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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur (1959) - Part (7) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur (1959) - Part (7) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur (1959) - Part (7)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959).

About the movie: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		For one shot where Gollum is crawling and splashing down a river after a fish, Andy Serkis was actually in the water. It had been snowing the previous night, and the snow had been melted, but the water was still freezing cold.
b.		Charlize Theron was the first choice for Greta Wegener but dropped out. Her role was then given to Gwyneth Paltrow, who also dropped out in order to spend more time with her family. Marion Cotillard was considered too. The role was then given to Rachel Weisz who also dropped out soon after.
c.		Roger Moores seventh and final appearance as 007.
d.		Producer Sam Zimbalist originally intended for the chariot race to be shot in Cinerama. This proved to be too expensive and unwieldy an idea.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Ronald Colman came out of a 5 year retirement to do his cameo.
b.		Scott Bairstow, who plays Miles, did the film for free; he wanted to be in the film that much.
c.		William Wyler was an assistant director on the original Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and 34 years later directed its remake, Ben-Hur.
d.		Several changes to the design of the rats (primarily the nose and ears) were made after Debbie Ducommun, a rat expert, brought down several of her personal pets for the art and animation departments to observe.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Fourth of five movies that paired John Wayne and Maureen OHara.
b.		The name of the ship, "R.L.S. Legacy" is a reference to the books ("Treasure Island") author, Robert Louis Stevenson.
c.		Sidney Franklin had initially been courted to direct the film.
d.		This film departs from "On Moonlight Bay" in three main ways. First, the film opens with Stella breaking the fourth wall, addressing the audience directly as she introduces the Winfield family. Second, the song and dance numbers are played like a traditional musical, while the original film incorporated the songs more organically within the story. Finally, the bespectacled music teacher, although the same basic character with the same mannerisms, has a different name and is played by a different actor, the only member of the cast who did not carry over from the original film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Despite being set around Christmas, it was filmed during a heat wave. It got to be so hot that Frank Capra gave everyone a day off to recuperate.
b.		A series of twelve episodes, each one complete in itself. The first episode ran three reels, the remaining eleven episodes ran two reels each; the episode titles are: #1: An Enemy of Mankind; #2: A Voice in the Wilderness; #3: The Black Hole of Glenrenald; #4: To the Vile Dust; #5: A Bushranger at Bay; #6: The Taking of Stingaree; #7: The Honor of the Road; #8: The Purification of Mulfers; #9: The Duel in the Desert; #10: The Villain Worshipper; #11: The Moth and the Star; #12: The Darkest Hour.
c.		When he was cast as Messala, Stephen Boyd grew a bushy beard for the role, only to be told that fashionable Roman men of the time didnt wear beards.
d.		William Sadler was cast as FBI Agent Stanley Chase.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Stephen Boyd wore lifts in his shoes to make his height more on a par with Charlton Hestons.
b.		Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck originally wanted Carole Landis to play Sally Elliot, but she refused to dye her hair red and declared shed play it as a blonde. The movie mogul promptly moved her to a secondary role and borrowed Rita Hayworth from Columbia, since Alice Faye, expecting her first daughter, could not take the part.
c.		Reused the vintage airplanes from The Blue Max.
d.		The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with four other pictures of the same period) were bought back by Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. Theyve been known for long as the infamous "Five lost Hitchcocks" amongst film buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year absence. The others are Rear Window, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, and Vertigo.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Mary Astors pregnancy caused some filming problems.
b.		Gary Coopers acceptance speech typified so many of the actors performances when he said "It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award; Shucks, Ive been in this business sixteen years and sometimes dreamed I might get one of these things. Thats all I can say! Funny, when I was dreaming, I always made a good speech." As he left the stage, he forgot the Oscar on the podium.
c.		When meeting with James Coburn to discuss the film, director Paul Schrader encouraged Coburn to make heavy preparations for his role. Coburn responded "Oh, you mean you want me to really act? I can do that. I havent often been asked to, but I can."
d.		When Simonides and Esther came to visit the family house of the Hurs, Miriam, Judah and Tirzah. Judah Ben-Hur spoke to him nice in calling Simonides name, Miriam also said Simonides name, shortly after Judah. These are the only two times that Simonides name was verbally said, through-out the movie, because when the name is pronounced, it has four syllables.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		The chariot race was shot without sound. This was added in post-production when the decision was also made to not have any music throughout the sequence.
b.		When Marcy sleeps with Paul it wasnt meant to seem so sudden. Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final movie show Marcy and Paul becoming closer before it happened.
c.		Bryce Dallas Howard performed her own stunts during the crane accident scene, unaware that she was pregnant at the time of filming.
d.		The mailbox next to Franks bears the name "Vito Russo". Vito Russo was a film scholar and historian who wrote The Celluloid Closet, a study of homosexuality in film that was adapted into a documentary film of the same name.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Wednesday, November 18, 1959, was exactly the same month, date and year that actor, Arthur Q. Bryan died and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer originally released Ben-Hur.
b.		On one of the last nights of filming, the police stopped by the set due to complaints of "kids waving guns around." This was the first police response.
c.		In a crucial scene in a restaurant, a pianist is playing the song "Ol Man River", from the Broadway musical "Show Boat". As "The Miniver Story" went into release, MGM, which filmed it, was preparing to begin filming their Technicolor remake of "Show Boat", which would be released in the summer of the following year (1951).
d.		On Roger Eberts list of great movies.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Red Buttons and Carol Lynley, whose characters fall in love in the movie, actually disliked each other intensely. They refused to have anything to do with each other except when the cameras were rolling.
b.		In the original script, the character of Deborah Gelly was 15 years old, but Elizabeth McGovern was 20 years old when the movie began to be filmed, 21 years old when it ended to be filmed and 22 years old when it premiered.
c.		The desert sequences were all set to be filmed in Libya until the Muslim Libyan authorities realized that the film was promoting Christianity. The unit was ordered out of the country, only to show up in Israel.
d.		The original idea for the film came from Alexandre Rockwell.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur (1959)?
a.		Robert Harari directed, adapted and wrote dialogue for a French version; Egon Goltzen directed a German version, both at the same time of the English version.
b.		During the movie, when the Caller warns Stu not to move, he says that "you pull out your wallet and BOOM! - you get shot at 41 times". This is a reference to the killing of Amadou Diallo, an innocent man who matched the description of a serial rapist. The police approached him and he pulled out his wallet. They mistakenly thought it was a gun and shot 41 times between four officers, hitting him 19 times and killing him.
c.		At the start of film, when Eastland is on the couch sleeping, at the top of the couch, a book in the Gold Eagle series S.O.B.S. can be seen.
d.		In the Roman galley scenes, Ben-Hur is referred to as "number 41." In the original General Lew Wallace novel, he is "number 60" (Book 3, Chapter 3, page 123, Harper Brothers 1922). In the Dell Movie Classic comic book, he is referred to as "number 40" (Dell Comics #1052-5911, 1959, pages 15 and 16). And in both Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and the 1958 Classics Illustrated comic book there is no reference to any number, either by scene decor, dialogue, or intertitle.

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