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This The Fate of the Furious trivia quiz covers the 2017 eighth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, the one where Dom turns on his family. The plot questions run from the Cuban-mile race in Havana and the EMP heist in Berlin to the prison break, the hacked 'zombie cars' of New York, the nuclear football, the Russian submarine chase and the rooftop dinner where Dom finally names his son. The harder half covers the production and the business: the director who replaced James Wan and why, the film's original title, the cast members who did and did not return, Helen Mirren's uncredited debut as Magdalene Shaw, the horse killed by a flying iceberg prop in Iceland, the city that doubled for Manhattan, the composer, and the box office numbers that gave it the biggest worldwide opening ever at the time. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test franchise devotees. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For the rest of the saga, try our Fast and Furious quiz.
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Q 01Who directed The Fate of the Furious?
F. Gary Gray
F. Gary Gray, fresh from Straight Outta Compton, was announced as director in October 2015; he had earlier made Friday, Set It Off and the 2003 remake of The Italian Job.
Q 02Where are Dom and Letty on their honeymoon when the film opens?
Havana
Havana took approval from both the U.S. and Cuban governments before Universal could shoot there.
Q 03What does Dom do with the car he wins in the opening race?
Lets the loser keep it, saying his respect is enough
Political economist Richard Feinberg called the Cuban sequence a Hollywood love letter and a parable of mutual respect.
Q 04Who plays the cyberterrorist Cipher?
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron plays Cipher, the cyberterrorist who blackmails Dom; her casting was announced in April 2016, and she returned as the villain in F9 and Fast X.
Q 05Who plays the crew's tech expert Tej Parker?
Ludacris
Ludacris (Chris Bridges) plays Tej Parker, the crew's tech expert, a role he first took in 2 Fast 2 Furious in 2003; Tyrese Gibson plays his sparring partner Roman Pearce.
Q 06Where does Hobbs end up after the EMP mission goes wrong?
In the same prison as Deckard Shaw
Hobbs is arrested after the EMP heist and lands in the same prison as Deckard Shaw; Mr. Nobody engineers their joint escape so both can join the hunt for Dom.
Q 07What is God's Eye, which Cipher steals from the team's base?
A mass surveillance program written by Ramsey
God's Eye is a mass surveillance program written by the hacker Ramsey that can find anyone through any camera; Cipher had earlier hired Mose Jakande (Furious 7) and Owen Shaw to obtain it and the Nightshade device.
Q 08Who plays Elena Neves?
Elsa Pataky
Elsa Pataky, the Spanish actress, played Elena Neves from Fast Five (2011) onward, first as a Rio police officer; in this film Cipher has her shot dead in front of Dom.
Q 09What does Cipher send Dom to steal in New York City?
The Russian defence minister's nuclear football
Cipher has Dom seize the Russian defence minister's nuclear football, the launch-code case, from his motorcade in Manhattan, hacking hundreds of cars into a 'zombie' swarm to block the streets.
Q 10Whom does Dom secretly recruit to rescue his son from Cipher's plane?
Magdalene Shaw, the Shaw brothers' mother
He offers to get her sons out of government custody in exchange; an Oscar-winning British dame plays her, uncredited.
Q 11Which actress makes her franchise debut as the Shaw brothers' mother?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren plays Magdalene 'Queenie' Shaw in an uncredited cameo, having publicly lobbied for a role in the franchise; she returned as the character in later instalments.
Q 12Who is Cipher's right-hand man, Connor Rhodes, played by?
Kristofer Hivju
Kristofer Hivju, Tormund Giantsbane in Game of Thrones, plays Cipher's enforcer Connor Rhodes; Rhodes shoots Elena, and Dom kills him in the finale.
Q 13What does Dom activate at the Russian military base with the EMP?
A nuclear submarine
Q 21Which director was let go from the film after saying he wanted to make The Conjuring 2?
James Wan
Universal offered the job back after Justin Lin chose a Star Trek sequel instead, but Wan declined, citing the toll Furious 7 had taken on his health.
Q 22Which film did Justin Lin choose to direct instead of returning to the franchise?
Star Trek Beyond
Lin, who had directed four Fast films in a row from Tokyo Drift to Fast & Furious 6, chose Star Trek Beyond (2016) over an eighth Fast film; he came back for F9.
Q 23What was the film's title when Vin Diesel first announced it at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards?
Fast 8
Dom's EMP wakes a nuclear submarine that Cipher hijacks to start a nuclear war, and the team chases it across the ice in their cars.
Q 14How does Dom deal with the heat-seeking missile Cipher fires at his Charger?
Lures it into the pursuing submarine
The blast destroys the sub, and Dom shelters behind the family's cars as they form a wall around him.
Q 15What ranking on Interpol's most-wanted list annoys Roman?
Eleventh
Roman is miffed to learn he ranks only eleventh on Interpol's most-wanted list, just outside the top ten, a gag the crew keeps needling him about.
Q 16How does Cipher escape at the end?
By parachuting from her plane
She returns in F9 and Fast X, still played by Theron.
Q 17What does Dom name his son?
Brian
A tribute to Brian O'Conner, the character played by the late Paul Walker.
Q 18Why does Hobbs turn down getting his DSS job back?
To spend more time with his daughter
Hobbs declines Mr. Nobody's offer to reinstate him at the Diplomatic Security Service, choosing to spend more time with his daughter Samantha, whose soccer team he coaches.
Q 19Who plays Little Nobody, the young agent working under Mr. Nobody?
Scott Eastwood
Scott Eastwood plays Little Nobody, the by-the-book young agent assigned to the crew by Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody; Eastwood's casting was announced in 2016.
Q 20Which character from the third film was contracted to appear but dropped out for NCIS: New Orleans?
Sean Boswell
Lucas Black's Sean Boswell, the Tokyo Drift lead, had signed in 2013 for Furious 7 and two sequels, but his NCIS: New Orleans schedule kept him out of this film; he returned in F9.
Diesel announced the film as Fast 8 at the Teen Choice Awards in August 2015, along with its April 2017 release date; the title The Fate of the Furious was revealed with the first trailer in December 2016.
Q 24Where did principal photography begin in March 2016?
Mývatn, Iceland
Filming began on 14 March 2016 at Lake Mývatn in north-east Iceland, whose frozen surface stood in for the Russian ice-field finale, before the production moved on to Cuba and the United States.
Q 25Which U.S. city stood in for Manhattan during filming?
Cleveland
Cleveland stood in for Manhattan: the 'zombie car' motorcade chase was staged on its downtown streets in 2016, with additional exteriors shot in New York itself.
Q 26Who composed the score, returning after scoring the third, fourth, fifth and seventh films?
Brian Tyler
Tyler had skipped Fast & Furious 6, which was scored by Lucas Vidal.
Q 27Where did the film hold its world premiere?
Berlin
April 4, 2017, ten days before the U.S. release; part of the plot is set in the city.
Q 28This was the first film in the series since which instalment not to feature Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner?
Tokyo Drift
Tokyo Drift (2006) was the last entry without Brian O'Conner; after Paul Walker's death in 2013 the character was written out as retired at the close of Furious 7, and talk of brother Cody Walker stepping in came to nothing.
Q 29According to producer Neal Moritz, the film shifted the franchise's focus from heist movies to what?
Spy films
Producer Neal Moritz described the film as shifting the series from heist movies toward spy films, with Cipher as a global cyberterrorist; Fast Five had earlier moved it from street racing to heists.
Q 30Roughly how much did The Fate of the Furious gross worldwide?
$1.24 billion
The Fate of the Furious grossed about $1.24 billion worldwide, the third-highest total of 2017 behind The Last Jedi and Beauty and the Beast, and the second franchise entry after Furious 7 to pass $1 billion.