Anchorman Trivia
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58 free Anchorman trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
60 free Anchorman trivia questions with answers. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy opened to lukewarm reviews in 2004 and became one of the most quoted comedies ever made. This quiz covers the whole legend: Ron and Veronica, Brick, Champ and Brian, Baxter the dog, the Channel 4 news team brawl and its cameos, the abandoned bank-robber plot that became Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, and the 2013 sequel with its 24-hour news network, Jack Lime, Harrison Ford and the largest celebrity fight scene in comedy history. The easy questions ask which city Ron works in and who plays Veronica. The hard ones want to know which director walked away from the script, who really played the jazz flute solo, and which beer brought back its 1970s cans because of the sequel. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz round or a group chat that still says 'that escalated quickly'. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and their cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In which city is Ron Burgundy's Channel 4 news team based in the first Anchorman film?
San Diego
San Diego gets Ron's nightly closing line, 'You stay classy, San Diego'; when he and Veronica move up to network news in the epilogue, it becomes 'You stay classy, planet Earth'.
Q 02On a sweltering day, a jobless Ron Burgundy groans that which drink 'was a bad choice'?
Milk
Milk it is: 'It's so damn hot! Milk was a bad choice!' he wails, seconds after shouting to the whole city that he is completely miserable.
Q 03Who plays Veronica Corningstone?
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate's Veronica arrives from a station in Asheville, North Carolina, protests when her first story is a cat fashion show, and soon shares the anchor desk with Ron.
Q 04What is the name of Ron Burgundy's dog?
Baxter
Baxter, the dog Ron serenades as 'my little gentleman', is punted off a bridge by an angry motorcyclist, yet survives the fall and turns up at the film's climax to rescue his owner.
Q 05What job does Brick Tamland hold at the station?
Weatherman
Weatherman Brick Tamland, played by Steve Carell, is the dimmest of the team: asked what love is, he looks round the office and announces 'I love carpet', 'I love desk' and 'I love lamp'.
Q 06Who plays sportscaster Champ Kind?
David Koechner
David Koechner plays Champ Kind, the sportscaster who bellows 'Whammy!'; the writers had first pictured John C. Reilly in the part before turning to their old Saturday Night Live castmate.
Q 07Which actor plays field reporter Brian Fantana?
Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd plays Brian Fantana, the field reporter with a cabinet full of colognes; the writers' first casting wishlist had named Ben Stiller for the part.
Q 08Which director, later an Oscar winner for writing The Big Short, made both Anchorman films?
Adam McKay
Adam McKay made Anchorman his first feature after years as head writer at Saturday Night Live, and he slips into the film himself as a janitor.
Q 09Who produced the first Anchorman film?
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow was so taken with Steve Carell's Brick that he asked him for a film idea of his own; the result was The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which Apatow directed the next year.
Q 10What does Brick Tamland admit to killing a man with during Anchorman's news-team brawl?
A trident
A trident: 'There were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident,' Brick recalls, and Ron advises him to lie low because he is probably wanted for murder.
Q 11Which studio released the first Anchorman film in 2004?
DreamWorks
DreamWorks Pictures released the first Anchorman on July 9, 2004; Paramount, whose parent Viacom bought DreamWorks in 2006, distributed the 2013 sequel.
Q 12What does Brick Tamland yell during Anchorman's newsroom shouting match?
Loud noises!
'Loud noises!' is Brick's whole contribution; moments earlier he had confessed, at full volume, 'I don't know what we're yelling about!'
Q 13Which film kept Anchorman out of the number one spot on its opening weekend?
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2, in its second weekend, took $45.2 million to Anchorman's $28.4 million; even so, that single weekend's takings topped the comedy's whole reported production budget.
Q 21What gets Ron Burgundy fired from Channel 4 in the first Anchorman?
An obscene on-air sign-off
An obscene on-air sign-off does it: tipped off that Ron reads anything on the teleprompter, Veronica rewrites his farewell to the city, and he delivers it without noticing.
Q 22Which zoo event draws every news team in town at the climax of the first Anchorman?
A panda giving birth
A panda giving birth was a late rewrite: test audiences disliked the original plot about bank-robbing radicals called the Alarm Clock, so the ending was reshot around the zoo.
Q 23Into which animals' enclosure is Veronica pushed at the zoo?
Kodiak bears
Q 14Who plays rival anchor Wes Mantooth?
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn, Ferrell's Old School co-star, plays Wes Mantooth of the rival Channel 9 Evening News Team, who erupts when Champ insults his mother: 'Dorothy Mantooth is a saint!'
Q 15Which actor cameos in Anchorman as the motorcyclist who punts Ron's dog off a bridge?
Jack Black
Jack Black cameos as the motorcyclist: knocked off his bike by Ron's tossed burrito, he retaliates by punting the dog off the bridge with the words 'That's how I roll!'
Q 16Who plays the Public News anchor in the news-team brawl?
Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins leads the Public News Team into the brawl, announcing that it is taking a break from its pledge drive, with the battle cry 'No commercials! No mercy!'
Q 17Which star cameos as the Spanish-language news anchor in Anchorman's brawl?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller plays Arturo Mendez, who brings his team to the fight and announces the night's top story: the sewers run red with Burgundy's blood.
Q 18Which real newsman narrates the first Anchorman film?
Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis, a real Chicago anchor and veteran documentary narrator, opens the film in earnest: 'There was a time, a time before cable, when the local anchorman reigned supreme.'
Q 19Who plays station director Ed Harken?
Fred Willard
Fred Willard plays Ed Harken, the station director forever on the phone about his son's latest misdeed; the writers' first wishlist had named Ed Harris for the part.
Q 20Which cologne, 'illegal in nine countries', does Brian Fantana wear?
Sex Panther
Sex Panther by Odeon is 'made with bits of real panther', Brian boasts, and 'sixty percent of the time, it works every time'; Ron's verdict is that it stings the nostrils.
Kodiak bears fill the pit Veronica is shoved into by a rival anchor; Ron jumps in after her, sighs 'I immediately regret this decision', and the rest of the team follows.
Q 24According to the epilogue, Brick Tamland ends up as a political adviser to which president?
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was in office when the film opened in 2004, and its narrator reports that dim Brick, by then married with 11 children, is 'one of the top political advisors to the Bush White House'.
Q 25Which NFL commentator gets Champ Kind fired in the epilogue by accusing him of harassment?
Terry Bradshaw
Terry Bradshaw's accusation costs Champ his job as an NFL commentator, the narrator says, while Ron and Veronica leave town to co-anchor the World News Center.
Q 26An early draft parodied which survival film, with the newsmen stranded after a plane crash?
Alive
The first draft parodied Alive, the 1993 Andes plane-crash survival film, with the newsmen stranded in the mountains and fleeing orangutans armed with ninja stars.
Q 27Which companion film, built from Anchorman outtakes, went straight to DVD in December 2004?
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie revives the plot cut after test screenings, Ron's hunt for bank-robbing radicals called the Alarm Clock, padded out with alternate takes and new narration.
Q 28Where is Ron when he wails that he is 'in a glass case of emotion'?
A phone booth
A phone booth: Ron is howling down the line to Brian, who admits he hasn't understood one word and asks where he is, minutes after a biker has kicked his dog off a bridge.
Q 29Which real anchor did Ferrell cite as a key inspiration for Ron Burgundy?
Mort Crim
Ferrell has said Ron Burgundy was inspired by Mort Crim, a 1970s Philadelphia anchor he saw in a documentary admitting he had been a chauvinist toward a female co-anchor.
Q 30Which real newscaster served as a model for Anchorman's Veronica Corningstone?
Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch rose from a Philadelphia station to NBC News; a TV biography of her, in which a former co-anchor owned up to his chauvinism, gave the film's star the idea.