69 Real Genius Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Is that your real hair?

Dr. Hathaway quickly responds, "Is Mitch adopted?"

Answer: 20

Chris, for the record, seems completely unthreatened by this news.

Answer: Carmen McRae

Specifically, we hear McRae's mid-1960's rendition of "You Took Advantage of Me," which is a fitting theme song for the film, given the treatment of the featured "geniuses."

Answer: A McDonald's bag

If you look close enough, you can see that it is an old school version of the McDonald's bag.

Answer: a sweater

Mitch is seen wearing the sweater to a class later in the film.

Answer: Crossbow

The soldier depicted in the promo film even refers to himself as "Crossbow One." Operation Crossbow is based on the concept of utilizing a satellite and an advanced laser system to vaporize small (read: human) targets from space.

Answer: 20 cents

Man, how times have changed.

Answer: Batman and Robin

Val Kilmer played Batman in 1995's "Batman Forever," but Chris never wears Batman-inspired slippers in the film. We see him wearing the pink bunny slippers several times, and he wears the Heckle and Jeckle slippers during the "liquid nitrogen slug" scene with Mitch.

Answer: Darlington

Darlington is mentioned several times in the film. An amusing inside joke: Cal Tech, the school on which "Real Genius"' fictional Pacific Tech is based, has encouraged its graduates to make the initials "DEI" as prominent as possible, for reasons unknown to this quizmaker. Rumor has it that "DEI" can be found on the surface of the moon and at the peak of Mt. Everest. "Darlington Electronic Instruments" therefore also seems to be a Cal Tech triumph of sorts.

Answer: King of the Winter Carnival

The saddest thing was, Kent thought they were serious and got a little bit excited.

Answer: pickles

Mitch quickly says, "No." Chris looks off into space, and with all sincerity, asks the rhetorical question, "Why am I the only one who has that dream?"

Answer: "liberate"

Decker says, in reference to George, the man who has left the room(and the Crossbow Project) on moral grounds: "We may have to liberate him." Carnagle immediately asks, "'Liberate'? As in 'liquidate'?" Decker is indeed using the term "liberate" as a euphemism for "kill." (Odd, though, that Carnagle uses ANOTHER euphemism as his point of translation.)

Answer: His pajamas

Mitch replies "No... thanks." (confused)

Answer: He "rolls" coins across his knuckles

Chris uses his knuckles to "roll" coins across the backs of his hands (simultaneously!) as he talks to Mitch in Hathaway's classroom during a montage. He also twirls a socket wrench in his hand in the same sequence. Kilmer twirls a drumstick in "The Doors," and performs a number of dextrous pistol tricks in "Tombstone."

Answer: Dead

Not exactly informative, but one can't argue with his accuracy.

Answer: a hat

He is wearing the oversized boxers when Mitch informs Chris that there is a guy living in their closet (the boxers are pinned on one side, so they don't fall down.) Chris is wearing the earmuffs in the "Ice Age" scene. Then, whenever Chris is working on the laser, he wears the catcher's mask for protction.

Answer: "THIS IS IT"

The first indication that Mitch has succeeded in his quest is the message "THIS IS IT." He *later* encounters the words "HERE IT COMES."

Answer: "coherent"

Mitch: "This is coherent light." Mr. Taylor: "Oh. So, it talks?" Mitch, with a sigh: "No." "Coherent" is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as "relating to or composed of waves having a constant difference in phase." It follows that Mitch's expertise in this area has led him to being recognized by Hathaway as a potential genius in the field of lasers.

Answer: KENT TOR

..."Your mom puts licence plates in your underwear? How do you sit?" One of Chris' best lines, I think.