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185 free Forrest Gump trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Forrest Gump trivia questions with answers. How well do you know Forrest Gump? Robert Zemeckis's 1994 film follows a slow-witted, big-hearted Alabama man through ping-pong diplomacy, Vietnam, the shrimp business and a three-year run across America, bumping into half of 20th-century history along the way. This Forrest Gump trivia quiz covers the characters (Jenny, Bubba, Lieutenant Dan, Mama), the quotes everyone repeats, the real events Forrest wanders into, the Oscars it won and the behind-the-scenes stories of how it was made. Fifty questions, mixed from easy to hard, for movie night, a pub round or a solo run. Every answer has been checked against a real source and each question shows where it came from, so you can settle arguments with the evidence rather than a listicle.
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Q 01What does Forrest say he earned after only five years of playing football?
A college degree
A college degree is the punchline of his football years; he has barely been handed it when an Army recruiter asks whether he has given any thought to his future.
Q 02Home from China, Forrest says he was 'famouser even than' which children's TV star?
Captain Kangaroo
Captain Kangaroo is his yardstick for being a national celebrity; the fame lands him a talk-show chair, where the star in the next seat welcomes him home.
Q 03In Vietnam, Forrest says his platoon was 'always looking for this guy named' what?
Charlie
Charlie was soldiers' slang for the Viet Cong, short for the radio code Victor Charlie; Forrest takes it for one man's name and recalls the patrols as 'real long walks'.
Q 04What was the full given name of Forrest's Army friend, known to everyone as 'Bubba'?
Benjamin Buford Blue
Bubba's full name was Benjamin Buford Blue, a shrimp-obsessed Army recruit; Forrest later names the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company after him.
Q 05What does Forrest offer the nurse beside him on the bench as he begins his story?
A chocolate
A chocolate from the box he holds out to her; he says he could eat about a million and a half of them, then gives Mama's line in the past tense: life 'was' like a box of chocolates.
Q 06In Vietnam, what does Forrest say started one day and didn't quit for four months?
The rain
The rain came in every kind, from 'little bitty stinging rain' to rain that 'flew in sideways'; the day somebody finally turned it off, the platoon walked into an ambush.
Q 07What company did Lieutenant Dan invest Forrest's Bubba Gump Shrimp Company earnings in?
Apple
Apple is what Forrest calls 'some kind of fruit company'; when Lieutenant Dan phones to say they need never worry about money again, he replies, 'That's good. One less thing.'
Q 08In which role does Forrest star for the University of Alabama football team?
Kick returner
Forrest plays kick returner for Alabama; the coach signs him after seeing him outrun bullies across a football field, and his touchdown returns make him an All-American.
Q 09Which famous musician did a young Forrest Gump teach some dance moves to?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley boards at Mrs. Gump's house, and young Forrest's stiff-legged dancing in his braces gives him his hip-swinging moves.
Q 10Lieutenant Dan scoffs that the day Forrest captains a shrimp boat, he himself will be what?
An astronaut
An astronaut is the punchline, but in the same breath he vows to come and be Forrest's first mate if it ever happens, and he later turns up on the dock to keep his word.
Q 11Forrest Gump won six Oscars, but which of these nominations did it lose?
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actor went to Martin Landau for Ed Wood, so Gary Sinise's Lieutenant Dan went home empty-handed on a night when six of the film's other nominations became wins.
Q 12Forrest Gump tells his life story from a bus-stop bench in Chippewa Square in which historic Southern city?
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia's Chippewa Square never had that bench: it was a fiberglass prop set down for filming, which is why fans now find one in the Savannah History Museum instead.
Q 13What does Bubba call shrimp before reeling off all the ways to cook it?
Q 21Tom Hanks based adult Forrest's slow Southern drawl on whose real voice?
His young co-star
His young co-star Michael Conner Humphreys, a Mississippi boy with no film experience, had so thick a natural accent that Hanks copied the child instead of the child copying him.
Q 22Which actress, only ten years older than Tom Hanks, played Forrest Gump's mother?
Sally Field
Sally Field had co-starred with Hanks six years earlier in Punchline, where his stand-up comic falls for her married housewife and is turned down.
Q 23Which musician sits beside Forrest Gump on a talk show and seems to get a song idea from him?
John Lennon
The fruit of the sea
The fruit of the sea, he says, and the recipes then run through days of boot-shining and floor-scrubbing before he reaches shrimp sandwich and 'that's about it'.
Q 14Forrest Gump stumbles into which governor's 'Stand in the Schoolhouse Door' while at college?
George Wallace
George Wallace blocked a University of Alabama doorway in 1963 to stop two Black students enrolling; in the film Forrest picks up a book one of them has dropped and hands it back.
Q 15In which Alabama coastal town does Forrest buy his boat and set up as a shrimper?
Bayou La Batre
Forrest buys his shrimp boat in Bayou La Batre, Bubba's Alabama hometown, keeping the promise the two made in Vietnam to go into the shrimping business together.
Q 16Who wrote the screenplay for "Forrest Gump"?
Eric Roth
Eric Roth's adaptation dropped the novel's wilder chapters, which send Forrest into space, into a wrestling ring and off to chess tournaments.
Q 17Kept awake by flashlights across the way, Forrest Gump tells hotel security the men must be looking for what?
A fuse box
A fuse box is his guess, since the lights are off over there, so he asks for a maintenance man; his room is in the Watergate Hotel, and the complaint is the film's joke about the 1972 break-in.
Q 18What phrase did Forrest Gump's mother often tell him, which later became a famous line?
"Stupid is as stupid does."
"Stupid is as stupid does" becomes Forrest's stock answer whenever anyone asks if he is stupid, from a girl on the school bus to Bubba's mother years later.
Q 19On first meeting Forrest and Bubba in Vietnam, Lieutenant Dan asks whether the two are what?
Twins
Twins is his deadpan joke after both answer 'Alabama, sir!' in one voice; Forrest, missing it, earnestly replies that they are not relations.
Q 20On his cross-country run, Forrest Gump first reaches the Atlantic at the Marshall Point Lighthouse in which northeastern state?
Maine
Maine is where Forrest runs out of road a second time: on reaching 'another ocean' he figures that, having come this far, he might as well turn back and keep going.
John Lennon hears Forrest say that people in China have no possessions and never go to church, and the film jokes that those lines of 'Imagine' started there.
Q 24What does young Jenny pray to become while hiding in the cornfield?
A bird
Hiding from her abusive father, young Jenny prays, 'Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far, far away from here.'
Q 25What major protest did Forrest Gump accidentally speak at in Washington D.C.?
An anti-Vietnam War rally
An anti-Vietnam War rally hears almost none of his speech, because a policeman pulls the plugs on the sound system just as he starts to describe the war.
Q 26Which president arranges a new Washington hotel room for Forrest Gump during a White House visit?
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon asks where Forrest is staying, hears 'the Hotel Ebbott' and says he knows a much nicer, brand-new one that his people will take care of.
Q 27Forrest's IQ of 75 falls five points short of his state's minimum for what?
Attending public school
Attending public school took an IQ of 80, the principal explains, so Forrest was bound for a special school until Mrs. Gump insisted her boy would get the same chances as everyone else.
Q 28Which band's 'Fortunate Son' plays as Forrest and Bubba's helicopter arrives in Vietnam?
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty wrote it in anger at a draft that took men like him while the well-connected sons of senators were spared.
Q 29Which relative of Tom Hanks plays the girl on the school bus who refuses young Forrest a seat?
His daughter
His daughter Elizabeth, then eleven, is the girl in the red plaid dress who shakes her head at Forrest; she grew up to be a writer, not an actor, publishing as E. A. Hanks.
Q 30Forrest Gump met President Lyndon B. Johnson, who personally awarded him with what?
The Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor scene uses real 1968 footage of Lyndon Johnson decorating Sergeant Sammy L. Davis, with Tom Hanks's head placed over Davis's.