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Take our quiz on Tarantino's blood-in-the-snow western thriller and find out!
In which state is "The Hateful Eight" set?
Colorado
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
It takes place outside the fictitious town of Red Rock, Wyoming.
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What is the last name of Kurt Russell's bounty hunter?
Emmot
Lang
Ruth
"Ruth" is an archaic term for "gentleness," so it's really not appropriate.
Smithson
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What was John Ruth's nickname?
Ice Water
the Hangman
He earns it because he insists on capturing his fugitives alive and delivering them to the hangman.
Ruthless Ruth
the Searcher
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What is the last name of the fugitive, Daisy?
Domergue
She's said to be a killer, but we don't learn the details of her crimes.
James
Wildeve
Whitelaw
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From whom does Major Marquis Warren have a personal letter?
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Don't laugh about Django. though -- that Tarantino character was originally supposed to have a role in this film.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Django
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Chris Mannix is a "Lost Causer." What does this make him?
A bounty hunter who takes on the hardest cases
A "searcher" who finds people that don't want to be found
A Confederate who searches for Southern POWs
A Confederate still fighting for the value system of the Old South
He and Daisy almost bond over their dislike of black people and Warren in particular.
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Why does Chris Mannix say he's going to Red Rock?
he is taking up ranching
he has relatives there
he, too, is after a bounty
because he's the new sheriff
Whether he is telling the truth is left up to the viewer.
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What is the name of the lodging where the stagecoach stops?
it doesn't have a name
Minnie's Roadhouse
Minnie's Haberdashery
Oddly, a "haberdashery" makes clothes, usually for men.
the Red Rock Inn
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How many people are on the stagecoach when it arrives at Minnie's?
five
six
seven
eight
It makes you wonder how much a six-horse team could really pull.
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Who plays the hangman, Oswaldo Mobray?
Harvey Keitel
Michael Madsen
Tim Roth
He uses his native accent -- or a version of it -- in the movie.
Colin Farrell
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How do the lodge's guests have to secure the door?
there's a bar-and-latch setup
there are several chain-locks
they nail it shut after every use
People yelling, "You have to nail it shut!" is one of the film's recurring bits.
they drag the rainbarrel over to brace it
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What kind of game board is on the table in front of General Smithers?
checkers
Chinese checkers
chess
Smithers was playing chess with "Sweet Dave" earlier.
backgammon
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What angers John Ruth at the dinner table?
the stew is awful
Daisy spits in his food
he finds out the Lincoln letter isn't real
It's Mannix who realizes this, and Warren confirms it.
he finds out Daisy isn't worth $10,000
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Why does Warren carry the fake letter?
to win respect from white people
Given that it's not real, he did a good acting job, feigning outrage when Daisy spit on it.
to impress women
he uses it as collateral when he needs to borrow money
because for a long time, he believed it was real himself
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Which two characters play a musical instrument in the film?
Bob and O.B.
Daisy and Bob
Bob plays "Silent Night" on the piano, and Daisy plays a folk ballad on the guitar.
Daisy and Warren
Bob and Mannix
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Where does Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) say he is going?
to buy horses
to visit his mother for Christmas
Gage is the quiet type, and for that reason no one seems to trust him.
to a new job
to take possession of some land he's purchased
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What suspicious item is lodged in the floorboards at Minnie's?
a hobnail from a boot
a tuft of bloody hair
a shotgun shell
a piece of red penny candy
Later, we see that the jar of candy shattered during the violent takeover of the haberdashery.
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What does John Ruth do after Daisy finishes her folk song?
cries
tells her she has a pretty singing voice
tells her she has a lousy singing voice
smashes the guitar
Russell famously smashed a vintage guitar from a museum, because he wasn't told it needed to be swapped out for a replica.
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Which two characters die of the poisoned coffee?
Bob and O.B.
O.B. and John Ruth
Ruth's death scene is particularly revolting, as he vomits blood onto Daisy's face.
John Ruth and General Smithers
General Smithers and Chris Mannix
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Who in the group does a Sherlock Holmes-style exposition of the poisonings?
General Smithers
Oswaldo Mobray
Marquis Warren
In particular, he hammers away at the identity of "Bob" the Mexican and whether Minnie really would have left him in charge.
Joe Gage
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Who at Minnie's has a dedicated chair?
General Smithers
Minnie
Six-Horse Judy
Sweet Dave
Tarantino has said that Sweet Dave and Minnie were to be a slave and owner who fell in love -- a story thread that might have proven controversial.
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What is (or was) Minnie's last name?
Jackson
Lawless
Mink
We hear her full name in the "The Four Passengers" segment.
Washington
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Which person was stabbed, not shot?
Joe Gage
Oswaldo Mobray
General Smithers
Sweet Dave
He's stabbed when the Domingre Gang takes over Minnie's Haberdashery.
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Where is Jody hiding the entire time?
under the floorboards
This allows Jody to shoot Warren in a very delicate place.
in the attic
in the outhouse
in a storeroom
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What relationship is Jody to Daisy?
her husband
her lover
her brother
He's "Jody Domingre," while her name is "Daisy Domergue."
her cousin
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Why do Daisy and Jody have slightly different last names?
it was a half-hearted attempt to create an alias
it was an error made by a semi-literate clerk on her birth certificate
implausibly, she married a guy name "Domergue"
we never learn this
In early America, with poor literacy and no mass media, misspellings and variant names easily took root.
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Who plays "Six-Horse Judy," the stage driver?
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Zoe Bell
What a New Zealander is doing as a stagecoach driver in 1870s Wyoming is never explained.
Rose McGowan
Natasha Gregson Wagner
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Why do the Domingre Gang members let General Smithers live?
they respect his war record
they don't want to kill an old man
they think an extra lodger makes the setup more believable
Smithers makes no effort to tip off the others.
we never learn this
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How does Daisy die?
she is forced to drink poisoned coffee
she is hanged
"Murdering bastards, you got to hang," Ruth tells them earlier in the film.
she is shot
she is put outside to freeze
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Which two characters are still alive at the film's end?
Daisy and Jody
Marquis Warren and Chris Mannix
Don't be too happy, though -- we're led to believe they can't possibly survive.
Daisy and Grouch (aka "Joe")
Grouch and Pete (aka "Joe" and "Oswaldo")
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Was-it-true bonus round! Did Warren really kill General Smithers' son the way he said he did?
yes
no
probably
probably not
Many fans believe Warren did kill CC Smithers, but embellished the details so Smithers would try to shoot him.
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Was-it-true bonus round! Were there really 15 gang members waiting in Red Rock?
yes
no
probably
probably not
The consensus: Daisy would do anything to save her own life at this point. Besides, why wouldn't they descend on Minnie's when the weather was good, like the other four did?
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Was-it-true bonus round! Was the Lincoln letter real or fake?
real!
fake!
probably real
probably fake
The consensus is that it's fake: Warren says it is, and doesn't change his story at the end, where there's nothing left to gain.
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Which actor/actress was nominated for an Oscar for "Hateful Eight"?
Samuel L. Jackson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ennio Morricone was also nominated for the score, and Robert Richardson for cinematography. Morricone won.
Kurt Russell
Walton Goggins
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"The Hateful Eight" was boycotted for which reason?
Tarantino's love of the N-word
Tarantino speaking out against police shootings of black people
Tarantino referred to the shootings as "murders," which didn't sit well with officers or their professional organizations.
the gratuitous beating of Daisy's character
the excessive violence of the whole film
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Which of these actors had never worked with Tarantino before?
Jennifer jason Leigh
Channing Tatum
Kurt Russell
Walton Goggins
both #1 and #2
Viggo Mortenson was considered for Jody, but couldn't commit; Katee Sackhoff read for Daisy but was thought to be too young.
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Throughout the film, many people were actually in Minnie's Haberdashery?
eight, of course
nine
ten
So why it's "The Hateful Eight"? Maybe just for the rhyme, and because it's Tarantino's eighth film.
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