Armageddon Movie Quiz

Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis) voluntarily stays behind on the asteroid to manually detonate the nuclear bomb after the remote trigger fails. AJ initially volunteers but Harry pulls him off, choosing to sacrifice himself to save Earth. The other crew members (Rockhound, Lev) return safely.

During the meteor shower on the asteroid (the 'rock storm'), debris damages the bomb's remote triggering mechanism, which is why someone must stay behind to detonate it manually. This is a key plot point that creates the central conflict.

When the drilling crew reaches 800 feet depth, AJ is operating the Armadillo drilling vehicle. The crew rotates shifts, and this scene shows the progress toward their required drilling depth on the asteroid surface.

Harry says this to General Kimsey when the military considers remote detonation from the command center. Harry insists they need to be on the asteroid to place the bomb at the right depth, and surface detonation would fail to destroy the asteroid.

The President does not order remote detonation. Dan Truman (NASA director) argues for the manual mission, and the President ultimately approves sending Harry's crew to the asteroid rather than risking a failed surface detonation.

After 2.5 hours of intense drilling with limited progress, Harry frustratedly responds to Col. Sharpe that they've only drilled 57 feet. This highlights the difficulty of the mission and the unexpected hardness of the asteroid's composition.

When the Independence shuttle crash-lands on the asteroid after being destroyed by debris, 5 crew members perish. The crash occurs before the main drilling mission, showing the dangers they face.

In the movie Armageddon, NASA temporarily loses radio contact with the shuttle during the critical slingshot maneuver around the moon. This creates dramatic tension as the crew executes this dangerous maneuver without communication.

Lev Andropov, the Russian cosmonaut character in Armageddon, says this line when expressing frustration with the American crew's reckless approach. His character provides comic relief and technical expertise throughout the film.

A.J. Frost, the young driller played by Ben Affleck, gets trapped in the fueling pod on the Russian space station Mir. This creates a dangerous situation where he nearly runs out of oxygen before being rescued.