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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Airplane! (1980) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Airplane! (1980) - 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: Airplane! (1980).
About the movie:
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
The casting of professional basketball player
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
as a member of the flight crew was a reference to pro football player
Elroy Crazylegs Hirsch
s role as a pilot in the serious airplane disaster film
Zero Hour!
b.
To prepare for her role,
Hilary Swank
lived life as a man for at least a month, including wrapping her chest in tension bandages and putting socks down the front of her pants much the same way that Brandon Teena did.
c.
The original play opened in New York City, New York, USA on 25 November 1933 and had 57 performances.
Anton Stengel
and
Margaret Dale
originated their movie roles in the play, and the cast included
Porter Hall
and
Margaret Hamilton
.
d.
The original title of this film was "Cloak and Diaper".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
"Stayin Alive" was sped up for the dance scene of the film. Permission from
The Bee Gees
had to be obtained to speed it up.
b.
Robin Williams
was originally offered the role of the Psammead.
c.
There were so many changes to the script during shooting that
Jack Nicholson
claimed he stopped reading it. He would read only the new pages that were given to him each day.
d.
Edward the dog is a Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
In the scene in which
Powers Boothe
picks up the scorpion and then crushes it with his bare hand was done in one take.
b.
The video game played by the air traffic controllers is the Atari 2600s
Basketball
.
c.
A flustered Alonzo Smith (
Leon Ames
) makes a sarcastic remark about embarking on a new career as a baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles. The major league team known as the Baltimore Orioles from 1901-1902 moved to New York City in 1903 and would eventually become known as the New York Yankees. (The scene in this film takes place in 1903, when the Baltimore Orioles was the name of a minor league team.) Oddly, the St. Louis Browns, a major league club from St. Louis at both the time the movie is set and the time it was made, would relocate in 1954 and become the modern-day Baltimore Orioles.
d.
To help the audience quickly grasp which subs interior they were seeing as the movie jumped from scene to scene and sub to sub, the filmmakers created a subtle lighting scheme: blue for Red October, red for Dallas, and green for the other Russian sub, the Alpha class "V. K. Konovalov".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
Singer/songwriter
Barry Manilow
was considered for the role of Ted Stryker before
Robert Hays
was hired.
b.
Make-up artist
Barney Burman
supervised the makeup for the aliens in the film. His team had to rush the creation of many of the aliens, because originally the majority of them were to feature in one major scene (to express the variety of life in the universe). Towards the end of filming, however,
J.J. Abrams
deemed the scene too similar to the
Star Wars
cantina sequence, and decided to dot the designs around the film.
c.
The exorcism was performed by
Will Sampson
, who was a real-life shaman for "several different groups" before his death in 1987. Studio security was instructed to leave the set unlocked and unguarded so Sampson could return in the middle of the night to perform the exorcism.
d.
Jonathan Rola, Michael Leary and Nathan Burdette were living together during the production of The Matter with Clark.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
Film debut of
James Newill
.
b.
The film was specially geared to spoof the "Airport" series, but chiefly spoofs
Airport 1975
, where
Karen Black
is a stewardess forced to pilot a plane after both pilots are incapacitated,
Linda Blair
is a girl needing a kidney transplant, and
Helen Reddy
plays a singing nun.
c.
Don Siegel (I) called Bad Day at Black Rock the best screenplay he had ever read (to that point) and lobbied unsuccessfully to direct it.
d.
One of only two movies shot on Notre Dames campus. The other was
Knute Rockne All American
.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
The film is mostly a parody of
Zero Hour!
, a film that had a main character named Ted Stryker and such famous "not meant to be funny" lines like "We have to find someone who can not only fly this plane, but who didnt have fish for dinner."
b.
Chris Massoglia
was originally chosen to play an 18 year old version of Sam to be more faithful to the final scene of the book, but for reasons unknown, he was replaced by
Charlie Tahan
in the final film.
c.
The film is based on the award-winning novelette The Martian Child, by science fiction author
David Gerrold
.
d.
ARIIA is voiced by
Julianne Moore
, who chose to go uncredited.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
Included among the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
b.
The horse that
William Shatner
rides is his, as are the home and farm where the sequence takes place.
c.
The original premise of
Ghost Busters
had three main characters:
John Belushi
,
Dan Aykroyd
and
Eddie Murphy
. They fought ghosts in S.W.A.T. like suits using wands instead of guns. The ghost named Slimer was known as Onionhead, and at the end of the movie the Ghostbusters franchise was all over the United States.
John Candy
also was slated to play Louis. However, with Belushis death and characters backing out, the script was rewritten and new actors cast.
d.
The
Jaws
spoof in the beginning of the film was made of layers of cotton on a piece of plywood with a hidden wire track for the airplane to "fly" around.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
In real life, it was Brigadier General George Crockett Strong (played by
Jay O. Sanders
in the film) who addressed the 54th Massachusetts on the beach before their assault on Fort Wagner. General Strong, the brigade commander, pointed to the 54ths flag bearer as asked, "If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry it on?" It was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who replied, "I will!" General Strong was himself mortally wounded by shrapnel in the assault on Fort Wagner. He was taken to New York City, where he died of tetanus two weeks after the battle.
b.
Universal threatened to sue when they found out that the directors were trying to get
Helen Reddy
to repeat her role as the singing nun from
Airport 1975
.
George Kennedy
from the original Airport movies was also being courted for the film but thought better of running afoul of Universal.
c.
Julia Roberts
s head was superimposed on
Shelley Michelle
s body for the poster.
Richard Gere
s hair is brown on the poster, but graying in the movie.
d.
Mary Astor
s off-screen notoriety was instrumental in her casting. She was known for being adulterous, having had an affair with John Barrymore, widowed in a plane crash, a multiple bride, and an alcoholic. She also kept a diary of her various sexual exploits that was introduced as evidence in a custody hearing against her estranged husband over who should look after their daughter. The gossip rags thrived on this story.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
Johnny Blake, played by
Edward G. Robinson
, was based on real-life policeman Johnny Broderick, while Al Kruger, played by
Barton MacLane
, was based on notorious gangster
Dutch Schultz
.
b.
One of several titles in the Sherlock Holmes series whose original copyrights were apparently not renewed and have thereby fallen into public domain; as a result, seriously inferior copies are presently being offered by a number of VHS and DVD dealers who do not have access to original studio masters.
c.
According to
Ray Liotta
, both
Robert De Niro
and
Nancy Sinatra
pranked his make-up room with a (fake) severed horse head, as an homage to
The Godfather
and an initiation into Mafioso films.
d.
The producers bought the rights to the movie
Zero Hour!
, the film that this movie is based on.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Airplane! (1980)?
a.
Many of the shots of
Julia Roberts
used in the opening credits came from the show "Entertainment Tonight" (1981).
b.
The directors job was first given to
James Cruze
, then
William A. Wellman
, and finally
John Waters
.
c.
There is a partially obscured inscription around the ceiling of the Magic Clubs Library. In full, it reads "Magic is the oldest trick in the book".
d.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
s role was originally to be played by
Pete Rose
, but he was playing baseball at the time of the filming, so the part went to Kareem. He was offered $30,000 to appear in the film, but he asked for $35,000 to buy an oriental rug.
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