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50 free Green Book trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Green Book trivia quiz covers Peter Farrelly's 2018 Best Picture winner and the real 1962 road trip behind it. It follows Tony Lip and Don Shirley from the Copacabana to the Deep South: the Louisville bar, the letters home, the sundown-town arrest and the call to Robert F. Kennedy, the Birmingham country club, the blues club piano, the blizzard and the Christmas Eve dinner in the Bronx. Behind the scenes it covers Tony's son Nick Vallelonga co-writing the script from his father's stories, the 40 to 50 pounds Viggo Mortensen gained, Kris Bowers teaching Mahershala Ali piano, Robert Plant's YouTube song suggestions over dinner, Steven Spielberg watching the film five times, and the family cameos in the final scene. A separate round covers the real Don Shirley and Tony Lip, the guidebook the film is named after, the objections from Shirley's relatives, and the 91st Academy Awards, where a hostless ceremony crowned a Best Picture without a Best Director nomination. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who directed Green Book?
Peter Farrelly
He's one half of the Farrelly brothers, makers of Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary.
Q 02Who plays Tony Lip?
Viggo Mortensen
He put on a lot of weight for the role and earned a Best Actor nomination.
Q 03Who plays Don Shirley?
Mahershala Ali
It gave him his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar in three years, after Moonlight.
Q 04What is Tony's job when the film opens?
Bouncer at the Copacabana
The club is closed for renovations, so he needs work.
Q 05How long is Don's concert tour?
Eight weeks
They plan to be back in New York on Christmas Eve.
Q 06What was The Negro Motorist Green Book?
A guide to businesses that would serve Black travellers
Postal worker Victor Hugo Green published it from 1936 to 1966.
Q 07Who gives Tony his copy of the Green Book?
Don's record label
It lists motels, restaurants and filling stations that would serve Black travellers.
Q 08In which city do white men beat Don in a bar before Tony rescues him?
Louisville, Kentucky
Tony then orders him not to go out without him for the rest of the tour.
Q 09What does Don help Tony write?
Letters to his wife
They deeply move Dolores back in the Bronx.
Q 10Who plays Dolores, Tony's wife?
Linda Cardellini
Sebastian Maniscalco plays her brother Johnny.
Q 11How does Tony get Don out of trouble after the YMCA shower incident?
He bribes the police officers
Don had been found in a homosexual encounter with a white man.
Q 12Whom does Don phone from a Mississippi jail?
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
The pressure from Washington gets them released.
Q 13Why are they pulled over in the Mississippi sundown town?
Late-night driving while Black
Tony punches an officer after being insulted, landing them both in jail.
Q 21How much weight did Mortensen have to gain?
40 to 50 pounds
He began negotiations to star in May 2017.
Q 22Who taught Ali basic piano and doubled his hands in close-ups?
Composer Kris Bowers
Bowers also wrote the film's original score.
Q 23Where was the film shot?
New Orleans
Production began the week the lead cast was announced in November 2017.
Q 24Which rock star recommended obscure 1950s and 60s songs for the soundtrack over dinner?
Q 14Where does Don's final concert of the tour take place?
A country club in Birmingham, Alabama
He's refused entry to the whites-only dining room.
Q 15Where do Tony and Don go instead of playing the final concert?
A Black blues club
Don joins the band on piano.
Q 16Which Chopin piece does Don play at the blues club?
The 'Winter Wind' étude
It's Étude Op. 25, No. 11, and was left off the soundtrack album.
Q 17Why does the officer pull them over in the blizzard on the way home?
A flat tyre
He helps fix it and wishes them a safe trip; co-writer Brian Currie plays him.
Q 18How does the film end?
Don joins Tony's family for Christmas Eve dinner
He declines the invitation, sits alone at home, then changes his mind.
Q 19Who co-wrote the screenplay from his father's stories?
Nick Vallelonga
He also appears in the film as Augie, the Mafioso who offers Tony work.
Q 20Who plays Don's cellist Oleg?
Dimiter D. Marinov
The real cellist, Jüri Täht, was Estonian and dismayed to be turned into a Russian.
Robert Plant
He was dating a friend of Farrelly's wife and played tracks on YouTube.
Q 25Which filmmaker reportedly watched the film five times in two weeks and got it to Universal?
Steven Spielberg
He called it his favourite buddy movie since Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Q 26Which studio originally had the project and passed?
Focus Features
Participant Media financed the $23 million budget instead.
Q 27Which festival gave the film its premiere and People's Choice Award?
Toronto
It was also the surprise film at the BFI London Film Festival.
Q 28How many Oscars did Green Book win?
Three
Best Picture, Original Screenplay and Supporting Actor, from five nominations.
Q 29Green Book was the fifth Best Picture winner without a Best Director nod. Which was the fourth?
Argo
The others were Wings, Grand Hotel and Driving Miss Daisy.
Q 30What was unusual about the 2019 Oscar ceremony?
It had no host
Kevin Hart had stepped down over old tweets; it was the first hostless show since 1989.