Hurt Locker Quiz

Where was Hurt Locker filmed?

• Morocco

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Qatar

What camera gives the documentary feel?

• hand-held super 16mm

• Polaroid

• range-finders

• single lens reflex

Who is Mark Boal?

• cinemetographer

• script writer

• director

• special effects master

Which two things is Kathryn Bigelow known for?

• Being married to her stunt man and creating The Women's Film-making Institute

• Winning best director for Hurt Locker and being the first woman to get that Academy Award

• Being able to benchpress a small car and being a sniper for the Marines

• Winning best screenplay and doing a cameo in her own film

True or False: Hurt Locker was made independently rather than by a big studio.

• True

• False

Why is the talon robot so useful to a bomb squad?

• It is cheap to make.

• It can speak to people in the vicinity.

• It self-sabotages if captured by the enemy.

• It allows the controller to operate it from a safe distance--up to 4000 feet away.

What is a deadly wave of super-compressed gases that expands from the center of a blast at 13,000 mph called?

• Overpressure

• Explosion

• Sonic boom

• Blast wave

Why did Jeremy Renner do all his own stunts?

• He's a perfectionist.

• No one could walk like him.

• The law in Jordan demands it.

• His stunt double got heat stroke from wearing the bomb suit.

What is daisy chaining?

• Secondary bombs attached to a primary bomb to make a secondary explosion much greater

• Hair decorations

• Eating hotdog after hotdog

• A type of tattoo

What doesn't show Sergeant James in a light other than warrior?

• Defusing the bomb inside Beckham and carrying his body to his parents

• Attacking the older man at the DVD stall in the market

• Getting juice packs from Specialist Eldridge and getting one ready for Sandborn rather than drinking it himself

• Listening to Sandborn say he wants to have a son and telling him he has time