Quentin Tarantino Trivia
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100 free Quentin Tarantino trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Quentin Tarantino trivia for people who can quote the Royale with Cheese speech but want something harder. This quiz walks through the whole career: the video-store years in Manhattan Beach, the scripts he sold to pay for Reservoir Dogs, the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction, and every feature up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, plus the novel and the film-history book that followed. Expect questions on the films themselves (why the Crazy 88 fight is in black and white, what Dr. King Schultz did before bounty hunting, which score won Ennio Morricone his only Oscar), on Tarantino's acting cameos from The Golden Girls to From Dusk till Dawn, and on the running jokes and collaborators that tie his universe together: Red Apple cigarettes, Sally Menke, Uma Thurman, Christoph Waltz's two Oscars. Every answer is checked against the Wikipedia article for the film or for Tarantino himself, with the supporting sentence saved alongside the question. Difficulty ranges from easy warm-ups to a handful only serious fans will get, so play it solo or use it for a movie-night round.
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Q 01Quentin Tarantino grew up near Los Angeles, but in which Southern city was he born?
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee was home for only a few years: his mother moved with him to California when he was a small child, and he grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs.
Q 02Tarantino was named in part after Quint Asper, a character played by Burt Reynolds in which TV Western?
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke's Quint Asper supplied only half the name: his mother also had in mind Quentin, a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury.
Q 03Tarantino spent five years working at the Video Archives store in which California city?
Manhattan Beach
Video Archives was a rental shop in Manhattan Beach, California, where Tarantino clerked for about five years in the 1980s; he liked to say that instead of film school, 'I went to films'.
Q 04As a teenager, Tarantino was caught shoplifting a novel by which author from a Kmart?
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard stayed with him: nearly two decades after that trip to Kmart, Tarantino adapted another Leonard crime novel for the screen as Jackie Brown.
Q 05In 1988 Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of which sitcom?
The Golden Girls
The Golden Girls was all his acting ambitions had to show for dozens of auditions: one 1988 episode, as one of a troupe of Elvis impersonators at Sophia's wedding.
Q 06Tarantino's first Hollywood job was as a production assistant on an exercise video fronted by which action star?
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren's workout video Maximum Potential took on Tarantino and a fellow clerk from his video store as production assistants, years before either had a script filmed.
Q 07What was the title of the low-budget 1987 film Tarantino co-wrote and directed before Reservoir Dogs?
My Best Friend's Birthday
My Best Friend's Birthday, co-written with Craig Hamann and shot in black and white, was never finished; about half an hour survives, and he recycled parts of it in a script he later sold.
Q 08Which Tarantino script was directed by Tony Scott and released in 1993, a year after Reservoir Dogs?
True Romance
True Romance recycled the opening and some dialogue of his unfinished amateur film; written in 1987, the script went unsold for about four years before Tony Scott took it on.
Q 09Which director's rewrite of Natural Born Killers left Tarantino with only a story credit?
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone directed Natural Born Killers (1994) after heavily rewriting Tarantino's script; Tarantino disowned the film and took only a 'story by' credit.
Q 10Reservoir Dogs' title reportedly came from a video-store customer mangling the name of which French film?
Au revoir les enfants
Au revoir les enfants, Louis Malle's 1987 drama, is said to have come out as 'reservoir dogs' at the Video Archives counter; Tarantino said he liked how it sounded like an Alain Delon film for Jean-Pierre Melville.
Q 11Which colour-coded crook does Tarantino himself play in Reservoir Dogs?
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown delivers the opening 'Like a Virgin' monologue; the film stayed a script until Harvey Keitel signed on as star and co-producer, which gave it the standing to raise $1.5 million.
Q 12Which 1970s song plays as Mr. Blonde tortures the captured cop in Reservoir Dogs?
Stuck in the Middle with You
Stealers Wheel's 1973 hit 'Stuck in the Middle with You' plays from K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies as Mr. Blonde dances around and slices off the cop's ear.
Q 13Reservoir Dogs was accused of borrowing heavily from City on Fire, a 1987 heist film made where?
Hong Kong
Q 21Which Jackie Brown actor earned an Academy Award nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry?
Robert Forster
Robert Forster's turn as bail bondsman Max Cherry earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 1998 Oscars; the part revived a career that had drifted into B-movies since the 1970s.
Q 22How much was Tarantino paid for From Dusk till Dawn, his first paid writing assignment?
$1,500
$1,500 was what effects artist Robert Kurtzman and his partner scraped together around 1990 to have Tarantino script Kurtzman's vampire treatment; Robert Rodriguez finally filmed it in 1996.
Q 23In From Dusk till Dawn, Tarantino plays the deranged brother of a bank robber played by whom?
George Clooney
City on Fire is a 1987 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Ringo Lam; its undercover-cop plot and climactic Mexican standoff prefigure Reservoir Dogs, and Tarantino has acknowledged the influence.
Q 14At which festival did Reservoir Dogs premiere in January 1992?
Sundance
Reservoir Dogs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 1992, after Tarantino had workshopped scenes at the Sundance Institute's directors' lab the previous summer.
Q 15Which prize did Pulp Fiction win at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival?
Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or: Clint Eastwood's jury gave Pulp Fiction the festival's top prize, a choice that surprised the hall; one woman screamed at Tarantino as he began his speech, and he answered her with a raised finger.
Q 16With whom did Tarantino share the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Pulp Fiction?
Roger Avary
Roger Avary shared the 1995 Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Tarantino; the two had met working the counter at Video Archives, and the Butch storyline grew out of an Avary script.
Q 17Which character does Tarantino play in Pulp Fiction?
Jimmie
Tarantino plays Jimmie, the friend whose house Jules and Vincent use in 'The Bonnie Situation' to hide the car and get rid of Marvin's body before Jimmie's wife, Bonnie, comes home.
Q 18Which 1981 Brian De Palma thriller starring John Travolta does Tarantino count among his favourite films?
Blow Out
Blow Out stars Travolta as a sound man who records a political assassination; Tarantino has named it one of his three desert-island films, and he later cast its star as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction.
Q 19Jackie Brown is an adaptation of which 1992 crime novel?
Rum Punch
Rum Punch, a 1992 crime novel, gave Tarantino the plot of Jackie Brown (1997); he renamed heroine Jackie Burke, made her Black rather than white, and moved the story from South Florida to Los Angeles.
Q 20Jackie Brown pays homage to Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which starred which actress?
Pam Grier
Pam Grier, the star of Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), plays Jackie; her opening walk through the airport to Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street' is another blaxploitation borrowing.
George Clooney plays Seth Gecko, with Tarantino as his deranged brother Richie; the pair end up trapped in a Mexican border strip club that turns out to be full of vampires.
Q 24Tarantino directed the final segment of which 1995 anthology film with Rodriguez, Anders and Rockwell?
Four Rooms
Four Rooms follows bellhop Ted (Tim Roth) through a hotel on New Year's Eve; Tarantino's closing segment restages a Hitchcock TV episode in which a man bets his little finger that his lighter will light ten times running.
Q 25Roughly how long was the Kill Bill cut that persuaded the studio to split it into two volumes?
Over four hours
Over four hours long in its first assembly, Kill Bill was split into two volumes at Miramax's suggestion, announced in July 2003; Volume 1 arrived that October and Volume 2 in April 2004.
Q 26For which actor did Tarantino originally write Bill in Kill Bill, before David Carradine?
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty was the Bill Tarantino first had in mind, but as he wrote, the part drifted toward Kung Fu star David Carradine; Beatty has said he also didn't want to leave his family for a shoot in China.
Q 27In Kill Bill, the Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from which legendary swordsmith?
Hattori Hanzō
Hattori Hanzō, played by Sonny Chiba, is the retired Okinawa swordsmith who forges the Bride's blade; the name nods to the real 16th-century samurai and to Chiba's role in the 1980s Japanese series Shadow Warriors.
Q 28Why does the Crazy 88 fight in Kill Bill: Volume 1 switch to black and white?
To avoid an NC-17 rating
To avoid an NC-17 rating, Tarantino put the bloodiest stretch of the House of Blue Leaves battle in black and white; the cut released in Japan kept the whole sequence in colour.
Q 29Which move finally kills Bill in Kill Bill: Volume 2?
Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique
The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, which Pai Mei refuses to teach his students, lets its victim take only five steps before dying; Bill is surprised she learned it, then walks his five.
Q 30What is the Bride's real name, finally revealed in Kill Bill: Volume 2?
Beatrix Kiddo
Beatrix Kiddo is kept from the audience through Volume 1; in Volume 2 Elle Driver says the name aloud on the phone to Bill, and the Bride's Deadly Viper codename was Black Mamba.