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50 free Saturday Night Fever trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
46 free Saturday Night Fever trivia questions with answers. Released in December 1977, Saturday Night Fever turned a fabricated magazine article about Brooklyn disco kids into one of the defining films of the decade, made John Travolta an Oscar-nominated movie star, and pushed the Bee Gees' soundtrack past everything else in record-shop history until Thriller came along. This quiz covers the film from every angle: the plot in Bay Ridge, the real 2001 Odyssey club, the dance contest, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the actors and the people behind the camera. The easy questions ask who plays Tony Manero, where he works and which band wrote the songs; the harder ones want the director who was fired a month before shooting, the songs the dance scenes were originally shot to, the actresses considered for Stephanie, why the PG version was delayed, and the chart records the soundtrack singles set in the spring of 1978. It suits disco nostalgics, 70s film buffs and anyone building a music-and-movies quiz night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its soundtrack, its songs and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who plays Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever?
John Travolta
He was already famous as Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter, and was the only established name in the cast.
Q 02In which Brooklyn neighborhood does Tony Manero live?
Bay Ridge
The Manero house, the paint store and the promenade scenes were all shot there; a plaque honoring the film was installed on a promenade bench in 2025.
Q 03What is the name of the discotheque where Tony is king of the dance floor?
2001 Odyssey
It was a real club at 802 64th Street, later demolished; the production was harassed by local gangs and even firebombed while shooting there.
Q 04Where does Tony work during the week?
A hardware store
The store used for filming was Pearson Paint & Hardware in Bay Ridge.
Q 05Which band wrote and performed the film's best-known songs?
The Bee Gees
They were not involved until post-production, and said they basically lost a regular album by handing over five new songs.
Q 06The film was based on a 1976 New York magazine article by which British music writer?
Nik Cohn
He later admitted he had fabricated most of it, basing the protagonist on an English mod he knew.
Q 07What was the title of the magazine article that inspired the film?
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
The film went through several titles, including that mouthful and plain Saturday Night, before the final one was settled.
Q 08The article's author later admitted that its protagonist was actually based on whom?
An English mod he knew
As a newcomer to America he could not make sense of the disco subculture, so he made most of the piece up.
Q 09Who directed Saturday Night Fever?
John Badham
His younger sister Mary played Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird; he later directed WarGames and Short Circuit.
Q 10Which Rocky director was originally hired to direct the film but replaced a month before shooting?
John G. Avildsen
The split was put down to "conceptual disagreements"; his replacement's only previous feature was still in theaters when shooting began.
Q 11Which music impresario, manager of the Bee Gees, produced the film?
Robert Stigwood
He had signed Travolta to a three-picture deal in 1976 and wanted him to make Grease first, but the stage rights delayed that film.
Q 12Which already-written Bee Gees song supplied the extra word for the final title of the 1977 John Travolta disco film?
Night Fever
The brothers disliked the plain title, and their already-written song supplied the missing word.
Q 13Which Serpico screenwriter replaced the article's author and added Tony's priest brother?
Norman Wexler
He also co-wrote the 1983 sequel with Sylvester Stallone.
Q 21Roughly how many pounds did Travolta lose rehearsing his choreography for three hours a day?
20
He insisted on doing his own dancing after producers suggested a body double.
Q 22Which of Travolta's dance coaches on the film later hosted the TV series Dance Fever?
Deney Terrio
The show ran from 1979 to 1985; his co-coach on the film, Lester Wilson, later choreographed Sister Act.
Q 23Karen Lynn Gorney, who plays Stephanie, was how many years older than Travolta?
Nine
Old motorcycle-accident injuries made it hard for her to keep up with him in rehearsals.
Which of these actresses was considered for the role of Stephanie before Karen Lynn Gorney was cast?
Q 14Tony's older brother Frank Jr. disappoints his parents by leaving what?
The Catholic priesthood
He admits he only took it up to please their parents, and urges Tony to do what makes him happy.
Q 15Who is Tony's dance partner in the contest?
Stephanie Mangano
She rejects his advances at first and later admits she danced with him because he gave her respect and moral support.
Q 16Which gang does the hospitalized Gus blame for beating him up?
The Barracudas
The friends crash Bobby's car into their hangout in revenge, then learn Gus may have named the wrong gang.
Q 17What does Tony do with his first-prize trophy and money after the dance contest?
Gives them to the Puerto Rican couple
He believes the other couple danced better and that the judges' decision was racially biased.
Q 18Where do Tony and his friends do their cable-climbing antics, and where does Bobby C. fall to his death?
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
A deleted scene of Tony running his finger along its cables was restored in the 2017 director's cut.
Q 19How does Tony travel into Manhattan after Bobby's death at the end of the film?
On the graffiti-covered subway
By morning he is at Stephanie's apartment, apologizing and planning to relocate to Manhattan.
Q 20Roughly what was the film's production budget?
$3.5 million
The low budget meant most of the cast were unknowns from the New York theatre scene; for over 40% of them it was a film debut.
Carrie Fisher
Jessica Lange, Kathleen Quinlan and Amy Irving were also in the running.
Q 25Who plays Annette, the neighborhood girl infatuated with Tony?
Donna Pescow
Paramount executives thought she was almost too pretty for the part, so she put on weight and relearned the Brooklyn accent she had trained away.
Q 26Which future star of The Nanny debuted as dancer Connie in Saturday Night Fever?
Fran Drescher
The following year she appeared in American Hot Wax and Wes Craven's Stranger in Our House.
Q 27The interior of the real disco was modified for the film with a lighted floor costing about how much?
$15,000
The idea came from a club the director had visited in Birmingham, Alabama; the walls got a similar effect from tin foil and Christmas lights.
Q 28Saturday Night Fever's big dance scenes were filmed to which artist's tracks, since the Bee Gees joined late?
Stevie Wonder
The Bee Gees songs were overdubbed in the sound mix afterwards; Travolta also recalled dancing to Boz Scaggs.
Q 29The producers wanted Boz Scaggs' 'Lowdown' for the dance-studio rehearsal scene. Why was it not used?
Columbia Records refused to clear it
Composer David Shire had to write a new piece to match dance steps already choreographed to the Scaggs song.
Q 30Which singer performs 'If I Can't Have You' on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack after a song swap with the Bee Gees?
Yvonne Elliman
She had been slated to sing 'How Deep Is Your Love'; the Bee Gees' own version of her song ended up as the B-side of 'Stayin' Alive'.