Q 01/05

Which haircut, suggested by a Vietnam veteran in the cast, does Travis Bickle give himself in Taxi Driver?

A) A buzz cut

B) A flat top

C) A mohawk

D) A shaved head

Answer · why

C) A mohawk

A mohawk was the idea of actor Victor Magnotta, who told Scorsese that soldiers in Saigon wore one when they were ready for a Special Forces mission.

Q 02/05

John Hinckley Jr., fixated on Taxi Driver and Jodie Foster, tried to assassinate which US president in 1981?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) Jimmy Carter

C) Richard Nixon

D) George H. W. Bush

Answer · why

A) Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan survived the shooting, and Hinckley's lawyers closed their defense by playing the film for the jury, which found him not guilty by reaso...

Q 03/05

Travis Bickle delivers the most quoted line of Taxi Driver, improvised by Robert De Niro, while facing what?

A) A television

B) A mirror

C) A wanted poster

D) A police officer

Answer · why

B) A mirror

A mirror is his only audience as he rehearses drawing a gun on imagined enemies. Screenwriter Paul Schrader said De Niro improvised the dialogue.

Q 04/05

A 1977 magazine quip said Taxi Driver did for cab-riding what which earlier thriller did for swimming?

A) The Poseidon Adventure

B) Deliverance

C) Lifeboat

D) Jaws

Answer · why

D) Jaws

Jaws was the comparison Ladies' Home Journal reached for in March 1977, summing up how uneasy the film had made a late-night cab ride feel.

Q 05/05

Robert De Niro flew home from which country, where he was filming 1900, to drive a real cab for Taxi Driver?

A) France

B) Italy

C) Spain

D) Mexico

Answer · why

B) Italy

Italy was where De Niro was shooting Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900: he would wrap on a Friday in Rome, fly to New York and pick up fares for a couple of ...