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48 free The Fugitive trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This The Fugitive trivia quiz covers the 1993 thriller from top to bottom: Dr. Richard Kimble's escape from the prison bus, the one-armed man, the dam jump, the St. Patrick's Day parade, and the pharmaceutical conspiracy that Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones and director Andrew Davis were still writing on set. There are questions on the casting that almost happened, where the train crash was really filmed, the box-office records it set, and the seven Oscar nominations. The last stretch of the quiz goes back to the 1963 ABC series with David Janssen, whose two-part finale was watched by a bigger share of American homes than any episode before it, and to the U.S. Marshals sequel that brought Gerard back without Kimble. Roughly a third of the questions are easy if you have seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which cinematographer was hired a week into shooting. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Who plays Dr. Richard Kimble in the 1993 film The Fugitive?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford plays Kimble, the Chicago surgeon wrongly convicted of his wife's murder; the role came the year after he led Patriot Games as Jack Ryan.
Q 02What is the name of the Deputy U.S. Marshal who leads the hunt for Kimble in the film?
Samuel Gerard
The film's marshal is Samuel Gerard; the TV series' Gerard was a police lieutenant named Philip, and the film renamed him and turned him into a deputy US marshal.
Q 03What kind of surgeon is Richard Kimble in the film?
Vascular
Kimble is a vascular surgeon at Chicago Memorial Hospital; the film trades on his skill when, disguised as a janitor, he rereads a boy's X-ray and sends him straight to surgery.
Q 04Kimble escapes custody after the prison bus crashes into the path of what?
An oncoming train
The bus rolls onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train; the wreck was staged for real and in a single take, and the wrecked locomotive and bus were left beside the line as a tourist attraction.
Q 05Who directed the 1993 film?
Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis, a Chicago native, directed it; his earlier thrillers Code of Silence (1985) and Above the Law (1988) were both shot in the city.
Q 06The film is based on a 1960s TV series that was itself loosely inspired by the trial of which real doctor?
Sam Sheppard
Sam Sheppard, convicted in 1954 of murdering his wife Marilyn, insisted a 'bushy-haired' intruder had done it; F. Lee Bailey later won him a retrial, and a second jury acquitted him.
Q 07Which actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive?
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones won Best Supporting Actor for his Gerard at the March 1994 ceremony, the film's only Oscar; he had been nominated in the same category for JFK two years earlier.
Q 08How many Academy Award nominations did The Fugitive receive?
7
Its 7 nominations were Best Picture, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound and Sound Effects Editing; only the Supporting Actor nomination converted into a win.
Q 09For how many weeks was The Fugitive the number-one film at the U.S. box office?
6
It held the top spot for 6 consecutive weekends from its 6 August 1993 opening, when it knocked Rising Sun off number one.
Q 10Roughly how much did The Fugitive, 1993's third-highest-grossing film worldwide, gross?
$368 million
It grossed about $368 million worldwide, about $184 million of it in the U.S. and Canada, trailing only Jurassic Park and Mrs. Doubtfire among 1993 releases.
Q 11Which 1999 film finally broke The Fugitive's record for the biggest August opening weekend?
The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense opened to about $26.7 million on 6 August 1999, beating the $23.8 million The Fugitive had taken on the same weekend six years earlier to pass Unforgiven's August mark.
Q 12Who plays the fugitive Gerard's team chases in the 1998 sequel U.S. Marshals?
Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes plays Mark Sheridan, a former government operative framed for murder; Kimble does not appear, though Gerard's deputies from the first film return alongside Robert Downey Jr. as a new agent.
Q 13Kimble's colleague Dr. Charles Nichols is played by which Dutch actor?
Jeroen Krabbé
Q 21The one-armed man, Fredrick Sykes, lives in which historic Chicago neighbourhood?
Pullman
Sykes's home is in Pullman, the 1880s company town George Pullman built for his railcar workers on the Far South Side, with its distinctive brick rowhouses.
Q 22According to the director, whose idea was it to film in Chicago?
Ford's
It was Ford's suggestion: he was born in Chicago and had admired Davis's earlier films shot there, while Davis had assumed the winter weather would be too harsh.
Q 23Which cinematographer earned an Oscar nomination for The Fugitive?
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman, who shot Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for Martin Scorsese, received his second Oscar nomination for The Fugitive; his first had been for Raging Bull.
Jeroen Krabbé, the Dutch star of Soldier of Orange and The Living Daylights, plays Nichols, the friend who turns out to be behind the conspiracy; he joined the cast after the original choice fell ill.
Q 14Which actor was originally cast as Dr. Nichols but had to be replaced after falling ill?
Richard Jordan
Richard Jordan, known for Logan's Run and for Gettysburg, was replaced after a brain tumour was diagnosed during filming; he died on 30 August 1993, weeks after the film's release.
Q 15Which actor plays Fredrick Sykes, the one-armed man?
Andreas Katsulas
Andreas Katsulas plays Fredrick Sykes, the one-armed ex-cop who killed Helen Kimble; Katsulas was also G'Kar in Babylon 5 and Tomalak in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Q 16Which Chicago hotel hosts the medical banquet where Kimble finally confronts Nichols?
The Hilton Chicago
The climax was shot at the Chicago Hilton and Towers on Michigan Avenue, later renamed the Hilton Chicago; the fight spills from the ballroom down to the hotel laundry, where Gerard finally arrests Kimble.
Q 17The bus-and-train wreck was staged on which scenic rail line?
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, a tourist line through Dillsboro, supplied the track and the locomotive; the wreckage was left in place beside the line outside the Dillsboro depot.
Q 18Though set in rural Illinois, most of the film's location shooting outside Chicago took place in which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina's Jackson County towns of Dillsboro and Sylva stood in for rural Illinois, along with nearby Bryson City; Kimble's dam leap was also shot in the state's mountains.
Q 19Kimble's famous leap into the water was filmed at which dam?
Cheoah Dam
Cheoah Dam, a 1919 Alcoa hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River near Deals Gap, was the site of the leap; a dummy was dropped for the fall itself.
Q 20During which Chicago event does Kimble lose Gerard in the crowd?
The St. Patrick's Day parade
Kimble slips into the St. Patrick's Day parade downtown; the scene was shot during the real March 1993 parade, with Mayor Richard M. Daley visible marching in it.
Q 24On which US network did the original Fugitive series air from 1963 to 1967?
ABC
The Fugitive ran on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967, produced by Quinn Martin's company, which also made the network's The F.B.I.
Q 25Which actress's role as a potential love interest for Kimble was cut down heavily in editing?
Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore's Dr. Anne Eastman was to be a love interest, but the filmmakers decided a romance for a man hunting his wife's killer was unworkable; she survives as the doctor who catches him at the hospital.
Q 26Which future Glee star plays Dr. Kathy Wahlund, a colleague who helps Kimble?
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch plays Dr. Kathy Wahlund, a colleague who quietly helps Kimble while he is on the run; it was one of her first film roles, sixteen years before Glee began in 2009.
Q 27Who played Richard Kimble in the 2000 CBS television remake of The Fugitive?
Tim Daly
Tim Daly played Kimble in the CBS remake that premiered in October 2000, with Mykelti Williamson as Gerard; it lasted a single season before cancellation in 2001.
Q 28Who composed the film's score?
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard wrote the score, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Score; the soundtrack album was released by Elektra in 1993.
Q 29What is the name of the drug at the centre of the film's conspiracy?
Provasic
Provasic is the new drug Kimble had found to cause liver damage; the tissue samples he sent for review were swapped to hide the harm, and his discovery is the motive for the conspiracy.
Q 30What is the name of the pharmaceutical company developing the drug?
Devlin-MacGregor
Devlin-MacGregor, the fictional pharmaceutical giant sponsoring the drug trial, employs Sykes as a security man and stands to lose a fortune if the drug's liver toxicity comes out.