Inception Trivia

1. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Cobb, a man who makes his living by pirating information from people's dreams. When the movie opens, where do we find Cobb?

From Quiz Inception

Answer: washed up on a beach

During this scene Cobb is taken, by armed guards, to visit a very old Japanese man, who asks if Cobb has come to kill him. We are then taken back in time, to find how Cobb ended up on that beach. We learn that Cobb has actually entered limbo, a very dangerous place in the dream world, to retrieve that man, Saito, who was dropped into limbo. Saito was considerably younger when he dropped into limbo, but time does not flow at the same speed in various stages of dreams. Saito is played by Ken Watanabe.

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Answer: Murdering his wife

Although invading people's dreams and stealing information are illegal acts that Cobb commits, the police are only after him because he's accused of murdering his wife, Mal. It's found out in the film that Mal actually killed herself and framed Cobb to make it look like a homicide. Mal did this in hopes that it would help convince Cobb to commit suicide with her.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: A top

Dom's totem was a top. Throughout the movie, Dom spun his top almost every time he woke up from his dream. The top would spin steadily and never fall down if he was dreaming. On the other hand, the top would topple eventually if he was awake. The spinning top was Mal's idea. She used it to keep track of her dream and reality. Arthur's totem was a red die. Ariadne made her own totem, which was a hollowed chess piece. At the end of the movie, Dom arrived at his home in the US. After spinning his top, he rushed to greet his two children, James and Phillipa. As the camera zoomed out, the last scene featured the spinning top which began to wobble.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: Cobb had performed it once before on Mal.

Cobb performed inception on Mal in limbo and planted the idea that the world they were in wasn't real. This was so they could escape back to the real world, but the plan backfired. Mal still thought her world was fake, even once they had returned to reality.

From Quiz An Idea is Like a Virus

Answer: a chess bishop

Cobb used a top that belonged to his wife. In a dream, the top would spin continuously and never topple. Arthur used the loaded die. He told Ariadne he couldn't let her touch his totem, because it would defeat the purpose. Only he knew the weight of his own die to keep track of reality. After Ariadne created her totem, we see that it is a chess piece; a bishop. She then knocked it over to make sure it worked.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: Miles (Cobb's father-in-law)

When the attempt to gain information from Saito's mind fails, Cobb's dream architect is taken away. Cobb then visits his father-in-law, Miles, to acquire a new architect. Miles briefly tries to convince Cobb to find a more honest way of making a living and Cobb replies that he is only doing what Miles taught him to do. Cobb asserts that he never taught Cobb to be a thief, only to navigate other people's minds. Despite his protests, Miles does hook Cobb up with one of his students, Ariadne, to be Cobb's new architect. Miles is played by Michael Caine and Ariadne is played by Ellen Page.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: Cobb's projection of Mal could potentially ruin their plans.

Cobb explains to Ariadne that if he knows the layout of the dream, his projection of Mal will know it, too. And if she knows, she'll make the job extremely difficult and may even ruin their plans. Mal almost does ruin their plans, later in the movie, when she shoots Fischer in the third dream layer.

From Quiz An Idea is Like a Virus

Answer: Los Angeles

Robert accompanied his father's body to Los Angeles from Sydney, which, according to Saito, was one of the longest flights in the world. The lengthy flight gave Cobb and his team plenty of time to knock out Robert, enter his dreams, and plant their idea. After Cobb told the team that Ariadne would join them, they began their flight from Sydney to the United States. In exchange for completing the job, Saito would pull some strings and get the charges against Cobb dropped. The authorities believed that Cobb had killed his wife, when in fact, she had committed suicide. They also sought his arrest for the crimes he committed in stealing from people's dreams.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: in an airplane

With inception requiring a very difficult plot, a minimum of ten hours is needed to keep Fischer asleep and connected to the machine. Fischer has to fly across the Pacific, to bring his father's body home to the States and the flight is more than ten hours. Saito has bought the airline and makes sure that the first class compartment only contains Fischer and the members of the team. Cobb drugs Fischer's water, knocking him out, and everyone quickly hooks up to the machine and enters the dream. This is a particularly dangerous place for Cobb to be, because if things go wrong (and when don't they?) he will be arrested for murdering his wife, when he tries to clear customs and enter the States.

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Answer: disappointed

Fischer reveals this to "Browning" (really Eames) in the first dream layer. He says that he thinks that his father doesn't love him; he's only disappointed in him. However, in the third dream layer, Fischer's dying father tells him that he's disappointed that Fischer tried to be like him. He wants his son to be his own man. This is the moment that successfully plants the idea that Fischer should break up his father's empire.

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Answer: in a van, being driven by Yusuf

In the first level of the dream, they manage to kidnap Fischer, to submerge him in the second layer of the dream. This is done while Yusuf, the pharmacist in the group (the one who designed the drugs), is driving the white van, containing his dreaming passengers. Unfortunately Fischer has received some training in the art of protecting his dreams from being plundered, so his subconscious is responding with some very aggressive manifestations. While driving around, the van is being pursued and shot at. It is at this point that Saito is shot. Yusuf is played by Dileep Rao.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: "we'll be together"

This line is repeated several times throughout the film by both Cobb and Mal. It is originally mentioned by Cobb when he and Mal are about to get run over by a train together.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: They will go into limbo.

Limbo is a state of dreaming from which it is very difficult to escape. Time does not move at the same pace as in the real world, and years spent in limbo can take only a few minutes in the real world. It is very easy to be caught up in limbo and become confused about the fact that it isn't real. Cobb and Mal spent years in limbo together and she became so confused she thought she was still there when they really were back in the real world. In the inception operation two members of the team are killed and have to be retrieved from limbo.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: bishop

Totems are helpful objects that can determine whether or not one is dreaming and if one is in another person's dream or their own. The idea of a totem was established by Mal, who had created her own spinning top that spun forever when in a dream. Cobb uses Mal's spinning top as his own totem, and Arthur's totem is a loaded die. Ariadne then stays up late one night, building her totem, which is seen as a shiny yellow bishop piece.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: with a kick

Early in the movie, a kick is described as that jolt you feel, when you dream about falling, that wakes you up. At one point we see Cobb being kicked awake by being dropped into a bathtub full of water.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: music

Still being pursued and shot at, Yusuf has to initiate the first level of the kick. He does this by driving the van off of a bridge. He plays music, which is heard by his sleeping passengers and therefore also heard by their incarnations in the other two dream levels, to indicate the kick is coming. Because time travels differently in each level of the dream (with each successive level taking longer), the team member in charge of the kick in each level knows that he has a certain amount of time to set up his kick, to wake them in his level at the same time. Yusuf only enters the first level of the dream and is charged with the welfare of the dreamers (including the kick to wake them) in his level. Arthur (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) enters the second level of the dream, but does not proceed to the third. He becomes responsible for the dreamers in the second level, including the kick. Eames (played by Tom Hardy), goes into the third level and is responsible for the kick at that level.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: Saito and Robert Fischer

Saito is shot in the first level of the dream, by one of Fischer's subconscious manifestations that is trying to rescue Fischer. The injury becomes less immediately serious, as he drops down two more levels of the dream, but eventually catches up to him and he dies. It is he whom Cobb is rescuing from limbo at the beginning of the movie. Robert Fischer is shot by Mal, in the third level of the dream, just before inception is achieved. Mal is a subconscious manifestation of Cobb's mind, and she is trying to sabotage the mission, so that Cobb will stay in limbo with her. Cobb and Ariadne rescue Fischer from limbo in time for the mission to be achieved. Ariadne takes Fischer up while, Cobb stays in limbo to go after Saito.

From Quiz Inception

Answer: To rescue Saito

Saito is stuck in limbo, after dying earlier in the movie. Cobb tells Ariadne that he's staying back, not to be with Mal, but instead to rescue Saito. And he isn't lying. Cobb then tells Mal that she's not his wife and that she's just a shade of his wife. He lets her go and goes on to search for Saito. Saito is later found by Cobb, as an elderly man in limbo. But, do the two of them get out? That's all based on how the viewer interprets the ending.

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