Dave Franco-American Trivia Quiz

Answer: 21 Jump Street

"21 Jump Street" is a 2012 film starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as Officers Morton Schmidt and Greg Jenko, respectively. Schmidt and Jenko are tasked with going undercover in a high school to determine who is running a drug ring there. Dave Franco plays Eric Molson, who is a drug dealer but is not the person running the ring.

Franco has a cameo in the sequel "22 Jump Street" when Schmidt and Jenko visit Eric in jail.

Answer: Charlie St. Cloud

In this 2010 film, Zac Efron plays the title character, Charlie St. Cloud, a recent high school graduate and sailor. Charlie recently won a sailing competition with his younger brother Sam (Charlie Tahan). Sam dies in a car crash. However, Charlie can see Sam's ghost and the two play baseball every night just like Charlie promised. Dave Franco plays Sully, a friend of Charlie's who died while serving in the military.

Answer: Warm Bodies

"Warm Bodies" is a 2013 zombie-romance film starring Nicholas Hoult as the zombie R and Teresa Palmer as Julie. The film takes place soon after a zombie uprising. Julie is a human who lives with some of her friends and family in a fortified house. Her boyfriend is Perry, played by Dave Franco. Perry is killed early in the film by R when he and the gang search for supplies. R is in love with Julie, something that grows when he eats Perry's brain and accesses his feelings.

Answer: The Broken Tower

In this 2011 biographical film, Dave Franco plays the younger version of American poet Hart Crane. Dave's older brother James plays Crane in the last years of his life (Crane died at 32 via suicide). The film focuses on Crane's life as he struggles with depression, alcoholism, his various relationships and his writing.

Answer: Neighbors

"Neighbors" is a 2014 comedy film starring Zac Efron as Teddy, the leader of a fraternity. Dave Franco plays Pete, the second-in-command. The fraternity was kicked off campus and was forced to find a house elsewhere. The frat brothers move next door to Mac and Kelly Radner (Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne). The frat's loud partying and antics anger the Radners as they have a newborn daughter. They plan a number of comedic pranks to give the frat a taste of its own medicine.

Unlike most of the frat brothers, Pete is a good student academically and does not wish to jeopardize his future. He does partake in a number of pranks and antics but is aware doing so could cause him his diploma.

Dave Franco reprised his role as Pete in the sequel "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising".

Answer: The Shortcut

"The Shortcut" is a 2009 horror film starring Dave Franco as Mark, Drew Seeley as Derek and Shannon Woodward as Lisa. Mark, Derek and Lisa (and other kids) are all friends with Derek being new to town with his brother Tobey (Nicholas Elia). Mark tells Derek a story about an old man who kills people who take his shortcut through the woods. Soon enough, dead dogs start to appear near the woods and Derek is threatened by an old man.

The group of friends head to a house in the woods near the shortcut to investigate.

Answer: Unfinished Business

"Unfinished Business" is a 2015 comedy film starring Vince Vaughn as Dan Trunkman. Dan has left his job to start a new business with Dave Franco's character Mike Pancake (whose last name is the source of many laughs) and Tim McWinters (Tom Wilkinson).

Their business is a total failure and no one takes them seriously. Dan finds himself in competition with his former boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller). The guys head to Germany in an attempt to steal a potential client away from Chuck but find themselves in hilarious situations.

Answer: Nerve

"Nerve" is a 2016 thriller starring Emma Roberts as Venus Delmonico and Dave Franco as Ian. Venus is a player in an online game called Nerve, which challenges players to do different dares in public and record it on their phones. One of the rules of the game is that players cannot go to the police. Venus is dared to kiss a stranger and she picks Ian who reveals himself as a Nerve player.

The two team up and are challenged to complete increasingly risky and dangerous dares.

Answer: Now You See Me

In this 2013 film, Dave Franco plays Jack Wilder. Wilder is a member of the Four Horsemen, a group of magicians who are also thieves and pull of heists using their magic tricks. The other members are: Danny Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher).

The FBI is after the group for stealing millions of Euros from a bank vault in Paris (in reality the bank vault was in Las Vegas).

Answer: The Little Hours

"The Little Hours" is a 2017 comedy film based on a story from Boccaccio's "Decameron". Dave Franco plays Massetto, a servant who flees his cruel master (Nick Offerman) and goes on to become a gardener in a convent. However, because he is a young male and Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) forces him to pretend to be deaf and mute so as not to tempt the young, attractive nuns. One of the nuns, Alessandra, is played by Alison Brie who was engaged to Dave Franco at the time the movie was filmed.

They married in March 2017.