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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - Part (3) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) - Part (3) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
About the movie:
Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly-named villain Goldmember - who is working with Dr. Evil.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 16, 1941 with
Olivia de Havilland
and
Charles Winninger
reprising their film roles.
b.
The old lady sitting in the rocking chair outside Jebediah Morningsides house, who also appears next to Mike while driving the hearse, is supposed to be the fortune teller from
Phantasm
, originally played by
Mary Ellen Shaw
. In this movie, the character is played by an uncredited, unknown actress.
c.
Quincy Jones
: during the opening credits. He composed "Soul Bossa Nova," which the series uses as the theme music.
d.
The shot outside of the gay bar in DC showing the US Capitol Building was actually taken outside of the Phoenix Park Hotel on North Capitol St. in DC. The front of the hotel was covered in purple and the "AC/DC" fictitious bar name prominently displayed.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
In early versions of the script,
Ashley Judd
s character was to be a Harvard law professor.
b.
Susanna Hoffs
: In the beginning of the film when Austin is in his shag pad singing, director
Jay Roach
s wife and former
The Bangles
lead singer can be seen playing the guitar to Austins left.
c.
Even though the film had a number of great songs, a soundtrack for this film was never released.
d.
For the scene in which Marky is thrown from a horse,
Shirley Temple
was wired to an overhead crane and carefully lowered to the ground.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
At the end of the "42nd Street" number, Billy and Peggy pull down a curtain or shade with the word "Asbestos" written on it. This can be a confusing reference to 21st-century viewers, who may only be familiar with asbestos as a mineral composite which is now known to cause the lung cancer mesothelioma, but during the first part of the 20th century, asbestos was an often-used flame-retardant component in building materials. It also would have been a reference familiar to theater people, since live-performance theaters were at the time required to have a curtain made of asbestos that would separate the stage from the audience in the event of an on-stage fire. In that context, the presence of the curtain in the film is the movies way of implying that whatever Billy and Peggy are going to do behind the curtain, it will surely be "hot."
b.
Dan Hedaya
later played Nixon himself in
Dick
, while Saul Rubinek would go on to play Henry Kissinger in the same film.
Madeline Kahn
played Pat Nixon on Saturday Night Live.
Kevin Dunn
previously played J. Edgar Hoover in
Chaplin
.
c.
Michael York
and
Michael Caine
, both veteran English actors with over 100 films each to his credit, had never worked on a film together before this one.
d.
Eleven years after being mentioned in
Rope
as making an excellent villain,
James Mason
was finally cast by
Alfred Hitchcock
as such in
North by Northwest
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
All space-battle footage is from the TV series
Battlestar Galactica
.
b.
The character, Colonel Oliver Southern, is an obvious nod to Lt Col.
Oliver North
who was tried, and ultimately pardoned, for selling arms to Iran to raise money to support the Contra movement in Nicaragua.
c.
During the opening credits for Austinpussy,
Danny DeVito
(as Mini-Me) is seen firing an M-249 light machine gun, or as it is known in Europe, the FN MINIMI.
d.
None of the film was made in Somalia but in the similar looking cities of Rabat and Sale in Morocco. No Somali actors are included in the cast. Somalia then and today remains a dangerous and unstable country.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
The name of
Vincent Price
s character was changed to Henry Jarrod from Ivan Igor to avoid alienating Russian viewers.
b.
Doug Liman
set out to make this film with the feel of the movie inspired by
Lola rennt
, in which
Franka Potente
(who plays Marie in this movie) played the main part.
c.
Austins "pad" is actually digitally added to the top of the London Aquarium.
d.
According to
Steven Berkoff
(Maitland) in a UK newspaper interview,
Sylvester Stallone
quit the film because of disagreements about which kind of orange juice was to be put in his trailer.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
Prior to this American movie, the only American movie experience this films director
Jean-Claude Tramont
had was writing the screenplay for
Ash Wednesday
.
b.
Marc Okrand
had to update the grammar and vocabulary of the Klingon language several times when actors would get the line wrong and it was deemed easier to re-write the language than re-shoot the scene.
c.
Colin Strause
and
Greg Strause
both wanted the film to be 3-D, however the idea was dropped, because it would be too expensive.
d.
Mike Myers
has said that his glasses in all three films are meant to look like those worn by
Michael Caine
in
The Ipcress File
, so Caine took the original glasses (model "Teviot 74" by UK Optical) to the set and wore them as Nigel.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
Katie Couric
: cop who says, "Times Up," when Frau Farbissina is visiting Dr. Evil.
b.
In the English version of the film, Gloria speaks of "Macys" as the department store where Joan gets sick. The German edition of this movie says "Bloomingdales" instead of "Macys". Gloria says "Bloomingdales" on the English audio of the DVD.
c.
The title is a line
Warren Beatty
used on his girlfriends at the time.
d.
The dolly move in the mechanic shop when the characters Dirty mouth and Small Mad come to get money from Reza was achieved by having the camera strapped onto the top of the car through the sun roof and the car pushed.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
All of the male puppet heads consist of nine different servo motors that control the various facial expressions/actions, while the female heads consist of seven in the head and two in the back.
b.
Seth Green
claims that the sequence at the end showing him dancing around Dr. Evils lair was not scripted; he said he was fooling around between takes and his hijinks were caught on film and the director decided to include it in the movie.
c.
Stanley Kubrick
: [bathroom/toilet] The first Kubrick film in which showing a shot of a bathroom/toilet became his trademark. He would repeat this in every film since until his death in 1999.
d.
Paramount spent an extra $5 million (one sixth of the films budget) to reshoot Captain James T. Kirks demise.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
In none of the Predator movies has any Predator been killed by a firearm.
b.
Kristen Johnston
: who had played Ivana Humpalot in
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
, is reportedly one of the dancers in Austins pad.
c.
Roald Dahl
was reportedly so angry with the treatment of his book (mainly stemming from the massive rewrite by
David Seltzer
) that he refused permission for the books sequel, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator", to be filmed. Seltzer had an idea for a new sequel, but legal issues meant that it never got off the ground. Reportedly, Dahl was so unhappy that he refused to ever watch the completed film in its entirety. Once, while staying in a hotel, he accidentally tuned into a television airing of the movie, but reportedly changed the channel immediately when he realized what he was watching.
d.
The Van der Lip Dam disaster is a reference to the collapse of the St Francis Dam in 1928, 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, which had been designed by self-educated engineer William Mulholland. The consequent flooding killed at least 450 people, a loss of life that remains second only to that from the San Francisco earthquake and fire in Californias history.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)?
a.
Kevin Smith
s highest grossing movie.
b.
Kevin Costner
s spreading out of his arms while doing his suicide run at the start of the film was a completely spontaneous gesture that took his stunt coordinator by surprise.
c.
Anna Faris
s film debut.
d.
The helicopter at the beginning of the movie is a Bell AH-1 Cobra gunship.
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