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59 free Kill Bill trivia questions with answers. Kill Bill was written and shot as one four-hour revenge epic, then split into Volume 1 (2003) and Volume 2 (2004), and this quiz treats it the way Tarantino did: as a single bloody affair. It covers the wedding chapel massacre in El Paso, the Bride's four-year coma, the knife fight in Vernita Green's kitchen, the trip to Okinawa for a Hattori Hanzō sword, the House of Blue Leaves, Budd's trailer, Pai Mei's temple and the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. The early questions are ones any fan will get: who plays the Bride, where she goes to find O-Ren, what the assassination squad is called. Later ones dig into the code names, the casting near-misses (Warren Beatty as Bill), the anime studio, the score, the Bruce Lee tracksuit, the Japanese and French films the plot echoes, and the sequel that never happened. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on both films and on the Bride, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed the Kill Bill films?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed both volumes, billed on screen as 'the 4th film by Quentin Tarantino'; it was his first release in six years.
Q 02Which actress plays the Bride?
Uma Thurman
Thurman and Tarantino dreamed up the character together while making Pulp Fiction, and the credits attribute the Bride to "Q & U".
Q 03What is the Bride's real name, withheld until Volume 2?
Beatrix Kiddo
Beatrix Kiddo is bleeped out whenever spoken in Volume 1 and revealed only in Volume 2; a parasitic wasp, Cystomastacoides kiddo, was later named after her.
Q 04What is the name of the elite group of assassins the Bride used to belong to?
Deadly Viper Assassination Squad
Deadly Viper Assassination Squad was Bill's team of killers, each with a snake code name; the Bride's death list is made up of her former squad-mates and Bill himself.
Q 05Who plays Bill?
David Carradine
Carradine, best known as Caine in the 1970s series Kung Fu, is heard but not seen for all of Volume 1.
Q 06Tarantino originally wrote the role of Bill for which actor, who turned it down?
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty was the first choice for Bill but bowed out before shooting; the part was then rewritten around the Kung Fu star who finally played him.
Q 07In which city does the Bride confront O-Ren Ishii and the yakuza?
Tokyo
Tokyo is where the Bride arrives by air, sword stowed in a seat rack, to face O-Ren and the yakuza at the House of Blue Leaves restaurant.
Q 08The wedding chapel massacre takes place in a rural chapel near which city?
El Paso, Texas
El Paso, Texas, is the setting of the Two Pines chapel massacre; Texas Ranger Earl McGraw and his son Edgar arrive to find the bodies.
Q 09How many years does the Bride spend in a coma after being shot in the head?
4
4 years is how long she lies in the coma after the chapel shooting; the Bride wakes to find she is no longer pregnant and only learns in Volume 2 that her daughter survived.
Q 10Which actress plays O-Ren Ishii, the assassin who rises to lead the yakuza?
Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu plays O-Ren Ishii, beheading Boss Tanaka when he questions her mixed heritage at the council table; the role won Liu the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
Q 11What is O-Ren Ishii's Deadly Viper code name?
Cottonmouth
Cottonmouth was O-Ren Ishii's code name in the squad; the anime chapter shows her parents murdered by a yakuza boss when she was nine and her revenge at eleven.
Q 12Vernita Green, now a suburban homemaker, goes by which Deadly Viper code name?
Copperhead
Copperhead was Vernita Green's code name; she lives in Pasadena as housewife Jeannie Bell, a name borrowed from an early Black Playboy Playmate and blaxploitation actress.
Q 13Where does Vernita Green hide the pistol she tries to shoot the Bride with?
In a box of cereal
Q 21How many weeks did the House of Blue Leaves fight sequence take to film?
8
8 weeks of shooting went into the House of Blue Leaves sequence alone, at a Beijing studio; the blood spurts were practical, using condoms filled with fake blood.
Q 22Why does part of the Crazy 88 fight switch to black and white?
To avoid an NC-17 rating
To avoid an NC-17 rating in the US, the bloodiest stretch of the fight was desaturated to black and white; the Japanese release kept it in full colour.
Q 23Which Wu-Tang Clan producer composed the original score for Volume 1?
RZA
RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan composed and produced Volume 1's original score, blending hip-hop beats with spaghetti-western and kung fu borrowings, and returned for parts of Volume 2.
In a box of cereal, a Kaboom pack on the counter, Vernita hides the pistol; the Bride answers the shot by throwing a knife into her chest as the daughter watches from the doorway.
Q 14Which legendary swordsmith breaks his oath never to forge again in order to arm the Bride?
Hattori Hanzō
Hattori Hanzō, who swore off sword-making, agrees to forge one last blade after hearing her target is Bill, his former student.
Q 15The Bride travels to which Japanese island to obtain her sword?
Okinawa
Okinawa is where the Bride finds the retired swordsmith running a sushi bar; he shows her his attic sword collection before agreeing to forge one more.
Q 16Which Japanese action star plays the sushi chef and retired swordsmith?
Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba, the Street Fighter star, plays the swordsmith; the character's name honours the ninja Chiba played in the 1980s TV series Shadow Warriors.
Q 17What is the name of O-Ren's schoolgirl bodyguard, who fights with a meteor hammer?
Gogo Yubari
Gogo Yubari, O-Ren's teenage bodyguard, swings a meteor hammer against the Bride; a cut chapter featuring her vengeful sister Yuki was animated for the film's 2025 re-release.
Q 18Which actress, who had starred in Battle Royale, plays the schoolgirl bodyguard?
Chiaki Kuriyama
Chiaki Kuriyama, Takako Chigusa in Battle Royale, was cast as the schoolgirl bodyguard after the director saw that 2000 film.
Q 19What is O-Ren's masked personal army called?
The Crazy 88
The Crazy 88 are O-Ren's masked, black-suited enforcers led by Johnny Mo; the Bride takes on the whole gang at the House of Blue Leaves.
Q 20What does the Bride cut off Sofie Fatale, O-Ren's French lawyer, at the House of Blue Leaves?
Her arm
Her arm comes off in one stroke at the House of Blue Leaves; the Bride leaves Sofie alive to carry news of the massacre and a warning to Bill.
Q 24Which Ghost in the Shell studio produced the anime sequence telling O-Ren's backstory?
Production I.G
Production I.G, the studio behind Ghost in the Shell, animated O-Ren's backstory, with Kazuto Nakazawa directing the sequence.
Q 25Which choreographer, fresh from The Matrix, served as martial arts advisor?
Yuen Woo-Ping
Yuen Woo-Ping, who had staged the fights in The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, choreographed the sword and kung fu action for both volumes.
Q 26The Bride's yellow tracksuit and motorcycle pay homage to which martial arts star?
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee wore the yellow-and-black jumpsuit in his unfinished Game of Death (1978); the Bride's tracksuit and her yellow motorcycle copy the look.
Q 27Kill Bill's plot resembles which 1973 Japanese film about a woman avenging her family?
Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood (1973), starring Meiko Kaji as a woman raised for vengeance, supplied the snow-garden duel and her song 'The Flower of Carnage'; Kaji also sings on Volume 2's soundtrack.
Q 28In what year was Kill Bill: Volume 1 released in theaters?
2003
2003: Volume 1 opened on 10 October at number one with about $22 million, ahead of School of Rock and Intolerable Cruelty, the director's biggest opening to that point.
Q 29How many months separated the releases of Volume 1 and Volume 2?
6
6 months separated them: Volume 1 opened in October and Volume 2 the following April, the same week Volume 1 arrived on DVD.
Q 30Which of the director's films, released six years earlier, immediately preceded Kill Bill: Volume 1?
Jackie Brown
Both Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction had opened to $9.3 million; Volume 1 more than doubled that with $22 million.