Q 01/05

In which city was Quentin Tarantino born in 1963?

A) Los Angeles, California

B) Knoxville, Tennessee

C) Detroit, Michigan

D) Austin, Texas

Answer · why

B) Knoxville, Tennessee

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on March 27, 1963; his mother moved with him to the Los Angeles area in 1966, and he grew up in the South ...

Q 02/05

Tarantino was named in part after Quint Asper, a character played by Burt Reynolds in which TV Western?

A) Bonanza

B) Rawhide

C) Gunsmoke

D) The Virginian

Answer · why

C) Gunsmoke

Quint Asper was the half-Comanche blacksmith Burt Reynolds played on Gunsmoke from 1962 to 1965; Tarantino's mother Connie was a fan of the character.

Q 03/05

Tarantino spent five years working at the Video Archives store in which California city?

A) Manhattan Beach

B) Santa Monica

C) Culver City

D) Redondo Beach

Answer · why

A) Manhattan Beach

Video Archives was a rental shop in Manhattan Beach, California, where Tarantino clerked for about five years in the 1980s; he liked to say that inste...

Q 04/05

As a 15-year-old, Tarantino was grounded for shoplifting a novel by which author from a Kmart?

A) Stephen King

B) Elmore Leonard

C) Jim Thompson

D) Raymond Chandler

Answer · why

B) Elmore Leonard

At 15 Tarantino was caught shoplifting Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch from a Kmart; nearly two decades later he adapted another Leonard crime ...

Q 05/05

In 1988 Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of which sitcom?

A) Cheers

B) Married... with Children

C) The Golden Girls

D) Full House

Answer · why

C) The Golden Girls

In the 1988 episode 'Sophia's Wedding', Tarantino was one of a troupe of Elvis impersonators on The Golden Girls; he said the rerun residuals helped s...