Q 01/05

Ethan Hunt's spy agency is known as the IMF, letters that stand for what?

A) International Monetary Fund

B) Intelligence Mission Federation

C) Independent Military Force

D) Impossible Missions Force

Answer · why

D) Impossible Missions Force

Impossible Missions Force dates from the 1966 TV series, whose taped briefings warned that if agents were caught or killed, 'the Secretary will disavo...

Q 02/05

Which Star Trek star joined TV's Mission: Impossible in 1969 as a master of disguise, replacing Martin Landau?

A) William Shatner

B) Leonard Nimoy

C) DeForest Kelley

D) George Takei

Answer · why

B) Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy signed on as soon as Star Trek was cancelled in 1969, spending two seasons as an ex-magician and make-up expert before leaving in 1971.

Q 03/05

Who composed the famous Mission: Impossible theme?

A) Lalo Schifrin

B) Henry Mancini

C) John Barry

D) Ennio Morricone

Answer · why

A) Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin was leading a jazz big band in Buenos Aires when Dizzy Gillespie heard it and invited him to America; he spent years as Gillespie's pian...

Q 04/05

The Mission: Impossible theme is written in which unusual time signature?

A) 3/4

B) 7/8

C) 6/8

D) 5/4

Answer · why

D) 5/4

5/4 squeezes five beats into every bar, and that lopsided count is what lodges the theme in the ear; its long-long-short-short pulse also happens to m...

Q 05/05

Who directed the first Mission: Impossible film in 1996?

A) Oliver Stone

B) Martin Scorsese

C) Brian De Palma

D) Sydney Pollack

Answer · why

C) Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma reshot the opening after his friend George Lucas watched a cut and told him to sit the team around a table and brief the audience, repl...