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Thirty, flirty and thriving. This 13 Going on 30 trivia quiz has 80 free questions with answers about the 2004 comedy in which Jenna Rink wishes her way out of a humiliating thirteenth birthday and wakes up seventeen years later as a Fifth Avenue magazine editor. The questions cover the plot beat by beat, from the Six Chicks and the wishing dust to the rebrand presentation and the wedding at Matty's parents' house, along with the cast, the mostly-eighties soundtrack and the production stories behind the film. Some questions are easy for anyone who has seen the movie once; others dig into the actresses who were considered before Jennifer Garner, the future Oscar winner hiding among the Six Chicks, why Mark Ruffalo nearly quit during rehearsals, and what happened when the story became a stage musical two decades later. It works as a sleepover round, a movie-night warm-up or a solo test of how well you really know the film. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its cast and its soundtrack, and each question links to the page and sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In what year was 13 Going on 30 released in theaters?
2004
It opened on April 23, 2004, and went on to become one of the year's biggest-selling DVD rental titles.
Q 02Who directed 13 Going on 30?
Gary Winick
Winick had just made the low-budget indie Tadpole; Jennifer Garner chose him herself, and the two kept looking for projects together until his death from brain cancer in 2011.
Q 03Who plays the adult Jenna Rink?
Jennifer Garner
It was Garner's first leading film role; she squeezed the shoot into a break from her hit spy series.
Q 04Who plays the grown-up Matty Flamhaff?
Mark Ruffalo
Ruffalo made two very different 2004 romances: this one and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Q 05What is the nickname of Lucy Wyman, the leader of the school's ruling clique?
Tom-Tom
Adult Jenna only works out late in the film that her best friend Lucy at the magazine and the girl who tormented her in 1987 are the same person.
Q 06Under what alternate title was the film released in some countries?
Suddenly 30
The alternate title makes the premise explicit: Jenna skips straight from 13 to 30.
Q 07Which writing team wrote the screenplay?
Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith
The same pair later wrote the book for the stage musical adaptation that premiered in 2025.
Q 08In what year does the film's opening birthday party take place?
1987
The seventeen-year jump lands adult Jenna in 2004, the year the film was released.
Q 09In which US state does the 13-year-old Jenna live?
New Jersey
The finale brings her back to that suburban street, where she and Matty end up in a house that looks like the dollhouse he built her.
Q 10What is the name of the popular clique Jenna desperately wants to join?
The Six Chicks
The clique's ranks included two future stars in bit parts, one of whom would go on to win an Oscar.
Q 11How does Jenna persuade the popular girls to come to her thirteenth birthday party?
By doing their homework
When she gets a second chance at the party in the finale, she tears the completed homework up and throws them out.
Q 12What handmade gift does young Matty give Jenna for her birthday?
A dollhouse
Adult Matty has kept it for seventeen years and hands it back to her on his wedding day.
Q 13What does Matty sprinkle on the roof of his gift to make it magic?
Wishing dust
The last of it swirls around a sobbing adult Jenna at the end and sends her back to 1987.
Q 21In which New York neighbourhood does Jenna track down the adult Matty?
Greenwich Village
He tells her that in high school she became head of the Six Chicks and stopped speaking to him.
Q 22What is adult Matty's profession?
Photographer
Jenna hires him to shoot her rebrand pitch, and his photos become the heart of the presentation.
Q 23Matty's fiancee Wendy wants him to move with her to which city?
Chicago
Wendy is played by Lynn Collins, who broke through the same year as Portia in The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino.
Q 14What is the name of Jenna's teenage crush?
Chris Grandy
He does not age well: the grown-up version is played by a stand-up comedian rather than a leading man.
Q 15The popular girls trick Jenna into waiting in a closet for which party game?
Seven minutes in heaven
It is Matty who opens the closet door, and Jenna, humiliated, barricades herself in and makes her wish.
Q 16Jenna wishes to be "thirty and flirty and" what?
Thriving
She gets the wish, but with a seventeen-year memory gap attached.
Q 17When Jenna wakes up as an adult, where in Manhattan is her luxurious apartment?
Fifth Avenue
The apartment comes with a boyfriend, Alex Carlson, whom she does not recognise.
Q 18Adult Jenna is an editor at which fashion magazine?
Poise
It was her favourite magazine as a teenager, which is why the wish landed her there.
Q 19What is the name of the rival magazine that is beating Jenna's own?
Sparkle
Adult Jenna wanted a job there so badly that she was willing to sell out her own magazine to get it.
Q 20Which actor, famous for motion-capture roles, plays the editor-in-chief Richard Kneeland?
Andy Serkis
Serkis shot it between playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and King Kong for Peter Jackson.
Q 24Jenna's big presentation at the magazine proposes what?
A rebrand
She hires Matty to shoot the photos for it, and the pitch goes over well with the room.
Q 25How does Lucy land the top job at the rival magazine?
She uses Jenna's presentation
She also tricks Matty into signing his photos over to her by claiming Jenna never used them.
Q 26According to Lucy, who was actually the magazine's saboteur?
Jenna herself
It is the film's cruelest reveal: the adult Jenna had become exactly the kind of person the 13-year-old was bullied by.
Q 27Where does Matty's wedding take place?
At his childhood home
He is still living next door to the Rinks, which is why a heartbroken Jenna can walk straight over to her own old house.
Q 28After returning to her thirteenth birthday, what does Jenna do with the clique's completed homework?
Destroys it
With her second chance she kisses Matty in the closet, and the epilogue shows them married.
Q 29Who plays the 13-year-old Jenna?
Christa B. Allen
She later played the socialite Charlotte Grayson on the ABC drama Revenge.
Q 30The actress who plays young Jenna again played a young version of Garner's character in which 2009 film?
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
The two are not related; Allen was simply cast twice for the resemblance.