Iron Man 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Switzerland

Back in Bern, Switzerland in 1999, Tony Stark was celebrating New Year's (Eve) with Maya Hansen before he was pulled aside to meet Aldrich Killian, a man who tried to get the word out about his new think-tank, Advanced Idea Mechanics. Stark brushed him off, instead heading up to Maya's room to take a look at her recent research on the part of the brain programmed to repair the body. Maya's experiment still had a few kinks in it though, as damaged test subjects that recovered their wounds had a tendency to explode. Up on the roof of the building, Killian was left alone as the ball dropped with Stark's promise that they wished to talk to him.

Answer: Iron Patriot

Coming out of the events in New York in which he worked as a member of The Avengers, Tony Stark continues to work on his suits, forcing the advances needed to let the components automatically build onto his body when needed. He's on three days without sleep at this point. Things complicate a bit when he turns on the TV to find a man claiming responsibility for several bombings in the Middle East.

The man, who hijacks the U.S. airwaves to get this message across, is named The Mandarin, and his terrorist threats very quickly spur Stark into action.

But before that, Col. Rhodes is introduced as the Iron Patriot (formerly War Machine), wearing one of Stark's earlier suits. Tony ends up speaking to Rhodes about the attacks (there were many more than the public knew about), but Rhodes is more worried about Tony not sleeping.

The truth is, Tony is suffering from anxiety attacks.

Answer: The human brain

Pepper, heading to her office, ends up finding that she has a meeting with none other than Aldrich Killian, who's spent years in therapy to fix his issues. After spending time with his think-tank, he's developed something called Extremis, which reads the human mind and creates capabilities that allow it to be upgraded. Stark ends up calling in to his former bodyguard, Happy, and finds out about this from him. Pepper has it under control though; she believes that Extremis sounds highly-weaponizable and she isn't really interested. When Pepper returns home she finds Tony lounging in the living room in his suit (mark 42) but he isn't really-- one of his suits is actually standing in for him while he finishes work in the workshop. Tony ends up admitting to Pepper that he's been struggling with what's happened lately and it's clearly affecting him. That night, he has nightmares triggering his suit to rush to his aid.

Answer: Grauman's Chinese Theatre

In front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre, Happy follows the suspicious men who went with Aldrich Killian to visit Pepper. Happy intercepts them, but it seems to be too late. One of the man's contacts ends up overheating and exploding in a violent burst, wiping out himself and most of the people around him. Happy barely survives, only beings able to watch as Killian's contact reforms his skin and bones and walks off into the street seemingly unharmed. The Mandarin sends out another interrupting broadcast to take responsibility for the theatre attack. Tony, assaulted by the press, decides to tell The Mandarin that he's coming for him and, feeling unthreatened, he states his address on live camera.

It's a bad idea. That night, while researching some evidence and thermo-energetic events in the U.S., Stark gets a lead just before the doorbell rings.

It ends up being Maya Hansen, who he hasn't seen since Bern (and doesn't remember), and she winds up being placed in the middle of an argument between Tony and Pepper that only comes to an end when the house is fired upon by The Mandarin's men. What results is a fight between Tony and the armed helicopters that destroys his house and most of his workshop and its contents.

He ends up sinking into the ocean with the bulk of it and just barely manages to have his flight power restored before he drowns.

Answer: True

Tony escapes the wreckage of his house and a malfunctioning J.A.R.V.I.S. and his suit end up taking him, unconsciously, to the outskirts of Rose Hill, Tennessee as per the flight plans he drafted up earlier. Tony ends up dragging his suit through the show, arriving at a gas station (from which he calls Pepper's answering machine) and breaking into a cabin. He ends up getting caught by the 10-year-old boy who lives there, Harley, who informs him that he's been declared dead.
Back in Los Angeles, Pepper dons one of Tony's Iron Man helmets to receive his message, discovering that he's dead. She talks to Maya about why she came and she says it's because she thinks her boss works for The Mandarin...and her boss is Aldrich Killian.
In Rose Hill, Tony and Harley head out to check out the explosion site in the city. According to Harley, it was said that an army man made a bomb there and blew everybody up. With a little bit more digging, Tony is able to determine that someone is using military men as weapons, activating them and causing them to explode, though the revelation comes a bit late as he's ambushed by two people who have the ability to super-heat themselves. He's able to fend them off, but only with Harley's help, and afterwards, he leaves Rose Hill behind (and his suit with Harley, at least temporarily) to follow his leads.

Answer: Miami

The airwaves are taken over again by The Mandarin and the United States receives yet another message, this time including a live murder. At the same time, Stark drives through Chattanooga and looks through the files he's collected, coming across the acronym AIM-- Advanced Idea Mechanics-- and he contacts Rhodes to gain access to some work that he'd amassed about Alrdich Killian's Extremis research. What he finds is several videos, one of which shows that Extremis can regrow the human body at an alarming rate but, when brought to a breaking point, can transform test subjects into living bombs.

The next destination for Stark is, surprisingly, Miami, but more shocking to him is that Harley is able to work on the suit (with instruction over the phone) and that J.A.R.V.I.S., now in better shape, claims his prototype might not hold a charge. In Los Angeles, at the same time, Maya Hansen and Pepper Potts talk to one another about the problems that have befallen them as a result of Killian's research getting out of control.

Unfortunately, Maya planned to use Stark for The Mandarin's purposes, and Killian was made aware of their hiding away. He arrives to take Pepper hostage.

Answer: British

With no other option, Tony heads to a hardware store, spends the night in a motel building something new, and then drives to Miami to break into The Mandarin's compound. And when he infiltrates it he actually finds The Mandarin and learns quite a bit from him, notably that he's just an actor by the name of Trevor Slattery and he ended up getting hired by Killian to take responsibility for the terrorist acts in the country.

Not much else is revealed, especially when Tony's knocked out by one of Killian's Extremis men. He ends up waking up with Maya having tied him to a bed frame in a scientific lab and while she asks him to help her stabilize her Extremis compound, he instead tries to appeal to her morals.

It doesn't work; Killian comes in during their conversation to show off the tables he's turned. Back in Switzerland, he decided to change everything, and after he took Extremis, he was able to change himself and start his plan. Now, he has Rhodes and the Iron Patriot suit in another room and Pepper is undergoing the Extremis trial.

He shoots Maya, killing her, when he decides that she's too much of a threat to his grand scheme.

Answer: The Vice President

Before long, Tony's prototype suit is charged enough to make it to Miami and it arrives in pieces, allowing him to escape captivity with a little bit of effort. While he isn't able to take off after Killian's plane, he is able to reunite with Rhodes. Both of them are able to get more information out of Trevor Slattery and it leads them out to sea where, apparently, Killian plans to make his next move with Pepper in tow. The plan, as they discover, also involves the Vice President of the United States who, when Tony calls, says he'll notify the President of the issue at hand. He never makes the call; they don't know that if Extremis is a success, then it will help his disabled daughter.
The Iron Patriot, or whoever's in the suit, ends up reaching Air Force One and, when it's in the air, Killian reveals himself to be inside, but only after isolating the President and making his move. Killian ends up taking him, flying him from the ship just as Iron Man arrives. This results in a fight between Iron Man and the final Extremis soldier which leads to the hero leaping from the plane before it explodes to guide thirteen passengers down to the Miami harbour below. Fortunately, he's able to do this...but the prototype suit, which Tony was piloting remotely, doesn't survive.
...and that's why he initiates 'Project House Party'.

Answer: An oil tanker

On an Atlantic oil tanker, Killian gives Pepper the last part of her Extremis treatment as the Iron Patriot outfit emerges and reveals the trapped President of the United States. Killian reveals his plan: he's going to kill the President live on television and then he's going to install the Vice President as the head of the nation, controlling from behind the scenes like he did with The Mandarin the whole time. Tony and Rhodes arrive at the tanker following Pepper's signal and while they don't have their suits, they get a front row seat to see the President being strung up for his execution. Guns start firing soon after their arrival and it turns out that Killian has a number of other Extremis guards, but the fight soon becomes one-sided as all of Tony's previous suit prototypes arrive, having emerged from the ruins of his home and crossed the country.

They take out the guards in a series of horrible explosions as Tony gets a lock on Pepper, down in the wreckage of the tanker, and goes in to help.

She's trapped, and it takes a minute to reach her, but that's all the time Killian needs to emerge from the rubble, fully healed from the carnage, to take Tony by surprise and pin him down in his Iron Man suit.

Answer: Pepper

Stark manages to knock Killian off him with a well-timed attack, severing the scientist's hand before it melts through the floor. The subsequent damage leads Pepper to fall through the floor and be brought out along the tanker by the moving machinery. Tony struggles to reach her but the tanker jolts and she falls hundreds of feet to the ground, just out of his reach. Enraged, Tony turns around to find Killian still alive and the battle recommences between the two of them. As every hit against Stark takes off another piece of his Iron Man outfit, the fight continues to rage on, proceeding through several iterations of the suit until his most recent prototype returns, placing itself on Killian's body and self-destructing. Tony crashes to the ground without a suit and, unfortunately, Killian survives the blast, reemerging from the flames and rebuilding. He stalks after Tony, but he's saved at the last moment by Pepper who, having survived the fall due to the Extremis testing, manages to acquire one of the Iron Man suit arms and use it to blast Killian to kingdom come.
Pepper, worried that she could be killed by Extremis, is assured that Tony will find a way to work out a cure. To demonstrate his love for her, he also ends up blowing up all of his old Iron Man models, finally letting go of his anxiety.
Trevor Slattery is arrested by the police, as is the Vice President. Pepper survives Extemis-free and then Tony goes under the knife himself to have the shrapnel removed from his chest. In Tennessee, Harley is treated to a lab all his own for how he helped Stark out.
In the end, Tony takes his old ARC chest-piece and tosses it into the ocean. He claims to be a changed man as he drives off with some of his old tech. Despite everything that happened and everything he gave up, he's still Iron Man.