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1 What happens to the department store at the beginning?
Answer: It blows up.

The explosion from the department store causes a few vehicles to turn over, with one of the delivery trucks showing a Pacific Courier logo on it. The explosion even causes some injuries to the drivers of the overturned vehicles.
  From Quiz: Die Hard With A Vengeance
2 What is the janitor's name (the airport janitor)?
Answer: Marvin

Lieutenant John McClane goes into the what looks like a pipe room. McClane hears music coming from somewhere and follows the music. He sees a record player going and lifts up the linear tracking. Then Marvin puts his hand on McClane's shoulder, causing McClane to turn around and point his pistol at Marvin. That's when Marvin introduces himself and tells McClane that he's the janitor.
  From Quiz: Die Hard 2: Die Harder
3 Which thief is the first to notice Tony's corpse?
Answer: Fritz

Fritz is standing next to the elevator door guarding it. When the ding goes off, indicating that the elevator has arrived, Fritz looks in and gives a stunned look when Tony's corpse is seen on a chair, wearing a Santa hat, with a message over his shirt, written in blood: "Now I have a machine gun, ho-ho-ho."
    Your options: [ Uli ] [ Heinrich ] [ Eddie ] [ Fritz ]
  From Quiz: Die Hard
4 Thomas Gabriel was starting to get more than a little annoyed with McClane's interference and decided he needed some leverage. He instructed his computer hacker to look for McClane's daughter, Lucy. Where did they find her?
Answer: trapped in an elevator

Lucy was alone in an elevator when the power went off and had been there since. They tracked her down via her cell phone and were quite delighted at her helpless position. When they pulled open the door and reached in to help her out she asked for I.D. They were able to produce convincing F.B.I. identification and she apologized for her wariness, explaining that her father was a policeman.
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 3
5 Being a computer hacker (as well as a political malcontent) Farrell twigged to what was going on. What did he call the act of virtual terrorism that they were experiencing?
Answer: a fire sale

He seemed stunned when he reached this conclusion and had to be prompted by McClane as to what that meant. He described a Fire Sale as a three step, systematic attack, designed to wreak complete and total havoc. It was called a Fire Sale because "everything must go" and explained that by taking everything at once, everything else would also crash.
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 2
6 Throughout the series, John McClane was involved in a sometimes unstable marriage. What was Mrs. McClane's first name?
Answer: Holly

John felt that Holly put her career before their marriage when she chose to relocate because of her job. The couple separated. Holly felt that she too was entitled to have a professional career.
Bonnie Bedelia played the role of Holly McClane in the first two movies of the series. Bedelia is the sister of actor Christopher "Kit" Culkin, and the aunt of "Home Alone" film star Macaulay Culkin.
  From Quiz: Remembering the "Die Hard" Series
7 What 'game' does the villain want to play with John McClane?
Answer: Simon Says

"Said Simple Simon to the pie man, give me your pies. Or I'll cave your head in." These are the first words Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) says when he phones Inspector Cobb (Larry Bryggman). He informs Cobb that he has planted several explosive devices throughout New York, and unless McClane (Bruce Willis) plays 'Simon Says' (where Simon tells him what to do, and he must do it), Simon will set off another bomb.
  From Quiz: "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" - Part I
8 Twice in the film, Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) sings a Christmas-related song to himself. What's the song?
Answer: Let It Snow

Al seems to forget the lyrics at one point, as he is leaving the Nakatomi building in the mistaken belief that all is well there. Instead of "But the fire inside's delightful," he sings "dum-da-dum, delightful." Seconds later, McClane drops the dead body of a terrorist he has killed onto the hood of Al's patrol car!

At the very end of the film, we get to hear the more familiar Vaughn Monroe version of this song.
  From Quiz: "Die Hard" for Diehards (Get It?), Part II
9 At the beginning of the film, we see an airplane carrying John McClane (Bruce Willis) land in Los Angeles. According to his dialogue, how long has he been a police officer?
Answer: 11 years

The passenger seated next to McClane notices the handgun under his jacket -- hey, air travel was different in 1988 -- and McClane tells the man that he has been a cop for 11 years.
  From Quiz: "Die Hard" for Diehards (Get It?), Part 1
10 Which "Die Hard" movie was directed by Renny Harlin?
Answer: Die Hard 2: Die Harder

"Die Hard" and "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" were both directed by John McTiernan.
    Your options: [ None of them ] [ Die Hard ] [ Die Hard: With a Vengeance ] [ Die Hard 2: Die Harder ]
  From Quiz: Which "Die Hard" Movie Was It?
11 As said to McClane, what is the secret to flying?
Answer: Making fists with your toes

The guy sitting next to McClane says this to him. He had been flying for nine years.
  From Quiz: 'Die Hard' For Try Hards
12 When McClane was flying from New York to L.A., which seat was he in?
Answer: aisle
  From Quiz: The Night at Nakatomi
13 What advice is given to John McClane (Bruce Willis) by a fellow passenger on how to overcome jet-lag?
Answer: 'Take off your shoes and socks and walk around on the rug making fists with your toes'

McClane is carrying out this advice when the terrorists enter the building, and he remains barefoot for the rest of the film.
  From Quiz: Die Hard
14 What is the response of one of the terrorists to this quote: 'What do I look like to you.'?
Answer: 'A sitting duck'

The terrorist shoots the SWAT team leader in the head after calling him a sitting duck.
  From Quiz: Die Hard 2
15 What happens to Simon?
Answer: fries in helicopter

His brother falls off the building in 'Die Hard I'.
  From Quiz: Die Hard III
16 What does Simon use to take the gold away?
Answer: Dump trucks

He uses a lot of dump trucks, so that he won't have to make countless trips from the federal reserve to his hideout. All drivers have 10 quarters each in their pockets for the toll bridge.
  From Quiz: Die Hard With A Vengeance
17 Who is the officer seen giving McClane the parking ticket?
Answer: Vito Lorenzo

As the car is getting ready to be towed away, McClane tries to convince Vito not to tow the car, but with no luck, even when McClane says it's his mother-in-law's car. Vito still gives McClane the ticket and has the car towed away. Vito's name is mentioned towards the end.
  From Quiz: Die Hard 2: Die Harder
18 Which company does Holly work for?
Answer: Nakatomi Corporation

Holly has been working for the Nakatomi Corporation for six months prior to the start of the film. The building has 35 floors, with the 32nd floor under construction.
    Your options: [ Acme Warehouse ] [ Wayne Enterprises ] [ Cyberdyne Systems Corporation ] [ Nakatomi Corporation ]
  From Quiz: Die Hard
19 Harry asked me to go out to dinner with him on Christmas Eve. Who played me?
Answer: Bonnie Bedelia

Bedelia, a native of New York City, portrayed Holly Gennaro McClane. Holly was John's wife and she was first seen at her office while she spoke with a co-worker named Harry. Harry asked her if she wanted to have dinner with him that night but Holly declined his offer, stating it was very busy as that evening was Christmas Eve. Harry said he really wanted to take her out since he wanted to have brie cheese and wine but Holly still insisted on not going. She encouraged another co-worker to go join the party outside since it was around that time to get off of work and she did not want to be seen as some Scrooge-like person. Holly then sat at her desk and called home and her daughter, Lucy, picked up the phone. She told Lucy that she would be home soon but odds were Lucy would be in bed by the time she got home and then asked Lucy to give the phone to the babysitter, Paulina. She asked Paulina if John had called but Paulina said he had not. Holly noticed a family picture on her desk and she put it down. Bedelia reprised her role of Holly Gennaro McClane in "Die Hard 2: Die Harder". She was also in the films "Presumed Innocent" and "Sordid Lives".
  From Quiz: Who Played Me in "Die Hard"?
20 The terrorists' real target turned out to be a building called Woodlawn, a building that was supposed to be part of the Social Security system. What was there that Gabriel was so interested in?
Answer: Financial data was being dumped into a server farm there.

When they were in Warlock's basement, they noticed that the chilling towers for the building were working overtime. The chilling towers were used to keep the computers from overheating.
When the financial systems went under attack in Stage Two of the fire sale, information about the accumulated wealth of the country began downloading to that server farm. This was the NSA back-up system for financial information, so that true records would still exist. Having the information available in one spot made it easy pickings for Gabriel.
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 3
21 What was the target of Stage Three?
Answer: power networks

Farrell explained this after McClane asked. When McClane commented on how the government had to have back-ups in place for these types of diasters, Farrell pointed out that it took FEMA five days to get water to the Superdome (after Hurricane Katrina). This observation sobered McClane.
Taking out the power utilities was a little more difficult because, although controlled by computers, those computers were not accessible online. The terrorists had to make a personal visit to shut down the power.
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 2
22 Unbeknownst to McClane and Farrell, the terrorists had already targeted Matt for elimination, via a bomb in his computer. This would be activated by the pressing of a certain key. What ended up hitting the key and detonating the bomb?
Answer: An action figure fell on it.

The terrorists were monitoring Matt's house, waiting to make sure that he was dead. McClane's arrival stopped him from hitting the appropriate key, so the terrorists opened fire on the apartment. In the resultant destruction, an action figure got knocked over, bounced off the keyboard and set off the bomb, but no one was sitting next to it at the time.
It was difficult to tell exactly which key was the trigger, but the camera kept focusing on the area containing the Delete and End keys.
Farrell didn't own a cat, so there wasn't one to be injured in the explosion!
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 1
23 In "Die Hard with a Vengeance", Zeus Carver became John McClane's reluctant partner. Who played the role of Zeus Carver?
Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel Leroy Jackson was born on December 21, 1948 in Washington D.C.
Jackson has over 100 film credits and over 100 television credits in his resume. Jackson has portrayed a wide range of characters in movies such as "Star Wars", "Pulp Fiction", "S.W.A.T.", "Coach Carter", and "Jurassic Park".
  From Quiz: Remembering the "Die Hard" Series
24 What sort of building explodes in the opening scene?
Answer: Department store

Bonwit-Teller's department store is destroyed at the very start of the film. According to Simon, it was blown up "to make sure I had your attention", because he wanted them to know he was serious. In case you didn't notice what kind of building it was at the time, Lambert (Graham Greene) later wonders what reason anyone would have to "blow up a department store". Connie's (Colleen Camp) reply to this is, "Ever seen a woman miss a shoe sale?".
  From Quiz: "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" - Part I
25 John McClane and his new best friend have to find out who the 21st President was. Which movie is this in?
Answer: Die Hard: With A Vengeance

Knowing who the 21st President was would tell them which school the bomb was planted in.
    Your options: [ Die Hard 2: Die Harder ] [ None of them ] [ Die Hard ] [ Die Hard: With A Vengeance ]
  From Quiz: Which "Die Hard" Movie Was It?
26 How long has McClane been a cop?
Answer: 11 years

McClane tells the guy he sits next to on the plane that he had been a cop for 11 years because the guy sees his gun.
  From Quiz: 'Die Hard' For Try Hards
27 Who drove the limo?
Answer: Argyle

This guy was pretty funny.
  From Quiz: The Night at Nakatomi
28 What 'tunes' does Argyle (De'voreaux White) play on the limousine tape deck on the way to The Nakatomi Plaza with McClane?
Answer: 'Christmas in Hollis' by Run-D.M.C.

McClane asks, 'Have you got any Christmas music?' Argyle retorts with 'This *is* Christmas music.'
  From Quiz: Die Hard
29 Where abouts does the SWAT team get ambushed by the terrorists?
Answer: The Annex Skywalk

McClane comes and saves the day but all the SWAT team is still killed. Barnes manages to survive thanks to McClane.
  From Quiz: Die Hard 2
30 What was in the crates on the boat that was supposed to be the gold?
Answer: scraps of metal
  From Quiz: Die Hard III
31 What is in the fake bomb with the clear liquid shown at the school?
Answer: Pancake syrup

Simon tells the FBI that a bomb is in the elementary school, and instructs them not to evacuate the school. They go to search the school since Simon didn't say they couldn't. Later, the bomb disposal expert, Charles Weiss, manages to defuse the bomb, before getting splattered, and realizing what it really is.
  From Quiz: Die Hard With A Vengeance
32 Who is the villain in the movie?
Answer: Colonel Stuart

Colonel Stuart is first seen practicing his martial arts skills in his hotel room. A reporter first mentions his name at Dulles International Airport.
  From Quiz: Die Hard 2: Die Harder
33 What is the name of John and Holly's daughter?
Answer: Lucy

Her name is revealed when Holly (her mom) calls home, and Lucy answers the phone saying, "McClane residence, Lucy McClane speaking." She's pretty smart for her age. Lucy is seen again toward the end.
  From Quiz: Die Hard
34 Taking Farrell with him, McClane appropriated a vacant police car. While they were headed to the next terrorist target, Mai Lihn came over the radio pretending to be a police dispatcher. How did they know that she was one of the terrorists?
Answer: Farrell recognized her voice.

After Farrell said that he recognized the voice as the woman he had sold code to (which is why they wanted him dead), McClane tested her by saying that they must have their hands full dealing with a certain kind of police code. When she agreed that this was true he pointed out that the code he mentioned referred to naked people. The terrorists knew that their ruse hadn't worked.
    Your options: [ McClane knew all of the dispatchers in the city and she wasn't one of them. ] [ Only the terrorists were able to get radios working by that point. ] [ Farrell recognized her voice. ] [ She slipped and revealed that she knew Farrell was in the car. ]
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 2
35 Although the main bad guys were English speaking, some of their terrorists for hire, or henchmen if you will, spoke a different language. What was it?
Answer: French

It was interesting to hear the terrorists conversing in French, while Thomas Gabriel (the mastermind behind the act of virtual terrorism), and his girlfriend conversed with the henchmen. The conversation was easily and seamlessly bilingual. The men who committed the acts of violence pretty much all spoke French (initially) while our chief bad guys replied in English. Sub-titles were provided! At one point, after having killed a few of these, McLean asked Gabriel if he was running out of men or if he had called 1-800-henchmen for replacements.
Thomas Gabriel was played by Timothy Olyphant and his very ruthless and effective girlfriend, Mai Lihn, was played by Maggie Q.
  From Quiz: "Live Free or Die Hard" Part 1
36 In "Die Hard 2", what actor played Mr. Trudeau, the head of airport operations?
Answer: Fred Dalton Thompson

Thompson worked as a shoe salesman, truck driver, factory worker, and lawyer before becoming an actor. Thompson can be seen on the archive footage of the Watergate Hearings in the Oliver Stone 1991 movie "JFK". He was one of the active lawyers on the Watergate committee during the trial. Thompson won a special election to the U.S. Senate from his home state of Tennessee in 1994. He was reelected for a full term in 1996. The Republican Senator served from December 2, 1994 until January 3, 2003. When he joined the cast of the television series "Law and Order" as District Attorney Arthur Branch in the Fall of 2002, Thompson became the first serving U.S. Senator to take a regular television acting job. His term did not end until January 3, 2003.
  From Quiz: Remembering the "Die Hard" Series
37 Where does this film take place?
Answer: New York

McClane had a fight with Holly (his wife) over the phone, a year ago. He's now living in New York, and he's in pretty bad shape. As he puts it, "I was working on a nice fat suspension, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo". If you didn't recognise the city, and didn't know that McClane lives in New York, there are still clues. The most obvious one is that McClane has to wear a racist sign in Harlem. Harlem is in New York. This is where he first meets Zeus.
  From Quiz: "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" - Part I
38 As I mentioned in my first "Die Hard" quiz, John McClane is called by at least five names in this film. By what name does Al Powell call him, before he learns John's actual name?
Answer: Roy

John tells Hans Gruber that he's always been partial to Roy Rogers, the famed movie cowboy. Hans therefore calls John "Cowboy," but John specifically asks Al to call him "Roy," which he does, right up until McClane's real name is leaked to the press, and subsequently, the police.
  From Quiz: "Die Hard" for Diehards (Get It?), Part II
39 In which "Die Hard" movie is the head villian named Hans Gruber?
Answer: Die Hard

He's played very well by Alan Rickman.
    Your options: [ Die Hard: With A Vengeance ] [ None of them ] [ Die Hard 2: Die Harder ] [ Die Hard ]
  From Quiz: Which "Die Hard" Movie Was It?
40 What is the name of Holly's nanny?
Answer: Paulina

Her name is Paulina and she is looking after Holly's two children because she is at work.
  From Quiz: 'Die Hard' For Try Hards
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