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Movie quote trivia quiz

 
 
Jackie Susann
08:13 / 07.09.06
I'm helping organise a trivia night as a fundraiser for a local anarchist mag. One thing I'm supposed to do is make up a list of movie quotes for which people will have to name the source. I want to make sure I get a decent balance, where some will be easy enough but it'll take pretty serious movie buffs to get all of them.

So I thought I would post my draft list here, and ask you guys to read them, and post how many points you get. Once a bunch of people have done it I'll post the answers, if you want. Also, if you notice that I haven't transcribed the quotes right - most are from memory - let me know.

The rules are, you get one point for naming the movie and a bonus point for naming either the actor or character who says it. So it's a maximum of two points per quote.

Take it away.

1. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

2. I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

3. He has his father's eyes.

4. What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy."

5. It must be weird not having anyone come on you.

6. I can lay you out and fill your mouth with your mother's feces, or we can talk.

7. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

8. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

9. God, Veronica, drool much?

10. The first one won't kill you. Not the second, not even the third. Not until you crawl over here and kiss my foot.

11. You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me.

12. A satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really get right to the point.

13. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I'll never know.

14. If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

15. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

16. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

17. I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

18. If your head comes away from your neck, it's over.

19. A naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a two-foot salami under the other. Bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...

20. But you're not a girl, you're a guy. And why would a guy want to marry a guy?

There's a bonus point if you know the answer to number 20.
 
 
Smoothly
08:45 / 07.09.06
I think I know 5 of these and would only get the bonus point on about 2 of them. Number 20 is one of the easiest though, isn’t it? Isn’t it Some Like It Hot? I know that and I haven’t even seen Some Like It Hot.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
08:52 / 07.09.06
Whoever said 1 is wrong, the cuckoo clock is a German/Bohemian invention.
 
 
Red Concrete
08:59 / 07.09.06
/shame The only one I know is no. 13...
 
 
The resistable rise of Reidcourchie
09:05 / 07.09.06
I got 6, though I should've known 20 if It's Some Like it Hot as I've seen it recently. Others seemed familiar. I'd be interested to know what number 4's from.
 
 
The resistable rise of Reidcourchie
09:14 / 07.09.06
Hold on I've just remembered where 4 is from, stupid, stupid Reid. I get 7 now.
 
 
Brigade du jour
15:23 / 07.09.06
I got 9, including number 20. The geek in me is sorely disapppointed ...

I've got hundreds of these stashed away in my own movie quizzes, by the way, if you're interested.
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:38 / 07.09.06
Seven here, and three "I thiiiiiiiiiink..." answers.

Should this be in the Film and TV forum, or are you aiming for a poll among more "general" people than the buffs that haunt that forum semi-exclusively?
 
 
Jawsus-son Starship
15:40 / 07.09.06
9 including 20 as well - and i only got number 20 because it was featured in this months Empire, which is odd.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
15:57 / 07.09.06
Seven! I am so awesome.
 
 
Brigade du jour
16:12 / 07.09.06
9 including 20 as well - and i only got number 20 because it was featured in this months Empire, which is odd.

Want to hear something odder still? My friend was at a pub quiz last night and one of the questions was "the working title of which film was 'Not Tonight, Josephine'" ...

Apologies to anyone who doesn't know the answer to number 20 yet - I'm not just being wilfully opaque, I just don't want to spoil the thread!
 
 
grant
16:12 / 07.09.06
OK, here are the ones I knew, or thought I knew, or thought I should've known.



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1. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

This one is going to bother me until I hear the answer. I just saw the damn thing within the last couple of months (or heard the scene somewhere). AAAAAA!!!!

2. I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Guessing it's Sunset Boulevard.

3. He has his father's eyes.
Rosemary's Baby, Mrs. Whatserface, the upstairs neighbor. (Only 1 point for me, I guess -- the names elude me.)

4. What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy."

This one will bug me. I know that last line. The first line throws me off, though, because of Taxi Driver, which this isn't, I don't think.

7. Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

This one is something I think I've heard in more than one movie. None of which are coming to mind.

8. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Brando, On the Waterfront.

9. God, Veronica, drool much?

This one bugs me only a little. I know it's horror movie, or at least a spooky situation -- the drool isn't Veronica's or isn't drool. I wanna say Ginger Snaps, but think that's wrong.

13. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I'll never know.

Groucho. Can't remember which movie.

14. If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.

This one, too, will bug me. I wanna say John Cusack in Grosse Point Blank, but I'm not sure that's right.

15. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

Whatever happened to Baby Jane? Bette Davis?
(The question marks reflect genuine uncertainty.)

16. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.


Hmm. Spoken by someone on the edge and dangerous.

19. A naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a two-foot salami under the other. Bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...

Vague tickle -- is this said by a guy bleeding to death or something?



20. But you're not a girl, you're a guy. And why would a guy want to marry a guy?


Some Like It Hot... Jack Lemmon? (I just saw Mister Roberts for the first time last night, and have Lemmon on the brain



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Kiltartan Cross
16:13 / 07.09.06
A miserable three. On the other hand, I recognise loads of them, just can't remember from where... funny how the brain works.
 
 
Jack Fear
16:14 / 07.09.06
Ten for sure and a couple of educated guesses.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
16:50 / 07.09.06
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grant, I think the guy bleeding to death ("Blonde walks into a bar...") is Christian Slater. Possibly Very Bad Things.

And "God, Veronica, drool much?" makes me think of Wynonna Rider.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" is from The Princess Bride, yeah?

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Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
16:51 / 07.09.06
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Ooh! Also, grant, number 4 is, I'm pretty certain, Al Pacino from Scarface.

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Liger Null
17:09 / 07.09.06
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19. A naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a two-foot salami under the other. Bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says...

Number 19 is from The Breakfast Club, Bender (Judd Nelson) is saying it as he's crawling through the air vent. the interruption comes when he falls through the ceiling.

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I only got 1 pint for sure, and that's just because I've the the damn thing like a dozen times.
 
 
grant
18:38 / 07.09.06
This thing is *fun*, for sure. I'm totally mystified by some of 'em, however.
 
 
Feverfew
18:40 / 07.09.06
5. Although another five are on the tip of my brain.

And it's fun!
 
 
The Falcon
19:00 / 07.09.06
Gah, I've three for definite - including

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1. is defo The Third Man

- I'm kind of surprised and pleased to know a thing which grant does not.

and a couple guesses; mine for 20 appears to match up.
 
 
grant
19:51 / 07.09.06
YES! Thank you, Falconator!
 
 
Jackie Susann
20:15 / 07.09.06
Here are the answers. I'm pretty encouraged by the results here - nobody's really close to getting them all, but everyone knows at least one or two and, in a group, could take some educated guesses and work it out.

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1. Orson Welles as Harry Lime, The Third Man
2. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard
3. Some schmoe from Rosemary's Baby (better look that one up).
4. Al Pacino as Tony Montana, Scarface.
5. Sleazy strip club owner, .
6. Christopher Walken, The Prophecy.
7. Bette Davis as Marlo Channing, All About Eve
8. Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
9. Heather, Heathers. Note to self: Figure out which Heather said this.
10. The big Russian bad guy, From Russia With Love
11. John Goodman, The Big Lebowski
12. Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, Manhattan
13. Groucho, Animal Crackers
14. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Godfather part II
15. Patrick Swayze, Dirty Dancing
16. Enrique Montoya, The Princess Bride
17. Jack Nicholson as Jake Gittes, Chinatown
18. It's from Highlander, probably Sean Connery. I forget.
19. Judd Nelson as John Bender, The Breakfast Club.
20. Tony Curtis, Some Like It Hot. And Jack Lemmon's response, bless him, is 'Security'.

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miss wonderstarr
21:53 / 07.09.06
I knew 9, would have taken a solid guess at maybe 4 more, kicked myself about most of the rest.
 
 
Baz Auckland
23:20 / 07.09.06
16. Enrique Montoya, The Princess Bride

It's Mandy Patinkin playing Inigo Montoya to be precise...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:26 / 07.09.06
Oh, and 6 is actually Viggo Mortensen playing Lucifer, not Christopher Walken playing Gabriel.

God, I feel dirty for knowing that.
 
 
grant
03:47 / 08.09.06
Ow -- I think I've seen nearly all of those (three exceptions? four?), and can now vividly remember the lines in question. How could I miss Chinatown?
 
 
Jackie Susann
07:18 / 10.09.06
Okay, I kind of suck for doing this but I needed somewhere to note down new quotes I thought of that would be good so I'm just going to put them here. Sorry!

'Technically, the procedure *is* brain damage.'
'A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are a girl's best friend.'

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Eternal Sunshine and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
 
 
miss wonderstarr
07:49 / 10.09.06
I personally think the Monroe one is too easy, Jackie.
 
 
Jackie Susann
20:57 / 10.09.06
Really? I think a lot of people would recognise it as a Monroe song, but not know which movie she sings it in.
 
 
miss wonderstarr
21:00 / 10.09.06
Is she even in a lot of musicals, though (ie. could she have been singing in most of her films)? I've not seen that many of her movies. You may be right of course but it seemed more obvious to me than a lot of the original 20.
 
 
Jackie Susann
22:41 / 10.09.06
I think it's her only musical, but I also think a lot 20-somethings (which is roughly the demographic) have never even seen a Marilyn movie, much less know which one is the musical. Anyway, it's probably good if at least a couple are real obvious, so nobody feels too ignorant.
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
23:59 / 10.09.06
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, right?
 
 
miss wonderstarr
07:11 / 11.09.06
Is the other one... Eternal Sunshine?
 
  
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