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50 free Brad Pitt trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Brad Pitt left the University of Missouri two weeks short of a journalism degree, drove to Los Angeles, and spent years in soap operas, Pringles ads and a shelved Yugoslav co-production before a hitchhiker in Thelma & Louise made him a star. Since then he has played a vampire, a mountaineer, a Traveller boxer nobody can understand, Achilles, Jesse James, Billy Beane, a stuntman and a Formula One driver, and built Plan B into a company that wins Best Picture. This quiz runs the full career: the early TV guest spots, the breakthrough years with Redford and Fincher, the Ocean's films, the Tarantino roles, the Oscar record as actor and producer, the Make It Right houses in New Orleans, the Miraval studio, the face-blindness admission and the minor planet that carries his name. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a film-buff quiz night.
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Q 01Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, in which US state?
Oklahoma
His father ran a trucking company and his mother was a school counselor; the family soon moved north to Missouri.
Q 02Pitt grew up in which Missouri city, which he calls 'Mark Twain country'?
Springfield
He attended Kickapoo High School there, playing golf, swimming and tennis and appearing in school musicals.
Q 03What did Pitt major in at the University of Missouri before leaving for Los Angeles?
Journalism
He focused on advertising and quit two weeks short of finishing the coursework because films, a 'portal into different worlds', were not made in Missouri.
Q 04Pitt's first leading film role, shot in 1988, was in which shelved Yugoslav–American co-production?
The Dark Side of the Sun
He played a young American taken to the Adriatic for a skin-condition cure. The Croatian War of Independence delayed its release until 1997.
Q 05On which primetime soap did Pitt play Randy, boyfriend of Jenna Wade's daughter, in 1987–88?
Dallas
Four episodes. He dated co-star Shalane McCall, who played the daughter, and also turned up twice on Growing Pains.
Q 06In 1988 Pitt appeared in a TV commercial for which snack brand?
Pringles
Lawrence Bridges directed it. Three years later he sold Levi's jeans in a spot built around T. Rex's '20th Century Boy'.
Q 07Pitt played Billy Canton, a drug addict exploiting a runaway, in which 1990 NBC TV movie?
Too Young to Die?
The runaway was Juliette Lewis, whom he dated and later reunited with in Kalifornia. Entertainment Weekly called him 'a magnificent slimeball'.
Q 08What were the initials of the hitchhiking thief Pitt played in Thelma & Louise?
J.D.
His love scene with Geena Davis is usually cited as the moment he became a sex symbol. He dated Davis too.
Q 09Who directed Pitt as Paul Maclean in A River Runs Through It (1992)?
Robert Redford
Pitt thinks it one of his weakest performances and finds it odd it got him the most attention; he likened working with the director to playing tennis against a better player.
Q 10What was the name of the stoner Pitt played in True Romance (1993)?
Floyd
A brief comic-relief cameo in the Tony Scott film. The same year he was a serial killer in Kalifornia and won ShoWest's Male Star of Tomorrow.
Q 11Which vampire did Pitt play in Interview with the Vampire (1994)?
Louis de Pointe du Lac
He won two MTV Movie Awards for it but critics were harsh; the Dallas Observer found him 'a boring Louis' with no inner torment.
Q 12Which character earned Pitt his first Golden Globe nomination in Legends of the Fall?
Tristan Ludlow
Anthony Hopkins played his father, a Cornish immigrant colonel; Aidan Quinn and Henry Thomas were the brothers. The novel is by Jim Harrison.
Q 13Pitt was engaged to which co-star from the 1995 thriller Seven?
Gwyneth Paltrow
They dated from 1994 to 1997. The film grossed $327 million and he declared it would move him past 'this pretty boy thing'.
Q 21Pitt starred opposite which actress in the 2001 romantic comedy The Mexican?
Julia Roberts
Reviews were mixed but it made money; the two were back together months later in Ocean's Eleven.
Q 22Pitt's Emmy-nominated Friends guest role was a man holding a grudge against which character?
Rachel Green
The episode aired November 22, 2001, while he was married to Jennifer Aniston, who played her.
Q 23What is the name of Pitt's character in the Ocean's trilogy?
Rusty Ryan
Ocean's Eleven remade the 1960 Rat Pack film and took $450 million; CNN later called his chemistry with Clooney the best since Newman and Redford.
Q 14Who directed 12 Monkeys, which brought Pitt his first Oscar nomination?
Terry Gilliam
As the 'psychotic anarchist' Jeffrey Goines he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor; Janet Maslin called the performance 'startlingly frenzied'.
Q 15In The Devil's Own (1997) Pitt played an IRA man opposite which actor?
Harrison Ford
Critics split on his Irish brogue; the San Francisco Chronicle found it so convincing it was hard to understand him.
Q 16Which Austrian mountaineer did Pitt play in Seven Years in Tibet?
Heinrich Harrer
He trained for months, rock climbing in California and the Alps with co-star David Thewlis. The film put him on a religion-themed Time cover.
Q 17In Meet Joe Black (1998), Pitt plays the personification of what?
Death
Roger Ebert judged the performance 'a miscalculation'; Mick LaSalle said he could not convince anyone he knew the mysteries of eternity.
Q 18To look right as Tyler Durden, Pitt had pieces of what removed for Fight Club?
His front teeth
They were restored after filming. He also trained in boxing, taekwondo and grappling for the part.
Q 19Fight Club premiered at which film festival in 1999?
Venice
It underperformed in cinemas and only became a cult classic after the 2000 DVD release.
Q 20Who directed Snatch, in which Pitt plays a near-unintelligible Irish Traveller boxer?
Guy Ritchie
Mick LaSalle said he was 'ideally cast as an Irishman whose accent is so thick even Brits can't understand him'.
Q 24In 2002 Pitt ran through Los Angeles in a gorilla suit for which MTV reality series?
Jackass
In a second episode he took part in his own staged abduction. The same year he cameoed in Clooney's directorial debut.
Q 25Pitt's first voice-acting role was the title character of which 2003 DreamWorks film?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
That year he also voiced Boomhauer's brother Patch on King of the Hill.
Q 26Filming on Troy was delayed for weeks when Pitt injured which part of his body?
His Achilles tendon
A fitting injury for the man playing Achilles; he had spent six months in sword training first.
Q 27Pitt founded Plan B Entertainment with Jennifer Aniston and which studio boss?
Brad Grey
Grey was CEO of Paramount. Troy was the company's first production; it went on to win Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave.
Q 28Who directed Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)?
Doug Liman
The Star Tribune said the film got by on its stars' 'thermonuclear screen chemistry'; it earned $478 million.
Q 29Who directed Babel (2006), the film Pitt calls one of the best decisions of his career?
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
He starred opposite Cate Blanchett and picked up a Golden Globe nomination for supporting actor.
Q 30Plan B produced which 2006 Best Picture winner for which only Graham King could collect the Oscar?
The Departed
Pitt had an on-screen producer credit but was ruled ineligible. Its star would later be his co-lead in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.