57 E.T. Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: A Boy's Life

Other titles were "E.T. and Me", but it was cut in pre-production.

Answer: to his room

Elliott gets E.T. to follow him by giving him Reese's Pieces candy.

Answer: plants

I wonder how many places these aliens have visited to get so many different plants.

Answer: Gertie

Gertie sat down to watch some T.V. and E.T. was in the room with her. E.T. walked around the T.V. while Gertie tuned in and sounded out some words, such as "basket", "bandit", and "ball". The narrator, of the show, told the viewers that all the words began with the letter "b". When E.T. heard this, he said "be" and this surprised Gertie, since she did not know E.T. could talk. Gertie told him, "good!" E.T. then said to Gertie, "Be good." A couple of other phrases that E.T. learned, in the movie, were "E.T. phone home" and "I'll be right here."

Answer: Columbia

Since Spielberg worked for Columbia for "Close Encounters", he returned there to develop the script. Columbia, however, opted to do "Starman" (1984).

Answer: he fakes being sick

Elliott holds the thermometer up to the light, and puts a heating pad on his face to fake a fever.

Answer: Papa Oom Mow Mow

This was sung by the Beach Boys.

Answer: He hears an owl hoot.

All of their heart lights go on when the owl makes noise. I think this is a way of connecting with each other.

Answer: Mexico

The night after Elliott claimed he saw something outside, he and his family sat at the dinner table. Elliott insisted that he saw something in the back yard but his mom, Mary, told him he had to have imagined it. Elliott, Mary, and his two siblings, Michael and Gertie, continued to talk. The subject of Elliott's father came up and Mary asked Elliott if he'd spoken to his father about what he said. Elliott remarked that he could not speak to his dad since he was in Mexico with a woman named Sally. This upset Mary since her husband, father to all three of her children, had left her for another woman and they were separated. Michael chided Elliott for bringing up their father in front of Mary.

Answer: To confound video pirates

I believe it was the only movie to do that. I could be wrong.

Answer: all different colors

Elliott quickly closes the blinds so that no one passing by outside can see E.T. in his room.

Answer: Mike

Elliott also has a younger sister, Gertie.

Answer: Someone In The Dark

He recorded the song, but it was never used. It later appeared in the "E.T." storybook and the "Thriller Special Edition" album.

Answer: 6

Elliott says to E.T., "Look, they can even have wars."

Answer: Tyler, Greg, and Steve

These are the only friends of any character mentioned in the movie.

Answer: Reeses Pieces

I hope you got that one! Don't you feel the need to eat them when you watch the movie?

Answer: Cowgirl

We first found out that Gertie was dressing up as a cowgirl for Halloween when she told Mary this, at the dinner table, near the beginning of the film. When Halloween approached, Gertie was shown, in her cowgirl costume, ready to go trick or treating. Gertie snuck out of the house and went to a secret location that her mother did not know about at all. When Mary took a picture of Michael, Elliott, and "Gertie", she did not realize that "Gertie" was actually E.T. since E.T. wore a white sheet. Gertie told Elliott and Michael that she would wait for them, at a drop off point, where Elliott and E.T. would ride a bicycle, into the woods, to help set up a device to call for a spaceship to take E.T. home.

Answer: nobody

Elliott also shows E.T. a car and a peanut bank.

Answer: Robert Macnaughton, C. Thomas Howell, Sean Frye, and K.C. Martel

C. Thomas Howell was originally supposed to be a stunt kid.

Answer: Drew Barrymore

She's also been in "The Wedding Singer" and "Charlie's Angels".

Answer: California

Elliott decided to find out where E.T. was from, so he got an atlas and a book, on outer space, for E.T. to use to help tell him where his home was located. Elliott decided that, to help E.T., he would show him where his home was located. He used an atlas but Michael told him a better visual would be the globe. Elliott got the globe and pointed to the state of California and told E.T. that was where they were located. Elliott asked E.T. where he was from and E.T. pointed out the window. Elliott used his book, on outer space, and pointed to the planet Earth and informed E.T. this was "home." E.T. did not give Elliott a specific answer as where his home planet was located.

Answer: B

Thank you Gertie for teaching E.T. to talk.

Answer: Elliott gets scared too.

This is the first sign we see that E.T.'s and Elliott's emotions are connecting.

Answer: "Everything but the little fishies"

Greg wants pepperoni and sausage but does not object when Tyler yells "everything but the little fishes" to Elliott.

Answer: In the closet

He blends in with all the stuffed animals in the closet and she doesn't have a clue.