The Hateful Eight
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50 free The Hateful Eight trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Hateful Eight shuts a group of strangers inside a remote stagecoach stop while a blizzard rages outside, then lets suspicion do the rest. Quentin Tarantino's film is part Western, part whodunit: a bounty hunter, his captive and the travelers they meet all have something to hide, and nobody at Minnie's Haberdashery is quite who they claim to be. This quiz covers the whole story, from the stagecoach ride to the bloody final scene, along with the people who played it. It also goes behind the camera: the script that almost never got filmed, the vintage lenses, the freezing shoot, the award-winning music and the famous moment when Kurt Russell broke something he should not have. The questions run from easy openers for anyone who has seen the film once to deep cuts for fans who know the roadshow version by heart. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will learn something even when you guess.
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Q 01Which museum loan did Kurt Russell smash for real while filming The Hateful Eight, unaware that it was not a prop?
An antique guitar
An antique guitar from the 1870s, lent by the Martin Guitar Museum, was meant to be swapped for a copy before the smash. The museum then stopped lending to film productions.
Q 02Which president supposedly wrote the letter carried by Union veteran Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight?
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln never wrote a word of it: Warren admits the letter is a forgery that buys him some leeway with the white strangers he meets.
Q 03Which drink is secretly poisoned in The Hateful Eight, killing John Ruth and the stagecoach driver who brought him?
The coffee
The coffee is poisoned while every eye is on Major Warren and General Smithers. Daisy alone sees who did it, and she lets her captor drink.
Q 04Which actor plays Jody, the outlaw hiding under the floorboards for much of The Hateful Eight?
Channing Tatum
Channing Tatum stays out of sight until his character shoots Major Warren from below. A flashback then shows how the gang reached the lodge hours earlier.
Q 05Why was the Hollywood soundstage for The Hateful Eight kept colder than the mountain location?
To show the actors' breath
To show the actors' breath, a fleet of air conditioners ran until the indoor set was colder than the real mountainside. The camera had to be wrapped in blankets against the damp.
Q 06What happened to the script of The Hateful Eight that made Quentin Tarantino briefly abandon the whole film?
It leaked online
It leaked online soon after he shared it with a few trusted colleagues, and he planned to publish it as a novel instead. A live reading with much of the eventual cast changed his mind.
Q 07Which veteran composer won his first competitive Oscar for the music of The Hateful Eight?
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone was 87, which made him the oldest competitive Oscar winner up to that time. He wrote the music without having seen the film.
Q 08The Hateful Eight began as a sequel novel to which earlier Quentin Tarantino film, before its hero was written out?
Django Unchained
Django Unchained was to continue in a paperback called Django in White Hell, until Tarantino realized that the character did not fit the story he wanted to tell.
Q 09The Hateful Eight strands its travelers on the road to the town of Red Rock in which wintry territory?
Wyoming
Wyoming is where the story unfolds, but the snowy exteriors were filmed on a ranch in the mountains of southwest Colorado.
Q 10Which streaming service re-released The Hateful Eight in 2019 as a four-part miniseries called the Extended Version?
Netflix
Netflix added the extended cut on April 25, 2019, splitting a film that first played cinemas with an overture into four separate episodes.
Q 11Which Pulp Fiction star plays the bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson had already made Jackie Brown and Kill Bill: Volume 2 with Tarantino, and he took part in the 2014 live reading of the script.
Q 12Which nickname has bounty hunter John Ruth earned in The Hateful Eight for always bringing his fugitives in alive?
The Hangman
The Hangman insists that every bounty he catches must reach the gallows, a habit the last two survivors honor in the final scene.
Q 13How does John Ruth keep the fugitive Daisy Domergue at his side on the stagecoach ride in The Hateful Eight?
With handcuffs
Q 21Which Colorado ski town, also home to a well-known film festival, was the base for shooting The Hateful Eight?
Telluride
Telluride lay close to the ranch where the lodge was built, more than 10,000 feet up, and mornings on set often began far below zero.
Q 22Which extra-wide film format, unused since the 1960s, did Quentin Tarantino revive to shoot The Hateful Eight?
Ultra Panavision 70
Ultra Panavision 70 gives a picture far wider than ordinary widescreen. Its long-unused lenses were found intact at Panavision and rebuilt to fit modern cameras.
Q 23Which actress turned down the part of Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight and later said she regretted the decision?
Jennifer Lawrence
With handcuffs linking them wrist to wrist, John Ruth makes sure his prisoner cannot slip away before he collects the bounty on her in Red Rock.
Q 14Which actress earned her first Oscar nomination for playing the fugitive Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight?
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Jason Leigh was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she also performs a folk ballad in character on the soundtrack album.
Q 15Which quiet cowboy admits to the poisoning in The Hateful Eight when Major Warren threatens to kill Daisy Domergue?
Joe Gage
Joe Gage confesses only when her life is at stake, and his real name turns out to be Grouch Douglas, one of the Domergue gang.
Q 16On which holiday in 2015 did The Hateful Eight open in a limited run of 70 mm roadshow screenings?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day brought the film to about 100 specially equipped theaters, and the wide release followed five days later.
Q 17Which old-fashioned extra, rare in modern cinemas, was built into the roadshow cut of The Hateful Eight?
An intermission
An intermission of twelve minutes split the roadshow cut, which also opened with a three-minute overture in the manner of a 1960s epic.
Q 18The soundtrack of The Hateful Eight reuses unused music first written for which John Carpenter horror film?
The Thing
The Thing also starred Kurt Russell and trapped suspicious men together in the snow, and its unused cues came from the same composer.
Q 19Which blockbuster kept The Hateful Eight from the top of the US box office when it expanded nationwide?
The Force Awakens
The Force Awakens took $90.2 million that weekend against $15.7 million for Tarantino's Western, which finished third behind Daddy's Home.
Q 20Tim Roth and Michael Madsen of The Hateful Eight both starred in which earlier Tarantino film about a botched heist?
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs cast them as Mr. Orange and Mr. Blonde in 1992, and both were among the few colleagues handed the first draft of this script.
Jennifer Lawrence met Tarantino about the part but was already committed to Joy and the Hunger Games films.
Q 24Which groups urged a boycott of The Hateful Eight after Quentin Tarantino spoke at a rally before its release?
Police unions
Police unions across the United States took aim at the film after he condemned police brutality at a New York rally. He said he would not be intimidated.
Q 25Which job in Red Rock does Chris Mannix claim to be starting when he boards the stagecoach in The Hateful Eight?
Sheriff
Sheriff of Red Rock is the post he claims to be riding toward. His father had led a Lost Cause militia known as Mannix's Marauders.
Q 26Which actor, Oscar-nominated for Nebraska, plays the Confederate General Sanford Smithers in The Hateful Eight?
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern was one of the few people Tarantino trusted with his first draft. He is the father of the actress Laura Dern.
Q 27Which stuntwoman, Uma Thurman's double in Kill Bill, plays the character Six-Horse Judy in The Hateful Eight?
Zoë Bell
Zoë Bell is a New Zealander who once doubled for Xena, and she joined the 2014 live reading of the script before being cast in the film.
Q 28Which uncredited part does Quentin Tarantino, the writer and director, perform himself in The Hateful Eight?
The narrator
The narrator is heard only in voice-over, so this is a cameo in which Tarantino never steps in front of his own camera.
Q 29Which rock duo's song Apple Blossom plays in The Hateful Eight, although the story is set in the 1870s?
The White Stripes
The White Stripes released Apple Blossom in 2000 on the album De Stijl, and on the soundtrack it sits among roughly fifty minutes of new orchestral music.
Q 30What relation is the outlaw Jody to the condemned prisoner Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight?
Her brother
Her brother Jody arrives with a handful of accomplices, who spend most of the film hiding behind false names inside the lodge.