You Can't Handle The Truth Trivia Quiz

Answer: That he gave an illegal order

"A Few Good Men" contains one of the all-time great courtroom confrontations.
Jessup (Jack Nicholson): You want answers?
Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I feel I'm entitled.
Jessup: You want answers?
Kaffee: I want the truth!

Jessup delivers the immortal line "You can't handle truth" and then gives an epic monologue on the responsibilities of being a military commander. Kaffee finally gets Jessup to confess that he gave an illegal order, which resulted in the death of a Private under his command.

As for the rest, Jessup while fanatical, seemed personally honest and unlikely to steal money, especially from the Marine Corps. Lt. Col Markinson committed suicide, and it was never said in the film whether Jessup was married or not. Given his obsession with his military career, it seems unlikely.

Nicholson was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Jessup but lost out to Gene Hackman for "Unforgiven" (1993).

Answer: That her daughter is the product of incest

In a remarkable scene, Jake Gittes (Nicholson) confronts Mulwray until she confesses "She's my sister, she's my daughter.... she's my sister AND my daughter." Mulwray's father, the powerful businessman Noah Cross, had raped her when she was 15. Gittes attempts to help Evelyn and her daughter escape, but Evelyn is gunned down by the police after she shoots her father.

In both the case of the Mulwray murder and illegal land deals, that would be Noah Cross who has responsible.

"Chinatown" won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Robert Towne, and the film is widely regarded as one of the greatest screenplays of all time.

Answer: He had been shot and killed.

At the very start of "The Sixth Sense" we see Crowe get shot by a disturbed former patient. Only towards the end of the film is it revealed that Crowe's shooting was fatal and he has been a ghost the entire time. He is one of the "dead people" that Cole Seer (Haley Joel Osment) is haunted by.

"The Sixth Sense" was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (M Night Shymalan), Best Supporting Actor (Haley Joel Osment), Best Supporting Actress (Toni Collette) and Best Original Screenplay. While the film didn't win any Oscars, it did win 32 other awards.

Answer: human bodies

Soylent Green is a food product that is claimed to be made from plankton. It reality is made from recycled dead bodies.

"Soylent Green" (1973) stars Charlton Heston as a detective investigating the death of a corporate executive. The powers-that-be seek to prevent him from learning the truth about their new product, which is created as the byproduct of euthanasia centers.

Answer: He is Tyler Durden.

In one of the wildest twists in any film, the narrator (Edward Norton) discovers he is Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), the leader of a secret underground army seeking to destabilize society. The film concludes with the narrator confronting his alter ego and attempting suicide to "kill off" Durden. As exploding buildings collapse around the city, he tells Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter) "You met me at a very strange time in my life."

He did not kill Singer, as she is alive at the end of the film. Robert Paulson (played by Meat Loaf) was a member of the underground army who was killed. The narrator met Paulson at a support group for men suffering from cancer.

Answer: He witnessed his own death.

James Cole (Bruce Willis) is the protagonist of "Twelve Monkeys", a time travel film. Cole travels into the past in an effort to prevent the start of a global pandemic. In doing so, he is able to witness his own death.

Cole is unable to stop the pandemic from starting, although the people who sent Cole did have a backup plan. There is a side story about a child in a well, to prove that Cole has knowledge of the future. He does have a relationship with a psychologist, but as an adult.

"Twelve Monkeys" is based on a French science fiction film called "La Jette" (1962). Brad Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as psychiatric patient Jeffrey Goines.

Answer: He is schizophrenic.

In one bombshell of a revelation, we discover that John Nash, one of the most gifted mathematicians of his generation, has also been suffering from schizophrenic delusions for much of the film. His college roommate (Paul Bettany), a secret agent (Ed Harris) and a little girl (Vivien Cardone) all turn out to be creations of Nash's fractured mind.

The fact that the hallucinations seem so real is a testimony to the acting of Russell Crowe and the directing of Ron Howard. The film won both Best Picture and Best Director for Howard. Jennifer Connelly won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Alicia Nash. Crowe was nominated for Best Actor, but lost to Denzel Washington in "Training Day" (2001).

Alicia Nash is one of the few real people in the film. And in his delusions, Nash was spying for the US government, seeking phantom Soviet agents.

Answer: Darth Vader

Just for the record, the scene plays out as:
Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him!
Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.

Darth Vader turns out to be the twisted, evil remains of Anakin Skywalker, who was critically injured in a battle with Obi Wan Kenobi. Anakin and Padme Amidala had twins, Luke and Leia, who were separated at birth for their protection. To say that it takes a while for Luke to adjust to the fact that his father is one of the most evil people in the galaxy is putting it mildly.

Answer: Roger "Verbal" Kint

Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey) spent the whole film creating an elaborate myth to hide the reality that he was the criminal mastermind Keyser Soze. Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

The last line of the film: "The greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist. And like that, he's gone."

Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) while articulate enough, was not the mastermind. Fenster (Benicio del Toro) could barely string two comprehensible sentences together. And Hockney (Kevin Pollack) was also less than articulate.

Answer: Statue of Liberty

In "Planet of the Apes" an astronaut goes through a time warp and winds up on a planet where apes have dominion over humans. He escapes at the end to discover that he has landed on Earth in the distant future when he finds the remains of the Statue of Liberty.

Taylor does not take the news well, yelling "You maniacs! You blew it up!" and cursing the humans who destroyed the Earth and gave rise to the ape civilization.