Q 01/05

Below what speed will the bomb on the bus in Speed detonate?

A) 10 mph

B) 25 mph

C) 50 mph

D) 100 mph

Answer · why

C) 50 mph

50 mph was a friend's idea. Graham Yost had been stuck on 20 mph, reasoning that the bus only had to outpace a running person, until his writing partn...

Q 02/05

Why is Annie riding the bus in Speed rather than driving herself?

A) Her car was stolen

B) Her licence was revoked

C) Her car was repossessed

D) Her car was being repaired

Answer · why

B) Her licence was revoked

Her licence was revoked, and for speeding, as she admits to Jack moments after grabbing the wheel. The one passenger banned from driving fast then has...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the ex-cop bomber Dennis Hopper plays in Speed?

A) Jack Traven

B) Doug Stephens

C) John Geiger

D) Howard Payne

Answer · why

D) Howard Payne

Howard Payne is a former Atlanta bomb-squad officer, forced to retire after an accident. He calls the ransom 'money due me', and sneers that a bomb th...

Q 04/05

In Speed, where must the ransom be dropped?

A) An airport locker

B) A phone booth

C) A trash can

D) A parked van

Answer · why

C) A trash can

A trash can, set over a hole that drops the bag into a tunnel below. Graham Yost's writing partner, an English professor, had first imagined the trick...

Q 05/05

Where does Speed's bomber trap his first hostages?

A) An elevator

B) A cable car

C) A bank vault

D) A ferry

Answer · why

A) An elevator

An elevator. The scene was not in the first outline; Graham Yost used it to show that Jack wins by spotting the trick, as Perseus did with Medusa and ...