Dodgeball Trivia
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67 free Dodgeball trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Dodgeball trivia questions with answers. Dodgeball means two things to most people: the gym-class game with the red rubber balls, and the 2004 comedy in which Vince Vaughn's Average Joe's takes on Ben Stiller's Globo Gym Purple Cobras in Las Vegas. This quiz covers both. The first half is the movie: Peter LaFleur, White Goodman, Kate Veatch, Patches O'Houlihan and his wrenches, the Girl Scouts, the cameos from Chuck Norris to David Hasselhoff, ESPN8 'The Ocho', the test-screening ending that got changed and the sequel that keeps almost happening. The second half is the real sport: how a player gets out, what a catch does, WDBF match length and court size, the opening rush, jailball, and what the game is called in Brazil, Sweden, Poland and Iran, along with the World Championship that has run since 2012. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and the sport, so it is fit for a movie night, a PE class or a league social.
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Q 01Which actor plays Peter LaFleur, the owner of the run-down Average Joe's gym?
Vince Vaughn
Vince Vaughn plays Peter LaFleur, the laid-back owner of Average Joe's Gym, whose misfit regulars enter a dodgeball tournament to stop the flashy fitness chain across the street from swallowing the gym.
Q 02In which magazine does Gordon find the dodgeball tournament that could save Average Joe's?
Obscure Sports Quarterly
Gordon spots the tournament in Obscure Sports Quarterly, whose open event carries a cash prize that exactly matches the gym's debt, giving Average Joe's its only realistic way to stay open.
Q 03Which fundraiser do the Average Joe's regulars try before dodgeball?
A car wash
A car wash is the gym's first idea for raising the $50,000 it owes, but a rival wash staffed by women in bikinis opens across the street the same day, and the stunt ends up costing Average Joe's money.
Q 04In which city do Average Joe's and Globo Gym meet in the dodgeball tournament final?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas hosts the International Dodgeball Open, which the team picks because its $50,000 prize is exactly what the gym owes and any side that wins a regional qualifier can enter.
Q 05What is the name of Globo Gym's dodgeball team?
The Purple Cobras
The Purple Cobras are formed by Globo Gym's owner to stop Average Joe's taking the prize, and they skip the qualifying match altogether because he is a personal friend of the dodgeball chancellor.
Q 06Who plays Patches O'Houlihan, the wheelchair-using dodgeball legend who coaches Average Joe's?
Rip Torn
Rip Torn plays Patches O'Houlihan, the star of the team's old training film, who turns up in person after watching Globo Gym's owner taunt them and simply announces that he is their new coach.
Q 07What does Patches throw at the team during training to teach them to dodge?
Wrenches
Wrenches: Patches hurls them at the players in practice on the theory that anyone who can dodge a wrench can dodge a ball, then sends the team into traffic for the same lesson.
Q 08Who beats Average Joe's at the sub-regional qualifier, only to be disqualified?
A Girl Scout troop
A Girl Scout troop thrashes Average Joe's in the qualifier, but the scouts are disqualified when one of them tests positive for steroids, so Average Joe's advances by default.
Q 09What is the profession of Kate Veatch, who ends up playing for Average Joe's?
Attorney
Attorney: Kate handles real estate and tax law for the bank and is assigned to the gym's foreclosure; she joins Peter's team only after Globo Gym's owner gets her fired so that he can date her.
Q 10Which Average Joe's member believes he is a pirate?
Steve
Steve 'The Pirate' Cowan quits after Peter mocks him, comes back looking normal, then reverts the moment the winnings are called 'buried treasure'.
Q 11Which real-life athlete gives Peter a pep talk that sends him back to face Globo Gym in the final?
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong, playing himself, shames Peter at the airport by recalling how he beat cancer and went on to win the Tour de France five times; in 2012 he was stripped of every one of those titles for doping.
Q 12Whose tie-breaking vote on the judging panel reinstates Average Joe's after their forfeit?
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris, playing himself as the third judge, gives the thumbs-up that overturns the forfeit; in the closing credits the defeated Goodman is still cursing him by name.
Q 13Which Baywatch star cameos as the coach of the German team Blitzkrieg?
David Hasselhoff
Q 21Which award did Ben Stiller win at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards for Dodgeball?
Best Villain
Best Villain went to the Globo Gym owner at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, where the role was also up for Best Comedic Performance; the same season his five comedies together earned him a Razzie nomination.
Q 22Which Average Joe's player is late for the final because he is helping his crush Amber's cheerleading squad?
Justin
Justin fills in for Amber's injured partner Derek at the cheerleading finals, and with him missing Average Joe's cannot field enough players, so the team forfeits until the judges vote it back in.
Q 23At the end of Dodgeball, Kate's friend Joyce has flown in from where to watch the final?
Guam
David Hasselhoff plays himself as coach of the German team Blitzkrieg, casting that trades on his real chart career in Germany, where his single 'Looking for Freedom' was number one for eight weeks in 1989.
Q 14How does Peter win the sudden-death showdown against Goodman?
Blindfolded, with a shot to the face
Blindfolded, with a shot to the face: with the final down to the two gym owners, Peter remembers Patches' training, ties on a blindfold, dodges Goodman's throw and hits him.
Q 15What did Peter do with the $100,000 Goodman paid him for the gym's deed?
Bet it on his own team
Bet it on his own team: at 50-to-1 the wager turns Goodman's $100,000 into $5 million, enough to buy a controlling stake in the publicly traded Globo Gym and fire its founder.
Q 16How did the original test-screening ending of Dodgeball differ from the released version?
Average Joe's lost the final
Average Joe's lost the final in the cut shown to test audiences, which faded to black once Goodman had eliminated Peter; the released film carries on into the sudden-death showdown instead.
Q 17Who wrote and directed Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rawson Marshall Thurber made it his first feature after the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker ads; selling the script, he sent studios red rubber balls stencilled with its title, and many still turned it down.
Q 18Dodgeball opened at number one in June 2004, ahead of which Steven Spielberg film?
The Terminal
The Terminal, Spielberg's airport comedy-drama with Tom Hanks, opened the same weekend and took about $19 million to Dodgeball's $30 million, though it had cost at least twice as much to make.
Q 19Which studio, then home to the X-Men films, released Dodgeball in June 2004?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox released the film, and in 2018 ESPN secured the rights to show Dodgeball twice during its real-life 'Ocho' day of oddball sports.
Q 20In Dodgeball, what does ADAA, the name of the sport's governing body, stand for?
American Dodgeball Association of America
American Dodgeball Association of America is the film's knowingly redundant governing body; one of its bylaws, letting the judges overrule the chancellor on a two-thirds vote, puts Average Joe's back in the final.
Guam is where Joyce has flown in from; after she kisses Kate, Kate kisses a stunned Peter just as hard and tells him she is bisexual.
Q 24Patches O'Houlihan's five D's of dodgeball are dodge, duck, dip, dodge and which other word?
Dive
Dive completes 'dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge'; Patches promises the team that anyone who masters the five D's cannot be hit by any amount of balls on earth.
Q 25What is dodgeball called in Germany, a name Rammstein borrowed for a 2006 live album?
Völkerball
Völkerball, literally 'peoples' ball', began as a mock battle between two peoples: every hit marks a fallen fighter, and each side's 'king' waits behind the opposing team's half.
Q 26In standard dodgeball, a clean catch puts the thrower out and earns the catcher's team what?
One player back in
One player back in: a clean catch removes the thrower and revives an eliminated member of the catcher's side, while a fumbled catch puts the would-be catcher out instead.
Q 27When does a thrown dodgeball stop being 'live'?
On touching the floor, wall or ceiling
On touching the floor, wall or ceiling a ball goes dead, so a hit that comes off a bounce or a rebound does not count and the player it strikes stays in the game.
Q 28How does Globo Gym's slogan 'We're better than you' end?
and we know it
'We're better than you, and we know it' closes the mock Globo Gym commercial that opens the film; the line returns from a cutout of the owner, which hides the camera he uses to spy on Average Joe's.
Q 29In the variant called 'jailball', where do eliminated players go?
Behind the opponents' back line
Behind the opponents' back line is the 'jail': eliminated players wait there and can free themselves by retrieving a loose ball and hitting an opponent with it from behind.
Q 30In which Adam Sandler comedy does his character pelt small children with dodgeballs?
Billy Madison
Billy Madison sends Sandler's idle hotel heir back through all twelve school grades to earn his father's company, which is how he comes to be hurling dodgeballs at small children.