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50 free Boyz N the Hood trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Boyz n the Hood trivia questions with answers. Boyz n the Hood was written by a 22-year-old as a film-school application essay and directed by him at 23; it made John Singleton the youngest Best Director nominee in Oscar history and launched Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long and Regina King in one go. This quiz covers the story of Tre, Ricky and Doughboy in Crenshaw, Furious Styles's lessons, the SAT score that arrives too late, and the epilogue's last two lines. It also digs into how the film got made: the Stand by Me scene it borrowed, why Columbia bought it, the studio not knowing who Ice Cube was, the gang members hired as consultants, the director's cameo as a mailman, and the Cannes screening. Then the legacy: the National Film Registry, the hood-film wave it started, and the Academy Museum exhibition. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its makers and carries its source. Easy questions cover the characters and cast; the harder ones will test people who have read the interviews.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Boyz n the Hood as his feature debut?
John Singleton
He was 23 during the shoot and had graduated from USC's film school only the year before.
Q 02The film takes its title from a 1987 song by which rapper, written by Ice Cube?
Eazy-E
The rapper who wrote it was N.W.A's lead lyricist; the studio reportedly had no idea when it cast him.
Q 03Who plays Tre Styles?
Cuba Gooding Jr.
It was his first major role; five years later he won an Oscar as a football player.
Q 04Who plays Tre's father, Furious Styles?
Laurence Fishburne
The director met him on the set of Pee-wee's Playhouse, where Singleton worked as a production assistant and security guard.
Q 05Which rapper made his acting debut as Darrin 'Doughboy' Baker?
Ice Cube
The part was written for him after the director met him while interning at The Arsenio Hall Show.
Q 06Who plays Ricky Baker, the star running back?
Morris Chestnut
He and Gooding were cast, the director joked, because they were the first to turn up to auditions.
Q 07Who plays Tre's girlfriend Brandi?
Nia Long
She grew up in the area the film depicts and said it mattered to her that it felt real.
Q 08Which future Oscar winner made her film debut as Shalika?
Regina King
The actress playing Tre's mother called the director her 'little brother' on set.
Q 09Who plays Tre's mother, Reva Devereaux?
Angela Bassett
It was her first significant film role; she said she had spent three years in LA 'trying, trying, trying to do films'.
Q 10The film opens in 1984 with Tre at what age?
10
After a fight at school his mother sends him to live with his father in Crenshaw; the story then jumps seven years.
Q 11The early scene of the boys walking to see a dead body was inspired by which 1986 film?
Stand by Me
The same film inspired the closing fade-out on Doughboy.
Q 12As boys, Doughboy and Chris are arrested for what?
Shoplifting
Tre and Furious see it happen while returning from a fishing trip; Chris is later left paraplegic by a gunshot.
Q 13Which university's recruiter tells Ricky he needs a 700 on the SAT for a football scholarship?
USC
The recruiter's name is Lewis Crump; the director himself was a USC film-school graduate.
What SAT score does Ricky turn out to have earned?
Q 21The director's cameo has him playing what?
A mailman
He hands Brenda her mail while Doughboy and Ricky scuffle in the front yard.
Q 22The screenplay began as an answer to what?
A film-school application question
Applicants had to describe three film ideas; his was called 'Summer of 84'.
Q 23Which studio bought the script in 1990, keen to make something in the vein of Spike Lee's recent hit?
Columbia Pictures
The writer insisted on directing: 'I wasn't going to have somebody from Idaho or Encino direct this movie.'
710
His mother Brenda opens the results after he has been shot; the envelope arrives as he and Tre leave the house.
Q 15Which gang does Doughboy belong to when he gets out of prison?
The Crips
The trouble starts when Ferris, from the rival set, bumps Ricky at a Crenshaw Boulevard gathering.
Q 16Officer Coffey, the hostile cop who harasses Tre, is notable for what?
He is Black and shows open self-hatred
His white partner Graham is civil and professional, a deliberate reversal of expectations.
Q 17Where do Ricky and Tre have their final conversation before Ricky is shot?
Cutting through back alleys
They split up to avoid the Bloods' car; Doughboy helps carry Ricky's body home.
Q 18Where does Doughboy's crew finally catch up with Ferris and the Bloods?
Outside a fast-food restaurant
Monster fires from the car; Doughboy then gets out and finishes the two who are still alive.
Q 19According to the epilogue, what happens to Doughboy?
He is murdered two weeks later
The same text says Tre and Brandi leave in the fall for college.
Q 20Tre and Brandi leave to attend which pair of colleges?
Morehouse and Spelman
The historically Black brother-and-sister colleges in Atlanta.
Q 24The film was shot in what order, which the director said let his camerawork improve as it went?
In sequence
Filming began October 1, 1990, with several gang members consulting on wardrobe, speech and dialogue.
Q 25The film was screened in which section of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival?
Un Certain Regard
It then premiered in Los Angeles on July 2 and opened nationwide ten days later.
Q 26Roughly how much did the film gross in North America?
$57.5 million
It opened at number three with $10 million from just 829 theatres.
Q 27In which two Academy Award categories was Singleton nominated?
Directing and Original Screenplay
The wins went elsewhere, but the nominations were historic.
Q 28The Best Director nomination made the film's director the youngest nominee ever, at what age?
24
He was also the first African American nominated in the category; Lee Daniels, Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins followed.
Q 29In what year did the Library of Congress add the film to the National Film Registry?
2002
Channel 4 in Britain also put it on its list of 50 films to see before you die.
Q 30Which of these films is credited alongside Boyz n the Hood as a pioneer of the 'hood film' genre?
Do the Right Thing
The others came after and are counted among the wave it started, along with Colors from 1988.