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Take the Quentin Tarantino Superfan Quiz

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Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker’s filmmaker and a cinephile’s cinephile — a pop-culture junkie who packs his movies with moments both familiar and unforgettable. Rife with minute details and pop-culture allusions that may initially elude moviegoers, Tarantino’s films reward repeated viewings. Which raises the question: Have you seen them enough times? And have you adequately studied up on the man himself? Test your knowledge of the Tarantino-verse with this quiz — and don’t hold your breath for “What do they call a Quarter-Pounder With Cheese in France?”

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Rex, “Jeepster”" }, { "title": "Brother Dege, “Too Old to Die Young”" }, { "title": "Urge Overkill, “Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon”" } ] },{ "question" : "After Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in the most Tarantino films?", "answer": "Zoe Bell", "options" :[ { "title": "Michael Madsen" }, { "title": "Tim Roth" }, { "title": "Uma Thurman" }, { "title": "Zoe Bell" } ] },{ "question" : "Which of the following did not appear on Tarantino’s 2012 list of favorite films?", "answer": "The Searchers", "options" :[ { "title": "The Searchers" }, { "title": "Carrie" }, { "title": "Apocalypse Now" }, { "title": "The Bad News Bears" } ] },{ "question" : "How many Oscars has Tarantino won?", "answer": "2", "options" :[ { "title": "0" }, { "title": "1" }, { "title": "2" }, { "title": "3" } ] },{ "question" : "How much does a milkshake cost in Pulp Fiction?", "answer": "$5", "options" :[ { "title": "$2" }, { "title": "$4" }, { "title": "$5" }, { "title": "$7" } ] },{ "question" : "What film heavily inspired the plot of Reservoir Dogs?", "answer": "City On Fire", "options" :[ { "title": "The Killer" }, { "title": "Prime Cut" }, { "title": "City On Fire" }, { "title": "Straw Dogs" } ] },{ "question" : "Which is the only film Tarantino did not shoot in widescreen?", "answer": "Jackie Brown", "options" :[ { "title": "Jackie Brown" }, { "title": "Death Proof" }, { "title": "Inglourious Basterds" }, { "title": "Reservoir Dogs" } ] },{ "question" : "How many people does Brad Pitt’s Aldo Raine kill in Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "1", "options" :[ { "title": "1" }, { "title": "11" }, { "title": "15" }, { "title": "None" } ] },{ "question" : "Who wrote the Bride’s “Revenge Theme” in Kill Bill?", "answer": "Quincy Jones", "options" :[ { "title": "Ennio Morricone" }, { "title": "Robert Rodriguez" }, { "title": "Billy Preston" }, { "title": "Quincy Jones" } ] },{ "question" : "The Kill Bill character Hattori Hanzo is named after a character from what TV show?", "answer": "Shadow Warriors", "options" :[ { "title": "Kung Fu" }, { "title": "Samurai Warriors" }, { "title": "Shadow Warriors" }, { "title": "Dynasty Wars" } ] },{ "question" : "What do the card-playing white men use for currency in Django Unchained?", "answer": "Severed ears", "options" :[ { "title": "Cigarettes" }, { "title": "Severed ears" }, { "title": "Mandingo teeth" }, { "title": "Bullets" } ] },{ "question" : "Who directed Nation’s Pride, the film-within-a-film in Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "Eli Roth", "options" :[ { "title": "Eli Roth" }, { "title": "Robert Rodriguez" }, { "title": "Rian Johnson" }, { "title": "Mélanie Laurent" } ] },{ "question" : "What was the working title of Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France", "options" :[ { "title": "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France" }, { "title": "Revenge of the Giant Face" }, { "title": "German Night in Paris" }, { "title": "Operation Kino" } ] },{ "question" : "How many languages are spoken in Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "4", "options" :[ { "title": "3" }, { "title": "4" }, { "title": "5" }, { "title": "6" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino’s original script for True Romance was originally part of the script for what movie?", "answer": "Natural Born Killers", "options" :[ { "title": "Reservoir Dogs" }, { "title": "From Dusk Till Dawn" }, { "title": "Natural Born Killers" }, { "title": "My Best Friend’s Birthday" } ] },{ "question" : "According to Mia Wallace, everyone is a _____ or a _____.", "answer": "Beatles, Elvis", "options" :[ { "title": "Beatles, Rolling Stones" }, { "title": "Beatles, Elvis" }, { "title": "Elvis, Buddy Holly" }, { "title": "Beatles, Beach Boys" } ] },{ "question" : "Who won an Oscar for co-writing Pulp Fiction with Tarantino?", "answer": "Roger Avary", "options" :[ { "title": "Harvey Weinstein" }, { "title": "Roger Avary" }, { "title": "Robert Rodriguez" }, { "title": "No one, he got sole credit" } ] },{ "question" : "What school mascot is on Vincent Vega’s T-shirt at the end of Pulp Fiction?", "answer": "UC Santa Cruz’s Sammy the Banana Slug", "options" :[ { "title": "UC Riverside’s Scotty the Bear" }, { "title": "UC San Diego’s King Triton" }, { "title": "UC Irvine’s Peter the Anteater" }, { "title": "UC Santa Cruz’s Sammy the Banana Slug" }, { "title": "UC Santa Barbara’s Olé the Gaucho" } ] },{ "question" : "Who wrote the poem Stuntman Mike recites to earn his lap dance in Death Proof?", "answer": "Robert Frost", "options" :[ { "title": "Robert Frost" }, { "title": "T. S. Eliot" }, { "title": "Wallace Stevens" }, { "title": "Robert Penn Warren" } ] },{ "question" : "For which actor does Stuntman Mike say he doubled?", "answer": "Lee Majors", "options" :[ { "title": "Lee Majors" }, { "title": "Raymond Burr" }, { "title": "Clint Eastwood" }, { "title": "David Janssen" } ] },{ "question" : "The miniature sets used on Kill Bill: Vol. I were leftovers from what film?", "answer": "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack", "options" :[ { "title": "Aalavandhan" }, { "title": "Ichi the Killer" }, { "title": "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" }, { "title": "Battle Royale" } ] },{ "question" : "How many people does Bill kill onscreen in Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2?", "answer": "0", "options" :[ { "title": "0" }, { "title": "1" }, { "title": "2" }, { "title": "3" } ] },{ "question" : "Sonny Chiba, who portrays Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill, is called “bar none, the greatest actor working in martial arts movies today” in what film?", "answer": "True Romance", "options" :[ { "title": "Reservoir Dogs" }, { "title": "True Romance" }, { "title": "Pulp Fiction" }, { "title": "Death Proof" } ] },{ "question" : "The Directors Guild of America forbade Tarantino from directing an episode of what TV show?", "answer": "The X-Files", "options" :[ { "title": "The Sopranos" }, { "title": "The X-Files" }, { "title": "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" }, { "title": "ER" } ] },{ "question" : "Which Inglourious Basterds character is named after the director of the original Inglorious Bastards?", "answer": "Antonio Margheriti", "options" :[ { "title": "Dominic Decoco" }, { "title": "Enzo Girolami" }, { "title": "Antonio Margheriti" }, { "title": "Archie Hicox" } ] },{ "question" : "Who is Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace’s waiter in Pulp Fiction?", "answer": "Buddy Holly", "options" :[ { "title": "Elvis" }, { "title": "Buddy Holly" }, { "title": "John Wayne" }, { "title": "James Dean" } ] },{ "question" : "Which film did Robert Rodriguez score?", "answer": "Kill Bill: Vol. II", "options" :[ { "title": "Kill Bill: Vol. I" }, { "title": "Kill Bill: Vol. II" }, { "title": "Death Proof" }, { "title": "Inglourious Basterds" } ] },{ "question" : "All of Tarantino’s screenplays (but not necessarily the eventual films) feature a character named what?", "answer": "Scagnetti", "options" :[ { "title": "Bill" }, { "title": "Vincent" }, { "title": "Scagnetti" }, { "title": "Max" } ] },{ "question" : "What cereal does Lance eat in Pulp Fiction?", "answer": "Fruit Brute", "options" :[ { "title": "Fruit Brute" }, { "title": "Yummy Mummy" }, { "title": "Crackle O’s" }, { "title": "Cinnamon Surge" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino’s production company is named after a film by what filmmaker?", "answer": "Jean-Luc Godard", "options" :[ { "title": "Francois Truffaut" }, { "title": "Jean-Luc Godard" }, { "title": "Sergio Leone" }, { "title": "Howard Hawks" } ] },{ "question" : "What fake film title appears onscreen before the real title of Death Proof?", "answer": "Thunderbolt", "options" :[ { "title": "Werewolves on Wheels" }, { "title": "Chicks Who Love Guns" }, { "title": "Thunderbolt" }, { "title": "Mayhem With Stuntman Mike" } ] },{ "question" : "Which of the following jobs has Tarantino never had?", "answer": "Projectionist", "options" :[ { "title": "Video-store clerk" }, { "title": "Aerospace industry recruiter" }, { "title": "Theater usher" }, { "title": "Projectionist" } ] },{ "question" : "In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega and Mia do a dance from what movie?", "answer": "8 ½", "options" :[ { "title": "Saturday Night Fever" }, { "title": "8 ½" }, { "title": "The Seven Year Itch" }, { "title": "Bonnie and Clyde" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino impersonated Elvis on what classic TV show?", "answer": "The Golden Girls", "options" :[ { "title": "Wings" }, { "title": "The Golden Girls" }, { "title": "Growing Pains" }, { "title": "Cheers" } ] },{ "question" : "Which three fingers does Lt. Hicox erroneously hold up in the bar in Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "Pointer, middle, ring", "options" :[ { "title": "Thumb, pointer, middle" }, { "title": "Middle, ring, pinkie" }, { "title": "Pointer, middle, ring" }, { "title": "Thumb, pointer, pinkie" } ] },{ "question" : "Who sued Tarantino for assault in 1997?", "answer": "Don Murphy", "options" :[ { "title": "Don Murphy" }, { "title": "Oliver Stone" }, { "title": "Lawrence Bender" }, { "title": "Roger Avary" } ] },{ "question" : "In Django Unchained, what was the name of the wife who cut eyeholes in the bags for Big Daddy’s group of masked raiders?", "answer": "Jenny", "options" :[ { "title": "Emily" }, { "title": "Jenny" }, { "title": "Lara Lee" }, { "title": "Carolyn" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino is named after a character from what TV show?", "answer": "Gunsmoke", "options" :[ { "title": "Gunsmoke" }, { "title": "Howdy Doody" }, { "title": "The Six Million Dollar Man" }, { "title": "The Virginian" } ] },{ "question" : "To what band does Jackie Brown introduce Max Cherry?", "answer": "The Delfonics", "options" :[ { "title": "The Veronicas" }, { "title": "Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes" }, { "title": "The Valentinos" }, { "title": "The Delfonics" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino wrote the foreword for which book?", "answer": "Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi", "options" :[ { "title": "Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death" }, { "title": "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" }, { "title": "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard" }, { "title": "Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi" } ] },{ "question" : "What is the sequence in which the Bride kills or otherwise incapacitates the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad?", "answer": "Copperhead, Cottonmouth, California Mountain Snake", "options" :[ { "title": "Copperhead, Cottonmouth, Sidewinder" }, { "title": "Sidewinder, Copperhead, California Mountain Snake" }, { "title": "Cottonmouth, Sidewinder, California Mountain Snake" }, { "title": "Copperhead, Cottonmouth, California Mountain Snake" } ] },{ "question" : "Tarantino is thanked in the liner notes for which album?", "answer": "Nirvana, In Utero", "options" :[ { "title": "David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time" }, { "title": "Radiohead, Hail to the Thief" }, { "title": "Nirvana, In Utero" }, { "title": "Quincy Jones, From Love With Q" } ] },{ "question" : "Who dubbed Christolph Waltz’s dialogue for the German release of Inglourious Basterds?", "answer": "Christolph Waltz", "options" :[ { "title": "Christolph Waltz" }, { "title": "Werner Herzog" }, { "title": "Bruno Ganz" }, { "title": "Martin Wuttke" } ] },{ "question" : "Which movie has the fewest onscreen deaths?", "answer": "Jackie Brown", "options" :[ { "title": "Pulp Fiction" }, { "title": "Jackie Brown" }, { "title": "Reservoir Dogs" }, { "title": "Death Proof" } ] } ], "comments": { "bad": "Yikes.", "good": "Well Done!" }, "promos": [ { "title": "Take the Mad Men Superfan Quiz", "link": "http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/mad-men-superfan-quiz.html", "img": "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/7a1/704/c772fd25481a00966cd30b888c3d0c7c52-14-mad-men-superfan-quiz.2x.rsquare-zoom.w190.jpg" }, { "title": "Take the Sons of Anarchy Superfan Quiz", "link": "http://www.vulture.com/2014/12/sons-of-anarchy-quiz-super-fan.html", "img": "https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/62d/78a/2f559d6a29c183b71096f9ab8038e52604-02-soa-superfan.2x.rsquare-zoom.w190.jpg" } ] })
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