Wildcats Trivia Trivia
Wildcats Trivia trivia celebrates the 1986 football comedy starring Goldie Hawn, a film that brought underdog energy and broad humor to the eraâs sports-movie boom. This page highlights easy crowd-pleasers, funny behind-the-scenes notes, and harder questions for fans who want to test how well they remember the East High Wildcats.
Easy Wildcats Trivia
13 questions
These easy Wildcats Trivia trivia questions are great for beginners and kids around age 12 and under.
Question 1
In what year was Wildcats released?
- A.1986
- B.1984
- C.1988
- D.1990
Answer: 1986
Wildcats was released in 1986.
Question 2
What kind of movie is Wildcats?
- A.An American sports comedy film
- B.A British crime thriller
- C.An animated family film
- D.A science fiction drama
Answer: An American sports comedy film
The film is described is an American sports comedy film.
Question 3
Which actress stars as Molly McGrath in Wildcats?
- A.Goldie Hawn
- B.Swoosie Kurtz
- C.Meryl Streep
- D.Jamie Lee Curtis
Answer: Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn stars is Molly McGrath.
Question 4
In Wildcats, what job does Molly McGrath take on?
- A.School principal
- B.Cheerleading coach
- C.intern
- D.High school football coach
Answer: High school football coach
Molly McGrath becomes a high school football coach in the film.
Question 5
Who directed Wildcats?
- A.Ron Howard
- B.Michael Ritchie
- C.John Hughes
- D.Ivan Reitman
Answer: Michael Ritchie
Michael Ritchie directed the film.
Question 6
Who wrote Wildcats?
- A.Nora Ephron
- B.John Hughes
- C.Harold Ramis
- D.Ezra D. Rappaport
Answer: Ezra D. Rappaport
Ezra D. Rappaport is credited is the writer.
Question 7
What city is the story of Wildcats set in?
- A.Los Angeles
- B.Detroit
- C.Chicago
- D.New York
Answer: Chicago
The story is set in Chicago.
Question 8
What school does Molly's team represent in Wildcats?
- A.Central High School
- B.Westview High School
- C.Lincoln High School
- D.North Central High
Answer: Central High School
The team Molly coaches is from Central High School.
Question 9
Which sport is at the center of Wildcats?
- A.Baseball
- B.Basketball
- C.Soccer
- D.American football
Answer: American football
Wildcats focuses on American football.
Question 10
Which company distributed Wildcats?
- A.Warner Bros
- B.Paramount Pictures
- C.Universal Pictures
Answer: Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. distributed the film.
Question 11
Which future star appears in Wildcats: Wesley Snipes or Denzel Washington?
- A.Denzel Washington
- B.Eddie Murphy
- C.Tom Hanks
- D.Wesley Snipes
Answer: Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes appears in Wildcats.
Question 12
Which actor appears in Wildcats alongside Goldie Hawn?
- A.Bill Murray
- B.Tom Selleck
- C.Woody Harrelson
- D.Kevin Bacon
Answer: Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson appears in the film.
Question 13
Which actress appears in Wildcats?
- A.Sigourney Weaver
- B.Sally Field
- C.Glenn Close
- D.Swoosie Kurtz
Answer: Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz is part of the cast.
Wildcats Family Trivia
12 questions
These family Wildcats Trivia trivia questions are built for mixed-age game nights, classrooms, and groups.
Question 1
What kind of parent is Molly McGrath in Wildcats?
Answer: She is a single mother.
The story identifies Molly McGrath is a single mother.
Question 2
How many daughters does Molly have in the story?
- A.One daughter
- B.Three daughters
- C.No children
- D.She has two daughters
Answer: She has two daughters.
Molly's family includes two daughters.
Question 3
Who plays Ed in Wildcats?
Answer: James Keach plays Ed.
The role of Ed is played by James Keach.
Question 4
Which character is played by Wesley Snipes?
Answer: Trumaine Caesar.
Wesley Snipes plays Trumaine Caesar in the film.
Question 5
Woody Harrelson appears in Wildcats as which character?
Answer: Krushinski.
Woody Harrelson plays Krushinski.
Question 6
Who does Swoosie Kurtz play in Wildcats?
Answer: Verna McGrath.
Swoosie Kurtz plays Verna McGrath.
Question 7
Before chasing a football coaching job, what sport area is Molly expected to stay in?
Answer: Track.
Molly wants a football coaching job instead of staying in track.
Question 8
What obstacle is Molly shown fighting as a coach in the film?
Answer: Sexism.
The film presents Molly is a coach fighting sexism.
Question 9
True or false: The Wildcats players already look like a polished team at the start of the movie.?
Answer: False
The players do not begin the movie is a polished team.
Question 10
Wildcats blends football action with what kind of scenes from Molly's life at home?
Answer: Family scenes.
The movie mixes sports scenes with family scenes from Molly's home life.
Question 11
What do the players have to learn to do with Molly as their coach?
Answer: Trust Molly.
A key part of the story is the team learning to trust Molly is their coach.
Question 12
What setting is central to the plot of Wildcats?
Answer: A school setting.
A school setting is central to the story.
Fun Wildcats Trivia
13 questions
These fun Wildcats Trivia trivia questions highlight surprising moments and playful facts for game-night groups.
Question 1
Which movie marked Wesley Snipes's feature film debut?
Answer: Wildcats
Wildcats is noted is Wesley Snipes's feature film debut.
Question 2
Before Woody Harrelson became a familiar screen face, what was his first feature film?
Answer: Wildcats
Wildcats was Woody Harrelson's first feature film.
Question 3
Wildcats doesn't just huddle around football playsâit also leans heavily into what kind of comedy?
- A.Locker-room comedy
- B.Romantic farce
- C.Political satire
- D.Courtroom comedy
Answer: Locker-room comedy
The film pairs sports action with locker-room comedy.
Question 4
Molly is coaching football at what level in Wildcats?
Answer: The high school level
Molly coaches at the high school level, not college or pro football.
Question 5
In Wildcats, the title points to what exactly?
Answer: The team's mascot name
The movie's title refers to the team's mascot name.
Question 6
True or false: Wildcats builds its story around an underdog season.?
Answer: True
The plot is driven by an underdog season.
Question 7
What made the lead role in Wildcats stand out in the context of 1980s studio comedies?
Answer: It featured a female lead in a football-coach role
The film features a female lead in a football-coach role that was unusual for 1980s studio comedies.
Question 8
Instead of going full small-town Friday-night-lights, Wildcats is set in what kind of environment?
Answer: A Chicago urban school setting
Chicago urban school football gives the movie a city setting instead of a small-town one.
Question 9
What kind of scenes does Wildcats mix with broad comedy beats to create its tone?
Answer: Sports training scenes
The movie blends sports training scenes with broad comedy beats.
Question 10
Wildcats arrived during what broader era for sports comedies?
Answer: The mid-1980s boom in sports comedies
The film came out during the mid-1980s boom in sports comedies.
Question 11
What recurring part of Molly's situation keeps generating laughs in Wildcats?
Answer: Her outsider status
The movie uses Molly's outsider status is a recurring comic engine.
Question 12
At the start, how do many of the football players feel about their coach?
Answer: They are initially skeptical of her
Many of the players are initially skeptical of their coach.
Question 13
If Wildcats had a big scoreboard-sized question hanging over it, what would it be?
Answer: Whether Molly can turn the team into winners
The film's central question is whether Molly can turn the team into winners.
Funny Wildcats Trivia
13 questions
These funny Wildcats Trivia trivia questions highlight playful moments, odd facts, and inside jokes.
Question 1
In Wildcats, what basic setup gets milked for laughs right away: a new coach calmly inheriting a polished team, or a new coach shocking a rough football squad?
- A.A new principal fixing the band
- B.A star player rescuing a polished team
- C.A new coach shocking a rough football squad
- D.A veteran coach leading a championship squad
Answer: A new coach shocking a rough football squad.
A central comic idea in Wildcats is the shock of a new coach taking over a rough football team.
Question 2
True or false: When Molly first meets the players, do they greet her with instant admiration?
Answer: False
Molly's first impression on the players is not instant admiration.
Question 3
What recurring source of comedy keeps popping up in Wildcats besides actual football action?
Answer: Locker-room banter.
Wildcats repeatedly uses locker-room banter for humor.
Question 4
Wildcats gets laughs from rivals making what mistake about Molly?
Answer: They underestimate her.
A running comic element is that opponents underestimate Molly.
Question 5
How does team discipline begin in Wildcats: smooth as a marching band, or messy enough to trip over its own cleats?
- A.It starts off messy
- B.Perfectly smooth
- C.Strict from day one
- D.Mostly irrelevant
Answer: It starts off messy.
The film presents team discipline is messy rather than smooth at the start.
Question 6
Wildcats treats familiar sports sayings how: as sacred wisdom only, or as punchlines as well as motivation?
- A.As punchlines as well as motivation
- B.As background noise only
- C.As dramatic monologues only
- D.As something the film avoids
Answer: As punchlines as well as motivation.
The movie turns sports clichés into both jokes and motivational tools.
Question 7
Molly's authority gets challenged in which two places, proving she never really gets a quiet workday?
Answer: In the school hallway and on the field.
The comedy comes partly from Molly facing challenges to her authority in both the school hallway and on the field.
Question 8
What mismatch does Wildcats use for comedy when swagger arrives before results?
Answer: The mismatch between confidence and actual skill.
The film gets humor from the gap between confidence and actual skill.
Question 9
The team in Wildcats is best described, comedically speaking, as what kind of troublemakers?
Answer: Lovable troublemakers.
The film often treats the team is lovable troublemakers, which shapes its comic tone.
Question 10
Pep talks in Wildcats rarely get the last word, because the film keeps pairing them with what?
Answer: Comic setbacks.
Wildcats balances pep-talk scenes with comic setbacks.
Question 11
Before Molly can stack up wins, what does her coaching have to win over first?
Answer: Doubters.
Her coaching methods have to win over doubters before they win games.
Question 12
Wildcats gets laughs when what kind of assumptions get tackled and proven wrong?
Answer: Macho assumptions.
The film draws humor from macho assumptions being shown to be wrong.
Question 13
In Wildcats, football practice is treated as a place for drills and what else?
Answer: Jokes.
The film treats football practices is places for both drills and jokes.
Hard Wildcats Trivia
14 questions
These hard Wildcats Trivia trivia questions are for expert fans who want a real challenge.
Question 1
How long is Wildcats, according to its listed runtime?
- A.110 minutes
- B.106 minutes
- C.96 minutes
- D.102 minutes
Answer: 106 minutes
The listed runtime for Wildcats is 106 minutes.
Question 2
On what exact date was Wildcats released in the United States?
Answer: February 14, 1986
Wildcats was released in the United States on February 14, 1986.
Question 3
Who composed the score for Wildcats?
Answer: Basil Poledouris
The score for Wildcats was composed by Basil Poledouris.
Question 4
What was the U.S. rating assigned to Wildcats?
Answer: R
In the United States, Wildcats was rated R.
Question 5
Molly is hired to coach at which school in Chicago?
Answer: Chicago's Central High
Goldie Hawn's character is hired to coach at Chicago's Central High.
Question 6
Wildcats was produced during the 1985â1986 period before release; give the earlier of those two years.?
Answer: 1985
The film was produced during the 1985â1986 period, so the earlier year is 1985.
Question 7
What unusual story setup places Wildcats outside a standard football comedy?
Answer: A female-head-coach premise
The movie uses a female-head-coach premise in a male high school football world.
Question 8
Wildcats came before what later film that also featured both Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson?
Answer: White Men Can't Jump
Wildcats predates White Men Can't Jump, another film featuring both Snipes and Harrelson.
Question 9
Beyond its studio-comedy shape, what kind of backdrop does Wildcats specifically use?
Answer: An inner-city school football backdrop
Wildcats combines studio-comedy structure with an inner-city school football backdrop.
Question 10
The "Wildcats" in the title refers to what kind of team name?
Answer: A school team name
The title team name is shared by the school Molly coaches rather than an adult club.
Question 11
Once the story is underway, what coaching job does Molly actually hold?
Answer: Head coach
Molly's central sports position is head coach, not assistant coach, once the story gets underway.
Question 12
The film's opposition to Molly comes not only from players but also from which institutional group?
Answer: School authorities
The conflict includes institutional doubt from school authorities is well as player resistance.
Question 13
What is Molly's surname in Wildcats?
Answer: McGrath
Molly's surname in the film is McGrath.
Question 14
Wildcats is remembered as a 1980s comedy about a woman coaching high school football in which city?
Answer: Chicago
The film is remembered is a 1980s comedy built around a woman coaching high school football in Chicago.
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