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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
His father gave him the novel; he decided to film it after This Is Spinal Tap proved he could direct.
Q 02Who wrote the 1973 novel and adapted it for the screen?
William Goldman
He had already won 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
Both fictional countries in the story take their names from old European currency.
Q 05Prince Humperdinck plans to start a war with which neighbouring country?
Guilder
His scheme is to have Buttercup murdered and pin the crime on the neighbours.
Q 06Which sea raider is said to leave no survivors?
The Dread Pirate Roberts
Westley later explains the name is a transferable title, passed on whenever the current holder retires.
Q 07Vizzini describes himself as coming from where?
Sicily
His fatal mistake in the battle of wits is assuming his origins make him unbeatable when death is on the line.
Q 08Fezzik the giant is described as coming from which country?
Turkey
In the film he was played by a Frenchman who worried his English was not good enough for the part.
Q 09Where does the man in black duel Inigo Montoya?
Atop the Cliffs of Insanity
The location was played by a famous stretch of sea cliffs on Ireland's west coast.
Q 10What poison does the man in black use in the battle of wits?
Iocane powder
He says he spent years building up an immunity to it, which is how he survives his own goblet.
Q 11According to the man in black, which country does the poison come from?
Australia
Vizzini reasons that the place is peopled entirely with criminals, who are used to not being trusted, and so on.
Q 12How does the man in black beat Vizzini in the battle of wits?
Both goblets were poisoned
Vizzini dies mid-laugh right after warning against going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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
Rugen drains Westley's life there with a device simply called The Machine.
Q 22What physical feature identifies the man Inigo has hunted for years?
Six fingers on one hand
Westley spots it as Rugen knocks him out; the man in black had earlier proved his own hand normal by removing a glove.
Q 23What was Inigo's father Domingo Montoya's trade?
Swordsmith
He laboured a year over a sword for the six-fingered man, then refused to sell it when offered a tenth of the promised price.
Q 14What is Vizzini's catchphrase, and the reason Wallace Shawn was cast?
Inconceivable
Casting director Janet Hirshenson loved how he said the word in My Dinner with Andre; fans have shouted it at him ever since.
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?
His rhyming game with Inigo drives Vizzini to shout 'No more rhymes now, I mean it!'
Q 17How does the man in black defeat Fezzik?
Chokes him unconscious
Fezzik insists on a fair fight, so it becomes a wrestling match rather than a rock-throwing contest.
Q 18What does Westley shout as he tumbles down the hill, revealing his identity to Buttercup?
As you wish!
Hearing it, Buttercup throws herself down the hill after him.
Q 19What are the outsized creatures that attack Westley in the Fire Swamp called?
Rodents of Unusual Size
Two actors in costume, Anthony Georghiou and Danny Blackner, are credited for playing them.
Q 20What is the name of the torture chamber where Westley is taken?
The Pit of Despair
In the novel the same place is called something different and is described as an underground menagerie.
Q 24How old was Inigo when he watched Rugen kill his father?
11
Rugen disarmed the boy in under a minute but was unsettled by his skill and left him with a scar on each cheek.
Q 25Which hand do Inigo and the man in black both start their duel with?
Left
Each is hiding that he is really right-handed; the actors learned to fence both ways for the scene.
Q 26What is the fictional fencing rank Inigo achieves in the novel, above 'master'?
Wizard
He is described as the only living man to hold it after ten years of training.
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
Mandy Patinkin said he drew on the loss of his own father to cancer to play the moment.
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
Inigo wins him over by promising the revived Westley will humiliate the prince and ruin his wedding.