QUIZ: How well do you know these famous lines from classic movies?

28 January 2025, 12:56 | Updated: 28 January 2025, 12:58

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Movies are about amazing actors, incredible directors, beautiful costumes and dazzling special effects, but ever since the talkies they've also been about classic lines delivered with aplomb by our leading stars.

Some lines are so iconic that they feel every bit as big as the film themselves. Some feel even bigger than that.

But how well do you know these famous lines from some very classic movies? Take our quiz and find out! The answers are at the bottom of the page below the shark.

Questions

1. Which Vietnam War movie had the line: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
   A. Apocalypse Now
   B. Platoon
   C. The Deer Hunter
   E. Born on the Fourth of July
   
2. Fill the missing phrase from In the Heat of the Night: "They call me _____ Tibbs!"
   A. Sir
   B. Doctor
   C. Mister
   D. Officer
   
3. Which 1970s classic had the line: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
   A. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
   B. Taxi Driver
   C. Network
   D. The Long Goodbye
   
4. "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die!". Name the Bond film
   A. Dr No
   B. Goldfinger
   C. Live and Let Die
   D. You Only Live Twice
   
5. Fill the missing phrase from Casablanca: "Of all the ______ in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
   A. Gin joints
   B. Nightclubs
   C. Restaurants
   D. Dance halls
   
6. Which character in The Godfather advised: "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
   A. Tom Hagan
   B. Michael Corleone
   C. Vito Corleone
   D. Luca Brasi
   
7. Complete this Star Wars insult from Princess Leia to Han Solo: "Why, you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking ______!"
   A. Bantha
   B. Nerf Herder
   C. Sand worm
   D. Wookie armpit
   
8. "I mean, any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a ______ bill for the powder room. And I aIways ask for cab fare, too. That's another ___ ": Fill in the amount Holly Golightly is after in Breakfast at Tiffany's
   A. $50
   B. $20
   C. $10
   D. $5
   
9. "I just want to say one word to you - just one word... ________". What is that one word?
   A. Rubbers
   B. Metals
   C. Plastics
   D. Fabrics
   
10. "All right, Mr. _____ , I'm ready for my close-up": What director gets a namecheck in Sunset Boulevard?
    A. Hitchcock
    B. Capra
    C. DeMille
    D. Hawks
    
11. "Your mother was a _____ and your father smelt of elderberries!" Fill in the insult from the French soldiers in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    A. Hedgehog
    B. Hyena
    C. Haddock
    D. Hamster
    
12. "____ gonna need a bigger boat" . What is the actual line from Jaws
    A. You're
    B. We're
    C. They're
    D. I'm

Answers

1. A. Apocalypse Now
2. C. Mister
3. C. Network
4. B. Goldfinger
5. A. Gin joints
6. C. Vito Corleone
7. B. Nerf Herder
8. A. $50
9. C. Plastics
10. C. DeMille
11. D. Hamster
12. A. You're