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50 free Field of Dreams trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
46 free Field of Dreams trivia questions with answers. Field of Dreams (1989) built a ballpark in an Iowa cornfield and people did indeed come. This quiz covers the whole story: Ray Kinsella hearing "If you build it, he will come", Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of the Black Sox stepping out of the corn, the trip to Boston for Terence Mann, Fenway Park, Moonlight Graham in Chisholm, Minnesota, Mark trying to buy the farm, Karin choking on a hot dog, and the game of catch with Dad at the end. The easy questions are for anyone who has cried at that final scene. The harder ones cover W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe and why J. D. Salinger became Terence Mann, Tom Hanks turning the lead down, the corn that would not grow, the 1,500 cars in the closing shot, James Horner's score, the Oscar nominations, the real Moonlight Graham, and the MLB games later played on the Dyersville site, including Tim Anderson's walk-off homer into the corn. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, the novel, the real Shoeless Joe and the MLB games, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays Ray Kinsella, the Iowa farmer who builds the field?
Kevin Costner
The producers had not even considered him at first, assuming he would not want to follow Bull Durham with another baseball film.
Q 02What is the exact phrase the voice first whispers to Ray in the cornfield?
If you build it, he will come
The commonly misquoted "they will come" is wrong; the AFI ranked the real line 39th among the greatest movie quotes.
Q 03In which Iowa town is the Kinsella farm?
Dyersville
The real Lansing farm there is still a tourist attraction, and Frank Thomas became its majority owner in 2021.
Q 04Which banned ballplayer is the first ghost to appear on Ray's field?
Shoeless Joe Jackson
He returns with the seven other members of the 1919 Black Sox.
Q 05Who plays the first ghost to step out of the corn?
Ray Liotta
The director had pictured a man in his 40s as a father surrogate, but liked Liotta's "sense of danger".
Q 06What scandal were the ghostly White Sox players banned from baseball for?
Fixing the 1919 World Series
The White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds, and Commissioner Landis banned all eight players for life.
Q 07Who plays Ray's wife, Annie?
Amy Madigan
A fan of the novel, she is married to Ed Harris, whom W. P. Kinsella was told supplied "The Voice".
Q 08What is the name of Ray and Annie's daughter?
Karin
Gaby Hoffmann played her, and it is Karin who insists that people will pay to watch the games.
Q 09Which reclusive 1960s author does Ray track down in Boston?
Terence Mann
In the novel the writer is J. D. Salinger, who threatened to sue if his name was used in the film.
Q 10Who plays the reclusive author Ray drives to Boston to find?
James Earl Jones
The director wrote the part with Jones in mind because it would be funny to watch Ray try to kidnap such a big man.
Q 11In the original novel, which real writer does Ray seek out?
J. D. Salinger
Kinsella never met Salinger and built the character only around his reclusiveness.
Q 12What is the title of the 1982 W. P. Kinsella novel the film is based on?
Shoeless Joe
Kinsella's own title had been The Dream Field, but his publisher renamed it.
Q 13What nationality was the novelist W. P. Kinsella?
Canadian
He conceived the story while at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and set it in the state he was living in.
At which ballpark do Ray and Mann attend a game together?
Q 21What is Karin choking on when Doc Graham saves her?
A hot dog
She had just been knocked off the bleachers during Ray's scuffle with Mark.
Q 22Who is Mark, the man who keeps trying to get Ray to sell the farm?
Annie's brother
Timothy Busfield plays him; he cannot see the players until the very end.
Q 23Who turns out to be the catcher at the end of the film?
Ray's father as a young man
Ray asks him, "Dad, you wanna have a catch?" as a line of headlights stretches to the horizon.
Fenway Park
Teenagers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the crowd that day.
Q 15Which two future stars were teenage extras in the crowd during the Boston ballpark scene?
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Both grew up in Boston; Good Will Hunting was still eight years away.
Q 16What phrase does the voice say to Ray at the ballpark?
Go the distance
"Ease his pain" was the second message; the company that later bought the field is called Go The Distance Baseball.
Q 17What is the nickname of Archibald Graham, the player who never got to bat?
Moonlight
The real Graham's single game was in June 1905, not 1922, and he died in 1965 rather than 1972.
Q 18In which Minnesota town does Ray find Doc Graham?
Chisholm
Galena, Illinois, stood in for the town on screen.
Q 19Which screen legend plays the elderly Doc Graham in his final film role?
Burt Lancaster
He had turned it down until a baseball-loving friend told him he had to do it; James Stewart had already declined.
Q 20How does young Archie Graham end his time as a ballplayer for good?
He steps off the field to save Karin from choking
He becomes old Doc Graham again, and Shoeless Joe calls after him, "Hey, rookie! You were good."
Q 24What was Ray's father's name?
John
Terence Mann had once named a character John Kinsella, which is how Ray connects the clues.
Q 25How old was Ray when he stopped playing catch with his father?
14
He had just read one of Mann's books, and told his father he could never respect a man whose hero was a criminal.
Q 26Which actor was offered the role of Ray first and turned it down?
Tom Hanks
Costner also promised to help the director, whose debut In the Mood had flopped.
Q 27Who wrote and directed the film?
Phil Alden Robinson
He hated the new title, preferring the novel's Shoeless Joe, and felt constantly depressed during the shoot.
Q 28Why were the interior scenes shot first?
The corn was taking too long to grow
Water was trucked in from Lake Michigan to force the corn up to Costner's height.
Q 29Which two famous venues' sod experts were hired to lay the baseball field in a hurry?
Dodger Stadium and the Rose Bowl
There was no time for grass to grow, and part of the turf was simply painted green.
Q 30How many cars were needed for the closing shot of headlights snaking toward the field?
1,500
Dyersville was blacked out, and drivers flicked between low and high beams to fake movement.