Action Jackson Trivia Quiz

Answer: Detroit, Michigan

When the opening credits begin, you see shots of certain Detroit landmarks such as the General Motors building, the Renaissance Center, and several cars being put together on an assembly line. Detroit bears the nickname "The Motor City".

Answer: Jericho

Jericho "Action" Jackson is a Sergeant on the Detroit police force. Originally, Jackson was a Lieutenant, but he was demoted because of charges of police brutality in bringing the criminal son of murderous auto tycoon Peter Anthony Dellaplane to justice. Jackson is played by Carl Weathers, who is best known for his role as Apollo Creed in the first four "Rocky" movies. Peter Dellaplane is played by Craig T. Nelson, who has been featured in movies such as "The Skulls", "Private Benjamin", "Stir Crazy", and "Troop Beverly Hills".

Answer: Sydney

Sydney Ash, the nightclub singer who is also Dellaplane's mistress, teams up and falls in love with Action Jackson after Jackson saves her from an explosion in her apartment. Dellaplane decides to kill Sydney because she knows too much about his plans to overthrow the AWA (Auto Workers Alliance). Sydney is also a heroin addict, and Dellaplane serves as both her supplier and her sugar daddy.

Sydney Ash is portrayed by Denise Matthews who at that time was known as singer/actress Vanity, the lead singer of the Prince-produced girl group Vanity 6. She also co-starred as VJ Laura Charles in the '80s cult classic movie "Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon".

Answer: The Invisible Men

The Invisible Men are a group of highly trained assassins who were originally hired by Dellaplane's former business partner, Enzo Catelli, to serve as his security force. What he didn't count on was their greed! Dellaplane paid the Invisible Men to kill both Catelli and Dellaplane's first wife. Dellaplane would've sent them after Jackson, but when Jackson was demoted, Dellaplane didn't see Jackson as a threat.

The reason they are called the Invisible Men is because of their almost supernatural ability to remain undetected. Jackson gets the 411 on the Invisible Men from a barber named Dee.

Answer: Robert Davi

Tony Moretti is a good friend of Jackson's who ran on the high school track team with him. Tony works for the AWA, and most of what he does for them is to keep tabs on who is making power plays within the AWA, particularly Peter Dellaplane. Tony finds out that Dellaplane is working his way through the AWA and finding out who was for him, and who was against him, and who resented his money and power, who he would arrange to be murdered, including AWA leader Samuel Norman, who was decapitated in an auto accident not seen in the movie, Frank Stringer, who was attacked and killed in the movie's prologue by the Invisible Men along with his assistant, Liz Mazatorri, and Lionel Grantham, who was handcuffed to a briefcase filled with a C4 time bomb that caused his boat to explode with him in it.

The only problem is that Tony doesn't know what Dellaplane's motives are, and he doesn't have any evidence to support it. He tells Jackson to talk to Sydney Ash. Shortly afterwards, the Invisible Man known as Gamble (disguised as a delivery man) shoots and kills Tony and plants the gun on him, in order to make it look like a suicide.

Tony Moretti is played by Robert Davi, who has been featured in movies such as "License To Kill", "Die Hard", and "The Goonies".

Answer: False

Patrice Dellaplane overhears one of Peter Dellaplane's men talking on the phone about Tony Moretti and Oliver O'Rooney, an AWA official who once worked for Dellaplane. She tells this information to Jackson. Later that night, she tearfully pleads to Peter to assure her that he had nothing to do with the AWA murders. She also tells him that she spoke to Jackson about what she overheard. While in a very passionate embrace, Dellaplane shoots Patrice, and then plants both her body and the gun in Jackson's apartment, framing him for her murder.

Patrice Dellaplane is played by Sharon Stone, who is known for movies such as "Casino", "The Quick and The Dead", and is best known for her role as Catherine Tramell in the 1992 thriller "Basic Instinct".

Answer: Power

Dellaplane explains to Jackson that "true power rests behind the throne" after capturing him and Sydney at his auto plant. Dellaplane's plan is to kill off AWA president Raymond Foss and replace him with Oliver O'Rooney, an AWA official and Dellaplane's hand-picked puppet ruler. Dellaplane never intended to rule the AWA outright, considering himself more of a "king-maker than a king". And for Dellaplane, controlling the AWA means controlling more than just a union; it means controlling a power block that can manage to elect a US president.

Dellaplane's plan is for the Invisible Man named Gamble (the same man that killed Tony and who bears a striking resemblance to Jackson) to murder Raymond Foss at a birthday in his honor at Dellaplane's mansion while dressed in the same shirt that Jackson is wearing. Later, when the police finds his burned getaway car, they'll find Jackson's charred body among the ruins, and he'll be identified by his dental records. Case closed.

Answer: Edd

"Big" Edd is Sydney's almost 300 lbs. bodyguard (played by Prince A. Hughes). When Jackson first goes to see Sydney about Dellaplane, Edd wouldn't let Jackson get past him. Jackson tries to punch Edd in the face a few times, but Edd wouldn't budge. Edd also doesn't retaliate against Jackson, due to the fact that resorting to violence goes against his Muslim beliefs. Jackson manages to tackle Edd to the floor, and Edd is temporarily knocked out due to him hitting his head against the end of a table. Edd follows Jackson and Sydney to Dellaplane's auto plant after the two of them are able to track down Oliver O'Rooney.

After Dellaplane leaves, Edd jumps down from a platform and spray-paints one of the Invisible Men in the face. Jackson kicks the one who was going to burn him in the groin. Edd uses the torch to free Jackson, and kills the man he spray-painted by knocking him into an electrical outlet, burning and electrocuting him. Jackson kills the other two.

Answer: False

Action Jackson and Edd team up with Albert Smith (Stan Foster), a former thief, and Kid Sable (Chino "Fats" Williams), a good friend of Jackson's and a former pro boxer, to stop Dellaplane's plan to assassinate Raymond Foss and rescue Sydney, who Dellaplane plans to kill with an overdose of heroin after having sex with her. Raymond Foss is shot, but thankfully, it is a round in his shoulder.

Answer: The Pointer Sisters

The song "He Turns Me Out" is featured at both the beginning and at the end of the movie. The song is performed by the Pointer Sisters, who at that time comprised of Ruth, Anita and June Pointer. The Pointer Sisters are best known for R&B and Pop hits such as "Slow Hand" "He's So Shy", "Jump (For My Love)", "Automatic", "I'm So Excited", "Yes We Can Can", and "Neutron Dance", which was featured on the soundtrack to the '80s hit movie "Beverly Hills Cop".