Quotes from War Movies Trivia Quiz

Answer: Breakfast

King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) was leading his men to fight against the mighty Persian army led by Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) at the Battle of Thermopylae. At the narrow path of Thermopylae, the Spartans held off the Persians for three days. Leonidas and his men fought to the last man until they were eventually wiped out by a barrage of arrows.

Answer: Terrible

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (So Yamamura) spoke this line at the end of the film. He knew that although Japan had achieved a military victory, his country would not be able to prevail against the industrial might of the U.S in a protracted war.

The war film classic was about 1941 air strike by the Japanese naval force at Pearl Harbor to cripple the American Pacific fleet. Although American intelligence had intercepted the planned strike, they still refused to believe Japan would dare to carry out such an attack on American soil.

Answer: Pennsylvania

Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) was replying to Private Reiben (Edward Burns), when Reiben asked him what type of work he was doing before the war. Miller was given a mission to save Private Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers were killed in action at Normandy during WWII.

Answer: Comfortable

This line was spoken by Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner) to Sergeant JT Sanborn (Anthony Mackie), who replied: "I'm not ready to die, James."

William James was assigned to an army bomb squad during the Iraqi War. He often had differences with his squad mates, as he had his own ways of handling the tasks which put his mates at risk.

Answer: Market Garden

Lt. Gen. Frederick "Boy" Browning (Dirk Bogarde) was speaking to Maj. Gen. Urquhart (Sean Connery) about Operation Market Garden, which occurred on September 1944. The Allies were trying to secure bridges in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, in order to break the German lines to speed up the invasion of Berlin. "Himself" was referring to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, the British commander-in-chief for the operation

The operation was a failure with the following line from Lt. Gen. Frederick "Boy" Browning replying to Urquhart: "Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far."

Answer: Hill

Lt. Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall) was speaking to GM3 Lance Johnson (Sam Bottoms). Napalm was used extensively during the Vietnam War.

The film was about Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) who was given a mission to assassinate a renegade Special Forces Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando). Kurtz was waging guerilla wars against the enemies without permission from his superiors. The troops he commanded regarded him as a demi-god.

Answer: Walking

The line was spoken by General Erinmore (Colin Firth) who gave an order to two young soldiers, Lance Corporal Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay). As the phone line was cut off, they had to deliver a message to inform Col. MacKenzie (Benedict Cumberbatch), commander of 2nd Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, in time to call of their attack on the next morning, to save the lives of 1600 men.

Answer: Code

Hector (Eric Bana) was making a rousing speech to the motivate the Trojans, when he was leading them to fight against the assault on Troy by the unified Greeks. The line continued with "Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!"

The film is adapted from Homer's great epic "The Iliad". The film also starred Brad Pitt as Achilles (the man who killed Hector) and Orlando Bloom as Paris.

Answer: Beat

Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) spoke this line when he was thrown in the jail. He was charged for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

U.S. Marine Highway who was nearing retirement was assigned to train a platoon of undisciplined Marines into shape. The platoon eventually distinguished themselves in the invasion of Grenada in 1983.

Answer: Negotiation

The militiaman was speaking to CW4 Michael Durant (Ron Eldard), pilot of Super 64 when he was taken as a prisoner. He wanted to negotiate with Durant who replied he had no authority to negotiate.

The complete line from the militiaman: "Do you really think if you get General Aidid, we will simply put down our weapons and adopt American democracy? That the killing will stop? We know this: without victory, there can be no peace. There will always be killing, you see? This is how things are, in our world."

The film is a true story about 160 elite U.S. soldiers who were dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993. Their missions were to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but were surprised to find themselves facing a large force of well-armed Somali militiamen.