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  Take this Little Miss Sunshine Quiz   popular trivia quiz  
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I thought "Little Miss Sunshine" was the funniest movie of 2006. So, if you feel like I do, give my quiz a try.
Easier, 10 Qns, dannydogaaa, Mar 13 07
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  Test yourself! Little Miss Sunshine Quiz   great trivia quiz  
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This is a wonderful story that follows an eccentric family as they travel across the American southwest in their old Volkswagen bus to a beauty pageant.
Easier, 10 Qns, davidsietsma, Mar 11 07
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  Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"    
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How closely were you paying attention to the movie? Test your knowledge on some of the little details.
Average, 10 Qns, sarrie22, Mar 29 07
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  10 Question Little Miss Sunshine Quiz    
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This is one of my all time favorite movies so I couldn't not make a quiz on it!
Average, 10 Qns, Shadow2222222, May 06 11
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trivia question Quick Question
Before reaching the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, Alan Arkin's character, Grandpa Hoover, dies tragically. How does he die?

From Quiz "Little Miss Sunshine"





Little Miss Sunshine Trivia Questions
1. What kind of car does Sheryl drive?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: Mazda Miata

Her little red Miata isn't big enough to take the family to the Little Miss Sunshine competition. Richard agrees to go on the trip and drive them all in his Volkswagen Bus, because Sheryl doesn't know how to drive a stick shift.

2. "Little Miss Sunshine" was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor. The film didn't win Best Picture, but it did get the Best Supporting Actor award. Who earned this honor?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Alan Arkin

The award went to Alan Arkin for his hilarious performance as Grandpa Hoover, a heroin-snorting, foul-mouthed, yet very loveable, guy who teaches his granddaughter, Olive, her dance routine. He dies, however, before she can perform the routine at the "Little Miss Sunshine" beauty pageant.

3. Which character do you see first in the movie?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Olive

You first see Olive watching a tape of a women being crowned Miss America. Olive is a seven year old girl who is always very cheerful and happy. When she gets the chance to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, she jumps right at it. After that, you see Dad giving his nine step winner program.

4. As the film begins we are introduced to the Hoover family. What state do the Hoovers call home?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: New Mexico

Richard and Sheryl's home is in Albuquerque. Throughout most of the movie they are traveling from Albuquerque to Redondo Beach, California.

5. Who does Frank's student fall in love with?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: Prof. Sugarman

Prof. Larry Sugarman also wins the genius award which Frank (Steve Carell) so desperately wants. Frank's run of bad luck - losing the award, unrequited love, and getting fired from his teaching position - prompts him to attempt suicide, unsuccessfully. He goes to live with his sister Sheryl (Toni Collette), and her family of oddballs.

6. Paul Dano's character, Dwayne, took a vow of silence until he could go to flight school. Who inspired Dwayne to do this?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche

When Frank first arrives at the house, Sheryl tells him that Dwayne has stopped talking. When he asks Dwayne the reason for this, Dwayne points to a large drawing of Nietzsche on his bedroom wall.

7. Sheryl's brother, Frank, comes to live with the Hoovers during the opening sequence. Why has he been hospitalized?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: He slit his wrists.

Frank attempted suicide as a result of losing both his lover and his "genius grant" to his rival.

8. Olive does all of her pageant training behind closed doors with her grandpa. The rest of the family gets to see Olive's routine for the first time at the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. What song does she dance to?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Super Freak

This is the funniest scene in the whole movie! Olive comes out on stage and everyone is cautiously optimistic, when all of the sudden "Super Freak", by Rick James, comes blaring out of the speakers. She rips off her tuxedo shirt and pants, throws her hat at the judges and dances as hard as she can.

9. What is the name of Grandpa's old retirement home?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Sunset Manor

Grandpa gets kicked out of Sunset Manor for using illegal drugs. At their first dinner he complains about having chicken every night. This happens right before Olive finds out she can go California.

10. Until being surpassed by his rival, Frank is considered the foremost American scholar of which author?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Marcel Proust

Dwayne appears to be a fan of Friedrich Nietzsche, but his uncle Frank teaches Proust. Towards the end of the movie, Frank sees an advertisement for a book written by his rival, Larry Sugarman, where Larry claims to be the nation's foremost Proust authority.

11. When Grandpa and Olive are in the hotel room, what are they practicing?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: roaring and growling

In the hotel, the two hone her skills so that she'll be ready for the Little Miss Sunshine talent competition. We find out later that part of Olive's routine consists of crawling on the floor and roaring like a cat at the audience.

12. What is the name of Sheryl and Frank's sister who says Olive can go to California to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Cindy

Cindy cannot take her because she is taking her two horses. Dwayne wouldn't have gone if Sheryl didn't give him permission for flight school.

13. Dwayne has taken a vow of silence until he achieves a certain goal. His goal is to be admitted into which institution?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: US Air Force Academy

It's Dwayne's dream to be a fighter pilot. However, after Olive gives him a sample test in the bus, we learn that he is color-blind and therefore won't be allowed to be an Air Force pilot.

14. What does Sheryl order to drink at the diner?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: grapefruit juice

When Olive asks what she can order to eat, Sheryl tells her anything under $4.00. Olive goes for the waffles with ice cream, which prompts a diatribe from Richard (Greg Kinnear) about how ice cream can make her fat. Frank orders the chamomile tea, and Dwayne orders a garden salad.

15. What city is the Little Miss Sunshine pageant held in?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Redondo Beach, CA

During a scene at the hospital, after Grandpa passes away, Richard explains to the grief counselor that they have to get to Redondo Beach in three hours. He asks if he can leave the body and come back for it after the contest, but that was against hospital policy. In order to make the pageant on time, the family sneaks the body out of a window and takes it with them.

16. Grandpa has recently been evicted from his retirement home. What is the primary reason for his eviction?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: He used illegal drugs.

Grandpa was evicted for using heroin. Despite his drug abuse, he is extremely close to Olive and even choreographs the dance routine that she performs at the pageant. Grandpa also offers advice to Dwayne, and although it appears he may not fully embrace Frank's gay lifestyle they seem to share some degree of friendship.

17. Besides the clutch failing on the Hoover's bus, what else breaks?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: horn

The horn starts beeping incessantly and a traffic cop eventually pulls them over. The Hoovers are afraid the cop will find Grandpa's body in the back, but the officer's attention is drawn to the pornography magazines that fall out of the trunk. The cop lets the family go on their way without issuing a ticket, and the horn continues to annoyingly beep for the rest of the journey.

18. What causes Dwayne to finally break his vow of silence?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: He finds out he's colorblind.

Olive starts playing with some eye exam tests that she gets at the hospital and she asks Dwayne to take a test for colorblindness. When Dwayne can't see the letter A on one of the tests, he realizes that he's colorblind, which means that he can't join the Air Force Academy and he won't be able to fly airplanes. In a fit of rage, he starts screaming for Richard to pull the van over. When the van stops, he runs out into the desert and has a breakdown.

19. Why does Stan say Richard's program won't sell?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Nobody has heard of Richard.

Stan says it won't sell because nobody has heard of Richard. Richards's program is called "Refuse to Lose". It is a program that tries to inspire people to reach their full potential. Richard thinks it is Stan's fault but it isn't.

20. How does the family end up getting Grandpa out of the hospital?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: They shove him through the window.

They do in fact shove him through the window and place his body in the back of the van. This leads Olive to declare on stage that her grandfather is "...in the trunk of our car". The pageant officials don't think much of it, but Richard and Sheryl can't believe she says it.

21. What profession does Frank mention often throughout the movie that he's known for?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Proust scholar

Frank is the number one Proust scholar in America. When the van first breaks down, the family has to push it and run behind to get it started. While all that is going on, Frank casually mentions that he is America's best Proust scholar, as a joke. He mentions it a couple more times throughout the movie.

22. What does the police officer find in the trunk of the Hoover family Van?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Magazines

The police officer looks in their trunk because Richard tells him not to, but he does. He is distracted by the magazines and doesn't notice the body. The dead body is in the trunk because Grandpa died and the only way to make it to the pageant on time is to take the body with them.

23. When they finally reach the pageant of whom does Olive ask, "Do you eat ice cream?"

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Miss California

Earlier at the diner, Richard makes Olive self conscious about eating ice cream. Miss California tells Olive that she enjoys ice cream (at least frozen yogurt). This is just one example of how the film exposes some of the flaws in the child beauty pageant system.

24. What is the last piece of clothing Olive puts on before taking the stage for her talent?

From Quiz Little Details of "Little Miss Sunshine"

Answer: top hat

Olive wears an unflattering outfit consisting of a top hat, hot pants, a tie, vest and knee pads. All of the other contestants are in flashy outfits and have wonderful talents that include gymnastics, singing and dancing. Olive shocks the audience during her strip tease, which she performs to the tune of "Super Freak". Although Miss California seems to be enjoying the routine, the other judges and audience members are horrified. Many leave the audience and the judge tries unsuccessfully to have Olive removed from the stage.

25. In what place does Olive finish?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Her routine isn't rated.

When "Super Freak" starts playing and Olive rips off her tuxedo, the host tries to get her off the stage. Richard runs up on stage and tells the host that he'll get her off, but instead of taking Olive with him, he starts dancing too. Then the whole family runs up on stage and starts dancing. When the routine finally ends, Olive is told that she isn't allowed to enter another pageant in the state of California ever again.

26. Why can't Dwane fly jets in the Air Force?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: He is color blind.

Dwane is color blind meaning he can't see in full color. You find this out when Olive is giving him an eye test soon after the police officer lets them go. Olive goes down a hill to comfort him and gets him to come back.

27. Frank and Dwayne go to the beach. While they're there Dwayne complains that he'd like to just "sleep until [he] was eighteen". If he were to do this what does Frank argue that he would miss out on?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: suffering

Frank says that Proust looked back on his years of suffering and realized that they made him who he was. Frank then says, "So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school - those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that." After this, the two decide to head back and watch Olive at the pageant.

28. Richard is an aspiring motivational speaker. What is the name of his program?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: The Nine Steps

Richard is trying to get his career started as a motivational speaker, pushing The Nine Steps. However, when he gets a call from his business partner, he's told that nobody is interested in turning his program into a book. Richard then takes a Moped over to his business partner's hotel and confronts him, but to no avail.

29. What is the name of the person who puts Olive in the pageant even though she is late?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Kirby

The other person at the desk won't put Olive in the pageant because they are four minutes late. Kirby doesn't mind because it only takes him five minutes and he feels sorry for them coming all that way for nothing.

30. At the end of the film, while performing her dance routine, what song does Olive dance to on stage?

From Quiz Little Miss Sunshine

Answer: Super Freak

Olive dances in a striptease-like fashion to Rick James' classic. The audience and the pageant co-ordinators are clearly appalled by the dance, so as a sign of solidarity and to protect Olive from embarrassment, the other members of the family join her on stage and dance as well.

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