Pulp Fiction Trivia
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60 free Pulp Fiction trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
52 free Pulp Fiction trivia questions with answers. Pulp Fiction is the film people quote without realising it: Royale with Cheese, the Wolf, 'get medieval', the Ezekiel speech. This quiz covers all of it, from the diner robbery that opens and closes the film to the shoot itself, the casting choices that nearly went differently and the awards run that ended with an Oscar for the screenplay. Easy questions ask who directed it, who plays Vincent and what Mia orders at Jack Rabbit Slim's. The hard ones want the name of the taxi driver, the actor Tarantino wrote Jules for, which Sonny Chiba film supplied the 'Bible' passage, and how much the restaurant set cost. If you know what a Big Kahuna Burger is, you are in the right place. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Pulp Fiction?
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed Pulp Fiction, sharing the story credit with Roger Avary; it was his second feature after Reservoir Dogs.
Q 02In what year was Pulp Fiction released?
1994
Pulp Fiction was released in 1994, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival that May before its wide US opening on October 14, 1994.
Q 03Who plays hitman Vincent Vega?
John Travolta
John Travolta plays Vincent Vega; he took a heavily reduced fee for the part, which brought him a Best Actor Oscar nomination and revived his career.
Q 04Who plays Jules Winnfield?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson plays Jules Winnfield; he won the part at a second audition, performing while eating a takeout burger, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Q 05Who plays Mia Wallace?
Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace; Miramax had favoured Holly Hunter or Meg Ryan, but Tarantino wanted Thurman after their first meeting, and the role earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Q 06Which actor plays the boxer Butch Coolidge?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis plays Butch Coolidge, the ageing boxer who double-crosses Marsellus Wallace by winning the fight he was paid to throw.
Q 07Who plays crime boss Marsellus Wallace?
Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames plays crime boss Marsellus Wallace; Rhames went on to play Luther Stickell across the Mission: Impossible series.
Q 08Harvey Keitel plays a 'cleaner' with what name?
Winston Wolfe
Harvey Keitel plays Winston Wolfe, a part Tarantino wrote for him; Wolfe introduces himself with 'I solve problems' and cleans up after the accidental shooting in the back of the car.
Q 09The diner robbers call each other Pumpkin and Honey Bunny. What are their real names?
Ringo and Yolanda
Tim Roth used his natural London accent for Ringo after faking an American one in Reservoir Dogs.
Q 10Who plays Captain Koons, the veteran who delivers young Butch's heirloom?
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken plays Captain Koons, the veteran who delivers the heirloom to young Butch; his monologue mentions Winocki, a character from Howard Hawks's 1943 film Air Force.
Q 11Which small role does Tarantino himself play?
Jimmie, whose house is used for the clean-up
Tarantino plays Jimmie, whose house is used for the clean-up; he chose Jimmie over Lance so he could stay behind the camera for Mia's overdose scene.
Q 12Who plays Vincent's drug dealer Lance?
Eric Stoltz
Eric Stoltz plays Lance, the bathrobe-wearing dealer who helps revive Mia with an adrenaline shot to the heart; Stoltz had earlier starred in Mask (1985).
Q 13Steve Buscemi's cameo at the 1950s restaurant is as a waiter dressed as whom?
Buddy Holly
Steve Buscemi's waiter is dressed as Buddy Holly, horn-rimmed glasses and all, serving Mia and Vincent among staff impersonating Marilyn Monroe and an Ed Sullivan host.
Q 21Which fast-food comparison do Vincent and Jules famously discuss in the car?
What a Quarter Pounder is called in Paris
What a Quarter Pounder is called in Paris — a 'Royale with Cheese', thanks to the metric system — is the exchange; Travolta reprised the gag in From Paris with Love (2010).
Q 22Which made-up fast-food brand from the film has recurred in later Tarantino movies?
Big Kahuna Burger
Big Kahuna Burger, the Hawaiian chain Jules samples at Brett's apartment, reappears in From Dusk Till Dawn and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Q 23What is the name of the 1950s-themed restaurant where Vincent takes Mia?
Q 14Which comedian appears in the film as herself, at the scene of Butch's car crash?
Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin appears as herself, a bystander at the crash; Julia Sweeney is also in the film, playing Raquel, daughter of junkyard owner Monster Joe.
Q 15Which actor turned down the role of Jules Winnfield?
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne turned down Jules; he said years later that he passed because he felt the film glamorised heroin use.
Q 16Which Reservoir Dogs actor's decision to make Wyatt Earp instead freed up the Vincent role for Travolta?
Michael Madsen
Madsen's Reservoir Dogs character Vic Vega is Vincent's brother; a 'Vega Brothers' film was mooted but never made.
Q 17Which Oscar-winner did Harvey Weinstein push for as Vincent?
Daniel Day-Lewis
Harvey Weinstein pushed hard for Daniel Day-Lewis to play Vincent Vega, but Tarantino refused to recast the part and got his way.
Q 18What hairstyle did the script call for Jules, before a Jheri-curl wig arrived by mistake?
A giant afro
A giant afro was what the script called for; the wig bought for Jackson turned out to be a Jheri curl, he liked the mistake, and Tarantino kept it.
Q 19What Bible passage does Jules recite before executing someone?
Ezekiel 25:17
Jules recites 'Ezekiel 25:17', though only its closing lines resemble the real verse; most of the speech was borrowed from a 1970s martial-arts film's opening crawl.
Q 20Jules's 'biblical' speech is taken almost word for word from a film starring which martial-arts actor?
Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba starred in Karate Kiba (1976, released in the US as The Bodyguard), whose opening crawl carries the creed Jules adapts.
Jack Rabbit Slim's
Jack Rabbit Slim's is the 1950s-themed restaurant where Mia orders the five-dollar milkshake that astonishes Vincent; its booths are cut from vintage car bodies.
Q 24What competition do Vincent and Mia enter at the restaurant?
A twist contest
A twist contest is what the Ed Sullivan lookalike MC announces; Vincent and Mia dance to Chuck Berry's 'You Never Can Tell' and carry home the trophy.
Q 25Which Godard film does Tarantino cite as the inspiration for the dance scene?
Bande à part
Bande à part (1964) is the film Tarantino cites; its Madison dance, with Anna Karina and her two would-be crook companions, is the model, and his company A Band Apart takes its name from it.
Q 26Mia overdoses after mistaking Vincent's heroin for what?
Cocaine
Cocaine is what Mia assumes the white powder in Vincent's coat pocket is; she snorts the heroin and overdoses, sending Vincent racing to his dealer's house.
Q 27The adrenaline-shot scene was inspired by an anecdote in a documentary about which Taxi Driver actor?
Steven Prince
Steven Prince, Taxi Driver's gun dealer Easy Andy, tells the story in Scorsese's American Boy (1978): he revived an overdosed woman using a medical book and a marker to find the spot.
Q 28Butch's father died as a prisoner of war in which conflict?
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War claimed Butch's father, who died of dysentery in a Hanoi POW camp after hiding the heirloom for five years; Koons hid it two more to bring it home.
Q 29Why does Butch go back to his apartment, where he finds Vincent?
Fabienne forgot to pack the gold watch
Fabienne forgot to pack the gold watch, which Butch values above everything; after retrieving it he spots Marsellus crossing the street, a moment modelled on Marion Crane's drive in Psycho.
Q 30What weapon does Butch choose to rescue Marsellus in the pawnshop basement?
A katana
A katana is Butch's final choice from the pawnshop's wares; he picks up and rejects a hammer, a baseball bat and a chainsaw before settling on the samurai sword.