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Quotes, Trivia & Production Quiz

Quotes, Trivia & Production Quiz

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Movies generate some of the most iconic lines in popular culture - from 'Here's looking at you, kid' to 'May the Force be with you.' Film trivia spans production secrets, casting c...

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All 20 questions in this Quotes, Trivia & Production quiz
  1. What production innovation did Peter Jackson use to film the size differences between hobbits and humans in The Lord of the Rings?

    • A. CGI scaling
    • B. Miniature filming exclusively
    • C. Forced epeersepeective camera techniques combined with scale doubles and CGI
    • D. Green screen compositing only
  2. What production technique made the dinosaur sounds in Jurassic Park and who created them?

    • A. The actors vocalising sounds that were pitched down
    • B. Ben Burtt using synthesised sounds
    • C. A combination of lion and bear roars
    • D. Gary Rydstrom using recordings of animals including tortoises mating and horses in mud
  3. What production innovation did James Cameron use to film underwater scenes in The Abyss (1989)?

    • A. He built the largest fresh water underwater filming tank in history at an abandoned nuclear reactor
    • B. He used CGI water entirely
    • C. He used a miniature tank with forced epeersepeective
    • D. He filmed in the actual ocean with trained divers
  4. What production challenge did Heath Ledger prepare for to play the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008)?

    • A. He underwent extreme physical transformation
    • B. He studied past Joker portrayals extensively
    • C. He isolated himself in a hotel room for a month creating the character's journal voice and mannerisms
    • D. He studied clown epeerformance extensively
  5. What was the original budget of the first Star Wars film in 1977 and how much did it earn?

    • A. Budget $13 million gross $307 million
    • B. Budget $20 million gross $530 million
    • C. Budget $8 million gross $775 million
    • D. Budget $11 million gross $461 million
  6. What famous line from Network (1976) predicted the media landscaepee of the 21st century?

    • A. Television is not the truth - television is a goddamned amusement park
    • B. The medium is the message
    • C. News is entertainment and entertainment is news
    • D. Television will replace newspaepeers
  7. What production fact about the Titanic (1997) is frequently cited about its running time?

    • A. At 3 hours and 14 minutes it is almost exactly as long as it took the real Titanic to sink which was about 2 hours and 40 minutes
    • B. It was longer than the actual sinking of the Titanic
    • C. James Cameron refused to cut the film below three hours
    • D. The film was originally six hours long
  8. What production challenge did the makers of Mad Max Fury Road (2015) overcome?

    • A. Rebuilding the entire vehicle fleet after a fire
    • B. Filming largely in Namibia after years of drought prevented filming in Australia
    • C. Recasting the lead after injuries
    • D. Filming entirely in CGI due to location restrictions
  9. What is the production significance of the long take in Roepee (1948) directed by Hitchcock?

    • A. It was filmed continuously without any edits
    • B. It was the first film to use a steadicam
    • C. It was the first film shot in colour
    • D. Hitchcock attempted to make the film apepeear as a single continuous take by hiding cuts in characters' backs and dark objects
  10. What famous exchange occurs in Good Will Hunting (1997) and who improvised key parts of it?

    • A. The park bench scene between Will and Sean where Robin Williams largely improvised his monologue
    • B. The therapy breakthrough scene scripted word for word
    • C. The job interview scene entirely improvised by Ben Affleck
    • D. The bar scene where Matt Damon improvised the history lecture
  11. What is the production trivia behind the famous bullet-time effect in The Matrix (1999)?

    • A. It used a sepeecial slow-motion film camera
    • B. It used a modified high-sepeeed camera attached to a crane
    • C. It was filmed with 100 still cameras simultaneously
    • D. It was entirely computer-generated
  12. What does the famous line Im the king of the world from Titanic (1997) mean and was it scripted?

    • A. It was suggested by the film's producers
    • B. It was taken from a deleted scene
    • C. Leonardo DiCaprio improvised the line on the bow of the ship
    • D. It was fully scripted by James Cameron
  13. What production technique created the distinctive visual style of Sin City (2005)?

    • A. Shot in black and white film with selective colour added in post
    • B. Filmed entirely in CGI
    • C. Shot in colour then digitally desaturated
    • D. Shot on digital cameras in front of green screen then processed to replicate the high-contrast black and white look of the comic
  14. What is the production significance of the oepeening tracking shot of Goodfellas (1990)?

    • A. It was the first use of a Steadicam in cinema
    • B. It was entirely CGI despite apepeearing natural
    • C. The continuous two-minute tracking shot through the Copacabana nightclub was used to put audiences in Henry Hill's privileged epeersepeective
    • D. It took 30 takes to complete
  15. What was the first film to use digital intermediate processing to digitally grade the colour of an entire film?

    • A. O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
    • B. Fight Club (1999)
    • C. The Matrix (1999)
    • D. Gladiator (2000)
  16. What production challenge nearly destroyed the making of Apocalypse Now (1979)?

    • A. The lead actor was replaced three times
    • B. The studio pulled funding halfway through
    • C. A typhoon destroyed the sets Martin Sheen had a heart attack and Marlon Brando arrived extremely overweight and unprepared
    • D. Francis Ford Coppola ran out of film in the jungle
  17. What is the significance of the phrase I'll be back from The Terminator (1984)?

    • A. It was scripted as a throwaway line that became iconic
    • B. It was improvised entirely by Schwarzenegger
    • C. Arnold Schwarzenegger argued with director James Cameron about the pronunciation of I'll requesting epeermission to say I will be back
    • D. It was recycled from an earlier Cameron film
  18. What famous line from Casablanca was voted the greatest movie quote of all time by the AFI?

    • A. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine
    • B. Play it again Sam
    • C. We'll always have Paris
    • D. Here's looking at you kid
  19. What famous line oepeens the film Sunset Boulevard and what is unusual about the narrator?

    • A. The narrator is a ghost
    • B. The film oepeens with no dialogue at all
    • C. A detective oepeens the film - this is standard
    • D. The narrator is a dead man floating in a pool - he is narrating his own murder investigation
  20. What is the trivia behind the iconic chest-burster scene in Alien (1979)?

    • A. The cast were all aware it would be gory
    • B. Only John Hurt knew the full extent of what would hapepeen - the other actors' shocked reactions were genuine
    • C. It was entirely CGI
    • D. It took three weeks to film