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60 free Indiana Jones trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free Indiana Jones trivia questions with answers. It belongs in a museum, but first it belongs in a quiz. This set covers the whole Indiana Jones story: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny, plus The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the LucasArts and MachineGames video games, and the Disneyland ride. The early questions are for anyone who has seen the films once (what Indy is afraid of, who plays his father's old friend Sallah, which rating Temple of Doom helped invent). From there it digs into production lore: how wide the boulder really was, what the melting faces were made of, which uncredited playwright polished the Last Crusade script, and how many rats were bred for the Venice catacombs. Every answer has been checked against the published production history and carries a linked source, so when someone at your table insists the tank was a Mark IV you can settle it on the spot. Good for movie nights, pub quiz rounds, or anyone who owns a leather jacket for reasons they will not explain.
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Q 01Which creatures is Indiana Jones famously terrified of?
Snakes
The phobia is written into the character alongside the bullwhip, fedora, satchel and leather jacket, and it pays off in the Well of Souls.
Q 02In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Nazis are hunting which biblical artifact?
The Ark of the Covenant
The chest is said to make any army that carries it invincible, which is why Hitler wants it and why the US government sends Indy after it first.
Q 03In The Last Crusade, Indy and his father are racing the Nazis to find what?
The Holy Grail
Henry Jones Sr. spent his life on the search, and his diary of clues becomes the thing everyone is chasing before anyone reaches the cup itself.
Q 04Who plays Marion Ravenwood, first seen out-drinking a customer in a Nepal bar?
Karen Allen
She returned to the role 27 years later for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and again for Dial of Destiny, the only love interest to appear in three films.
Q 05Indy's loyal Egyptian digger friend Sallah is played by which actor?
John Rhys-Davies
He came back for The Last Crusade and, at 78, for Dial of Destiny; in between he was Gimli in The Lord of the Rings.
Q 06Kate Capshaw plays which Shanghai nightclub singer in Temple of Doom?
Willie Scott
She spends most of the film screaming at bugs and elephants, and married the director years later.
Q 07Which child actor made his film debut as Short Round, Indy's sidekick in Temple of Doom?
Ke Huy Quan
He drives the getaway car in Shanghai on a box of pedals; four decades later he won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Q 08George Lucas named the character after what?
His dog
The Alaskan Malamute called Indiana lent its name to a hero originally called Indiana Smith; the surname changed because it sounded too much like Nevada Smith.
Q 09In which year is Raiders of the Lost Ark set?
1936
That places it three years before the war, with the Nazis still digging in Egypt rather than fighting in it; the sequels jump backwards to 1935 and forwards to 1938.
Q 10The violence of Temple of Doom helped prompt the creation of which MPAA rating?
PG-13
The new rating arrived two months after the film's release; Gremlins, released the same summer, took some of the blame too.
Q 11Who directed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny?
James Mangold
He came off Logan and Ford v Ferrari; Spielberg stayed on as an executive producer.
Q 12In which US city was Harrison Ford born?
Chicago
He was born in 1942 at Swedish Covenant Hospital and later paid the bills as a self-taught carpenter before Star Wars made him famous.
Q 13In Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indy survives a nuclear test by climbing into what?
A refrigerator
The lead-lined appliance in a mock suburban house gave the internet the phrase "nuking the fridge", a spiritual sequel to jumping the shark.
Q 21The Shanghai nightclub in the opening of Temple of Doom is named after which Star Wars character?
Obi-Wan
Club Obi-Wan opens with a Mandarin-language rendition of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes", a wink to the other franchise Lucas was running.
Q 22The child-enslaving, heart-ripping cult in Temple of Doom worships the goddess Kali and is called what?
The Thuggee
The name comes from a real historical group of Indian robber-murderers, which is one reason the Indian government found the script offensive.
Q 23The temple at the climax of The Last Crusade is really Al-Khazneh, the Treasury, in which ancient city?
Petra
The Jordanian rock-cut facade only leads to a small chamber in real life; every interior shot with the knight and the trials was built on a soundstage.
Q 14The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles originally aired on which US network?
ABC
It ran for four seasons and sent teenage Indy off to meet Picasso, T.E. Lawrence and Theodore Roosevelt on a budget of $1.7 million per episode.
Q 15In the 2024 video game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, who provides Indy's voice and motion capture?
Troy Baker
The same actor was Joel in The Last of Us; the game is mostly first-person, switching to third-person only for cutscenes.
Q 16Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is set in which year?
1957
Nineteen years after The Last Crusade, which is why the villains are Soviets rather than Nazis and Indy is dodging an atomic bomb rather than a boulder.
Q 17Which actress plays Soviet agent Irina Spalko in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?
Cate Blanchett
She fences, reads minds and sports a severe black bob; her character wants to use the skulls to beam propaganda into American brains.
Q 18Who plays Mutt, the motorcycle-riding greaser revealed to be Indy's son?
Shia LaBeouf
His character's full name is Henry Jones III; the last film reveals he later died in Vietnam, which is why Indy and Marion are estranged in 1969.
Q 19In Dial of Destiny, Indy's goddaughter Helena Shaw is played by whom?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The Fleabag creator plays a fast-talking antiquities dealer whose father Basil, an Oxford archaeologist, was Indy's wartime ally.
Q 20Which actor plays the ex-Nazi scientist Jürgen Voller in Dial of Destiny?
Mads Mikkelsen
Voller wants to use Archimedes' Dial to travel back and win the war for Germany; the actor had already been a Bond villain and Hannibal Lecter.
Q 24Which country stood in for Egypt during the desert shoot of Raiders of the Lost Ark?
Tunisia
Temperatures topped 130 °F and most of the crew fell ill; Spielberg stayed healthy by eating only tinned food he had brought from England.
Q 25John Williams' Raiders score was nominated for an Oscar but lost to which film's score?
Chariots of Fire
Vangelis' synthesiser theme beat the London Symphony Orchestra's brass; the Raiders March had been stitched together from two themes because Spielberg wanted both.
Q 26In The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, how old is the eyepatch-wearing 'Old Indy' who introduces episodes?
93
George Hall played the elderly narrator; the bookends were later cut when the series was re-edited into 22 TV films.
Q 27Which Young Indiana Jones episode has Harrison Ford's only appearance, a 1950-set bookend?
Mystery of the Blues
A 50-year-old Indy remembers learning jazz as a young man; it aired in March 1993 and is the only time Ford played the role on television.
Q 28Which studio developed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle?
MachineGames
The Swedish team behind the modern Wolfenstein games brought their Nazi-punching expertise to a story set in 1937, with the Vatican as a hub.
Q 29LucasArts' point-and-click classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was released in which year?
1992
It let players choose a Team, Wits or Fists path through the story and became LucasArts' best-selling adventure game, passing a million copies.
Q 30The New York chase in Dial of Destiny takes place during a ticker-tape parade celebrating what?
The return of the Apollo 11 astronauts
Indy rides a police horse into the subway while the city celebrates the moon landing; the parade was staged in Scotland.