Pulp Fiction Trivia
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110 free Pulp Fiction trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Pulp Fiction trivia questions with answers. Pulp Fiction is the film people quote without realising it: Royale with Cheese, the Wolf, 'get medieval', the Ezekiel speech. This quiz covers all of it, from the diner robbery that opens and closes the film to the shoot itself, the casting choices that nearly went differently and the awards run that ended with an Oscar for the screenplay. Easy questions ask who directed it, who plays Vincent and what Mia orders at Jack Rabbit Slim's. The hard ones want the name of the taxi driver, the actor Tarantino wrote Jules for, which Sonny Chiba film supplied the 'Bible' passage, and how much the restaurant set cost. If you know what a Big Kahuna Burger is, you are in the right place. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What does Jules decide to do after bullets fired at point-blank range all miss him?
Quit and walk the earth
Quit and walk the earth is his plan: Jules calls the misses divine intervention and tells Vincent he will wander 'like Caine in Kung Fu' until God puts him where he should be.
Q 02Which other film went on wide US release on 14 October 1994, the same day as Pulp Fiction?
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption expanded nationwide the day Pulp Fiction opened and was buried: it finished ninth that weekend with $2.4 million, while Pulp Fiction took first place with $9.3 million.
Q 03Who plays hitman Vincent Vega?
John Travolta
John Travolta plays Vincent Vega; he took a heavily reduced fee for the part, which brought him a Best Actor Oscar nomination and revived his career.
Q 04Who plays Jules Winnfield?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules Winnfield; he won the part at a second audition, performing while eating a takeout burger, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Q 05Who plays Mia Wallace?
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace; Miramax had favoured Holly Hunter or Meg Ryan, but Tarantino wanted Thurman after their first meeting, and the role earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Q 06Which actor plays the boxer Butch Coolidge?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis plays Butch Coolidge, the ageing boxer who double-crosses Marsellus Wallace by winning the fight he was paid to throw.
Q 07Who plays crime boss Marsellus Wallace?
Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames plays crime boss Marsellus Wallace; Max Julien, star of the 1973 film The Mack, was approached first but turned the part down.
Q 08Harvey Keitel plays a 'cleaner' with what name?
Winston Wolfe
Winston Wolfe introduces himself with 'I solve problems'; Harvey Keitel had solved one for Tarantino, his backing having helped get Reservoir Dogs financed.
Q 09By what names does Jules address the diner robbers who call each other Pumpkin and Honey Bunny?
Ringo and Yolanda
Ringo and Yolanda are what Jules calls the pair in the standoff; rather than shoot them, he hands over about $1,500 of his own cash and lets them leave.
Q 10Who plays Captain Koons, the veteran who delivers young Butch's heirloom?
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken plays Captain Koons, who tells young Butch he hid the heirloom for two years as a prisoner so that he could one day hand it over.
Q 11Which small role does Tarantino himself play?
Jimmie, whose house is used for the clean-up
Jimmie, whose house is used for the clean-up, is Tarantino's part; he had also weighed playing Lance, the dealer, a role that went to a friend instead.
Q 12Who plays Vincent's drug dealer Lance?
Eric Stoltz
Eric Stoltz plays Lance, the bathrobe-wearing dealer who helps revive Mia with an adrenaline shot to the heart; Stoltz had earlier starred in Mask (1985).
Q 13Steve Buscemi's cameo at the 1950s restaurant is as a waiter dressed as whom?
Buddy Holly
Q 21Which fast-food topic do Vincent and Jules discuss in the car?
What a Quarter Pounder is called in Paris
What a Quarter Pounder is called in Paris is the topic: a 'Royale with Cheese', Vincent explains, because the metric system means the French wouldn't know what a quarter pound is.
Q 22Which made-up fast-food brand from Pulp Fiction has recurred in later Tarantino movies?
Big Kahuna Burger
Big Kahuna Burger is the Hawaiian chain whose burger Jules helps himself to before shooting Brett; Tarantino invented it, like Red Apple cigarettes, to use across his films in place of real brands.
Q 23What is the name of the 1950s-themed restaurant where Vincent takes Mia?
Buddy Holly is the 1950s star Steve Buscemi's waiter impersonates; Vincent is unimpressed, grumbling that he isn't much of a waiter and that they should have sat in Marilyn Monroe's section.
Q 14Which comedian appears in Pulp Fiction as herself, at the scene of Butch's car crash?
Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin appears as herself, a bystander who offers to be Marsellus's witness and points out Butch, so the dazed gangster starts shooting at him in the street.
Q 15Which actor turned down the role of Jules Winnfield?
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne turned down Jules; he said years later that he passed because he felt the film glamorised heroin use.
Q 16Which Reservoir Dogs actor's decision to make Wyatt Earp instead freed up the role of Vincent Vega?
Michael Madsen
Michael Madsen had played Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs and was Tarantino's pick for Vincent, Vic's brother; a 'Vega Brothers' film uniting the two was mooted for years but never made.
Q 17Which Oscar-winner did Harvey Weinstein push for as Vincent?
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis, an Oscar winner for My Left Foot, was Harvey Weinstein's choice for Vincent Vega, but Tarantino held out for his own pick and got his way.
Q 18What hairstyle did the script call for Jules, before a Jheri-curl wig arrived by mistake?
A giant afro
A giant afro was what the script called for; the wig bought for the actor turned out to be a Jheri curl, he liked the mistake, and Tarantino kept it.
Q 19What Bible passage does Jules recite before executing someone?
Ezekiel 25:17
Jules recites 'Ezekiel 25:17', though only its closing lines resemble the real verse; most of the speech was borrowed from a 1970s martial-arts film's opening crawl.
Q 20Jules's 'biblical' speech is taken almost word for word from a film starring which martial-arts actor?
Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba starred in The Bodyguard, the English-language release of his film Karate Kiba, whose opening scroll carries the creed; Tarantino later cast Chiba as swordsmith Hattori Hanzō in Kill Bill.
Jack Rabbit Slim's
Jack Rabbit Slim's is the 1950s-themed restaurant where Mia orders the five-dollar milkshake that astonishes Vincent; its booths are cut from vintage car bodies.
Q 24What competition do Vincent and Mia enter at the restaurant?
A twist contest
A twist contest is what the Ed Sullivan lookalike announces; Mia wants the trophy and drags a reluctant Vincent to the floor, reminding him her husband told him to do whatever she wanted.
Q 25Which Godard film does Tarantino cite as the inspiration for the dance scene?
Bande à part
Bande à part (1964) is the film Tarantino cites; its Madison dance, with Anna Karina and her two would-be crook companions, is the model, and his company A Band Apart takes its name from it.
Q 26Mia overdoses after mistaking Vincent's heroin for what?
Cocaine
Cocaine is what Mia assumes the white powder in Vincent's coat pocket is; she snorts the heroin and overdoses, sending Vincent racing to his dealer's house.
Q 27Pulp Fiction's adrenaline-shot scene was inspired by a story told in American Boy, a documentary by which director?
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese filmed his friend Steven Prince, Taxi Driver's gun dealer, recalling how he revived an overdosed woman with an adrenaline shot to the heart, guided by a medical dictionary and a marker pen.
Q 28Butch's father died as a prisoner of war in which conflict?
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War claimed Butch's father, who died of dysentery in a Hanoi POW camp after hiding the heirloom for five years; Koons hid it two more to bring it home.
Q 29Why does Butch go back to his apartment, where he finds Vincent?
Fabienne forgot to pack the gold watch
Fabienne forgot to pack the gold watch, which Butch values above everything; after retrieving it he spots Marsellus crossing the street, a moment that echoes Marion Crane meeting her boss's eye in Psycho.
Q 30What weapon does Butch choose to rescue Marsellus in the pawnshop basement?
A katana
A katana is Butch's final choice from the pawnshop's wares; he picks up and rejects a hammer, a baseball bat and a chainsaw before settling on the samurai sword.