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Predator (1987) . There are 85 questions on this topic. Last updated Dec 22 2024.
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26 How many people wrote the script for the original 'Predator'?
Answer: 2

Jim Thomas and John Thomas are the brothers who wrote the original story for both 'Predator' movies.
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Whose skull does the predator skin and keep for a trophy?




27 Which character is always telling dirty jokes to Billy?
Answer: Hawkins

Hawkins tells a couple of dirty jokes during the movie, but they are somewhat funny.
28 What code name does Dillon call the radio receiver?
Answer: Blazer 1

He calls the radio after Dutch tells him to.
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29 Who was originally cast to be in the Predator suit?
Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Van Damme was fired because he complained about the filming conditions and that he was not getting paid enough. The scene at the end of the movie where the Predator crawls past Dutch on the tree still has Van Damme in a 'blue suit' with the invisible camouflage laid over it.
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30 What is it that Dutch and his team originally go into the jungle to do?
Answer: Look for crashed helicopter/passengers

Their original mission was to find the helicopter and then find out what had happened to the passengers. It is here they find out that the passengers were taken hostage.
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31 Which actor played Hawkins?
Answer: Shane Black

Hawkins was the first guy killed by the Predator. He didn't have a large role in the movie, and was known for reading comic books and telling dirty jokes.
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32 Only one of the characters in the original 'Predator' has been in another movie before 'Predator' with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was it?
Answer: Mac

Mac was in 'Commando' with Arnold, before 'Predator'. Jesse Ventura (Blain) played a part in 'The Running Man' with Arnold after 'Predator'.
33 After they find the crashed helicopter, who is the first one to climb into it?
Answer: Poncho

Poncho throws a rope up their and climbs into the helicopter. Dillion follows him up next. Whilst up there, Poncho realizes the mission may have some other ulterior motive to it, and expresses this to Dutch.
34 Whose skull does the predator skin and keep for a trophy?
Answer: Billy

You can cleary see his face, before the predator skins him.
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35 How does Dutch know that he and his men can kill the Predator?
Answer: it bleeds

C'mon. 'If it bleeds, we can kill it.' Classic line.
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36 Who is the first person on Dutch's team to be killed by the Predator?
Answer: Hawkins

This happens after Hawkins chases their hostage and finally catches her. The Predator comes at him whilst camouflaged and kills him.
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37 What was the name of the guy on the dog-tag Dutch picked up?
Answer: Jim Hopper

Jim was one of the guys that was hanging from the tree skinned. They said that the Guerrillas must've done that.
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38 Who says, "Do you think you could've found something bigger?"
Answer: Poncho

Poncho makes this joke after everybody realizes that Mac mistakenly killed a pig instead of the Predator. Mac wasn't too pleased by Poncho's remark.
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39 How many Guerillas led the men from the helicopter away?
Answer: 12

You clearly hear Billy say that 12 Guerillas led the survivors from the helicopter crash away, back to their camp.
40 When the team battles the rebels, how many people are killed by a knife?
Answer: 4

One man was slashed in the neck silently, Mac stabbed one and Dutch throws a knife at one man. Stick around. Blain also kills one of the rebels with a knife.
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41 What is the name of the female POW that Dillon insists the team bring with them?
Answer: Anna

Anna realizes that 'this thing is hunting us...all of us.'
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42 What kind of animal is Mac attacked by after Blaine is killed?
Answer: Boar

Mac wrestles with the boar and kills it using his knife.
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43 Who was the guy that carried the Gatling gun?
Answer: Blain

Blain uses this gun to take down the Guerrilla's, later Mac picks it up to try to take down Predator after he killed Blain.
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44 At the start of 'Predator', Dutch's team arrive in the helicopter. Which team member is the only one wearing a suit and tie?
Answer: Mac

Mac is wearing a light brown suit and tie when he jumps out of the helicopter, everyone else is in casual clothes.
45 What is Dutch trying to forget?
Answer: Afghanistan

Obviously they didn't have the best experience in Afghanistan.
46 What joke did Poncho say to Mac about the boar?
Answer: Think you could've found something bigger?

He says this before the team realizes Blain's body is gone.
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47 Why do they capture the female POW?
Answer: she knows the guerillas' entire system

Dillon believes that 'she's gotta know their whole system. She'll give away our position any chance she gets. No deal.' She goes with anyhow.
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48 When defenseless, what does the Predator do?
Answer: Sets off its self-destruct system

When the Predator sets off its self-destruct system, Dutch has to hot-foot it out of there, or he will be blown to smithereens.
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49 Where does this movie take place?
Answer: Central America

Central America is where it takes place. Anna speaks the Central American tongue, which is Spanish.
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50 Why does Mac flip out?
Answer: He saw the Predator after it killed Blain.

Mac spotted the Predator and it flashed its eyes at him, which understandably freaked Mac out.
Question Reference: Quiz: Predator.