Can You Score 20/20 on This Hard Mode Movie Quotes Quiz? Only True Experts Pass!

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Think you’re a cinematic quote connoisseur? This 20-question hard mode quiz features tricky lines from classic and modern films, ranging from subtle zingers to unforgettable monologues. Only die-hard movie experts will conquer them all!

20 Trivia Questions on Movie Quotes (Hard Mode)

Question 1: From which film is this quote: "Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night."?

A. Sunset Boulevard
B. All About Eve
C. Mildred Pierce
D. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Question 2: In which movie does Norma Desmond declare, "I am big! It’s the pictures that got small!"?

A. All About Eve
B. Sunset Boulevard
C. The Star
D. A Star is Born (1954)

Question 3: "You don’t understand! I could’ve had class. I could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." From which film?

A. Rocky
B. Raging Bull
C. On the Waterfront
D. Cinderella Man

Question 4: Who delivers this line in The Third Man: "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did they produce? The cuckoo-clock!"?

A. Holly Martins
B. Harry Lime
C. Major Calloway
D. Baron Kurtz

Question 5: This famous closing line is from which comedy: "Nobody’s perfect."?

A. The Producers
B. Some Like It Hot
C. Blazing Saddles
D. Young Frankenstein

Question 6: "Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown." is the final line of which film?

A. L.A. Confidential
B. Chinatown
C. The Black Dahlia
D. Mulholland Drive

Question 7: "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death." Spoken in?

A. All About Eve
B. Auntie Mame
C. Gypsy
D. Mame

Question 8: Which film features the line: "Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"?

A. Some Like It Hot
B. Hell’s Angels
C. Baby Doll
D. Red Dust

Question 9: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." From?

A. The Godfather
B. Goodfellas
C. The Godfather Part II
D. Donnie Brasco

Question 10: "This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-you’s." From?

A. Fargo
B. Burn After Reading
C. The Big Lebowski
D. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Question 11: "I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley." Iconic line from?

A. Airplane!
B. The Naked Gun
C. Hot Shots!
D. Top Secret!

Question 12: "Game over, man! Game over!" Yelled by Private Hudson in?

A. Predator
B. Aliens
C. Terminator
D. Starship Troopers

Question 13: "Get busy living or get busy dying." From?

A. The Green Mile
B. The Shawshank Redemption
C. Dead Man Walking
D. The Mist

Question 14: "You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!" From?

A. Fail-Safe
B. Dr. Strangelove
C. The Mouse That Roared
D. Seven Days in May

Question 15: "I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!" Spoken by Daniel Plainview in?

A. No Country for Old Men
B. There Will Be Blood
C. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
D. Blood Diamond

Question 16: "It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage." Said by Indiana Jones in?

A. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
B. Raiders of the Lost Ark
C. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
D. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Question 17: "What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss?" Anton Chigurh asks in?

A. Fargo
B. True Grit
C. No Country for Old Men
D. Hell or High Water

Question 18: "Say what again. I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more time!" Jules Winnfield in?

A. Reservoir Dogs
B. Jackie Brown
C. Pulp Fiction
D. Kill Bill

Question 19: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further." Spoken by Darth Vader in?

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

Question 20: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." From?

A. Hannibal
B. Red Dragon
C. Manhunter
D. The Silence of the Lambs

Answers

  1. B. All About Eve – Iconic line spoken by Bette Davis as Margo Channing in the 1950 film All About Eve; the others are classic Hollywood dramas without this quote.
  2. B. Sunset Boulevard – Gloria Swanson delivers it as silent star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder’s 1950 noir classic Sunset Boulevard; wrong options are similar star-focused tales.
  3. C. On the Waterfront – Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy utters this heartbreaking monologue in Elia Kazan’s 1954 film On the Waterfront; others feature boxers but not this line.
  4. B. Harry Lime – Orson Welles as the charismatic villain Harry Lime says it in Carol Reed’s 1949 thriller The Third Man; others are characters from the same film.
  5. B. Some Like It Hot – Closing line by Joe E. Brown to Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot; other Mel Brooks and Wilder films have different punchlines.
  6. B. Chinatown – Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir ends with Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes hearing this from Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown; others are LA crime stories.
  7. B. Auntie Mame – Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis exclaims it in the 1958 comedy Auntie Mame; others star strong female leads but lack the quote.
  8. B. Hell’s Angels – Jean Harlow’s Helen says it to Clark Gable in Howard Hughes’ 1930 aviation epic Hell’s Angels; others feature seductive scenes differently.
  9. C. The Godfather Part II – Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) advises this in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 sequel The Godfather Part II; not in the original or other mob films listed.
  10. C. The Big Lebowski – The Dude (Jeff Bridges) explains to Maude in the Coen Brothers’ 1998 cult comedy The Big Lebowski; similar quirky Coen lines but wrong films.
  11. A. Airplane! – Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack deadpans it in the 1980 parody Airplane!; Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker spoofs share style but not this line.
  12. B. Aliens – Bill Paxton as Hudson panics in James Cameron’s 1986 sci-fi actioner Aliens; other sci-fi have panic but not this exact yell.
  13. B. The Shawshank Redemption – Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) tells Red in Frank Darabont’s 1994 adaptation The Shawshank Redemption; Stephen King prison tales differ.
  14. B. Dr. Strangelove – Group Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) shouts it in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove; Cold War films but unique scene.
  15. B. There Will Be Blood – Daniel Day-Lewis rants it in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 epic There Will Be Blood; oil-themed dramas without the milkshake bit.
  16. B. Raiders of the Lost Ark – Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones quips to Marion in Steven Spielberg’s 1981 adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark; later sequels have different banter.
  17. C. No Country for Old Men – Javier Bardem’s chilling Anton Chigurh asks it in the Coen Brothers’ 2007 adaptation No Country for Old Men; coin toss in others absent.
  18. C. Pulp Fiction – Samuel L. Jackson’s Jules threatens in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 nonlinear classic Pulp Fiction; Tarantino violence but specific to this.
  19. B. The Empire Strikes Back – Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) warns Lando in Irvin Kershner’s 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back; deal in other Star Wars absent.
  20. D. The Silence of the Lambs – Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter taunts Clarice in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs; Lecter prequels lack this dinner chat.

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