# 💥 John Belushi Trivia Set
**Used:** 2025-06-10  
**Categories:** Regular, Fill-in-the-Blank, Multiple Choice  
**Topic:** John Belushi, SNL, Blues Brothers, 70s/80s comedy

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## 🎯 Regular Questions

### 1. What sketch comedy show launched John Belushi to national fame?  
**Answer:** Saturday Night Live  
**Taglines:**  
- Live from New York, it's... excessive behavior!  
- The original Not Ready for Rehab Players.  
- More characters than a Twitter thread.  
- Where Belushi met fame and writers met aspirin.  
- Sketches, screams, and side effects.

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### 2. What musical comedy act did John Belushi famously perform with Dan Aykroyd?  
**Answer:** The Blues Brothers  
**Taglines:**  
- On a mission from God—and probably parole.  
- Sunglasses, soul, and carnage.  
- The only band with more car crashes than songs.  
- It’s not just blues, it’s bruised.  
- “Soul Man” meets maniac energy.

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### 3. What 1978 film featured John Belushi as a hard-partying college student?  
**Answer:** Animal House  
**Taglines:**  
- Toga, rage, repeat.  
- The reason your dad still drinks Natty Light.  
- Higher education, lower expectations.  
- When food fights are your thesis defense.  
- Dean Wormer’s recurring nightmare.

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### 4. What food item did Belushi turn into a weapon in his famous *SNL* “Lunch Counter” sketch?  
**Answer:** Cheeseburger  
**Taglines:**  
- Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, no Pepsi—rage.  
- Weaponized dairy and beef.  
- When customer service goes carnivore.  
- The cholesterol-fueled meltdown.  
- Would you like fries with your trauma?

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### 5. What was John Belushi’s cause of death in 1982?  
**Answer:** Drug overdose (speedball – cocaine and heroin)  
**Taglines:**  
- Fast lane, no brakes.  
- The ultimate crash course.  
- Coke and heroin: the worst cocktail ever.  
- Speedball: Not a sport, kids.  
- Gone too fast, too loud, too Belushi.

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## 🧠 Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. John Belushi starred in the film *Animal ______*.  
**Answer:** House  
**Taglines:**  
- Where the wild things keg.  
- Home is where the hangover is.  
- House party meets academic probation.  
- Rent’s due, dignity’s gone.  
- Animal instincts, frat edition.

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### 2. The Blues Brothers wore matching black ________.  
**Answer:** Sunglasses  
**Taglines:**  
- Hiding eyes and poor decisions.  
- Cooler than your future.  
- Blocking shade with more shade.  
- Night vision not included.  
- Blues blockers.

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### 3. Belushi’s brother, also an actor, is named ________.  
**Answer:** Jim  
**Taglines:**  
- The Belushi who lived.  
- Same DNA, different damage.  
- Jim: less cocaine, more sitcom.  
- From “Toga!” to “According to Jim.”  
- Nepotism’s last hope.

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### 4. Belushi was known for his wild physical _______ in sketches.  
**Answer:** Comedy  
**Taglines:**  
- Falls harder than your high school GPA.  
- Gymnastics with rage.  
- Slapstick meets slap-yourself.  
- When gravity gives you laughs.  
- Jackass before Jackass.

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### 5. Belushi graduated from _______ College.  
**Answer:** Wheaton  
**Taglines:**  
- Yes, he technically graduated somewhere.  
- Wheaton: Where future chaos brews.  
- An education in faceplants.  
- They gave him a diploma—on accident.  
- You too can major in mayhem.

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## ❓ Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. What was the name of Belushi’s character in *Animal House*?  
A) Otter  
B) Bluto  
C) Pinto  
D) Hoover  
**Answer:** B) Bluto  
**Taglines:**  
- Bluto: Less emperor, more disaster.  
- His GPA was lower than sea level.  
- One man, infinite beer.  
- Honor student in wreckage.  
- Bluto: the sound of a keg tapping.

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### 2. Belushi’s ethnic background was primarily:  
A) Greek  
B) Italian  
C) Albanian  
D) Serbian  
**Answer:** C) Albanian  
**Taglines:**  
- Albanian rage in a 5’8” frame.  
- Your Balkan surprise package.  
- Mediterranean chaos.  
- The pride of Tirana... kind of.  
- Not all heroes wear togas.

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### 3. What animal did Belushi famously imitate on SNL’s “Weekend Update”?  
A) Shark  
B) Bee  
C) Lizard  
D) Samurai  
**Answer:** A) Shark  
**Taglines:**  
- Jaws, but make it sketch comedy.  
- Landshark: because subtlety is for cowards.  
- “Candygram…” *BAM*  
- The apex predator of punchlines.  
- Fin it to win it.

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### 4. Which SNL cast member was *not* in the original 1975 lineup with Belushi?  
A) Gilda Radner  
B) Chevy Chase  
C) Bill Murray  
D) Dan Aykroyd  
**Answer:** C) Bill Murray  
**Taglines:**  
- He came later, like your excuses.  
- No Murray? No problem (yet).  
- Save it for Season 2, slick.  
- Bill missed the first party.  
- Tag, you’re not it.

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### 5. What was Belushi's final completed film before his death?  
A) Neighbors  
B) Continental Divide  
C) 1941  
D) Wired  
**Answer:** A) Neighbors  
**Taglines:**  
- The dark comedy no one expected—or wanted.  
- When Belushi went domestic... badly.  
- Suburbia meets insanity.  
- Your HOA’s worst nightmare.  
- Last stop before oblivion.
