Surprise Ending Quiz
The Answers


Here are the answers to the surprise movie ending quiz... or the best guesses we could make, as determined by our judges.

  1. He discovers he's a ghost.
    The Sixth Sense
  2. He discovers she's a guy.
    The Crying Game
    Some Like It Hot
  3. She's her sister and her mother.
    Chinatown
  4. He is Mother.
    Psycho
    and Sneakers
  5. The baby's father is Satan.
    Rosemary's Baby
  6. Al Pacino is Satan.
    The Devil's Advocate
  7. Alanis Morissette is God.
    Dogma
  8. Michael Caine is Inspector Doppler.
    Sleuth
  9. Brad Pitt doesn't really exist.
    Fight Club
  10. George and Martha don't have a kid.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
  11. He stops running just before the finish line - and smirks.
    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  12. Kevin Spacey did it.
    Seven
  13. Kevin Spacey did it.
    The Usual Suspects
  14. The blonde did it.
    ?
  15. The person you think did it, did it.
    Basic Instinct
  16. All the passengers did it.
    Murder on the Orient Express
  17. He puts her on the plane.
    Casablanca
  18. He dies on the bus.
    Midnight Cowboy
  19. He dies in the freezing water.
    Titanic
  20. She falls from the bell tower.
    Vertigo
  21. She shoots him on the balcony.
    ?
  22. She cuts off his genitals.
    The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover Realm of the Senses
  23. The dwarf stabs him.
    Don't Look Now
  24. His mom has him hypnotized.
    The Manchurian Candidate
  25. He turns back into a half-wit.
    Charley
  26. He blows up the bridge.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
  27. She drives them off the bridge.
    ?
  28. She pushes the nun off the cliff.
    ?
  29. She pushes her brother off the pier.
    The Bad Seed
  30. They drive into the Grand Canyon.
    Thelma and Louise
  31. She wasn't really dead.
    Laura
  32. He was really dead.
    Jacob's Ladder
  33. He wasn't really dead.
    ?
  34. He lives to be 108.
    Little Big Man
  35. "Top of the world, Ma!"
    White Heat
  36. She chose Blane over Duckie.
    Pretty in Pink
  37. He gets into Princeton.
    Risky Business
  38. The gigolo gets the model.
    American Gigolo
  39. The hooker gets the millionaire.
    Pretty Woman or Trading Places
  40. Kevin Spacey gets his.
    LA Confidential
  41. Glenn Close gets hers.
    Fatal Attraction
  42. Her hand pops out of the grave.
    Carrie
  43. Lady Liberty's arm sticks out of the sand.
    Planet of the Apes
  44. The president nukes New York.
    Failsafe
  45. The money goes up in flames.
    A Simple Plan or The Inlaws
  46. Michael has Fredo killed.
    The Godfather II
  47. They both die in a shootout.
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or Scarface
  48. They all die in a shootout.
    Bonnie and Clyde Reservoir Dogs
  49. The mob gets him.
    Frankenstein
  50. The pod people get him.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  51. She's a replicant, too.
    Blade Runner
  52. He flies away in a hot-air balloon.
    The Wizard of Oz
  53. The stewardess lands the plane!
    Airport
  54. She never left planet Earth.
    Contact
  55. He never left planet Earth.
    Total Recall
  56. They never left planet Earth.
    Capricorn One
  57. His best friend is shot because he's sick.
    Old Yeller
  58. It was all a game.
    The Game
  59. It was all a dream.
    The Wizard of Oz? What Dreams may Come?
  60. It was his sled.
    Citizen Kane
  61. He's actually a day early.
    Around the World in Eighty Days


Last revised on 13 March 2000.