Question 1

Where and when does the opening sequence take place?

Accepted Answer

Mekong Delta, 1971

Question 2

What are Jacob's fellow soldiers doing just before everything goes wrong in the opening?

Accepted Answer

Smoking marijuana

Question 3

What does Jacob do for a living back in New York?

Accepted Answer

Postal worker

Question 4

Which credential does Jacob have that makes his job seem like a waste?

Accepted Answer

A PhD

Question 5

What is the name of Jacob's girlfriend and coworker?

Accepted Answer

Jezzie

Question 6

What is the name of Jacob's ex-wife?

Accepted Answer

Sarah

Question 7

What is the name of Jacob's son who died?

Accepted Answer

Gabe

Question 8

How did Gabe die?

Accepted Answer

He was hit by a car.

Question 9

What is the name of Jacob's chiropractor and confidant?

Accepted Answer

Louis

Question 10

In the early subway scene, what does Jacob glimpse sticking out from under a sleeping passenger's coat?

Accepted Answer

A tail

Question 11

What happens when Jacob tries to leave the subway station?

Accepted Answer

The exits are locked and he has to cross the tracks.

Question 12

At the party, what does a palm reader tell Jacob?

Accepted Answer

His lifeline says he should already be dead.

Question 13

What nightmarish thing does Jacob see on the dance floor at that party?

Accepted Answer

Jezzie dancing with a monstrous creature

Question 14

After the party Jacob runs a dangerously high fever. How do Jezzie and her friends bring it down?

Accepted Answer

They force him into an ice bath.

Question 15

Right after the fever, where does Jacob wake up?

Accepted Answer

In bed beside Sarah, with Gabe still alive

Question 16

Which army buddy of Jacob's dies when his car explodes?

Accepted Answer

Paul

Question 17

Where do the members of Jacob's old unit discover they've all been having similar visions?

Accepted Answer

At Paul's funeral

Question 18

Why does the lawyer end up dropping the veterans' case?

Accepted Answer

The other veterans back out.

Question 19

After the lawyer drops the case, men grab Jacob off the street. How does he get away?

Accepted Answer

He jumps out of the moving car.

Question 20

In the hellish hospital, what is strewn across the floor as Jacob is wheeled through?

Accepted Answer

Blood, debris, and body parts

Question 21

What do the faceless doctors do to Jacob in that hospital?

Accepted Answer

Drive a needle into his forehead

Question 22

Who gets Jacob out of the hospital?

Accepted Answer

Louis

Question 23

What is the message of the medieval mystic Louis quotes to Jacob?

Accepted Answer

Cling to life and you see devils; let go and they're angels.

Question 24

Who is Michael, the man who tells Jacob what really happened in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

A chemist who worked on the drug

Question 25

What was the experimental drug called?

Accepted Answer

The Ladder

Question 26

What was the drug supposed to do to the soldiers?

Accepted Answer

Increase their aggression

Question 27

Who actually stabbed Jacob with a bayonet in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

One of his own fellow soldiers

Question 28

In the final New York scene, where does Jacob find Gabe waiting?

Accepted Answer

On the stairs of their old apartment building

Question 29

What does Gabe do in that final scene?

Accepted Answer

He leads Jacob by the hand up the stairs into the light.

Question 30

What does the ending reveal about the whole story?

Accepted Answer

He died in Vietnam; New York was his final moments.

The Ultimate Jacob's Ladder Trivia Quiz

2) What are Jacob's fellow soldiers doing just before everything goes wrong in the opening?

3) What does Jacob do for a living back in New York?

4) Which credential does Jacob have that makes his job seem like a waste?

5) What is the name of Jacob's girlfriend and coworker?

6) What is the name of Jacob's ex-wife?

7) What is the name of Jacob's son who died?

8) How did Gabe die?

9) What is the name of Jacob's chiropractor and confidant?

10) In the early subway scene, what does Jacob glimpse sticking out from under a sleeping passenger's coat?

11) What happens when Jacob tries to leave the subway station?

12) At the party, what does a palm reader tell Jacob?

13) What nightmarish thing does Jacob see on the dance floor at that party?

14) After the party Jacob runs a dangerously high fever. How do Jezzie and her friends bring it down?

15) Right after the fever, where does Jacob wake up?

16) Which army buddy of Jacob's dies when his car explodes?

17) Where do the members of Jacob's old unit discover they've all been having similar visions?

18) Why does the lawyer end up dropping the veterans' case?

19) After the lawyer drops the case, men grab Jacob off the street. How does he get away?

20) In the hellish hospital, what is strewn across the floor as Jacob is wheeled through?

21) What do the faceless doctors do to Jacob in that hospital?

22) Who gets Jacob out of the hospital?

23) What is the message of the medieval mystic Louis quotes to Jacob?

24) Who is Michael, the man who tells Jacob what really happened in Vietnam?

25) What was the experimental drug called?

26) What was the drug supposed to do to the soldiers?

27) Who actually stabbed Jacob with a bayonet in Vietnam?

28) In the final New York scene, where does Jacob find Gabe waiting?

29) What does Gabe do in that final scene?

30) What does the ending reveal about the whole story?