The Wedding Singer Trivia
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This Wedding Singer trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers on the 1998 romantic comedy that turned Adam Sandler into a leading man and paired him with Drew Barrymore for the first time. It covers the story beat by beat: Robbie Hart left at the altar in Ridgefield, New Jersey, Julia the waitress and her bond-trader fiance, the meltdown at the reception, the rapping neighbour Rosie, and the flight to Las Vegas where Billy Idol helps out over the intercom. There are also rounds on how the film got made and what came after: Tim Herlihy's radio-show inspiration for setting it in 1985, the uncredited cameos and rewrites, the budget and the box office fight with Titanic, the two new-wave soundtrack albums, and the 2006 Broadway musical that earned five Tony nominations, plus the Sandler-Barrymore reunions in 50 First Dates and Blended. It works for a movie night, an 80s-themed party, a bridal shower game or a pub quiz picture round. Difficulty runs from easy plot points to expert production details, and every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the film's own credits before it went in.
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Q 01The Wedding Singer opened on the eve of which 1998 holiday?
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day fell the day after its February 13 opening; the romantic comedy was a turn for Sandler, until then known for the cruder Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore.
Q 02Who directed The Wedding Singer?
Frank Coraci
Frank Coraci directed The Wedding Singer; he said having his own heart broken a couple of years earlier let him look back on it and make being jilted funny.
Q 03Which song opens The Wedding Singer?
You Spin Me Round
You Spin Me Round plays over the opening credits of a film set in 1985; minutes later Robbie has to rescue the reception from a drunken best man's toast.
Q 04Robbie Hart plies his trade in which New Jersey town?
Ridgefield
Ridgefield is where Robbie grew up; he tells Linda it is the perfect place to raise a family, though at that point he is living in a basement on wedding gigs that pay sixty dollars.
Q 05What job does Julia Sullivan have when she meets Robbie?
Waitress at the reception hall
Waitress at the reception hall where he sings; writer Tim Herlihy said her scenes without Sandler survived test screenings, where audiences had rejected such scenes in his earlier films.
Q 06Who plays Julia Sullivan?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore plays Julia Sullivan; she had approached Sandler about working together, and The Wedding Singer became the first of three films the two made as a pair.
Q 07Julia's fiancé Glenn makes his money doing what?
Bond investing
Bond investing: Glenn works on Wall Street, and when Julia says he is in junk bonds he corrects her that they are high-yield bonds; on the double date he tells Robbie he cheats on her.
Q 08Who breaks the news to Robbie, moments before the ceremony, that Linda is not coming?
His older sister Kate
His older sister Kate brings the news after phoning Linda's mother, who found only a note; Robbie has been living in Kate's basement with her husband and children.
Q 09Why does Linda say she left Robbie at the altar?
He never became a rock star
He never became a rock star: Linda says she fell for the frontman of his old band, Final Warning, not a wedding singer; Robbie replies that this would have been more useful to know yesterday.
Q 10Which frequent Sandler collaborator plays Robbie's best friend Sammy?
Allen Covert
Allen Covert plays Sammy, the would-be ladies' man who finally admits to Robbie that he is miserable and just wants someone to hold him.
Q 11Christine Taylor, who plays Julia's cousin Holly, was known for playing which TV character on film?
Marcia Brady
Marcia Brady: Christine Taylor played her in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel before turning up here as Holly, who asks Julia's blessing to go out with Robbie.
Q 12In The Wedding Singer, Alexis Arquette's keyboardist in Robbie's band is an impersonation of which flamboyant 1980s pop star?
Boy George
Boy George said the impersonation had him rolling on the floor laughing, and after Arquette died in 2016 he dedicated 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me' to the actress from the stage.
Q 13Which 1979 hip-hop classic does Robbie's elderly singing student Rosie perform at her anniversary party?
Rapper's Delight
Q 21Which SNL veteran plays Mr. Simms, who interviews Robbie for a bank job?
Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon plays Mr. Simms, who hears Robbie admit he has no experience but is 'a big fan of money', then asks him to leave.
Q 22Which actress plays Julia's mother Angie in The Wedding Singer, having also played Judy Geller, Ross and Monica's mother, on Friends?
Christina Pickles
Christina Pickles played Judy Geller across the entire ten-year run of Friends; in the film Julia confides in Angie that she no longer loves Glenn.
Q 23The Wedding Singer grossed $123 million worldwide on what production budget?
$18 million
$18 million was roughly what it cost, a sum the film's first weekend in America alone managed to top.
Rapper's Delight was new to Ellen Albertini Dow, who played Rosie: she said she had never heard of the song, and had no idea what rap was, before learning it for the film.
Q 14What does Rosie pay Robbie with for her singing lessons in The Wedding Singer?
Meatballs
Meatballs: with no clean Tupperware to hand, Rosie presses them straight into Robbie's palms and watches him eat; the lessons are for a song at her 50th anniversary party.
Q 15Which real rock star plays himself on the flight and helps Robbie win Julia back?
Billy Idol
Billy Idol plays himself in first class, blocks Glenn with the service trolley while Robbie sings, then promises to tell record company people about his songwriting.
Q 16What is the name of the song Robbie writes for Julia and sings over the plane's intercom?
Grow Old with You
'Grow Old with You' comes to Robbie just before he flies after Julia, when he borrows a pen to jot it down; its promises run from fetching her medicine to letting her hold the remote control.
Q 17Where is Glenn confined after he tries to attack Robbie on the plane?
In an airplane lavatory
In an airplane lavatory: after Glenn tries to push past the service trolley to get at Robbie, he is bundled inside, leaving Robbie free to finish his song and kiss Julia.
Q 18In The Wedding Singer, where do Julia and Glenn plan to elope after Julia finds Linda answering Robbie's door?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas; Robbie boards the same flight without knowing it, and the musical moves the whole showdown into a Vegas chapel full of celebrity impersonators.
Q 19Who makes an uncredited cameo as David Veltri, the drunken best man at the opening wedding?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi plays David Veltri, the groom's brother, whose drunken toast veers into rehab and a trip to Puerto Rico before Robbie steps in; Roger Ebert wrote that the cameo gave the film its best laughs.
Q 20The Wedding Singer's rival crooner Jimmie Moore returned two decades later in an episode of which sitcom?
The Goldbergs
The Goldbergs, a sitcom set in the 1980s, named a 2019 episode after the film: Jimmie Moore turns up as Barry and Lainey's wedding nears and the groom begins to have second thoughts.
Q 24The Wedding Singer opened in second place at the US box office behind which holdover?
Titanic
Titanic was in its ninth weekend at number one and still took $28 million, so The Wedding Singer had to settle for second place on its opening weekend.
Q 25Which studio released The Wedding Singer?
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, which had released Austin Powers the year before, distributed The Wedding Singer; Robert Simonds and Jack Giarraputo produced it for the studio.
Q 26What does Robbie's best friend Sammy do for a living in The Wedding Singer?
Limousine driver
Limousine driver: Julia hires Sammy for her wedding because he is the only one in town, even after he clips two cones on a test run; the stage musical moved him into Robbie's band instead.
Q 27Which future Knocked Up director did uncredited rewrites on the script with Sandler?
Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow, Sandler's former roommate, did uncredited rewrites on the script; he went on to direct The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005 and Knocked Up in 2007.
Q 28Sandler and The Wedding Singer's director first became friends as students at which college?
NYU
NYU is where Sandler met both the director and his freshman roommate Tim Herlihy, who went on to law school before he wrote the film.
Q 29In The Wedding Singer, what is Glenn's surname, which Julia would take by marrying him?
Gulia
Gulia: Julia practises 'Mrs. Julia Gulia' in the mirror in her wedding dress and cries, then brightens when she tries 'Mrs. Robbie Hart' instead.
Q 30The bar mitzvah boy is played by Michael Shuman, who grew up to join which rock band?
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age's future bassist was on family ground: the film's co-producer, Ira Shuman, is his father.