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Clear and Present Danger Trivia Quiz

Here's a not too hard quiz on one of my favorite movies. No trick questions about director's birthday or musical score, so enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by sandro442. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
sandro442

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
349,112

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Jack is appointed Deputy Director of C.I.A. when Admiral Greer becomes sick. What is Greer sick with? Hint

Cancer

Lou Gehrig's disease

Parkinson's

Kidney failure

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Question 2 of 10

2. After a close friend of the President is murdered along with his entire family, apparently by Colombian drug cartel members, the President tells his National Security Adviser James Cutter to go after the Colombians. What exactly does Cutter tell his subordinate, Mr. Ritter, to do? Hint

Avenge me

Hurt them where they will feel it the most

Take the gloves off

Make them pay

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who is the ex soldier turned C.I.A. operative that helps set up and run the whole guerrilla war for the U.S. in Columbia? Hint

Mr. White

Mr. Kent

Mr. Clark

Mr. Green

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Question 4 of 10

4. What type of bomb is dropped on the big 4x4 truck outside the drug lord's house by the carrier based Navy fighter plane? Hint

Cellulose

White Phosphorus

Incendiary

Napalm

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Question 5 of 10

5. A very sad scene is the one where Jack's motorcade is ambushed driving through town. How does Jack escape the deadly ambush of RPG and automatic weapons fire? Hint

He runs inside a building and gets up on the roof.

He gets behind the wheel of one of the cars and drives himself out of it.

He shoots his way out using the weapon of a fallen comrade.

His is mistaken for dead and overlooked by the enemy.

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Question 6 of 10

6. Jack Ryan goes to meet Clark as Admiral Greer had suggested. Clark asks Jack Ryan, "Are you a coffee drinker Mr. Ryan?" When Jack replies "yes", Clark suggests Jack try a certain brand of coffee, thereby giving Jack a clue to follow which will lead him to the drug lords and their money trail. What brand of coffee does Clark suggest? Hint

Bogota

Guadalajara

Lindo

Loma Vista

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Variable this is Knife... over! Variable this is Knife... where are you?"
Referring to this radio transmission, who is Variable?
Hint

Cutter

Cortez

Jack Ryan

Clark

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Question 8 of 10

8. Jack and Clark try to buy a helicopter to go look for the insertion team. The salesman tells them it costs two million dollars. Jack next tells the helicopter salesman they just want to take it for a test drive. How much was the deposit for the test drive? Hint

The name of his informant

Less than the selling price

The same as the selling price

More than the selling price

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Question 9 of 10

9. When the F.B.I. director's secretary is killed, Jack and his wife go to her apartment and meet the police there. While talking to the police, a message is played over the dead woman's answering machine. Jack stops them and says, "Play that back. You have a recording of the killer's voice... maybe." What is the message on the machine? Hint

"Is the machine on dear?"

"The Machine is still on, Moira."

"Turn off the machine, honey."

"I'm on my way, Moira."

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Question 10 of 10

10. Clark and Chavez blow up a 4x4 truck outside a major drug lord's house using a laser guided bomb during a meeting of many local drug lords. Why does Chavez hesitate right before the bomb impacts? Hint

The drug lord they wanted to kill isn't there yet.

Clark gets a message from his boss to abort.

The laser is pointed at the wrong target.

There are kids playing in the yard they hadn't seen before.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Jack is appointed Deputy Director of C.I.A. when Admiral Greer becomes sick. What is Greer sick with?

Answer: Cancer

Admiral Greer is dying of cancer. This is talked about openly during the beginning of the movie. We also see Admiral Greer going through treatment later in the film. He eventually dies and we see Jack at his funeral.

Answer: Take the gloves off

Ritter reminds Cutter later, "You said take the gloves off." This is after Cutter expresses concern over the level of violence his little operation is using. The U.S. insertion team was blowing up the drug lords planes, manufacturing facilities, and houses!
Two of the other answers I made up, and "Avenge me" is from "Red Dawn" at the drive in theater/pow camp. Sorry, I just threw that in there, as I always liked "Red Dawn".

3. Who is the ex soldier turned C.I.A. operative that helps set up and run the whole guerrilla war for the U.S. in Columbia?

Answer: Mr. Clark

When Jack tells Admiral Greer he is being sent to Columbia, the Admiral suggests Jack look up Mr. Clark while down there. Clark is played by Willem Dafoe. The character of John Clark appears in other Tom Clancy novels as well, but this one's my favorite use of him.

He runs the operation for Cutter and later when Cutter cuts off the team and gives away their location to the drug lords, Clark goes with Jack Ryan to look for his men.

4. What type of bomb is dropped on the big 4x4 truck outside the drug lord's house by the carrier based Navy fighter plane?

Answer: Cellulose

Felix Cortez, the security chief for the drug lord, finds the residue and has it analyzed. It comes back as a paper residue. Cortez identifies the cellulose bomb in his computer's database of known munitions.
Jack makes the same finding on his own using reference books. After trying to figure out why the impact crater doesn't look like a car bomb, Jack starts looking for a bomb that leaves no traces and comes across the cellulose encased laser guided bomb.

5. A very sad scene is the one where Jack's motorcade is ambushed driving through town. How does Jack escape the deadly ambush of RPG and automatic weapons fire?

Answer: He gets behind the wheel of one of the cars and drives himself out of it.

Jack finally makes it out by driving right through a garage type door and into the next street over!
There were a lot of enemy on the roof tops, so it would have been a bad move to go up there!
An interesting note is that Harrison Ford apparently did his own driving during that scene.

Answer: Lindo

This is the scene where Jack Ryan meets Mr. Clark meet in the hotel lobby. After investigating Clark's tip, Jack discovers that the President's friend, Hardin, was indeed doing business with a major drug lord. Jack tells the President, "He was paying a little bit too much for this coffee - $6,200 a pound."

7. "Variable this is Knife... over! Variable this is Knife... where are you?" Referring to this radio transmission, who is Variable?

Answer: Clark

Knife refers to the insertion team of U.S. commandos calling Clark for help but Cutter had turned off their communications relay. They were on their own.

Answer: The same as the selling price

The helicopter salesman asks for a two million dollars purchase price. When Jack asks how much of a deposit was needed for a test drive, the salesman replies, "Two million dollars." Jack asks him if he would take a company check and hands the guy his C.I.A. business card. The salesman then nods yes.

Answer: "The Machine is still on, Moira."

Jack uses the voice recording to cross reference with N.S.A. and C.I.A. intercepts of radio and phone traffic among suspected drug lords and other criminals in Central America. He comes up with a match: Felix Cortez, former security chief to Fidel Castro, now working for the drug lord Escobedo. Cortez was dating the dead woman to gain access to intel about her boss, who was the director of the F.B.I. Cortez was planning to meet her one last time to kill her now that he had gotten the info he wanted and was very aware that he might be recorded if the machine was left on.

As a security expert, he knew better than to leave such a trail... but he did!

Answer: There are kids playing in the yard they hadn't seen before.

This may be my favorite scene of the whole movie. The media and other drug lords think it is a car bomb set off by a rival. When the truck pulls up to the house, Chavez is aiming the laser designator for the incoming bomb and asks, "What is that?" Clark tells him, "That's your new target, unless it's not big enough?" A few seconds later, as the bomb is almost about to impact, Chavez sees kids playing in the yard.

He tries to get Clark's attention but it's too late.

Source: Author sandro442

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