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About This Quiz
Patrick Swayze is no longer with us, but his films will live on forever. In addition to films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," Swayze starred in the 1989 film "Road House". Swayze as a highly educated bar bouncer? Well, it worked for some, but not for everyone. Unfortunately, for most, it just wasn't considered a good movie. With a $15 million budget, the film grossed only $30 million at the box office, rendering it a flop both monetarily and critically.Â
Critics panned the movie as generally bad, but somewhat entertaining for the right viewer. The themes of violence and romance were trite and poorly developed according to most reviewers. The movie continues to rate poorly in the minds of viewers but there's no doubt there are still some that get a kick out of it. In addition to Swayze, the film starred Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, and Sam Elliott, and even starred Bigfoot #7, a truck. Hey, it's a movie about a bouncer at a bar called the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri... gotta credit the truck.
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How does Dalton meet Elizabeth, his love interest?
She's on duty in the ER when he comes in
He impresses her with tough-guy lines like "Pain don't hurt."
She stops to commiserate when his car is vandalized
She's at the diner when he comes in for coffee
He stops Wesley's goons from harassing her on the street
Why does Tinker survive the final showdown with Dalton?
He was at the dentist at the time
Dalton told him he was too innocent to kill
He hid in a closet
A stuffed polar bear fell on him, knocking him out
This happens in Wesley's "trophy room," full of preserved animals he's killed.
What kind of animals does Emmett, Dalton's landlord, keep on his property?
Sheep
Goats
Horses
Wesley spooks them by flying low with his helicopter.
Pigeons and doves
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Who is in Dalton's Mercedes when it crash-lands on Wesley's property?
Dalton
Wade's body
The body of one of Wesley's goons
No one; there's a knife pinnng down the gas pedal
The Mercedes, which Dalton took such good care of, is well and thoroughly trashed in this scene.
Where do we see, very briefly, Dalton's first name?
His driver's license
His job application
His medical records
Elizabeth is surprised that he has these when he turns up at her ER. It's James, for those who can't recall.
His arrest record
What kind of car does Elizabeth drive?
A white BMW
A Volkswagen Beetle
A red Jeep
Oddly, in the diner scene, Dalton says "I'd better take you back," but Elizabeth is then seen to be driving.
An old step-side pickup
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What is Brad Wesley's chief offense against the people of Jasper?
He scares livestock by buzzing them with a helicopter
He drives drunk, frightening and injuring people
He's just all-around crass
He extorts protection money under the guise of a civic-improvement association
When Wesley doesn't get what he wants from business owners, serious vandalism like firebombing ensues. Wesley does buzz livestock and drive drunk, but that's not the biggest problem Dalton has with him.
Dalton has three basic rules for his bouncers. What is Rule #3?
Stay alert
Stay sober
Be nice
"Until it's time to not be nice," Dalton adds.
Absolutely no guns
How does Wesley sabotage the car dealership?
He breaches the dam and has it flooded
He has all the inventory repossessed
His personal favorite -- firebombing
He has a monster truck squash several cars
The scene was typical of the movie's unapologetically macho tone. Pete, like Red, had refused to pay his protection money.
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What event from his past haunts Dalton?
His brother was killed in a bar fight
He was badly beaten back when he was a skinny, brainy philosophy student
He killed a man in Memphis
According to Wade, it was self-defense. The killing was part of a love triangle; Dalton didn't know his girlfriend was actually married.
He saw a hunter kill his mother
As head bouncer, what is Dalton's actual job title?
Floor chief
Cooler
Appropriate, as in the late 80s, Patrick Swayze was the coolest. It's actually another term for bouncer.
Doorman
Leadman
Why does Dalton have the Deuce's bartender fired?
He was skimming
Dalton sees him tuck money directly into his pocket. The bartender really was the nephew of bad guy Wesley, but that's not why he was fired.
He was dealing drugs
He was connected to Brad Wesley
He didn't get along with any of the bouncers
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How does Dalton's fight with Jimmy end?
Jimmy flees the scene and Jasper overall
Jimmy stabs Elizabeth, causing her to rethink her relationship with Dalton
Dalton kills Jimmy by stabbing him in the heart
Dalton kills Jimmy by ripping out his throat
Elizabeth sees Jimmy's fatal wound and recoils from Dalton.
In what Missouri town is the Double Deuce located?
Kings River
Kansas City
Jasper
"Road House" was actually filmed mostly in inland California. You can find the town name on the town clock as Dalton arrives in town.
Springfield
How many times does Dalton dance in "Road House"?
None
He and Elizabeth listen to the radio and sway a little to the music, but they don't actually dance.
Once, in the opening scene in New York
Once, at the Double Deuce
Twice -- both in New York and at the Deuce
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When Dalton leaves New York, what does he do with his old Buick?
Gives it to his bouncer friend Wade
Stashes it in a garage
Gives it to a homeless man
Dalton's long-term car is a Mercedes, but he doesn't always drive it.
Abandons it under a bridge
Why does Dalton prefer old Buicks to his Mercedes for driving to work?
He doesn't like to attract attention.
He never registered the Mercedes under his own name.
Disgruntled bar patrons tend to vandalize his car.
In one comic scene, he finds a stop sign has been jammed through his window. Nonetheless, he drives the Mercedes to the Double Deuce his first night there. He drives both a 1964 and 1965 Buick Riviera
He needs to tail people incognito.
What persuades Dalton to take the job at the Double Deuce?
Tilghman and his father were friends.
He likes the looks of Tilghman's daughter
He doesn't get along with the boss at his current club
Apparently, the money's just good enough
Dalton also likes to move around a lot. Screenwriter David Lee Henry named the character after the town of Dalton, Georgia.
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What does Dalton say when Elizabeth asks him "Do you ever win a fight?"
"All the fights I want to."
"I'm not paid to win fights, I'm paid to prevent them."
"Try me sometime."
"Nobody ever wins a fight."
Disclaimer: Swayze wins every fight in the movie (though he needs Wade's help with one).
What is Wade's nickname for Dalton?
Mijo
It was Sam Elliott's idea for his character to call Dalton "mijo."
Loco
Wild Man
The Butterscotch Stallion
Who lives right across the river from Emmett and Dalton?
Frank Tilghman
Brad Wesley
This gives Dalton a good view of his low-class shenanigans. Late in the film, Dalton sends one of Wesley's dead henchman floating back across to his boss.
Carrie-Ann the waitress
Cody the guitarist
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Who in Jasper is Elizabeth related to?
Brad Wesley
Red Webster
Red is her uncle; her picture hangs in his auto-parts store.
Pete the car dealer
No one
Who kills Brad Wesley?
Dalton, of course
Elizabeth
A group of townspeople
The vigilante-style killing resembled a real-life Missouri murder that was never solved. Afterward, they were each other's alibis
No one, he survives
What does the note stuck to Wade's chest say?
"Too late."
"It was tails."
Wesley had claimed to flip a coin, deciding whether to kill Wade or Doc. The note is better described as "stabbed" to Wade's chest, with the knife that killed him.
"Get out while you still can."
"Snitches get stitches."
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How long does the renovation of the Double Deuce take?
One month
Six weeks
All summer
It seems to happen overnight.
The "new" Double Deuce scenes were filmed at a club in Anaheim; the old one was just a set.
How many times does Dalton, the philosophy major, quote philosophers in "Road House"?
Once -- just Plato
Twice -- Plato and Aristotle
Three times -- Plato, Aristotle and Kierkegaard
He never does.
Not surprising given that Dalton was pretty vague about what kind of philosophy he focused on in school. Maybe he gets credit for saying things like "Pain doesn't hurt" and "Nobody ever wins a fight."
What is the name of the guitarist that Jeff Healey plays?
Cody
Healey, a well-known blind Canadian musician, and his band had their biggest hit "Angel Eyes" when "Road House" was in theaters. The song wasn't featured in the movie though.
Elvis
Charlie
His own name, Jeff
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Where does Dalton call Wade Garrett from?
A laundromat
The director wanted the audience to see Dalton doing everyday things.
Emmett's place
A phone booth on Main Street
Jail
What skill did Kelly Lynch learn for the role?
CPR
How to sew stitches
She spent a month researching the role in an emergency room but was given a staple gun to use on set.
How to administer a vaccination
Bandaging
What are Elizabeth and Dalton doing in the movie's closing moments?
Kissing
Skinny dipping
The ending implies that the nomadic Dalton might be settling down at last.
Drinking
Saying goodbye
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What martial art does Dalton practice but never use?
Krav Maga
Karate
T’ai chi
He never uses T'ai chi in the fight scenes, instead he takes from various sources including hapkido.
Muay Thai
"Road House" was re-made in 2003 as what kind of production?
Off-Broadway musical
This is a minor motif in Swayze's career -- his "Point Break" became "Point Break Live!" an audience-participation theater piece. This happened with the movie "Carrie" as well, and is a backhanded tribute to the film's cultural impact.
Animated feature
Faux found-footage documentary
A series on TNT
According to "Road House 2," what eventually happened to Dalton?
He followed Doc to Africa, where she did humanitarian work
He went back to New York, where he is still a famous bouncer
He was shot and killed
His murder was a plot point in the second film. Swayze's decision not to return for the second film presumably required him to be written out of the script in an interesting way.
He died after a Double Deuce bar fight
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What book is Dalton reading when Wesley's pool party distracts him?
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Jim Harrison's "Legends of the Fall"
Harrison was a revered Western poet and critic.
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"
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