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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - Part (3) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) - Part (3)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925).

About the movie: Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Despite the fact that there is nudity in this film, it was passed by censors of that time because it dealt with Christianity, as it was originating.
b.		Brian Fairbanks: As a security guard who demands Derrick (Dennis Barbosa) put away an open bottle of wine.
c.		A lot of the scenes with the Beta Unit were shot after main filming was complete because the test audience liked the comic relief of the Beta Unit scenes and the director decided they added more originality to the "boy gets to go to outer space" story. This is why in many of the Beta Unit scenes Lance Guest is obviously wearing a wig - he had cut his hair by the time those scenes were shot.
d.		When the triplets and Webby are breaking into the Bin to get back the lamp, the code they use to enter in the "back door" is CASH.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Future stars Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, and Myrna Loy were uncredited extras in the chariot race scenes. Crawford and Loy also played slave girls.
b.		The twenty-first of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
c.		Despite the fact that this was filmed in the standard spherical format, "Filmed in Panavision" is listed in the end credits.
d.		Cher auditioned for the role of Bonnie Parker, but when her husband/manager at the time, Sonny Bono, heard about the audition, he was furious at Warren Beatty for letting his wife audition for such a "controversial film".

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, was disappointed with the chariot scene, as he felt it was too tame. He offered a prize of $100 (worth about 10 times that today) to the winner. This led to a much more competitive race that ended with a horrific crash that can be seen in the film. That crash, and another that resulted in a fatality, led to changes in rules of filming safety on film sets.
b.		It was journalist Otis L. Guernsey Jr. who suggested to Alfred Hitchcock the premise of a man mistaken for a nonexistent secret agent. He was inspired, he said, by a real-life case during WW II, known as Operation Mincemeat, in which British intelligence hoped to lure Italian and German forces away from Sicily, a planned invasion site. A cadaver was selected and given an identity and phony papers referring to invasions of Sardinia and Greece. A British film, The Man Who Never Was, recounted the operation.
c.		The movie also heralds a return to using the multiplane camera for scenes requiring depth, especially Nicodemus magic hologram and in the opening sequence where with the aid of backlit animation, the wise old rat beckons magic vapors from an inkwell to grace the pages of an ancient book with fiery gold lettering.
d.		The perfume Nostalgia makes an appearance at the beginning of the film in The Comedians apartment. It was featured in Laurie and Dr. Manhattans scene on Mars in the graphic novel and was shown to be one of Veidts product lines.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		After being brought to Italy, many of the lead actors were kept waiting around (on salary) for so long that Francis X. Bushman went on a 25-country tour with his sisters, and Carmel Myers went to Germany to film Garragan.
b.		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.
c.		Weather problems plagued the production shoot of this movie. A thick fog delayed location filming for several weeks in the town of Monterey, California. Errol Flynn got sick with a sinus illness, a condition which apparently was caused and/or aggravated by the bad fog weather.
d.		Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn improvised the "Lock it up!" banter.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Actor George Walsh, the original choice for Ben-Hur, agreed to take a $400 cut in salary, and was sent second-class on a ship to Italy, only to shoot one reel of film, a test with an unidentified Italian actor that was not intended for use in the finished film. He then heard, several months later, that he was being replaced with Ramon Novarro when co-star Francis X. Bushman told him he had read about it in the morning papers.
b.		Valerie Hobson, who played Estella in the 1946 version had a featured in the film but her scenes were deleted. Nevertheless she is still billed in the credits.
c.		The snake scale seen under the electron microscope was actually a marijuana bud.
d.		The phrase "Live free or die" is from a toast written by the revolutionary soldier General John Stark. The full phrase is "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils".

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		The first cut shown to the studio was under two hours in length and the story was confusing. Philip Kaufman was asked to add in scenes he cut. The next day they were shown the theatrically released version. Its believed Kaufman showed them a shorter and confusing version in order to get his almost three-hour final cut approved with no questions of cutting it.
b.		The cast was claimed to number over 125,000.
c.		Zach Braff chose to not include a full love scene between him and Natalie Portman because he felt it would take the audience out of the movie too much. He wanted it to be implied and sweet rather than visual.
d.		John Malkovich shot his role in two days.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Clark Gable and then future wife Carole Lombard first met in late 1924 while working as extras on the set of this film. They would run into each other off and on again for the next year and a half (the two also appeared as extras in the epic The Johnstown Flood), but would not formally meet until 1931.
b.		One of Robert Shaws favorite pastimes during downtime of filming was playing ping-pong on tables set up on the stations concourse. He reportedly badly beat all challengers.
c.		Filmed in Gate City, Virginia, and Hawkins County (Church Hill, Surgoinsville and Rogersville) in Northeast Tennessee. Much of the movie was filmed on 440 acres of the Hawkins County land purchased by Universal Studios by the Holston River in Tennessee. It was cleared and turned into working farms in four weeks. The production used a real river regulated for flood scenes with a dam that was slated for repair. The dam was fixed and altered with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
d.		The film began development at Overture Films. Overture later put the movie into turnaround and Relativity Media picked it up. A few months after this happened, Relativity bought Overture.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		C. Aubrey Smith was originally scheduled to play the part of Jolyon Forsyte, but the illness preceding his death prevented it.
b.		When the production was foundering, studio boss Irving Thalberg replaced director Charles Brabin with Fred Niblo.
c.		Producer Sam Spiegel - in his efforts for securing rights, casting, locations, etc. - flew around the world 4 times in the 3 years it took to get the film from page to screen.
d.		Final film of Tully Marshall.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Producer Irving Thalberg was short of "hedonist slave girls", so he called up Hal Roach and Mack Sennett to ask a favor: to loan out their famous "Bathing Beauties". They were happy to oblige, as many girls were making their film debuts. Among the group of 20 or so girls who eventually appeared in the film: Janet Gaynor, Carole Lombard, Fay Wray and Joyzelle Joyner.
b.		Murray Hamilton was asked to reprise his role as the Mayor in a short appearance only at the beginning of the film, but died of cancer before filming started.
c.		Before they were arrested, the real life Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka legally changed their last name to Teale after Kevin Bacons character Martin Thiel in Criminal Law.
d.		Selected as one of the Ten Best Films of 1972 by the National Board of Review.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)?
a.		Charles Bronson once said of his Albert Johnson character in this movie: "There are two schools of thought about the characters . . . Some believe the man Albert Johnson was a criminal. Others believe, as I do, that he was innocent of any wrongdoing. We decided to show him as a man who was a victim of someone elses need to perform violence. In trying to protect himself against an unprovoked attack, he was forced to kill one of his assailants."
b.		In one of this movies deleted scenes, Nastassja Kinskis real-life mother played her half-cat half-human mother.
c.		Ramon Novarros weekly salary of $10,000 was 80 times more than what he earned while filming The Prisoner of Zenda - $125 per week - just three years previously.
d.		Shot primarily outdoors during the second rainiest July in Connecticut history. It was only the second rainiest by .07 inches.