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This Wayne's World trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers the 1992 film, the sequel and the Saturday Night Live sketches that spawned them. Expect questions on Aurora, Illinois, the AMC Pacer Mirthmobile and the Bohemian Rhapsody headbang, Cassandra and Crucial Taunt, Benjamin Kane, Noah Vanderhoff and Frankie Sharp, Stan Mikita's Donuts, the No Stairway rule, the T-1000 cameo, Alice Cooper's Milwaukee lecture and the Scooby-Doo and mega happy endings. It also digs into the origins on Canadian TV, Beev and the Aerosmith jam on SNL, the margarine incident, the Guns N' Roses song that nearly was, and Wayne's World 2: Waynestock, Jim Morrison, Del Preston, Christopher Walken, Kim Basinger, Charlton Heston and the Passport to Pimlico script that got the sets chainsawed. Easy questions suit anyone who has said 'Schwing!'; the hard ones are for people who own the VCR board game. Every answer has been checked against the encyclopaedia entries for the films and sketches, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World (1992)?
Mike Myers
It was his feature-film debut; he also co-wrote the script with Bonnie and Terry Turner.
Q 02What is the name of Wayne's nervous, drumstick-wielding best friend and co-host?
Garth Algar
Dana Carvey based the character on his own brother.
Q 03In which Illinois city do Wayne and Garth broadcast their public-access show?
Aurora
They go out live from the basement of Wayne's parents' house.
Q 04Which Queen song do Wayne, Garth and friends headbang to in the car?
Bohemian Rhapsody
The studio wanted Guns N' Roses; Myers threatened to quit unless Queen was used, and the song climbed back to number 2 in the US.
Q 05What make and model of car is the Mirthmobile?
An AMC Pacer
The baby-blue, flame-sided original was sold in 2016 for $37,400 after turning up on Pawn Stars.
Q 06Who plays Cassandra Wong, the singer and bassist Wayne falls for?
Tia Carrere
She sang her own vocals, including a cover of Sweet's 'The Ballroom Blitz' that made the soundtrack.
Q 07What is the name of Cassandra's band?
Crucial Taunt
They play a heavy-metal bar called The Gasworks, where Meat Loaf's Tiny works the door.
Q 08Which actor plays Benjamin Kane, the slick TV producer who buys the show?
Rob Lowe
His character's official title is Regional Programming Director for Oliver Communications.
Q 09Which rock star lectures Wayne and Garth backstage on the history of Milwaukee?
Alice Cooper
Wayne and Garth respond with 'We're not worthy!'; his manager Shep Gordon talked Myers into using 'Feed My Frankenstein'.
Q 10What guitar does Wayne covet in a shop window and buy with his $5,000?
A 1964 Fender Stratocaster
The same shop is where he is told 'No Stairway'; home releases swapped the notes to dodge a $100,000 licence until the 2022 4K disc.
Q 11On which date did Wayne's World open in US cinemas?
February 14, 1992
A Valentine's Day release; it debuted at number one and finished as 1992's tenth-highest grosser.
Q 12Which of these catchphrases did the sketches and film help popularise?
'... Not!'
'Schwing!', 'Party on!' and 'We're not worthy!' came from the same well.
Q 13Which Terminator 2 villain pulls Wayne over in a cameo, asking about a boy?
The T-1000
Robert Patrick is credited simply as 'Bad Cop'; Wayne screams and speeds off.
Q 21Which SNL cast member cameos as the well-informed security guard at the Milwaukee concert?
Chris Farley
He returned in the sequel as Milton, an aimless friend of Wayne and Garth.
Q 22What language does Wayne learn to impress Cassandra?
Cantonese
Cassandra says she learned English at college and from the Police Academy films.
Q 23Which breakfast-condiment shortage reportedly sent the film's star storming off the set?
Margarine for his bagel
Director Penelope Spheeris later said it was the only time she thought he was being unreasonable.
Q 14Who directed Wayne's World?
Penelope Spheeris
She had made music documentaries and was 45 when Lorne Michaels hired her; the job, she said, 'flipped my life around'.
Q 15Which song plays whenever Wayne gazes at Cassandra?
Dream Weaver
Gary Wright re-recorded it for the film; the SNL sketch had used it to cue dream sequences.
Q 16Wayne's World is the highest-grossing film ever adapted from what?
A Saturday Night Live sketch
It took $121.7 million domestically, ahead of The Blues Brothers and every SNL film since.
Q 17What is the name of the donut shop where Garth's dream woman works?
Stan Mikita's Donuts
Ed O'Neill's darkly disturbed manager Glen works there '24 hours a day'.
Q 18What kind of business does the show's sponsor Noah Vanderhoff own?
Video arcades
Wayne mocks him on air with cue cards, and Benjamin fires him for it.
Q 19Why does record boss Frankie 'Mr. Big' Sharp drive everywhere in a limousine?
He is afraid of flying
Frank DiLeo, Michael Jackson's real-life manager, plays him.
Q 20Which cartoon does the film's first fake ending parody, unmasking Benjamin as 'Old Man Withers'?
Scooby-Doo
Wayne and Garth reject that one too, before settling on the 'mega happy ending'.
Q 24Where did the Wayne's World soundtrack album peak on the Billboard 200?
Number one
It went double platinum in 1997.
Q 25Wayne's World was only the second film based on an SNL sketch. What was the first?
The Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers came out in 1980, twelve years earlier.
Q 26Who did the studio originally want to supply the headbanging song instead of Queen?
Guns N' Roses
Brian May says Freddie Mercury saw the scene and loved it before he died; the director doubts that timeline.
Q 27Which 2014 documentary did Wayne's portrayer direct about the manager he met on Wayne's World?
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Shep Gordon talked him out of 'I'm Eighteen' and 'School's Out' and into 'Feed My Frankenstein', and a friendship began.
Q 28The character first appeared on Canadian television in 1987 in a segment called what?
Wayne's Power Minute
It ran on the CBC series It's Only Rock & Roll, after Wayne had been an off-camera voice on MuchMusic.
Q 29Which rock band jammed with Wayne and Garth in the SNL sketch voted the show's most unforgettable moment?
Aerosmith
Tom Hanks played Garth's cousin Barry, a roadie who set up the mics.
Q 30Who played Garth's father 'Beev' in the early SNL sketches?
Phil Hartman
He was named for his teeth; Candice Bergen played Garth's mother Hillary, whom Wayne rated a 'babe'.