Sudden Impact Trivia Quiz

Answer: In a car

All these locations were scenes for the movie's murders, but the first murder occurred in a car. Ten years after the assault on her and her sister, Jennifer recognized one of the attackers and let herself get picked up at a bar by him. She then shot him in while parked at a lover's lane.

Answer: Sondra Locke

Sondra Locke played a lead role (the marked-for-death witness) in a previous Clint Eastwood movie, "The Gauntlet" (1977). She also played opposite Clint Eastwood in "Any Which Way You Can" (1980) and "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978).

Tyne Daly played Dirty Harry's partner in 1976's "The Enforcer".

Patricia Clarkson played the reporter in the Dirty Harry movie, "The Dead Pool".

Answer: Under the boardwalk

The two girls were invited to a party by Jennifer's co-worker, but they got more than they bargained for. Both were savagely attacked by a group consisting of several men and one woman - Jennifer's co-worker, no less! The attack left Beth - a high school junior at the time - in a catatonic state.

Answer: Sugar in his coffee

Harry got a cup of coffee in a diner at which he had eaten for ten years. After leaving the diner, he noticed that there was sugar in his black coffee, so he knew something was up. Re-entering the diner through the back, he quickly dispatched the bad guys, who had been hiding previously, with his signature sidearm, the Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum revolver.

The infamous line, "Go ahead, make my day" was uttered in this scene as Harry threatened the last standing robber.

Answer: .44 Auto Mag

Harry practiced with the .44 Auto Mag which shoots .44 AMP (Auto Mag Pistol) ammo which is not the same as what his famous revolver uses. He was shooting out in the forest (perhaps there's no local indoor range that handle this caliber?) and his friend Horace tried to sneak up on him, but, of course, nobody gets the drop on Dirty Harry!

Answer: San Paulo

The first murder victim, found shot in his car in San Francisco, had ties to San Paulo, so Dirty Harry was sent there (against his wishes) by his boss, mainly to get rid of him for a while. Of course, San Paulo turned out to be exactly the right place to go.

I did say "fictional" California town so I hope you got this right!

Answer: Looks like I owe you one, Meathead.

Harry was surely impressed by the dog's keen sense of smell, it having flushed out a hitman in the adjoining room. The hitman was after Harry for his earlier, very public, verbal attack of mob boss Threlkis which resulted in the boss's fatal heart attack.

Answer: Chief of Police

It turned out the Chief of Police's son was involved in the 10-year-old attack on Jennifer and her sister, and the Chief tried his best to hush it up. When Harry showed up ten years later, the Chief had lots of incentive to be uncooperative.

Answer: While walking his dog

Jennifer was riding her bicycle, and Harry was walking his bulldog, Meathead, along the same sidewalk. Trying to avoid them, Jennifer lost control and fell down in the grass and she and Harry exchanged some heated words. Later, Harry saw her sitting alone in a café and did a little better with the charm!

Answer: Harry let her go.

All the original attackers of Jennifer and her sister were dead by the end of the story. By a turn of events, one of them ended up in possession of Jennifer's gun so it seemed clear to the other investigators that he was, in fact, the serial murderer for whom they were looking. Harry knew better, of course, but sympathizing with Jennifer's plight, and the ineffectiveness of the criminal justice system, Harry let her go.