Super Size Me
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40 free Super Size Me trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Super Size Me turned one man's month of McDonald's into one of the most argued-about documentaries of the 2000s. Morgan Spurlock ate three meals a day under the Golden Arches, let cameras follow his check-ups, and came out with an Oscar nomination and a fight with a fast food giant. This quiz covers the whole story: the rules Spurlock set himself, what his doctors found, the people he interviewed along the way, how McDonald's responded, and the prizes the film collected. It also follows the aftermath, from rival documentaries and a university replication to the sequel and the later admissions that changed how the film is judged. It is written for anyone who watched the film in a cinema or a health class, with easy questions on the famous moments up front and a few harder ones for documentary fans.
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Q 01What happens to Morgan Spurlock in the parking lot after his first Super Size meal in Super Size Me?
He vomits
He vomits after spending 22 minutes on a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Super Size fries and a 42-ounce Coca-Cola. It was only the second day of the experiment.
Q 02In Super Size Me, a doctor compares Morgan Spurlock's diet to the fate of Nicolas Cage's character in which film?
Leaving Las Vegas
Leaving Las Vegas won Cage an Oscar for playing a man bent on destroying himself within weeks. Dr. Daryl Isaacs made the comparison on day 21, when he urged Spurlock to quit.
Q 03In Super Size Me, what is the profession of Morgan Spurlock's girlfriend, who later takes charge of his recovery?
Vegan chef
A vegan chef shared his home, so before the experiment Spurlock's dinners were always free of animal products. She advised him against the whole plan.
Q 04By day 21 of Super Size Me, doctors warned Morgan Spurlock that his diet was damaging which organ?
Liver
Liver tests looked so bad that his physician told him to stop at once. Spurlock carried on to the end of the month anyway.
Q 05In 2017, what did Morgan Spurlock admit he had hidden from his doctors while filming Super Size Me?
Heavy drinking
Heavy drinking never came up in the film, and Spurlock had told his doctors he did not drink. Critics now ask how much of his health scare was really down to burgers.
Q 06Whose lawsuit blaming McDonald's for their obesity gave Morgan Spurlock the idea for Super Size Me?
Two teenage girls
Two teenage girls from New York said they had not known how fattening the food was. Spurlock saw the story on television and wondered what a month of nothing else would do.
Q 07Super Size Me argues that fast food chains deserve the same criticism once aimed at which other industry?
Tobacco
Tobacco is the film's parallel: Spurlock argues that fast food, like cigarettes, is both physiologically addictive and physically harmful.
Q 08Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock later made a 3D concert film in 2013 about which boy band?
One Direction
One Direction: This Is Us, released by TriStar Pictures, was a glossy studio job for a director who made his name attacking a corporation.
Q 09Don Gorske, interviewed in Super Size Me, holds a Guinness World Record for eating the most of which McDonald's item?
Big Mac
Big Mac devotee Gorske has eaten one almost every day since 1972 and passed 35,000 in 2025. He says he stays trim by skipping sides and walking six miles a day.
Q 10Under his own rules for Super Size Me, when did Morgan Spurlock have to order the Super Size option?
Only if offered
Only if offered by the cashier, and never at his own request: the rule that gave the film its title. It came up nine times in the month.
Q 11Which blood measurement of Morgan Spurlock's rose to 230 during his Super Size Me month?
Cholesterol
Cholesterol of 230 mg/dL was a shock for a man his trainer had rated in above-average shape. He also reported mood swings and a vanishing sex drive.
Q 12Roughly how much weight did Morgan Spurlock gain during his month of McDonald's food in Super Size Me?
About 25 pounds
About 25 pounds went on, a 13 percent rise from where he started. Getting back to his old weight took him 14 months.
Q 13In which New York City borough, dense with McDonald's outlets, did Morgan Spurlock live while making Super Size Me?
Manhattan
Manhattan had an average of four McDonald's per square mile, so he could begin day one with breakfast close to home.
Q 21Which Hollywood union gave its first ever documentary award to Morgan Spurlock for Super Size Me?
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America had never honoured a documentary script before. Spurlock beat five other nominees, including Control Room.
Q 22What reason did McDonald's give for dropping its Super Size portions weeks after Super Size Me premiered?
Menu simplification
Menu simplification was the official line, and a spokesman insisted the change had nothing to do with the film. He added that few Supersize fries were being sold anyway.
Q 23Morgan Spurlock ate nine Super Size meals during Super Size Me; in which state did he eat most of them?
Texas
Q 14During which holiday at his parents' house did Morgan Spurlock see the TV news report that inspired Super Size Me?
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving dinner was barely over when the story aired. Spurlock went on to pay for the film out of his own pocket.
Q 15At which film festival did Super Size Me premiere in January 2004, earning Morgan Spurlock a directing prize?
Sundance
Sundance gave the film its launch, and the buzz was loud enough that McDonald's was issuing statements about it before it reached cinemas.
Q 16The epilogue of Super Size Me warns that which lighter-sounding McDonald's choice can out-calorie a burger?
Salads
Salads can beat burgers for calories once a customer piles on the cheese and dressing, the film's epilogue points out.
Q 17Which cable network aired 30 Days, the reality series Morgan Spurlock created after Super Size Me?
FX
FX ran the show for three seasons from 2005. Each episode dropped someone into an unfamiliar life for a month, starting with Spurlock himself on the minimum wage.
Q 18What does Morgan Spurlock's own fast food outlet sell in Super Size Me 2, his sequel about industry marketing?
Chicken sandwiches
Chicken sandwiches were the product at Holy Chicken, which Spurlock opened to show that fast food's healthier image is more perception than reality.
Q 19After Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock's second feature documentary followed his search for which wanted man?
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was the quarry in his 2008 film, which hears from people on both sides of the fight against terrorism along the way.
Q 20Super Size Me lost the Best Documentary Feature Oscar to which film co-directed by photographer Zana Briski?
Born into Brothels
Born into Brothels follows children in Kolkata's red light district who were handed cameras and taught photography. Both films had premiered at the same festival.
Texas accounts for five of the nine, with the other four eaten in New York, where the experiment began.
Q 24What happened in 2003 to the obesity lawsuit against McDonald's that inspired Super Size Me?
A judge dismissed it
A judge dismissed it, ruling that the law is not there to protect people from their own excesses. An appeal revived part of the case, which finally failed in 2010.
Q 25Why did Morgan Spurlock cap himself at 5,000 steps a day during Super Size Me?
To match typical US habits
To match typical US habits, he cut his walking to the distance the average American covers. Before the experiment he had been walking about twice as far.
Q 26Which record of his Super Size Me month did Morgan Spurlock never publish, fuelling doubts about his calorie claims?
His food log
His food log was never released, so nobody could check the 5,000 calories a day the film claims. One rival filmmaker asked for it and was turned away.
Q 27Which 2009 reply documentary by comedian Tom Naughton set out to refute the claims of Super Size Me?
Fat Head
Fat Head has Naughton eat mostly McDonald's for a month too, but he holds himself to about 2,000 calories a day and ends up lighter.
Q 28Which comedian stars in Super High Me, the 2007 documentary that copies Super Size Me but swaps burgers for cannabis?
Doug Benson
Doug Benson went without cannabis for a month, then used it every day for the next. His doctor found the effects on his health generally inconsequential.
Q 29Which 2011 documentary about plant-based eating was conceived as the reverse of Super Size Me?
Forks Over Knives
Forks Over Knives flips the premise: its director adopts the diet on camera and his health improves instead of collapsing.
Q 30In which country did a university replicate Super Size Me by feeding students 6,000 calories a day for a month?
Sweden
Sweden's Linköping University ran the trial, handing out free bus passes so volunteers would not walk. None came close to the dangerous readings Spurlock reported.