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This Remember the Titans trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers the 2000 Disney film from every angle: Denzel Washington and Will Patton as coaches Boone and Yoast, the young cast that included Ryan Gosling, Hayden Panettiere, Donald Faison, Wood Harris and Ryan Hurst, the plot beats from Gettysburg camp to the last-play championship, Trevor Rabin's score and the soul and rock soundtrack, the Georgia locations, and the box office run that made it Denzel's biggest opener at the time. It then digs into the true story: the 1971 T. C. Williams Titans of Alexandria, Virginia, the real Herman Boone and Bill Yoast, Gerry Bertier's actual accident and Paralympic career, and the many places the movie bent the facts. Early questions are gentle enough for anyone who has seen it once; the later ones reward people who know the history behind the film. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries, biographies and contemporary reporting before publishing, so you can settle arguments with confidence.
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Q 01Who directed Remember the Titans?
Boaz Yakin
It was the first film Yakin directed without also writing it, and its success pushed him into Hollywood's top tier of bankable directors.
Q 02Denzel Washington plays which head coach in the film?
Herman Boone
Washington's casting mattered at the box office too: the film gave him his biggest opening weekend to that point.
Q 03Which actor plays assistant coach Bill Yoast?
Will Patton
Patton had appeared in Armageddon and Gone in 60 Seconds shortly before, and later played Deputy Marnes in Silo.
Q 04Which blockbuster producer made Remember the Titans?
Jerry Bruckheimer
It was a rare PG-rated drama from the producer of Armageddon and Con Air, and Chad Oman co-produced.
Q 05Who wrote the screenplay?
Gregory Allen Howard
Howard discovered the story after moving back to his native Virginia and wrote it as a spec script that studios initially passed on.
Q 06The main story of the film takes place during which football season?
1971
That season the newly consolidated school fielded what amounted to an all-city all-star team drawn from three former high schools.
Q 07In which city is the film set?
Alexandria, Virginia
The city's public schools had actually been legally desegregated more than a decade before the events of the film.
Q 08Where do the Titans go for their preseason training camp in the film?
Gettysburg College
The real team did tour Gettysburg, though former players say it was much less dramatic than the movie's version.
Q 09Which opponent do the Titans face in the film's climactic state title game?
George C. Marshall High School
In reality that was a mid-season matchup, though the real Titans did win it on a fourth-down comeback play at the very end.
Q 10Which real 1971 opponent did T. C. Williams beat 27-0 in the actual Virginia state final?
Andrew Lewis High School
The real title game was a shutout played at Victory Stadium in Roanoke, nothing like the movie's last-play thriller.
Q 11Gerry Bertier is paralysed in a car accident at what point in the film's season?
The night the semifinal is won
The film moves the crash before the title game so the Titans must win it without their All-American linebacker.
Q 12Which sport wins Gerry a Paralympic gold medal in the film's epilogue?
Shot put
The real Bertier had talked since childhood about winning an Olympic gold medal, and after his injury set state and national wheelchair records.
Q 13Which song does Julius lead the team in singing at Gerry's funeral?
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Q 21Kate Bosworth plays which character?
Emma Hoyt
Bosworth had one prior film credit, The Horse Whisperer, and broke out two years later in Blue Crush.
Q 22Which player in the film was invented and did not exist on the real team?
Ray Budds
Real Titans said that if a player like him had existed, he would have been cut in training camp.
Q 23Who composed the film's score?
Trevor Rabin
Rabin composed twelve cues, but only one, "Titans Spirit", made it onto the soundtrack album.
The film's composer was earlier a guitarist and singer in which progressive rock band from 1983 to 1995?
The 1969 Steam hit was the last multi-week Billboard number one of the 1960s, and it fits the movie's running gag of the team singing on the sidelines.
Q 14According to the epilogue, how many more seasons did Boone coach the Titans after 1971?
Five
The film omits that Boone was actually removed from the job by the principal in 1979.
Q 15Which character does Ryan Gosling play?
Alan Bosley
Gosling, then 19, had just been dropped by his agent because of the stigma of children's TV; this small role preceded his breakthrough in The Believer.
Q 16Hayden Panettiere plays which character?
Sheryl Yoast
The football-obsessed coach's daughter earned Panettiere a Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Young Actress.
Q 17What nickname does the long-haired quarterback Ronnie Bass go by?
Sunshine
The real Bass says his hair was never that long and that the locker-room kiss with Bertier never happened.
Q 18Donald Faison of Scrubs plays which Titan?
Petey Jones
Scrubs later returned the favour: three extras wearing T. C. Williams letter jackets appear in the episode "My No Good Reason".
Q 19Wood Harris plays which team captain?
Julius Campbell
Harris earned NAACP Image and Blockbuster award nominations for the role two years before he became Avon Barksdale on The Wire.
Q 20Which actor plays Gerry Bertier?
Ryan Hurst
Hurst had played a paratrooper in Saving Private Ryan two years earlier and would go on to Sons of Anarchy.
Yes
Rabin also wrote the NBA on TNT theme and once produced a set of alert sounds for Apple's Power Macintosh.
Q 25NBC has used "Titans Spirit" over the closing credits of which event since 2002?
The Olympic Games
The cue also closed out NBC's 12-year run of NBA coverage in 2002.
Q 26Which NHL team's 2018 Stanley Cup celebration featured "Titans Spirit" as its captain lifted the Cup?
Washington Capitals
The New Jersey Devils have also used the piece for jersey retirements, including Martin Brodeur's.
Q 27Which Buddy Miles song is heard early in the film but was left off the soundtrack album?
Them Changes
Miles also performed the song with Jimi Hendrix in Band of Gypsys, and it became the title track of his 1970 solo album.
Q 28In which US state was most of the film shot?
Georgia
Atlanta-area schools stood in for the Alexandria campus, and Berry College in Rome doubled for other locations.
Q 29The Titans' home games were filmed at which campus?
Paulding County High School
Practice scenes were shot at Clarkston High and some championship footage at Sprayberry's stadium in East Marietta.
Q 30What was the film's production budget?
$30 million
It returned more than four times that worldwide, an unusually strong ratio for a period sports drama.