Every morning, by email, I get something from quizdaily.com, a multiple choice quiz with 15-30 questions on a variety of topics. I don’t do the quiz every day, and when I do, I often feel out of touch with society because I am unable to answer questions that most people have no trouble with. I know this because, after you submit your answers, you can see not only whether you answered correctly, but the percentage of participants who guessed each of the four possible answers.

Today’s topic was “famous movie lines” and there were twenty questions. I got a 75% – respectable, perhaps, but below average on this particular quiz. The main reason that I didn’t do better is that I hadn’t seen so many of the films that most others have seen at least once, and maybe more than once.

Here is the rundown of films mentioned, and whether or not I have seen them.

1. Forrest Gump – no
2. Wizard of Oz – yes
3. Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day – no, neither
4. Any RoboCop film – no
5. Any Predator film – no
6. Any Alien film – no
7. The French Connection – yes
8. Deliverance – yes
9. Jaws – no
10. Chinatown – yes
11. Bull Durham – no
12. Field of Dreams – no
13. Rocky – yes
14. Miracle on Ice – yes
15. Casablanca – yes
16. Cinderella – yes
17. Snow White – yes
18. Sleeping Beauty – yes
19. Aladdin – no
20. Titanic – no
21. Love Story – yes
22. You’ve Got Mail – no
23. Notting Hill – no
24. Romeo and Juliet – no
25. Funny Girl – yes
26. When Harry Met Sally – yes
27. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – yes
28. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – no
29. Escape from Alcatraz – no
30. Unforgiven – no
31. In the Line of Fire – no
32. Sudden Impact – no
33. Taxi Driver – yes
34. Mutiny on the Bounty – yes
35. The Chase – no
36. On the Waterfront – yes
37. The Score – no
38. Jerry Maguire – no
39. It’s a Wonderful Life – yes
40. Star Wars Episode V: the Empire Strikes Back – no
41. Citizen Kane – yes
42. The Sixth Sense – no
43. The Invisible Man – no
44. Alice in Wonderland – yes
45. The Ghoul – no
46. King Kong – yes

So I have seen fewer than half of these films. I bet – whoever you are – that you have seen more than I have.

And you need to take this with a grain of salt. I may have forgotten that I have seen some films. I may have misremembered seeing some films. And, just because I think that I have seen a film (or just because I know that I have seen a film), that doesn’t necessarily mean that I remember anything about it.