Which of My Favorite Movies Is This Quote From? Quiz

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Maybe if it's the goat killer, he'll get somebody and we'll see the whole thing."

Answer: American Graffiti

This is my favorite movie whenever I'm asked. Directed by George Lucas it was a springboard for many young actors and actresses including Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Suzanne Somers, Mackenzie Phillips, Kathleen Quinlan, Candy Clark, and Charles Martin Smith and Paul Le Mat. Ms. Clark as Debbie Dunham says this quote as she and Terry the Toad Field (Charles Martin Smith) wander through the woods looking for his car which was stolen.
The film's pre-closing credit epilogue text describing the characters' fates still gives one chills--innovative at the time.

2. "You're going to die up there."

Answer: The Exorcist

Linda Blair, as the possessed daughter Regan McNeil, wanders downstairs during her mother's cocktail party and utters this warning to the astronaut guest as all the adults are gathered around the piano. Regan then urinates onto the carpet as her mother, played by Ellen Burstyn, looks on in shock and then hurries over to her daughter in concern and apologizes to the astronaut who was played by Dick Callinan.

3. "Tea without milk is so uncivilized."

Answer: The Great Escape

Donald Pleasance plays Colin Blythe, "The Forger" in "The Great Escape", tasked with forging the documents for the prisoners to use when they are out in the country after having crawled through tunnels to escape the prison camp. As Blythe prepares tea, he requests that his teammate in the escape plans, "The Scrounger" (James Garner), try to secure some milk for tea.

4. "Oh it's a terrible place, and once you go in there you never come out."

Answer: March of The Wooden Soldiers

As Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee sit morosely contemplating the fate of Tom Tom who has been wrongfully accused of pignapping, Stannie asks Ollie what will happen when Tom Tom is banished to Bogeyland. Ollie proceeds to tell him what a terrible place it is and how frightful the bogey monsters are with great big ears and a great big mouth and that they'll eat you alive!

5. "I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when dyin's just around the corner, but you don't."

Answer: Bang The Drum Slowly

For my money, this is the best sports tearjerker ever made ("Brian's Song" being a close 2nd). Michael Moriarty, as pitcher Henry Wiggen of the New York Mammoths, intones that quote as part of his narration during the film. The film version has Moriarty narrating in voiceover but the original television adaptation in 1956 had Newman in the role of Henry Wiggen, address the camera directly when he narrated.
Robert DeNiro as the dying catcher Bruce Pearson gives a memorably moving and funny performance in one of his earliest film roles.

6. "Here's the sixty-four dollar question - what do you do with a vegetable?"

Answer: The Thing From Another World

Earlier in this 1951 science fiction masterpiece helmed by the legendary Howard Hawks, the reporter Ned "Scotty" Scott (Douglas Spencer) says to the professor Alex Carrington at the North Pole station "Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like, well, just as though you're describing some form of super carrot." Scotty says the quote as the crew are assembled and are trying to figure out how to battle The Thing. Yes, the thing he's describing is an alien from another world that has descended upon the icy station scaring the hell out of the military outpost inhabitants and scientists.

7. "Thanks to him, this evil would at last be able to spread across the world."

Answer: The Fearless Vampire Killers

This early Roman Polanski horror comedy is a wonderful experience. Terrific production design, and a weirdly uneasy and yet humorous vibe. Sadly, it would be one of the last films of the beautiful Sharon Tate. The narrator tells us at the end [SPOLIER ALERT] "That night, fleeing from Transylvania, Professor Abronsius never guessed he was carrying away with him the very evil he had wished to destroy" along with the featured quote.

8. "You're losing your eye. You used to be able to pitch better than that."

Answer: His Girl Friday

This line comes from editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) after reporter Hildy Johnson played by Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday" hurls her purse at Burns who is her ex-husband. Burns accuses her of flirting with him, so that she "practically" proposed, whereupon he imitates her by making "goo goo eyes" and fluttering his eyelashes.
Losing her temper, she throws her purse, missing his face by inches.

9. "I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am."

Answer: The Philadelphia Story

Cary Grant's line again, this time as C. K. Dexter Haven in the screwball comedy romance classic "The Philadelphia Story". He has just punched Jimmy Stewart as reporter Macaulay Connor in order to save Connor from getting punched by George Kittredge, played by John Howard. Connor and Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn} had gotten drunk you see, and they had kissed. Trouble is Tracy was engaged to Kittredge.

10. "Listen, I ripped everything outta there except the rocker panels."

Answer: The French Connection

Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, as two cops trying to nail a big heroin transaction, have impounded a car and taken it to a garage where a mechanic has stripped it as they look for where the drug dealers have hidden their stash. They know it must be somewhere in the car because it weighs 120 pounds more than when it was weighed at customs.

But the mechanic, Irv, couldn't find any saying, "Listen, I ripped everything outta there except the rocker panels." To which Popeye Doyle (Hackman) demands Irv tell what those are, and Irv goes ahead tears off those panels. Presto! There are the bags of heroin.

Source: Author Billkozy

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor skunkee before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.

Questions		Choices
1. "Maybe if it's the goat killer, he'll get somebody and we'll see the whole thing."		The Great Escape
2. "You're going to die up there."		The Thing From Another World
3. "Tea without milk is so uncivilized."		March of The Wooden Soldiers
4. "Oh it's a terrible place, and once you go in there you never come out."		The Fearless Vampire Killers
5. "I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when dyin's just around the corner, but you don't."		Bang The Drum Slowly
6. "Here's the sixty-four dollar question - what do you do with a vegetable?"		American Graffiti
7. "Thanks to him, this evil would at last be able to spread across the world."		His Girl Friday
8. "You're losing your eye. You used to be able to pitch better than that."		The Exorcist
9. "I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am."		The Philadelphia Story
10. "Listen, I ripped everything outta there except the rocker panels."		The French Connection

These are quotes from my favorite movies. On the left is the short quote from a famous movie, and on the right are your possible movie selections.