The Princess Bride Trivia
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113 free The Princess Bride trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
64 free The Princess Bride trivia questions with answers. Few films are quoted as often as The Princess Bride, and few reward a rewatch as well. This quiz covers the story from the farm to the Fire Swamp, the lines everyone knows and a few they half-remember, the cast (including the wrestling match that nearly cost the world its Fezzik), where the Cliffs of Insanity really are, and the strange metafictional novel William Goldman built the whole thing on, right down to the sequel he never finished. It works for a family movie night, a fan gathering, or a themed pub quiz round. The easy questions can be answered by anyone who has seen the film once; the hard ones go to casting near-misses, box office figures and the details of Goldman's book. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, so if you lose an argument about who was almost cast as Fezzik, you lost it fairly.
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Q 01Who directed The Princess Bride (1987)?
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner directed The Princess Bride; his father Carl Reiner had given him Goldman's novel as a teenager, and he made it right after Stand by Me (1986).
Q 02Who wrote the 1973 novel and adapted it for the screen?
William Goldman
William Goldman wrote the 1973 novel and the screenplay; he had already won screenwriting Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men.
Q 03What does Westley say every time Buttercup gives him an order on the farm?
As you wish
Buttercup eventually works out that the phrase is his way of saying 'I love you'.
Q 04What is the name of the kingdom where Buttercup lives?
Florin
Buttercup lives in Florin, the kingdom whose prince, Humperdinck, chooses her as his bride; the story opens on a farm 'in the country of Florin'.
Q 05Prince Humperdinck plans to start a war with which neighbouring country?
Guilder
Humperdinck wants war with Guilder, the rival country across the sea; he hires Vizzini to kill Buttercup near the Guilder frontier so the crime can be blamed on Guilder.
Q 06Which sea raider is said to leave no survivors?
The Dread Pirate Roberts
The Dread Pirate Roberts is said never to leave captives alive; Westley later explains the name is a title handed from one pirate to the next when the holder retires.
Q 07Vizzini describes himself as coming from where?
Sicily
Vizzini comes from Sicily; his last words warn that one should 'never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line'.
Q 08In Goldman's novel, which country is Fezzik the giant from?
Turkey
In the novel Fezzik is from Turkey, where his parents pushed him into fighting as a boy; the film changes this, with Vizzini threatening to send him back to Greenland.
Q 09Where does the man in black duel Inigo Montoya?
Atop the Cliffs of Insanity
They duel atop the Cliffs of Insanity, where Inigo sportingly waits for the man in black to finish his climb before they cross swords.
Q 10What poison does the man in black use in the battle of wits?
Iocane powder
The poison is iocane powder, which the man in black describes as odorless, tasteless, instantly soluble, and among the deadlier poisons known to man.
Q 11According to the man in black, which country does the poison come from?
Australia
The man in black says iocane comes from Australia, which Vizzini notes is 'entirely peopled with criminals' who are used to not being trusted.
Q 12How does the man in black beat Vizzini in the battle of wits?
Both goblets were poisoned
Both goblets were poisoned; the man in black had spent years building an immunity to the poison, so he drank safely while Vizzini died mid-laugh.
Q 13Complete Vizzini's classic blunder: 'Never get involved in a land war in ...'
Asia
The 'only slightly less well known' blunder is never going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Q 21In the novel, what is Count Rugen's underground torture complex called?
The Zoo of Death
In the novel Rugen's lair is the Zoo of Death, a five-level underground menagerie of deadly creatures; on its lowest level he drains Westley's life with the Machine.
Q 22What physical feature identifies the man Inigo has hunted for years?
Six fingers on one hand
Count Rugen has six fingers on one hand, his right; Westley notices the extra finger just as Rugen knocks him out at the edge of the Fire Swamp.
Q 23What was Inigo's father Domingo Montoya's trade?
Swordsmith
Domingo Montoya was a swordsmith; he slaved a year over a blade for the six-fingered man, then refused to hand it over for a tenth of the promised price and was killed.
Q 14What one-word exclamation is Vizzini's catchphrase?
Inconceivable
Wallace Shawn's 'Inconceivable!' is Vizzini's signature, shouted at each failed attempt to shake off the man in black on the way to the cliffs.
Q 15Complete Inigo's response to Vizzini's overused word: 'You keep using that word. I do not ...'
think it means what you think it means
The line has become shorthand online for correcting anyone misusing a word.
Q 16How does Fezzik ask if anyone would like a snack, in rhyme?
Anybody want a peanut?
When Inigo asks 'Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?', Fezzik rhymes 'If there are, we'll all be dead'; after Vizzini's 'No more rhymes now, I mean it!' he adds 'Anybody want a peanut?'
Q 17How does the man in black defeat Fezzik?
Chokes him unconscious
Unable to out-muscle the giant, the man in black clings to Fezzik's back and chokes him unconscious, winning the 'sportsmanlike' hand-to-hand bout Fezzik himself proposed.
Q 18What does Buttercup call Westley when ordering him about in the opening scenes?
Farm boy
Buttercup addresses Westley only as 'Farm boy' while ordering him to polish her saddle and fetch water pitchers; he works her family's farm, and she comes to realise she loves him.
Q 19What are the outsized creatures that attack Westley in the Fire Swamp called?
Rodents of Unusual Size
They are the Rodents of Unusual Size, or R.O.U.S.; Westley has just said he does not think they exist when one leaps on him in the Fire Swamp.
Q 20In the film, what is the torture chamber where Westley is taken called?
The Pit of Despair
In the film Westley is held in the Pit of Despair, where the Albino tends his wounds before Count Rugen tests the Machine on him.
Q 24How old was Inigo when he watched Rugen kill his father?
11
Inigo tells the man in black he was 11 years old when he challenged Rugen; the six-fingered man spared his life but scarred both his cheeks.
Q 25Which hand do Inigo and the man in black both start their duel with?
Left
Both begin left-handed; Inigo then admits 'I am not left-handed' and switches, and the man in black answers that he is not left-handed either.
Q 26What is the fictional fencing rank Inigo achieves in the novel, above 'master'?
Wizard
In the novel Inigo trains for years after his father's death until he becomes a 'wizard', Goldman's invented fencing rank above 'master'.
Q 27Complete Inigo's line: 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. ...'
Prepare to die.
IGN ranked the moment number 86 on its list of the top 100 movie moments.
Q 28When the dying Rugen offers Inigo anything he wants, what does Inigo say he wants?
His father back
Inigo says he wants his father back ('I want my father back') and runs Rugen through; Mandy Patinkin has said he drew on losing his own father to cancer for the scene.
Q 29What does Miracle Max declare about Westley's condition?
He is only mostly dead
Max explains that mostly dead is slightly alive, and all dead means going through his pockets for loose change.
Q 30Why did Miracle Max lose his job at the castle?
Prince Humperdinck fired him
Prince Humperdinck fired him: Max calls the prince 'the King's stinking son' and agrees to help once Inigo promises a revived Westley will bring him 'humiliations galore'.