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Action & Thriller Quiz
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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 'Heat' (1995) - the iconic Pacino-De Niro crime film?
- A. A Los Angeles epic following detective Vincent Hanna pursuing master thief Neil McCauley - their parallel lives converge in a film exploring what it means to be defined by your work
- B. A simple heist film
- C. A police comedy
- D. A romantic thriller
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What is 'Equalizer 2' (2018) directed by Antoine Fuqua significan't for in Denzel Washington's career?
- A. His first action sequel
- B. The first time in his 40-year film career that Denzel Washington made a direct sequel to one of his films
- C. His first action film
- D. His final film
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What is the South Korean film 'A Bittersweet Life' (2005) by Kim Jee-woon about?
- A. A crime lord's trusted enforcer is betrayed when he shows mercy to his boss's girlfriend - a visually beautiful revenge action film
- B. A spy film
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A police procedural
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Who directed 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) - celebrated as one of the greatest action films ever made?
- A. Steven Spielberg
- B. Ridley Scott
- C. James Cameron
- D. George Miller
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What is the plot of 'North by Northwest' (1959) by Alfred Hitchcock?
- A. An advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent and chases across America - a prototype action-thriller with the famous Mount Rushmore climax
- B. A ghost story
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A war film
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What is the significance of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' (2000) for the Hollywood action genre?
- A. It had no influence
- B. Its wire-work aerial martial arts sequences influenced Hollywood action choreography significan'tly - most notably in The Matrix and subsequent films
- C. It ended the popularity of martial arts films
- D. It was only significan't in Asia
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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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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 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 'All Is Lost' (2013) directed by J.C. Chandor about?
- A. A submarine thriller
- B. A survival thriller set on land
- C. A romantic drama
- D. Robert Redford alone on a sinking sailboat in the Indian Ocean - a thriller with essentially no dialogue, music, or supporting characters
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What is the 'Raid: Redemption' (2011) and why is it celebrated among action film enthusiasts?
- A. An American action film
- B. An Indonesian action film set in a Jakarta apartment block controlled by a drug lord - celebrated for its choreographed silat martial arts and sustained action intensity
- C. A Japanese martial arts film
- D. A Thai action film
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What is the plot of 'The Fugitive' (1993) starring Harrison Ford?
- A. A heist film
- B. A political thriller
- C. A spy thriller
- D. An innocent man wrongly convicted of his wife's murder escapes custody and hunts the real killer while being pursued by a relentless US Marshal
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What is the plot of 'The Matrix' (1999) and what philosophical concept does it draw on?
- A. A science fantasy film
- B. A computer hacker discovers reality is a simulated world created by machines to harvest human energy - drawing on Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation and questions of reality perception
- C. A spy film
- D. A straightforward action film
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What is the central concept of 'Inception' (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan?
- A. A virtual reality heist
- B. A psychological thriller without science fiction elements
- C. Time travel
- D. A team of thieves who enter people's dreams to steal information - and must now plant an idea instead (inception) in a target's subconscious mind
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Who directed 'Sicario' (2015) and what does the film explore?
- A. Denis Villeneuve - an FBI agent discovers the moral ambiguity of America's drug war in a film that explores how institutions justify increasingly extreme violence
- B. David Fincher - a thriller
- C. Steven Spielberg - a conventional drug war film
- D. Ridley Scott - an action film
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What is the Korean film 'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho's previous thriller 'The Host' (2006) about?
- A. A heist film
- B. A spy film
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A monster emerges from the Han River in Seoul and takes a young girl - her family must rescue her from both the monster and the government trying to contain the crisis
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What is the plot of 'Inside Man' (2006) directed by Spike Lee?
- A. A spy film
- B. A kidnapping thriller
- C. A simple bank heist
- D. A sophisticated bank robber creates an elaborate hostage situation where the entire heist serves as misdirection for his actual theft - a thriller where the apparent crime conceals the real one
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What is the premise of 'Mission: Impossible' (1996) directed by Brian De Palma?
- A. An IMF agent is framed for the death of his entire team and must identify the traitor within his organisation - famous for the Langley CIA vault heist sequence
- B. A Bond-style film
- C. A simple spy mission
- D. Ethan Hunt's origin story
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What is the premise of 'The Game' (1997) directed by David Fincher?
- A. A romantic thriller
- B. A ghost story
- C. A heist film
- D. A wealthy businessman receives an unusual birthday gift - participation in a mysterious game that gradually takes over his entire life
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Who directed 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012) and what villain does it feature?
- A. Zack Snyder - The Joker
- B. David Fincher - The Riddler
- C. Christopher Nolan - Bane, played by Tom Hardy
- D. J.J. Abrams - Catwoman