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1. Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) chews out his new partner early in the film for being late. What is this new partner's first name?
2. During the first phone conversation that Frank has with 'Booth' (John Malkovich), 'Booth' uses a word that, we later learn, Frank had to look up to understand its meaning. What word was it?
3. True or False: Frank Horrigan has a son whom we never see in the movie.
4. When Frank is first alerted to the threat of Mitch Leary, Leary is using the fake last name of 'McCrawley.' What state, according to his landlady, does 'McCrawley' hail from?
5. Frank tries to kiss Lilly Raines (Rene Russo) as he is playing the piano in a hotel bar, but she backs away and leaves. As she is exiting the bar, what song does he suddenly start playing?
6. We never learn the real name of the President of the United States (Jim Curley) in the film -- he is referred to only by his Secret Service code-name. What is that code-name?
7. Frank finds a magazine devoted to crafting models in Leary's apartment, and later buys a copy of that magazine at a newsstand. What is the publication called?
8. The director of "In the Line of Fire" directed another film in which the President of the United States was a major character. Which of the following is it?
9. Under which assumed alias does Mitch Leary assure his invitation to a campaign contributors' banquet by donating a large sum of money to the President's re-election campaign?
10. What is the name of the non-existent software company that Leary establishes as a cover for his campaign contributor identity?
11. How much does Leary contribute to the President's re-election campaign?
12. Frank Horrigan and Lilly Raines share a quiet moment eating ice cream on the steps of a notable Washington, DC edifice. Which one?
13. A curious bank employee named Pam Magnus (Patrika Darbo) inadvertently brings death to both herself and her roommate by Mitch Leary's hands... but they might have been safe if their dog had not been restrained across the room. What kind of dog was barking wildly as Leary killed both of its owners in ten seconds flat?
14. Where did Mitch Leary receive the training that made him into the deadly adversary that he proves himself to be throughout the movie?
15. Finish this quote from Frank Horrigan to Lilly Raines: 'A good ________ can be just as effective as a gun.'
16. At one point along the campaign trail, Frank makes a major error in judgment, mistaking the popping of balloons as gunfire and sending the entire Secret Service detail into understandable panic. In which city did this error take place?
17. As Leary is testing his hand-made composite plastic gun out in the woods, he draws the attention of two hunters, one of whom asks if he can fire the gun himself. What does the hunter shoot with Leary's gun?
18. According to Mitch Leary, President John F. Kennedy had a favorite poem. Who wrote it?
19. There has been, of course, an enormous amount of speculation, over the years, as to who really killed John F. Kennedy... but Frank Horrigan was actually there when it happened. Whom does he hold responsible for the assassination?
20. Leary's hand-made plastic gun is easily smuggled into the contributors' banquet, but bullets are metallic. How does he sneak the bullets through the metal detector at the banquet hall?
21. While trapped in a darkened, stalled glass elevator with Leary, Frank gives a two-word command to Lilly Raines (via his hand-held radio) that solves her problem of how to instruct the snipers to shoot Leary and not Frank. What are these two words?
22. Who, in the end, actually kills Mitch Leary?
23. What happens to Frank Horrigan at the end of the movie?
24. We hear a surprising message on Frank's answering machine at the very end of the movie. Who left it?
25. True or False: Most of the political rally footage used in this movie is actual footage from George Bush Sr.'s 1992 re-election campaign.
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