Chris Farley
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50 free Chris Farley trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Chris Farley packed a remarkable amount of comedy into a short career. On Saturday Night Live he created characters people still imitate, and Tommy Boy made him a film star. This quiz starts with the films: Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Beverly Hills Ninja, Almost Heroes and the cameos that came before them. It also covers Matt Foley and his other sketch characters, his co-stars and directors, his early years, and the parts he was lined up for but never played. It is written for fans who know the road trip by heart and for anyone who only remembers the highlights. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few stories worth retelling.
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Q 01Which animated film's title role had Chris Farley almost finished recording before his death forced a recasting?
Shrek
Shrek already had most of his lines recorded in Farley's voice; Mike Myers took over the ogre and insisted on a complete script rewrite.
Q 02In which Adam Sandler comedy did Chris Farley make an uncredited appearance as an overworked school bus driver?
Billy Madison
Billy Madison lists no credit for Farley, who reportedly drank six shots of espresso before filming his scene as the frazzled driver.
Q 03Which car part must Tommy Callahan sell half a million of to save his late father's company in Tommy Boy?
Brake pads
Brake pads are the new product line the bank will back only if it sells, so Tommy stakes his inherited shares and his house on a cross-country sales trip.
Q 04Which guest host danced beside a shirtless Chris Farley in Saturday Night Live's 1990 Chippendales audition sketch?
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze was the reason the sketch existed: writer Jim Downey built it around the host's physique and dancing, and it made Farley a standout in only his fourth episode.
Q 05Chris Farley's cousin Jim Farley rose to become chief executive of which American car maker in 2020?
Ford
Ford gave its top job to Jim Farley in October 2020; he had joined from Toyota's Lexus division in 2007, and his grandfather worked at Henry Ford's River Rouge plant.
Q 06For which hit Christmas comedy did Chris Farley audition, without success, to play a Santa Claus?
Home Alone
Home Alone director Chris Columbus decided Farley wasn't what he was looking for; the film came out in 1990, the same year Farley joined Saturday Night Live.
Q 07Which children's book hero did the books' author hope Chris Farley would play in a live-action television series?
Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants creator Dav Pilkey wanted Farley for the title role, one of several parts, including a third Ghostbusters film, that the comedian never got to play.
Q 08Which Batman actor has named Chris Farley's Beverly Hills Ninja as one of his all-time favourite films?
Christian Bale
Christian Bale has cited the ninja comedy as a favourite even though critics panned it, leaving it with a 16% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Q 09Which real pair of explorers is Chris Farley's bumbling expedition trying to beat in the comedy Almost Heroes?
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark lose the race in the film: Farley's Bartholomew Hunt and his party reach the Pacific coast minutes ahead of the famous expedition.
Q 10Which NFL team did Chris Farley's Todd O'Connor and the other Superfans toast in thick accents on Saturday Night Live?
Bears
Bears wins were all the Superfans could imagine: Todd once predicted a 79–0 playoff victory over the Giants, hours before the real team lost 31–3.
Q 11What is the job of Matt Foley, the Chris Farley character who breaks furniture while lecturing teenagers?
Motivational speaker
Motivational speaker is the joke: Foley is abrasive, clumsy and down on his luck, and his talks work only because his audience will do anything to avoid seeing him again.
Q 12Which writer created Matt Foley for Chris Farley while both were performing on stage in Chicago?
Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk conceived the character at a Chicago theatre years before he starred in Better Call Saul, and Farley carried it with him to Saturday Night Live.
Q 13What did the real Matt Foley, the college friend whose name Chris Farley gave a character, go on to become?
Catholic priest
Q 21In which 1992 comedy did Chris Farley make his film debut as a well-informed security guard at an Alice Cooper concert?
Wayne's World
Wayne's World was the first of several Saturday Night Live spin-off films to find room for Farley, who came back in the sequel as a different character, Milton.
Q 22Which 1993 Saturday Night Live spin-off film cast Chris Farley as Ronnie, a mechanic dating the family's daughter?
Coneheads
Coneheads has Farley's Ronnie fall for Connie, the alien family's teenager, and he helps stall immigration agents while her parents wait for a rescue ship.
Q 23In which 1994 comedy about a struggling band that hijacks a radio station did Chris Farley play Officer Wilson?
Airheads
Catholic priest Matt Foley, once Farley's rugby teammate, came to see the sketch on stage; Farley used his name that night and refused to change it afterwards.
Q 14Which coach did Chris Farley's Todd O'Connor and the Saturday Night Live Superfans idolise and dress to resemble?
Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka was so revered that the Superfans once debated whether he could beat a hurricane, and the real coach later appeared in the sketches as himself.
Q 15Which school worker did Chris Farley dress up as and dance while Adam Sandler sang her praises on Saturday Night Live?
Lunch lady
Lunch lady Farley danced across the stage as Sandler sang Lunchlady Land; in 2018 Sandler honoured his late friend with a tribute song in a Netflix stand-up special.
Q 16Which clothing chain employed the mall workers Chris Farley, Adam Sandler and David Spade played in drag on television?
The Gap
The Gap staff chatted in valley girl slang and shrugged off their jobs; Farley's sudden deep-voiced outburst over a plate of fries left his co-stars fighting not to laugh.
Q 17Which music legend did a starstruck Chris Farley quiz about his old band in a 1993 Saturday Night Live talk show sketch?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney, that night's musical guest, gave one-word answers as an awestruck Farley asked whether he remembered being in The Beatles.
Q 18Which gesture did Bennett Brauer, Chris Farley's bitter Weekend Update commentator, use to stress every point?
Air quotes
Air quotes framed Brauer's rants about his own poor hygiene and lack of social grace, and about viewers who preferred more photogenic commentators.
Q 19Which comedian plays the hotel bellboy who wants to become a ninja in the 1997 comedy Beverly Hills Ninja?
Chris Rock
Chris Rock joined Saturday Night Live in the same 1990 intake as Farley, and was reportedly on standby to take over when an unwell Farley hosted the show in October 1997.
Q 20Which actress revived Chris Farley's Matt Foley character for Saturday Night Live's 40th anniversary special in 2015?
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy took on a role Farley had played in eight sketches; plans for a Matt Foley film with David Spade were shelved after his death.
Airheads put Farley on the police side of the siege while Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler played the musicians demanding airtime for their demo.
Q 24Which college, Chris Farley's own alma mater, does Tommy Callahan take seven years to graduate from in Tommy Boy?
Marquette University
Marquette University is where Farley himself earned a 1986 degree in communications and theatre, played rugby and discovered a love of comedy.
Q 25In which Ohio town is Callahan Auto, the family parts plant that Tommy must save in the film Tommy Boy?
Sandusky
Sandusky faces ruin if rival Ray Zalinsky buys the Callahan name and shuts the plant, though the film itself was shot mainly in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Q 26What is the name of David Spade's sardonic character, who joins the cross-country sales trip in Tommy Boy?
Richard Hayden
Richard Hayden resents Tommy for being handed a senior job that Richard had to earn, a grudge that erupts into a fistfight on the road.
Q 27Which actor plays Paul, the con artist posing as Tommy Callahan's new stepbrother, in Tommy Boy?
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe's Paul is secretly the husband of Tommy's new stepmother, which makes her marriage to Big Tom bigamous and hands the company back to Tommy.
Q 28Which actress earned a Razzie nomination for playing Tommy's scheming stepmother Beverly in Tommy Boy?
Bo Derek
Bo Derek's Beverly met Big Tom at a fat farm and inherits control of his company when he dies at their wedding reception.
Q 29Which comedy veteran plays Ray Zalinsky, the rival auto parts mogul trying to buy Callahan Auto, in Tommy Boy?
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd later said the film showed Farley's quality and range as an actor, a tribute he paid in the documentary I Am Chris Farley.
Q 30Which MTV Movie Award did Chris Farley and David Spade win in 1996 for their road-trip comedy Tommy Boy?
Best On-Screen Duo
Best On-Screen Duo went to the pair over nominees including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen for Toy Story and Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman for Seven.