee from Europe, he reveres the right to disagree, and reminds the others that it is what makes their country strong.
Q 15What makes the jury room in 12 Angry Men so uncomfortable from the very start?
Stifling summer heat
Stifling summer heat: it is 'the hottest day of the year', the men are wiping away sweat before they sit down, and tempers fray to match.
Q 16In 12 Angry Men, what undermines the old neighbour's claim that he saw the boy flee?
A bad leg
A bad leg: the old man drags one foot, and when Juror 8 re-enacts his walk to the door against a watch, the jury sees he could not have got there in the time he swore to.
Q 17In 12 Angry Men, whom is the teenage defendant accused of killing?
His father
His father, who had beaten him regularly since he was five, a history the prosecution turns into his motive.
Q 18In 12 Angry Men, what kind of weapon was found at the murder scene, wiped of fingerprints?
A switchblade
A switchblade the prosecution treats as one of a kind, until Juror 8 produces an identical one he bought himself.
Q 19In 12 Angry Men, what sentence would a guilty verdict automatically carry?
Death in the electric chair
Death in the electric chair is mandatory on a guilty verdict, the judge reminds them, so the jury has no lesser sentence to fall back on.
Q 20In 12 Angry Men, what does Juror 8 propose when he is still alone after the first arguments?
A secret ballot
A secret ballot, with a promise: if all eleven still vote guilty he will give in, but one slip comes back 'not guilty', from the oldest man in the room.
His son no longer speaks to him, and the fury he has aimed at the defendant collapses into tears once he sees who he is really angry with.
Q 24What do Jurors 8 and 9 exchange on the courthouse steps at the end of 12 Angry Men?
Their names
Their names: after a whole film as numbers, two of the twelve finally become people, then say goodbye and walk off in different directions.
Q 25On which CBS anthology series was the original Twelve Angry Men teleplay broadcast live in 1954?
Westinghouse Studio One
Westinghouse Studio One aired it live in a one-hour slot, which forced cuts to the script that the film later put back.
Q 26Which future Patton director staged the live 1954 TV version of Twelve Angry Men?
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin J. Schaffner won an Emmy for it, as did its writer and its lead actor, and that success reportedly brought the play to a film star's notice.
Q 27What experience inspired the writer of 12 Angry Men to create the story?
Serving on a jury in a manslaughter case
Serving on a jury in a manslaughter case, by his own account, threw him into a furious argument in the jury room, and he saw at once what a setting it would make for a drama.
Q 28Why does Juror 8 vote 'not guilty' at the start of 12 Angry Men?
He wants to talk first
He wants to talk first: he says he doesn't know whether the boy did it, only that a life deserves more than a quick show of hands.
Q 29Which studio distributed 12 Angry Men?
United Artists
United Artists booked the small film into theatres too big for it to fill, its star later complained, and it did poor business in America.
Q 30Where was 12 Angry Men filmed?
New York City
New York City: the cast rehearsed for two weeks and shot in about three at a studio there, with only the courthouse scenes at Foley Square filmed outside.