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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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"header": {
"title": "How Well Do You Know Quentin Tarantino?",
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"question" : "What brand of cigarettes appears frequently in Tarantino’s films?",
"answer": "Red Apple",
"options" :[
{
"title": "Lucky Strike"
},
{
"title": "Red Apple"
},
{
"title": "American Spirits"
},
{
"title": "Marlboro"
}
]
},{
"question" : "Which ear does Mr. Blonde cut off?",
"answer": "Right",
"options" :[
{
"title": "Left"
},
{
"title": "Right"
}
]
},{
"question" : "Which movie has Tarantino called his worst?",
"answer": "Death Proof",
"options" :[
{
"title": "Jackie Brown"
},
{
"title": "Death Proof"
},
{
"title": "Django Unchained"
},
{
"title": "Reservoir Dogs"
}
]
},{
"question" : "What song plays during the lap-dance scene in Death Proof?",
"answer": "The Coasters, “Down in Mexico”",
"options" :[
{
"title": "The Coasters, “Down in Mexico”"
},
{
"title": "T. 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!"
},
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