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50 free 1990s Movies trivia questions with answers. This 90s movie trivia quiz is 50 multiple choice questions, four options each, on the decade's biggest films: Titanic, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Home Alone, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, Schindler's List, The Silence of the Lambs, Good Will Hunting, Clueless, The Big Lebowski, Terminator 2, The Lion King and Aladdin. It starts with the lines and characters everyone remembers, then moves into Oscar counts, box-office records, casting stories and the details only repeat viewers catch, such as Neo's real name or which record Titanic tied. Use it for a movie night, a pub quiz round or a nostalgia test with friends who grew up in the decade. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and film reference sources, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01James Cameron's Titanic tied which 1959 epic's record for most Academy Awards won, a mark The Return of the King later matched?
Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur's Oscar haul was equalled by Titanic, which also tied All About Eve for most nominations and held the box office record until Cameron's own Avatar passed it in 2010.
Q 02In the Wachowskis' 1999 film, which colour pill does Neo swallow to learn the truth about the simulation?
Red
Neo swallows the red pill Morpheus offers; the blue pill would have returned him to his old life, while the red one wakes him in the real world. 'Red pill' became lasting slang.
Q 03John Hammond's dinosaur theme park in Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster sits on which fictional island?
Isla Nublar
Isla Nublar, about 120 miles off Costa Rica, is the park island; Isla Sorna, 'Site B', is the breeding facility seen in The Lost World (1997).
Q 04Which Tom Hanks film features the famous line 'Life is like a box of chocolates'?
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump (1994) features the iconic line. Tom Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for the role.
Q 05Who directed Pulp Fiction (1994)?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for seven Academy Awards.
Q 06Which sport makes Forrest Gump a celebrity playing against Chinese teams?
Ping-pong
Ping-pong: Forrest learns table tennis while recovering from his Vietnam wound and tours China with the US team, a nod to 1971 'ping-pong diplomacy'; the fame lands him on The Dick Cavett Show beside John Lennon.
Q 07In Toy Story (1995), what is the name of the toy cowboy who fears being replaced?
Woody
Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, is a pull-string cowboy doll who fears being replaced as Andy's favorite toy when Buzz Lightyear arrives. Toy Story was the first fully computer-animated feature film.
Q 08Which actor played the lead role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)?
Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins starred as Andy Dufresne, a banker wrongly convicted of murder who is sentenced to Shawshank State Penitentiary. Morgan Freeman co-starred as Red.
Q 09James Cameron's 1997 shipwreck epic held its world premiere at a film festival in which city?
Tokyo
Paramount objected to the plan, and The New York Times described the Tokyo reaction as 'tepid'; the US release followed on December 19.
Q 10In Home Alone (1990), what is the name of the boy left behind by his family?
Kevin McCallister
Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, is accidentally left home alone when his large family rushes to the airport for a Christmas vacation to Paris.
Q 11Who directed Schindler's List (1993)?
Steven Spielberg
He shot it largely in black and white in Kraków and refused a salary, calling any fee 'blood money'; it took Best Director and Best Picture.
Q 12What is the first rule of Fight Club?
You do not talk about Fight Club
Tyler Durden lays down the rule in the 1999 film; Premiere ranked the line the 27th greatest movie quote of all time in 2007.
Q 13In Good Will Hunting (1997), who plays the mathematics janitor Will Hunting?
Matt Damon
Matt Damon plays Will Hunting, a self-taught mathematical genius working as a janitor; Damon and Ben Affleck co-wrote the screenplay and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Q 21How many Academy Awards did Schindler's List win at the 66th ceremony in 1994?
7
It matched that haul with seven BAFTAs and added three Golden Globes, and Steven Zaillian's adapted screenplay was among the wins.
Q 22How many Academy Awards did James Cameron's 1997 shipwreck epic win from its fourteen nominations?
11
Its fourteen nominations tied All About Eve's record, and it was only the second film about the disaster to win Best Picture, after 1933's Cavalcade.
Q 23Jonathan Demme first offered the role of Hannibal Lecter to which actor before Anthony Hopkins?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery turned the part down, reportedly finding the script disgusting; Demme then cast Hopkins on the strength of The Elephant Man, and Hopkins assumed from the title that the script was a children's story.
Q 14Which actress starred as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)?
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone: Amy Heckerling cast her after seeing her in Aerosmith's 'Cryin'' video; Clueless's success landed the 18-year-old a multi-picture deal with Columbia TriStar.
Q 15Who plays The Dude in The Big Lebowski (1998)?
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges raided his own closet for the Dude's wardrobe, and the Coens say the only direction he ever asked for was whether the Dude had 'burned one' before the scene.
Q 16Which child actor delivers the 1999 line 'I see dead people'?
Haley Joel Osment
Osment was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at eleven years old, one of the film's six Oscar nominations.
Q 17What color does the briefcase in Pulp Fiction glow when opened?
Orange
Orange: a hidden bulb inside the case produced the glow on set, widely read as a nod to Kiss Me Deadly (1955), whose glowing briefcase holds an atomic device.
Q 18Which 1999 film popularized the bullet time visual effect?
The Matrix
The Matrix made bullet time famous, and the term later attached to the slow-motion gameplay of the 2001 video game Max Payne.
Q 19In James Cameron's 1997 epic, what is the surname of Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless artist Jack?
Dawson
Jack Dawson is an orphan from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, who wins two third-class tickets in a dockside poker game and boards with his friend Fabrizio.
Q 20Robin Williams won his only Academy Award in 1998 for playing a therapist named what?
Sean Maguire
Sean Maguire, the South Boston therapist in Good Will Hunting, won Robin Williams the Best Supporting Actor Oscar; the film also took Best Original Screenplay for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from nine nominations.
Q 24In Jurassic Park (1993), which dinosaurs, shown far larger than the real animal, stalk the children Tim and Lex through the kitchen?
Velociraptor
Two Velociraptors hunt Tim and Lex through the kitchen; the film's oversized raptors are one of the inaccuracies audiences absorbed and never updated.
Q 25Who directed Fight Club (1999)?
David Fincher
David Fincher directed Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel. Though it underperformed at the box office, it became a massive cult classic on home video.
Q 26Which 1990s Disney film sends A Whole New World soaring on a magic carpet?
Aladdin
Aladdin (1992): Alan Menken and Tim Rice's 'A Whole New World' won the Oscar for Best Original Song, and the Peabo Bryson–Regina Belle single reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 27In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne spends 19 years tunnelling out of his cell with what tool, smuggled in by Red?
A rock hammer
A rock hammer, smuggled in by Red along with a Rita Hayworth poster; the warden finds the tunnel by throwing a stone through a Raquel Welch poster.
Q 28Who took the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love (1998)?
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow won Best Actress as Viola de Lesseps; Judi Dench won Supporting Actress for about eight minutes on screen as Elizabeth I, and the film beat Saving Private Ryan to Best Picture.
Q 29What year was The Lion King originally released in theaters?
1994
The Lion King was released on June 24, 1994. It became the highest-grossing film of 1994 and the highest-grossing animated film at that time.
Q 30Who pins the Medal of Honor on Tom Hanks's Alabama everyman in the 1994 Best Picture?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson, via doctored archival footage, pins the Medal of Honor on Forrest, who then shows the president his buttock wound; Nixon later puts him up at the Watergate, where he unwittingly reports the break-in.