Taken (Movie)
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50 free Taken (Movie) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Taken turned a modest French-made thriller into one of the most quoted films of its era. A retired operative, a teenage daughter on a trip abroad and one unforgettable threat were enough to launch two sequels and a television series. This quiz follows Bryan Mills from the first film through Taken 2 and Taken 3. Expect questions on Kim and her friend Amanda, the kidnappers and how Bryan tracks them across Paris, plus the actors, the filmmakers, the box office and the parodies that followed. It is pitched for anyone who has seen the films at least once. Casual viewers will recognise the big plot beats, while the cast and behind-the-scenes questions give devoted fans something to chew on.
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Q 01Which American actor was first cast as Bryan Mills in Taken (2008) before dropping out of the project?
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges left the role, and Liam Neeson took it because he wanted a more physically demanding part than he was used to.
Q 02What did Liam Neeson expect to happen to Taken (2008), a film he saw as a minor detour in his career?
Go straight to video
Go straight to video was Liam Neeson's forecast for the thriller, which instead became the hit that defined the rest of his career.
Q 03Which rock band are Kim and Amanda secretly planning to follow on tour in Taken (2008)?
U2
U2 are on tour in the story, and Bryan Mills only learns the girls' real plan as they leave, after agreeing to a simple Paris visit.
Q 04Robert Mark Kamen, co-writer of all three Taken films, created which martial-arts film franchise?
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid is a semi-autobiographical story based on Kamen's own life, written decades before he scripted Bryan Mills's rescues.
Q 05Which animated sitcom parodied Taken by sending a daughter to Paris and giving her dad no useful skills?
Family Guy
Family Guy spoofed the film in the episode Leggo My Meg-O, where Meg is kidnapped in Paris and Brian and Stewie fly out to save her.
Q 06The gang that kidnaps Kim in Paris in Taken (2008) comes from which Balkan country?
Albania
Albania later answered back: a 2019 tourism campaign called Be Taken by Albania invited Liam Neeson to visit and see the country for himself.
Q 07In Taken (2008), how long does Bryan Mills have to find Kim before the trail is expected to go cold?
96 hours
96 hours is the window his old colleague Sam gives him, based on how earlier abductions by the same ring played out.
Q 08What does Kim set off on rooftops so Bryan Mills can work out where he is held in Taken 2?
Grenades
Grenades from her dad's equipment case do it: the sound of each blast lets him guide her towards the basement where he is zip-tied to a pipe.
Q 09Liam Neeson has said he believes Taken put some people off doing what?
Travelling to Europe
Travelling to Europe is what the star thinks his thriller discouraged, since its two American teenagers are abducted soon after landing.
Q 10Where does Bryan Mills finally find and rescue Kim at the end of Taken (2008)?
On a yacht
On a yacht is where the chase ends: Bryan Mills fights past the bodyguards and reaches the bedroom where a sheikh holds Kim at knifepoint.
Q 11Which X-Men star plays Lenore, the ex-wife of Bryan Mills, in all three Taken films?
Famke Janssen
Famke Janssen, a Dutch former model, was already known as Jean Grey and as the Bond villain Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye.
Q 12Which Lost actress plays Kim, the kidnapped daughter of Bryan Mills, in the Taken films?
Maggie Grace
Maggie Grace had put Liam Neeson at the top of a wish list of actors to work with just two months before she was cast as his daughter.
Q 13Which future Arrow star plays Amanda, the best friend who travels to Paris with Kim, in Taken (2008)?
Katie Cassidy
Katie Cassidy, daughter of entertainer David Cassidy, went on to play Laurel Lance, the Black Canary, on The CW.
Q 21What was Bryan Mills's career before he retired to reconnect with his daughter Kim in Taken (2008)?
CIA officer
CIA officer was his last post, after earlier service as a Green Beret, and an old agency colleague named Sam helps him trace the kidnappers.
Q 22What career does Kim, the daughter of Bryan Mills, hope to pursue in Taken (2008)?
Singer
Singer is Kim's dream, so when Bryan Mills saves the pop star Sheerah from a knife attack, her thanks is an assessment by her vocal coach.
Q 23Which Australian Neighbours actress plays Sheerah, the pop star Bryan Mills protects, in Taken (2008)?
Holly Valance
Holly Valance left the soap in 2002 to launch a real music career, and her first single, Kiss Kiss, entered the Australian and UK charts at number one.
Q 14What does Bryan Mills discover about Amanda when he searches the kidnappers' safehouse in Taken (2008)?
She died of an overdose
She died of an overdose before he arrived, and finding her body is what drives Bryan Mills to force Kim's whereabouts out of the gang's boss.
Q 15In Taken (2008), Amanda admits her cousins are away in which city, leaving the Paris apartment empty?
Madrid
Madrid is where the cousins are, a detail Amanda hid from Kim, and telling it to a stranger named Peter marks both girls as easy targets.
Q 16Where do Kim and Amanda first meet Peter, the scout for the kidnappers, in Taken (2008)?
Charles de Gaulle Airport
Charles de Gaulle Airport is the hunting ground: Peter befriends new arrivals, learns where they are staying and phones the details through.
Q 17How does Peter, the scout who marked Kim for the gang, die while fleeing Bryan Mills in Taken (2008)?
Hit by a truck
Hit by a truck mid-chase, Peter takes the only lead with him, forcing Bryan Mills to seek help from an old Paris contact.
Q 18In Taken (2008), what on Kim's broken phone lets Bryan Mills identify Peter as the gang's scout?
A photo
A photo on the handset's memory card shows Peter's face, which lets Bryan Mills catch him trying to lure another victim.
Q 19What does Bryan Mills plant on a pimp in a Paris red-light district to track the gang in Taken (2008)?
A listening device
A listening device does the tracking: a hired translator tells him what the bugged gang members are saying, which leads him to a construction yard.
Q 20Which of Kim's belongings does Bryan Mills spot on a drugged woman at a building site in Taken (2008)?
Her jacket
Her jacket is the clue: Bryan Mills carries the woman out through a gunfight, improvises her detox in a hotel and learns of a safehouse.
Q 24Whom does Bryan Mills pretend to be to enter the kidnappers' Paris safehouse in Taken (2008)?
A French police officer
A French police officer is his cover: he borrows the name of his contact Jean-Claude and claims he has come to renegotiate the gang's protection rate.
Q 25What was Jean-Claude Pitrel, Bryan Mills's Paris contact in Taken, before joining the National Police?
Intelligence agent
Intelligence agent was his old trade, with France's DGSE, which is how he knows Bryan Mills; the film later exposes him as corrupt.
Q 26How does Marko, the gang boss who took Kim, die after Bryan Mills interrogates him in Taken (2008)?
Electrocution
Electrocution ends him: Bryan Mills uses electricity to make Marko name Kim's buyer, then walks out and leaves the current running.
Q 27The most quoted scene in Taken (2008) has Bryan Mills calmly threaten the kidnappers through what?
A phone call
A phone call carries the speech, which became an internet meme; Liam Neeson himself later called the scene corny.
Q 28Numerous media outlets say Taken (2008) was a turning point that redefined Liam Neeson as what?
An action star
An action star is what the thriller made him, leading to The A-Team, The Grey, Cold Pursuit and many similar roles.
Q 29Which US rating did Taken (2008) secure after about three minutes were trimmed from the film?
Rated PG-13
Rated PG-13 after the cuts, the film later reached home viewers in an Extended Edition on DVD and Blu-ray.
Q 30Which French filmmaker co-wrote and produced all three Taken films?
Luc Besson
Luc Besson pitched the story to his director over dinner one night, a simple hook about a dad fighting to protect his daughter.