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59 free Animal House trivia questions with answers. National Lampoon's Animal House cost $3 million, was shot in six weeks at the University of Oregon, and became the highest-grossing comedy of its era. This quiz covers the whole story: the Deltas and the Omegas, Dean Wormer's double secret probation, the toga party and Otis Day, the food fight, the homecoming parade, and the cast of near-unknowns that included Kevin Bacon, Karen Allen and Tom Hulce alongside John Belushi and Donald Sutherland. Easy questions ask who played Bluto and what the college was called. The hard ones want to know which singer was Landis's backup for Bluto, how much Sutherland's flat fee cost him, and where the first preview screened. It suits a movie night, a pub quiz or anyone who has ever shouted 'Toga!'. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its spin-off and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What is the name of the fictional school where Animal House is set?
Faber College
Faber's motto, seen on the founder's statue, is 'Knowledge Is Good'.
Q 02What is the name of the Delta fraternity's rival house?
Omega Theta Pi
Landis insisted the film needed good guys and bad guys, so a villainous fraternity was added.
Q 03Who directed Animal House?
John Landis
He got the job on the strength of The Kentucky Fried Movie; Richard Lester and Bob Rafelson had been approached first.
Q 04Who plays Bluto Blutarsky?
John Belushi
He was paid only $35,000 up front, but got a bonus once the film became a hit.
Q 05In what year is Animal House set?
1962
The writers saw it as 'the last innocent year' before the Kennedy assassination.
Q 06What special status does Dean Wormer put the Deltas on?
Double secret probation
He tells the Omegas he needs only one more misdemeanor to revoke Delta's charter.
Q 07What fraternity nicknames are freshmen Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman given?
Pinto and Flounder
'Pinto' was screenwriter Chris Miller's own nickname at his Dartmouth fraternity.
Q 08Which Omega is the pompous ROTC cadet commander?
Douglas C. Neidermeyer
The epilogue says his own troops killed him in Vietnam, a gag revisited in Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Q 09Which future star made his film debut as Omega pledge Chip Diller?
Kevin Bacon
The role did not make him famous; he went back to waiting tables and soap operas before Diner and Footloose.
Q 10Who plays Eric 'Otter' Stratton?
Tim Matheson
He was the most experienced of the young cast, having acted since he was 13.
Q 11Which actress plays Katy, Boon's exasperated girlfriend, in her film debut?
Karen Allen
Three years later she was Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Q 12Which pot-smoking English professor does Donald Sutherland play?
Dave Jennings
Sutherland took a flat fee instead of two percent of the gross, a choice he reckoned cost him about $14 million.
Q 13Roughly how much did Donald Sutherland estimate taking a flat fee instead of 'points' cost him?
$14 million
His two days of work at $25,000 still made him the highest-paid actor on the film.
Q 21Harold Ramis drew on his own membership in which fraternity at Washington University in St. Louis?
Zeta Beta Tau
He wrote Bluto specifically for Belushi, whom he knew from Second City.
Q 22What was Ramis and Kenney's early Animal House treatment, putting Charles Manson in a high school, called?
Laser Orgy Girls
Publisher Matty Simmons hated it, so they moved the setting to an Ivy League-style college.
Q 23Which SNL star was the original choice for Otter but chose Foul Play instead?
Chevy Chase
Landis says he subtly discouraged Chase by describing the cast as an 'ensemble'.
Q 14Which real campus served as the filming location for Faber?
University of Oregon
Missouri had said yes, then withdrew after its president read the script.
Q 15Why did the president of the host campus agree to let the film shoot there?
He regretted that Berkeley had turned down The Graduate on his watch
He allowed his own office to be used as Dean Wormer's, but insisted 'Oregon' never be mentioned.
Q 16How much did the filmmakers pay the college to use its campus?
$20,000
The whole film cost only $3 million and Landis had no trailer or office during the shoot.
Q 17What was Animal House's production budget?
$3 million
It went on to earn more than $141 million, making it the highest-grossing comedy of its time.
Q 18Which film finally overtook Animal House as the highest-grossing comedy?
Ghostbusters
Fittingly, Ghostbusters was also written by Harold Ramis and produced by Ivan Reitman.
Q 19Which humor magazine produced Animal House as its first film?
National Lampoon
Its stories by Chris Miller about his Dartmouth fraternity inspired the plot.
Q 20Chris Miller's fraternity stories that inspired the film were based on his time at which school?
Dartmouth
His 2006 memoir The Real Animal House recounts hijinks too risque for the film.
Q 24The character D-Day was based on which Saturday Night Live cast member?
Dan Aykroyd
Aykroyd, a motorcycle enthusiast, was offered the part but stayed with SNL; Bruce McGill got his breakthrough.
Q 25How did Bluto's actor juggle Animal House with his weekly TV sketch show?
He filmed Monday to Wednesday and flew to New York for the rest of the week
His wife Judy rented a house in Eugene to keep him away from alcohol and drugs.
Q 26Which singer did Landis meet as a backup in case Belushi turned down Bluto?
Meat Loaf
Landis and Belushi settled on Bluto as a cross between Harpo Marx and the Cookie Monster.
Q 27Landis and Belushi described Bluto as a cross between which two characters?
Harpo Marx and the Cookie Monster
Belushi credited his Albanian grandmother, who spoke little English, for teaching him to communicate without words.
Q 28Which Dragnet star turned down the role of Dean Wormer?
Jack Webb
John Vernon got the part after Landis liked him in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Q 29Who plays Dean Wormer?
John Vernon
He reprised the role in the short-lived TV spin-off Delta House.
Q 30Bluto's fate in the epilogue is to become what?
A United States Senator
He also marries Mandy Pepperidge; Otter is the gynecologist and Hoover the public defender.