Jackie Brown Trivia
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48 free Jackie Brown trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Jackie Brown trivia quiz covers Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film from the novel up. It asks about Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch and what Tarantino changed, the casting of Pam Grier and Robert Forster after years away from lead roles, Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell Robbie, and the plot mechanics of the money swap at the Del Amo mall. There are questions on the opening shot borrowed from The Graduate, the Coffy score, the Delfonics, the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and the Silver Bear in Berlin. It is written for people who have seen the film more than once and want to test what they remember, from the size of Ordell's stash to which actor turned down Louis Gara. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has watched it, a third are medium, and the rest are for Tarantino completists. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the interviews and production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01What do the agents find in Jackie Brown's bag besides $50,000 in cash?
Cocaine
Cocaine: Jackie says it isn't hers, and Ordell guesses his partner tucked it in as a present for Melanie. Either way it hands the agents a drug charge to hold over her.
Q 02What is Jackie Brown's job in the film?
Flight attendant
Flight attendant: Jackie works for Cabo Air, a small Mexican airline, and uses her runs between Cabo San Lucas and Los Angeles to carry Ordell's cash through customs.
Q 03In Jackie Brown, which gun does Ordell call 'the very best there is'?
AK-47
AK-47: Ordell tells Louis it is the one to buy when you absolutely have to kill everyone in the room, then explains that he pays $850 for the Chinese model and doubles his money.
Q 04Before Jackie Brown, the actor who played Max Cherry auditioned to play an ageing crime boss in which earlier Tarantino movie?
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs: he read for Joe Cabot, but Tarantino had his heart set on Lawrence Tierney. Tarantino never forgot the audition and wrote the bail bondsman in Jackie Brown with him in mind.
Q 05Which actor plays Louis Gara, Ordell's recently released former cellmate?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro plays Louis, the partner Ordell kills after he admits, too late, that he saw Max Cherry at the mall during the handover and thought nothing of it.
Q 06Bridget Fonda plays Melanie Ralston, who is what to Ordell?
One of his mistresses
One of his mistresses: Ordell keeps Melanie in a Hermosa Beach apartment and shrugs when Louis warns him she is plotting to rob him, saying he never needed to trust her because he knows her.
Q 07Michael Keaton plays Ray Nicolette, an agent of which federal agency?
ATF
ATF: Nicolette is an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, paired with LAPD detective Mark Dargus to build a gun-running case against Ordell.
Q 08Michael Keaton played agent Ray Nicolette again, uncredited, in which 1998 Elmore Leonard adaptation?
Out of Sight
Out of Sight gives Keaton's Ray Nicolette one brief scene: Elmore Leonard had written the agent into both novels, so two rival studios ended up filming the same character a year apart.
Q 09How does Ordell kill his bagman Beaumont Livingston in Jackie Brown?
Shoots him in a car trunk
Shoots him in a car trunk: Beaumont, caught with a gun while on probation, is facing ten years, so Ordell coaxes him into the trunk for a made-up gun deal and fires the moment he opens it.
Q 10When Ordell comes to Jackie's apartment to kill her, she pulls a gun she stole from where?
Max Cherry's glovebox
Max Cherry's glovebox: on the drive home from jail Jackie quietly lifts Max's pistol from the glove compartment, and it turns Ordell's visit into a negotiation.
Q 11How much of Ordell's money is still to be smuggled in when Jackie strikes her deal with him?
$550,000
$550,000 is the whole stash: Jackie tells the agents the delivery is $50,000 and tells Ordell she will bring everything, planning to keep the other half million herself.
Q 12At the end of Jackie Brown, what has Max Cherry kept from the money he mailed to Jackie?
Only a 10 percent fee
Only a 10 percent fee: Max treats the job like any bail bond and takes his usual cut. Jackie asks why he took so little and urges him to take more, but he tells her she will get over it.
Q 13In Jackie Brown, where does the final money swap take place?
A department store dressing room
Q 21After Pulp Fiction, Tarantino also optioned which Elmore Leonard novel, filmed over a decade later with Mickey Rourke?
Killshot
Killshot passed to another director and barely reached US cinemas: it opened in just five of them, took under $20,000 there and was out on DVD four months later.
Q 22Jackie Brown pays particular homage to which two 1970s Pam Grier films?
Coffy and Foxy Brown
Coffy and Foxy Brown: in both, Grier plays an avenger who settles scores with a gun. Jackie, no killer, wins by out-thinking everyone instead.
Q 23Jackie Brown's opening glide through LAX recreates the opening of which 1967 film?
The Graduate
A department store dressing room: Jackie tries on a suit at Billingsley's in the Del Amo mall, leaves one bag behind for Max to collect and hands the other to Melanie.
Q 14During the test run, Jackie swaps $10,000 with which of Ordell's girlfriends?
Sheronda
Sheronda is the 19-year-old Ordell says he found at a bus stop, two days out of Georgia. She meets Jackie in the food court, then loses the bag to a second courier Ordell sent without telling Jackie.
Q 15Why does Ordell reluctantly send Melanie to do the final swap?
Simone has left town with the $10,000
Simone has left town with the $10,000 from the test run. Ordell only finds out on the day of the real handover, and with nobody else to send he gives the job to Melanie, with Louis along to mind her.
Q 16In Jackie Brown, Ordell tempts Beaumont with a meal at which real Los Angeles restaurant?
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles: having just bailed Beaumont out, Ordell wants a favour that same night, and sweetens it with the Scoe's Special, smothered in gravy and onions, his treat.
Q 17Why does Louis shoot Melanie in the mall parking lot?
She mocks him for losing the car
She mocks him for losing the car: Melanie needles Louis all the way out of the mall, he warns her to stop, then shoots her twice and drives off without her.
Q 18Where is Ordell finally shot dead in Jackie Brown?
In Max Cherry's office
In Max Cherry's office: Max tells Ordell that Jackie is waiting there, frightened, with his money. She shouts that he has a gun, and the agents hiding in the dark shoot him dead.
Q 19At the end of Jackie Brown, Jackie plans a trip to which city?
Madrid
Madrid is her first stop in Spain. Jackie asks Max to come along, but he turns her down, admitting when she asks that he is a little bit scared of her, and watches her drive away.
Q 20Jackie Brown is adapted from which Elmore Leonard novel?
Rum Punch
Rum Punch (1992) is set in South Florida and its heroine is a white woman named Jackie Burke. Tarantino moved the story to Los Angeles and rewrote her as a Black woman so that Pam Grier could play her.
The Graduate opens with Dustin Hoffman carried along an airport walkway to the sombre 'The Sound of Silence'. Tarantino restages the shot with Pam Grier and swaps the mood for soaring soul.
Q 24Which Bobby Womack song plays over Jackie Brown's opening credits?
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street came first: Tarantino says he has to find a film's opening-credits song before anything else, then digs through his own record collection for the rest.
Q 25For Jackie Brown, Tarantino reused Roy Ayers's funk score from which earlier film?
Coffy
Coffy: Roy Ayers scored Grier's 1973 hit, and several of his cues return here, among them the chase music, which plays as Jackie hurries through the mall on the day of the handover.
Q 26Which vocal group's 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)' links Jackie and Max in Jackie Brown?
The Delfonics
The Delfonics are playing when Max first visits Jackie's apartment. He buys their music the same day, and Ordell later hears it in Max's car and remarks that he never knew Max liked them.
Q 27Jackie Brown's mostly soul soundtrack makes room for 'Tennessee Stud', sung by which country star?
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash's version plays as Max drops Jackie home on the night he bails her out. By the next day her record collection has turned him on to seventies soul instead.
Q 28In Jackie Brown, Bridget Fonda's Melanie watches a 1974 car-chase film starring which relative of hers?
Her father, Peter Fonda
Her father, Peter Fonda, stars in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, which plays on Melanie's television. In an earlier scene Ordell squints at another of her films and asks if the star is Rutger Hauer.
Q 29Before Jackie Brown, Pam Grier read for which Pulp Fiction role, only for Tarantino to cast someone else?
Jody
Jody was the part, opposite Eric Stoltz's dealer. Tarantino felt audiences would not believe Stoltz shouting at her; Grier's own joke is that she was too tall and he could never have told her what to do.
Q 30When Pam Grier arrived to read for Jackie Brown, what did she find in Tarantino's office?
Posters of her own films
Posters of her own films were already on Tarantino's walls; he told Grier he had meant to take them down so it would not look like he was trying to impress her.