Characters Named John Trivia Quiz

Answer: John Rambo

John Rambo is a Vietnam veteran trained in guerrilla warfare. He is a former green beret who won the Medal of Honour for his service but he suffers some serious flashbacks to a communist prison camp where he was tortured during the war.
A series of events in a hostile police station back home in America leads to him escaping into the nearby woods with the authorities attempting to recapture him.

The character was first played by Sylvester Stallone in "First Blood" in 1982.
Its huge success led to many sequels:
"Rambo: First Blood Part II" in 1985, "Rambo III" in 1988 and "Rambo" in 2008. "Rambo V" is scheduled for 2009.

John Clark is played by Willem Dafoe in "Clear and Present Danger".
Robert Downey Jr. plays Special Agent John Royce in "U.S. Marshals".
John Connor is from the "Terminator" movies and is played by different actors depending on his age.

Answer: John Merrick

John Hurt plays the role of John Merrick in this movie that was loosely based on the true story of a severely deformed man in 19th century London - although the true life 'elephant man' was actually called Joseph not John.
Merrick is living his life as a circus freak until rescued by a doctor who finds that he is an extremely intelligent and sensitive man.
The movie was filmed in black and white and received eight Academy Award nominations.

Sam Neill plays John Ingram in "Dead Calm".
John Clarke is from "Calender Girls", played by John Alderton.
Eric Braeden plays John Jacob Astor in "Titanic".

Answer: John Shaft

John Shaft is the hero of two movies called "Shaft".
The first was released in 1971 with Richard Roundtree in the title role portraying a private eye.
The second is a 2000 release with Samuel L. Jackson playing a NYC police detective who is the nephew of the original Shaft.

John Manly is a character from "Black Beauty", John Pendleton is from "Pollyanna" and John Darling appears in "Peter Pan".

Answer: John McClane

John McClane is a New York police detective played by Bruce Willis. He's been on the force for eleven years and has very little regard for authority, which has nearly cost him his job on several occasions.
He has two children and, at the beginning of the movie, is separated from his wife - their relationship takes several turns throughout the sequels.

The success of "Die Hard" in 1988 led to three sequels:
"Die Hard 2" in 1990, "Die Hard With A Vengeance" in 1995 and "Live Free Or Die Hard" in 2007.

John Luger is in "Dead Man Walking", John Harris is from "The Insider" and
John Mullany is in "Sex, Lies And Videotape".

Answer: The Runaway Bride

In "The Runaway Bride" Gere plays a character named Ike Graham.
Ike is a New York reporter who writes a story about Maggie Carpenter and her upcoming fourth wedding attempt, based totally on gossip he hears in a bar.
He loses his job over this and the only way he can get it back is to travel to 'small town USA' and write an entire feature on the story.

In "Shall We Dance" he plays John Clark.
He portrays John Klein in "The Mothman Prophecies".
In "Sommersby" he plays John 'Jack' Sommersby.

Answer: John Travolta

Bruce Willis plays a character named John Smith in "Last Man Standing".
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" has Brad Pitt portraying John Smith.
Mel Gibson is the voice of John Smith in "Pocahontas".

Answer: John Bender

This 1985 movie takes place over the course of a Saturday school detention with five students:
Brian Johnson - the brain
Andy Clark - the athlete
Allison Reynolds - the basket case
Claire Standish - the princess
John Bender - the criminal

Bender is in detention for setting a false fire alarm and is the character that starts the majority of the trouble the students get into. He has a smart mouth and is well on the way to being a juvenile delinquent but he also defends the other students and gives himself up to stop them getting into trouble.
We also learn, in the course of the movie, that he is a victim of child abuse by his father.

John Clasky is played by Adam Sandler in "Spanglish".
Dwier Brown portrays John Kinsella in "Field of Dreams".
J.R. Horne is Sgt. John Turley in "Die Hard With a Vengeance".

Answer: Detective Sergeant John Taggart

John Ashton plays Beverly Hills Detective Sergeant John Taggart who, with his partner Detective William 'Billy' Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), helps Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) when he comes out from NYC to investigate a friend's death.
Taggart and Billy are originally very reluctant to help Foley out but end up assisting him against their own police department regulations.
The movie led to two sequels "Beverly Hills Cop II in 1987" and "Beverly Hills Cop III" in 1994. Taggart was not in the third movie.

Christopher Plummer portrays Detective John Mackey in "Dolores Claiborne".
Detective John Hobbes is from "Fallen" where he is played by Denzel Washington.
Harrison Ford is Detective Captain John Book in "Witness".

Answer: John Wilkes

John Wilkes is the owner of Twelve Oaks Plantation and is killed in the Civil War. He is the father of Ashley and the patriarch of the Wilkes family. His part is played by Howard C. Hickman.

Ralph Fiennes plays John Steed in "The Avengers".
John Thatcher is played by Christopher Cazenove in "A Knights Tale".
John Heard plays the part of John Pierce in "Beaches".

Answer: True Grit

In "True Grit" Wayne plays U.S. Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
Rooster is hired by a young girl, 14 year old Mattie Ross, to find the man who killed her father, after he has escaped into Indian Territory. They are joined by La Boeuf, a young Texas ranger, who is also after the same man for killing a senator.
"True Grit" is the only one of his multiple films that Wayne received an award for - the film won him an Academy and a Golden Globe Award.
He also received the 1966 Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award for Lifetime Achievement.

He plays John Bishop in "Somewhere in Sonora", Captain John Delmont in "The Oregon Trail" and Captain John Holmes in "The Man from Monterey."

Wayne actually plays a character named John in 37 of his movies and is called Duke in 6 others.
He has played 142 leading roles.

Answer: John Dunbar from "Dances With Wolves"

Kevin Costner's portrayal of Lt. John J. Dunbar is a fictional story of a US lieutenant, an unintentional hero from the Civil War, who travels to the frontier, becomes friends with, eventually marries into and lives with a Sioux tribe.
Problems arise when the rest of the US army turn up to the fort and Dunbar must make choices about where his loyalties lie.

"Walk the Line" stars Joaquin Phoenix as singing legend Johnny Cash.
"A Beautiful Mind" tells the story of John Nash, a mathematical genius who struggled with schizophrenia. Nash is portrayed by Russell Crowe.
"Braveheart" is based on the story of William Wallace, a Scot who opposed Edward I of England. John Wallace, played by Sandy Nelson, is his brother who dies fighting the English.

Answer: John Anderton

"Minority Report" is set in the year 2054 where Chief John Anderton is head of a special police department known as 'Precrime' where three 'precogs' (human mutations with psychic abilities) predict crimes and the officers apprehend the criminals before the crime is committed. Things become complicated when the precogs predict that Anderton himself will murder a man within 36 hours. Anderton goes on the run to try and prove his innocence while the rest of his force chases him.

John Gage is the character played by Robert Redford in "Indecent Proposal".
Richard Attenborough plays John Hammond in "Jurassic Park".
"Point Break" has Keanu Reeves playing FBI Special Agent John 'Johnny' Utah.

Answer: John Robinson

William Hurt plays Professor John Robinson in "Lost in Space" which is based on the 1960's TV series of the same name. Robinson is the lead scientist of the Jupiter Mission which is travelling to Alpha Prime to build a hypergate to prepare the planet for colonisation by humans.
He only agrees to head the mission if he can take his family with him but though he obviously loves them they do get rather neglected for his work.
He has a wife, Maureen, and three children - Judy, Penny and Will.

John Brookes is a character from "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. He has been played by many actors in different adaptations.
Brian Capron plays John Knightley in Jane Austen's "Emma".
John 'Jack' Worthing is played by Colin Firth in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Answer: Dr. John Wade Prentice

Joanna Drayton is a young white American woman, bringing home her African American fiancé to meet her liberal upper-class parents in 1967 America.
The movie deals with the reactions of family and friends to the news, not only from Joanna's white family but the disapproval also shown by John's father and the Drayton's black cook - both take John to task for his presumption in thinking he can marry Joanna.
At the time of the movie's release interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states.
The movie is also a landmark in that it is the last time Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn worked together - Tracy died 17 days after filming was completed.

Dr. John Spivey is in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Dr. John Mathewson is from "The Manhattan Project".
Dr. John Watson is in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and any 'Sherlock Holmes' movie.

Answer: John Spartan

John Spartan is a role played by Sylvester Stallone in "Demolition Man".
In 1996 a crime lord killer, named Phoenix, is caught by a police officer (Spartan) who went against orders and endangered lives to achieve this. Both are cryogenically frozen and placed in 'cryoprison'.
Phoenix is 'thawed' for a parole hearing 2032 and escapes into what is now a crime free 21st century. He commences a murderous spree and Spartan is then thawed to help recapture him.

John Matrix is from "Commando", Detective John Kimble is his part in "Kindergarten Cop" and U.S. Marshal John Kruger is from "Eraser".