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60 free Bring it on trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Bring It On trivia quiz covers the 2000 cheerleading movie that Roger Ebert ended up calling the Citizen Kane of cheerleader movies: Torrance Shipman inheriting a squad that stole its routines, the East Compton Clovers coming to take their crown, the cursed Spirit Stick, the car wash, Sparky Polastri's spirit fingers and the finals in Daytona Beach. It also asks how the film got made, from Jessica Bendinger's Clueless-meets-Strictly-Ballroom pitch and the twenty-eight studios that passed on it to the four-week cheer camp the cast had to survive and the stars who auditioned and lost. Then it keeps going through the whole franchise: the six sequels with none of the original cast, Hayden Panettiere and Solange in All or Nothing, the Sharks and the Jets in In It to Win It, Christina Milian in Malibu, the masked squad in Worldwide Cheersmack, the slasher finale Cheer or Die, and the Broadway musical with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Easy questions ask which team wins Nationals; hard ones want the fictional college of Bring It On Again and the film's original working title. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and the musical, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In which year was Bring It On released in cinemas?
2000
It opened on 25 August and held the number one spot in North America for two weekends.
Q 02Who plays Torrance Shipman, the newly elected captain of the Toros?
Kirsten Dunst
She turned the part down at first, and critics later called her the sunniest imaginable parodist among teenage actresses.
Q 03Who plays Isis, captain of the Clovers?
Gabrielle Union
The director said she found what was cool about the character in a way he doubted other actresses could.
Q 04Who plays Missy Pantone, the transfer gymnast who joins the Toros?
Eliza Dushku
Clare Kramer is also in the film, as the catty Courtney; Dushku and Kramer both went on to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Q 05Who plays Cliff Pantone, Missy's music-loving brother and Torrance's love interest?
Jesse Bradford
He later said the film managed to shine a light on appropriation and white fragility years before those became everyday terms.
Q 06Which two future stars both auditioned for the role of Cliff Pantone?
James Franco and Jason Schwartzman
Franco was a year away from Freaks and Geeks fame; Schwartzman had just made Rushmore.
Q 07Torrance's squad, the Toros, cheer for which San Diego high school?
Rancho Carne
Most of the film was shot at real high schools around San Diego County, with local squads as extras.
Q 08The Clovers come from a high school in which Los Angeles-area community?
East Compton
They had never made Nationals because they could not afford to go, and because their routines kept turning up on other squads.
Q 09The Toros are aiming for which consecutive national title when the film opens?
Sixth
All of them, it turns out, were won with routines videotaped from the Clovers.
Q 10Which former Toros captain secretly videotaped the Clovers' routines and passed them off as her own?
Big Red
Lindsay Sloane plays her; she later questions Torrance's leadership and gets fired from the squad.
Q 11Torrance fears she is cursed after dropping what at summer cheer camp?
The Spirit Stick
It is traditionally never supposed to touch the ground; she dropped it on a dare.
Q 12Which Toros cheerleader is injured in Torrance's first practice as captain, opening the spot Missy fills?
Carver
Bianca Kajlich plays her; Missy only tries out because the school has no gymnastics team.
Q 13How do the Toros raise the money to hire a professional choreographer?
A car wash
The choreographer they buy puts them on a diet and treats them harshly.
Q 21Torrance's boyfriend Aaron is away at which college?
Cal State Dominguez Hills
He was a Toros cheerleader himself before graduating; he suggests Torrance step down as captain.
Q 22Which of the male Toros is gay and entirely comfortable about it?
Les
Critics singled the character out; Jan is the straight one who keeps getting teased for being a male cheerleader.
Q 23Who directed Bring It On, in his theatrical film debut?
Peyton Reed
The other three all directed later Bring It On sequels; he had previously made two TV movies for Disney.
Q 14What is the name of the infamous choreographer the Toros hire?
Sparky Polastri
Ian Roberts plays him; he sells the same routine to school after school.
Q 15What is the signature move in the hired choreographer's much-mocked routine?
Spirit Fingers
"These are spirit fingers... and these are gold."
Q 16At Regionals, officials tell Torrance the choreographer sold the same routine to how many other teams?
Six
Because of the mix-up, and as defending champions, the Toros are still given a place at Nationals.
Q 17Where is the national competition held?
Daytona Beach, Florida
The Toros only get there because six other squads turned up at Regionals with the same bought routine.
Q 18How do the Clovers finally get the money to attend Nationals?
By writing to a local talk show host
Isis refuses the sponsorship Torrance arranges through her father's firm.
Q 19Where do the Toros finish at Nationals?
Second
Isis compliments Torrance's leadership and Torrance admits the Clovers deserved the win.
Q 20What does Cliff make for Torrance that she draws inspiration from before Nationals?
A mixtape
He had cut her off after seeing her kissing Aaron, whom she dumps after learning he cheated.
Q 24The film's director cameos as what, credited as "Silencio Por Favor"?
A mime
He would go on to direct Down with Love, The Break-Up and Yes Man.
Q 25Bring It On's director later took over which Marvel film from Edgar Wright?
Ant-Man
He directed all three Ant-Man films and two episodes of The Mandalorian.
Q 26Who wrote the screenplay for Bring It On?
Jessica Bendinger
A former Spin journalist and music video director, she later wrote Aquamarine and directed Stick It; Alyson Fouse wrote four of the sequels.
Q 27What was the film's working title?
Cheer Fever
The writer said the idea combined her love of hip hop with an obsession with cheer competitions on ESPN.
Q 28The writer pitched the film as "Clueless meets" which Baz Luhrmann film?
Strictly Ballroom
The setting was to be the National High School Cheerleading Championships she watched obsessively on ESPN.
Q 29How many times was the pitch passed over before Beacon Pictures took it?
28
The idea of a top squad stealing from a poorer one came from watching white kids copy hip hop moves at competitions.
Q 30To avoid stunt doubles, the director made the cast attend a cheerleading camp lasting how long?
Four weeks
Actors were also expected to turn up to their auditions with a cheer prepared.