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1.
  Twelve Monkeys    
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 10 Qns
This is a quiz about the magnificent film "Twelve Monkeys" by Terry Gilliam. The movie starred Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt, and was released in 1995.
Average, 10 Qns, nerzack, Feb 07 08
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  Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'    
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 15 Qns
I'm a big Brad Pitt fan, I don't think he's just a pretty boy, but a really good actor. One of his best roles, in my opinion, was in the Terry Gilliam film, '12 Monkeys'.
Average, 15 Qns, curiouslux, Feb 07 08
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Goines, at one point can be heard saying, 'We are consumers.' As what other character did Brad Pitt say the exact same thing?

From Quiz "Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'"





Twelve Monkeys Trivia Questions
1. What was the name of the character played by Bruce Willis?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: James Cole

James Cole, the main character of the film, was a convict sent from the future to prevent the spread of a lethal virus which killed about 99% of Earth's population in 1996 and 1997. Scientists from the future believed that a secret army called "The Twelve Monkeys" spread the virus.

2. What is Pitt's character's full name?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Jeffrey Goines

3. In what city did James and Dr. Railly meet for the first time?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: Baltimore

James was brought in to the Baltimore Medical Institution, where Dr. Railly worked, after he attacked police officers. Dr. Kathryn Railly, played by Madeleine Stowe, was a psychiatrist.

4. While in the mental institution, why does Goines all of a sudden get very upset?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Someone is in his chair

Out of the blue, he'll scream at the top of his lungs for someone to get out of his chair.

5. When Dr. Railly asked James the reason why he was there, what did he answer?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: He was a good observer.

What Kathryn meant was why James was in the institution, but he thought she meant why he was brought to the past. The scientists sent him to the past because he was a good observer. He took a spider from the institution as a specimen for the scientists, but he had no place to carry it so he was forced to eat it.

6. What does Goines call the human race when talking to James (Bruce Willis) when he says 'We are all___________.'?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: monkeys

This in fact later leads to the inspiration of the name of his organization.

7. Why did Jeffrey Goines think James was in the institution?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: Because of the system

"We are not producing anymore. We are just consumers", said Jeffrey. Jeffrey Goines was the son of a famous virologist. Brad Pitt portrayed Jeffrey, in a role which gave him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination.

8. Goines, at one point can be heard saying, 'We are consumers.' As what other character did Brad Pitt say the exact same thing?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Tyler Durden

It's great to hear that said more than once.

9. On what planet did L.J. Washington find himself?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: Ogo

L.J. thought himself a member of "an intellectual elite preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto". At least he realized that he was mentally divergent.

10. What is Goine's diet like?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Vegetarian

Being an animal activist, Goines strongly stresses how he doesn't eat meat later in the film.

11. Where in time did James find himself in his second time travel?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: World War I

After his failure to collect specimens from the past, the scientists sent James back to what they thought was October 1996. In error they sent him to the French trenches in World War I, where he was injured just before the scientists sent him correctly to 1996.

12. In her lecture about visions and the "Kassandra Syndrome" at the university, Kathryn showed a photo of a French soldier who became crazy and started speaking in English about a future virus in 1996. Who was he?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: Jose

We met Jose in the first scene of the film. He was another convict next to James Cole in the prison. Obviously sent by the scientists in the same mission, Jose met James for a moment in the French trenches.

13. What does Goines say that playing games does to you?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Vegatize you

While talking with James, Goines states that games vegatize you.

14. What was the first thing that made Kathryn start to believe that James was from the future?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: She heard on TV that missing Ricky Neuman was hiding in a barn.

James had told her that he remembered Ricky's story when he was a kid, and that the boy was hiding in a barn. But of course Kathryn didn't believe him at first. After hearing the story on television, she started to believe. A little later, the ballistics report said that the bullet she removed from James' thigh was fired prior to 1920. She then looked in her book and saw a photograph of James from World War I.

15. What does Goines begin to chant after giving James the key?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: No more Monkey business

'Mon...Key!'

16. Who spread the virus?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: Dr. Goines' assistant

Kathryn saw the doctor's assistant at the airport, and read in a newspaper that "The Twelve Monkeys" had kidnapped Jeffrey Goines' father. She remembered then the assistant from her lecture, and realized that he was the one who spread the virus. She informed James, who tried to trace and kill him, resulting in the scene which haunted James' dreams, his own death.

17. Who does Goines say is going to get him out of the institution?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: His father

His father being the famous scientist who didn't watch his staff closely enough.

18. What song played over the end titles?

From Quiz Twelve Monkeys

Answer: What a Wonderful World

The movie closed with 9-year old James Cole leaving the airport with his parents, a few weeks before the plague.

19. How much money does Goines request from the guard in return for showing James around the institution?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: $5,000

20. When reuniting with James at his father's house, how does Goines describe James' escape?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: 'The great escape of 1990'

Dr. Kathryn Reily (Stowe) receives word from her co-worker who calls him 'the guy who pulled the Houdini back in 90'. But when Goines says it he quotes 'the great escape of 1990'.

21. Which historical figure does Goines label as insane?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Albert Einstein

Goines begins to talk about time travel and comes across Albert Einstein, who he calls 'a nut case'.

22. When James Cole shows up at the Gala for Goines' father at his house, what name does Goines call him in front of the body guards?

From Quiz Brad Pitt's Character in '12 Monkeys'

Answer: Arnold Pettybone

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