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At the beginning of the film, Tommy (Tom Hardy) meets Paddy (Nick Nolte) here:
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Outside Paddy's church
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Outside Paddy's home
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In a cemetery
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In a hospital waiting room
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The tournament at the center of the film - the "Super Bowl of mixed martial arts" - is called:
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Trojan
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Octagon
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Suprema
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Sparta
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Paddy's wife died:
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After she ran off with another man
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After she and Tommy left Paddy
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By killing herself
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In Paddy's arms
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4.
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Tommy's brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton) teaches which subject?
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Physics
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Biology
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US History
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English
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How does Tommy come to fight - and more or less pulverize - Mad Dog in his gym?
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Tommy was the #1 contender in the gym
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Mad Dog needed an opponent, and Tommy volunteered
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Mad Dog and Tommy had been talking smack to each other outside the gym
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Mad Dog and Tommy were old rivals from high school
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What is Brendan's financial situation at the beginning of the movie?
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He and his wive have just been sued and have declared bankruptcy
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Tommy and his wife are about to be prosecuted for tax evasion
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Tommy and his wife have just lost all their investments due to fraud on the part of their accountant
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He is upside down on his mortgage
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Don't tell Brendan's wife, but he has been fighting at night:
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In strip club parking lots
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Two towns over, down by the river
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In a salvage yard
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In Atlantic City
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8.
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Tommy allows Paddy to train him, provided that:
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Paddy doesn't ask where Tommy goes at night
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There will be no reconciliation between the two
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Paddy get in touch with Brendan for Tommy
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Paddy visits his wife's grave
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When it's brought to light that Brendan has been fighting at night, the school's reaction is to:
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Look the other way
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Suspend him without pay
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Fire him
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Sponsor him
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The first person to see the YouTube video of Tommy's beatdown of Mad Dog in the film is:
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The Sparta organizer
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A soldier in Iraq
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Paddy
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Mad Dog
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Brendan learns Tommy is back in the area:
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From his wife
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From Paddy
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When Tommy comes to visit him
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When he registers for Sparta
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12.
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The family name is Conlan. Tommy uses last name:
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Kelly
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Riordan
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Miller
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Halloran
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A brief visit from Paddy reveals that the source of Brendan's bitterness towards his father stems from the fact that:
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Brendan thought that Paddy drove Tommy away
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Brendan treated his mother so badly
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Paddy was weak and therefore turned to substance abuse
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Paddy was never really interested in him
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Brendan's trainer uses this type of music in his gym (it's also the style of Brendan's walk-out music):
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Classical
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Rap
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Heavy metal
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Bluegrass
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Sparta is held over this holiday weekend:
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Thanksgiving
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Fourth of July
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New Years
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Memorial Day
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The fearful fighter Koba is from:
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Cuba
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Poland
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Germany
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Russia
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Brendan is able to enter Sparta when:
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A contender is injured
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His trainer pays off the organizers
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He makes an impassioned plea to the organizers
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Tommy temporarily drops out
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Throughout the movie, we hear audio snippets from a book-on-tape. What classic piece of literature is being read?
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A Tale of Two Cities
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War and Peace
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Moby Dick
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The face-to-face reunion between Tommy and Brendan finally takes place:
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In a locker room
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On a beach
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In the ring during the final round of Sparta
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In Paddy's hotel room
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20.
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Sparta is the brainchild of a former:
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Network television executive
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Wall Street tycoon
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MMA fighter who had been paralyzed
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Military officer
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21.
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Tommy's act of valor in the war came in the form of his:
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Ripping a door off a tank
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Single-handedly taking out a machine gun nest
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Killing an enemy sniper
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Defusing an IED
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22.
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The commentator for Sparta uses this animal as a symbol for Brendan's chances in the tournament:
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A skunk
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A goldfish
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A parakeet
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An earthworm
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23.
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Which is true of the first round of fights, which sets the tone for most of the tournament?
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Both Tommy and Brendan win easily
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Both Tommy and Brendan barely prevail
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Tommy wins on the first punch, Brendan barely prevails
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Brendan wins with just one punch, Tommy barely prevails
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The kids from Brendan's class watch the tournament action:
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In a drive-in theater
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In the school auditorium
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On the school football field
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At the principal's house
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25.
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Tommy faces an uncertain fate after the events in the movie. Why did he desert his unit?
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His friend was killed in friendly fire
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He disobeyed an obviously unjust order
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In inadvertently killed a child
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He refused to fire on unarmed civilians
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