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  In the Line of Fire   great trivia quiz  
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Some questions about the 1993 film starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, and Rene Russo.
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Questions on the Clint Eastwood movie, 'In the Line of Fire'. Clint plays a secret service agent trying to catch a would-be Presidential assassin played by John Malkovich.
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Where did Mitch Leary receive the training that made him into the deadly adversary that he proves himself to be throughout the movie?

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In the Line of Fire Trivia Questions
1. Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) chews out his new partner early in the film for being late. What is this new partner's first name?

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Answer: Al

Dylan McDermott plays Agent Al D'Andrea.

2. What is Clint's character investigating at the start of the film?

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Answer: Counterfeit money

He is undercover posing as a possible buyer of counterfeit money. He nearly gets his partner killed.

3. During the first phone conversation that Frank has with 'Booth' (John Malkovich), 'Booth' uses a word that, we later learn, Frank had to look up to understand its meaning. What word was it?

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Answer: panache

Mitch Leary initially wants to be called 'Booth' instead of 'Oswald' because he feels that John Wilkes Booth showed panache (a flair for the dramatic) by leaping onto the stage after shooting President Lincoln dead at the Ford Theater. Frank admits to Lilly Raines (Rene Russo) that he had to look up the word 'panache' afterwards.

4. How is Clint first alerted to the threat from John Malkovich's character?

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Answer: His landlady

His landlady calls the police after finding a montage of assassination pictures in Malkovich's room.

5. When Frank is first alerted to the threat of Mitch Leary, Leary is using the fake last name of 'McCrawley.' What state, according to his landlady, does 'McCrawley' hail from?

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Answer: Colorado

As the landlady and Frank are about to enter Leary's apartment, she mentions that 'McCrawley' is from Colorado. Shortly thereafter, the Secret Service techs learn that someone with that name from that state died 30 years back -- Leary somehow obtained the real McCrawley's birth certificate in order to establish the fake identity.

6. What is Rene Russo's character's name?

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Answer: Lilly

Clint annoys her by pretending he thinks she's a secretary when they first meet.

7. Frank tries to kiss Lilly Raines (Rene Russo) as he is playing the piano in a hotel bar, but she backs away and leaves. As she is exiting the bar, what song does he suddenly start playing?

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Answer: As Time Goes By

Presumably since the first lines of the song are, 'You must remember this -- a kiss is still a kiss.' Plus, Frank had just lapsed into a lame Humphrey Bogart impersonation before making his big move, and "As Time Goes By" was prominently featured in the film "Casablanca," starring Bogart.

8. What event or state of events makes it harder for the secret service to protect the President?

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Answer: Re-election campaign

It's the President's re-election campaign so he wants to be out and about.

9. Which foreign leader is visiting the President early in the film?

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Answer: President of France

Clint's first assignment back on the President's team is to protect him during his tour with the French President.

10. Frank finds a magazine devoted to crafting models in Leary's apartment, and later buys a copy of that magazine at a newsstand. What is the publication called?

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Answer: New Age Modeler

As far as I can tell, there is no such magazine...but "Finescale Modeler" and "Radio Control Modeler" are real publications.

11. Clint's character is haunted by his duty in Dallas with Kennedy: what other President does he mention working for?

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Answer: Nixon

He fell out with Nixon's chief of staff (presumably Haldeman).

12. Where does Clint first spot Malkovich?

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Answer: In Lafayette Park in Washington, DC

They trace one of Booth's phone calls as coming from 'right across the street - he's in Lafayette Park'. They rush out and Clint spots Malkovich dressed as a hippy.

13. Under which assumed alias does Mitch Leary assure his invitation to a campaign contributors' banquet by donating a large sum of money to the President's re-election campaign?

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Answer: James Carney

Bill Watts is actually the name of Gary Cole's character, the cranky Secret Service agent in charge of the presidential detail.

14. Where does the bank clerk, Pam Madsen, come from?

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Answer: Minneapolis

She's from Minneapolis which is where 'James Carney' falsely claims is his home city. Bad luck, Pam...

15. What is the name of the non-existent software company that Leary establishes as a cover for his campaign contributor identity?

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Answer: Microspan

He mentions this once or twice, and we clearly see the company name printed on a corporate check.

16. How does Malkovich get close to the President?

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Answer: He becomes a political donor

He writes a fat cheque to the re-election campaign and gets invited to a dinner for the President.

17. How much does Leary contribute to the President's re-election campaign?

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Answer: $50,000

We're never told exactly where Leary got all that money, but we do see him writing out the check for $50,000.

18. Frank Horrigan and Lilly Raines share a quiet moment eating ice cream on the steps of a notable Washington, DC edifice. Which one?

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Answer: The Lincoln Memorial

The statue of Lincoln is directly behind them as they look out across the Reflecting Pool at the Washington Monument. They return to this spot in the last shot of the film.

19. Where did Mitch Leary receive the training that made him into the deadly adversary that he proves himself to be throughout the movie?

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Answer: the CIA

We're eventually told that Leary was a 'wetboy' -- a CIA assassin trained to eliminate specific targets, usually through rather serpentine means.

20. Finish this quote from Frank Horrigan to Lilly Raines: 'A good ________ can be just as effective as a gun.'

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Answer: glare

Frank says this after Lilly asks why he never wears sunglasses while on protective duty. 'I like the crazies to see the whites of my eyes,' he replies, then adds the above quote.

21. As Leary is testing his hand-made composite plastic gun out in the woods, he draws the attention of two hunters, one of whom asks if he can fire the gun himself. What does the hunter shoot with Leary's gun?

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Answer: a duck

Leary takes his gun back, reloads it, and immediately kills one of the hunters. The remaining hunter asks, 'Why did you do that?' Leary replies only with, 'Why'd you shoot that duck?' before killing him as well. Not a warm guy, that Mitch Leary.

22. According to Mitch Leary, President John F. Kennedy had a favorite poem. Who wrote it?

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Answer: Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger wrote "I Have a Rendezvous With Death," which Leary claims was JFK's favorite poem. Frank Horrigan's furious reply to Leary -- incorporating, in part, the title of this poem -- is perhaps the funniest moment in the movie.

23. Leary's hand-made plastic gun is easily smuggled into the contributors' banquet, but bullets are metallic. How does he sneak the bullets through the metal detector at the banquet hall?

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Answer: He hides them in a rabbit's foot on his keychain

As anyone who's been to the airport knows, since keys are metallic, you drop them in a basket before you pass through the metal detector. Pretty clever, there, Mitch.

24. While trapped in a darkened, stalled glass elevator with Leary, Frank gives a two-word command to Lilly Raines (via his hand-held radio) that solves her problem of how to instruct the snipers to shoot Leary and not Frank. What are these two words?

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Answer: aim high

As Frank is lying on the floor of the car and Leary is standing, firing at the top of the darkened car would theoretically take out Leary and leave Frank relatively unharmed... but somehow, they miss.

25. Who, in the end, actually kills Mitch Leary?

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Answer: Leary kills himself

After the snipers fail to kill Leary, a brief struggle with Frank lands Leary outside the elevator car, where he hangs on for dear life. Frank offers to help him up, but Leary refuses the helping hand, deliberately lets go of the car with a smile, and falls to his death.

26. What happens to Frank Horrigan at the end of the movie?

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Answer: He retires

Frank finally realizes that it's time to hang up his spurs... and notes that, thanks to the press 'plastering his face everywhere,' undercover work would no longer be an option for him, anyway.

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