Sean Connery in Goldfinger: “Shocking.”
Thrown a man into a pit of electric eels
Punched a man on to a live rail on the London Underground
Hurled a man dressed as a ghost off a cliff
Thrown an electric fan into a bath the man had fallen into
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Running Man: “He had to split”
Set off a nuclear explosion at a research facility, with the contestant trapped inside
Tricked fellow contestant into the path of a giant laser
Sawn a fellow contestant in half with his own chainsaw
Dropped 50 tonnes of bananas on a fellow contestant’s head
Jean-Claude Van-Damme in Time Cop: “I guess I should have told him to ‘Freeze’”
Thrown a guy into a time capsule set for the year 5000
Kicked a guy into liquid nitrogen
Encased a guy in a giant iceberg
Shot a guy in the back as he was running away
Carl Weathers in Action Jackson: “How do you like your ribs?”
Fighting at a BBQ restaurant, about to impale someone on a skewer
About to shoot someone with a flamethrower
Just dropped a cow on someone’s head
Carl is at a hospital, and is holding up an X-ray of his intended victim
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator: “Stick around!”
Thrown a terrorist into a giant venus fly trap
Hurled a knife at a soldier, which hits him in the chest, attaching him to a wall
Drowned a terrorist in a vat of industrial glue
Glued the Predator to the floor, using jungle mud
Roger Moore in Live and Let Die: “He always did have an inflated opinion of himself”
Just defeated an enemy on a bouncy castle
Just drowned an enemy in a small inflatable paddling pool
Tricked his enemy into getting into a hot air balloon, which then explodes
Shoved a gas pellet into his enemy’s mouth, who then expands, floats to the ceiling, and explodes
Vin Diesel in XXX: “I told him that cigarette was going to kill him one day.”
Vin Diesel swaps the trigger for a bomb with a pack of cigarettes, which the villain unwittingly sets off
After a fight on a rope ladder dangling from a helicopter, Vin Diesel throws a villain off and he crashes into a cigarette advertising hoarding
A man has just been killed by a heat-seeking missile, fixed in on the heat from the cigarette he was smoking
The villain tries to run away from a giant malfunctioning threshing machine, but collapses into a coughing fit and is killed
Harrison Ford in Air Force One: “Get off my plane!”
Ford's character is flying the plane, and a villain is still hanging on to the undercarriage. Ford flies the plane low over the White House, and the villain is impaled on the American flag
About to snap a villain’s neck with a cargo-net strap by deploying their parachute
Punches a villain into a crate full of snakes, then kicks the crate out of the plane through the cargo bay doors
Operates the emergency door, then kicks the villain down the emergency slide - at 35,000 feet
Sean Connery in Thunderball: “I think he got the point”
Just shot someone with a spear gun on a beach
Impaled someone on a javelin at an athletics contest
Just shot someone with a harpoon gun on a commercial whaling ship
Stabbed someone with the aerial of his walkie-talkie gadget
Arnold Schwarzenegger in True Lies: “You’re fired.”
Facing off against the main villain in a corporate headquarters building, in a swish conference room on the 50th floor, the suits using the facility having all fled amid the carnage. Arnie shoots the villain out of the window using a bazooka
Arnie is flying a Harrier jump-jet, with the main villain stuck on one of the missiles attached to his plane. Arnie fires the missle through a half-destroyed building, killing the villain’s fellow terrorists in a nearby helicopter in the process
Fighting terrorists in a gaudy circus, Arnie shoves the main villain in the cannon usually used by the troop’s human cannonball. He shoves a grenade down the villain’s throat, then shoves him into the cannon. The villain explodes in mid-air
Arnie shoots someone with a gun
Solutions
1:D, 2:C, 3:B, 4:B, 5:B, 6:D, 7:C, 8:B, 9:A, 10:B
Scores
2 and above.
You know when I said you were good at quizzes? I lied
4 and above.
Sub-par: put away those great works of fiction, switch off those cinematic masterpieces, and start watching some action films
8 and above.
Pretty good!
10 and above.
Well done! You have watched a lot of action films. You probably even know where 'they'll print anything these days' comes from. Am I right?