Can You Score 20/20? Guess the Movie From the First Line Trivia Quiz!
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Test your movie knowledge with this ultimate challenge! Identify 20 iconic films solely from their very first spoken lines, spanning classics to modern masterpieces. Questions range from easy warm-ups to devilishly tricky ones – good luck scoring a perfect 20!
20 Trivia Questions on Guess the Movie From the First Line Quiz
Question 1: “I believe in America”?
A. Casino
B. Scarface
C. The Godfather
D. Goodfellas
Question 2: “Saigon. Shit.”?
A. Platoon
B. Full Metal Jacket
C. Apocalypse Now
D. The Deer Hunter
Question 3: “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.”?
A. Goodfellas
B. The Godfather
C. Casino
D. Donnie Brasco
Question 4: “We should have fuckin’ shotguns for this kind of deal.”?
A. Reservoir Dogs
B. True Romance
C. From Dusk Till Dawn
D. Pulp Fiction
Question 5: “I live in the American Gardens Building on West 81st Street.”?
A. Fight Club
B. American Psycho
C. The Wolf of Wall Street
D. Wall Street
Question 6: “Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.”?
A. Requiem for a Dream
B. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
C. Snatch
D. Trainspotting
Question 7: “My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood.”?
A. Fight Club
B. American Beauty
C. American Psycho
D. Revolutionary Road
Question 8: “I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head.”?
A. The Green Mile
B. Forrest Gump
C. Stand by Me
D. The Shawshank Redemption
Question 9: “Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.”?
A. Gone with the Wind
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Rebecca
D. Wuthering Heights
Question 10: “Rosebud.”?
A. The Godfather
B. Citizen Kane
C. Casablanca
D. Maltese Falcon
Question 11: “With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes were lifted up to a distant corner of the world…”?
A. Citizen Kane
B. Casablanca
C. The Maltese Falcon
D. Notorious
Question 12: “You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson.”?
A. Blade Runner
B. The Matrix
C. Dark City
D. Ghost in the Shell
Question 13: “Hello. My name is Forrest, Forrest Gump.”?
A. The Shawshank Redemption
B. Forrest Gump
C. Cast Away
D. Big
Question 14: “People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.”?
A. Se7en
B. Fight Club
C. The Game
D. Primal Fear
Question 15: “The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth.”?
A. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
B. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
C. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
D. Willow
Question 16: “I’m in no mood for trouble.”?
A. The Birds
B. Vertigo
C. Psycho
D. North by Northwest
Question 17: “Michael. I’m gonna go out for a while. You mind the house.”?
A. Friday the 13th
B. A Nightmare on Elm Street
C. Halloween
D. Scream
Question 18: “C’mon into the water!”?
A. Deep Blue Sea
B. The Shallows
C. Jaws
D. 47 Meters Down
Question 19: “Dr. Grant! Dr. Sattler… Ellie.”?
A. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
B. Jurassic World
C. Jurassic Park
D. King Kong
Question 20: “Danny! Breakfast is ready!”?
A. The Exorcist
B. Poltergeist
C. The Shining
D. Misery
Answers
- C. The Godfather – Spoken by Amerigo Bonasera in the opening wedding scene monologue to Don Corleone. The others are mob films but open with different lines (e.g., Goodfellas with Henry Hill’s voiceover).
- C. Apocalypse Now – Captain Willard’s opening voiceover sets the Vietnam tone. Platoon starts with Chris Taylor’s arrival, Full Metal Jacket with a birth montage narration, Deer Hunter with wedding prep.
- A. Goodfellas – Henry Hill’s iconic voiceover narration begins the film. The Godfather opens with Bonasera’s plea, Casino with a Vegas explosion voiceover.
- D. Pulp Fiction – Pumpkin’s line kicks off the diner robbery scene. Reservoir Dogs starts with radio banter, True Romance with voiceover about love.
- B. American Psycho – Patrick Bateman’s voiceover introduces his upscale life. Fight Club begins with gun-in-mouth voiceover, Wolf of Wall Street with stock tips.
- D. Trainspotting – Renton’s rapid-fire voiceover monologue opens the film. Requiem for a Dream starts silently with Harry looking up.
- B. American Beauty – Lester Burnham’s sardonic voiceover narration from the start. Revolutionary Road opens with party chatter.
- D. The Shawshank Redemption – Red’s voiceover during Andy’s arrival at prison. The Green Mile starts with Paul Edgecomb’s narration in old age.
- C. Rebecca – Opening voiceover by the unnamed narrator dreaming of Manderley. Gone with the Wind begins with scrolling text and Atlanta scenes.
- B. Citizen Kane – Charles Foster Kane’s dying word whispered on his deathbed, the first spoken line. Others open with narration or dialogue later.
- B. Casablanca – Opening narration setting the wartime scene in Casablanca. Citizen Kane starts with Kane’s death word.
- B. The Matrix – Mr. Rhineheart scolds Neo (Thomas Anderson) in his office early on. Blade Runner opens with Leon’s Voight-Kampff test.
- B. Forrest Gump – Forrest introduces himself on the bus bench to strangers. Cast Away starts with FedEx plane takeoff.
- B. Fight Club – The Narrator’s opening voiceover amid the gun scene. Se7en begins with a dispatch call to a crime scene.
- C. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Galadriel’s voiceover prologue. The Hobbit opens with old Bilbo writing.
- C. Psycho – Sam Loomis to Marion Crane in their Phoenix hotel room. The Birds starts with bird chatter and Melanie driving.
- C. Halloween – Judith Myers to young Michael before leaving him home alone. Friday the 13th opens with camp counsellors arriving.
- C. Jaws – Chrissie Watkins lures a boy into the ocean before the first shark attack. The Shallows starts with surfers spotting the shark.
- C. Jurassic Park – Ellie Sattler greets Alan Grant at the start of the visitor center scene. Sequels open with different dinosaur digs or parks.
- C. The Shining – Wendy Torrance calls Danny for breakfast in their Boulder apartment. The Exorcist begins with the Iraq archaeological dig.
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