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60 free Jackie Chan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Jackie Chan trivia quiz covers a career that runs from a five-year-old bit-part player to the most recognised action star on Earth. It begins with the Peking Opera school where he trained for a decade with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, the Australian building site that gave him his nickname, and the stunt-double work in Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. Then come the years when Lo Wei tried to make him the next Bruce Lee, and the two 1978 films, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, that made him a star by doing the opposite. The middle of the quiz is about the stunts: the 2,900-take pyramid fight in Dragon Lord, the clock-tower fall in Project A, the burning pole in Police Story, the fractured skull on Armour of God, the outtakes he borrowed from The Cannonball Run, and the Guinness record that notes no insurer will underwrite him. The last third takes in Rumble in the Bronx, Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, his singing career, the Rotten Tomatoes origin story, Le Mans, his politics and his charitable pledges. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is shown on every question. Every answer was checked against a reference page and each question carries its citation. Try our Rush Hour, Bruce Lee and Kung Fu Panda quizzes next.
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Q 01Jackie Chan's parents arrived in Hong Kong as political refugees from which conflict?
The Chinese Civil War
His father had briefly worked as a secret agent for the Kuomintang spy chief Dai Li and feared arrest by the communist government.
Q 02Chan's father originally had which surname before fleeing to Hong Kong?
Fang
Jackie discovered the family history in the late 1990s and adopted the Chinese name Fang Shilong.
Q 03Chan grew up at which foreign official's Victoria Peak residence, where his father cooked?
The French consul
He failed his first year at primary school, after which his parents withdrew him.
Q 04At the China Drama Academy, Chan trained in what tradition?
Peking Opera
The school was run by Master Yu Jim-yuen; Chan took the stage name Yuen Lo in his honour.
Q 05The elite performing group of the China Drama Academy, which included Chan, was called what?
The Seven Little Fortunes
Fellow members Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao became lifelong friends; the trio were later dubbed the Three Dragons.
Q 06Chan attained a black belt in which Korean martial art, training under grand master Jin Pal Kim?
Hapkido
He has also trained in karate, judo, boxing, taekwondo and Jeet Kune Do.
Q 07How did Chan get the nickname that became 'Jackie'?
A fellow builder called Jack in Canberra took him under his wing
'Little Jack' became 'Jacky' and, in the 1980s, 'Jackie'.
Q 08In which country did Chan briefly attend college and work on building sites in 1971?
Australia
His father had emigrated to Canberra in 1960 to be head cook at the American embassy.
Q 09At what age did Chan first appear in a film?
Five
At eight he appeared with fellow Little Fortunes in Big and Little Wong Tin Bar, with Li Li-Hua playing his mother.
Q 10In Bruce Lee's 1972 film avenging his master's death, Chan doubled for which character in the final fight?
The Japanese villain Hiroshi Suzuki
He is the man who flies through the air after Lee's kick; Sammo Hung helped him get the work.
Q 11Chan appears in Enter the Dragon (1973) as what?
A minor henchman killed by Lee's character
He was 19 and one of many faces in the underground fight scenes.
Q 12Director Lo Wei tried to mould Chan into a new Bruce Lee with which 1976 film?
New Fist of Fury
It flopped because Chan was uncomfortable copying Lee's style; Lo kept trying with little success.
Q 13Chan's stage name Sing Lung, given to echo Bruce Lee's, literally means what?
Becoming the dragon
Lee's own name meant 'Lee the Little Dragon', a reference to his birth in the Year of the Dragon.
Q 21The pyramid fight in Dragon Lord (1982) holds the record for the most takes for a single scene. How many?
2,900
The film also features him backflipping off a loft to the ground below.
Q 22The Jackie Chan Stunt Team was officially formed on which 1983 film?
Project A
Its signature moment has Chan falling from a clock tower through a series of fabric canopies, a stunt often compared to the silent-era clowns.
Q 23Critics compared Chan's 1983 clock-tower stunts to which silent-film star, whose work he had not yet seen?
Buster Keaton
Chan says the film was simply an evolution of the stunt comedy he had been doing since his 1980 hits.
Q 14Which 1978 film, directed by Yuen Woo-ping, gave Chan his first major breakthrough?
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Yuen gave him complete freedom over his stunts, and the film established the comedic kung fu genre.
Q 15Which 1978 film finally propelled Chan to mainstream success?
Drunken Master
He played the folk hero Wong Fei-hung, a role he returned to in a 1994 sequel.
Q 16What was Chan's directorial debut?
The Fearless Hyena
He broke his contract with Lo Wei during the sequel's shoot and joined Golden Harvest, prompting Lo to threaten him with triads.
Q 17Which actor-director helped settle Chan's dispute with Lo Wei so he could stay at Golden Harvest?
Jimmy Wang Yu
Lo had blamed manager Willie Chan for the defection and turned to triads to pressure his former star.
Q 18What was Chan's first Hollywood film, released in 1980?
The Big Brawl
He and The Protector were his only two US wide releases as a lead before the mid-1990s.
Q 19Which 1981 Burt Reynolds film inspired Chan to put outtakes over his closing credits?
The Cannonball Run
He had only a minor role, but the blooper reel stuck with him and became a trademark.
Q 20Which 1980 film beat box-office records set by Bruce Lee and made Chan Hong Kong's top star?
The Young Master
It was also his first musical recording: he sang the closing theme 'Kung Fu Fighting Man'.
Q 24The crew gave Police Story (1985) a nickname after a material. Why?
Sugar-glass panes were smashed by the hundred in the mall finale
The film also features Chan stopping a double-decker bus with his service revolver.
Q 25Sliding down a pole in Police Story's finale, Chan suffered second-degree burns because of what?
Studio lights had heated the metal
He also injured his back and dislocated his pelvis on landing; the film still won Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Q 26In Rob-B-Hood (2006), Chan's first antihero, a burglar named Thongs, has what problem?
A gambling habit
He had begun shedding the nice-guy image in New Police Story, playing an alcoholic cop mourning murdered colleagues.
Q 27Chan came closest to death on which film, when he fell from a tree and fractured his skull?
Armour of God
Over the years he has also broken his fingers, toes, nose, both cheekbones, hips, sternum, neck, ankle and ribs.
Q 28Which 1994 Chan sequel made Time magazine's All-Time 100 Movies list?
Drunken Master II
He won the Golden Horse Best Actor award the previous year for Police Story 3.
Q 29Chan turned down the villain Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man. Who took the role?
Wesley Snipes
He refused early Hollywood villain offers to avoid being typecast, and has generally avoided playing bad guys since.
Q 30Which 1995 film finally gave Chan a foothold in North America?
Rumble in the Bronx
One version of the poster diagrammed his many injuries to prove he did all his own stunts.