Advertisement How well do you know your movie lines? Take our quiz, three ways, and find out. Why three ways? If we can get “beef, three ways” at trendy restaurants, we figure we can serve you three ways to test your knowledge and prove you are “the master.”
MULTIPLE CHOICE
Sometimes multiple choices are easier, sometimes not. Here are some well-known lines from our favorite flicks. Can you choose who said it?
1. “It’s not that bad. ... Well, I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.”
A. Cary Elwes as Robin Hood in “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (1993)
B. Joaquin Phoenix as Lucius Hunt in “The Village” (2004)
C. Cary Elwes as Westley in “The Princess Bride” (1987)
D. Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland in “Cast Away” (2000)
2. “This sucks. I didn’t hook up with one European chick while I was here. Europe is officially the worst country in the world.”
A. Jacob Pitts as Cooper Harris in “Eurotrip” (2004)
B. Jason Lively as Russell “Rusty” Griswold in “European Vacation” (1985)
C. Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale Jr. in “Catch Me If You Can” (2002)
D. Breckin Meyer as Josh Parker in “Road Trip” (2000)
3. “It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.”
A. Harrison Ford as Jack Trainer in “Working Girl” (1988)
B. Harrison Ford as Han Solo in “Star Wars” (1977)
C. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981)
D. Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in “Blade Runner” (1982)
4. “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.”
A. Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007)
B. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impos-sible II” (2000)
C. Tom Hanks as Dr. Robert Langdon in “The Da Vinci Code” (2006)
D. Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris in “Training Day”
(2001)
5. “Well I had no choice, did I? I’m a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So of course I had to invent not only myself but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I’ve succeeded because I’ve always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own.”
A. Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth in “Shakespeare in Love” (1998)
B. Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil in “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988)
C. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Queen” (2006)
D. Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in “Elizabeth” (1998)
6. “Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that’s wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you’re gonna be screaming at each other about who’s gonna get this dish. This $8 dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That’s Mine, This Is Yours.”
A. Judd Nelson as Alec Newbary in “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985)
B. Meg Ryan as Kate McKay in “Kate & Leopold” (2001)
C. Joe Mantegna as Andy in “Forget Paris” (1995)
D. Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in “When Harry Met Sally” (1989)
7. “We’re not playing Spin the Bottle; how old are we? More importantly, how old are they?”
A. Zach Braff as Andrew Largeman in “Garden State” (2004)
B. Annette Bening as Carolyn Burnham in “American Beauty” (1999)
C. Claire Danes as Sookie Sapperstein in “Igby Goes Down” (2002)
D. Colin Firth as Jamie Bennett in “Love Actually” (2003)
8. “Rough business, this movie business. I’m gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest.”
A. Joe Pesci as Jimmy Alto in “Jimmy Hollywood” (1994)
B. Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” (1990)
C. John Travolta as Chili Palmer in “Get Shorty” (1995)
D. Jason Statham as Turkish in “Snatch” (2000)
9. “Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ‘slightly’ killed.”
A. Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill in “North by Northwest” (1959)
B. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in “Psycho” (1960)
C. Ray Milland as Tony Wendice in “Dial M for Murder” (1954)
D. Jimmy Stewart as L. B. Jefferies in “Rear Window” (1954)
10. “Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures ... but from the sweat of a man’s brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true!”
A. Geena Davis as Morgan Adams in “Cutthroat Island” (1995)
B. Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” (2007)
C. Dustin Hoffman as Capt. Hook in “Hook” (1991)
D. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003)
MATCHING
Match the movie quotes, numbered below, with the actor/character/movie combo.
1. “Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a water buffalo.”
2. “There’s a 95-pound Chinese man with $160 million behind this door.”
3. “Go do that voodoo that you do so well!”
4. “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”
5. “The details of your incompetence do not interest me.”
A. George Clooney as Danny Ocean in “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001)
B. Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey in “Airplane!” (1980)
C. Chevy Chase as Irwin Fletcher in “Fletch” (1985)
D. Harvey Korman as Hedley Lamarr in “Blazing Saddles” (1974)
E. Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006)
FREE RESPONSE
You’re on your own. Here are the quotes. Do you know who said them in which movies?
1. “Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it’s great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about 10 seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, cause I think, maybe I’ll get up there and I’ll knock on the door and you won’t be there. No goodbye. No see you later. No nothing. You just left. I don’t know much, but I know that.”
2. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
3. “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! ... This is the kind of spontaneous publicity — your name in print — that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.”
4. “Two dollars; I want my two dollars!”
5. “I carried a watermelon. I carried a watermelon?”
6. “You had me at ‘hello.’”
7. “This week is not about me. It is about you. I’m gonna show you a good time. We’re gonna drink a lot of good wine. We’re gonna play some golf. We’re gonna eat some great food and enjoy the scenery and we are going to send you off in style, mon frere.”
8. “You can’t really dust for vomit.”
9. “I am NOT going to New York to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn’t you see ‘Fatal Attraction’?”
10. “To infinity, and beyond!”
BONUS
Can you identify the quotes in our quiz introduction?
1. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
2. “I see you’re drinking 1 percent. Is that ‘cause you think you’re fat? ‘Cause you’re not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.”
3. “We need to talk about your TPS reports.”
4. “The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.”
5. “The master,” a reference to “Now I am the master.”
Source: Quotes and movie information from IMDB.com
ANSWERS
Multiple choice
1. C; 2. A; 3. C; 4. D; 5. B; 6. D; 7. A; 8. C; 9. A; 10. B
Matching
1. C; 2. A; 3. D; 4. B; 5. E.
Free response
1. Ben Affleck as Chuckie Sullivan in “Good Will Hunting” (1997)
2. Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now” (1979)
3. Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in “The Jerk” (1979)
4. Paperboy in “Better off Dead” (1985)
5. Jennifer Grey as Frances “Baby” Houseman in “Dirty Dancing” (1987)
6. Renee Zellweger as Dorothy Boyd in “Jerry Maguire” (1996)
7. Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond in “Sideways” (2004)
8. Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel in “This Is Spinal Tap” (1984)
9. Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993)
10. Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story” (1995)
Bonus
1. Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in “Gone With the Wind” (1939)
2. Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) in “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004)
3. Dom Portwood (Joe Bays) in “Office Space” (1999)
4. Dean Vernon Wormer (John Vernon) in “Animal House” (1978)
5. Darth Vader in “Star Wars” (1977).
