The Fifth Element Trivia
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100 free The Fifth Element trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free The Fifth Element trivia questions with answers. Luc Besson started writing The Fifth Element at 16 and released it at 38, and every one of those years shows on screen. This quiz covers the film front to back: the Mondoshawans and the four stones, Korben Dallas's flying cab, Leeloo's 400-word Divine Language, Zorg and his Mangalore mercenaries, Ruby Rhod's name and the singer who nearly played him, Diva Plavalaguna and the Donizetti aria behind the Diva Dance, the Gaultier costumes, the Moebius and Mézières designs, the Pinewood shoot, the Cannes opening night and the plagiarism suit over The Incal. Easy questions ask who plays Korben and Zorg and what Leeloo lands in; the hard ones want the taxi-driver comic that inspired the cab, the sequel title that never happened, the soprano who actually sang the Diva's aria and which co-star cannot bear to watch the film. Written for sci-fi fans, pub quizzers and anyone who owns a multipass. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its cast and crew, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Luc Besson co-wrote The Fifth Element with which screenwriter, who also wrote The Karate Kid?
Robert Mark Kamen
Robert Mark Kamen's partnership with Besson outlived the film: the two went on to write the Transporter and Taken series together.
Q 02Luc Besson began the story of The Fifth Element at 16 as an escape from what?
Boredom
Boredom drove him: the teenage Besson lived deep in the countryside with no television and few friends, so he invented a 23rd-century world, at first as a novel.
Q 03Which actor plays cab driver Korben Dallas?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis looked too expensive, so Besson planned on a cheaper lead until the star told him that if he liked the script they could come to an arrangement.
Q 04Which A-list actress was considered for Leeloo before Milla Jovovich was cast?
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts was Besson's planned Leeloo when the film was first due to shoot in 1992; the financing fell through, and the part was recast when the project came back to life.
Q 05What was Korben Dallas's job before he became a taxi driver?
A special forces major
Korben Dallas was a special forces major before driving a flying cab in 23rd-century New York; General Munro pulls him back in for the Fhloston mission.
Q 06What does Zorg nearly choke to death on while lecturing Father Cornelius in his office?
A cherry
A cherry sticks in Zorg's throat just as he boasts that destruction creates life; none of his desk gadgets can help, and the priest saves him with a slap on the back.
Q 07How often does the great evil appear, according to The Fifth Element's prologue?
Every 5,000 years
Every 5,000 years the great evil returns, the professor reads from the temple wall; that is why the departing aliens promise to be back in 300 years, when it is next due.
Q 08What are the aliens who guard the weapon called?
Mondoshawans
The Mondoshawans are the armoured aliens who guard the stones and the fifth element; Mangalore mercenaries hired by Zorg shoot down their ship.
Q 09How is Leeloo recreated by scientists in the 23rd century?
From a severed hand in metal armour
From a severed hand in metal armour: it is all that survives when the ship carrying her is ambushed, yet its cells are enough for the lab to rebuild her.
Q 10How does Leeloo first meet Korben?
She crashes through the roof of his flying taxi
She crashes through the roof of his flying taxi: fleeing the lab, Leeloo leaps from a ledge and lands in Korben's back seat.
Q 11What are the first names of Zorg, the industrialist villain of The Fifth Element?
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg gives his name in full when his men bring in the priest, who remembers him as a 'so-called art dealer'.
Q 12Which word does Leeloo proudly repeat while showing her ID at the spaceport check-in?
Multipass
Multipass is the name of her new identity card, and she repeats it so often at check-in that an embarrassed Korben snaps, 'She knows it's a multipass!'
Q 13Where are the four elemental stones hidden?
Inside the Diva Plavalaguna's body
Q 21Korben became a cab driver after Besson saw a flying taxi in an album of which comic series?
Valérian and Laureline
Valérian and Laureline's 1994 album The Circles of Power has a cabbie flying his taxi through a vast city; its artist was designing the film, and in 2017 Besson filmed the comic itself.
Q 22Which effects company, co-founded by James Cameron, created The Fifth Element's flying traffic?
Digital Domain
Digital Domain steered the flying cars with particle systems rather than by hand, because the cityscape shots each held too many vehicles to animate one by one.
Q 23Which Besson film, made while The Fifth Element was stalled, helped get it financed by Columbia?
Inside the Diva Plavalaguna's body is where she has hidden the four stones; Korben pulls them out after she is fatally wounded in the attack, while Zorg flees with an empty case.
Q 14How does Zorg die?
A dying Mangalore's bomb blows up the hotel
A dying Mangalore's bomb blows up the hotel moments after Zorg has come back for the stones and switched off his own, so he is killed by a device he knew nothing about.
Q 15What finally makes Leeloo willing to unleash the weapon at the end?
Korben declaring his love and kissing her
Korben declaring his love and kissing her changes Leeloo's mind: after studying human history she had asked what the use was of saving life at all.
Q 16How did Milla Jovovich and Luc Besson practise the invented 'Divine Language' that Leeloo speaks?
By writing each other letters
By writing each other letters in it, until the two could hold whole conversations in a language that nobody else on the set understood.
Q 17Which musician was first given the role of Ruby Rhod but never played it?
Prince
Prince could not fit the shoot around his tour dates, Besson has said; the singer later told the actor who replaced him that the costumes were a little too much for him.
Q 18What is the name of the all-in-one gun that Zorg demonstrates to his hired mercenaries?
ZF-1
The ZF-1 hides a rocket launcher, a net launcher and a flamethrower, but Zorg never explains its little red button; a mercenary presses it and the whole warehouse goes up.
Q 19Which fashion designer created the costumes for The Fifth Element?
Jean Paul Gaultier
Jean Paul Gaultier designed all the film's costumes, from Zorg's suits to the Fhloston extras, and personally checked each extra's outfit every morning on set.
Q 20Which two French comic artists were hired for The Fifth Element's production design?
Moebius and Jean-Claude Mézières
Besson hired Moebius (Jean Giraud) and Jean-Claude Mézières, whose comics inspired the futuristic New York; their drawings shaped the flying taxis and towering cityscape.
Léon: The Professional
Léon: The Professional was a hit, and Columbia, a partner on it, then agreed to finance the long-stalled epic once Besson had trimmed both its script and its budget.
Q 24Where was The Fifth Element mainly filmed, after Besson failed to find facilities in France?
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios near London housed the shoot, and Besson later said that filming abroad 'with a heavy heart' was what set him on building his own studio complex outside Paris.
Q 25In which African country were The Fifth Element's 'Egyptian' desert scenes shot?
Mauritania
Mauritania's dunes stood in for Egypt, and a crew filmed the desert backgrounds there weeks before the actors began work on the studio sets.
Q 26Which two characters of The Fifth Element go the whole film without meeting?
Korben and Zorg
Korben and Zorg never meet: Besson said he changed anything that felt 'too classical', such as the villain facing the hero for a final fight.
Q 27Whose phone call does the president take in the closing scene of The Fifth Element?
Korben's mother
Korben's mother has rung to scold her son yet again, and when the president himself comes on the line she refuses to believe it is really him.
Q 28What does Korben use to open the fire stone at the climax of The Fifth Element?
A single match
A single match, the last in his box: nobody else in the temple has any fire, so Korben tells them all not to breathe while he strikes it.
Q 29Who composed the score for The Fifth Element?
Éric Serra
Éric Serra, who has scored nearly all of Besson's films, swings here from a Stalinist-style fanfare at the spaceport to reggae before take-off and hula music on arrival.
Q 30The Diva Dance opera scene uses the mad-scene aria 'Il dolce suono' from which opera?
Lucia di Lammermoor
Lucia di Lammermoor's bride sings 'Il dolce suono' just after stabbing her new husband on their wedding night; in the film the aria then gives way to 'The Diva Dance'.