# Test your movie quote knowledge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861 "2003-03-24T20:12:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/1 "2003-03-24T20:12:34Z")
About 3/4 of the way down in [this article](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0303210039mar23.story) is a little movie quote quiz with answers. I only got 6 out of 15. (And one of those I’m ashamed to remember.) For a couple of the movies no one should have seen them, let alone remember quotes. I guess it’s time to hit the video store. So, how did you do? ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/2 "2003-03-24T20:29:01Z")
[spoiler]My problem with quizzes like this is that I _recognize_ the quotes, but have a hard time connecting many of them to the movie from which they come. (I have the same problem with people, I _never_ forget a face, but have difficulty remembering anything else about the person–I only know I’ve seen them before.) So, I only got a few (Major League, GoodFellas, Apocalypse Now, Jaws), though I recognized most of them (Bull Durham, Jaws, Meet the Parents, Caddyshack, Cabin Boy, Ferris Bueller). The other movies I haven’t seen. FTR (as the article asserts movie quotes to be “a guy thing”), I’m male.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/3 "2003-03-24T20:32:22Z")
I also got six. There were three others I should have known, and two I never would have gotten, having not seen the movies. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/4 "2003-03-24T20:35:08Z")
Eight of fifteen. I hadn’t seen the other seven. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/5 "2003-03-24T20:37:24Z")
Umm, **troub** , you’ve given away some of the quiz. You should have used the “spoiler” tag. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/6 "2003-03-24T21:14:57Z")
:smack: Holy crap. I am _extremely sorry!_ Brain Freeze! I wish this board let you edit your own posts. I’ll try to grab a moderator, but I fear it’s pretty late for that. Sorry! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/7 "2003-03-24T21:19:43Z")
Woohoo! I got one! ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/8 "2003-03-24T21:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I got one! Ghostbusters ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/9 "2003-03-24T22:08:38Z")
I got four right. My brothers and I often play the movie quote game, but we stick to movies we all know we’ve all seen. They’re both better at this than I am (my sister sucks at it so badly we won’t even let her play anymore.) I’m fast becoming a quote junkie for Kevin Smith films, and I routinely wipe the floor with my brothers on those, as well as the Godfather movies. In the movie Stakeout, Richard Dreyfuss’s character is playing the movie quote game with Emilio Estevez. The quote he gives Estevez to ID is “This was no boating accident!” At that point, the action takes over and the question is left unanswered. What makes it fun is that the original line was from the movie Jaws, and was uttered by…Richard Dreyfuss. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/10 "2003-03-24T22:57:00Z")
Is it just me, or did they _butcher_ the As Good As It Gets quote? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/11 "2003-03-24T23:06:50Z")
I got six, and should’ve gotten 2 more that I knew but couldn’t place. ---
**Author:** ![pervertatoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pervertatoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pervertatoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-movie-quote-knowledge/163861/12 "2003-03-25T02:15:54Z")
Wasn’t his name Gaylord, not Greg? I got three. Haven’t seen any of the other movies. In fact, I haven’t even seen one of the ones I got, I just knew what it was from. 😉 The Apocalypse Now quote I recognized, but have yet to see the movie