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| 1. | I love it when movie quizzes start off nice and easy. What government agency does Tony Mendez work for? | ||
| Secret Service | |||
| FBI | |||
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CIA | ||
| Defense Department | |||
| 2. | The number of American personnel who successfully fleas the US embassy as it is being stormed is: | ||
| 8 | |||
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6 | ||
| 12 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 3. | And the Americans who escape the US embassy find refuge in the: | ||
| Canadian embassy | |||
| British embassy | |||
| British Ambassador's house | |||
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Canadian Ambassador's house | ||
| 4. | And the sheltered Americans are later referred to by the US government officials as the: | ||
| Travelers | |||
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Houseguests | ||
| Patients | |||
| Mary and Josephs | |||
| 5. | Through the movie, we see shredded documents which would give away the identities of the Americans being reassembled by: | ||
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Children | ||
| Women | |||
| Iranian government officials | |||
| Iranian militants | |||
| 6. | The original plan for evacuating Bob Anders and the other Americans involves this form of transportation: | ||
| Donkeys | |||
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Bicycles | ||
| Hanggliders | |||
| A train | |||
| 7. | Tony gets the idea for the plan when he talks to his son on the phone while they are both watching this movie: | ||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | |||
| Lawrence of Arabia | |||
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|
Battle for the Planet of the Apes | ||
| 8. | Argo, the movie-within-a-movie, belongs to this genre of film: | ||
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Sci-Fi | ||
| Western | |||
| Romantic comedy | |||
| Horror | |||
| 9. | John Chambers (John Goodman) specializes in this aspect of movie making: | ||
| Financing | |||
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Makeup | ||
| Casting | |||
| Directing | |||
| 10. | When Tony and John Chambers first meet Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), he is reluctantly getting ready to go: | ||
| To the hospital | |||
| To the Golden Globes | |||
| To a divorce hearing | |||
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Receive a lifetime achievement award | ||
| 11. | At the Canadian Ambassador's house, the housekeeper starts to get suspicious of the Americans, because: | ||
| They don't have Canadian accents | |||
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The never go outside | ||
| They have been in the residence too long | |||
| They seem to know nothing about hockey or curling | |||
| 12. | Lester Siegel is able to secure rights for Argo when he bluffs about a studio deal regarding: | ||
| Donald Sutherland | |||
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Warren Beatty | ||
| Jack Nicholson | |||
| Paul Newman | |||
| 13. | "If you want to sell a lie...." | ||
| You'd better damn well believe it yourself | |||
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Get the press to sell it for you | ||
| Don't skimp on your cover story | |||
| Get a government stamp of approval first | |||
| 14. | A scene showing actors reading for roles in the the movie is intercut with a scene of: | ||
| The Houseguests arguing amongst themselves | |||
| A series of President Carter press conferences | |||
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The mock execution of those still at the US Embassy | ||
| Crowds rounding up suspected Americans in Tehran | |||
| 15. | Prior to arriving in Iran, Tony first contacts the Iranian consulate in this country: | ||
| Egypt | |||
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Turkey | ||
| Jordan | |||
| Syria | |||
| 16. | When Tony first meets the Canadian Ambassador, the latter gives Tony passports for the others, but: | ||
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They have no stamps | ||
| The alias names don't match the correct faces | |||
| The covers of the passports are the wrong colors | |||
| The date of entry into the country is later than it should have been | |||
| 17. | Tony introduces himself to the group as having this last name, though he soon admits it's not his real surname: | ||
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Harkins | ||
| Barker | |||
| Tolbeck | |||
| Garner | |||
| 18. | To enhance the cover of a film crew, Tony schedules the group to take a trip to: | ||
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The bazaar | ||
| The countryside | |||
| A mosque | |||
| The airport | |||
| 19. | On their scouting trip into the city, one of the Americans makes this mistake that could very well give them away: | ||
| Reads from the script upside down | |||
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Looks through the wrong end of the viewfinder | ||
| Shoots film with the lens cap still on | |||
| Tries to speak with a Canadian accent | |||
| 20. | The scouting trip almost turns disastrous as a man in the bazaar loudly objects to: | ||
| Western-looking people walking around unchaperoned | |||
| Women appearing bare-headed | |||
| The Americans not haggling for purchases | |||
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One of the group taking photographs without permission | ||
| 21. | On the eve of the schedule extraction, as Tony is told that the operation has been cancelled, the other Americans are: | ||
| Sleeping | |||
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Relaxing | ||
| Working through the night on their cover stories | |||
| Arguing among themselves | |||
| 22. | With the operation cancelled but Tony and the others on the way to the airport, authorization for the release of the plane tickets have to come from: | ||
| The Secretary of State | |||
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The President | ||
| The Director of the CIA | |||
| The head of the Secret Service | |||
| 23. | Tony and the other Americans ultimately are cleared for tickets to depart on this airline: | ||
| Air Canada | |||
| Aer Lingus | |||
| Lufthansa | |||
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Swiss Air | ||
| 24. | When skepticism from the airport checkpoint guards seems close to cracking the cover, one of the Americans produces _________ that bolsters the story: | ||
| Replicas of creatures from the movie | |||
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Storyboards | ||
| Film stock | |||
| An Academy Award | |||
| 25. | John Chambers almost misses the phone call from the Iranian airport verifying the identity of Tony because of: | ||
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A movie shoot | ||
| A burning fire | |||
| Misplaced keys | |||
| A power outage | |||
| 26. | If you looked closely during the movie, you might have spotted the official name of the operation, which was: | ||
| The Movie Deal | |||
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The Hollywood Option | ||
| The Hollywood Deal | |||
| The Movie Option | |||
| 27. | Within the movie, the production company which would produce Argo is called: | ||
| Backlot 40 | |||
| Section 8 | |||
| Stage 7 | |||
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Studio 6 | ||
| 28. | After Tony and the other Americans have left the country, we learn that the housekeeper has emigrated to: | ||
| Lebanon | |||
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Iraq | ||
| Australia | |||
| Morocco | |||
| 29. | For his work in the operation, Tony is awarded with this citation, although he doesn't actually receive for many years later: | ||
| Medal of Freedom | |||
| Intelligence Medal for Valor | |||
| Exceptional Service Medallion | |||
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Intelligence Star | ||
| 30. | Chris Terio won the 2013 Adapted Screenplay Oscar, using as his source the article "How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" which was published in which magazine? | ||
| Time | |||
| Rolling Stone | |||
| Newsweek | |||
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Wired | ||
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