Q 01/05

In which country does Black Lagoon set Roanapur, the lawless port city its pirate crew calls home?

A) Thailand

B) Vietnam

C) Malaysia

D) Cambodia

Answer · why

A) Thailand

Thailand hosts the fictional Roanapur, placed in the east near the Cambodian border. Triads, cartels and mobsters carve the city up between them, so n...

Q 02/05

What kind of American-made naval vessel is the Black Lagoon, the smugglers' ship of the title?

A) Minesweeper

B) Corvette

C) PT boat

D) Landing craft

Answer · why

C) PT boat

A PT boat of the 80-foot Elco type, the Black Lagoon once served the US Navy before a four-member crew of smugglers put it to work running cargo.

Q 03/05

Black Lagoon's author likened the unstoppable maid Roberta to the title character of which film?

A) Judge Dredd

B) Universal Soldier

C) The Punisher

D) The Terminator

Answer · why

D) The Terminator

The Terminator was his comparison for Roberta, a deliberate break from the realism he otherwise aimed for in favour of comic-book excess.

Q 04/05

The tattooed bank robber of which vampire film inspired the look of Black Lagoon's gunfighter Revy?

A) The Lost Boys

B) From Dusk till Dawn

C) Bram Stoker's Dracula

D) John Carpenter's Vampires

Answer · why

B) From Dusk till Dawn

From Dusk till Dawn gave Revy her model in Seth Gecko, the tattooed fugitive played by George Clooney. The film's director, Robert Rodriguez, is one o...

Q 05/05

Which star of John Woo's gangster films was the visual model for Black Lagoon's Mr. Chang?

A) Chow Yun-fat

B) Andy Lau

C) Leslie Cheung

D) Tony Leung

Answer · why

A) Chow Yun-fat

Chow Yun-fat's triad roles shaped Chang, who fights with paired pistols like the actor's Mark in A Better Tomorrow, and Revy herself admits the calm b...