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43 free Dazed and Confused trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Dazed and Confused trivia questions with answers. Dazed and Confused lost money in cinemas and then became one of the most quoted films of the 1990s. This quiz covers both halves of that story. There are questions on the film itself - the last day of school in May 1976, the hazing, the pledge nobody signs, the moontower, the drive to Houston for concert tickets - and on how it was made: the six million dollar budget with a tenth of it spent on music, the mixtapes the director sent his cast, the hotel full of nineteen-year-olds, and the Led Zeppelin song that one band member refused to release. There is also the lawsuit. Three of the director's former classmates, whose surnames are Wooderson, Slater and Floyd, sued him for defamation eleven years after release. Every answer here is written against a sourced account with the sentence that establishes it attached.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Dazed and Confused?
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater wrote and directed Dazed and Confused (1993), drawing on his own Texas high-school years in the mid-1970s.
Q 02On which day is the film set?
The last day of school in 1976
The film takes place on the last day of school, 28 May 1976, running from afternoon into the next dawn.
Q 03In which city was the film shot?
Austin
Dazed and Confused was shot in and around Austin, Texas, where Linklater lived, though the story's town is never named.
Q 04Which earlier Linklater film got the project financed?
Slacker
Slacker's success at Sundance in 1991 led Universal producer Jim Jacks to back Linklater's next film.
Q 05Roughly how large was the film's budget?
$7 million
Universal's budget for Dazed and Confused was $6.9 million, roughly $7 million, much of it needed for the period-rock soundtrack.
Q 06Which Texas town supplied both the director's memories and several character names?
Huntsville
Huntsville, in East Texas, was Linklater's home town, and his high-school years there shaped the film's characters.
Q 07Which actor became the film's breakout star?
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey, a local film student cast in a part meant to be small, walked away with the film and a career.
Q 08Where did that actor first meet the casting director?
In a hotel bar
McConaughey met casting director Don Phillips in the bar of Austin's Hyatt Regency hotel, where a friend was bartending, and talked for hours.
Q 09Which character does McConaughey play?
David Wooderson
McConaughey plays David Wooderson, the twentysomething who keeps hanging around the high-school crowd and delivers 'alright, alright, alright'.
Q 10Where did the actor say he got the repeated line 'alright, alright, alright'?
A live Jim Morrison recording
He remembered the singer repeating the phrase four times, and used it in his very first scene.
Q 11Which sequence did McConaughey shoot first?
The Top Notch hamburger scene
He asked for thirty minutes beforehand to walk around and work out who the character was.
Q 12Why did one actor's role shrink in favour of McConaughey's?
His behaviour with the cast
Much of the enlarged Wooderson material was improvised or written on the spot.
Q 13What position does Randall 'Pink' Floyd play?
Quarterback
Pink is the football team's star quarterback, the player the coach most wants to keep in line for the coming season.
Q 21Which actor was nearly cast as the bully O'Bannion?
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn auditioned for O'Bannion and came close, but the part went to Ben Affleck after a search through Texas, New York and Los Angeles.
Q 22How did the director help the actors find their characters' taste in music?
He made each of them a mixtape
Those tapes also helped decide what ended up on the soundtrack.
Q 23Which Led Zeppelin song was meant to close the film?
Rock and Roll
Linklater planned to run Led Zeppelin's 'Rock and Roll' over the closing scene, but the band's permission never came.
Q 14What happens to the incoming freshman girls during the hazing?
They are covered in condiments
Mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs, in a very hot parking lot, with most of the extras lacking sunscreen.
Q 15Which character delights in paddling the freshman Mitch Kramer?
Fred O'Bannion
Fred O'Bannion, played by Ben Affleck, is the senior held back a year who relishes paddling Mitch and the other freshmen.
Q 16Where do the friends smoke marijuana as night turns to dawn?
On the football field
At dawn Pink, Wooderson and Slater smoke on the 50-yard line of the football field, where the coach then confronts Pink about the pledge.
Q 17Where are the friends heading in the final scene?
Houston, for Aerosmith tickets
Pink leaves with Wooderson and Slater rather than sign the coach's pledge.
Q 18Which real building played the fictional Robert E. Lee High?
Bedichek Middle School
Bedichek Middle School in south Austin stood in for Lee High, while a Georgetown-area elementary school played the junior high.
Q 19What was built at a park for the keg party scenes?
A replica moontower
A replica moontower was built at Walter E. Long Park outside Austin, standing in for the city's historic moonlight towers.
Q 20When did shooting begin?
July 1992
Principal photography began in July 1992 in Austin and ran through the hot Texas summer.
Q 24Which Led Zeppelin member blocked the use of that song?
Robert Plant
Robert Plant refused even though Jimmy Page had agreed, so no Led Zeppelin music appears in the film.
Q 25Which Aerosmith track appears in the film but not on the soundtrack album?
Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith's 'Sweet Emotion' opens the film but was left off the 1993 soundtrack album, as were Dylan's 'Hurricane' and Nugent's 'Hey Baby'.
Q 26Which cast member performed her own song briefly in the film?
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich, who plays Michelle, sings her own 'The Alien Song (For Those Who Listen)' with a guitar during the party.
Q 27How much did the film make in the United States on release?
Less than $8 million
It was a commercial disappointment that found its audience later on home video.
Q 28Where did the film rank on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies?
Third
Entertainment Weekly placed Dazed and Confused third on its list of the 50 Best High School Movies and also ranked it among the funniest films of its era.
Q 29What does Wooderson call his Chevrolet Chevelle?
Melba Toast
Wooderson's Chevrolet Chevelle is called Melba Toast, and he proudly rattles off its 750 double-pumper carburettor and 390 horsepower.
Q 30How did that defamation case end?
It was dismissed
The defamation suit was dismissed; the characters kept their names in every later release of the film.