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60 free Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the one with Dad. Steven Spielberg's 1989 film sent Harrison Ford's archaeologist after the Holy Grail and his kidnapped father, put Sean Connery in a tweed suit and rimless glasses, and became the highest-grossing film in the world that year. This quiz has 60 questions on the whole film: the 1912 Boy Scout prologue and River Phoenix, the Cross of Coronado, Venice's rat-filled catacombs, Brunwald Castle, the book-burning in Berlin, the Zeppelin, the tank chase in the Spanish desert, the three trials and the knight who has waited 700 years. It also digs into the making of it: the abandoned Monkey King script, how Connery reshaped his role, where each sequence was shot, the record-setting opening weekend, the Oscar it won and the LucasArts games. It starts easy and works up to details for people who have read the making-of book. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or run it as the movie round at trivia night.
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Q 01Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released in which year?
1989
It arrived five years after Temple of Doom, and its Memorial Day weekend opening was a record at the time.
Q 02Which former James Bond plays Indiana's father, Henry Jones Sr.?
Sean Connery
He is only twelve years older than Harrison Ford and initially turned the part down for that reason.
Q 03What relic are Indy and his father searching for in the film?
The Holy Grail
Henry Sr. is a Grail scholar; the story is set in 1938, two years after Raiders.
Q 04Which young actor plays the 13-year-old Indiana Jones in the 1912 prologue?
River Phoenix
Ford recommended him: Phoenix had played Ford's son in The Mosquito Coast, and Ford thought he looked the most like him at that age.
Q 05In the prologue, young Indy is a Boy Scout living in which Utah town?
Moab
The scouting angle was Spielberg's idea; the opening was shot around Arches National Park and Colorado's Cumbres and Toltec railroad.
Q 06What artifact does young Indy grab from graverobbers in The Last Crusade prologue and recover in 1938?
The Cross of Coronado
Roger Ebert called the prologue the most original and effective part of the film, straight out of an old Boys' Life magazine.
Q 07How does the prologue explain the scar on Indy's chin?
He lashes himself with a bullwhip while fending off a lion
Harrison Ford's real chin scar came from a car accident when he was young.
Q 08According to the film, Indiana took his nickname from what?
The family dog
It's a nod to George Lucas, who named the character after his own Alaskan Malamute.
Q 09Young Indy's circus carriage, "Doctor Fantasy's Magic Caboose", is a reference to whom?
Producer Frank Marshall's magician persona
Marshall also devised the false-bottomed box, and the trick was done in a single unbroken shot.
Q 10Who plays Marcus Brody, the museum curator who "got lost in his own museum"?
Denholm Elliott
Elliott had been absent from Temple of Doom; bringing him and Sallah back was part of recapturing the Raiders tone.
Q 11Which actress plays Dr. Elsa Schneider, the art professor secretly working with the Nazis?
Alison Doody
Doody was 21 at her audition though the character is in her 30s; Amanda Redman turned the part down.
Q 12Walter Donovan, the businessman who sends the Joneses after the Grail, is played by which English actor?
Julian Glover
Glover had auditioned for Vogel, and was unhappy with the American accent he adopted for Donovan.
Q 13What is the name of the secret society, led by Kazim, that protects the Grail?
Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword
Q 21Which ancient site in Jordan stands in for the temple that houses the Grail?
Petra
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, had appeared in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger; the film helped push Petra's visitors from a few thousand a year toward a million.
Q 22In the second Grail trial, Indy steps only on stones spelling God's name in Latin. What is it?
Iehova
He nearly falls after stepping on "J" first; a planned tarantula crawling up him was filmed and scrapped.
Q 23How was the "leap of faith" crossing over the ravine created on screen?
A miniature with painted backgrounds
In early drafts Kazim was called Kemal and wanted the Grail for the Republic of Hatay; a late rewrite made him a protector.
Q 14According to the inscribed shield in the Venice catacombs, where does the path to the Grail begin?
Alexandretta
Marcus is captured by the Nazis there; the station scene was shot in Guadix, with a mosque built for atmosphere.
Q 15In which country is Brunwald Castle, where the Nazis hold Henry Jones Sr.?
Austria
The exteriors were actually Bürresheim Castle in West Germany, flipped and enlarged with a matte painting.
Q 16Which SS officer, played by Michael Byrne, commands the castle Nazis and dies going over a cliff in a tank?
Ernst Vogel
Byrne and Ford had already played a German and an American opposite each other in Force 10 from Navarone.
Q 17In Berlin, Indy retrieves his father's diary at what kind of Nazi event?
A book-burning rally
Michael Sheard, who plays Hitler, had already portrayed him three times; Ronald Lacey, Raiders' Toht, cameos as Himmler in the same scene.
Q 18How does Henry Jones Sr. bring down the pursuing German fighter plane on the beach?
He scares a flock of gulls into its path with his umbrella
The real gulls refused to fly on the first take, so Spielberg used doves; the shot was meant to evoke Ryan's Daughter.
Q 19How does Elsa cause Donovan's death in the Grail chamber?
She deliberately hands him the wrong cup
Donovan ages to dust in seconds, in the first all-digital composite shot in a movie.
Q 20How does Elsa die at the end of the film?
She falls into a chasm reaching for the Grail
Indy nearly follows her before his father, calling him "Indiana" for once, persuades him to let it go.
A puppet of Ford was used to cast a shadow on the 9-foot model, because Ford's bluescreen shot lacked the shaft of light from the entrance.
Q 24Which veteran actor plays the ancient Grail Knight who has guarded the cup since the Crusades?
Robert Eddison
Laurence Olivier was considered but was too ill; he died the year the film came out.
Q 25Which line did Connery improvise on set, kept because it made everyone laugh?
"She talks in her sleep."
In Boam's scripts, Henry's admission that he also slept with Elsa came much later.
Q 26Connery said he wanted to play Henry Jones Sr. as a kind of which Victorian explorer?
Richard Francis Burton
He also told Spielberg that whatever Indy had done, his character had done it better, and the script was revised to suit.
Q 27George Lucas's abandoned 1984 treatment for the third film had what title?
Indiana Jones and the Monkey King
Later drafts featured a Scottish ghost, a 200-year-old pygmy and a Nazi with a mechanical arm; scouting in Africa was abandoned.
Q 28Which screenwriter of Gremlins and The Goonies wrote rejected drafts featuring a Garden of Immortal Peaches?
Chris Columbus
When his script leaked online in 1997, fans mistook it for a draft of the fourth film because of a wrong date.
Q 29Which playwright, credited as Barry Watson, polished most of the film's dialogue and created the 'Panama Hat' character?
Tom Stoppard
His May 1988 rewrite also renamed Kemal as Kazim, Chandler as Donovan, and gave Vogel his death in the tank.
Q 30Whose idea was it to introduce Indiana's father, over Lucas's initial doubts?
Steven Spielberg
Spielberg had Connery in mind from the start but didn't tell Lucas, who wrote the part as an eccentric Olivier-type schoolmaster.