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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Adventures in Babysitting (1987) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987).

About the movie: Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dread" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		The film reportedly moved wrestler/actor Roddy Piper so much, he broke down and cried after a screening.
b.		Richard Donner kept both One-Eyed Willies head and a model for the ship.
c.		The power cord on the lens adapter shorted out the camera, essentially frying the electronics. This happened on the first take of the first day of shooting.
d.		Elisabeth Shues brother, actor Andrew Shue, has a role as an extra at the frat party. He is at the bar laughing at Daryl.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		Mirages toll-free phone number on her calling card is 866-787-7476, an unregistered phone number at the time of the movies original release. However, when compared to the letters on a typical phone pad, the last seven digits spell out the word "suprhro". The phone number was active as of the DVDs release. It contained Mirages voice directing you to the movies Web site and told you to input the phone number on the site to get access to secret information (including a deleted scene not included on the DVD). The requirement to enter the phone number was subsequently removed and the phone number no longer works.
b.		When Clark shows his coworker Bill the brochure about the swimming pool he wants to put in his backward, he is seen drinking coffee out of a Tasmanian Devil coffee mug. Miriam Flynn (Cousin Catherine) would later go on to play the voice of Tazs mother in the cartoon Taz-Mania.
c.		Robert Duvall turned down the lead role because he was making Secondhand Lions.
d.		Elisabeth Shue landed the lead role after Valerie Bertinelli and Michelle Pfeiffer both declined.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		M. Night Shyamalan wrote the screenplay with Mark Wahlberg in mind for the lead role.
b.		This film marks the first time Dr. Curt Connors becomes The Lizard on film, played by Rhys Ifans. Although the character of Dr. Curt Connors appeared in the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man films, played by Dylan Baker, the character never became The Lizard in the films despite some strong hints.
c.		In an early draft (third rewrite) of the script, there is no mention of Saras fascination with Thor. What is included instead is a funny scene at Soldier Field with The Chicago Bears Players stars Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, William Perry (William "The Refrigerator" Perry) and Mike Singletary. The boys invite the team members to come to the Anderson House to watch The Mummys Curse and when they finally leave, Daryl smuggles out several of the teams jockstraps as souvenirs. The jockstraps later are used to make up the shortage of cash needed to get the station wagon out of (Miss) Dawsons garage. None of the Chicago Bears appear in and only one brief reference is made to the team in the film (by the girl at the frat party).
d.		The tattoo encircling Jake Mazurskys (Ben Foster) neck is the original Hebrew verse from Psalms 109:14, "Let not the sin of his mother be blotted out".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		The address of Joes Pizza is given in the comics as the address of Spider-Mans ally Doctor Strange.
b.		In the flashback to Africa, a young black girl with white hair can be seen. This is the young Ororo Monroe (Storm), the future X-Men member. This scene was removed from the final film, but appears as a deleted scene in the DVD.
c.		In both this film and in Back to the Future Part III, Elisabeth Shue faints and says the line, "I had the worst nightmare!"
d.		In the unfinished doc, Filming the Trial, Orson Welles said that if Don Quixote was ever finished, he would have called it "When are you going to finish Don Quixote?"

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		Sara wears a backpack with a picture of Gizmo on it. This is a reference to Gremlins which was written by Chris Columbus.
b.		The script only called for Santee to kill five henchmen at the warehouse, but for the sake of more action it was changed to dozens and dozens of them.
c.		Screenwriter E.L. Katz directed the fake vampire film within a film "Evil Whispers". Director Adam Wingard has an appearance in it as the vampire hunter "Raymond".
d.		M. Night Shyamalan admitted that Agatha Christie was an influence on the film, especially Christies 1939 novel And Then There Were None. They both share the same plot of a group of people with guilty pasts trapped in an isolated location and die off one by one. The final plot twist is also the same. The villain is among them, thought to have been killed off earlier in the story.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		Jack Nicholson and John Herman Shaner appeared in publicity stills for the film. They did not appear in the film but posed in the pictures as a favor to producer Roger Corman.
b.		Served as the basis for a 1989 CBS unsold pilot starring Jennifer Guthrie, Brian Austin Green and Joey/Joseph Lawrence.
c.		Despite the fact that this was filmed in the standard spherical format, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credits.
d.		This film has been officially banned in Egypt for "sacrilegious content".

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		One of the movies producers is Debra Hill, who teamed up with John Carpenter to make Halloween, a horror movie about murdered babysitters. Listen carefully when Sara and Kris watch television. The music you can hear is John Carpenters chilling Halloween theme, an in-joke.
b.		Brinke Stevens got her first big speaking role in this film.
c.		This is Beyoncé Knowles first movie role where she is not singing.
d.		James Cameron: [Slow-motion interrupted by gunshot] At the TechNoir club

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		Aaron Copland re-arranged music from his score for concert performance. It was published in 1964 as "Music for a Great City" and has been recorded by Copland and other conductors.
b.		An early draft of the script has the part of Dawson, the garage owner, played by an extremely unfeminine woman and the scene emphasizes the humor of Sara and Brads confusion over Dawsons gender. This part ultimately went to Vincent DOnofrio and the scene as it appears in the film plays with Saras fascination with the comic book hero Thor and has her confusing Dawson with her comic book hero (to Sara hes cleverly disguised as an everyday garage mechanic).
c.		An early draft of the script, written by Jonathan Hensleigh in August 1997, had Bruce Banner performing experiments with gamma-irradiated insect DNA on convicts, transforming them into insect-men whom the Hulk then battles.
d.		The over birds-eye shot near the end of the film in which we see Spirit jump the gorge was originally designed to have a pair of imaginary wings appear across Spirit to give the greater illusion of him flying, but it was deemed unnecessary and left out of the final cut.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		The pistol used by Colonial Marines is a Heckler and Koch VP70.
b.		Cinematographer Jacques R. Marquette and his Marquette Productions created this film because they needed a very inexpensive feature to fill out the bottom of a double feature package with their previously produced The Brain from Planet Arous. Marquette kept the production costs even lower by directing this himself, his only directing credit.
c.		The Warg attack against the Rohirrim was originally supposed to be set at night, and at Edoras. After working on the Edoras set during the day, Peter Jackson decided that it was too windy and too cold to bring cast and crew back for a night scene, so the scene was re-written to happen during daylight.
d.		The two rival gangs on the El Train challenge each other to a fight when the train crosses "Devereux" street, an in-joke towards director Chris Columbus wife Monica Devereux and father in law Clarke Devereux who both appear in the movie.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Adventures in Babysitting (1987)?
a.		This was Katharine Hepburns only Western.
b.		Right before shooting a scene in which the group runs through a dirty, trash-filled alley, the Toronto Sanitation department came by and cleaned it up, so the crew had to dig through local dumpsters for more trash.
c.		Kevin Costner researched the character of Jim Garrison extensively, including meeting the man himself as well as his friends and enemies.
d.		The twelfth of sixteen movies for the suave detective nicknamed "The Falcon" starring Tom Conway.

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