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50 free Million Dollar Baby trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Million Dollar Baby trivia quiz covers Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winner from the Hit Pit to the hospital. It follows Maggie Fitzgerald from Ozarks waitress to $1 million title fight: Frankie Dunn's refusal to train a woman, Scrap-Iron Dupris letting her in anyway, Big Willie signing with Mickey Mack, the Gaelic nickname on the robe, the sucker punch from Billie the Blue Bear, and the ending that drew protests from disability rights groups. Behind the scenes it covers Paul Haggis's spec script that took four years to sell, the studio that would not fund a $30 million budget, the 40-day shoot, Hilary Swank's 19 pounds of muscle and the staph infection she hid from Eastwood, the Sonny Liston insult that gave the film its title, and F.X. Toole, the cutman whose Rope Burns stories started it all. A final round covers the 77th Academy Awards, where Eastwood became the oldest Best Director winner and Swank joined a tiny club of two-for-two Best Actress winners. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who directed Million Dollar Baby?
Clint Eastwood
He also co-produced, starred in and composed the score for it.
Q 02Who plays Maggie Fitzgerald?
Hilary Swank
It won her a second Best Actress Oscar, five years after Boys Don't Cry.
Q 03Who plays Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris?
Morgan Freeman
It finally won him an Oscar, for Best Supporting Actor, after three earlier nominations.
Q 04What is the name of Frankie Dunn's gym?
The Hit Pit
It's a rundown boxing gym in Los Angeles.
Q 05What job does Maggie have when she first walks into the gym?
Waitress
She has come to Los Angeles from the Ozarks.
Q 06Why does Frankie initially turn Maggie away?
He won't coach women and thinks she's too old
Scrap lets her train at the gym anyway.
Q 07Which fighter leaves Frankie for rival manager Mickey Mack?
'Big Willie' Little
He grew impatient with Frankie turning down title-fight offers, which is what opens the door for Maggie.
Q 08What Gaelic nickname is embroidered on Maggie's robe?
Mo Cuishle
Frankie refuses to tell her what it means until the very end.
Q 09What does Frankie finally say the nickname means?
"My darling, and my blood"
The phrase comes from a chuisle mo chroí, 'O pulse of my heart'.
Q 10What does Maggie buy her mother with her winnings?
A house
Her mother complains it will cost her her welfare checks.
Q 11Where does Maggie's $1 million title fight take place?
Las Vegas
It's for the WBA women's welterweight title.
Q 12What is the ring name of the champion Maggie fights for the title?
The Blue Bear
Billie Osterman is a German ex-prostitute with a reputation as a dirty fighter.
Q 13Which real Dutch boxer and kickboxer plays Billie Osterman?
Lucia Rijker
The press once dubbed her 'The Most Dangerous Woman in the World'.
Q 14How is Maggie paralysed?
Q 21Who plays 'Danger' Barch, the would-be boxer?
Jay Baruchel
Mike Colter, later Luke Cage, plays Big Willie.
Q 22Who plays Maggie's selfish mother Earline?
Margo Martindale
Riki Lindhome plays the welfare-cheating sister Mardell.
Q 23Who wrote the screenplay?
Paul Haggis
He wrote it on spec after being fired from Family Law and won Best Picture again the next year with Crash.
Q 24The film is adapted from which book?
A sucker punch after the bell sends her onto her stool
She breaks her neck and is left a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
Q 15What do Maggie's family do before visiting her in hospital?
Tour Disneyland and Universal Studios
They arrive with a lawyer and only care about getting her assets signed over.
Q 16How does Maggie try to end her own life in hospital?
She bites her tongue to bleed to death
Frankie has just refused her request to help her die.
Q 17What does Frankie inject to end Maggie's life?
Adrenaline
Scrap watches from the shadows as he does it.
Q 18The film's narration turns out to be a letter from Scrap to whom?
Frankie's daughter
He wants her to know her estranged father's true character.
Q 19What is the priest Frankie pesters called?
Father Horvak
He warns Frankie he will never find himself again if he helps Maggie die.
Q 20Which future Marvel star plays boxer Shawrelle Berry?
Anthony Mackie
Michael Peña plays his best friend Omar.
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
Some DVD editions came with a paperback copy of the book.
Q 25F.X. Toole was the pen name of a boxing cutman with what real name?
Jerry Boyd
He died of a heart attack in 2002, before the film was made.
Q 26The title phrase was originally used as an insult by which boxer?
Sonny Liston, about Muhammad Ali
Ali was the underdog at the time of the pre-fight publicity.
Q 27How long did Haggis's spec script take to sell?
Four years
Even Warner Bros., Eastwood's longtime home, balked at the $30 million budget.
Q 28Which company put up half the budget after Warner Bros. refused to fund it all?
Lakeshore Entertainment
Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg also took foreign distribution.
Q 29Roughly how many days did Eastwood take to shoot the film?
Under 40
It was shot in June and July 2004 in Los Angeles and on Warner Bros. sets.
Q 30How much muscle did Swank gain for the role?
19 pounds
She trained nearly five hours a day with Grant L. Roberts, who also appears as Billie's cutman.