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50 free The Matrix trivia questions with answers. The Matrix rewired action cinema in 1999, and this quiz covers the whole rabbit hole. Fifty questions run from the first film's cast, plot and famous choices to The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, The Animatrix shorts, the 2021 return in Resurrections, and the games and comics around them. It opens with warm-ups any viewer can answer (who plays Morpheus, what the red pill does) and climbs to the details only devotees know: which actors turned down Neo, how many days the Burly Brawl took to shoot, where the freeway chase was really built, and who inspired the green code. Use it solo or as a round at movie trivia night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, characters and techniques, and each question carries its source, so what you learn here is right.
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Q 01In which year was The Matrix released in cinemas?
1999
It opened on March 31 and took $27.8 million on its first weekend, well before Star Wars: Episode I arrived that May.
Q 02Who plays Neo in The Matrix?
Keanu Reeves
Two of the other options were actually offered the role first and said no.
Q 03Which actor plays Morpheus, captain of the hovercraft that rescues Neo?
Laurence Fishburne
The character shares his name with the Greek god of dreams, a fitting choice for a man who wakes people from one.
Q 04Which actor plays Agent Smith in the original trilogy?
Hugo Weaving
He said the Wachowskis' own voices shaped the flat, precise accent he built for the character; Empire later ranked Smith the 84th greatest movie character.
Q 05Which colour of capsule does Morpheus offer that will show Neo the truth about the Matrix?
Red
The scene gave the English language a new metaphor; the phrase has since taken on a life the film-makers never intended.
Q 06What is Neo's given name in the Matrix?
Thomas Anderson
His hacker handle is an anagram of 'One', a hint at the prophecy hanging over him.
Q 07What is the name of Morpheus's hovercraft?
The Nebuchadnezzar
The other three are all real ships from the sequels and The Animatrix; the Mjolnir rescues the crew when the ship is destroyed in Reloaded.
Q 08What is the name of the last free human city?
Zion
It sits deep underground near the Earth's core, and its dock is where the Sentinel army breaks through in Revolutions.
Q 09Which crew member betrays the others to Agent Smith because he wants to go back into the Matrix?
Cypher
Joe Pantoliano's traitor is shot by a wounded Tank before he can pull the plug on Neo and Trinity.
Q 10Which actress plays the Oracle in the first film?
Gloria Foster
She died before Revolutions was finished, so a different actress took the role and the change was written into the plot.
Q 11Which crew member sits at the ship's controls, loading programs for those inside the Matrix?
Tank
Marcus Chong's operator was born in Zion, not the Matrix, which is why he has no ports on his body.
Q 12How many Academy Awards did The Matrix win?
Four
It swept Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects, beating Star Wars: Episode I in every technical category they shared.
Q 13Roughly what did The Matrix cost to make?
$63 million
It returned about $473 million worldwide and became the first DVD to sell a million copies in the US.
Which actor turned down Neo in order to make Wild Wild West?
Q 21According to its designer, the characters of the Matrix code were based on what?
Japanese sushi recipes
Simon Whiteley credited his Japanese wife's cookbooks; the green tint nods to early monochrome computer monitors.
Q 22Which company made the sunglasses worn throughout The Matrix?
Blinde Design
Designer Richard Walker made a distinct pair for each character; Morpheus's tiny frames famously have no arms.
Q 23What is the best-known name for The Matrix's slow-motion effect shot with many still cameras?
Bullet time
The frames from each camera are played in sequence to orbit a frozen moment; the technique also goes by 'time slice' and 'flow motion'.
Will Smith
He has since said he was not the right actor for it anyway; Cage cited family obligations and DiCaprio accepted, then withdrew.
Q 15Which actress was sent the script with the suggestion that Neo be rewritten as a woman?
Sandra Bullock
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura floated the idea; a decade later she and Reeves finally co-starred in The Lake House.
Q 16In which city was almost all of The Matrix filmed?
Sydney
The Wachowskis set the story in an unnamed American city but shot on Fox Studios soundstages and around Martin Place; the film's opening rooftop was a leftover Dark City set.
Q 17Which martial-arts choreographer did the Wachowskis hire to stage the fights?
Yuen Woo-ping
The cast trained for months in wire fu, and Reeves had spinal-fusion surgery on his neck before pre-production even began.
Q 18Which French philosopher's book Simulacra and Simulation was required reading for the cast and crew?
Jean Baudrillard
Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss were handed it in early 1997 before they were even allowed to read the script; a hollowed-out copy appears in Neo's apartment.
Q 19Roughly how long was the shot-by-shot storyboard two comic artists drew for the Wachowskis?
600 pages
Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce's storyboard was how the sisters convinced a nervous Warner Bros. that two relatively untested directors could deliver.
Q 20Which 1995 Japanese anime's opening credits does the falling green code resemble?
Ghost in the Shell
The Wachowskis reportedly showed the anime to producer Joel Silver and said they wanted to do that for real.
Q 24Which British artist began pioneering the frozen-moment camera-array technique as early as 1980?
Tim Macmillan
Michel Gondry used a morphing variation in 1990s music videos, and John Gaeta's team at Manex then built The Matrix rigs from computer simulations.
Q 25Which composer wrote The Matrix's orchestral score?
Don Davis
The soundtrack album was a different beast, stacked with Rammstein, Rob Dougan, Propellerheads, Ministry and Rage Against the Machine.
Q 26Which crew member is killed by Agents while the group is trapped inside the walls of a building?
Mouse
Matt Doran's young programmer, who designed the Woman in Red, is the first to die in the ambush; Cypher's betrayal set it up.
Q 27Why did humans blacken the sky, according to Morpheus?
To deprive the machines of solar power
The machines answered by farming humans in pods for energy, which is the world Neo wakes up in.
Q 28What revives Neo after Agent Smith shoots him dead inside the Matrix?
Trinity's kiss and confession of love
She had been told she would fall for the One, and her saying so aloud is what tips him into seeing the code.
Q 29The Matrix was added to the US National Film Registry in which year?
2012
The Library of Congress selects 25 films a year for their cultural, historic or aesthetic significance; the film was 13 years old when chosen.
Q 30Which two BAFTA awards did The Matrix win?
Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects
It also collected Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction that year.