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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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