True Lies Trivia
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42 free True Lies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This True Lies trivia quiz covers James Cameron's 1994 action comedy from every angle: the plot (Omega Sector, Crimson Jihad, the four warheads and the Seven Mile Bridge), the cast (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Art Malik, a 12-year-old Eliza Dushku and an eyepatched Charlton Heston), and the production stories: the record budget, the Newport mansions that played Switzerland, the horse that nearly went over a 90-foot drop, and why the sequel never happened. It also covers the French film it was remade from, the plagiarism ruling in Paris, the video game and the short-lived 2023 CBS series. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has seen the film, a third are medium, and the rest dig into box office, awards and behind-the-scenes detail. Use it solo, for a 90s movie night, or as a round in an action-movie pub quiz. Every answer was checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01During the night-time street chase in True Lies, Harry pursues Aziz's motorcycle while riding what?
A police horse
A police horse. Harry pulls a mounted officer out of the saddle and gallops after the bike through a hotel and into its elevator, grumbling over the radio that his horse is getting tired.
Q 02True Lies is a remake of a 1991 comedy from which country?
France
France. La Totale! starred Thierry Lhermitte as the secret agent, and a Paris appeal court later ruled that its makers had taken the story from another writer's unproduced script.
Q 03Harry Tasker's family believes he sells what for a living?
Computer hardware
Computer hardware. The dull sales job at a front company called Tektel Systems explains his constant business trips, and he has lied about it convincingly to Helen for 15 years.
Q 04What is the name of the top-secret counterterrorism agency Harry really works for?
Omega Sector
Omega Sector. Harry turns the agency's agents, wiretaps and helicopter on his own wife as soon as he suspects her of having an affair.
Q 05The terrorist group Harry is chasing goes by what name?
Crimson Jihad
Crimson Jihad. Its leader, Salim Abu Aziz, threatens to destroy one American city a week with smuggled nuclear warheads unless US forces leave the Persian Gulf.
Q 06Who plays Harry's wisecracking partner Albert 'Gib' Gibson?
Tom Arnold
Tom Arnold. Cameron said he would not dream of making a sequel without him, and Arnold did come back in 2023, guest-starring in the television remake as a retired agent.
Q 07Which actor plays the used-car salesman who poses as a spy to seduce women?
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton. His fake spy is frightened into leaving Helen alone, then turns up a year later working as a waiter and still telling the same lie.
Q 08Who plays Juno Skinner, the art dealer secretly working for the terrorists?
Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere. Fresh from playing Cassandra in the Wayne's World films, she ends this one in a limousine that plunges off a bombed bridge just after Helen is lifted out of it.
Q 09Which British actor plays terrorist leader Salim Abu Aziz?
Art Malik
Art Malik. His villain ends the film snagged on one of the jet's missiles, which Harry then launches at the terrorists' helicopter.
Q 10Which future Buffy the Vampire Slayer star plays the Taskers' teenage daughter Dana?
Eliza Dushku
Eliza Dushku. Her Dana turns the finale by snatching the terrorists' arming key and running for the roof with it, years before Dushku joined Buffy as the rogue slayer Faith.
Q 11Which Hollywood legend plays the agency's director, Spencer Trilby?
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston. In little more than a cameo, he tears into Harry's team for the botched mission and demands hard proof of the nuclear plot.
Q 12Grant Heslov, True Lies' Faisil, later shared a Best Picture Oscar with Ben Affleck and George Clooney for which film?
Argo
Argo. Heslov went on to become George Clooney's producing partner and collected the 2013 Best Picture Oscar beside him.
Q 13The party Harry infiltrates in a tuxedo at the start of True Lies is set in which country?
Switzerland
Switzerland. Harry comes home with a snowy-village souvenir for his daughter to prop up the story that he had been away on business.
Q 21Military jets blow up part of which real Overseas Highway span to stop the terrorists' convoy?
The Seven Mile Bridge
The Seven Mile Bridge. Nothing real was destroyed: the crew blew up a model of the old span, which a new bridge alongside it had replaced in 1982.
Q 22Which military jet does Harry commandeer for the finale of True Lies?
A Harrier
A Harrier. Harry has not flown one for ten years and says any damage can come out of his pay; two real Marine Corps Harriers and their pilots flew for the film.
Q 23In the True Lies finale, Aziz chases Dana onto what structure on the roof of a Miami skyscraper?
A tower crane
Q 14The Gilded Age mansion whose ballroom hosts the opening tango is in which US city?
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island. The ballroom belongs to Rosecliff, whose builder, silver heiress Tessie Oelrichs, was so eager to entertain that she threw her first party there before the house was finished.
Q 15The tango Harry dances at the party, 'Por una Cabeza', was written by which Argentine singing star of the 1930s?
Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel. He wrote the tune with lyricist Alfredo Le Pera for a 1935 film, and within months both men were dead, killed in the same plane crash in Colombia.
Q 16What family occasion does Harry miss because he is chasing Aziz through the city?
His own birthday party
His own birthday party. He had promised Helen he would be home by eight, and the day after breaking that promise he overhears her arranging to meet another man.
Q 17Harry suspects Helen of an affair after overhearing her arrange to meet a man with what first name?
Simon
Simon. He is a used-car salesman who tells bored housewives he is a spy, so Harry's team arrests him as the terrorist Carlos the Jackal to scare him away from Helen.
Q 18During the staged 'mission', Helen is sent to a hotel room to seduce a stranger and do what?
Plant a bug
Plant a bug. The stranger is Harry himself in disguise, and the game he is playing ends when Aziz's men burst into the room and capture them both.
Q 19The terrorists fly Harry and Helen to their island base in which chain?
The Florida Keys
The Florida Keys. Harry works out why: the Overseas Highway lets the terrorists truck their warheads to the mainland without crossing a border or passing customs.
Q 20Juno Skinner smuggles the terrorists' warheads into the United States hidden inside what?
Antique statues
Antique statues. Juno calls the four Persian warrior figures priceless, sighs that it is a pity, and has them broken open with jackhammers to reveal a warhead in each.
A tower crane. Dana has stolen the bomb's arming key and edges out along the crane's arm, dangling it over the drop to keep it from Aziz until her father arrives.
Q 24On the terrorists' island in True Lies, Harry is injected with what?
Truth serum
Truth serum. Helen seizes the moment to ask how long he has been a spy and whether he has ever killed anyone, and he admits that he has, 'but they were all bad'.
Q 25True Lies was the first film whose production budget reached what figure?
$100 million
$100 million. Cameron then broke through the next barrier himself: three years later his Titanic became the first film to cost $200 million.
Q 26True Lies was the first major project for which visual effects company co-founded by Cameron?
Digital Domain
Digital Domain. Cameron opened it in 1993 with creature-effects master Stan Winston and Scott Ross, a former lieutenant of George Lucas, to compete with Lucas's own effects house.
Q 27Which future Titanic and Avatar producer did Cameron meet as the Fox 'suit' on True Lies?
Jon Landau
Jon Landau. Cameron lured him away from Fox once the shoot was over, and the two went on working together for 31 years.
Q 28Who composed the True Lies score, as he had for The Terminator and Terminator 2?
Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel. It was his third feature score for Cameron; for Titanic the director turned to James Horner, who won two Oscars for it.
Q 29Which film did True Lies knock off the top of the US box office on its opening weekend?
Forrest Gump
True Lies opened at number one on 15 July 1994, pushing Forrest Gump to second; the Tom Hanks film retook the top spot a week later.
Q 30True Lies was the highest-grossing import of 1995 in which country, then newly open to Hollywood blockbusters?
China
China. The country had begun letting in a handful of Hollywood hits only in 1994, and True Lies earned about four times as much there as The Fugitive, the film that had opened the door.