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How Well Do You Know Your Movies From the 1970s?

See if you can match the films with the classic lines

Ben Svetkey

En español

Published June 11, 2020

17 Questions

You probably know these classic movie lines, but can you name which film they actually came from? Test your 1970s movie IQ with these 17 classic lines. Bonus points if you can name who said them before peeking at the answer!

How Well Do You Know Your Movies From the 1970s?

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    "answer" : "“The Godfather”",
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    "answer" : "“The Sting”",
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    "answer" : "“Star Wars”",
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    "answer" : "“The Exorcist”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader, responding to Admiral Motti’s culturally insensitive remarks (“Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes …”) right before nearly choking him to death with a two-finger telepathic pinch.",
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  "question" : "“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”",
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    "answer" : "“Patton”",
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    "answer" : "“The Deer Hunter”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? John Belushi’s Bluto, trying to rally his Delta Tau Chi brothers with an inspiring speech after Dean Wormer expelled the entire fraternity over their failing grade point averages. (Bluto’s was the worst: “zero-point-zero.”)",
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  "question" : "“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor.”",
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    "answer" : "“Nashville”",
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    "answer" : "“Kramer vs. Kramer”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Marlon Brando’s Col. Kurtz, in the trippy taped soliloquy that Martin Sheen’s character studies before sailing up the Tonle Srepok River on his assassination mission. “That’s my dream,” Kurtz mumbles enigmatically. “That’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge …”",
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  "question" : "“Here is a man who could not take it anymore.”",
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    "answer" : "“Dirty Harry”",
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    "answer" : "“Taxi Driver”",
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    "answer" : "“Network”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle, reading from his handwritten manifesto in his dumpy New York City apartment. “Here’s a man who stood up,” he goes on, while laying in his bed, “against the scum, the c---s, the dogs, the filth, the s--- …”",
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  "question" : "“You’re even dumber than you think I think you are.”",
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    "answer" : "“Paper Moon”",
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    "answer" : "“Chinatown”",
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    "answer" : "“Taxi Driver”",
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    "answer" : "“Saturday Night Fever”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes, telling off an L.A. cop who falsely accuses him of extorting the wife (Faye Dunaway) of a murdered engineer for the L.A. Department of Water and Power.",
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  "question" : "“I’m into leather.”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“A Woman Under the Influence”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Annie Hall”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Rocky”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? During a flashback to his elementary school days, Alvy Singer imagines how his adorable classmates grew up. (“I used to be a heroin addict, now I’m a methadone addict.”) A bespectacled little girl — played by a child actress named Susan Mellinger, who never appeared in another movie — steals the scene by confessing her future fashion fetish.",
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  "question" : "“Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.”",
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    "answer" : "“Apocalypse Now”",
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    "answer" : "“Deliverance”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“All the President’s Men”",
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    "answer" : "“The Godfather”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone, in the film’s opening sequence — his daughter’s wedding — dispensing a “gift” to a guest while at the same time banking a future favor.",
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  "question" : "“You have meddled with the primal forces of nature.”",
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    "answer" : "“Apocalypse Now”",
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    "answer" : "“Carnal Knowledge”",
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    "answer" : "“Midnight Express”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Ned Beatty’s Arthur Jensen, chairman of the fictional CCA Corp., explaining the facts of life to Peter Finch’s crazed newscaster Howard Beale, in what’s come to be known as “The Money Speech.” “There are no nations. There are no peoples.… There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivaried, multinational dominion of dollars …”",
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  "question" : "“If brains were dynamite, you couldn’t blow your nose.”",
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    "answer" : "“Being There”",
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    "answer" : "“American Graffiti”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Candy Clark’s Debbie Dunham, giving Joe Spano’s Vic the brush-off in the parking lot of Mel’s Drive-In.",
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  "question" : "“You ever listen to women talk, man? Do you? Cuz I do ’til it’s running out my ears.”",
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    "answer" : "“Shampoo”",
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    "answer" : "“Harold and Maude”",
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    "answer" : "“Taxi Driver”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Warren Beatty’s George Roundy, discussing his observations about the opposite sex with Jack Warden’s Lester Karpf (whose wife Roundy has been sleeping with). “I mean, I’m on my feet all day listening to women talk, and they only talk about one thing: how some guy f---ed them over. That’s all that’s on their minds. That’s all I ever hear about.”",
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  "question" : "“I can do anything. I’m the chief of police.”",
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    "answer" : "“Animal House”",
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    "answer" : "“Jaws”",
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    "answer" : "“Superman”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Roy Scheider’s Martin Brody to Richard Dreyfuss’ Matt Hooper, discussing closing down the beaches while a great white shark is on the loose. (The line was borrowed, 40 years later, by police chief Jim Hopper on \"Stranger Things.\")",
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  "question" : "“I guess you’ve noticed something a little strange with Dad.”",
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    "answer" : "“Smokey and the Bandit”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“American Graffiti”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“An Unmarried Woman”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Richard Dreyfuss’ Roy Neary, apologizing to his family after turning dinner’s mashed potatoes side dish into a sculpture of Devil’s Tower.",
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  "question" : "“Go get the butter”",
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    "answer" : "“Last Tango in Paris”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“M*A*S*H”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Way We Were”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Stay Hungry”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Marlon Brando’s Paul to Maria Schneider’s Jeanne, just before he commits a sexual act that would land the 1973 film an X rating.",
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  "question" : "“Easy, miss. I’ve got you.”",
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    "answer" : "“The Poseidon Adventure”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Earthquake”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Superman”",
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  }, {
    "answer" : "“Last Tango in Paris”",
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  "explanation" : "Who said it? Christopher Reeve in 1978’s “Superman” to Margot Kidder’s Lois Lane, just after he rescues her from falling off the Daily Planet building’s roof during a helicopter crash. “You ... you’ve got me?” she responds. “Who’s got you?”",
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  "question" : "“Is it safe?”",
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    "answer" : "“Marathon Man”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Love Story”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Silver Streak”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Midnight Express”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
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  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Who said it? Laurence Olivier’s Szell to Dustin Hoffman’s Thomas Levy, while performing oral surgery without Novocain, in a 1976 torture sequence that set back public attitudes about dentistry several hundred years.",
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}, {
  "question" : "“There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way, and we desperately need your help!”",
  "answers" : [ {
    "answer" : "“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Night of the Lepus”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Every Which Way but Loose”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Badlands”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Who said it? Phillip Avenetti’s Officer Lopez, announcing on a megaphone that a herd of homicidal bunnies is on the loose, in this 1972 camp classic (costarring Janet Leigh and DeForest Kelley).",
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  "question" : "“Will you just watch the hair? You know, I work on my hair a long time.”",
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    "answer" : "“Carnal Knowledge”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Saturday Night Fever”",
    "correctAnswer" : true
  }, {
    "answer" : "“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  }, {
    "answer" : "“Carrie”",
    "correctAnswer" : false
  } ],
  "multiSelect" : false,
  "explanation" : "Who said it? John Travolta’s Tony Manero, in the 1977 disco hit, complaining about how his father smacks him on the head just before Tony goes out dancing.",
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