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50 free Movie Taglines trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
A good tagline has one job: sell a two-hour film in a single breath. The best of them outlive their posters and slip into everyday speech, to the point where people repeat them without remembering which film they came from. That makes them ideal quiz material, because you almost certainly know more of them than you think. This quiz describes each famous poster line in plain words rather than printing it, then asks you to name the film it sold. You will meet warnings from horror posters, boasts from summer blockbusters and puns from family comedies, along with the stories behind them: who came up with the line, how the campaign ran and what became of the film afterwards. A few questions reach back to the silent era and the first talkies for film buffs. It suits movie nights, pub quiz rounds and anyone who has ever bought a ticket on the strength of a poster. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a story to tell.
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Q 01Which 1979 Ridley Scott film's posters warned that in space nobody would be able to hear you scream?
Alien
Alien put a hen's egg on its poster rather than the creature's egg seen in the film, and that image became the emblem of the whole franchise.
Q 02Which 1978 Roy Scheider film's posters teased swimmers who had only just decided the water was safe again?
Jaws 2
Jaws 2 owes the line to trailer maker Andrew J. Kuehn, and it became one of the most famous in film history. The 1996 film Flipper parodied it by promising the water was finally safe.
Q 03Which blockbuster, backed by licensing deals with over 100 companies, joked that it had taken 65 million years to make?
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park matched the number on its posters with a $65 million marketing campaign, which Universal had spent the film's long pre-production planning.
Q 04Which David Fincher film's poster claimed nobody reaches 500 million friends without making a few enemies?
The Social Network
The Social Network's poster designer, Neil Kellerhouse, first wrote the line with 300 million friends. He raised the figure because Facebook was expected to pass 500 million users by release.
Q 05Which 1995 Ron Howard film took its poster line from an astronaut's report of a problem to Houston?
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 changed the tense of the real transmission: mission recordings have Jack Swigert reporting the trouble as already past, before Jim Lovell repeats it.
Q 06Which James Cameron film was sold with the boast that no force on Earth could separate its two young lovers?
Titanic
Titanic was due on July 2, 1997, to reach the summer crowds, but Paramount postponed it to December. It went on to win 11 Academy Awards.
Q 07Which 1990 John Hughes production was cheekily advertised as a family comedy that comes without the family?
Home Alone
Home Alone was the highest-grossing live-action comedy for two decades, a Guinness record, and it made Macaulay Culkin a child star.
Q 08Which animated film, based on a William Steig picture book, was billed as the greatest fairy tale nobody ever told?
Shrek
Shrek makes the ogre the hero and aims most of its jokes at Disney's animated fairy tales. It won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Q 09Which 2008 sequel's viral campaign slipped fans defaced dollar bills asking why they were so serious?
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight campaign altered 11,000 one-dollar bills with the Joker's image for San Diego Comic-Con. A plan to throw them from a balcony was dropped as unsafe, so they were handed out covertly.
Q 10Which 1982 horror film was sold on a little girl's two-word announcement that unseen visitors had arrived?
Poltergeist
Poltergeist gives the line to young Carol Anne as an earthquake shakes her family awake. It ranks 69th on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest movie quotes.
Q 11Which Steven Spielberg film's poster described its hero as afraid and three million light years from home?
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was also pitched at Christian audiences, with a poster that echoed the touching fingers of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
Q 12Which Jim Carrey film's rhyming poster line said its hero was on the air yet unaware of it?
The Truman Show
The Truman Show meant a pay cut for its star: then normally paid $20 million a film, Carrey agreed to play the unwitting reality-TV subject for $12 million.
Q 13Which 2003 animated film's poster counted 3.7 trillion fish in the sea, all of them looking for just one?
Q 21Which 1996 blockbuster's posters said humanity had always suspected it had company and would soon wish otherwise?
Independence Day
Independence Day opened its campaign with a $1.3 million commercial during Super Bowl XXX. The film's success made the big game the stage for unveiling would-be blockbusters.
Q 22Which 2009 Todd Phillips comedy's poster observed that some guys simply cannot handle Las Vegas?
The Hangover
The Hangover needed no effects for Stu's missing tooth: Ed Helms never grew an adult incisor, so he had his dental implant taken out for filming.
Q 23Which 2017 Jordan Peele horror film warned that being invited does not mean you are welcome?
Get Out
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo became the best-selling DVD of all time, with over 40 million copies sold. Some 15 million of them went within two weeks of its release.
Q 14Which 1993 comedy, an Oscar winner for its makeup, listed a housekeeper's chores and called her a blessing in disguise?
Mrs. Doubtfire
Mrs. Doubtfire took its premise from Anne Fine's novel Madame Doubtfire: a father hires himself out as the family housekeeper without his former wife knowing.
Q 15Which 1994 Farrelly brothers comedy joked that for its two heroes every day is a no-brainer?
Dumb and Dumber
Dumb and Dumber turned a $17 million budget into $247.3 million at the box office with the tale of a road trip to Aspen to return a briefcase abandoned at an airport.
Q 16Which 1987 Paul Verhoeven film described its hero as part man, part machine and entirely police officer?
RoboCop
RoboCop came to its co-writer while he hung around the set of Blade Runner, picturing a mechanical officer slowly gaining real human intelligence.
Q 17Which Christopher Nolan thriller's poster declared the human mind to be the scene of the crime?
Inception
Inception began as an 80-page treatment about dream stealers that Nolan first took to Warner Bros. in 2002, when he pictured it as a horror film.
Q 18Which 1978 film, featuring a highly paid Marlon Brando, promised audiences they would believe a man can fly?
Superman
Superman paid Brando $3.7 million plus a share of the gross to play Jor-El, while its lead Christopher Reeve earned only $250,000 for two films.
Q 19Which 2004 Edgar Wright film was billed, in two blunt sentences, as a romantic comedy with zombies?
Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead grew out of an episode of the sitcom Spaced, in which Simon Pegg's character hallucinates a zombie invasion.
Q 20Which 1998 Roland Emmerich monster movie was sold on a three-word boast insisting that size matters?
Godzilla
Godzilla kept its star out of the adverts: the director insisted that no full-body or head shots of the monster appear, to the surprise of the studio's marketing chief.
Get Out was made for $4.5 million and grossed over $250 million. Its original ending was bleaker, with the hero Chris arrested by the police.
Q 24Which 2018 John Krasinski horror film's poster warned that being heard by its creatures means being hunted?
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place cast deaf actress Millicent Simmonds as the family's daughter, and its characters survive by talking in American Sign Language.
Q 25Which film, whose script studios rejected some forty times, joked that a teenager had got home 30 years early?
Back to the Future
Back to the Future began filming with Eric Stoltz as Marty before the director decided he was wrong for the part and reshot his scenes with Michael J. Fox, at a cost of up to $4 million.
Q 26Which 1986 Tony Scott film's poster placed its fighter pilots up there among the best of the best?
Top Gun
Top Gun doubled as a recruiting tool: the US Navy set up recruitment booths in some of the cinemas screening it.
Q 27Which 1995 Best Picture winner's poster observed that every man dies but not every man really lives?
Braveheart
Braveheart was credited with a tourism boom worth £7 million to £15 million to Scotland, and a statue of Mel Gibson as William Wallace later stood by the Wallace Monument.
Q 28Which 1978 John Carpenter slasher was sold as the night its masked killer came home?
Halloween
Halloween cost just $300,000 and grossed $70 million, making it one of the most profitable independent films ever. Carpenter was paid $10,000 to write, direct and score it.
Q 29Which comedy filmmaker's company produced The Fly, the 1986 horror whose posters urged audiences to be very afraid?
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks produced The Fly through his company Brooksfilms. Its warning spread so widely that many people who repeat it have no idea which film it came from.
Q 30Which 1985 John Hughes film's poster said its characters met only once but were changed forever?
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club strands five students in Saturday detention, and the press soon lumped its young cast together under the nickname the Brat Pack.