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40 free Passenger 57 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Passenger 57 is the Wesley Snipes airplane movie: the 1992 thriller in which airline security expert John Cutter happens to be on board when a captured terrorist's crew seizes the flight. At a brisk 84 minutes, it turned Snipes into a bankable action hero. This quiz covers the story from the opening arrest to the final fight, the people on both sides of the hijack, and the cast and crew behind them. It also digs into how the script, the title and the shoot came together, and where the film sits in its star's career. It suits anyone who has seen the film once and wants to test their memory, as well as 90s action fans who know every scene. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few behind-the-scenes stories along the way.
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Q 01The number in the title of Passenger 57 was borrowed from the label of which food brand?
Heinz
Heinz and its "57" mark gave writer Stewart Raffill the title: stuck for a name, he noticed a ketchup bottle and borrowed the number.
Q 02Entertainment Weekly summed up Passenger 57 as which 1988 action hit moved to 38,000 feet?
Die Hard
Die Hard was the template of one trained man against a gang in a sealed space. The magazine headlined its set visit "Fly Hard".
Q 03Five years before Passenger 57, Wesley Snipes played a gang leader in which pop star's Scorsese-directed video?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson cast the then-unknown Snipes as Mini Max, the gang leader who confronts him in the 18-minute short film for Bad.
Q 04The actor who plays police chief Leonard Biggs in Passenger 57 was the real-life father of which Gossip Girl star?
Blake Lively
Blake Lively is the daughter of Ernie Lively, who later played her character's father in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
Q 05Which comic-book vampire hunter did Passenger 57 star Wesley Snipes go on to play in a film trilogy?
Blade
Blade reached cinemas in 1998, and Snipes returned to the half-vampire Daywalker for two sequels and again in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Q 06After Passenger 57, Wesley Snipes played the villain Simon Phoenix opposite which action star in Demolition Man?
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone played John Spartan, the reckless cop frozen alongside Phoenix and thawed decades later to catch him.
Q 07Which future Austin Powers star plays Sabrina Ritchie, a hijacker posing as cabin crew in Passenger 57?
Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley got her first big-budget film role as Rane's second-in-command, five years before playing Vanessa Kensington.
Q 08Which streetball comedy with Woody Harrelson did Wesley Snipes release in the same year as Passenger 57?
White Men Can't Jump
White Men Can't Jump reached cinemas in March 1992, about seven months before Snipes's airline thriller.
Q 09The Norman Brown track heard in Passenger 57 covers Too High, a 1973 song by which Motown star?
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder wrote Too High as a cautionary anti-drug song for his landmark album Innervisions.
Q 10Stewart Raffill wrote the first script of Passenger 57 as a vehicle for a star like which actor?
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood was the model for the original hero, a father flying to Spain to bury his son who ends up seated beside a hijacker.
Q 11When the FBI catch up with Charles Rane at the start of Passenger 57, what is he about to undergo?
Plastic surgery
Plastic surgery was Rane's plan for slipping past the police, but he is seized before the operation and put on a flight to stand trial.
Q 12To which city, where Charles Rane is due to stand trial, is the hijacked flight in Passenger 57 bound?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is where the FBI want Rane tried, so two agents escort him onto the same flight that John Cutter boards as its 57th passenger.
Q 13What event, which still haunts John Cutter throughout Passenger 57, killed his wife?
A convenience store robbery
Q 21Which actor, later seen in Heat and Saving Private Ryan, plays Sly Delvecchio in Passenger 57?
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore plays the old friend who talks Cutter into a senior job with the airline's new anti-terrorism unit.
Q 22Bruce Greenwood, the airline boss in Passenger 57, later played which real US president in Thirteen Days?
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was Greenwood's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis drama, a performance that won him a Satellite Award.
Q 23Michael Horse, the henchman Forget in Passenger 57, is best known as Deputy Hawk in which cult TV mystery?
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks made Horse famous as Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill, a part he reprised when the series returned in 2017.
A convenience store robbery took her life, and the widowed Cutter now teaches anti-terrorism tactics and self-defence to flight crews.
Q 14How does hijacker Charles Rane meet his end in the final fight of Passenger 57?
Kicked out of the jet
Kicked out of the jet through a blown-out door, Rane falls to his death after a bullet blows out a window and decompresses the cabin.
Q 15Where on the airliner is John Cutter when Charles Rane's men begin the hijacking in Passenger 57?
In the lavatory
In the lavatory when the shooting starts, Cutter uses the on-board phone to warn the airline before one of the hijackers finds him.
Q 16How does John Cutter force the hijackers of Passenger 57 to bring the airliner down early?
Dumping its fuel
Dumping its fuel by tripping the circuitry leaves Rane no choice but to order the surviving pilots down to a small airfield.
Q 17In which US state is the small airfield where the hijacked jet in Passenger 57 touches down?
Louisiana
Louisiana is home to the film's fictional Lake Lucille airfield, where the local police chief takes Cutter for one of the hijackers and arrests him.
Q 18After the hijackers slip off the jet in Passenger 57, John Cutter chases Charles Rane through which event?
A county fair
A county fair is where Cutter runs Rane down, having spotted that the release of half the passengers was only a diversion.
Q 19Which former child actor from the film Sounder directed Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57?
Kevin Hooks
Kevin Hooks played the elder son in 1972's Sounder, and for his airline thriller he cast his own father, Robert, as an FBI agent.
Q 20Which RADA-trained actor plays the hijacker Charles Rane opposite Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57?
Bruce Payne
Bruce Payne is best known as Rane; in the late 1980s he was one of the "Brit Pack" of rising actors alongside Tim Roth and Colin Firth.
Q 24Which jazz bassist, a founder of the band Return to Forever, composed the score for Passenger 57?
Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke mixed jazz fusion with grand orchestral pieces for the film, a year after scoring Boyz n the Hood.
Q 25Richard Nord, who edited Passenger 57, earned an Oscar nomination a year later for which Harrison Ford thriller?
The Fugitive
The Fugitive brought Nord nominations from the Academy, BAFTA and the American Cinema Editors for his cutting of the 1993 chase thriller.
Q 26Stewart Raffill, who wrote the story for Passenger 57, directed which alien film panned as an E.T. imitation?
Mac and Me
Mac and Me won Raffill the Golden Raspberry for Worst Director, and critics also mocked its heavy product placement for McDonald's and Coca-Cola.
Q 27Passenger 57 was shot in which Florida city, the birthplace of its star Wesley Snipes?
Orlando
Orlando hosted the shoot in early 1992, and Snipes's mother and grandmother, who lived there, cooked a soul-food lunch for the whole cast and crew.
Q 28Which baseball comedy gave Passenger 57 star Wesley Snipes the role of base-stealer Willie Mays Hayes?
Major League
Major League was the part Snipes chose over a small role in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, and it began his run of box-office hits.
Q 29The year before Passenger 57, Wesley Snipes played the Harlem drug lord Nino Brown in which crime film?
New Jack City
New Jack City gave Snipes a part written specifically for him by Barry Michael Cooper, and it brought him to wide attention.
Q 30Two years after Passenger 57, Wesley Snipes faced another mid-air hijacking in which skydiving thriller?
Drop Zone
Drop Zone opens with an apparent hijacking aboard a Boeing 747, and Snipes's insurance policy barred him from doing the parachute jumps himself.