70 free Quentin Tarantino trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Quentin Tarantino trivia for people who can quote the Royale with Cheese speech but want something harder. This quiz walks through the whole career: the video-store years in Manhattan Beach, the scripts he sold to pay for Reservoir Dogs, the Palme d'Or for Pulp Fiction, and every feature up to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, plus the novel and the film-history book that followed. Expect questions on the films themselves (why the Crazy 88 fight is in black and white, what Dr. King Schultz did before bounty hunting, which score won Ennio Morricone his only Oscar), on Tarantino's acting cameos from The Golden Girls to From Dusk till Dawn, and on the running jokes and collaborators that tie his universe together: Red Apple cigarettes, Sally Menke, Uma Thurman, Christoph Waltz's two Oscars. Every answer is checked against the Wikipedia article for the film or for Tarantino himself, with the supporting sentence saved alongside the question. Difficulty ranges from easy warm-ups to a handful only serious fans will get, so play it solo or use it for a movie-night round.
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Q 01In which city was Quentin Tarantino born in 1963?
Knoxville, Tennessee
His mother moved back to Los Angeles with him in 1966; he was later sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee for a spell.
Q 02Tarantino was named in part after Quint Asper, a character played by Burt Reynolds in which TV Western?
Gunsmoke
His mother was a fan of the show; the future director never met his own father.
Q 03Tarantino spent five years working at the Video Archives store in which California city?
Manhattan Beach
He liked to say that instead of film school, 'I went to films'.
Q 04As a 15-year-old, Tarantino was grounded for shoplifting a novel by which author from a Kmart?
Elmore Leonard
He later adapted the same author's Rum Punch into Jackie Brown, and Leonard called it the best of the 26 adaptations of his work.
Q 05In 1988 Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of which sitcom?
The Golden Girls
He said the roughly $3,000 in residuals from reruns helped support him while he prepared Reservoir Dogs.
Q 06Tarantino's first Hollywood job in 1986 was on an exercise video fronted by which action star?
Dolph Lundgren
He worked on Maximum Potential alongside Video Archives colleague Roger Avary, his future Pulp Fiction co-writer.
Q 07What was the title of the low-budget 1987 film Tarantino co-wrote and directed before Reservoir Dogs?
My Best Friend's Birthday
It was never completed, but some of its dialogue ended up in True Romance.
Q 08Which of Tarantino's scripts was sold to finance Reservoir Dogs and directed by Tony Scott in 1993?
True Romance
He wrote it non-linearly; Scott straightened out the timeline and changed the ending so the lovers survive.
Q 09Which director's rewrite of Natural Born Killers left Tarantino with only a story credit?
Oliver Stone
The falling-out is one of several public feuds in his career.
Q 10Reservoir Dogs' title reportedly came from a customer mishearing Tarantino recommend which French film?
Au revoir les enfants
He also liked that it sounded like a Jean-Pierre Melville picture starring Alain Delon.
Q 11Which colour-coded alias does Tarantino himself play in Reservoir Dogs?
Mr. Brown
He originally planned to shoot it for $30,000 in black-and-white 16 mm with his friends before Harvey Keitel came aboard.
Q 12Which 1970s song plays as Mr. Blonde tortures the captured cop in Reservoir Dogs?
Stuck in the Middle with You
The Stealers Wheel track became inseparable from the ear-slicing scene.
Q 13Reservoir Dogs was accused of borrowing heavily from City on Fire, a 1987 heist film from which country?
Hong Kong
Tarantino has openly called Ringo Lam's film a major influence.
Q 21Which Jackie Brown actor earned an Academy Award nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry?
Robert Forster
It was his and Pam Grier's first lead role in a major film in many years.
Q 22Tarantino wrote From Dusk till Dawn as his first paid writing assignment. How much was he paid?
$1,500
Effects house KNB paid him in 1990 in exchange for a promise that they would do the makeup on Reservoir Dogs.
Q 23In From Dusk till Dawn, Tarantino plays the deranged brother of a bank robber played by whom?
George Clooney
The brothers end up trapped in a desert strip club that turns out to be full of vampires.
Q 14At which festival did Reservoir Dogs premiere in January 1992?
Sundance
He had workshopped a short version at the Sundance Institute the previous summer.
Q 15Which prize did Pulp Fiction win at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival?
Palme d'Or
It went on to earn Tarantino his first Academy Award, for Best Original Screenplay.
Q 16With whom did Tarantino share the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Pulp Fiction?
Roger Avary
The two had met working the counter at Video Archives.
Q 17Which character does Tarantino play in Pulp Fiction?
Jimmie
His suburban house is where Jules and Vincent clean up the mess in 'The Bonnie Situation'.
Q 18Tarantino's admiration for which 1981 Brian De Palma film led him to cast John Travolta in Pulp Fiction?
Blow Out
Travolta's career was in the doldrums; the role earned him an Oscar nomination.
Q 19Jackie Brown is an adaptation of which 1992 crime novel?
Rum Punch
It remains the only feature Tarantino has directed from someone else's source material.
Q 20Jackie Brown pays homage to Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which starred which actress?
Pam Grier
She walks through the airport to Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street', another blaxploitation borrowing.
Q 24Tarantino directed the final segment of which 1995 anthology film with Rodriguez, Anders and Rockwell?
Four Rooms
Tim Roth plays the bellhop who links the four stories.
Q 25Roughly how long was the Kill Bill cut that persuaded the studio to split it into two volumes?
Over four hours
Harvey Weinstein, known for pressuring directors to trim, suggested the split, announced in July 2003.
Q 26For which actor did Tarantino originally write Bill in Kill Bill, before David Carradine?
Warren Beatty
As the part grew to demand more screen time and martial arts training, the Kung Fu star took over.
Q 27In Kill Bill, the Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from which legendary swordsmith?
Hattori Hanzō
The character is named in tribute to Sonny Chiba's role in the 1980s Japanese series Shadow Warriors, and Chiba plays him.
Q 28Why is the Bride's fight against the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill: Volume 1 shown partly in black and white?
To avoid an NC-17 rating
The animated O-Ren Ishii backstory in the same film was produced by Ghost in the Shell studio Production I.G.
Q 29What is the name of the deadly move the Bride uses to finally kill Bill in Kill Bill: Volume 2?
Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique
Master Pai Mei supposedly refused to teach it to anyone; a victim can take only five steps before dying.
Q 30What is the Bride's real name, finally revealed in Kill Bill: Volume 2?
Beatrix Kiddo
It is bleeped out whenever it is spoken in Volume 1.