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Published 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-24 15 questions

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Watch the trailer.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The Babysitter Is Built Like a Tank

A troubled kid finds himself at the center of a fight that has traveled a very long way to reach him. His mother has been warning everyone about the future, and now the future is making a terrible mess of the present. An unlikely protector offers some help, though his people skills need work. Expect wild chases, impossible escapes, and a family reunion nobody could have planned.

Your memory has one job. Protect the score.

1. Who directed Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
- John McTiernan
- James Cameron
- Ridley Scott
- Paul Verhoeven
Cameron wrote it with William Wisher, and the budget made it the most expensive film produced to that point. It won four Oscars, for visual effects, makeup, sound and sound effects editing, and Cameron never directed another Terminator film.
2. Who plays young John Connor?
- River Phoenix
- Edward Furlong
- Jonathan Brandis
- Brad Renfro
Furlong had never acted and was spotted by the casting director at a Boys and Girls Club in Pasadena. His voice broke during the long shoot, so some lines had to be rerecorded, and his likeness returned digitally for the opening of Dark Fate.
3. Who plays the T-1000?
- Bill Paxton
- Lance Henriksen
- Robert Patrick
- Michael Biehn
Cameron wanted a lean, quick contrast to Schwarzenegger, a Porsche next to a tank, and Patrick trained to sprint without appearing to breathe. Biehn, Henriksen and Paxton were all in the first Terminator, as Kyle Reese, a detective and a punk.
4. What is the T-1000 made of?
- Liquid metal
- Glass
- Living stone
- Carbon fiber
The script calls it a mimetic polyalloy, which lets it copy anyone it touches and heal from gunfire. Industrial Light and Magic built the effect on the water creature it had made for Cameron's The Abyss, and it won the visual effects Oscar.
5. Where is Sarah Connor being held when the story begins?
- A psychiatric hospital
- A police station
- A military prison
- A desert laboratory
Pescadero State Hospital, where Dr. Silberman, the psychiatrist from the first film, treats her warnings about the future as delusion. Linda Hamilton trained for months with a former Israeli commando to get the hard, muscled Sarah of the break-out scenes.
6. What name does John give the friendly Terminator?
- Mr. Smith
- Captain Steel
- Big Jim
- Uncle Bob
John introduces the Terminator as Uncle Bob to Enrique Salceda, his mother's friend who keeps her weapons buried in the desert. It's at Enrique's compound that Sarah has her dream of the playground and the nuclear strike, and sets off alone to kill Dyson.
7. Which company is linked to the technology that will create Skynet?
- Tyrell Corporation
- Weyland-Yutani
- Omni Consumer Products
- Cyberdyne Systems
Cyberdyne is working from the arm and the chip left behind when the first Terminator was crushed in a factory press in 1984. Tyrell is Blade Runner's company, Weyland-Yutani belongs to Alien and Omni Consumer Products to RoboCop.
8. Who is the scientist whose work Sarah tries to stop?
- Miles Dyson
- Ed Traxler
- Peter Silberman
- Kyle Reese
Dyson is the Cyberdyne engineer whose processor will become Skynet, and Sarah gets as far as his living room with a rifle before she stops. He ends up helping them blow up his own lab and dies holding the detonator so the others can get clear.
9. Who plays Miles Dyson?
- Joe Morton
- Carl Weathers
- Keith David
- Danny Glover
Morton was known for playing the mute alien in John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet, and three years after this he was the SWAT captain in Speed. Dyson's son Danny, seen briefly here, grows up to matter in Terminator Genisys.
10. What does John order the Terminator not to do?
- Wear sunglasses
- Use motorcycles
- Kill people
- Speak to strangers
The rule comes after the Terminator nearly shoots a man who picks a fight in a parking lot; he agrees to it but asks why. He keeps to the letter of it from then on, kneecapping a hospital guard with the remark that he'll live.
11. Which phrase does John teach his protector?
- Go ahead, make my day
- Hasta la vista, baby
- You talkin' to me?
- Say hello to my little friend
John's language lessons also cover 'No problemo' and a couple of insults, and the Terminator saves the Spanish one for the moment he shatters the frozen T-1000 with a pistol shot. In the Spanish-language dub the line had to become 'Sayonara, baby.'
12. What vehicle does the T-1000 drive during the storm-drain chase?
- A fire engine
- A school bus
- A tow truck
- An ambulance
The T-1000 throws the driver out of the moving truck and takes the wheel, while Schwarzenegger follows on a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy and snatches John off his dirt bike. The truck ends up wrecked and burning, and the T-1000 walks out of the fire unhurt.
13. What freezes the T-1000 during the final chase?
- A chemical foam
- Liquid nitrogen
- Refrigerated water
- Dry ice powder
The tanker the T-1000 is driving jackknifes into the steel mill and splits open, freezing it solid. The Terminator shatters it with a pistol shot and a 'Hasta la vista, baby,' but the heat of the mill melts the pieces and they flow back together.
14. Where does the final confrontation take place?
- A steel mill
- An aircraft hangar
- An oil refinery
- A subway station
The closed Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana, outside Los Angeles, stood in, and it is where the T-1000 goes into the molten steel, followed by the Terminator, who has John lower him in because he cannot self-terminate. He gives a thumbs-up as he sinks.
15. Which band performs You Could Be Mine on the soundtrack?
- Nirvana
- Metallica
- Aerosmith
- Guns N' Roses
The song comes from Use Your Illusion II and plays as John and a friend race off on his dirt bike, with a video that had Schwarzenegger stalking the band. Brad Fiedel's score, with its clanging metal main theme, returns from the first film.

All the answers

1. Who directed Terminator 2: Judgment Day?

James Cameron

Cameron wrote it with William Wisher, and the budget made it the most expensive film produced to that point. It won four Oscars, for visual effects, makeup, sound and sound effects editing, and Cameron never directed another Terminator film.
2. Who plays young John Connor?

Edward Furlong

Furlong had never acted and was spotted by the casting director at a Boys and Girls Club in Pasadena. His voice broke during the long shoot, so some lines had to be rerecorded, and his likeness returned digitally for the opening of Dark Fate.
3. Who plays the T-1000?

Robert Patrick

Cameron wanted a lean, quick contrast to Schwarzenegger, a Porsche next to a tank, and Patrick trained to sprint without appearing to breathe. Biehn, Henriksen and Paxton were all in the first Terminator, as Kyle Reese, a detective and a punk.
4. What is the T-1000 made of?

Liquid metal

The script calls it a mimetic polyalloy, which lets it copy anyone it touches and heal from gunfire. Industrial Light and Magic built the effect on the water creature it had made for Cameron's The Abyss, and it won the visual effects Oscar.
5. Where is Sarah Connor being held when the story begins?

A psychiatric hospital

Pescadero State Hospital, where Dr. Silberman, the psychiatrist from the first film, treats her warnings about the future as delusion. Linda Hamilton trained for months with a former Israeli commando to get the hard, muscled Sarah of the break-out scenes.
6. What name does John give the friendly Terminator?

Uncle Bob

John introduces the Terminator as Uncle Bob to Enrique Salceda, his mother's friend who keeps her weapons buried in the desert. It's at Enrique's compound that Sarah has her dream of the playground and the nuclear strike, and sets off alone to kill Dyson.
7. Which company is linked to the technology that will create Skynet?

Cyberdyne Systems

Cyberdyne is working from the arm and the chip left behind when the first Terminator was crushed in a factory press in 1984. Tyrell is Blade Runner's company, Weyland-Yutani belongs to Alien and Omni Consumer Products to RoboCop.
8. Who is the scientist whose work Sarah tries to stop?

Miles Dyson

Dyson is the Cyberdyne engineer whose processor will become Skynet, and Sarah gets as far as his living room with a rifle before she stops. He ends up helping them blow up his own lab and dies holding the detonator so the others can get clear.
9. Who plays Miles Dyson?

Joe Morton

Morton was known for playing the mute alien in John Sayles's The Brother from Another Planet, and three years after this he was the SWAT captain in Speed. Dyson's son Danny, seen briefly here, grows up to matter in Terminator Genisys.
10. What does John order the Terminator not to do?

Kill people

The rule comes after the Terminator nearly shoots a man who picks a fight in a parking lot; he agrees to it but asks why. He keeps to the letter of it from then on, kneecapping a hospital guard with the remark that he'll live.
11. Which phrase does John teach his protector?

Hasta la vista, baby

John's language lessons also cover 'No problemo' and a couple of insults, and the Terminator saves the Spanish one for the moment he shatters the frozen T-1000 with a pistol shot. In the Spanish-language dub the line had to become 'Sayonara, baby.'
12. What vehicle does the T-1000 drive during the storm-drain chase?

A tow truck

The T-1000 throws the driver out of the moving truck and takes the wheel, while Schwarzenegger follows on a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy and snatches John off his dirt bike. The truck ends up wrecked and burning, and the T-1000 walks out of the fire unhurt.
13. What freezes the T-1000 during the final chase?

Liquid nitrogen

The tanker the T-1000 is driving jackknifes into the steel mill and splits open, freezing it solid. The Terminator shatters it with a pistol shot and a 'Hasta la vista, baby,' but the heat of the mill melts the pieces and they flow back together.
14. Where does the final confrontation take place?

A steel mill

The closed Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana, outside Los Angeles, stood in, and it is where the T-1000 goes into the molten steel, followed by the Terminator, who has John lower him in because he cannot self-terminate. He gives a thumbs-up as he sinks.
15. Which band performs You Could Be Mine on the soundtrack?

Guns N' Roses

The song comes from Use Your Illusion II and plays as John and a friend race off on his dirt bike, with a video that had Schwarzenegger stalking the band. Brad Fiedel's score, with its clanging metal main theme, returns from the first film.