Q 01/05

Who plays rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah in the original Point Break?

A) Johnny Depp

B) Charlie Sheen

C) Val Kilmer

D) Keanu Reeves

Answer · why

D) Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves plays Johnny Utah, the former college quarterback turned FBI rookie; he learned to surf for the role and kept surfing after filming wrapp...

Q 02/05

Who directed the original Point Break?

A) Renny Harlin

B) Kathryn Bigelow

C) Tony Scott

D) John McTiernan

Answer · why

B) Kathryn Bigelow

Kathryn Bigelow directed Point Break, her follow-up to Blue Steel; in 2010 she became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, for ...

Q 03/05

Which filmmaker, then married to the director, worked on the Point Break script and executive-produced it?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) James Cameron

C) Ridley Scott

D) Walter Hill

Answer · why

B) James Cameron

In 2025 he claimed he 'wrote Point Break' and was 'stiffed by the Writers Guild', which had given sole credit to W. Peter Iliff after arbitration.

Q 04/05

What does the surfing term 'point break', the film's title, describe?

A) The peak of a swell before it breaks

B) The moment a surfer stands up

C) A wave that closes out all at once

D) A wave breaking off a headland

Answer · why

D) A wave breaking off a headland

A point break is a wave breaking off a headland, peeling along a point of land rather than closing out; the script was titled Johnny Utah before the s...

Q 05/05

The Ex-Presidents surf gang wear masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and which fourth president?

A) Gerald Ford

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Dwight Eisenhower

Answer · why

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson completes the set; the gang's rubber presidents — Reagan, Carter, Nixon and LBJ — are what earned them the Ex-Presidents nickname du...