Jackie Brown Trivia
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48 free Jackie Brown trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Jackie Brown trivia quiz covers Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film from the novel up. It asks about Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch and what Tarantino changed, the casting of Pam Grier and Robert Forster after years away from lead roles, Samuel L. Jackson's Ordell Robbie, and the plot mechanics of the money swap at the Del Amo mall. There are questions on the opening shot borrowed from The Graduate, the Coffy score, the Delfonics, the Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and the Silver Bear in Berlin. It is written for people who have seen the film more than once and want to test what they remember, from the size of Ordell's stash to which actor turned down Louis Gara. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has watched it, a third are medium, and the rest are for Tarantino completists. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the interviews and production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01What do the agents find in Jackie's bag besides $50,000 in cash?
Cocaine
Cocaine: besides the $50,000, Nicolette and Dargus find a small bag of cocaine in Jackie's flight bag, which gives them a drug charge to hold over her.
Q 02What is Jackie's job in the film?
Flight attendant
Flight attendant: Jackie works for Cabo Air, a small Mexican airline, and uses her runs between Cabo San Lucas and Los Angeles to carry Ordell's cash through customs.
Q 03Samuel L. Jackson plays which character?
Ordell Robbie
Ordell Robbie is Jackson's character, a Los Angeles gun runner who uses Jackie to bring his cash in from Mexico; the performance won Jackson a Best Actor prize at a 1998 festival.
Q 04Which character does Forster play in the film?
Bail bondsman Max Cherry
Bail bondsman Max Cherry is Forster's role: Cherry posts Jackie's bond, falls for her and quietly helps her keep the money, reviving a career that began with Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967).
Q 05Which actor plays Louis Gara, Ordell's recently released former cellmate?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro plays Louis Gara, a slow, burnt-out ex-con fresh out of prison; the mumbling, understated part came two years after his showy lead in Casino.
Q 06Bridget Fonda plays Melanie Ralston, who is what to Ordell?
One of his mistresses
One of his mistresses: Melanie is the blonde beach bunny Ordell keeps in his beach apartment, one of several women he supports around Los Angeles.
Q 07Michael Keaton plays Ray Nicolette, an agent of which federal agency?
ATF
ATF: Nicolette is an agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, paired with LAPD detective Mark Dargus to build a gun-running case against Ordell.
Q 08Keaton played Ray Nicolette again, uncredited, in which 1998 Elmore Leonard adaptation?
Out of Sight
Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh's 1998 adaptation of Leonard's novel, has Keaton reprise Ray Nicolette uncredited, the same character carried into another studio's film.
Q 09How does Ordell kill his bagman Beaumont Livingston?
He lures him into a car trunk and shoots him
He lures him into a car trunk and shoots him: Ordell talks Beaumont into hiding in the trunk for a fake job, drives to an empty lot and fires into it.
Q 10When Ordell comes to Jackie's apartment to kill her, she pulls a gun she stole from where?
Max Cherry's glovebox
Max Cherry's glovebox: on the drive home from jail Jackie quietly lifts Max's pistol from the glove compartment, and it turns Ordell's visit into a negotiation.
Q 11How much of Ordell's money is still to be smuggled in when Jackie strikes her deal with him?
$550,000
$550,000 is the whole stash: Jackie tells the ATF the delivery is $50,000 and tells Ordell she will bring everything, planning to keep the other half million herself.
Q 12What cut does Jackie offer Max Cherry for helping her keep the money?
10 percent
10 percent: Jackie offers Max the same cut a bondsman takes on a bond, ten percent of the money she keeps, for collecting the bag she leaves behind.
Q 13Where does the money swap take place?
A department store dressing room
Q 21Which two other Leonard novels did Tarantino acquire the rights to after Pulp Fiction?
Freaky Deaky and Killshot
Freaky Deaky and Killshot came in the same deal; Tarantino filmed neither, and Killshot finally reached cinemas in 2008, produced by Lawrence Bender.
Q 22Jackie Brown borrows posters and quotes from which two 1970s Pam Grier films?
Coffy and Foxy Brown
Coffy and Foxy Brown, Grier's 1973 and 1974 blaxploitation hits, are the films whose poster art and title lettering Jackie Brown quotes.
Q 23The opening sequence of Jackie gliding through LAX recreates the opening of which 1967 film?
The Graduate
A department store dressing room: Jackie tries on a suit at Billingsley's in the Del Amo mall, leaves one bag behind for Max to collect and hands the other to Melanie.
Q 14During the test run, Jackie swaps $10,000 with which of Ordell's girlfriends?
Sheronda
Sheronda, the young woman Ordell keeps at his house, meets Jackie in the mall food court for the $10,000 practice exchange of identical shopping bags.
Q 15Why does Ordell reluctantly send Melanie to do the final swap?
Simone has left town with the $10,000
Simone has left town with the $10,000 from the practice run, so Ordell, short of a woman he trusts, sends Melanie into the store with Louis watching her.
Q 16How much money is actually in the bag Jackie hands to Melanie?
$40,000
$40,000 is all Jackie leaves for Melanie; when Ray counts it he finds ten thousand short of the fifty Jackie told him about, and she blames Melanie for skimming.
Q 17Why does Louis shoot Melanie in the parking lot?
She mocks him for forgetting where they parked
She mocks him for forgetting where they parked: Melanie keeps needling Louis as they search the lot, he warns her to stop, then shoots her twice and leaves her there.
Q 18Where is Ordell finally shot dead?
In Max Cherry's office
In Max Cherry's office: Jackie lures Ordell there to collect his money, shouts that he has a gun, and Ray Nicolette, waiting in the dark, shoots him dead.
Q 19At the end of the film, Jackie plans a trip to which city?
Madrid
Madrid: Jackie invites Max to join her in Spain, he declines, and she drives away singing along to the song that opened the film.
Q 20Under what name does the heroine appear in Elmore Leonard's source novel?
Jackie Burke
Jackie Burke is the white heroine of Leonard's novel; Tarantino made her Black and renamed her, and Leonard called the film his favourite adaptation of his own work.
The Graduate opens with Dustin Hoffman riding an airport moving walkway to 'The Sound of Silence'; Jackie Brown restages the shot with Grier at LAX.
Q 24Which Bobby Womack song plays over the opening credits?
Across 110th Street
Across 110th Street, Womack's 1972 title song for the Harlem crime film starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto, plays as Jackie glides through the airport.
Q 25Instead of commissioning a new score, Tarantino used Roy Ayers's funk score from which film?
Coffy
Coffy, Grier's 1973 vigilante hit, has a Roy Ayers score, and Tarantino lifted several of its cues for Jackie Brown rather than commissioning new music.
Q 26Which vocal group's 'Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)' links Jackie and Max?
The Delfonics
The Delfonics' 1970 hit is the song Max hears at Jackie's apartment and buys on cassette; their 'La-La Means I Love You' also appears on the soundtrack.
Q 27Which Johnny Cash song appears on the soundtrack?
Tennessee Stud
Tennessee Stud, Cash's version recorded live at the Viper Room for his 1994 album American Recordings, plays in the film and appears on the soundtrack album.
Q 28The soundtrack includes 'Long Time Woman', sung by Pam Grier herself, from which of her 1971 films?
The Big Doll House
The Big Doll House, Jack Hill's 1971 women-in-prison film shot in the Philippines for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, has Grier singing the song on its soundtrack.
Q 29Grier had earlier read for which Pulp Fiction role that Tarantino decided against giving her?
Jody
Jody, the wife of Eric Stoltz's dealer Lance, was the part Grier read for; Tarantino decided audiences would not believe Stoltz yelling at her.
Q 30When Grier arrived to read for the film, what did she find in Tarantino's office?
Posters of her own films
Posters of her own films were already on Tarantino's walls; he told Grier he had meant to take them down so it would not look like he was trying to impress her.