Q 01/05

In which city is The Hurt Locker's bomb squad stationed in 2004?

A) Kabul

B) Baghdad

C) Fallujah

D) Basra

Answer · why

B) Baghdad

Baghdad. To make its streets convincing, Bigelow filled every Iraqi role, down to the extras, with Iraqis who had fled the war, many of them trained a...

Q 02/05

Who plays William James, the bomb technician at the centre of The Hurt Locker?

A) Guy Pearce

B) Anthony Mackie

C) Jeremy Renner

D) Brian Geraghty

Answer · why

C) Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner. Bigelow insisted on little-known leads, reasoning that with unfamiliar faces the audience could never be sure which of the three would ...

Q 03/05

In The Hurt Locker's desert sniper duel, what on the ammunition keeps jamming the rifle?

A) Blood

B) Rust

C) Grease

D) Sweat

Answer · why

A) Blood

Blood. The spare rounds come off one of the dead men, so James talks a panicking Eldridge through cleaning each one: 'Spit and rub.'

Q 04/05

How is team leader Thompson killed in The Hurt Locker's opening sequence?

A) A phone-triggered bomb

B) A sniper's bullet

C) A misfiring robot charge

D) A car bomb by his Humvee

Answer · why

A) A phone-triggered bomb

A phone-triggered bomb. Thompson only walks down in the bomb suit because the robot's cart breaks, and an onlooker sets off the blast with a cell phon...

Q 05/05

Who plays Thompson, the bomb-squad leader killed in The Hurt Locker's opening minutes?

A) Christian Camargo

B) Ralph Fiennes

C) David Morse

D) Guy Pearce

Answer · why

D) Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce. Bigelow put a few famous faces in parts that end abruptly, breaking the rule that a star survives to the last reel, so that nobody on scre...