Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Part (2) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

About the movie: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside. (See also Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.) The Nevada desert bomb test was left out in order to reduce the budget. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test.
b.		When Jill Lynn (Jeanne Crain) seeks out Steve Christopher (Elliott Reid) in the all-night movie house, a film is playing on the screen but we only hear the voices. The dialogue is from the classic movie Laura, and the lines are from the police interrogation scene featuring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. However, when Christopher jokes about the movie hes seen 4 times, he is referring to something completely different (he mentions "The butler did it").
c.		It is reported that Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke watched an enormous number of science fiction films in preparation for creating this movie and Kubrick himself acknowledged the influence of producer George Pals films. Pals Conquest of Space provided several plot points throughout the movie.
d.		John Carradine plays Rev. Bailey in this re-make. He played Robert Ford in the 1939 original production.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		In the Academy Awards scene the actresses nominated for the same award as Simone all have computer hardware and software names: Claris Apple, Lisa Packard, and Lotus Corel.
b.		The code seen in Booths Diary is an actual text encoded with Playfair method using the keyword DEATH. The complete text says: "La Boulaye lady will lead to Cibola temples of gold".
c.		The television interviewer explains that gaps of seven minutes each were edited out of the broadcast as signals raced between Earth and the hugely distant Discovery crew. Given that the resulting interview ran about four minutes and there were 19 such gaps, the interview must have taken about 2 hours 17 minutes to tape. (Unless the questions and replies were all sent in single bursts, and re-edited later.)
d.		Was filmed in the same area as another Robert Redford film, A River Runs Through it, up the Boulder Valley, south of a small Montana town called Big Timber.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick disagreed on what HALs birthday should be. Kubrick wanted HAL to be about the age of a child, so his death would have more emotional impact. Clarke insisted such an old computer would not be used for an important mission. In the book, HALs age was four years (12 January 1997), while in the movie it was nine years (12 January 1992). This disagreement resurfaced nearly thirty years later when film critic Roger Ebert held a birthday party for HAL 9000 by screening 2001 in Urbana, Illinois in 1997, the date and place of HALs birth in the novel (Ebert was also born in Urbana). Clarke and Kubrick were both invited. Clarke accepted his invitation and made an appearance at the festivities via satellite, but Kubrick declined, stating that they missed HALs birthday in 1992. Another inconsistency in this scene is the name of HALs first instructor. It is Mr. Langley in this movie but is Dr. Chandra in all other books and movies in this series. Since HAL is saying all this while being shut down, this could be interpreted as a result of memory failure.
b.		Barry Hansen: (a.k.a. Dr. Demento) is the man eating whipped cream during the Channel 62 promo. The Dr. Demento show is a long-running (almost 40 years) syndicated radio show focusing exclusively on novelty and comedy records, and was the springboard that launched Weird Al.
c.		The large, white hovercraft appears to be a Saunders-Roe Nautical 6 (SR.N6). The smaller hovercraft appears to be the Britten-Norman "Cushioncraft" 5 (CC5). There was one CC5 built which capsized during tests off of Priory Bay.
d.		Fergie (vocalist Stacy Ferguson of The Black Eyed Peas) was attached to play Stevie Wayne before a last-minute conflict prevented her contract from closing.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		The blackjack "cheats" were using a technique known as "spooking". Nevada courts have mostly ruled it to be legal because it merely takes advantage of hold card information exposed by sloppy dealers.
b.		Vitaphone production reels #2401-2408; a Vitaphone musical score and sound effects were added to this otherwise silent production.
c.		The chess position and moves that we see are from a game played in 1910 in Hamburg between two undistinguished players named Roesch and Schlage. The computer claims that the final position is a checkmate in two moves. Actually, white is not obliged to play the move that HAL suggests (Bxf3), so we have a checkmate in three moves. Another result of Stanley Kubricks fondness for chess is the character Smyslov, named after a Russian champion.
d.		Maxs shotgun differs in this movie from the one he used in Mad Max and Mad Max 2, which was his duty weapon. This one has exposed hammers and a different grip.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		Evidence of Stanley Kubricks attention to detail: there are visible replacement instructions for the explosive bolts in the ejection apparatus of the pods.
b.		Karl Malden (Leavenworth warden Harvey Shoemaker) introduces a new warden to the institution. He identifies one of the prisoners as "Sekulovich", Maldens own real name.
c.		John Ford had a greensman water a cactus overnight to allow it to be squeezed for water.
d.		William Peter Blatty made the film based on his novel "Legion," which was published in 1983. Morgan Creek decided to call it "Exorcist: Legion" even though the screenplay and novel featured no exorcisms whatsoever. After principal photography was completed, the misleading nature of the title was noticed, and the producers determined that additional scenes needed to be written and then added into the film in order to made it a more recognizable sequel of The Exorcist. The last third of the movie had to be entirely redone, with the insertion of a new character, Father Morning, and of an exorcism scene that cost nearly 4 million dollars.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		Melanie Lynskey, who plays Munch in the film, made her screen debut in _Heavenly Creatures (1994)_ with Kate Winslet. Winslet was later married to the films director, Sam Mendes from 2003 to 2010.
b.		The Amusement Park is Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, Texas.
c.		John Rainer Long (Producer) was a local resident when he became involved with the production.
d.		An early draft of the script had narration.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		Lance Henriksens pistol is a Thompson Center Contender. It is a single-shot pistol featuring interchangeable barrels of different calibers.
b.		In a scene where Ash drives away from the cabin, he gets out of the car and seems to walk at an angle, creating an eerie and otherworldly effect. This was accomplished by parking the car on a slight incline and tilting the camera at the same angle (so that the car appeared straight). When Bruce Campbell gets out of the car, he is walking on the flat ground, which looks crooked because the car and camera are both tilted sideways.
c.		According to Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyds of London to protect himself against losses in the event that extraterrestrial intelligence were discovered before the movie was released. Lloyds refused. Carl Sagan commented, "In the mid-1960s, there was no search being performed for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the chances of accidentally stumbling on extraterrestrial intelligence in a few years period was extremely small. Lloyds of London missed a good bet."
d.		Strong winds on location forced director Lewis Milestone to re-dub much of the exterior dialogue.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		The interiors for the "Parklane Hospital" where Senator McLaughlin is staying are actually that of the iconic Austin hotel, The Driskill.
b.		A major task for the film was finding and training more than 200 Dalmatian puppies.
c.		In the French version, Dr. Heywood Floyds middle name is Richard.
d.		On the DVD short documentary, Claude Rains daughter tells of a time when the two went to see this movie in the theater years after it was made. It was bitterly cold and his face was completely covered by a hat and scarf. When he spoke to ask for the tickets, the attendant immediately recognized his voice and wanted to let them in for free. Rains was quite upset at this and demanded that he pay full price.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		Both Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore recorded a voice-over that would have played over the final scene. Both gave more insight into the reason for Chloes suicide from the speakers perspective, but in the end, neither of them was used. Both endings can be seen on the bonus features on the DVD.
b.		To study for his role as a Christian missionary, Aidan Quinn went undercover with the Wycliffe Bible Translator group in Belem, Brazil, passing himself off as a born again Christian from the American Midwest.
c.		The songs "A Woman in Love", "Pet Me Poppa" and "Adelaide" were written for the screen version and were not in the original Broadway show. On Broadway, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) doesnt sing in the title song. That was added for the film to increase Sinatras singing part.
d.		Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing effect for the floating pen in the shuttle sequence. After trying many different techniques, without success, Kubrick decided to simply use a pen that was taped to a sheet of glass and suspended in front of the camera. In fact, the shuttle attendant can be seen to "pull" the pen off the glass when she takes hold of it.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
a.		First James Bond movie where Michael G. Wilson, stepson of Albert R. Broccoli, is credited as a fully-fledged producer. He had previously been an executive producer on Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and a special assistant to the producer on The Spy Who Loved Me. His association with the James Bond series started with Goldfinger in which he was a 3rd assistant director and made an appearance, the cameo becoming a tradition regularly from The Spy Who Loved Me. He was also a scriptwriter for the series on five occasions. This was also the first Bond film that Broccoli shared a producers credit with anyone besides original Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman (I).
b.		Not screened for critics - only a 20 min excerpt was shown to journalists.
c.		Among the model-makers was David Peterson, later Waless foremost sculptor and a prominent nationalist activist.
d.		Merian C. Coopers first vision for the film was of a giant ape on top of the worlds tallest building fighting airplanes. He worked backward from there to develop the rest of the story.

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