Cube 2: Hypercube Trivia Quiz

Answer: White

All the rooms in the cube are white; however, they have panels in the middle of the walls, ceiling and floor, and ladders. In the original 'Cube', the colours of the rooms were often relevant to the plot. In particular, white rooms were where discoveries were made, while conflicts, deaths and injuries often occurred in red rooms.

The cube also has a glossier, more hi-tech appearance in general. It is revealed at the end that there was only one room in the cube, endlessly replicated.

Answer: 10

The people inside the cube are, in order of appearance: Becky, Thomas, Kate, Simon, Max, Sasha, Jerry, Mrs. Paley, Julia and Phil (who is not part of the main group). Becky only appears briefly before seemingly being killed, while Thomas is handcuffed to a briefcase.

He later tries to hang himself and is found by Max, but commits suicide later on by handcuffing himself to the wall and swallowing the key as a transparent wall moves through the room. Kate tries to pick the lock, but is forced to leave Thomas to his fate.

It is unknown what the wall actually does to him, but given that his plastic briefcase is broken and shredded after the wall passes through it, it's probably just as well.

Answer: Izon

Izon are a weapons manufacturing company and the corporation behind the cube, and everyone in the cube either works for them or has connections to them, although two characters' connections are revealed much later in the film. Becky is an Izon employee and Simon is a private detective commissioned to find her, although he initially claims to be a management consultant. Jerry is an engineer who helped design the cube (like Worth in the first film, and judging by Thomas' comments about 'the first one' having rules, he was also involved with the design of the first cube). Max is a computer programme designer who works for one of Izon's subsidiaries. Julia is a corporate lawyer who represented Izon. Mrs. Paley is a retired theoretical mathematician and former Izon employee, and named her dog after the company.

Several characters have flashbacks of the last thing they did before they woke up in the cube; Izon kidnapped them and drugged them before wrapping them in plastic and putting them in the cube. Julia, for example, was at a party, hence why she is wearing a red party dress. Unlike the first film, the characters keep their own clothes rather than wearing prison uniforms with their names on.

Answer: Mrs. Paley

After finding the body of Phil Rosenzweig, a quantum chaos physicist and Nobel Prize nominee, in one of the rooms, the group also notice that both Phil and the walls are covered in equations. Phil reveals he is alive when he suddenly wakes up, only to collapse and die for real. Meanwhile, Mrs. Paley is distracted when she sees another version of herself in one of the adjoining rooms. This Mrs. Paley begs the original one for help, before another Simon stabs her in the back and warns the group not to trust her, before dying himself.

Kate and Sasha later come across a room with the decaying corpses of the group lying on the ground, as well as Thomas' corpse hanging from a wall, and speculates that they gave up and essentially died of dehydration.

Answer: Needles containing a solution with a flesh-eating virus

Unlike the first film, where powers of prime numbers indicated that a room was booby-trapped, there is no way of knowing if a room in this cube is safe, as traps can appear without warning. Several rooms have reversed gravity where the characters end up walking on the walls and ceilings, or even microgravity. The crystal beams appear in the room where the alternative versions of Mrs. Paley and Simon appear; after Simon kills Mrs. Paley, a crystal beam emerges from the wall and decapitates him, and the same thing happens to an alternative Kate later on. Simon also suspects Mrs. Paley of being a spy and ties her up, but the crystal beams emerge from the wall. He tries to free her, but she grabs his arm and he stabs her in the stomach and leaves her to be crushed by the pillars.

The tesseract is one of the most bizarre traps in the film. It starts off as a simple square, but grows and evolves whenever anyone in the room moves. Sasha, who is blind, hears it due to her excellent hearing and wakes the others up. Unfortunately, Mrs. Paley triggers the tesseract and it catches and kills Jerry, ripping him to pieces. Sasha is trapped in the room and Kate has to go back for her, and the tesseract becomes big enough to fill the room; however, Kate realises it is sensitive to their movements and orders Sasha to stay still until it shrinks back down to a square, before the two make their escape.

The flesh-eating virus appears in the prequel to 'Cube', 'Cube Zero'. Rykjin, the first cube prisoner to appear on screen, has what he thinks is acid sprayed in his face. It turns out to be a solution containing a flesh-eating virus, which dissolves his body. Jellico, another prisoner, is injected with it when she steps on a needle by mistake.

Answer: Becky and Jerry

Quentin, the aggressive policeman in 'Cube', was arguably more dangerous than the death traps, due to murdering half the cast. However, Simon goes one better. Unlike the characters in 'Cube', who were not allowed personal belongings or accessories (except Leaven, who was allowed to keep her glasses so she could solve the equations), the characters in 'Cube 2: Hypercube' have theirs with them. In Simon's case, he has a knife, and makes good use of it. Maddened by hunger and stress, he wanders the cube and finds another Jerry, after seeing the original one dying, and kills him. He also finds another Becky and tells her that he was sent to find her; she hugs him in relief, only for him to stab her in the back.

Due to time being distorted in the cube, Simon ages several years and is shown to have survived by killing and eating multiple versions of Becky and Jerry. He also takes the Jerries' watches and the Beckies' name tags as trophies.

Answer: Dehydration/old age

Max and Julia end up separated from the others and Max tells Julia about how he developed the computer game 'Relativity', but it was stolen by a business called Cyberthrill and he wants to sue them. Julia warns him not to try suing them, as Cyberthrill are connected with Izon, and that she knows a lot about them due to working for them. The two realise that they will probably die soon and kiss, and one thing leads to another as they have sex while floating. However, what they do not realise is that the room is not only a microgravity room, but time is also dilated in there, and as a result, they age rapidly and die. Kate peers through the door and sees their emaciated corpses floating in midair.

('Being cut into cubes' is a reference to the beginning of 'Cube', where a prisoner named Alderson walks into a room and suddenly freezes before collapsing into a pile of bloody cubes, and is then revealed to have been diced by an almost invisible wire grid.)

Answer: Sasha

The characters discuss Alex Trusk, a notorious hacker whose exploits include hacking the Pentagon, but little do they know that he - or rather, she - is in the cube with them! Sasha is actually Alex Trusk, Sasha being a diminutive of Alexander in Russia and other Slavic language-speaking countries. When Sasha is alone with Kate, she confesses that she was behind the development of the cube, and that she is on the run from Izon, as they were putting people in the cube and she tried to stop them, so they went after her. She hid inside the cube as she believed it was the one place they would not look for her. Unfortunately, she turns out to be wrong.

There is actually a little foreshadowing about Sasha going into the cube of her own volition - during the flashback sequences, unlike the others, she is not shown unconscious and wrapped in plastic. An empty bed appears, presumably intended for her.

Answer: The time when the hypercube will implode

Sasha warns Kate that time is running out and the cube, which is actually a four-dimensional cube or hypercube, will eventually collapse in on itself. Simon tries to enter the room and Kate stabs him in the eye with his own knife, only for Simon to immediately appear behind her, now visibly aged and with a missing eye, and grab Alex. Alex states that they are all dead, and Simon snaps her neck, killing her. He attacks Kate, but she kills him by punching him in the throat.

The number 60659 appears throughout the hypercube, at various points in the film. Unlike the numbers appearing in the first film, it is not an indicator of whether or not the rooms are safe to enter, but it is still significant. Kate, who previously wrote the number down on her arm, notices that all the watches Simon has stolen have the same time on them: 6:05. She realises that 6:06:59 is the time when the hypercube will implode, as the walls of the hypercube start disintegrating around her. She steals the memory stick that Sasha was wearing around her neck and uses it to unlock a panel on the floor, revealing a void. When the time is 6:06:59, Kate jumps into the void and the hypercube implodes.

Answer: No

It isn't until the end of the film that we find out that Kate is not a psychotherapist, as she claims: she is a secret agent working for Izon, who followed Sasha into the cube. It explains why she is so keen to protect Sasha in the room with the tesseract, and why she takes a special interest in her, and also explains why she is able to hold her own against Simon in a fight. When she leaves the hypercube, she wakes up on a shimmering surface in a mysterious facility and is helped up by a pair of soldiers. She drops Sasha's memory stick into a small container, where it floats. However, while she survived the hypercube, she does not survive the film. One of the men shoots her in the back of the head. From Kate's backward glance and lack of resistance, it can be inferred that she knew she was on a suicide mission. An Izon operative then announces that 'Phase 2' is terminated.

In the longer version of the ending, the Izon agents praise Kate for making it out of the hypercube alive, and inform her that she was inside the hypercube for six minutes and 59 seconds. The hypercube itself was an experiment in creating pocket dimensions.