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The Sum of All Fears Trivia Quiz

This quiz deals with the 2002 film based on Tom Clancy's novel of the same name.

A multiple-choice quiz by Bazingstoke. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Bazingstoke

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
367,490

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who starred as Jack Ryan in this film? Hint

Harrison Ford

Sam Neill

Alec Baldwin

Ben Affleck

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who directed "The Sum Of All Fears"? Hint

John McTiernan

Phil Alden Robinson

Philip Noyce

Stephen Spielberg

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Question 3 of 10

3. In which US city is a nuclear bomb detonated at a football stadium? Hint

Washington

Chicago

Baltimore

Philadelphia

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Question 4 of 10

4. In what disguise was the bomb smuggled into the USA? Hint

Pest Control Spraying Equipment

Juke Box

Cigarette Machine

Refrigerator

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Question 5 of 10

5. Why is Jack Ryan, a young CIA historian, selected by the head of the CIA to advise on the Russian president, Nemerov? Hint

Ryan had majored in nuclear weaponry at Yale.

Ryan had once been a secret agent inside the Kremlin.

Ryan had previously studied Nemerov and written a paper on him.

Ryan had studied at the Sorbonne together with Nemerov's grandson.

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which actor played William Cabot, director of the CIA? Hint

Morgan Freeman

Bruce McGill

James Earl Jones

Harris Yulin

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which nation originally owned the nuclear bomb detonated in the USA? Hint

Israel

USA

Syria

USSR

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Question 8 of 10

8. In the book, the bomb is detonated by Islamic extremists. What faction is responsible in the film? Hint

Libyan separatists

KGB agents

Neo-Nazis

North Korean revolutionaries

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was the code name of Anatoly Grushkov, President Nemerov's senior adviser, who was a CIA double-agent? Hint

Spinnaker

Sextant

Schooner

Stanchion

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Question 10 of 10

10. When John Clark, Ryan's main field operative tracks down Ghazi, the Syrian scrap dealer who sold the bomb, Ghazi is seriously ill - from what is he suffering? Hint

Radiation sickness

Malaria

Tuberculosis

Lung cancer

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who starred as Jack Ryan in this film?

Answer: Ben Affleck

There was great surprise in the film world when Ben Affleck was given this role, as he was much younger, in a film set in 2002, than Alec Baldwin when he played Ryan in "The Hunt for Red October",set in 1984, and than Harrison Ford when he played Ryan in its two sequels "Patriot Games" and "Clear And Present Danger". (Harrison Ford was offered this film as well, but declined).

2. Who directed "The Sum Of All Fears"?

Answer: Phil Alden Robinson

Philip Noyce directed both Jack Ryan films starring Harrison Ford, and was also involved in the early development stages of this one, but he and Ford could not agree over script problems, so both fell by the wayside. Phil Robinson's major directing successes before this were "Field of Dreams" and "Sneakers".

3. In which US city is a nuclear bomb detonated at a football stadium?

Answer: Baltimore

Having seen the terrorists deliver the bomb by sea to Baltimore, the plot thickens when the President of the USA, accompanied by the head of the CIA, attends a football game in the city and is rushed away from the stadium just before the blast. Filming of the football stadium actually took place in Montreal's Olympic stadium, and the teams on the field were represented by the Toronto Argonauts and the Montreal Alouettes.

4. In what disguise was the bomb smuggled into the USA?

Answer: Cigarette Machine

Three Russian scientists have been hard at work converting the bomb and carefully disguising it, before they themselves mysteriously disappear.

5. Why is Jack Ryan, a young CIA historian, selected by the head of the CIA to advise on the Russian president, Nemerov?

Answer: Ryan had previously studied Nemerov and written a paper on him.

Nemerov, virtually unknown in the west, came suddenly to power when President Zorkin died.

6. Which actor played William Cabot, director of the CIA?

Answer: Morgan Freeman

Cabot was the lynch-pin in the negotiations and manoeuvres to attempt to get the Soviets to back down. Bruce McGill played National Security Adviser Revill in this film; James Earl Jones played CIA DDI, Vice Admiral Greer, in the other three Jack Ryan films, and Harris Yulin played James Cutter in "Clear and Present Danger".

7. Which nation originally owned the nuclear bomb detonated in the USA?

Answer: Israel

The bomb was on an Israeli Skyhawk shot down over the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War.

8. In the book, the bomb is detonated by Islamic extremists. What faction is responsible in the film?

Answer: Neo-Nazis

The leader of the neo-Nazis is an Austrian billionaire Richard Dressler, played by Alan Bates.

9. What was the code name of Anatoly Grushkov, President Nemerov's senior adviser, who was a CIA double-agent?

Answer: Spinnaker

Spinnaker was played by Michael Byrne, probably best known for playing the Nazi Colonel Vogel in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".

10. When John Clark, Ryan's main field operative tracks down Ghazi, the Syrian scrap dealer who sold the bomb, Ghazi is seriously ill - from what is he suffering?

Answer: Radiation sickness

Ghazi had dug up the unexploded bomb on the Golan Heights and later sold it to Olson, a South African arms dealer.

Source: Author Bazingstoke

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