The Princess Bride Trivia
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111 free The Princess Bride trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
64 free The Princess Bride trivia questions with answers. Few films are quoted as often as The Princess Bride, and few reward a rewatch as well. This quiz covers the story from the farm to the Fire Swamp, the lines everyone knows and a few they half-remember, the cast (including the wrestling match that nearly cost the world its Fezzik), where the Cliffs of Insanity really are, and the strange metafictional novel William Goldman built the whole thing on, right down to the sequel he never finished. It works for a family movie night, a fan gathering, or a themed pub quiz round. The easy questions can be answered by anyone who has seen the film once; the hard ones go to casting near-misses, box office figures and the details of Goldman's book. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, so if you lose an argument about who was almost cast as Fezzik, you lost it fairly.
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Q 01Who directed The Princess Bride (1987)?
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner directed The Princess Bride, a novel his father had given him; when he pitched it, a Paramount executive who had promised to back whatever he chose replied, 'Anything but that.'
Q 02Who wrote the 1973 novel and adapted it for the screen?
William Goldman
William Goldman wrote the 1973 novel and the screenplay; he had already won screenwriting Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men.
Q 03What does Westley say every time Buttercup gives him an order?
As you wish
'As you wish' is Westley's only answer to her orders, and Buttercup is amazed to discover that what he means each time is 'I love you'.
Q 04What is the name of the kingdom where Buttercup lives?
Florin
Buttercup lives in Florin; five years after Westley is lost at sea she is betrothed, still grieving, to its prince, Humperdinck, who is secretly plotting her murder.
Q 05Prince Humperdinck plans to start a war with which neighbouring country?
Guilder
Humperdinck wants war with Guilder, the rival country across the sea; he hires Vizzini to kill Buttercup near the Guilder frontier so the crime can be blamed on Guilder.
Q 06In The Princess Bride, what closes in on Buttercup when she leaps from the kidnappers' boat?
Shrieking eels
Shrieking eels close in, growing louder as they get ready to feed; the grandfather breaks off to promise his anxious grandson that she does not get eaten by the eels at this time.
Q 07Vizzini describes himself as coming from where?
Sicily
Vizzini comes from Sicily; his last words warn that one should 'never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line'.
Q 08Vizzini threatens to send Fezzik back to being unemployed in which place?
Greenland
Greenland: Vizzini snarls, 'Do you want me to send you back to where you were, unemployed in Greenland?', though Goldman's novel makes Fezzik a Turkish wrestler who was only out of work there.
Q 09Where does the man in black duel Inigo Montoya?
Atop the Cliffs of Insanity
They duel atop the Cliffs of Insanity, where Inigo sportingly waits for the man in black to finish his climb before they cross swords.
Q 10What poison does the man in black use in the battle of wits?
Iocane powder
Iocane powder: the man in black has Vizzini sniff it and smell nothing, because it is odorless, tasteless and dissolves instantly in liquid.
Q 11In The Princess Bride's battle of wits, which country does Vizzini say the poison comes from?
Australia
Australia: Vizzini reasons that it is 'entirely peopled with criminals', who are used to not being trusted, so he clearly cannot choose the wine in front of his opponent.
Q 12How does the man in black beat Vizzini in the battle of wits?
Both goblets were poisoned
Both goblets were poisoned; the man in black had spent years building an immunity to the poison, so he drank safely while Vizzini died mid-laugh.
Q 13Which place completes Vizzini's 'classic blunder' warning, 'Never get involved in a land war in ...'?
Asia
Q 21In William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride, what is the underground lair where Rugen tortures Westley called?
The Zoo of Death
The Zoo of Death is the novel's underground lair where Rugen holds and tortures Westley; it is Westley's dying scream that leads Inigo and Fezzik to it.
Q 22What kind of book does the sick grandson warily ask his grandfather if The Princess Bride is?
A kissing book
A kissing book: he wants to know where the sports are, yet by the end he says he doesn't mind the kissing so much and asks his grandfather to come back and read it again.
Q 23What was Inigo's father Domingo Montoya's trade?
Swordsmith
Asia tops Vizzini's list of classic blunders; he is still cackling over having outwitted the man in black when he falls over dead.
Q 14What one-word exclamation is Vizzini's catchphrase?
Inconceivable
'Inconceivable!' is Vizzini's signature, shouted each time the man in black survives another attempt to shake him off.
Q 15What does Inigo finally tell Vizzini about the word he keeps shouting?
It doesn't mean what he thinks
It doesn't mean what he thinks: after the man in black survives the cut rope, Inigo says, 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.'
Q 16How does Fezzik ask if anyone would like a snack, in rhyme?
Anybody want a peanut?
When Inigo asks 'Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?', Fezzik rhymes 'If there are, we'll all be dead'; after Vizzini's 'No more rhymes now, I mean it!' he adds 'Anybody want a peanut?'
Q 17How does the man in black defeat Fezzik?
Chokes him unconscious
Unable to out-muscle the giant, the man in black clings to Fezzik's back and chokes him unconscious, winning the 'sportsmanlike' hand-to-hand bout Fezzik himself proposed.
Q 18What does Buttercup call Westley when ordering him about in the opening scenes?
Farm boy
Buttercup addresses Westley only as 'Farm boy' while ordering him to polish her saddle and fetch a pitcher, until the day she realises she loves him back.
Q 19What are the creatures that attack Westley in the Fire Swamp called?
Rodents of Unusual Size
They are the Rodents of Unusual Size, or R.O.U.S.; Westley has just said he does not think they exist when one leaps on him in the Fire Swamp.
Q 20In the film The Princess Bride, what is the torture chamber where Westley is taken called?
The Pit of Despair
In the film Westley is held in the Pit of Despair, where the Albino tends his wounds before Count Rugen tests the Machine on him.
Domingo Montoya was a swordsmith; he slaved a year over a blade for the six-fingered man, then refused to hand it over for a tenth of the promised price and was killed.
Q 24What did Rugen leave young Inigo with after their first duel?
Two scars
Two scars, one on each cheek: Inigo was eleven when he challenged his father's killer and lost, and Rugen let him live but marked his face.
Q 25What does Inigo reveal mid-duel to explain his smile?
He is not left-handed
He is not left-handed: Inigo tosses the sword to his right hand and takes control, until the man in black announces that he is not left-handed either and switches too.
Q 26In The Princess Bride, what does Count Rugen's Machine suck away from Westley?
Years of his life
Years of his life: Rugen's first test takes a single year and he asks how it felt, 'for posterity'; an enraged Humperdinck later shoves the lever all the way to fifty.
Q 27Which threat ends Inigo Montoya's rehearsed greeting to his father's killer?
Prepare to die.
Prepare to die. Inigo has waited most of his life to say it, and after Rugen's dagger wounds him he rallies by repeating the whole greeting again and again.
Q 28When the cornered Rugen offers Inigo anything he wants, what does Inigo say he wants?
His father back
Inigo says he wants his father back ('I want my father back') and runs Rugen through; Mandy Patinkin has said he drew on losing his own father to cancer for the scene.
Q 29What does Miracle Max declare about Westley's condition?
He is only mostly dead
He is only mostly dead, says Max: mostly dead is slightly alive, whereas with all dead there is usually only one thing you can do, go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Q 30Why is Miracle Max out of work when Inigo and Fezzik bring Westley to him?
Prince Humperdinck fired him
Prince Humperdinck fired him: Max calls the prince 'the King's stinking son' and agrees to help once Inigo promises a revived Westley will bring him 'humiliations galore'.