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49 free Juno trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Juno trivia quiz covers the 2007 film from the SunnyD in the opening titles to the two guitars on the porch at the end. It asks about the plot in Elk River, Minnesota, the Pennysaver ad, Mark and Vanessa Loring's Saint Cloud house, the note on the porch, Paulie's track meet, and the cast: Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney and J. K. Simmons. It also digs into how the film was made: Diablo Cody writing the script in seven weeks at a Starbucks inside a Target, Jason Reitman's screen test on a Panavision stage, Vancouver standing in for Minnesota, the fake leaves and the real snow, Kimya Dawson's 120-song care package, the rotoscoped title sequence, and the hamburger phones Fox Searchlight sent to critics. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen it, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which DJ plays the chemistry teacher. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Who wrote the screenplay for Juno?
Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody, then a Minneapolis blogger and columnist, wrote the script after her manager Mason Novick found her online; it was her first produced screenplay.
Q 02Who directed Juno?
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman, son of director Ivan Reitman, directed Juno as his second feature after Thank You for Smoking; it earned him a Best Director Oscar nomination.
Q 03In which Minnesota town is Juno set?
Elk River
Elk River, Minnesota, is Juno's home town in the film, where she attends the fictional Dancing Elk High School; the Lorings live in nearby Saint Cloud.
Q 04What is Juno's surname?
MacGuff
Juno MacGuff's father Mac MacGuff is played by J. K. Simmons and her stepmother Bren MacGuff by Allison Janney.
Q 05Who plays Paulie Bleeker, the father of Juno's baby?
Michael Cera
Michael Cera plays Paulie Bleeker; Cera, already known from Arrested Development, had broken out in Superbad a few months before Juno's December 2007 release.
Q 06Where does Juno find the adoptive couple?
In the ads in the Pennysaver
Her friend Leah helps her look; the couple turn out to be Mark and Vanessa Loring.
Q 07Who plays Vanessa Loring, the prospective adoptive mother?
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner plays Vanessa Loring, the eager would-be mother, opposite Jason Bateman as Mark; the whole film was made for about $7 million.
Q 08What does Mark Loring do for a living?
Composes commercial jingles
Mark Loring composes commercial jingles, a job he treats as a compromise; his rock-band past survives only in the one room of memorabilia Vanessa allows him.
Q 09Juno and Mark bond over a shared taste in which two things?
Punk rock and horror films
Juno and Mark bond over punk rock and horror films, trading bands and arguing over who is the greater gore director, Herschell Gordon Lewis or Dario Argento.
Q 10Where do Juno and Leah run into Vanessa and see her happily interacting with children?
At the mall
At the mall, Juno and Leah spot Vanessa happily playing with a small child; Juno then lets Vanessa feel the baby, which kicks for her.
Q 11What does Mark confide to Juno shortly before her due date?
He plans to leave Vanessa
Mark tells Juno he plans to leave Vanessa and move out on his own; when Vanessa comes home he admits he never felt ready to be a father.
Q 12What does the note Juno leaves on the Lorings' porch say?
Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in.
Juno's note reads 'Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in', and the closing scenes show it framed on the nursery wall as Vanessa holds the baby.
Q 13Why does Juno deliberately not tell Paulie she has gone into labour?
Q 21What was the title of Cody's memoir, which producer Mason Novick wanted her to adapt before she wrote Juno?
Candy Girl
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, published in 2005, grew out of her blog about a year spent working in Minneapolis strip clubs.
Q 22Which detail from Cody's own teenage life made it into the film?
Her hamburger phone
Her hamburger phone: the screenwriter owned one as a teenager, and it became Juno's signature prop, on screen when she calls the clinic.
Q 23Which actor's production company, Mr. Mudd, took on Juno after major studios were scared off?
John Malkovich
He has a track meet
Juno keeps quiet because Paulie has a track meet that day; he notices her missing from the stands, works it out and runs to the hospital.
Q 14Which song do Juno and Paulie sing together on the porch in the final scene?
Anyone Else but You
Juno and Paulie close the film with the Moldy Peaches' 'Anyone Else but You', a duet originally sung by the band's Kimya Dawson and Adam Green.
Q 15Which cast member of The Office plays Rollo, the convenience store clerk?
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute on The Office, plays Rollo, the clerk who sells Juno her pregnancy tests and tells her 'That ain't no Etch A Sketch'.
Q 16Olivia Thirlby, who plays Leah, had originally auditioned unsuccessfully to play whom?
The title character
Reitman still had her in mind from the start and included her in the group screen test.
Q 17Reitman cast the film's lead after admiring the actor's performance in which 2005 thriller?
Hard Candy
The director had seen the lead in Hard Candy, David Slade's 2005 thriller about a teenager who turns the tables on a suspected predator, and wanted no one else for Juno.
Q 18Handed Reitman's script with no role specified, J. K. Simmons said he would have happily played whom?
The teacher with no lines
Simmons had just worked with Reitman on Thank You for Smoking and got Mac MacGuff instead.
Q 19Which DJ and producer has a cameo as Juno and Paulie's chemistry teacher?
Cut Chemist
Cut Chemist, the Los Angeles DJ and producer born Lucas MacFadden and a former member of Jurassic 5, plays Juno's chemistry teacher, a nod to his name.
Q 20The screenplay was written over seven weeks in what unlikely spot?
A Starbucks inside a Target
The Target was in Crystal, Minnesota; she compared writing the script to breathing.
Mr. Mudd is the company John Malkovich founded with Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith; it had produced Ghost World, and Fox Searchlight went on to release Juno.
Q 24Where was Juno filmed, standing in for Minnesota?
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, stood in for Minnesota; Eric Hamber Secondary School played Dancing Elk High, and the shoot ran in early 2007.
Q 25What made the crew's plan to import snow for the winter scenes unnecessary?
It snowed on location
It snowed on location during the early-2007 shoot, so the schedule was rearranged to film the winter scenes in real snow, allowing far wider shots than planned.
Q 26How many days of actual shooting did Juno's six-week schedule allow?
30
Fake leaves, touched-up cherry blossom and a leaf-blowing fan created the seasons that mirror Juno's three trimesters.
Q 27Whose idea was it to use The Moldy Peaches' music in the film?
Page's
Page played the songs on Reitman's computer; Kimya Dawson then sent him CDs of about 120 songs.
Q 28Roughly how many songs did Kimya Dawson send Reitman on CD after reading the script?
About 120
None was written for the film; all had been recorded before she was contacted.
Q 29Which children's songwriter's 'All I Want Is You' plays over the opening titles?
Barry Louis Polisar
Barry Louis Polisar, a children's singer-songwriter active since the 1970s, wrote 'All I Want Is You', which the director laid over the rotoscoped opening titles.
Q 30Which Kinks song introduces Paulie Bleeker?
A Well Respected Man
'A Well Respected Man', the Kinks' 1965 satire of a conventional young man, plays as Paulie Bleeker first appears running in his track shorts.