Let’s test your GenX recall, mixed in with some meat for the Boomers and Millennials and whoever else is alive and is game to be gen-stereotyped. Match the quote with the source. Btw, this would have been an interactive multiple-choice quiz but WordPress wants “beaucoup Dolores” for that.

I’ve added a key with answers–spoilers!–at the end.
Good luck.
- “Who’s got the beaucoup dolores today?”
- Bill & Ted
- Idiocracy
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Dude, Where’s My Car?
- “Do you think it’d be alright if I could just crash here tonight? You see, I’m in no shape for driving and anyway I got nowhere to go.”
- Blind Melon
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Spin Doctors
- Gin Blossoms
- “Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.”
- Wet Hot American Summer
- Blues Brothers
- The Three Amigos
- Risky Business
- “I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, that the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.”
- The Smiths
- REM
- Tears for Fears
- The Pretenders
- “The sausage king of Chicago?”
- The Untouchables
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Meatballs
- The Fugitive
- “I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!” “You know, you’re a real up person.”
- The Cure
- New Order
- David Byrne
- Peter Gabriel
- “You get busy living or you get busy dying. You’re goddamn right”
- Platoon
- City Slickers
- The Unforgiven
- The Shawshank Redemption
- “Do you ever have deja vu, Mrs. Lancaster?” “I don’t know but I can check with the kitchen.”
- Fawlty Towers
- A Shot in the Dark
- Groundhog Day
- Caddyshack
- “And what it all boils down to is that no one’s really got it figured out just yet.”
- Bonnie Raitt
- Pink
- Alanis Morrisette
- Tori Amos
- “So you’re saying there’s a chance.”
- Clueless
- Clerks
- Notting Hill
- Dumb and Dumber
- “And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?” “I don’t know, Margot!”
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Christmas Vacation
- Home Alone
- Tender Mercies
- “There are simply too many notes.”
- Amadeus
- Being There
- That Thing You Do
- The Buddy Holly Story
- “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned… except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- John Candy
- “I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal.”
- “I’m Buck melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart.”
- “Lots of people go to college for seven years.”
- “I want to apologize. I’m not even confident on which end that came out of.”
- Which one isn’t a “Seinfeld” quote?
- “Is that a Titleist?”
- “I know why we have reservations.”
- “I’m out!”
- “John John.”
- None of the above
- “I love the way your words move and I love the way you drive, I love that you’re scared of people scared to be alive.”
- Matt Nathanson
- Wood
- Pete Yorn
- Ben Folds
- “You want I shoud freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say is, if I freeze I can’t rightly drop, and if I drop, I’m gonna be in motion.”
- Mad Max
- Heat
- Raising Arizona
- The Big Lebowski
- “In my hands, nothing turns to putty.”
- Top Secret
- Ghost
- Hot Shots, Part Deux
- Behind the Green Door
- “He had a fool-proof scheme, all right. It wasn’t very scientific but it worked. When he won, he collected. When he lost, he told the bookies to go fuck themselves. What were they gonna do?”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- Chicks cannot handle their smoke, that’s what it is.”
- Sixteen Candles
- Weird Science
- Pretty in Pink
- The Breakfast Club
- “We both love soup, and talking, and not talking.”
- A Mighty Wind
- For Your Consideration
- Best in Show
- Waiting for Guffman
- “You lift me up to the crucial top so I can see; you lead me on ’til the feelings come and the lights that shine on.”
- Squeeze
- The Pretenders
- U2
- Simple Minds
- “It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.”
- Steve Martin
- Emo Phillips
- Steven Wright
- Norm McDonald
- “It looks good on you though.”
- Animal House
- Caddyshack
- Meatballs
- Back to School
- “I remember when the neon used to burn so bright and pink, A Saturday night kind of pink.”
- Houndmouth
- The Hooters
- Wang Chung
- Flock of Seagulls
- “Seize the day, boys!”
- Porky’s
- The Replacements
- Dead Poet’s Socieety
- Bull Durham
- “Birdie num num.”
- Tommy
- Harold and Maude
- The Party
- 10
- “If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!”
- Blazing Saddles
- Trump’s circle
- Congress
- All of the above
- “The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide, mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right.”
- R.E.M.
- Duh.
- “Tough luck, Lonnehan. But that’s what you get for playing with your head up your ass!”
- Rounders
- The Sting
- Butch Cassidy and the Sunset Kid
- Five Easy Pieces
- “I wanna glide down over Mulholland, I wanna write her name in the sky.”
- Tom Petty
- Shawn Colvin
- Train
- James Taylor
- “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”
- The Breakfast Club
- Men in Black
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Clerks
- “When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.”
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The World According to Garp
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Annie Hall
- “If you don’t buy this magazine, we will kill this dog.”
- National Lampoon
- MAD Magazine
- Cracked
- Cat Fancy
- “Catching butterflies, line drives, watching TV, I had seven good years ‘til I noticed they were looking at me. I didn’t like what they’d see.”
- Primus
- Folk Implosion
- The Who
- Nick Cave
- Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- “It’s the terror of knowing of know what this world is about, watching some good friends scream, let me out!”
- Queen and David Bowie
- Queen
- David Bowie
- All of the above
- “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.”
- The Carol Burnett Show
- All in the Family
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- M*A*S*H
- “He says we’re going the wrong way.” “Oh, he’s drunk! How would he know where we’re going?” “Yeah, how would he know?”
- Lost in America
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Dumb and Dumber
- Dazed and Confused
- “I do what I do best, I take scores. You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me.”
- The French Connection
- The Fugitive
- Heat
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- “And I guess it was enough for me, To win the race, a prettier face, Brand new clothes and a big fat place, On your rock and roll TV.”
- Ricky Martin
- George Michael
- Lenny Kravitz
- Robert Palmer
- “I have a bad feeling about this.”
- Return of the Jedi
- Indiana Jones
- The Empire Strikes Back
- All of the above
- “Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they’re really nice: are they government-issued, or all you guys go to the same store to get them?”
- Midnight Run
- The Hangover
- Bull Durham
- Dave
- “Never had a holiday in the tropical sun. Good times look like they’re never gonna come.”
- Joe Jackson
- Fine Young Cannibals
- New Order
- Jimmy Buffett
- None of the Above
- “Apes don’t read philosophy.” “Yes they do…They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, I looked them up.”
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The Big Lebowski
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- “He’s an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots, too. Lorraine, you ever have a kid who acts that way, I’ll disown you.:
- American History X
- The Parent Trap
- Parenthood
- Back to the Future
- “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- Bill Clinton
- Ross Perot
- Ronald Reagan
- Barack Obama
- “The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it’s being broken.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- “Like a bolt out of the blue, Fate steps in and sees you through. When you wish upon a star, Your dreams come true.”
- Fairy Godmother
- Snow White
- Mary Poppins
- Pinocchio
- None of the Above
- “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- Muhammad Ali
- George Forman
- Mike Tyson
- “On the run from Johnny Law. Ain’t no trip to Cleveland.”
- Rushmore
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Bottle Rocket
- Darjeeling Limited
- “We are, we are, we are but your children, Finding our way around indecision, We are, we are, we are ever helpless, Take us forever, a whisper to a scream.”
- Icicle Works
- The The
- Kim Wilde
- Rick Astley
- “Why are you wearing a tux?” “It’s after six. What, am I a farmer?
- Frasier
- 30 Rock
- How I Met Your Mother
- Green Acres
- “We’re burning daylight!”
- City Slickers
- Rooster Cogburn
- The Cowboys
- The Unforgiven
- “You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.”
- Wedding Crashers
- Old School
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Swingers
- “Poor Horatio.”
- Hamlet
- Opie
- Hawkeye
- Reverend Jim
- Famous last words: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
- Jim Morrison
- Steve Jobs
- Hunter S. Thompson
- George Harrison
KEY: SPOILERS!
- “Who’s got the beaucoup dolores today?”
- Bill & Ted
- Idiocracy
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Dude, Where’s My Car?
- “Do you think it’d be alright if I could just crash here tonight? You see, I’m in no shape for driving and anyway I got nowhere to go.”
- Blind Melon
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Spin Doctors
- Gin Blossoms
- “Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.”
- Wet Hot American Summer
- Blues Brothers
- The Three Amigos
- Risky Business
- “I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, that the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.”
- The Smiths
- REM
- Tears for Fears
- The Pretenders
- “The sausage king of Chicago?”
- The Untouchables
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Meatballs
- The Fugitive
- “I don’t believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!” “You know, you’re a real up person.”
- The Cure
- New Order
- David Byrne
- Peter Gabriel
- “You get busy living or you get busy dying. You’re goddamn right”
- Platoon
- City Slickers
- The Unforgiven
- The Shawshank Redemption
- “Do you ever have deja vu, Mrs. Lancaster?” “I don’t know but I can check with the kitchen.”
- Fawlty Towers
- A Shot in the Dark
- Groundhog Day
- Caddyshack
- “And what it all boils down to is that no one’s really got it figured out just yet.”
- Bonnie Raitt
- Pink
- Alanis Morrisette
- Tori Amos
- “So you’re saying there’s a chance.”
- Clueless
- Clerks
- Notting Hill
- Dumb and Dumber
- “And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?” “I don’t know, Margot!”
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Christmas Vacation
- Home Alone
- Tender Mercies
- “There are simply too many notes.”
- Amadeus
- Being There
- That Thing You Do
- The Buddy Holly Story
- “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned… except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- John Candy
- “I don’t know how to put this but I’m kind of a big deal.”
- “I’m Buck melanoma, Moley Russell’s wart.”
- “Lots of people go to college for seven years.”
- “I want to apologize. I’m not even confident on which end that came out of.”
- Which one isn’t a “Seinfeld” quote?
- “Is that a Titleist?”
- “I know why we have reservations.”
- “I’m out!”
- “John John.”
- None of the above
- “I love the way your words move and I love the way you drive, I love that you’re scared of people scared to be alive.”
- Matt Nathanson
- Wood
- Pete Yorn
- Ben Folds
- “You want I shoud freeze or get down on the ground? Mean to say is, if I freeze I can’t rightly drop, and if I drop, I’m gonna be in motion.”
- Mad Max
- Heat
- Raising Arizona
- The Big Lebowski
- “In my hands, nothing turns to putty.”
- Top Secret
- Ghost
- Hot Shots, Part Deux
- Behind the Green Door
- “He had a fool-proof scheme, all right. It wasn’t very scientific but it worked. When he won, he collected. When he lost, he told the bookies to go fuck themselves. What were they gonna do?”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “Chicks cannot handle their smoke, that’s what it is.”
- Sixteen Candles
- Weird Science
- Pretty in Pink
- The Breakfast Club
- “We both love soup, and talking, and not talking.”
- A Mighty Wind
- For Your Consideration
- Best in Show
- Waiting for Guffman
- “You lift me up to the crucial top so I can see; you lead me on ’til the feelings come and the lights that shine on.”
- Squeeze
- The Pretenders
- U2
- Simple Minds
- “It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.”
- Steve Martin
- Emo Phillips
- Steven Wright
- Norm McDonald
- “It looks good on you though.”
- Animal House
- Caddyshack
- Meatballs
- Back to School
- “I remember when the neon used to burn so bright and pink, A Saturday night kind of pink.”
- Houndmouth
- The Hooters
- Wang Chung
- Flock of Seagulls
- “Seize the day, boys!”
- Porky’s
- The Replacements
- Dead Poet’s Society
- Bull Durham
- “Birdie num num.”
- Tommy
- Harold and Maude
- The Party
- 10
- “If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!”
- Blazing Saddles
- Blazing Saddles
- Blazing Saddles
- All of the above
- “The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide, mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right.”
- R.E.M.
- Duh.
- “Tough luck, Lonnehan. But that’s what you get for playing with your head up your ass!”
- Rounders
- The Sting
- Butch Cassidy and the Sunset Kid
- Five Easy Pieces
- “I wanna glide down over Mulholland, I wanna write her name in the sky.”
- Tom Petty
- Shawn Colvin
- Train
- James Taylor
- “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.”
- The Breakfast Club
- Men in Black
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Clerks
- “When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.”
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The World According to Garp
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Annie Hall
- “If you don’t buy this magazine, we will kill this dog.”
- National Lampoon
- MAD Magazine
- Cracked
- Cat Fancy
- “Catching butterflies, line drives, watching TV, I had seven good years ‘til I noticed they were looking at me. I didn’t like what they’d see.”
- Primus
- Folk Implosion
- The Who
- Nick Cave
- Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- “It’s the terror of knowing of know what this world is about, watching some good friends scream, let me out!”
- Queen and David Bowie
- Queen
- David Bowie
- All of the above
- “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.”
- The Carol Burnett Show
- All in the Family
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- M*A*S*H
- “He says we’re going the wrong way.” “Oh, he’s drunk! How would he know where we’re going?” “Yeah, how would he know?”
- Lost in America
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Dumb and Dumber
- Dazed and Confused
- “I do what I do best, I take scores. You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me.”
- The French Connection
- The Fugitive
- Heat
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- “And I guess it was enough for me, To win the race, a prettier face, Brand new clothes and a big fat place, On your rock and roll TV.”
- Ricky Martin
- George Michael
- Lenny Kravitz
- Robert Palmer
- “I have a bad feeling about this.”
- Return of the Jedi
- Indiana Jones
- The Empire Strikes Back
- All of the above
- “Can I ask you something? These sunglasses, they’re really nice: are they government-issued, or all you guys go to the same store to get them?”
- Midnight Run
- The Hangover
- Bull Durham
- Dave
- “Never had a holiday in the tropical sun. Good times look like they’re never gonna come.”
- Joe Jackson
- Fine Young Cannibals
- New Order
- Jimmy Buffett
- None of the Above
- “Apes don’t read philosophy.” “Yes they do…They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, I looked them up.”
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- A Fish Called Wanda
- The Big Lebowski
- O Brother Where Art Thou?
- “He’s an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots, too. Lorraine, you ever have a kid who acts that way, I’ll disown you.:
- American History X
- The Parent Trap
- Parenthood
- Back to the Future
- “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- Bill Clinton
- Ross Perot
- Ronald Reagan
- Barack Obama
- “The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it’s being broken.”
- The Godfather II
- Goodfellas
- Casino
- Gangs of New York
- “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech.”
- The Declaration of Independence
- Magna Carta
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitution
- “Like a bolt out of the blue, Fate steps in and sees you through. When you wish upon a star, Your dreams come true.”
- Fairy Godmother
- Snow White
- Mary Poppins
- Pinocchio
- None of the Above Jiminy Cricket
- “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- Muhammad Ali
- George Forman
- Mike Tyson
- “On the run from Johnny Law. Ain’t no trip to Cleveland.”
- Rushmore
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Bottle Rocket
- Darjeeling Limited
- “We are, we are, we are but your children, Finding our way around indecision, We are, we are, we are ever helpless, Take us forever, a whisper to a scream.”
- Icicle Works
- The The
- Kim Wilde
- Rick Astley
- “Why are you wearing a tux?” “It’s after six. What, am I a farmer?
- Frasier
- 30 Rock
- How I Met Your Mother
- Green Acres
- “We’re burning daylight!”
- City Slickers
- Rooster Cogburn
- The Cowboys
- The Unforgiven
- “You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.”
- Wedding Crashers
- Old School
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Swingers
- “Poor Horatio.”
- Hamlet
- Opie
- Hawkeye
- Reverend Jim
- Famous last words: “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
- Jim Morrison
- Steve Jobs
- Hunter S. Thompson
- George Harrison
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