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50 free Wolf of Wall Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is Martin Scorsese's three-hour, record-breakingly profane account of Jordan Belfort's rise and fall, and it remains his highest-grossing film. This Wolf of Wall Street trivia quiz covers the movie in detail: Black Monday, the boiler room, Stratton Oakmont, Donnie Azoff, Naomi, Aunt Emma and the Swiss account, the Steve Madden IPO, the Lemmon 714 quaaludes, the yacht, the FBI and the ending. It also covers how it was made and received: the Warner Bros. false start, the Red Granite money later tied to the 1MDB scandal, the animals on set, Jonah Hill's tiny fee, the Guinness record for swearing, the box office and the five Oscar nominations. And it looks at the real people, from Belfort's 22 months in prison and Tommy Chong cellmate to Danny Porush and Steve Madden. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia and cited on the question, so you can see where each fact comes from.
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Q 01Who directed The Wolf of Wall Street?
Martin Scorsese
It became the highest-grossing film of his career.
Q 02Which Boardwalk Empire creator wrote the screenplay?
Terence Winter
He earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Q 03Which stock market event costs the young Belfort his first Wall Street job in 1987?
Black Monday
He then lands at a Long Island boiler room selling pink-sheet penny stocks.
Q 04Which actor plays Belfort's chest-thumping mentor Mark Hanna?
Matthew McConaughey
Hanna kept his real name; the real broker was also convicted of fraud.
Q 05What respectable-sounding name does Belfort give his boiler-room firm in 1989?
Stratton Oakmont
He picks the name because it sounds respectable.
Q 06Which magazine's exposé gives Belfort the nickname 'The Wolf of Wall Street'?
Forbes
The article backfires: hundreds of ambitious young brokers flock to the firm.
Q 07Jonah Hill's character Donnie Azoff is based on which real co-founder of Belfort's firm?
Danny Porush
The name was changed after Porush threatened to sue.
Q 08Which shoe company's IPO makes Belfort a fortune in three hours in 1993?
Steve Madden
The real Madden served 41 months in prison and had started his company in 1990 with $1,100 and a car boot full of shoes.
Q 09In whose name does Belfort open his Swiss bank account?
Naomi's Aunt Emma
Julie Andrews was first offered the part but was recovering from an ankle injury, so Joanna Lumley played Emma.
Q 10How is the cash smuggled into Switzerland?
Via Brad's Swiss in-laws
Chantalle and her relatives hold Swiss passports.
Q 11What brand of quaalude does Donnie describe as 'the holy grail'?
Lemmon 714
They take them at Belfort's home and nothing happens, until it very much does.
Q 12Which car does Belfort wreck while crawling home on quaaludes?
A Lamborghini Countach
He then snorts cocaine to counteract the pills and gives a choking Donnie the Heimlich manoeuvre.
Q 13On the yacht trip to Italy in 1996, what news forces a detour towards Switzerland?
Aunt Emma has died
The captain is ordered to sail to Monaco and the yacht capsizes in a storm.
Q 21How much did Jonah Hill say he was paid for the film?
$60,000
It was SAG-AFTRA scale; DiCaprio, who also produced, got $10 million.
Q 22Which actress was rejected for Naomi as 'too old', though DiCaprio was a decade older?
Olivia Wilde
Naomi is based on Belfort's real second wife, Nadine Caridi.
Q 23How many times is the word 'fuck' used in the film?
569
It took the Guinness record from Scorsese's own Casino (422) and lost it to Swearnet: The Movie (935), but still leads among major releases.
Q 24What was the four-year-old chimpanzee in the film, named Chance, taught to do in three weeks?
Q 14Who ultimately informs on Belfort to the FBI as part of a plea deal?
Swiss banker Saurel
Jean Dujardin plays Jean-Jacques Saurel.
Q 15How does the FBI discover Belfort is still cooperating with Donnie?
A note he passes is found
He tries to warn Donnie in writing while wearing a wire.
Q 16What does Belfort do for a living after prison in the film's final scene?
Hosts sales seminars
The real Belfort plays the host who introduces him at the Auckland seminar.
Q 17Which real person, the subject of the film, cameos as the host of the Auckland seminar at the end?
Belfort himself
Bo Dietl also appears as himself.
Q 18Which director appears uncredited as Dwayne, the boss of the Long Island penny-stock firm?
Spike Jonze
Rob Reiner plays Belfort's father Max, whose name was kept from real life.
Q 19Which studio bought the rights with DiCaprio in 2007, then shelved the film over content restrictions?
Warner Bros.
In 2010 Warner offered it to Ridley Scott with Brad Pitt as Belfort before abandoning it.
Q 20Which independent company finally financed the film without content restrictions?
Red Granite
Its co-founder Riza Aziz was arrested in 2019 as investigators traced its money to the 1MDB scandal.
Roller skate
A Florida sanctuary also supplied a lion named Handsome, since Stratton Oakmont's logo was a lion.
Q 25Roughly how much did The Wolf of Wall Street gross worldwide?
$407M
In Australia it became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever.
Q 26How many Academy Award nominations did the film receive?
Five
It won none of them.
Q 27In which Golden Globe category did DiCaprio win Best Actor for the film?
Musical or Comedy
The 'comedy' classification of a film about fraud and drug abuse raised eyebrows.
Q 28What is the film's running time?
180 minutes
Paramount had first announced 165 minutes before settling on a full three hours.
Q 29How much did the film's UAE distributor cut, muting expletives on top?
45 minutes
It was banned outright in Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal and Zimbabwe.
Q 30On what date was the film released in the United States?
Christmas Day 2013
It finished fifth on its opening weekend behind the holiday competition.