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40 free Office Space trivia questions with answers. Office Space bombed in cinemas and then became one of the most quoted comedies ever made, and this quiz is for everyone who has ever muttered about a case of the Mondays. Forty questions cover Peter Gibbons and his hypnotherapy, Bill Lumbergh and the TPS reports, Milton and the red Swingline, Michael Bolton and Samir, the fractions-of-a-cent virus, the printer that gets taken into a field, Joanna's fifteen pieces of flair, the two Bobs, Lawrence next door and the fire that saves the day. It also covers how the film got made: the Milton cartoons on Liquid Television and SNL, the studio pushing Mike Judge to cast Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, why Jennifer Aniston's part was expanded, the Texas locations, the $10 million budget and $12 million gross, and how Comedy Central airings and DVD sales built the cult. Easy questions ask which company Peter works for and what colour Milton's stapler is; hard ones want the name of the hypnotherapist, the rival firm Samir and Michael move to, and which role Judge ended up playing himself. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Office Space?
Mike Judge
It was his first live-action film, following Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
Q 02The Milton shorts that spawned Office Space first aired on Liquid Television and which sketch show?
Saturday Night Live
The three Milton cartoons aired on Liquid Television and Saturday Night Live.
Q 03What is the name of the software company where Peter Gibbons works?
Initech
After the fire, Samir and Michael move on to rival firm Initrode.
Q 04Who plays Peter Gibbons?
Ron Livingston
His agent asked for an audition just as Judge was being pushed to meet Matt Damon about the part.
Q 05Which two Good Will Hunting stars was Judge advised to cast?
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Fox had first told him bankable stars were out of budget, then changed its mind.
Q 06What happens to the hypnotherapist during Peter's session?
He dies of a heart attack
Dr. Swanson never snaps his fingers, so Peter stays blissfully relaxed for the rest of the film.
Q 07Which actor plays Bill Lumbergh?
Gary Cole
Judge said that once Cole read for it there was no doubt; he made the character ten times funnier.
Q 08What is Lumbergh's job title at the company?
Vice president
He is a micromanager who humiliates Milton and demands Peter come in on weekends.
Q 09Which of these actors auditioned for Lumbergh but ended up playing consultant Bob Slydell?
John C. McGinley
Paul Willson plays the other Bob, Bob Porter.
Q 10Who plays Milton Waddams?
Stephen Root
His glasses were so thick he needed contact lenses to see through them and had to practise grabbing the stapler.
Q 11What brand is Milton's red stapler?
Swingline
The filmmakers could not get permission to use Boston or Bostitch; a standard model was spray-painted red.
Q 12When did a real red version of Milton's stapler finally go on sale?
2002
The company gave in to years of fan requests; Root says film crews now leave boxes of them waiting for him.
Q 13How long ago had Milton actually been laid off when the consultants discover the payroll glitch?
Five years
Nobody told him, so he kept collecting a salary; they quietly stop the cheques without saying a word.
Where does Lumbergh eventually move Milton's desk?
Q 21Which printer error message from the film became shorthand for any baffling computer message?
PC LOAD LETTER
'TPS report' likewise became slang for pointless paperwork.
Q 22Who plays Joanna, the waitress Peter falls for?
Jennifer Aniston
Fox wanted a recognisable star; her flair subplot was added because the part was so small.
Q 23What are the 'pieces of flair' Joanna is nagged about at work?
Buttons on her uniform
Judge later heard that a real TGI Fridays had quietly dropped the buttons from its uniforms.
The basement
He also confiscates the red stapler along the way.
Q 15Which of Peter's co-workers hates sharing his name with a famous singer?
Michael Bolton
David Herman was the only actor Judge had in mind for a specific role, and it was this one.
Q 16Samir was originally written as Iranian, but was rewritten as what nationality after Ajay Naidu was cast?
Jordanian
Naidu worked with a dialect coach and improvised the break-dancing with local friends.
Q 17How does the trio's computer virus skim money from the company?
By diverting fractions of a cent into a bank account
A bug in Michael's code makes it grab over $300,000 in a single weekend instead.
Q 18Roughly how much money does the buggy virus grab across the weekend?
Over $300,000
Peter writes a confession and slips it under Lumbergh's door with traveler's checks for the full amount.
Q 19What inspired the scene where the office equipment is beaten to pieces in a field?
Judge's own struggles with a jammed printer while writing Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
He told his co-writer he planned to take it out to a field and destroy it on videotape.
Q 20According to Ajay Naidu, how did the actors approach the printer beating?
Like a Mafia hit
Livingston circled like the 'don' while the others swung the bat; real mafiosi later told Naidu it was 'authentic'.
Q 24Who plays Stan, the flair-obsessed manager at Chotchkie's?
Mike Judge
A Texas casting search found nobody for the role, so the director took it himself.
Q 25How does Joanna quit her job?
She gives her boss the middle finger
It comes in response to yet another lecture about her lack of flair.
Q 26Which man did Joanna actually sleep with, causing the mix-up?
Ron Lumbergh, an unrelated engineer
Peter only finds out after the two have already broken up over it.
Q 27How does the company's building end up destroyed at the end?
Milton burns it down
He then finds the traveler's checks and flees to Mexico, where he is still denied respect.
Q 28What job does Peter take at the end of the film?
Construction worker
He joins his neighbour Lawrence, a character based on an auto mechanic who lived next to Judge in Silicon Valley.
Q 29How did Tom Smykowski come into a large sum of money?
A lawsuit after a car accident
He had changed his mind about a suicide attempt only to be hit by a car, and sued.
Q 30In which state was Office Space filmed?
Texas
Shooting in Dallas and Austin began in May 1998, in 100-degree heat under skies whitened by smoke from fires in Mexico.