Which film featured this real-life spy couple?
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Mr & Mrs Smith
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Fair Game
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Daniel
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Which fictional boxer was inspired by this fighter's alleged match fixing?
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Mike Lane as Toro Moreno in The Harder They Fall
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Brad Pitt as Mickey O’Neil in Snatch
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Paddy Considine as Mark Gastineau in The Year of the Locust
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This undercover New York cop inspired one of these on-screen roles:
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Laurence Fishburne as Russell Stevens, Jr in Deep Cover
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Jason Patric as Jim Raynor in Rush
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Al Pacino as Frank Serpico in Serpico
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Which environmental whistleblower, played by a notoriously smiley actress, is pictured here?
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Erin Brockovich, from Steven Soderbergh's film Erin Brockovich
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Rebecca Hosking, from A Farm for the Future
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Diane Wilson, from Texas Gold
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Which Informant on the food industry is Matt Damon playing here?
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Per Fly
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Mark Whitacre
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John Mackey
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Which film featured these two men, who helped uncover a watershed government corruption case?
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The Imitation Game
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All the President’s Men
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The Fifth Estate
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Which environmentalist whistleblower is Meryl Streep playing here?
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Judi Bari in the Forest for the Trees
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Rachel Carson in Silent Spring of Rachel Carson
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Karen Silkwood in Silkwood
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Who, pictured here, was embroiled in tobacco industry revelations on film?
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Jeffrey Wigand, as portrayed in The Insider
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Nick Naylor, as portrayed in Thank You for Smoking
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Christof Putzel, as portrayed in Secrets of the Tobacco Industry
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Who was this FBI agent whistleblower turned into on screen?
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Chris Cooper as Robert Hanssen in Breach
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Patrick O’Neal as Charles Rone in The Kremlin Letter
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John Savage as Charles Heller in The Amateur
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Who, pictured here, faced up to her own employers over a sex scandal that was later depicted on film?
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Lara Logan, played by Reese Witherspoon
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Jenny Nordberg, played by Rachel McAdams
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Kathryn Bolkovac, played by Rachel Weisz
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Solutions
1:B, 2:A, 3:C, 4:A, 5:B, 6:B, 7:C, 8:A, 9:A, 10:C
Scores
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3 and above.
You might not know every detail about these whistleblowers, but at least that means the NSA/GCHQ won't likely pay you too much attention.
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6 and above.
Not a bad showing at all. You might not be the type to take an issue all the way to a supreme court, but you know a thing or two about film whistleblowers.
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9 and above.
Is this John Le Carré’? You've got to branch out, sir – this spy/whistleblower obsession is getting too real.
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10 and above.
Either you work for the government or are a spy yourself: perfect score. Well done.