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Action & Thriller Quiz
Action & Thriller · Easy
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Action and thriller movies are designed to keep audiences engaged from beginning to end. Whether it's an intense car chase, a clever detective solving a mystery, or a hero racing a...
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All 20 questions in this Action & Thriller quiz
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What is the premise of 'Prisoners' (2013) directed by Denis Villeneuve and who stars in it?
- A. A police procedural without moral complexity
- B. A spy thriller with Tom Cruise
- C. A romantic thriller
- D. Hugh Jackman as a desperate father who kidnaps a suspect while detective Jake Gyllenhaal investigates methodically - both pursuing the same truth through opposite means
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What is the plot of 'The Bourne Identity' (2002) that launched the franchise?
- A. A CIA agent goes rogue
- B. A retired spy comes back for one last mission
- C. An amnesiac man pulled from the ocean discovers he has extraordinary spy skills and is being hunted by his own agency
- D. A Russian spy defects to America
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What is the premise of 'Leon: The Professional' (1994) directed by Luc Besson?
- A. A standard cop thriller
- B. A hitman retiring
- C. A heist film
- D. A professional cleaner (hitman) reluctantly takes in a 12-year-old girl after her family is murdered by corrupt DEA agents and trains her in his skills while she develops a complex attachment to him
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What is the premise of 'Speed' (1994) starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock?
- A. A bomb on an airplane
- B. A car chase in Los Angeles
- C. A bomb is rigged to a Los Angeles city bus that will explode if the speed drops below 50 mph - the LAPD officer must keep it moving while evacuating passengers
- D. A hostage situation on a train
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What is 'Skyfall' (2012) directed by Sam Mendes and why is it considered the finest Bond film?
- A. A heist film
- B. A conventional Bond adventure
- C. A Bond film that confronts the character with his own mortality and obsolescence - directed by Sam Mendes with Roger Deakins' cinematography and a villain (Javier Bardem) who is a dark mirror of Bond
- D. A superhero film
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What is 'Minority Report' (2002) about and what technology did it predict?
- A. A pre-crime police force arrests murderers before they commit crimes - the film predicted gesture-based computing interfaces that became reality within a decade
- B. A time travel film
- C. A conventional police procedural
- D. A romantic thriller
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What is the premise of 'Taken' (2008) that launched a franchise and Liam Neeson's action career?
- A. A former CIA agent uses his specific set of skills to track and rescue his kidnapped daughter from European sex traffickers
- B. A Cold War spy film
- C. A heist film
- D. A hostage negotiation film
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What is the premise of 'Man on Fire' (2004) directed by Tony Scott?
- A. A burned-out former CIA operative becomes a bodyguard for a young girl in Mexico City - then wages war on the kidnapping cartel that took her after he is shot
- B. A heist film
- C. A straightforward bodyguard film
- D. A spy film
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What is 'Kill Bill' (2003/2004) and what directorial approach did Quentin Tarantino take?
- A. A documentary about revenge
- B. A two-volume revenge film about a former assassin seeking those who tried to kill her at her wedding - a cinematic collage drawing from spaghetti westerns, samurai films, martial arts, and anime
- C. A straightforward revenge thriller
- D. A conventional action film
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What is the premise of 'Face/Off' (1997) directed by John Woo?
- A. A straightforward action film
- B. A heist film
- C. A spy film
- D. An FBI agent and a terrorist literally exchange faces through surgery - forcing each to inhabit the other's identity - creating a dual performance thriller
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What is 'Extraction' (2020) on Netflix starring Chris Hemsworth about?
- A. A romantic thriller
- B. A superhero film
- C. A black market mercenary tasked with rescuing a kidnapped crime lord's son from Dhaka, Bangladesh - notable for a 12-minute continuous single-take action sequence
- D. A historical film
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In 'Gladiator' (2000), who plays Maximus?
- A. Tom Hanks
- B. Mel Gibson
- C. Brad Pitt
- D. Russell Crowe
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What is the premise of 'Zero Dark Thirty' (2012) directed by Kathryn Bigelow?
- A. A documentary
- B. A romantic thriller
- C. A decade-long CIA manhunt for Osama bin Laden focusing on analyst Maya - a controversial film that opened debate about the effectiveness of torture in obtaining intelligence
- D. A fictional spy story
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What is the plot of 'The Dark Knight' (2008) that made it one of cinema's most acclaimed superhero films?
- A. Batman defeats a straightforward villain
- B. Batman faces the Joker - a criminal genius who wants to expose the moral corruption beneath Gotham's civilised surface - in a film that transcended the superhero genre into genuine crime drama
- C. Batman retires from crime-fighting
- D. A simple superhero origin story
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What is 'Three Days of the Condor' (1975) starring Robert Redford about?
- A. A romantic thriller
- B. A heist film
- C. A sports film
- D. A CIA researcher returns from lunch to find all his colleagues murdered - then spends three days evading assassins while trying to understand why
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What is the thriller 'No Country for Old Men' (2007) about and who directed it?
- A. A chase film by Steven Spielberg
- B. A heist film
- C. A Coen Brothers film about a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal's aftermath - specifically about the implacable killer Anton Chigurh hunting him across Texas
- D. A romantic thriller
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What film does the line 'Get to the choppa!' come from and who delivers it?
- A. Predator (1987) - Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch
- B. Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- C. Die Hard - Bruce Willis
- D. Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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What is the plot of 'Se7en' (1995) directed by David Fincher?
- A. A spy film
- B. A haunted house thriller
- C. Two detectives - one new, one retiring - investigate a serial killer who chooses victims based on the seven deadly sins - culminating in one of cinema's most devastating endings
- D. A heist film
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What is 'Blood Diamond' (2006) directed by Edward Zwick about?
- A. A documentary
- B. A romantic film
- C. A Sierra Leonean fisherman, a diamond smuggler, and a journalist become entangled in the 1999 civil war's blood diamond trade - a thriller examining how luxury goods finance atrocities
- D. A heist film
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Who played Maximus in 'Gladiator' (2000)?
- A. Mel Gibson
- B. Hugh Jackman
- C. Brad Pitt
- D. Russell Crowe