Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).

About the movie: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		In the credits, both Saddam Hussein (Matt Stone) and Satan (Trey Parker) are listed as playing themselves.
b.		The first scene shot was the romantic kissing scene by the fire between Jonathan Jackson and Alexis Bledel. Jackson, who had been cast at the last minute, had not even met Bledel before shooting the scene.
c.		A member of the band Orgy instructed Jamie Lee Curtis on how to play the guitar. In the concert sequence, that is actually Curtis during the solo.
d.		The silent (synchronised sound, non-dialogue) version premiered 73 years after the films release (in the UK, that is) at the Watershed in Bristol on Sunday 23 November 2003.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		Hanna Schygulla played Derek Jacobis mother, even though she was five years younger than him in real life.
b.		The final scene shows the members of Congress being called individually to come forward in order to sign the Declaration of Independence while the camera trucks back, or zooms out. The characters final positions are an approximation of John Trumbulls famous painting, The Declaration of Independence. The actual painting shows the congressional chamber from the front behind Hancocks desk while the scene in the movie is from the rear of the chamber, and therefore the characters appear reversed with the five members of Congress who were assigned to the committee to write the Declaration on the right of the desk as opposed to the left. Far fewer of the actual number of delegates, who were in Congress, are represented in the movie, but the resemblance to the painting is unmistakable including the delegate sitting with one leg crossed over another.
c.		Three years before opening, the film was test-marketed in the Long Island market as "Snow White: Happily Ever After". The test was unsuccessful and the film remained on the shelf before being reissued under its current title.
d.		The Greek writing on the blackboard in the schoolroom is the beginning of Homers "Odyssey": "Tell me Oh Muse of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide".

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		The character of Max Shreck was a re-write of District Attorney Harvey Dent; accordingly, most of his plot points would have perhaps made more sense if Shreck were D.A. instead of a corrupt businessman. The explosion at the end of the film was a means to injure Dent and produce the scars that would lead to his transformation into Two-Face for the third movie in the series. Reportedly, Billy Dee Williams took the role of Harvey Dent in the first Batman movie because he knew that the character would eventually become Two-Face. Williams contract to appear in the sequel is rumored to have been bought out by Warner Bros. at a heavy price.
b.		When April is crying on the bed after her family has abandoned her she originally said, "I knew this would happen," before she asks what they are going to do with all the food. It was decided to remove this line as the director felt that it made her look like she was thinking of herself rather than others, going against everything we had seen of her up until that point. The dubbed over the line with additional crying sounds.
c.		The role of Lucius Hunt was written for Joaquin Phoenix.
d.		In the closing scene, director Lewis Milestones hand is used for that of Lew Ayres, when he reaches for a butterfly.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		Jason Patric replaced Ray Liotta, while Rufus Sewell replaced Danny Huston.
b.		Although usually referred to as a being a "cucumber" or another vegetable by fans, "Beluah" is actually supposed to be a fungus.
c.		Zasu Pitts was originally cast as Mrs. Bäumer (mother of Lew Ayres character Paul Bäumer), but she was replaced by Beryl Mercer. Contrary to long-standing rumor, Zasu Pitts did not appear in the silent version of this film simultaneously produced for theaters not yet wired for sound. However, Zasu Pitts DOES appear briefly in the original 1930 trailer for the silent version, a scene of her in bed.
d.		There was some initial resistance to casting Sally Field as MLynn, because the producers thought no one would believe her as the mother of a 22-year-old until she pointed out that, in real life, she had a 22-year-old son.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		To ensure authenticity, director Lewis Milestone instructed the studio to try to find out if there were any World War I German army veterans living in the Los Angeles area, so he could have them authenticate German uniforms, equipment, etc. So many were found that Milestone cast a lot of them as German officers in the film, and had them drill the extras playing German troops (yhe scene where they are laying communication wire in the forward trenches was led by a former German soldier whose job during the war was to do exactly that).
b.		Maureen OSullivan appears intoxicated in her entrance to the dinner party at the end of the movie. She falls against the door frame prior to entering the room and her speech is slurred and stilted. In subsequent scenes at the dinner itself she is fine.
c.		When Ursula first shows Ariel the contract, it quickly scrolls through the body of the text. This is the actual text shown on the scroll: "I hereby grant unto Ursula, the witch of the sea... , one voice, in exchange for byon once high, Dinu*gihn thon Mueo serr on Puur-qurr I rehd moisn petn r m uenre urpti m srerp monk guaki ,Ch rich noy ri imm ro mund for all eternity. signed," All other instances clearly say: "I hereby grand unto Ursula, the witch of the sea... , one voice, for all eternity. signed,"
d.		According to Kevin Smith, the film was intended as a controversy-free comedy in response to his previous film, the controversy-plagued Dogma. He did not succeed, having raised the ire of gay rights activists over its gay jokes. Smith, in his DVD commentary, denies that his humor was intended as insulting.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		In a scene restored to the DVD release, Elwood parks the Bluesmobile in a tiny Chicago Transit Authority storage shed underneath a bank of transformers for the CTA trains. Dan Aykroyd had written this as part of an elaborate scene showing the Bluesmobile being "charged up" by the transformers to explain how the car could perform its impossible stunts. Director John Landis discarded the complicated explanations, saying, "Its just a magic car!"
b.		Diddlebock, in his speech in the bar, mentions the "echo of the thundering herd". The "thundering herd" is the nickname of the football team of Marshall University, West Virginia.
c.		The book Grace picks up in the abandoned school is called The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. Like the plot of the film the book is about a mystical forest full of beautiful trees and mystical creatures that are destroyed by mans lust for ever growing industry.
d.		According to the reminiscences of director Lewis Milestone, audiences laughed when Zasu Pitts appeared as the mother in the original cut (sound version), and that is why he recast the role with Beryl Mercer.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		Voted number 8 in channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films".
b.		Visa dexploitation en France: #10077 (reprise)
c.		The real Robert Cecil was apparently a dwarf, and one of Queen Elizabeths chief counselors, not the supercilious character portrayed in this film, or in Maxwell Andersons original play. The queen would affectionately refer to him as "my dwarf". He is more accurately portrayed in the TV miniseries Elizabeth I.
d.		To get the film green-lighted by Paramount, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker pitched it as "Animal House on a plane" - which, of course, was far from the truth, but the only way they could get the studio execs to understand it was a zany comedy.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		John Fergusons apartment is located at the corner of Jones and Lombard, just one block west of the famed steep switchback block of Lombard Street.
b.		During the films German release, the Nazis (not yet in power) interrupted screenings by shouting martial slogans and releasing rats into the theaters.
c.		Mascot pretty much pioneered the two-director approach to serials with this film, a system much copied by other studios (Republic, Columbia, Universal) for their own serial output. One director, an action specialist (in this case B. Reeves Eason), would shoot all the outdoor action and stunt scenes. A second director, more suited to handling dialogue scenes (in this case, Armand Schaefer), would simultaneously shoot all the interiors and dialogue scenes. In this way production time was halved, at considerable savings. Levines main concern was keeping star Tom Mixs time spent filming to a minimum, as he was paying Mix $10,000 a week. Because of Levines efficient production methods, he was able to keep Mixs shooting schedule down to four weeks.
d.		Joe Berlinger: appears as Burkittsville resident "Joe" during the documentary opening sequence.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		In the first classroom scene, two phrases are written on the blackboard: 1. in Greek, correctly written, the beginning of the Odyssey - Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, polytropon hos mala polla (the sentence breaks off, against grammar and sense); 2. Ovid, Remedia amoris, line 91 - Principiis obsta, sero medicina paratur (Resist the first elements of passion; its too late when you resort to medicine). A third phrase appears at the end of the scene: Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem (Whatever you do, do it wisely and keep in mind your purpose), an anonymous traditional maxim with biblical echoes.
b.		The Temple of Jerusalem set was constructed on the Pathe (later, RKO) backlot in Culver City. It was redressed as the "Great Wall" set that the title character breaks through in King Kong. It was later reused in David O. Selznicks The Garden of Allah and finally went out in a blaze of glory after it was redressed with Civil War era building fronts, burned and pulled down by a tractor to represent the burning of Atlanta munitions warehouses in Selznicks Gone with the Wind.
c.		The helicopter dolled up to represent a Soviet Mi-24 "Hind" gunship is a Sikorsky Sea King.
d.		Edward Norton was originally set to reprise his role from The Incredible Hulk but negotiations between him and Marvel Studios broke down. Norton was replaced with Mark Ruffalo.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)?
a.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
b.		When Ripley confronts Burke about having the Jordens sent out to check the grid reference, she tells him she checked the company log reference 6.12.79. The theatrical release for Alien was 6th December, 1979 (6.12.79 in the English date format). It is believed that Aliens is set in the year 2179, with Alien set 57 years earlier in 2122.
c.		In part because of his experience in playing the part of Paul Baumer, Lew Ayres became a conscientious objector during the Second World War. His films were banned in over 100 Chicago theaters.
d.		RKO had originally scheduled this film to be filmed twice previously: in 1946 with Fontaine, Henry Fonda, John Sutton, and Marsha Hunt. It was canceled. In 1948, RKO put the film on its filming schedule under the title of BED OF ROSES, with Barbara Bel Geddes in the role of Christabel. However, Howard Hughes decided he did not care for Bel Geddes and postponed it.

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