Did You Win Free Tickets to See Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning Tonight?
Our movie quiz has a winner
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Did You Win Free Tickets to See Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning Tonight?
Our movie quiz has a winner
Forget scaling the Burj Khalifa or dodging CIA lasers. Today’s seemingly impossible mission was to correctly answer all of BU Today’s trivia questions about Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning. Results are now in for our movie quiz, and those of you who got the answers right were eligible to win two free tickets to a showing of Final Reckoning in IMAX tonight, May 23, at 6 pm at AMC Boston Common.
So, will you be marvelling at Tom Cruise’s stunts from the comfort of an air-conditioned movie theater?
Well, Hailey Manlowe (GRS’26) certainly will! Congratulations! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enjoy the latest installment of an iconic franchise. We’ll be in touch with details.
Find the correct answers to the quiz below. Don’t worry if you didn’t win this time—we’ll have more trivia contests in the future.
- Christopher McQuarrie has directed the last four Mission: Impossible films, but didn’t actually kick off the franchise himself. Who directed the very first Mission: Impossible movie in 1996?
Brian De Palma
- Final Reckoning faced a production setback in 2023 due to a Hollywood strike. What was that strike called?
SAG-AFTRA strike
- Apart from Tom Cruise, who is the only other actor to appear in all eight Mission: Impossible films?
Ving Rhames (making a cameo in Ghost Protocol).
- What movie did Cruise star in that was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant?
Top Gun
- In Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, Cruise’s character scales what famous building in Dubai?
Burj Khalifa
- In 2022, Cruise starred in another action film—whose screenplay was cowritten by McQuarrie—that was separate from the Mission: Impossible franchise. What was it called?
Top Gun: Maverick
- What other recent film franchise does Rebecca Ferguson—who plays former MI6 agent Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible movies—appear in?
Dune
- True or false: Mission: Impossible—Fallout “flopped” at the box office, since it made nowhere close to its predictions.
False: Fallout performed extremely well, to the tune of $791 million.
- Which Mission: Impossible film did Angela Bassett star in besides Final Reckoning?
Mission: Impossible—Fallout
- The film franchise is based on a TV show of the same name that was created in 1966. Who was the creator?
Bruce Geller
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