Movies About Basketball Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hoosiers

The 1986 film "Hoosiers" was about a fictional coach named Norman Dale, played by Gene Hackman, leading a small town Hickory High School to the Indiana state basketball championship. This movie was based on Milan, Indiana High School's journey to the 1954 Indiana state basketball championship.

Answer: Blue Chips

"Blue Chips" was a film about the basketball program at a fictional Western University. Head Coach Pete Bell, played by Nick Nolte, was under pressure to bring his Dolphin team back to its winning ways. So Bell decided to enlist the help of a "friend of the program" booster to help him land several "blue chip" recruits such as Neon Boudeaux (played by Shaquille O'Neal) and Butch McRae (played by Anfernee Hardaway).

Answer: White Men Can't Jump

"White Men Can't Jump" was a 1992 film starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes. Billy Hoyle, played by Harrelson, and Sidney Deane, played by Snipes, were two basketball hustlers who joined forces to become a successful team and earn more money for themselves by hustling other teams in pick up games all over the Los Angeles, California suburbs.

Answer: Hoop Dreams

The 1994 film "Hoop Dreams" followed the lives of two teenagers from Chicago named William Gates and Arthur Agee. William and Arthur were aspiring to play basketball at Saint Joseph's Catholic High School in Chicago which would lead them on the path to play basketball in college and the National Basketball Association.

The movie documented the lives of these to teenagers from their recruitment to Saint Joseph's Catholic High School through their freshman year at college.

Answer: He Got Game

"He Got Game" was a 1998 film starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen. Allen played superstar basketball recruit Jesus Shuttlesworth. His father Jake Shuttlesworth (played by Denzel Washington) was a convicted murderer who was given a pardon by the governor in order to persuade Jesus to sign with the governor's college.

Answer: Semi-Pro

Will Ferrell played singer Jackie Moon in the 2008 movie "Semi-Pro". Jackie Moon used the profits from his only hit single "Love Me Sexy" to purchase the the Flint Tropics team of the American Basketball Association. Jackie Moon used unorthodox marketing and basketball strategies to attempt to prevent the Tropics from being kicked out of the league.

Answer: Finding Forrester

The 2000 movie "Finding Forrester" was about a basketball star named Jamal Wallace, played by Rob Brown, who attended a prestigious high school in Manhattan due to his writing skills. While at the school, Jamal Wallace became friends with a reclusive writer named William Forrester, played by Sean Connery. Forrester helped Wallace with his writing skills and Wallace became a confidant and a friend to the reclusive and lonely Forrester. Forrester's loyalty to Wallace was shown when Forrester defended Wallace after the school claimed that Wallace had plagiarized Forrester in his school work.

At the end of the movie, Wallace found out that Forrester had died of cancer in Scotland. Wallace received a letter that said that Forrester valued Wallace's friendship and Wallace had rekindled Forrester's will to live.

Answer: Coach Carter

Samuel L. Jackson played Ken Carter in the 2004 film "Coach Carter". Ken Carter was hired to coach his high school alma mater's basketball team, the Richmond High School Oilers. The team signed contracts with Coach Carter promising that they would attend their classes and maintain a 2.3 grade point average. Coach Carter benched the entire team and cancelled several games because the players failed to live up to their bargain on the contract.

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio

"The Basketball Diaries" was a 1995 film based on the 1978 memoir written by Jim Carroll. Leonardo DiCaprio played Jim Carroll in the film. This movie centered about Jim Carroll's teenage life as a young teenager in New York City including experiences as an aspiring basketball player and drug use. Carroll wrote about his experiences in his diaries which later were published in 1978.

Leonardo DiCaprio was an American actor who starred as Jack Dawson in the 1997 movie "Titanic", Howard Hughes in the 2004 film "The Aviator" and Dom Cobb in the 2010 film "Inception".

Answer: Glory Road

"Glory Road" chronicled the story of Texas Western College winning the 1966 NCAA National Basketball Championship. Texas Western College decided to integrate its basketball team to compete for the national championship. The team started five African-Americans in its victory over the University of Kentucky in the 1966 National Basketball Championship game.