Grindhouse Trivia
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50 free Grindhouse trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
In 2007 Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino built a three-hour love letter to the scratched, spliced, sleazy double features of 1970s exploitation cinema. Grindhouse paired Rodriguez's zombie splatter comedy Planet Terror with Tarantino's stuntman slasher Death Proof, wrapped them in fake trailers from Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth, and then flopped so hard the studio cut it in half for the rest of the world. This quiz has 50 questions on the whole package: the two features and their casts, Cherry Darling's machine-gun leg, Stuntman Mike's death-proof cars, the missing reels, the box office disaster, the Cannes cut of Death Proof, and the fake trailers that later became real films: Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun and Thanksgiving. It also covers the original grindhouse theaters the film was named after. It runs from easy questions for anyone who has watched it once to production and reception details for the fans who own the theatrical cut on disc. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo or use it as the movie round at a horror trivia night.
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Q 01In Death Proof, Stuntman Mike reveals that his reinforced stunt car protects which of its occupants?
Only the driver
Only the driver is safe, as Pam learns too late on the passenger side; Tarantino built the story on the way stuntmen reinforce a car so they can walk away from a crash.
Q 02In Planet Terror, what does Sheriff Hague keep trying to pry out of his brother J.T.?
His barbecue recipe
His barbecue recipe is J.T.'s closely guarded secret; Rodriguez carried the joke onto the home-video extras, where he hosts a cooking school on Texas barbecue.
Q 03Who plays Stuntman Mike, the killer who murders women with his modified cars in Death Proof?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike; Tarantino cast him because he wanted a younger audience to see Russell "be a badass again".
Q 04In Planet Terror, go-go dancer Cherry Darling loses a leg and eventually replaces it with what?
A machine gun
A machine gun replaces Cherry Darling's lost leg; both it and the table leg she wears first were added by computer after artists painted out the actress's real leg, shot by shot.
Q 05Which actress plays Cherry Darling in Planet Terror?
Rose McGowan
Rose McGowan plays Cherry Darling; on set her lower leg was wrapped in a grey stocking so that effects artists could paint it out and add the replacement limb by computer.
Q 06Which studio label released Grindhouse in US cinemas in 2007?
Dimension Films
Dimension Films, the Weinstein brothers' genre label, released Grindhouse; the pair had carried the label with them when they walked away from Miramax in 2005.
Q 07Grindhouse opened fourth in 2007 while which comedy led the US chart for a second weekend?
Blades of Glory
Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell's ice-skating comedy, took over $22 million in its second weekend; Grindhouse made $11.6 million, far short of the $20 million forecasters had expected.
Q 08What happened to Planet Terror and Death Proof in cinemas outside North America?
Released them separately as extended films
Overseas the studio "Released them separately as extended films", a split planned before the US opening; Death Proof alone then out-grossed the whole double bill's American run.
Q 09The full theatrical Grindhouse first reached US home video in 2010 on which format?
Blu-ray
Blu-ray brought the complete double feature to US shelves in October 2010, more than two years after a six-disc DVD box set had put the theatrical cut on sale in Japan.
Q 10Which Hollywood veteran plays the anti-immigration senator in the 2010 Machete feature?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro plays the senator Machete is hired to shoot; the hit is a set-up, staged so that the politician can rally support for his campaign against illegal immigrants.
Q 11The Thanksgiving fake trailer was shot in which European city, straight after its director wrapped Hostel: Part II there?
Prague
Prague hosted the two-day shoot just after the real Thanksgiving; short of English speakers, the director cast his Hostel actors, members of the crew and himself as the victims.
Q 12Rob Zombie said his SS werewolf trailer would be either a Nazi movie or which other exploitation subgenre?
Women-in-prison
Women-in-prison was Zombie's other candidate; he chose the Nazis, citing Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS as the most bizarre genre going, and shot enough footage for a half-hour short.
Q 13Which Hollywood star appears in Werewolf Women of the SS as Fu Manchu?
Nicolas Cage
Q 21Rodriguez first wrote Machete in the 1990s, around the time of Desperado, as a vehicle for which actor?
Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo was the intended star; Rodriguez wanted him to headline his own line of "Mexploitation" films, the way Charles Bronson had his own vehicles.
Q 22Before Grindhouse, a character named Machete had already appeared in which Rodriguez film series?
Spy Kids
Spy Kids came first: its Uncle Machete is a gadget-building tech genius, and Rodriguez has said the family films and the R-rated Machete movies sit in alternate universes.
Q 23Which action star plays the drug lord Torrez in the 2010 Machete feature?
Steven Seagal
Nicolas Cage plays Fu Manchu because, as Rob Zombie put it, cheap exploitation films mixed whatever they had: a pile of Nazi uniforms, a Chinese set, "We'll put 'em together!"
Q 14Edgar Wright's fake trailer takes its one-word title from which stock warning of horror-film advertising?
Don't
Don't mocks the way European horror films were sold in 1970s America: a generic new title, and a trailer that carefully avoids letting anyone on screen speak.
Q 15Which Arrested Development star narrates Edgar Wright's fake trailer for Grindhouse?
Will Arnett
Will Arnett narrates Edgar Wright's trailer at a frantic pace; to age the footage, Wright scratched the film with steel wool and dragged it around a parking lot.
Q 16In the Thanksgiving fake trailer, the killer stalks his victims dressed as what?
A Pilgrim
A Pilgrim costume hides the killer, played by the director's childhood friend Jeff Rendell; the two had dreamed up a whole Thanksgiving slasher as kids in Massachusetts.
Q 17The title design for the Thanksgiving trailer was based on a slasher parody in which magazine?
Mad
Mad called its slasher spoof Arbor Day; the trailer's director said he still owned that issue and lifted the title design for Thanksgiving straight from it.
Q 18Whose fake trailer nearly earned Grindhouse an NC-17 rating?
Eli Roth
Eli Roth's Thanksgiving trailer nearly pushed Grindhouse to NC-17; Roth said the ratings board relaxed once they saw it with all the splices and scratches, and the film went out rated R.
Q 19Which fake trailer, shown mainly in Canada, came from a South by Southwest contest?
Hobo with a Shotgun
Hobo with a Shotgun won the South by Southwest trailer contest for Nova Scotia filmmakers who shot it in five days for about $150; added to Canadian prints, it grew into a 2011 feature.
Q 20Who plays the title role in the 2011 feature made from the hobo-vigilante trailer?
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Hauer plays the hobo in the 2011 feature, while David Brunt, who played the hobo in the original trailer, appears as a dirty cop.
Steven Seagal plays Torrez, the drug kingpin who kills Machete's wife in front of him, leaving the former federale a broken man when the story moves to Texas.
Q 24The 2023 film Thanksgiving is set in which Massachusetts town, where a Black Friday riot turns deadly?
Plymouth
Plymouth is the setting, but the cameras rolled in Ontario, where a Hamilton-area high school stood in for small-town Massachusetts.
Q 25Rodriguez pitched Grindhouse after seeing that Tarantino owned the same vintage what, advertising a 1957 double bill?
Movie poster
Movie poster: both had the same sheet for Dragstrip Girl and Rock All Night lying on the floor; Rodriguez proposed directing one film each, and Tarantino named it Grindhouse.
Q 26Which lawman, first seen in From Dusk till Dawn, appears in both halves of Grindhouse?
Earl McGraw
Earl McGraw, played by Michael Parks, links the two films: in Death Proof he is the Ranger who suspects Stuntman Mike after the crash, with Parks's real son James as his son Edgar.
Q 27Death Proof gave Tarantino his first screen credit in which crew role?
Cinematographer
Cinematographer was a new credit for Tarantino, and he took it the old way: while Rodriguez shot Planet Terror on digital video, Death Proof was photographed on film.
Q 28What on-screen device lets Planet Terror skip a stretch of story and land in its third act?
A "missing reel"
A "missing reel" card covers the jump; Rodriguez said the idea came from a print Tarantino screened of an Italian crime film that still worked with twenty minutes gone.
Q 29The longer cut of Death Proof screened in competition at which 2007 film festival?
Cannes
Cannes announced Death Proof in its main competition within two weeks of Grindhouse's failed American opening; Tarantino had won the festival's top prize with Pulp Fiction.
Q 30Which stuntwoman plays herself riding a Dodge Challenger's hood in Death Proof?
Zoë Bell
Zoë Bell plays herself; she had been Uma Thurman's stunt double on Kill Bill, and she rides the Challenger's hood for real in a game the women call Ship's Mast.