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50 free Crocodile Dundee trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Crocodile Dundee was made for under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to sell an outback hero to America, and it ended up the highest-grossing Australian film ever. This quiz covers the whole trilogy: Sue's trip to Walkabout Creek, the 'love bite' scar, the subway finale, the Colombian cartel of the sequel, and the art-smuggling plot of the Los Angeles film. It also takes in Paul Hogan's road from Harbour Bridge rigger to Golden Globe winner, and the real saltwater crocodile who lived to 90. It suits an 80s movie night, an Australia-themed quiz, or anyone who has ever said 'that's not a knife' in a bad accent. The opening questions are gentle; the closing ones dig into filming locations, box-office records and the 2018 Super Bowl hoax sequel. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the three films, the character and Paul Hogan, and each question links to the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who plays Mick "Crocodile" Dundee?
Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan plays Mick and co-wrote the story; the idea came to him on a visit to New York, wondering how a Northern Territory bushman would cope with the city.
Q 02Which actress plays reporter Sue Charlton?
Linda Kozlowski
Linda Kozlowski, an American stage actress who had appeared in Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, plays Sue Charlton; she and Hogan later married.
Q 03In what year was the original Crocodile Dundee released?
1986
Crocodile Dundee opened in Australia on 30 April 1986 and in the United States on 26 September 1986, where it finished as the year's second-highest-grossing film behind Top Gun.
Q 04Who directed the first film?
Peter Faiman
Peter Faiman, a television director who had worked on Hogan's sketch show, made his feature debut with the first film; he later directed the John Hughes-written comedy Dutch (1991).
Q 05Whose real-life survival exploits inspired the character?
Rod Ansell
Rod Ansell survived 56 days stranded in the Northern Territory in 1977 after his boat capsized, an ordeal told in the book and documentary To Fight the Wild; he died in a police shootout in 1999.
Q 06What is the name of the fictional Northern Territory township Sue travels to?
Walkabout Creek
Walkabout Creek is the fictional Northern Territory town where Sue meets Mick; its pub was a real outback hotel in Queensland, later renamed the Walkabout Creek Hotel.
Q 07Sue writes for which newspaper, owned by her father?
Newsday
Newsday is the paper Sue Charlton writes for, owned by her father Sam Charlton; her editor and boyfriend Richard Mason works there too.
Q 08What does Mick call the scar he shows Sue, despite the legend of a lost leg?
A love bite
'A love bite' is how Mick shrugs off the scar; the tale of a lost leg and a long crawl to safety turns out to be a well-polished exaggeration.
Q 09Who is Mick's business partner back in the Territory?
Wally Reilly
Wally Reilly, played by John Meillon, runs Never Never Safari Tours with Mick and scoffs at the New York trip until he hears the newspaper will pay.
Q 10Mick says a previous girlfriend left him after he went on walkabout for how long?
Eighteen months
Eighteen months on walkabout was too long for Mick's girlfriend, he tells Sue; the line is one of the first hints that he belongs to the bush more than to any town.
Q 11How does Mick scare off the drunken roo hunters?
Makes them think a kangaroo is shooting back
Makes them think a kangaroo is shooting back: Mick props up a dead roo and fires from behind it, and the hunters flee; earlier in the trip he calms a water buffalo with a stare.
Q 12Which actor plays Neville Bell, the friend who takes Mick to a corroboree?
David Gulpilil
David Gulpilil, the Yolngu actor who had starred in Walkabout (1971) and Storm Boy, plays Neville Bell, who tells Sue she can't photograph him because she has left the lens cap on.
Q 13Where is Sue attacked by a crocodile before Mick rescues her?
Q 21Which film did Crocodile Dundee overtake to become the highest-grossing film ever in Australia?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial held the Australian record until Crocodile Dundee passed it within weeks of release; the film finished on A$47.7 million at the Australian box office.
Q 22Which UK channel drew 21.8 million viewers with the film's Christmas Day debut in 1989?
BBC One
BBC One screened the film on Christmas Day 1989 to 21.8 million viewers, a record audience for a film on British television.
Q 23Why do two versions of the first film exist?
Australian slang was swapped for plainer terms abroad
At a billabong while filling her canteen
At a billabong while filling her canteen, Sue is seized by a crocodile, and Mick kills it with his knife before she is dragged under.
Q 14What was the name of the real saltwater crocodile who appeared in the attack scene?
Burt
Burt, a saltwater crocodile, appeared in the attack scene; he later lived at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, where he died in December 2024, believed to be more than 90 years old.
Q 15Which national park was the main Outback filming location?
Kakadu
Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory was the main location; Gunlom Falls, then called UDP Falls, appears in the film, and the crew shot there during the 1985 dry season.
Q 16Which writer shares the first film's screenplay credit with Hogan and the film's producer?
Ken Shadie
Ken Shadie shares the screenplay credit with Hogan and the film's producer; the story itself is credited to Hogan alone.
Q 17In New York, Mick tells Irving the doorman he is going to do what?
Go on walkabout across America
Sue chases him barefoot to the subway, where the crowd relays her message that she loves him.
Q 18How does Mick reach Sue across the packed subway platform in the final scene?
Walks over the crowd's heads and raised hands
The crowd applauds as the two embrace, ending the film.
Q 19Roughly how much did the first film gross worldwide?
$328M
$328M worldwide, against a budget under $10 million, made Crocodile Dundee the highest-grossing Australian film at the global box office on its release.
Q 20Which studio paid US$6 million for the North American rights after Fox and Warner passed?
Paramount
Paramount paid US$6 million for the North American rights after Fox and Warner passed, and the film became the studio's second-biggest hit of its year behind Top Gun.
Australian slang was swapped for plainer terms abroad, with some lines re-recorded for the international cut, which also runs about a minute shorter than the Australian release.
Q 24Which Golden Globe did the film's star win for the role in 1987?
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy
Best Actor – Musical or Comedy went to Hogan at the Golden Globes in January 1987 for playing Mick Dundee, a role he had written for himself.
Q 25For which Academy Award was the film nominated?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay was the film's only Oscar nomination, at the 59th Academy Awards; it lost to Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.
Q 26Which two stars co-hosted the 59th Academy Awards with Hogan in 1987?
Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn
Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn shared hosting duties with Hogan at the 59th Academy Awards on 30 March 1987, the night Platoon won Best Picture.
Q 27Before acting, Hogan worked as a rigger on which structure?
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger was Hogan's day job when he appeared on the talent show New Faces in 1971 billed as a tap-dancing knife-thrower, the stunt that launched his TV career.
Q 28Which cigarette brand's ads made Hogan famous in Australia in the 1970s?
Winfield
Each ad ended with 'Anyhow, have a Winfield'; his 1984 tourism spot gave the world 'shrimp on the barbie'.
Q 29Which town did Hogan falsely claim as his birthplace early in his career, to sound more interesting?
Lightning Ridge
Lightning Ridge, the New South Wales opal-mining town, was the birthplace Hogan claimed early on; he was actually born in Parramatta in Sydney's west in 1939.
Q 30In what year did Hogan marry his leading lady from the film?
1990
In 1990 Hogan married his co-star; they had a son, Chance, born in 1998, and she filed for divorce in 2013.