Goonies Trivia
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99 free Goonies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
58 free Goonies trivia questions with answers. The Goonies is the treasure hunt a whole generation grew up quoting, and this quiz goes well past "Hey you guys!" Fifty-eight questions cover the Walsh brothers, Chunk's confession, Data's gadgets, the Fratellis and their hideout, One-Eyed Willy's booby traps and the ship nobody wanted to keep, plus the songs, the wrestlers in Cyndi Lauper's video and the real Oregon town that still throws a party for the film every year. It starts with the easy stuff any fan can answer and works up to production trivia and what happened to the cast afterwards, from Josh Brolin's Oscar nomination to Ke Huy Quan's Academy Award and the Goonie who became his lawyer. If you run a movie round at trivia night, the whole set is free to lift. Every answer was checked against the film's credits, the Wikipedia articles on the movie and its cast, and the Wikiquote transcript, and each question carries its source. No fan-forum guesses, no recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01In The Goonies, which comic-book hero's logo is on the T-shirt Sloth reveals aboard the pirate ship?
Superman
Superman: the shirt is an in-joke about the film's director, who had made his name with Superman: The Movie in 1978.
Q 02Which two words complete Mikey's rallying cry, 'Goonies never', in The Goonies?
Say die
Say die: Mikey snaps 'Goonies never say die' when a friend fears someone may already be dead, then talks the group out of abandoning the hunt.
Q 03Which future Lord of the Rings actor plays Mikey Walsh?
Sean Astin
Sean Astin kept the prop treasure map as a souvenir of his film debut, only for it to be thrown out at home years later, mistaken for a crumpled scrap of paper.
Q 04Which racket are the Fratellis running in the basement of their restaurant hideout in The Goonies?
Counterfeiting money
Counterfeiting money: the boys whoop over stacks of $50 bills in the basement until Brand looks closer and declares them phony.
Q 05Which screenwriter wrote The Goonies?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus was hired by Steven Spielberg, who had come up with the story himself and wanted a writer to turn it into a full screenplay.
Q 06Why are the Goonies about to lose their homes?
A country club is expanding
A country club is expanding: its owner, Elgin Perkins, is foreclosing on the Goon Docks to lay out a golf course, and his son Troy is Brand's rival for Andy.
Q 07Where do the boys find the treasure map and the 1632 doubloon?
In the Walshes' attic
In the Walshes' attic: Mrs. Walsh has just explained that her husband wants nobody up there, and the boys go rummaging anyway.
Q 08Where are the Goonies when Mikey gives his 'it's our time down here' speech?
Under a wishing well
Under a wishing well: rich kid Troy is at the top ready to haul them up in the bucket, and Mikey persuades his friends to stay below and keep hunting.
Q 09What does Chunk find in the restaurant freezer besides ice cream in The Goonies?
A dead body
A dead body: drawn in by the smell of ice cream, Chunk opens the freezer door and a corpse topples out onto him.
Q 10In The Goonies, what is Sloth's real first name?
Lotney
Lotney is the Fratellis' chained-up son, and he changes sides once one of the kids befriends him, arriving in time to save the Goonies from his own family.
Q 11Sloth actor John Matuszak won two Super Bowls with which NFL team, whose shirt Sloth wears in The Goonies?
Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders: Houston had made Matuszak the first overall pick of the 1973 draft, but he won his rings in Oakland, and Sloth's Raiders shirt is a nod to that old team.
Q 12Which candy bar does Chunk offer Sloth when they first meet?
Baby Ruth
Baby Ruth: sharing the bar wins Chunk a friend, and Sloth soon breaks them both out of the basement to go after his own family.
Q 13What does Mikey toss aside near the end of The Goonies with a shrug of 'who needs it'?
His asthma inhaler
Q 21Andy has to play which unusual instrument correctly to keep the floor from collapsing?
An organ made of bones
An organ made of bones: Andy gets the job because she once took piano lessons, at the age of four, and each wrong chord sends part of the floor crashing away.
Q 22What is the name of the pirate's ship the Goonies find in the grotto?
The Inferno
The Inferno was a full-size set modelled on Errol Flynn's ship in The Sea Hawk, and it was scrapped after filming because nobody could be found to take it.
Q 23Why is The Goonies' director said to have kept the pirate ship set from his young cast?
To film their real reactions
His asthma inhaler: Mikey is the group's asthmatic leader, but once the adventure is over he flings the inhaler away.
Q 14Which flavour of ice cream does Sloth chuckle over when he raids the hideout's freezer?
Rocky Road
Rocky Road is what Sloth holds up with a chuckle while his young cellmate phones a sheriff who has heard too many of the boy's tall tales to believe him.
Q 15Which pop star does Chunk claim once came to his house to use the bathroom in The Goonies?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson: when the others scoff, Chunk backs down and admits it was not the singer at all, then insists that his sister did visit.
Q 16Which Goonie is a James Bond fanatic who builds his own gadgets?
Data
Data plays a tape of the Bond theme before sliding down a rope to Mikey's house, and his 'Pinchers of Peril' later save him from a fall.
Q 17Which language does Mouth speak fluently, which he uses to terrify the Walshes' new housekeeper?
Spanish
Spanish: Mouth abuses the skill to feed the new housekeeper wild lies about the house, yet at the end it is his translation of her shout that stops Mr. Walsh signing the foreclosure papers.
Q 18Which future Oscar nominee made his film debut as Brand Walsh in The Goonies?
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin, 16 and reading up on method acting, recalls telling Steven Spielberg that the tunnels stood for his mother's womb, and being told to just act.
Q 19After kissing someone in the dark cave, Andy asks Stef what question about Brand?
Whether he wears braces
Whether he wears braces: in the dark she had kissed his little brother Mikey by mistake, and Brand only catches on when she later asks what happened to his braces.
Q 20Whose skeleton do the Goonies find in the tunnels, still carrying candles?
Chester Copperpot
Chester Copperpot was a treasure hunter who vanished chasing the same legend, and Mikey takes heart from the bones: even a professional never made it as far as they have.
To film their real reactions: by one actor's own account he swore and spoiled a take, and another has since said he had already had a sneak peek.
Q 24Which treasure does Mikey tell the others to leave behind for One-Eyed Willy in The Goonies?
The gold on his scales
The gold on his scales: 'Save that for Willy,' Mikey says, but the Fratellis later grab it anyway and set off the ship's last booby trap.
Q 25What do the Goonies discover their last 'candle' actually is?
A stick of dynamite
A stick of dynamite: one of the boys lights it and remarks that this candle sparkles, a moment before the others realise what he is holding.
Q 26Which item of Mikey's turns out to be full of jewels, saving the Goon Docks?
His marble bag
His marble bag: Mikey had swapped the marbles for jewels, and the Fratellis forgot to check it when they stripped the kids of their haul.
Q 27Which sea creature gets a mention at the end of The Goonies although its scene was cut?
An octopus
An octopus attacked two of the kids in a sequence dropped from the final cut, yet it survived as a level of the 1985 home-computer game based on the film.
Q 28Which singer had a top-ten hit with 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough' from the soundtrack?
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper promoted it with a 12-minute, two-part video in which the young cast, a troupe of pro wrestlers and Steven Spielberg all turn up.
Q 29Which then-unknown band appears as female pirates in the two-part 'Goonies 'R' Good Enough' video?
The Bangles
The Bangles were friends of the song's singer, who picked them for the soundtrack album a year before their second record made them stars.
Q 30Which composer wrote The Goonies score, including the 'Fratelli Chase' theme reused in many trailers?
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin's score had to wait 25 years for an album of its own, in 2010, even though its chase theme had long been borrowed for other films' trailers.