Can You Get A Perfect Score On This ’90s Movie Quiz?

“Get ready for a surprise!” It was 1990 when Earth audiences were first imprinted with this slice of 2084 interplanetary life, imagined by director Paul Verhoeven and based on the short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. “Total Recall” has been blowing minds ever since it wiped the memory of its main character, played by former Mr. Universe Arnold Schwarzenegger. It also blew its production budget of $60 million, setting records at the time. Ahnold had already achieved sci-fi stardom in the ’80s with the “Predator” and “Running Man” movies, plus the first of “The Terminator” franchise, but “Total Recall” finally launched him into space — another big step up from his early days of running around “Conan the Barbarian” sets in leather undies.

AUUUGH! The first “Home Alone” movie made 11-year-old Macaulay Culkin (as 8-year-old Kevin) an international phenomenon. In fact the film remains a much-loved holiday tradition all over the globe — dubbed into many different languages, but still universally recognizable by that famous double-facepalm. Another big part of the movie’s highly translatable success: Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern playing bungling burglars on the receiving end of plenty of painfully funny slapstick. Now, you guys give up or are ya thirsty for more?

“The Silence of the Lambs” didn’t just win Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director, but Anthony Hopkins nabbed Best Actor as Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, one of Hollywood’s most captivating and prolific antiheroes. His idea of recipe-sharing with co-star Jodie Foster, for instance, is reminiscing about a human liver paired with “some fava beans and a nice chianti. Fffffft!” Despite Hopkins’ chilling performance and multiple Hannibal Hollywood spin-offs, it might actually be actor Ted Levine’s turn as the even-creepier Buffalo Bill that sticks in our collective memory the most: “It places the lotion in the basket.” Yeesh. We hope you knew this for the win...or else it gets the hose again.

If you ever meet an evil extraterrestrial invader, you might want to follow Will Smith’s example in “Independence Day” for a true punchline — a knockout blow and an official greeting: “Welcome to Earth.” Even for big-budget sci-fi, “Independence Day” is impressively star-studded: Jeff Goldblum, Brent Spiner, Vivica A. Fox, Harvey Fierstein, Harry Connick Jr., Mary McDonnell as the First Lady, and Bill Pullman playing the American president, just to name a few. But in a film full of (inter)stellar comebacks and one-liners, it might be Randy Quaid who tops them all: “In the words of my generation...UP YOURS!”

Whoopi actually starred in all four of these great movies during the ’80s and ’90s, but only one was a musical. Maybe that’s why she says the majority of fans who approach her on the street still recognize her from 1992’s “Sister Act” as Sister Mary Clarence, a lounge singer who joins a witness protection program disguised as a nun, quickly turning the entire convent and its choir upside down. Much musical hilarity ensues, which translated to massive box office success and, of course, sequels.

“Thelma & Louise” will always be code for ride-or-die besties and road trips that go off the rails. That’s because of Geena Davis (as Thelma), Susan Sarandon (as Louise), a mint ’66 Ford Thunderbird and “the goddamn Grand Canyon.” Both stars earned Best Actress nominations, Ridley Scott earned a nod for Best Director, and the writing won Best Original Screenplay. It was also Davis who lobbied for casting Brad Pitt in his breakout Hollywood role as her hitchhiking love interest, after their chemistry had her flubbing her lines during his audition. “Yup, that’s him goin’. I love watchin’ him go.” The T-Bird, incidentally, was sold at auction in 2008 for $71,500.

Based on the 1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral, “Tombstone” is remarkably faithful to recorded history. It also brought out the big guns and the even bigger mustaches with a mucho macho cast of Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Charlton Heston, Jason Priestly, Billy Bob Thorton, and Kurt Russell — who reportedly ghost-directed while also starring as Wyatt Earp. Maybe best of all, the gunslinging, whisky-swilling role of Doc Holliday gave Val Kilmer some of the best moments of his career. “I’m your huckleberry” is most widely interpreted to mean “I’m your man,” a reference to Huckleberry Finn from Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876).

Did you miss this point? Oops, your bad. Inspired by Jane Austen’s classic “Emma” novel, “Clueless” represents hella smart, self-aware, and fall-down funny SoCal cultural commentary at its mid-’90s finest. It was also uplifting enough to be a hit with general audiences, but still gave a nod to one of its “way harsh” predecessors, the cult classic “Heathers” (1989), with that iconic croquet game — which was originally a nod to Alice in Wonderland.

According to Bullock, everyone told her to turn down a movie “about a bus.” Good thing she didn’t listen: “Speed” was her big Hollywood breakthrough. Incidentally, the real bus in the big jump scene was driven by stuntman Jophery Brown, who started out a mile away, topped 61 mph at lift-off, and flew nearly 110 feet. Brown nailed the stunt, but unlike in the movie, the landing blew out multiple tires and windows, sending sparks, glass and hubcaps flying. Other on-set sparks: both stars reportedly both had secret crushes on each other during production, but never did anything about it.

“Titanic” is one of many screen sagas to recreate the sinking of the RMS Titanic, when an estimated 1,500 souls were lost. But it’s the only version with Kate Winslet in her Academy Award–nominated performance, Leonardo DiCaprio in his breakout role as “king of the world,” and 86-years-young Gloria Stuart earning an Oscar nod of her own. Despite the great door debate that still rages on, “Titanic” not only mopped up at the 1997 Academy Awards, but became the first film to gross $1 billion at the box office. It’s also why standing on the bow of a ship makes people throw their arms wide and start belting out Celine Dion. Thanks a lot, James Cameron.

Ice Cube co-created and starred in this 1995 comedy, plus had a hit with the theme song and soundtrack, which topped the Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts for weeks. “Friday” also let co-star Chris Tucker showcase his comedy chops and take home a handful of MTV Movie Awards. With the rest of a stellar cast, they “knocked the f*** out” of box-office projections, earning $6.5 million in opening revenue — almost double the entire production budget. Hopefully you didn’t say “Bye Felicia” to a point on this one.

This white-collar satire was inspired by an actual job writer/director Mike Judge once had: alphabetizing purchase orders. All day. Judge also gets a cameo in the film as Jennifer Aniston’s flair-obsessed manager at a local franchise restaurant. “Office Space” predated “The Office” TV shows, bringing catharsis to office workers everywhere who might have yearned to simply listen to their radio at a reasonable volume or take a crappy printer out back with a baseball bat. “WHY does it say PAPER JAM when there IS. NO. PAPER JAM.” If you’ve never seen this movie, pack up your stapler and move your desk into the basement until you watch it. M’kay, thanks.

“The Lion King” is still considered by an overwhelming number of Disney fans/stans to be the GOAT — the high point of a decade that changed the animation game forever. It even broke records with its later adaptation for Broadway. Whether it’s “Hakuna Matata” or “Circle of Life” that gets stuck in your head most, the story of brave little hairball Simba and arch-villain Scar still enthralls with every viewing. If you missed this one, “you can either run from it, or...learn from it!”

It goes to show you never can tell: “Pulp Fiction” delivered a jolt to the careers of all its stars, most notably John Travolta and Uma Thurman (who both got nominated for Oscars), plus Samuel Jackson and Bruce Willis. Even Ellen DeGeneres read for a part that later went to Rosanna Arquette. Tarantino also got himself an onscreen cameo opposite Harvey Keitel, who’d been the writer/director’s favorite actor since he was 16 years old. Also part of Tarantino’s youth: when his mother was pregnant with him, she reportedly listened to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” all the time. That’s the song that plays during the iconic diner dance scene, and another reason why this might the most quintessential Quentin movie of all time.

You knew this one, right? “Clever girl.” Steven Spielberg took on the film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park” with the help of animatics and groundbreaking CGI, plus stars Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. So maybe it wasn’t too surprising when 1993 had a monster hit on its hands. The story’s central premise of scientists replicating dino DNA from amber-preserved mosquitoes was actually being tried by real scientists at the time, but didn’t pan out.

Hellooooo! “Mrs. Doubtfire” won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), and Robin Williams pulled double duty to win Best Actor in the same category — arguably getting snubbed in the Best Actress department. Even Williams’ own son reportedly didn’t recognize the actor in his nanny disguise. The role was originally offered to Tim Allen.

1999 moviegoers met a leather-clad revolution in Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss and Lawrence Fishburne, all through a hail of slo-mo bullets. Hugo Weaving as the nefarious Agent Smith wanted his character to sound not quite robotic, but also not human. (No word on whether Reeves was trying to do the same.) The success of “The Matrix” was far from a glitch, with mind- and spoon-bending action that raked in $700+ million. The main premise also keeps on giving audiences dejȧ vu with multiple sequels and spin-offs like “The Animatrix” shorts.

“Basic Instinct” catapulted its femme fatale to new heights of fame as a smoking-hot, Stone-cold killer, literally: Sharon Stone chain-smokes her way through the role of a sociopathic novelist prone to fatal flights of fancy. Yet in its most iconic scene, her short white dress famously leaves little to the imagination during a police interrogation conducted by co-star Michael Douglas (who also narrowly escaped a psychotic Glenn Close in 1987’s Fatal Attraction). It all makes for a truly classic, ahem, ’90s flashback.

“Good Will Hunting” started out as a one-act screenwriting assignment for Matt Damon. When it ballooned into 40 pages, he asked for help from his real-life and eventual onscreen best friend, Ben Affleck. At one point in the rewriting process, the two added random sex scenes between their characters to check if their production company was actually reading anything. Sure enough, the scenes went unnoticed, so they found new producers. In the end, they took home the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Damon maintains it was the best time he ever had making any movie in his career. It was also Robin Williams’ only Oscar-winning role (Best Supporting Actor).

“Go ahead, hit me as hard as you can.” Which is pretty much what this screen adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel did to movie audiences in 1999. Besides Pitt and Norton, stars Helena Bonham-Carter and Meat Loaf also gave darkly funny performances. A lot of fans never looked at soap the same way again.