🧠 The Breakfast Club Trivia Questions & Answers (60 FUN!) - RTQ (2024)

I bet you can see it right now—the fist pumping into the air coming off the football field. This movie was so iconic in the 80s. It defined a generation of people who felt like outsiders. And, even though I was born in 1988, I can still say that this movie inspired me. As one of the most iconic movies of that decade, I had to put together the very best Breakfast Club trivia questions (and answers) for any family game night! I hope you have fun playing!

The Breakfast Club Trivia Questions and Answers

1. What year was the movie “The Breakfast Club” released?

Answer: 1985.

2. Name the director of “The Breakfast Club.”

Answer: John Hughes.

3. What is the tagline of the movie?

Answer: “They only met once, but it changed their lives forever.”

4. How many students are in detention in the movie?

Answer: Five.

5. Where does most of the movie take place?

Answer: In the school library.

6. What are the names of the five main characters in detention?

Answer: John Bender, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, Brian Johnson, and Allison Reynolds.

7. What does each of the characters have to write for their detention assignment?

Answer: A 1,000-word essay about who they think they are.

8. What does John Bender use to make a loud squeaking noise in the library?

Answer: His shoe.

9. Which character brings a flare gun to detention?

Answer: John Bender.

10. What does Andrew Clark do to end up in detention?

Answer: He taped a classmate’s buttocks together.

11. Who is the school’s principal in the movie?

Answer: Richard Vernon.

12. What is the name of the high school in the movie?

Answer: Shermer High School.

13. What does Brian Johnson use to eat his lunch in the movie?

Answer: A paper bag.

14. What does Claire Standish bring for lunch in the movie?

Answer: Sushi.

15. What nickname does John Bender give to Claire Standish?

Answer: “Princess.”

16. What song plays during the iconic dance scene in the library?

Answer: “We Are Not Alone” by Karla DeVito.

17. Who is responsible for the graffiti on the school’s library wall?

Answer: John Bender.

18. What did Brian Johnson use to attempt suicide before detention?

Answer: A flare gun.

19. What does Brian Johnson do with his dandruff in the movie?

Answer: He eats it.

20. What is the name of the janitor in the movie?

Answer: Carl Reed.

21. What does Carl reveal to the students about himself?

Answer: He used to be in detention when he was a student at the school.

22. Which character brings marijuana to detention?

Answer: John Bender.

23. What is the name of Allison Reynolds’ dandruff art piece?

Answer: “The Pixie Princess.”

24. Which character kisses Claire Standish in the movie?

Answer: John Bender.

25. What does Andrew Clark do when John Bender teases him about his athletic achievements?

Answer: He admits that he is a wrestler.

26. What did John Bender do to get in trouble with the law?

Answer: He pulled a false fire alarm and got caught with a switchblade knife.

27. Which character reads the letter that Brian writes for the group?

Answer: Brian himself.

28. What does Andrew Clark confess to the group during the movie?

Answer: He taped Larry Lester’s buttocks together.

29. What nickname does John Bender give to Brian Johnson?

Answer: “The Breakfast Club.”

30. What is the name of the high school’s principal in the movie?

Answer: Richard Vernon.

31. What nickname does Brian Johnson give to himself?

Answer: “The Brain.”

32. What does John Bender do to demonstrate his toughness?

Answer: He burns his arm with a cigar.

33. What is the closing song of the movie?

Answer: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds.

34. What does Allison Reynolds eat in the movie that shocks the others?

Answer: A sandwich with Pixy Stix and Captain Crunch cereal.

35. What do the students do at the end of the movie as they leave detention?

Answer: They each raise their fist in the air in triumph.

36. What does John Bender do at the end of the movie to signify his defiance?

Answer: He raises his fist in the air while walking across the football field.

37. What is the first name of Andrew Clark’s father, who pressures him to succeed in sports?

Answer: Carl.

38. What happens when Brian tries to impress the group by imitating a gunshot?

Answer: He accidentally shoots a hole in the library ceiling.

39. What item does Claire give to John as a token of her affection?

Answer: Her diamond earring.

40. What is the final line of the movie?

Answer: “You see us as you want to see us—in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.”

41. What sport does Andrew Clark excel in?

Answer: Wrestling.

42. What is the reason given for John Bender’s abusive home life?

Answer: His father burns him with cigars.

43. What does Brian do to get detention?

Answer: He brings a flare gun to school to attempt suicide.

44. What does Claire Standish bring to detention?

Answer: Sushi for her lunch.

45. What does Andrew Clark bring to detention with him?

Answer: His wrestling awards.

46. What item does John Bender ask Claire Standish to show to him?

Answer: Her diamond earring.

47. What did Allison Reynolds do to get detention?

Answer: She had nothing better to do.

48. What does the “S” in “The Breakfast Club” stand for in the movie’s title?

Answer: Saturday.

49. What does John Bender do to make Claire Standish cry in the movie?

Answer: He reveals a personal secret about her.

50. What is the letter that Brian writes for the group called?

Answer: A “Dear Mr. Vernon” letter.

51. Which character is portrayed as a compulsive liar in the movie?

Answer: Brian Johnson.

52. What nickname does John Bender give to Brian Johnson in the movie?

Answer: “Neo-Maxi Zoomdweebie.”

53. What do the characters do to pass the time during detention?

Answer: They dance, talk, and share stories.

54. Who is the first character to arrive in the library for detention?

Answer: Brian Johnson.

55. What is the name of John Bender’s abusive father in the movie?

Answer: Larry.

56. What kind of car does the janitor, Carl, drive in the movie?

Answer: A 1958 Plymouth Fury.

57. What is the name of the vice principal in the movie?

Answer: Mr. Vernon.

58. What is the central theme of the movie “The Breakfast Club”?

Answer: Teen identity and stereotypes.

59. What song plays during the movie’s opening and closing credits?

Answer: “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds.

60. What is the significance of the final scene in the movie?

Answer: It leaves the audience wondering how the characters will change after their day in detention.

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