Idiocracy Trivia Quiz

Answer: Clevon

The early part of the movie shows a geneological study of two separate cases: a couple with IQs of 142 and 143, and a country hick named Clevon with an IQ of 84. This is to demonstrate the reproduction rates between smart and stupid people. The smarter couple carefully think through their desire to have a child, and every time we check back in with them (every three years), out of prudence they still haven't had a kid. Meanwhile, every time we see Clevon he seems to have fathered another handful of children (including with the next door neighbor). Eventually his son, Clevon Jr. (IQ of 73) is shown, after winning a high school football game, surrounded by cheerleaders, screaming how he plans to sleep with all them. From this brief study, we can see the rate at which the stupid would come to severely outnumber even the marginally intelligent, thus leading to the idiocracy of 2505, which Joe ends up stranded in.

Answer: A Double-Dose of that pimpin'

Upgrayyedd the pimp (played by legendary MC Scarface) is contacted by the generals in charge of the Human Hibernation project (to put a man and a woman into suspended animation for a year), to get one of his prostitutes (Rita, played by Maya Rudolph) to be a test subject. Upgrayyedd asks for certain leeways in exchange for her cooperation, but he goes along, and Rita is enlisted for the experiment. During his presentation to his superiors, the general gives the above explanation of Upgrayedd's name. Unfortunately the general gets a little too chummy with Upgrayyedd; he ends up being prosecuted for an attempted prostitution ring, and his research center is torn down with Joe and Rita still inside their hibernation pods. And so, instead of being let out after a year, they remain there for 500 years, under a mountain of garbage, and only come out of hibernation during the "Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505".

Answer: The thirst mutilator

In the future, Brawndo sports drink has become the new water. Everyone drinks it (people even feed it to their babies, plants and livestock). In fact, the Brawndo corporation had bought out the FCC and the FDA, allowing them to say, do, and sell anything they wanted.

As a result, the entire food pyramid (i.e. food groups) is replaced by Brawndo. Their slogan is but one example of the low-brow, testosterone-fueled marketing in this very dim-witted future.

Answer: butts

"... and that's all it was, for ninety minutes. It won eight Academy Awards that year, including best screenplay..." Yes, Joe actually walks into a theater full of people cracking up to a montage of closeups of people's rear ends (with self-explanatory three-letter title), and yes, given the intellectual standards at that time, this is what passes for high cinema.

Answer: Sony

Frito is the guy whose apartment Joe lands in at the beginning of the movie (after the great garbage avalanche) and who helps Joe throughout the movie. Velveeta is the name of one of the correspondents for FOX news, Mountain Dew is the president's middle name (President Camacho, who was once a porn superstar and Ultimate Smackdown champion... seems a perfect fit for that society...).

There were also characters with such names as Tylenol Jones and Beef Supreme.

Also, when Rita calls 411 in the future, she finds that there are now thousands of people with the name "Upgrade/Upgrayedd".

Answer: various grunts

Poor English skills and misuse of the vocabulary have gotten so out of hand, after the 500-year dumbing down of society, that they are now a part of proper, English, even at the official level. We see many examples of this:

-court sketches on the news with the caption "artist's depikshun";
-ads for "Jack Inuh Box" and "Uhmerican Exxxpress";
-the judge at Joe's trial ordering that they "commensurate" (commence) the proceedings;
-Frito telling Joe "I supersize with you" (sympathize);
-Joe being charged with "Excaping from prison".

It's gotten so bad by that time that Joe, when speaking in regular present-day English, is ridiculed and called gay, even by doctors and law officers of that time.

There were no mistakes in "St-God's Memorial Hospital" (yes, that was the actual name), however there was one problem with it: they had run out of space on the front of the building and has to write the tail end of "hospital" down the edge of it (like when you run out of space on a sheet of paper).

Answer: Not Sure

When he is arrested for being an "unscannable" (i.e. not having the legally required bar code tattoo on his wrist for identification), Joe is strapped into a large machine charged with giving him his tattoo and registering him in the necessary databases. The computer asks him his name as it appears on record, but since Joe is not from that time and HAS no records, he answers that he is not sure. The computer (no doubt created by some very stupid people) takes this as meaning first name Not and last name Sure, despite Joe's repeated attempts to correct it...

Joe: "My name is not Not Sure-" (buzzer sounds)
Computer: "You have already confirmed your first name is Not... please confirm your last name, Sure."
Joe: "My last name is not Sure-"
Computer: "Thank you. You have now confirmed..."

The name is then tattooed on his wrist with the bar code, and entered in public records, complete with a snapshot of himself struggling against the machine (trying to cancel and start over).

Answer: Water them

It turns out that crops all over America stopped growing because they were being "watered" with Brawndo sports drink ("It's got what plants crave... it's got electrolytes!"). People have no idea what electrolytes are, just that they crave them and Branwdo's got 'em.

In fact, Brawndo has come to replace water everywhere, from fountains to water towers. Anytime Joe mentions water, the reply was invariably "You mean like from the toilet?". And after several unsuccessful attempts to explain why water would make the crops grow, Joe finally convinces everyone by pretending that he can talk to plants, and they told him they want water.

Answer: I love you

In the future, shameless pandering to customers has reached a new low, with Costco attendants saying the above greeting to everyone who enters. Costco has become a gigantic shopping complex that stretches as far as the eye can see. Once inside, we find that they now have absolutely everything you could want, even things that have no business in a mall (Frito got his law degree at Costco... scary, huh?)

Answer: Beef Supreme

When Joe's plan to water the crops doesn't work (at least not fast enough), President Camacho sentences him to one night of rehabilitation. Joe thinks it can't be so bad, until we find out that he is headed to "Monday Night Rehabilitation", which is basically a big duel (or rather execution) in a dirt arena against souped-up monster vehicles. Joe's opponents are referred to as corrections officers, but in reality each is just a cross between a pro-wrestler and a "Running Man" villain. Joe is sent into the arena and pitted against vehicles such as the Dil-Dozer, which is basically a monster truck mounted tank-style with a giant mechanical drill. Legendary Monday Night corrections officer Beef Supreme is supposed to come out in the biggest, meanest corrections vehicle ever made (whose name I cannot repeat here). Unfortunately it is so massive it can't fit through the arena portal (typical example of Idiocracy engineering), which instead caves in on top of it. Later, Beef Supreme climbs out of the rubble and the battle begins on foot (after Joe's vehicle is pulverized by the other officers' vehicles).