Boyz n the Hood Trivia
Fifteen questions on John Singleton's 1991 masterpiece. Increase the peace — and your score.
Questions & Answers
Who wrote and directed Boyz n the Hood?
Answer: John Singleton
At 24, he became the youngest Best Director Oscar nominee ever — and the first Black director nominated.
Which L.A. neighborhood is the film set in?
Answer: Crenshaw, South Central Los Angeles
Singleton set it in the neighborhood he grew up around.
Who plays Tre Styles?
Answer: Cuba Gooding Jr.
His first major film role — an Oscar for Jerry Maguire came five years later.
Who is Tre's father, and who plays him?
Answer: Furious Styles, played by Laurence Fishburne
Only about seven years older than his on-screen son.
Which rapper made his film debut as Doughboy?
Answer: Ice Cube
Singleton wrote the role with Cube in mind after meeting him.
What sport is Ricky's ticket out?
Answer: Football — with a shot at USC
His recruitment visit is one of the film's most hopeful scenes.
What test result arrives too late for Ricky to see?
Answer: His SAT score — a passing 710
The envelope is opened after the drive-by. It's the film's cruelest beat.
How are Ricky and Doughboy related?
Answer: They're half-brothers
Raised in the same house, treated completely differently by their mother.
What does Furious lecture the neighborhood about in Compton?
Answer: Gentrification and property value
The billboard scene — 'Why is it that there is a gun shop on almost every corner?'
Who plays Brandi, Tre's girlfriend?
Answer: Nia Long
One of three classics she anchored in the 90s, with Friday and Love Jones.
Who made his film debut as Ricky?
Answer: Morris Chestnut
Boyz was his very first movie.
Who plays Tre's mother, Reva?
Answer: Angela Bassett
Two years before What's Love Got to Do with It made her a legend.
What year was Boyz n the Hood released?
Answer: 1991
It earned two Oscar nominations: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
What does Doughboy say the media 'don't know, don't show'?
Answer: '...or don't care about what's going on in the hood'
The final monologue before the closing title cards.
What happens to Doughboy according to the film's closing text?
Answer: He is murdered two weeks after Ricky's funeral
Tre, the card tells us, made it out — to Morehouse.
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