Q 01/05

Which US president quoted Back to the Future's closing line about not needing roads in a State of the Union address?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) George H. W. Bush

C) Jimmy Carter

D) Bill Clinton

Answer · why

A) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan borrowed the line in 1986 to tell young Americans the future was theirs. The film jokes about him too: in 1955, Doc Brown scoffs at the ...

Q 02/05

Which talk show host's nightly introduction does Jack Torrance mimic after axing through a bathroom door in The Shining?

A) Dick Cavett

B) Merv Griffin

C) Johnny Carson

D) David Letterman

Answer · why

C) Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson walked on to that drawn-out cue from sidekick Ed McMahon every night on The Tonight Show. Jack Nicholson improvised the borrowing, and C...

Q 03/05

Which director refused Arnold Schwarzenegger's request to reword the cyborg's promise to return in The Terminator?

A) Ridley Scott

B) Paul Verhoeven

C) John McTiernan

D) James Cameron

Answer · why

D) James Cameron

James Cameron kept the contraction even though his star struggled to pronounce it and wanted the words said in full. Schwarzenegger speaks only 17 lin...

Q 04/05

Which director's mother, Estelle, plays the deli customer who orders whatever Sally is having in When Harry Met Sally?

A) Garry Marshall

B) Rob Reiner

C) Barry Levinson

D) Mike Nichols

Answer · why

B) Rob Reiner

Rob Reiner handed the scene's punchline to his own mother, and his daughter Tracy appears in the film too. Billy Crystal came up with the line, and Me...

Q 05/05

In This Is Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnel boasts that his amplifier beats ordinary ones because its dials reach which number?

A) Eleven

B) Twelve

C) Thirteen

D) Twenty

Answer · why

A) Eleven

Eleven is the top setting, which Nigel insists makes his amp louder than those that stop at ten. The scene gave English an idiom for pushing anything ...