1. a squid
   a lion
2. an eagle
   a bear

One character calls a sentinel "squiddy" before explaining them to Neo.

1. Xanadu
   Zion
2. Olympia
   Atlantis

Sometimes associated with Jerusalem, the name "Zion" also refers to a spiritual homeland.

1. Louis Carroll
   Thomas Anderson
2. Renny DeCarte
   John Smith

His hacker name, "Neo", is and anagram of "One."

1. Wake up, Neo
   Follow the White Rabbit
2. The Matrix has you
   Knock knock Neo

All these lines appear in the first message, but "Wake up" is first.

1. levitating
   creating fire
2. reading with his eyes closed
   bending spoons

Using spoon-bending was possibly the film's way of winking at its own seriousness.

1. Tank
   Mouse
2. Morpheus
   Cypher

Mouse offers Neo some private time with her in the Construct.

1. it's painted on a delivery truck
   it's a girl's tattoo
2. it's a hallucination
   as a literal white rabbit

She and her friends are going to a club, which is where Neo meets Trinity.

1. Metacortex
   Microcortex
2. Neocortex
   Microware

The name is prominently displayed on the building's side.

1. Be yourself
   Be honest
2. Be careful
   Behave

Trinity also says, "He knows more than you can imagine."

1. red
   blue
2. purple
   white

The filmmakers, the Wachowskis, have admitted they'd take the blue pill, which allowed people to remain blissfully unaware.

1. the Apollo
   the Fawkes
2. the Prometheus
   the Nebuchadnezzar

A plaque indicates the ship was built in 2069, while Neo still believes it's 1999.

1. Tae Kwan Do
   Jujitsu
2. Kung fu
   Drunken boxing

Jujitsu is particularly good for fights that end up at ground level.

1. Kung fu
   Silat
2. Jujitsu
   Drunken boxing

Drunken boxing was actually a fight style that Tank gave Neo; it's a homage to a classic martial-arts film, "Drunken Master."

1. the Between
   the Construct
2. the Never
   it has no name

There's no sign of the crew re-creating a 1999-era Starbucks and hanging out there in their time off, though that's what we'd do!

1. They've depleted petrochemical resources
   Biomass and wind power wasn't adequate
2. They wanted to keep humans subjugated anyway
   Humans blocked off solar power by creating a permanently cloudy sky

Why sophisticated machines couldn't just create solar platforms above the cloud layer is never explained.

1. Trinity and Cypher
   Apoc and Switch
2. Morpheus and Trinity
   Tank and Dozer

They're similar in this respect to the "God children" of "Gattaca."

1. reavers
   predators
2. raptors
   sentinels

The only weapon that stops them is an electromagnetic pulse.

1. Tank
   Mouse
2. Switch
   Cypher

Cypher wants back into the Matrix, saying "Ignorance is bliss."

1. the assassination of Morpheus
   the access codes to Zion's mainframe
2. delivery of Neo into their hands
   a date with Trinity

Cypher doesn't have them, but his treachery allows Agents to capture Morpheus, who does.

1. that he will die to save humanity
   that he is not the One
2. that humanity cannot be saved
   that "there is no spoon."

She never says it outright, and of course, it turns out not to be true.

1. Morpheus and Neo
   Apoc and Switch
2. Tank and Trinity
   Trinity and Neo

They die in the Matrix and the real world, because "the mind cannot live without the body."

1. a shark
   a virus
2. a dinosaur
   an oak

Humans consume too much and don't reach a balance with their environment.

1. no one would accept it
   humans bred too fast, overunning the system
2. it was too energy-intensive to maintain
   happy people actually generate less biological energy

Agent Smith says that "whole crops (of humans) were lost," but he doesn't explain in what way "not accepting" the simulation led to this disaster.

1. room 101
   room 202
2. room 303
   room 007

It's a multiple of Neo's apartment number, 101, in the beginning -- which is itself a nod to binary coding.

1. Trinity kisses him
   Tank sends a power surge through the line
2. Morpheus whispers something to him that we can't hear
   Neo hears the Oracle's voice in his mind

Trinity also tells him that the Oracle prophesied she'd fall in love with the One (thus, he can't just die).

1. Seattle
   Chicago
2. Capital City, USA
   We never learn this

The street names are from Chicago, although Neo's passport says he was born in "Capital City."

1. the machines and Agents
   Agent Smith alone
2. humanity
   his mother

For good measure, Neo then launches himself into the air like Superman.

1. 1's and 0's
   reversed numbers and Japanese characters
2. Thai and Korean characters
   thinned-out versions of Zaph Dingbats

The characters are green, a color scheme which dominates the film, right down to the Oracle's kitchen.

1. Plato
   Descartes
2. Gilbert Harman
   all of these

The film draws on the "brain in a vat" idea and Plato's "allegory of the cave."

1. Neuromancer
   The Desert of the Real
2. Man and Superman
   Simacrula and Simulation

"The desert of the real" is a phrase from the book, which Morpheus uses to describe the ruined real world.

1. Michelle Yeoh
   Carrie-Anne Moss
2. Jada Pinkett
   Gillian Anderson

The other three actresses were all considered for the role.

1. Brad Pitt
   Nicolas Cage
2. Will Smith
   Orlando Bloom

Though Keanu Reeves is indelibly linked to the Neo character, he wasn't the first choice.

1. they are tinted with titanium
   they allow him to see Agents disguised as human
2. they have a data feed on the inner surface, like Google Glass
   they have no legs (earpieces)

Hey, he's Laurence FIshburne -- he keeps them on with the sheer power of his will!

1. "Reloaded" and "Reality"
   "Revised" and "Reloaded"
2. "Revenge" and "Revolutions"
   "Reloaded" and "Revolutions"

The world just couldn't get enough of black leather dusters and slow-motion bullets.

1. Camelot
   Rockefeller
2. Roosevelt
   Heart O' the City

It's where the cops corner Trinity, however briefly.