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50 free Stoner Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The stoner comedy has a canon. It starts with Reefer Madness being laughed at in 1970s midnight screenings, gets its founding text when Cheech & Chong drive a van made of weed across the border in Up in Smoke, and runs through Spicoli, Craig and Smokey, Thurgood and Buttercup the police horse, Harold and Kumar's quest for sliders, Dale and Saul, and a teddy bear from Boston. This quiz has 50 questions covering the whole genre: the classics and the cult favorites, the plots, the famous lines, the cameos, the directors who made their debuts here, the box office bombs that became hits on video, and the odd crossovers into horror, fantasy and documentary. It opens with easy ones any fan will nail and finishes with details for the people who can name every smoker in Half Baked's cameo montage. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or make it the movie round of a 4/20 trivia night.
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Q 01Which 1978 film, Cheech & Chong's big-screen debut, is credited with establishing the stoner comedy genre?
Up in Smoke
Panned on release, it grossed over $104 million and was added to the National Film Registry in 2024.
Q 02In Cheech & Chong's first film, the duo unknowingly smuggle a van made entirely of what?
"Fiberweed", hardened marijuana resin
A play on fiberglass; a motorcycle cop gets high off the fumes and lets them go.
Q 03Who directed Cheech & Chong's 1978 debut film, his first directing job after producing records?
Lou Adler
Chong himself directed the follow-ups, starting with Cheech and Chong's Next Movie in 1980.
Q 04In which Canadian city did Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong first meet and form their duo in 1969?
Vancouver
Marin is American and Chong is Canadian; they released their first comedy album in 1971.
Q 05In Nice Dreams (1981), Cheech & Chong get rich selling marijuana out of what kind of vehicle?
An ice cream truck
Their product, "Happy Herb's Nice Dreams", also turns people into lizards, including the DEA sergeant chasing them.
Q 06By what title is the 1936 anti-drug film, later an ironic midnight-movie comedy, best known?
Reefer Madness
It was originally titled Tell Your Children and financed by a church group; a musical remake followed in 2005.
Q 07Which magazine, founded in 1974, began handing out the Stony Awards for stoner films and TV in 2000?
High Times
The awards recognized a broad range of cannabis media, from Half Baked to That '70s Show.
Q 08Which actor plays Jeff Spicoli, the perpetually stoned surfer, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High?
Sean Penn
Cameron Crowe wrote the film after going undercover as a student at a San Diego high school for his book.
Q 09Dazed and Confused follows a group of Texas teenagers on the last day of school in what year?
1976
Richard Linklater shot it around Austin and never names the town; Matthew McConaughey was the breakout of a cast of unknowns.
Q 10In Friday (1995), what is the name of Craig's weed-dealing best friend played by Chris Tucker?
Smokey
Made for $3.5 million, the film grossed over $27 million and was one of the few Hollywood films with an all-Black principal cast and crew.
Q 11Next Friday (2000) was the first film produced by which company, its star's own production house?
Cube Vision
Cube also wrote it himself; Craig moves to Rancho Cucamonga after Deebo breaks out of prison.
Q 12In Half Baked, Kenny is jailed for accidentally killing a diabetic police horse named what?
Buttercup
He fed it junk food on a munchie run; his friends have to raise $100,000 in bail.
Q 13Which comedian co-wrote Half Baked with Dave Chappelle and later co-created Chappelle's Show?
Neal Brennan
Tamra Davis directed; the film got bad reviews, made $17.5 million and became a video-store classic.
Q 21Which actor plays a debauched, fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar films?
Neil Patrick Harris
He and John Cho were cast early; Kal Penn had to audition seven times.
Q 22Under what alternate title was the first Harold & Kumar film released in some international markets?
Get the Munchies
White Castle sliders don't mean much abroad; the chain itself helped market the film in the US.
Q 23In the 2008 sequel, Harold and Kumar are wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay en route to which city?
Amsterdam
Amnesty International campaigned around the release to highlight real detainees' testimonies of abuse.
Q 14In Half Baked's cameo montage of smoker types, who plays the "historian smoker"?
Willie Nelson
Snoop is the scavenger smoker, Jon Stewart the enhancement smoker and Stephen Baldwin the MacGyver smoker.
Q 15Which Hollywood star did Dave Chappelle ask to cameo in Half Baked, only to be turned down?
Harrison Ford
Steven Wright and Bob Saget did turn up, the latter with a memorably filthy line about crack.
Q 16The Big Lebowski's "The Dude" was loosely inspired by which real member of the Seattle Seven?
Jeff Dowd
Dowd, a film producer, really did like to drink White Russians and really was called "The Dude".
Q 17The Big Lebowski is loosely modeled on the detective novels of which author?
Raymond Chandler
Joel Coen wanted a Chandler-style story with "a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant".
Q 18How High (2001) stars which two rappers as stoners who get into Harvard with help from a friend's ghost?
Method Man and Redman
The friend, Ivory, was cremated and his ashes used to fertilize the weed; smoking it summons him.
Q 19In Dude, Where's My Car?, what extraterrestrial device did Jesse and Chester unknowingly acquire?
The Continuum Transfunctioner
Both a group of five beautiful alien women and two Norwegian men are hunting for it; Zoltan's cultists are after it too.
Q 20Which director made both Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)?
Danny Leiner
Two very different stoner duos, one director; the Harold & Kumar sequels were directed by their writers.
Q 24Kal Penn left what job to return for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas?
A post in the White House Office of Public Liaison
He served in the Obama administration between the second and third films.
Q 25In Pineapple Express, Seth Rogen's Dale Denton works in what job when he witnesses a murder?
Process server
He drops a roach of the rare Pineapple Express strain at the scene, which leads the killers straight to his dealer Saul.
Q 26Which Pineapple Express star earned a Golden Globe nomination for playing dealer Saul Silver?
James Franco
He had played the brooding one in Freaks and Geeks; this was the role that made him a comedy lead.
Q 27Which director made Pineapple Express and then the medieval stoner fantasy Your Highness?
David Gordon Green
Your Highness, starring Danny McBride and Natalie Portman, bombed with $28 million against a $50 million budget.
Q 28This Is the End (2013) was the directorial debut of which duo?
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
It grew out of their 2007 short Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse and ends with the Backstreet Boys performing in heaven.
Q 29In Ted, the talking teddy bear and his best friend John live in which US city?
Boston
Seth MacFarlane's directorial debut made $549 million and was the highest-grossing comedy of 2012.
Q 30John and Ted's favorite movie, whose star Sam J. Jones shows up to party with them, is what?
Flash Gordon
MacFarlane provided Ted's voice and motion capture himself.