80 Office Space Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: "Just a moment"

As Peter arrived at work, Nina, the secretary, was heard answering the phone in Corporate Accounts Payable, Lumbergh's section, literally repeating over and over, "Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment". Nina was played by Kinna McInroe.

Answer: Gangster Rap

This kind of music makes him feel important. This kind of music is heard while he is doing things like driving to work, smashing up a fax machine, and seeing Peter slack off.

Answer: Former crackhead

He told the guys that he is making more money selling magazines than he ever did as a software engineer. Orlando Jones rose to fame as the first 7-UP guy.

Answer: When a Man Loves a Woman

Bob said this while evaluating Michael Bolton (the IniTech employee). Michael later regrets pretending to like (singer) Michael Bolton's music.

Answer: Beavis and Butthead

"Beavis and Butthead" began as cartoon shorts, just like "Office Space", which is based on the Milton character.

Answer: Corolla

Peter drives a Toyota Corolla. It's too bad the old guy with a walker could pass him!

Answer: Stan

Stan is actually played by Mike Judge, the author of the movie, as well as another famous show you have probably heard of: 'Beavis and Butthead'.

Answer: Hawaiian Shirt Day

After talking about things like expense sheets and columns, Lumbergh closed the meeting (which was held in the cubicle bay) by telling his employees that next Friday would be Hawaiian Shirt Day, so if they wanted to, they could go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt, and jeans.

They had another staff meeting when the consultants, the Bobs, came in to review the company's efficiency. At that meeting, Lumbergh stood under a large banner that read "Is This Good For the Company?"

Answer: 8

He explains to the business consultants that having 8 bosses nag on him lowers his work motivation.

Answer: Waddams

This is stated in the meeting between the Bobs, Dom and Lumbergh. The Bobs tell them that they've fixed the glitch that allowed Milton Waddams to continue receiving a paycheck.

Answer: TPS Report

Three of his superiors not only notified him that he forgot the TPS Report cover sheet, but took it upon themselves to get him another copy of the memo.

Answer: Milton

Although director Mike Judge also created "Beavis and Butt-head", the movie was based on "Milton".

Answer: Smooth Gangstar

I had never seen this until the other night when I watched the movie. It is very difficult to see and it only appears for about three seconds in the 'Jump to Conclusions' scene.

Answer: Failed to show up to work over the weekend

Just before Peter went to the appointment with the hypnotherapist, he was trying to stealthily leave work so that Lumbergh couldn't find him and ask him to work over the weekend. Lumbergh did find him however, and told Peter to come in the next day at 9, and go ahead and come in on Sunday too.

At the appointment, the doctor put Peter into a state of total relaxation, but the doctor had a heart attack and died before he could bring Peter 'back'. Peter stayed in his relaxed state, completely changing his outlook on life and his work. The next morning, he ignored his alarm going off and ignored all the phone calls coming in from Lumbergh asking Peter where he was. When Peter finally got out of bed, he had 17 messages on his answering machine, from Lumbergh. He deleted them all and didn't go in to work.

Answer: Construction worker

Peter ends up joining Lawrence at this job at the end of the movie, after Milton burns the office down. Their first job together is cleaning up the ashes from the fire.

Answer: Chotchkie's

The Alligator Grille in Austin, Texas is actually the set for Chotchkie's.

Answer: Milton

Milton mumbled this to nobody in particular while Lumbergh's birthday cake was being distributed to everyone but him, just like the last time.

Answer: Old man with a walker

Peter is frustrated by the fact that an octogenarian is making better time going down the road.

Answer: 9:12

It turned out he had a "case of the Mondays".

Answer: 9-11

His justification was because the other woman gets to listen to her headphones while she is filing.

Answer: Bolton

Michael and Samir, Peter's friends in the office, discussed their last names in a scene near the beginning of the movie. Samir couldn't understand why no one could pronounce his last name (Nagheenanajar), and Michael told him to be thankful that his last name wasn't Bolton. When Samir said that he thought that was a perfectly fine name, Michael explained that it was a fine name, until the '90s singer Michael Bolton got famous and ruined the name.

In a meeting with the Bobs, they gushed over Michael's name and told him that they loved the singer Michael Bolton's song, "When a Man Loves a Woman". They also had trouble pronouncing Samir's name. When they decided to fire him, they called him "Mr. Na... Na... Not going to work here anymore, anyway."

Answer: Dr. Swanson

He puts Peter in a trance of complete relaxation, and Peter ends up stuck in the trance because the doctor dies of a heart attack before he changes Peter back to a normal state.

Answer: Spray for bugs

Milton is nearing the breaking point by this time. He still can't figure out why he's not receiving a paycheck!

Answer: "Fifteen minutes"

They asked Peter to describe how he spent a typical day at work. Peter replied by saying that he generally arrived at least fifteen minutes late, sneaking in so that Lumbergh didn't know. He went on to say that he then spaced out at his desk for an hour, making it look like he was working but not actually doing anything; he said he did that for awhile after lunch too. He then concluded with the quote about only doing about fifteen minutes of work per week.

Peter also discussed with the Bobs the fact that he had eight different bosses, making 'not getting hassled' his only motivation to do any work and do it right.