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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 03How much money does Peter need to raise to save his gym?
$50,000
$50,000 is what Average Joe's owes the bank; Peter is given a short deadline to find it, and the dodgeball open Gordon discovers happens to pay exactly that sum to the winner.
Q 04In which city is the dodgeball tournament held?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas hosts the film's climactic tournament, the International Dodgeball Open, where Average Joe's and Globo Gym end up meeting in the final.
Q 05What is the name of Globo Gym's dodgeball team?
The Purple Cobras
The Purple Cobras are Globo Gym's team: the owner's hand-picked squad of muscle-bound trainers plus the unibrowed Fran, who face Average Joe's in the tournament final.
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 foul-mouthed former champion who takes over the team's training; the young Patches seen in the vintage instructional film is played by Hank Azaria.
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, played by Christine Taylor, who eventually joins the team?
Attorney
Kate Veatch is an attorney at the bank that holds the Average Joe's loan; she rejects Globo Gym's owner's advances, citing conflict of interest, and ends up playing for Peter's team.
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 the tournament?
Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong, playing himself as the Tour de France winner, finds Peter drowning his sorrows at an airport bar and shames him about quitting, which sends Peter back to rejoin his team.
Q 12Whose tie-breaking vote on the judging panel reinstates Average Joe's after their forfeit?
Chuck Norris
Chuck Norris, playing himself on the tournament's judging panel, casts the deciding vote that lets Average Joe's back in after their forfeit, earning Peter's 'Thank you, Chuck Norris' and a thumbs-up.
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 skips the final to help his crush Amber at a cheerleading competition?
Justin
He is played by Justin Long, and steps in after Amber's partner Derek is injured. It leaves the team short-handed and forfeited.
Q 23In the film's ending, Kate's friend Joyce arrives from where and kisses her, revealing Kate is bisexual?
Guam
David Hasselhoff plays himself as the coach of Blitzkrieg, the German side, a nod to his huge pop following in Germany, where 'Looking for Freedom' was a number-one single in 1989.
Q 14How does Peter win the sudden-death showdown against Goodman?
He blindfolds himself, dodges the throw and hits his rival in the face
He blindfolds himself, dodges the throw and hits his rival in the face, channelling Patches' training, after the final came down to the two gym owners one-on-one in sudden death.
Q 15What did Peter do with the $100,000 Goodman paid him for the gym's deed?
Bet it all on his own team at 50-to-1
Bet it all on his own team at 50-to-1: the wager turns the $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 ending first shown to test audiences, who hated it; the filmmakers reshot a happier finish and kept the downer version as a DVD extra.
Q 17Who wrote and directed Dodgeball, his feature debut?
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rawson Marshall Thurber wrote and directed the film as his first feature after making the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker commercials; he went on to We're the Millers, Central Intelligence, Skyscraper and Red Notice.
Q 18What was Dodgeball's production budget, against a worldwide gross more than eight times as large?
$20 million
$20 million was the production budget; the film opened at number one in North America and finished with about $114 million domestically and $168 million worldwide.
Q 19Which studio released Dodgeball on June 18, 2004?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox released the film, produced with Red Hour Films, in mid-June; it opened at number one in North America, ahead of Spielberg's The Terminal.
Q 20What does the ADAA, the tournament's sanctioning body in the film, stand for?
American Dodgeball Association of America
The American Dodgeball Association of America, with its deliberately redundant name, sanctions the film's tournament; its blazer-wearing officials run the qualifier and sit on the judging panel.
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 24In which year did Fox first announce a Dodgeball sequel, apparently without telling Ben Stiller?
2013
2013: the studio announced a sequel that May with screenwriter Clay Tarver attached, and the actor behind Globo Gym's owner said he knew nothing about it; the idea was revived a decade later around the original hero.
Q 25What is dodgeball called in Germany?
Völkerball
Völkerball, literally 'peoples' ball', is the German name for dodgeball; in the classic schoolyard form each side also posts a 'king' behind the opposing team's half of the court.
Q 26In dodgeball, what happens when a player catches a live ball thrown by an opponent?
The thrower is out and a teammate of the catcher is revived
The thrower is out and a teammate of the catcher is revived: that is the near-universal reward for a clean catch, while a dropped catch puts the would-be catcher out instead.
Q 27When does a thrown dodgeball stop being 'live'?
On touching the floor, wall or ceiling
A ball goes dead on touching the floor, wall or ceiling, or any other object; a hit from a dead ball does not count, while a ball deflected off another ball stays live until it lands.
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' is Globo Gym's slogan, delivered in the chain's mock commercial that opens the film and repeated on its signage.
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 30What is dodgeball called in South Korea?
Pigu
Pigu, written with characters meaning 'avoid' and 'ball', is the Korean name for dodgeball, a staple of school sports days and a popular club sport in the country.