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  Difficult Backdraft Trivia    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This is a quiz about one of my all-time favorite movies, 'Backdraft.' If you are a fan of the movie, you should have no problem with this quiz. All answers to the questions can be found in the movie. Have fun!
Difficult, 25 Qns, SnBRoC916, Feb 06 10
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  Multiple Choice Quiz about Backdraft    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
If you liked the movie, you'll like my quiz. Good luck.
Average, 5 Qns, fizzbee, Apr 25 09
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fizzbee
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  25 Questions about Backdraft    
Multiple Choice
 25 Qns
This quiz is about one of my favorite movies, 'Backdraft'. Good luck!
Difficult, 25 Qns, whitee62, Mar 31 11
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Backdraft Trivia Questions
1. What was the location (city) and year that the flashback sequence of the movie took place?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Chicago, 1971

2. What year does the initial scenes of the movie take place?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 1971

The first scenes take place in 1971. The whole movie of course takes place in the Chicago metropolitan area.

3. What time of day did the flashback scenes take place?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Morning

During the flashback fire in 1971, we see 'Axe' bringing a little girl to safety, from the apartment-house fire. She is wearing a pair of pink feet pajamas. This leads us to believe that the fire takes place sometime in the early a.m. hours of the day.

4. What engine number do Brian and his dad ride on in the first scene?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 46

Although Steven and Brian's father was in Fighting 17, he rides to the fire in engine number 46. Remember, 46 always had the ladder in both time periods.

5. How old were Stephen and Brian McCaffrey during the time that the flashbacks took place?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 12 and 7

You can check this answer by viewing the credits at the end of the movie.

6. What company is John Adcox, 'Axe', in during the first scene of the movie (in 1971)?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 46

Although Adcox is Fighting 17 for the majority of the movie with Steven, he is a member of 46 at the beginning. Watch the scene as they ride to the fire. They show a shot of 'Axe' riding on the side of the fire engine. If you look at his helmet, it has the number 46.

7. What two objects in the fire station formed the figure of a cross, visible as the fire truck departed from the station, for the first (1971) fire?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: A Ceiling Light and the Fire Pole

As young Stephen McCaffrey stands under the archway of the fire station, watching as the firetruck departs, the cross figure becomes clearly visible.

8. What is the serial number on the front of the McCaffrey father's helmet (I do not mean the number 17, but the number underneath it)?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 4764

You can see this in the beginning when Brian puts the helmet on and then when his father looks down at him from the balcany.

9. What was the name of the shop, which was in visible sight when the McCaffrey father pointed out the fire location to young Brian, as companies 17 and 46 approached the fire scene?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Flowers by Sheryl

10. When the Mcaffrey father's helmet falls to the ground after the explosion, you see two things. One is the name McCaffrey. The other is a number. What number is on his helmet?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 992

11. What magazine puts Brian on the cover?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Life

12. How does Brian almost manage to convince the captain, over at station service, not to place him with his brother Stephen's company, 17?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: He bribes him with a case of scotch

When Tim asked Brian how he knew that he was going to be placed with co. 115, Brian replies: 'Lucky guess...and a case of scotch to the captain over at station service.' Still, Brian ends up joining co. 17, after Stephen has a talk with Chief Fitzgerald.

13. After the jump forward 20 years, we are in a bar. What is the name of the bartender who talks to Brian?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Willie

'Hey Willie, throw me brew!' 'Hold on, I am talking to the fire chief here!'

14. What other relation of Tim Krizminski's (Brian's friend from the academy) works for the fire department?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Cousin

Outside of the bar, just as two fire trucks ride past, Tim shouts: 'Make us proud, guys! Hey, McCaffrey, that's my cousins company!'

15. What were the names of the three financial workers, who died at the hands of the arsonist?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Alan Seagrave, Donald Cosgrove and Jeffrey Holcomb

16. What are the numbers of the two fire engines that drive past the bar on their way to the first backdraft (list in the order which they pass the bar)?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 6 and 24

The first fire engine to drive by is engine 6, which is the ladder truck. After they move outside, engine 24 drives by.

17. What type of car did the first arson victim drive?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 1987 Porsche

18. What is the name of the driver for engine 17?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Otis

'Call the box Otis. We're going to need backup on this one!' (quote from Steven).

19. Who does Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale get his nickname from?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Ronald Bartel

Ronald Bartel gave Donald Rimgale the nickname 'Shadow,' after Rimgale suffered severe burns, as a result of an accident involving a tub of phosphorus. This accident occurred while Rimgale was attempting to rescue Bartel from a warehouse fire, some time prior to Bartel's imprisonment. Bartel tells the story to Brian, in length, just before his parole hearing. At one point he comments: 'The explosion lit him (Rimgale) up so bright, left his shadow on the wall.'

20. What is the name of Brian's friend and fellow probationary fireman who joins 46 (contrary to his original assignment to 17)?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Tim

21. At Chief Fitzgerald's retirement party, a group of men from co. 17 are gathered around reading about Brian's 'act of heroism' in the newspaper. What name was given to the mannequin which Brian 'rescued,' by the newspapers?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Anna Rodriguez

The mannequin is also given a job description by the newspapers, which is that of a seamstress for the North Shore Clothing Co.

22. What company is Brian originally assigned to?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: 115

Tim, 'McCaffrey, what's the matter with you? Aren't you a little curious?' Brian, 'Engine 115, right?'

23. During the scene in which 'Axe' makes a toast to Tim and Brian, who is the fellow firefighter whom 'Axe' jokes with, saying that he has cut him from his will?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Ray Santos

24. In the first fire that Brian goes to (where he is a firefighter, not the first backdraft), what is the building?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: Garment Factory

The apartment complex is when Brian finally quits, the high-rise is after Brian quits, and the chemical plant is the final fire.

25. When Brian and Steven are talking on their father's old boat, a barge goes by in the background. What does it say on the side of the barge?

From Quiz Backdraft

Answer: MSC8400 Material Service

You can make this out as the barge goes by behind them. Interestingly enough, in one of the shots about five seconds earlier, the angle shows the view down the river and there is no barge in site! A little mistake!

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