Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Quiz

Answer: Prison

Hunt was imprisoned in Moscow for the unsanctioned murders of six Serbians. When we first saw him, he was laying on a cot, tossing a lump of cement against a wall (ala Steve McQueen with the baseball in the cooler in "The Great Escape"). Hunt was surprised to find an IMF team had been sent to break him out because it turned out that he had deliberately been incarcerated so that he could get information from an inmate named Bogdan (Miraj Grbic).

The team which consisted of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Jane Carter (Paula Patton) weren't aware of his operation; they thought they were on a rescue mission and were surprised when he insisted that Bogdan had to be extracted also. Hunt told them that if the IMF Secretary (an uncredited Tom Wilkinson) wanted him out, then something big must be happening.

Answer: Part of the Kremlin blew up.

Hunt and Dunn were disguised as a Russian general and his assistant and entered the Kremlin to obtain files that would reveal the real identity of Cobalt. But when they reached the archive room, Hunt found that the files on Cobalt were empty, and they then heard another voice transmitting over their radio frequency, ordering a bomb to be detonated. Hunt aborted the mission, and Dunn and he ran out of the building in different directions as the bomb exploded. Hunt was knocked unconscious, and when he awoke, he was handcuffed in a Moscow hospital.

Although he had disguised himself as a tourist as he was leaving the Kremlin, his two-way jacket had a Russian general's coat on the inside, so the Russians thought he had infiltrated the Kremlin to set off the bomb.

The apparent involvement of a U.S. agency in the bombing led to the "Ghost Protocol" being invoked, which meant that the IMF was disavowed and would have to operate on their own with no support. This also led to Hunt being chased by Russian agent Anatoly Sidorov (Vladimir Mashkov) for the remainder of the film.

Answer: Start a nuclear war

Although Hunt didn't get the files to identify Cobalt, as he was leaving the Kremlin, he passed a civilian man with a brief case whom he later realized must have been Cobalt. He described the man to the IMF Secretary's intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), and Brandt recognized him as Kurt Hendricks.

Hendricks was a Swedish-born nuclear strategist who believed that it was necessary for humanity to destroy itself periodically in order to survive, and he decided the best way to do so was to trigger a war between the U.S. and Russia by launching an apparent Russian nuclear attack on the U.S.

Hendricks had triggered the Kremlin bombing to cover up his theft of a nuclear launch-control device.

Answer: Smashed through an exterior window

Say what you will about Tom Cruise, but there's no denying that he does some incredible stunts. That was really him climbing on the outside of the Burj Khalifa tower, the world's tallest building at the time. Although it looked like he was free climbing the building with the aid of suction gloves, there were actually multiple cables on him that were digitally erased from the final print. Still, he was over 100 stories above the ground! In the scene, Dunn needed to control the elevators but couldn't get through the firewall, so he needed Hunt to access the server room, and the only way to do so was through the exterior window, eleven stories above their hotel room on the 119th floor.

When Hunt reached the window, he scored the glass and then kicked through it to get inside the room.

But he had to go out the same way he came, so he grabbed a cable and used it to run down the building. Unfortunately, the cable was a bit short so he had to propel himself through the air to reach his room, managing to just catch the edge of the window, with Brandt and Carter pulling him in.

Answer: A sandstorm had blown in.

Not just a sandstorm, but a haboob - a massive wall of rolling dust well-known to people in the Middle East and in Phoenix, Arizona. Hunt first got a glimpse of the haboob while he was climbing the Burj Khalifa; he could see it in the reflection off the windows.

By the time Hendricks (using the disguise of his henchman Wistrom) left the hotel with Hunt in pursuit, the dust had carpeted the city, and Hunt was largely relying on a tracking app on his phone to follow Hendricks. Although the sandstorm added a nice touch to the scenes, haboobs apparently aren't common in Dubai. Emirati meteorologist Ahmad Sajwani stated that "Dubai is more likely to get a shower than such a freaky sandstorm as seen in the latest 'Mission: Impossible' movie." According to video effects supervisor John Knoll, the approaching haboob was created using a "Plume GPU-accelerated simulation rendering application", while the chase scenes were filmed using blowing dust.

Answer: He felt responsible for the death of Hunt's wife.

While Ethan Hunt and William Brandt were battling with Hendricks' team at the Burj Khalifa, it became apparent to Hunt that Brandt was more than just an analyst; his fighting skills were too good. Hunt later confronted Brandt in front of Dunn and Carter, but Hunt had to leave for a meeting with a contact so he didn't hear Brandt's story. Brandt told Dunn and Carter that he was part of a team assigned to guard a couple in Serbia.

He wanted to warn the couple that they were in danger but didn't do so because it was against orders.

The woman was abducted and only parts of her mutilated body were recovered; her grieving husband then killed six Serbians and ended up in a Moscow prison. The couple, Brandt said, was Ethan Hunt and his wife Julia. Brandt believed that if he had warned them, she would still be alive.

Answer: A satellite

Nath owned an obsolete Soviet military satellite that could be accessed from his broadcast studio. The IMF team crashed a large party being held by Nath with the goal of getting the satellite override code him. They wanted to disable the satellite so that Hendricks wouldn't be able to use it to launch his attack. Carter was tasked with getting the code from Nath by seducing him, while Dunn and Brandt were accessing the servers at Nath's home.

This required Brandt to plummet down an air shaft and rely on Dunn's magnetized mobile cart to stop his fall and then "fly" him to the servers.

But while Brandt and Dunn were waiting for Carter to get the code, Hendricks and Wistrom went to Nath's broadcast studio, killed the guard and took control of the satellite. Nath's palatial home in Mumbai was actually the Jumeirah Zabeel Saray luxury hotel in Dubai.

The filming took place three days before the hotel officially opened.

Answer: San Francisco, USA

By the time Carter got the override code from Nath, it was too late; Hendricks had used the satellite to send a launch message to a Russian nuclear submarine in the central Pacific ocean, and after a confirmation call from the submarine commander, a missile had been launched towards San Francisco.

As Hendricks and Wistrom exited the studio, Hendricks stated, "May there be peace on Earth." He then saw Hunt and Carter approach the station so Hendricks told his assistant Wistrom disable the broadcast studio's satellite relay, while he (Hendricks) escaped with the briefcase containing the launch device. Wistrom disabled the system and then turned off the power at the station.

While Dunn, Carter and Brandt worked to get the power back on, Hunt went after Hendricks.

Answer: Automated parking garage

Hendricks had run from the broadcast studio to a high-tech parking garage. The multi-level cylindrical structure featured a center lift which deposited and retrieved vehicles parked within the building. Hunt fought for a while with Hendricks to gain control of the briefcase while cars were being moved in the garage, before Hunt emphatically told him, "I'm taking that briefcase." Hendricks then grasped the case against his chest, smiled briefly and jumped to his death, several stories to the ground.

He apparently realized that Hunt wouldn't be able to get to the case in time to stop the explosion. But this was Ethan Hunt; he jumped in a BMW, put on the seat belt and plunged the car vertically over the edge. The car landed front-end first, with the airbag deployed, and then toppled onto its roof.

A bloodied Hunt climbed out, dragged himself to the briefcase, and with the barely-alive Hendricks watching, Hunt slammed the abort button while saying, "Mission accomplished!" Well not quite; the rest of the team was still fighting with Wistrom to get the power back on at the studio, but they did so in time, and the disarmed missile merely dinged the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco before plunging into the bay.

By the way, the parking garage wasn't real; it was built for the film in Vancouver, Canada, and was inspired by the Car Towers in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Answer: His wife Julia

Stickell complained to the team that he had spent the weekend in San Francisco, retrieving the bomb (which the public had been told was a meteor) from the bay. Hunt then handed out phones with the team's next mission: "Choose to accept them". Brandt initially declined, telling Hunt that he (Brandt) had failed his mission to keep Hunt's wife alive. Hunt then asked Brandt how he knew she was dead, and if he had seen the body.

He then told Brandt that killing the Serbians was the cover for getting into the Moscow prison because the IMF suspected that Hendricks had associates in the prison. Hunt admitted that he accepted the prison mission on the condition that no one except the IMF Secretary could know that his wife Julia was still alive; he wanted her to appear to be dead for her own safety. "It wasn't your job to protect her, Brandt.

It's mine." Brandt then picked up the phone with the next mission and left. Hunt meanwhile had been watching people disembark from a ferry, and he got up to get a closer look.

He watched Julia as she entered a restaurant, apparently with colleagues from work, but she sensed she was being watched and saw him. They smiled briefly at each other and went their own ways.