Can You Score 20/20? Identify the Movie From Its Final Scene Ultimate Trivia Quiz!

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Test your cinematic memory with this ultimate challenge! Can you name the film from just a description of its iconic final scene? We’ve got 20 questions ranging from easy classics to mind-bending modern twists – no spoilers beyond the end, but good luck scoring a perfect 20!

20 Trivia Questions on Final Movie Scenes

Question 1: In the final scene, an astronaut collapses in shock upon discovering the half-buried Statue of Liberty on a desolate beach?

A. 2001: A Space Odyssey
B. Planet of the Apes
C. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
D. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

Question 2: In the final scene, a young Jedi hangs precariously from a walkway as Darth Vader reveals, “No, I am your father”?

A. Star Wars: A New Hope
B. Return of the Jedi
C. The Empire Strikes Back
D. Rogue One

Question 3: In the final scene, a car is pulled from a swamp by a crane as the sheriff watches?

A. The Birds
B. Psycho
C. Vertigo
D. Rear Window

Question 4: In the final scene, con artist Verbal Kint limps away down rainy steps as the police office transforms into clues from his story?

A. The Usual Suspects
B. Se7en
C. Primal Fear
D. L.A. Confidential

Question 5: In the final scene, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe realises he has been dead the whole time during a family reconciliation?

A. The Sixth Sense
B. Unbreakable
C. Signs
D. The Village

Question 6: In the final scene, a detective opens a box containing a severed head, screaming “What’s in the box?!” as rain pours?

A. Silence of the Lambs
B. Seven
C. Zodiac
D. The Bone Collector

Question 7: In the final scene, the narrator and Tyler Durden hold hands watching skyscrapers explode in a city-wide demolition?

A. The Matrix
B. Donnie Brasco
C. Fight Club
D. American Psycho

Question 8: In the final scene, a spinning top wobbles uncertainly on a table as time runs out?

A. Shutter Island
B. Memento
C. Inception
D. The Prestige

Question 9: In the final scene, Truman Burbank bows to his artificial sky and sails through the painted horizon wall to freedom?

A. The Matrix
B. The Truman Show
C. Dark City
D. eXistenZ

Question 10: In the final scene, Police Chief Brody smiles triumphantly atop the sinking mast after blowing up the shark with an oxygen tank?

A. Deep Blue Sea
B. Open Water
C. Jaws
D. The Meg

Question 11: In the final scene, Jack Torrance is found frozen to death in a hedge maze during a snowstorm?

A. The Thing
B. Misery
C. The Shining
D. Doctor Sleep

Question 12: In the final scene, Ellen Ripley drifts in hypersleep aboard the Nostromo escape shuttle, having ejected the xenomorph into space?

A. Prometheus
B. Altered States
C. Alien
D. Event Horizon

Question 13: In the final scene, the T-800 gives a thumbs-up before sinking into molten steel in a steel mill?

A. The Terminator
B. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
C. Terminator Salvation
D. Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Question 14: In the final scene, Andy Dufresne and Red Redding reunite on a sunlit beach in Zihuatanejo?

A. The Green Mile
B. Mistress of the Dark
C. The Shawshank Redemption
D. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Question 15: In the final scene, elderly Rose drops the Heart of the Ocean necklace into the sea from the salvage ship?

A. The Poseidon Adventure
B. Deep Impact
C. Armageddon
D. Titanic

Question 16: In the final scene, Jules and Vincent drive away in a car after quoting Ezekiel 25:17, having spared a robber?

A. Reservoir Dogs
B. True Romance
C. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
D. Pulp Fiction

Question 17: In the final scene, Sidney Prescott throws her final killer off a roof and walks away carrying a red Apple phone?

A. I Know What You Did Last Summer
B. Urban Legend
C. Scream
D. Halloween

Question 18: In the final scene, bloodied boxer Rocky Balboa calls out for Adrian at the top of the Philadelphia Museum steps?

A. Rocky IV
B. Creed
C. Rocky V
D. Rocky

Question 19: In the final scene, Rick Blaine and Captain Louis Renault walk off into the foggy Casablanca night?

A. Notorious
B. To Have and Have Not
C. Casablanca
D. The Maltese Falcon

Question 20: In the final scene, Frodo sails away from the Grey Havens as Sam returns home to Rosie, saying “Well, I’m back”?

A. The Fellowship of the Ring
B. The Two Towers
C. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
D. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Answers

  1. B. Planet of the Apes – Astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) finds the Statue of Liberty buried in sand in 1968’s original film, revealing Earth was the planet of apes; others are unrelated space films.
  2. C. The Empire Strikes Back – Luke Skywalker dangles as Vader reveals their relation in the 1980 sequel; A and B are other Star Wars entries with different endings, D is a prequel.
  3. B. Psycho – Norman Bates’ car (with Marion Crane’s body) is dredged from the swamp in Hitchcock’s 1960 classic; others are different Hitchcock thrillers.
  4. A. The Usual Suspects – Keyser Söze (Kevin Spacey) escapes as clues materialise in the 1995 Bryan Singer film; others are similar crime thrillers with alternate finales.
  5. A. The Sixth Sense – Bruce Willis’ character learns he’s a ghost in M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 twist; others are his later films with supernatural elements but different endings.
  6. B. Seven – David Mills (Brad Pitt) opens the box with Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in David Fincher’s 1995 film; others are serial killer stories with varied conclusions.
  7. C. Fight Club – The split-personality protagonist watches Project Mayhem’s destruction in Fincher’s 1999 adaptation; others feature violence but not this explosive end.
  8. C. Inception – Cobb’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) top spins ambiguously in Nolan’s 2010 dream-heist film; others have twist endings but no totem.
  9. B. The Truman Show – Jim Carrey’s Truman exits Seahaven in Peter Weir’s 1998 satire; others involve simulated realities with different escapes.
  10. C. Jaws – Brody defeats the shark on the Orca wreckage in Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster; others are shark or ocean survival films.
  11. C. The Shining – Jack Nicholson freezes in the maze in Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation; others are horror with isolation but different snowy demises.
  12. C. Alien – Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley survives alone in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror; sequels and prequels alter the shuttle escape.
  13. D. Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 self-destructs in James Cameron’s 1991 sequel; others have Terminator ends but no thumbs-up melt.
  14. C. The Shawshank Redemption – Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman meet on the Mexican beach in Frank Darabont’s 1994 Stephen King adaptation; others are King-related but prison-free.
  15. D. Titanic – Gloria Stuart’s Rose returns the necklace in James Cameron’s 1997 epic; others are disaster films without this artefact.
  16. D. Pulp Fiction – Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta drive off post-redemption in Tarantino’s 1994 nonlinear film; others are his crime tales with violent finales.
  17. C. Scream – Neve Campbell triumphs over Billy and Stu in Wes Craven’s 1996 slasher; others are 90s slashers with teen survivors but different kills.
  18. D. Rocky – Sylvester Stallone’s underdog goes 15 rounds and yells for his love in John G. Avildsen’s 1976 Best Picture nominee; sequels have victories.
  19. C. Casablanca – Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains prioritise friendship over romance in Michael Curtiz’s 1942 classic; others are Bogart war films.
  20. C. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Elijah Wood departs Middle-earth as Sean Astin’s Sam settles in Peter Jackson’s 2003 finale; prior films end mid-quest.

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