Q 01/05

Which 1979 Roderick Thorp novel was adapted into Die Hard (1988)?

A) Nothing Lasts Forever

B) The Detective

C) Glass Tower

D) 58 Minutes

Answer · why

A) Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever is Thorp's 1979 sequel to The Detective, which had been filmed with Frank Sinatra; Die Hard 2 was adapted from Walter Wager's no...

Q 02/05

Which stage actor made his feature-film debut as Die Hard's villain Hans Gruber?

A) Jeremy Irons

B) Charles Dance

C) Gary Oldman

D) Alan Rickman

Answer · why

D) Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman, then 41 and known for the RSC's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, made his first feature film as Hans Gruber; he later played Severus Snape in t...

Q 03/05

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), who plays the shape-shifting, liquid-metal T-1000?

A) Robert Patrick

B) Michael Biehn

C) Lance Henriksen

D) Bill Paxton

Answer · why

A) Robert Patrick

Robert Patrick plays the T-1000; at roughly $100 million, Terminator 2 was the most expensive film made to that point and won four Oscars, including v...

Q 04/05

Which martial-arts star was originally cast as the creature in Predator (1987)?

A) Steven Seagal

B) Jean-Claude Van Damme

C) Dolph Lundgren

D) Chuck Norris

Answer · why

B) Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme was first cast as an agile, ninja-like creature; that suit proved unworkable, and Kevin Peter Hall, fresh from Harry and the Hen...

Q 05/05

In First Blood (1982), how does Deputy Galt, the film's only fatality, die?

A) Falls from a helicopter

B) Shot with Rambo's rifle

C) Crushed in the mine collapse

D) Drowns in the river

Answer · why

A) Falls from a helicopter

Galt falls from a helicopter after Rambo throws a rock that cracks its windshield; it is the only death in First Blood, unlike David Morrell's far blo...