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43 free Idiocracy trivia questions with answers, for anyone who has ever muttered 'it's got electrolytes' at a news broadcast. The quiz covers the plot of Mike Judge's 2006 satire in detail: why Joe Bauers was chosen for the hibernation experiment, how he ended up registered as Not Sure, what Brawndo was doing to the crops, where the time machine really was and how a monster-truck execution turned into a presidential pardon. It also covers the people who made it, from Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard and Terry Crews to the rapper who played Upgrayedd and the Office Space alumnus who played Judge Hector. There is a production round too: the working titles, the Texas locations, the $2.4 million budget, the seven cities it opened in, the studio that refused to screen it for critics, and the years of arguments over whether Fox buried it because of test screenings or angry corporations. Easy questions come first; the hard ones will test whether you have really watched it more than once. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and shows its citation once you have answered, so you can win the argument about the Extreme Court without a rewatch.
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Q 01Mike Judge co-wrote Idiocracy with which screenwriter, who later wrote Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3?
Etan Cohen
Cohen, a Harvard Lampoon alumnus, had written for Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill. He is not the Coen brother of the similar-sounding name.
Q 02What is Joe Bauers's job in the US Army before the experiment?
Librarian
He is selected because tests show he is the most statistically average person in the armed forces, not for any talent.
Q 03Who plays Joe Bauers?
Luke Wilson
His real-life older brother Andrew Wilson also appears, as the monster-truck rehabilitation officer Beef Supreme.
Q 04Joe and Rita are meant to sleep for one year. How long do they actually stay in hibernation?
500 years
The base is shut down after a sex scandal involving the commanding officer and Rita's pimp, and the project is simply forgotten.
Q 05Who plays Rita?
Maya Rudolph
She was a Saturday Night Live cast member at the time; the same year she had her first prominent film role in A Prairie Home Companion.
Q 06Why does the army have to hire Rita for the experiment?
No suitable female candidate could be found
The military drops charges against her and pays off her pimp Upgrayedd, whose scandal with the commanding officer then closes the whole base.
Q 07Whose apartment does Joe's hibernation pod crash into after the garbage avalanche?
Frito Pendejo's
Frito, played by Dax Shepard, later turns out to be Joe's court-appointed lawyer and spends the trial complaining about his wrecked apartment.
Q 08The narrator describes future English as a mixture of hillbilly, Valley Girl, inner-city slang and what?
Various grunts
Joe's own perfectly ordinary 2005 accent is heard as pompous and effeminate, which is what gets him laughed at in court.
Q 09At which fast-food chain is Joe first arrested for lacking a bar-code tattoo?
Carl's Jr.
Real brands appear throughout the film, and Terry Crews later claimed the companies' unhappiness with their portrayal helped sink its release.
Q 10At the correctional facility, a faulty ID machine registers Joe under what name?
Not Sure
The name sticks all the way to the presidency. He escapes prison by telling a guard he has finished his sentence and is due for release.
Q 11According to Frito, the time machine is located inside what kind of building?
A sprawling Costco store
It turns out to be an amusement ride. The store's greeter deadpans 'Welcome to Costco, I love you', a line Crews says annoyed the real company.
Q 12What does Frito demand in return for guiding Joe to the time machine?
A savings account opened in his name in the past
Frito reasons that five centuries of compound interest would make him billions. He gets the vice-presidency and eight wives instead.
Q 13Which cabinet post does President Camacho give Joe after his aptitude test?
Q 21Joe's public execution is a demolition derby against which undefeated 'rehabilitation officer'?
Beef Supreme
He is played by Andrew Wilson, eldest of the Wilson brothers, who had appeared in Bottle Rocket and The Royal Tenenbaums with his siblings.
Q 22How does Rita save Joe from execution?
She pays a cameraman to show the recovering crops on the Jumbotron
Seeing the plants growing, Camacho grants a presidential pardon on the spot. Joe goes on to become president himself.
Q 23By the end of the film, how many children does Vice-President Frito have with his eight wives?
Secretary of the Interior
Camacho gives him a week to fix the crops, the dust storms and the economy or go back to prison. David Herman plays the Secretary of State.
Q 14Which soft drink is part of President Camacho's full name?
Mountain Dew
His full name is Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, and he came to office from professional wrestling.
Q 15Who plays President Camacho?
Terry Crews
Crews was a real NFL defensive end for the Rams, Chargers and Redskins before acting, and reprised Camacho in Funny or Die sketches before the 2012 election.
Q 16What was Camacho's job before he became president?
Professional wrestler
Judge compared Donald Trump to the character in 2016 and, asked about predicting the future, said 'I'm no prophet, I was off by 490 years.'
Q 17In Idiocracy, what ingredient in the sports drink Brawndo, which plants supposedly crave, has ruined the topsoil?
Electrolytes
The concentration of electrolytes has wrecked the soil and caused dust storms. Joe's radical proposal is to use water instead.
Q 18Brawndo's parent company owns the FCC, the HHS and which other federal agency?
The FDA
The company's chief executive is played by Thomas Haden Church, fresh from his Oscar nomination for Sideways.
Q 19What happens to the economy immediately after Joe switches the crops over to plain water?
Brawndo's stock collapses and half the country loses its jobs
Brawndo files for bankruptcy and riots break out because the crops do not recover instantly, which lands Joe back in court.
Q 20What is the highest tribunal of 2505, which sentences Joe to public execution, called?
The Extreme Court
It sentences Joe to public execution, which in this future means a monster-truck demolition derby.
32
The narrator calls them '32 of the dumbest children to ever walk on Earth', in contrast to Joe and Rita's 'three smartest kids in the world'.
Q 24Who is revealed to be waking from a third hibernation chamber in the post-credits scene?
Upgrayedd
Rita's pimp walks off to look for her. He is played by Houston rapper Brad Jordan, better known as Scarface of the Geto Boys.
Q 25Which rapper, a member of the Geto Boys, plays Rita's pimp?
Scarface
Judge is a fan: he used the Geto Boys' 'Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta' and 'Still' in Office Space, along with Scarface's 'No Tears'.
Q 26Which actor from Judge's earlier cult comedy about cubicle life plays Judge Hector?
Stephen Root
Root, who played stapler-obsessed Milton Waddams, also voiced Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on Judge's King of the Hill.
Q 27Which actor, then famous for Apple's 'Get a Mac' ads, plays Doctor Lexus?
Justin Long
The doctor tells Joe his condition is 'retarded' and 'talks like a fag', the film's blunt sample of future medicine. Long later became a horror 'scream king'.
Q 28Which Oscar-nominated Sideways star plays the chief executive of Brawndo?
Thomas Haden Church
Church, best remembered as Lowell on Wings and Sandman in Spider-Man 3, plays the executive whose product is destroying the soil.
Q 29Which actor plays Frito, later famous for the podcast Armchair Expert?
Dax Shepard
Shepard had come up through the Groundlings and MTV's Punk'd. He co-founded a baby-products company with his wife Kristen Bell.
Q 30One of the film's early working titles was a year. Which?
3001
Judge finished a script under that name in 2001, having first had the idea in 1996. Another working title was The United States of Uhh-merica.