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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Clue (1985) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Clue (1985) - 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: Clue (1985).
About the movie:
Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
Writing credits in the films early promotional material read "Written by
David Marconi
and
Aaron Sorkin
and
Henry Bean
&
Tony Gilroy
".
b.
Ron Howard
s wife and
Warwick Davis
sister both appear as extras atop the snowy mountaintop village.
c.
Odette Annable
s film debut; she was five years old.
d.
During the scene in the kitchen at the beginning of the movie where Wadsworth is checking on dinner, you can see the Senator McCarthy hearings playing on the television. Thus another of the movies references to the communist scare during the 50s.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
Apparently, according to the license plate on the front of the Deans car, the Dean lives in Maine.
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.
Leonard Roberts
, who plays Sean, was actually very sick when the last scenes of the "BET southern classic" were filmed, which is why he is so sweaty and looks slightly weak at the end of the film.
d.
Kellye Nakahara
s movie debut.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
In the theatrical trailer,
John Morris
score is not used. In its place is
Elmer Bernstein
s score from
Airplane!
.
b.
On its first release, the original version was allegedly banned by several theatres across the US, so it was then edited. No prints of the unedited version are known to exist.
c.
This movie is considered the first if not one of the first Hollywood movies to recognize the persecution and internment of homosexual persons by the Nazi German Third Reich during the Second World War.
d.
According to The Washington Post, screenwriter and producer
James Schamus
told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival that the biggest challenge in casting extras for the film was to find people "who were not working out all the time, and who still had pubic hair."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
For this movie
Orson Welles
, along with cinematographer
Gregg Toland
, pioneered "deep focus", a technique that keeps every object in the foreground, center and background in simultaneous focus. This brought a sense of depth to the two-dimensional world of movies.
b.
The line "And monkeys brains, although popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC" appears in two of the filmed endings.
c.
According to
Michael Bay
, the Battle of Mission City did not expose the Transformers to the world: "Everybody has gone ahead. Its realistic. Two weeks after the 2004 tsunami nobody talked about it anymore. Its very weird. We decided to do the same with the Transformers. The government talks about a military thing, says all is false, that its a joke; and people dont know what they really saw."
d.
There were never more than 100 Urukhai at any time; the rest were all computer generated.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
The song Yvette is dancing to in the beginning of the film, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" is the version recorded by Bill Haley & The Comets, only it is sped up with the pitch increased. This trick was also used in
Airplane!
in which the BeeGees song "Stayin Alive" is also played in a sped up version.
b.
The mansion where Charlie picks up the dogs she walks was used as the exterior of the Governors mansion in the sitcom
Benson
.
c.
Bela Lugosi
was so desperate to repeat his stage success and play the Count Dracula role for the film version, that he agreed to a contract paying him $500 per week for a seven week shooting schedule, an insultingly small amount even during the days of the Depression.
d.
The chainsaw used in this film was a Poulan 245A, with a piece of black tape covering the Poulan logo in order to avoid a possible lawsuit.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
Film debut of
Kelly Carlson
.
b.
"Mortis Rex" is set at the Roman Fort of Briga Magna along Hadrians Wall in Scotland. The name "Briga Magna" actually exists as one reference to a Roman fort found in materials excavated for the Vindolanda archaeological project in Scotland, although no-one knows its original location, or what became of it.
c.
The term Schtupping is actually a crude German/Yiddish word for the sex act; this is why
Madeline Kahn
s character in
Blazing Saddles
is named "Lilly Von Schtupp" for rather obvious reasons.
d.
Although his character is not named in the credits, in one scene Harpo is referred to as "Silent Red."
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
Santa Monica bus #2525 is the same one featured in
Speed
.
b.
Christophe Gans
originally wanted
Cameron Diaz
to play the part of Cybil.
c.
The painting in the art book is one of six pictures of St. Sebastian by Guido Reni. This particular one was painted circa 1615 and is the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
d.
The actor playing Mr. Boddy is the front man of the alternative rock band Fear, and was chosen because his name is
Lee Ving
- Mr. Boddy will be LeaVing soon.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
The scene where
Renée Zellweger
kicks
Jim Carrey
over the railing and down the hill was done by Jim Carrey himself (instead of a stunt double) after many pleadings. He did a few takes but they used the first one. A mattress was used for him to pop back into frame.
b.
Steven Soderbergh
: [cockney rhyming slang]
c.
There is an inscription over the fireplace which reads "Nouveau Riche Oblige".
d.
Quentin Tarantino
s famous Top Gun speech was originally written by the filmmaker and his friend,
Roger Avary
, for another project.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
Was filmed on location at the site of the New Yorks World Fair, with LaGuardia Airport being so close it caused trouble with the filming because of noise from the planes.
b.
The murder scenes from the movie are an adaptation of Agatha Christies Ten Little Indians.
c.
Final theatrical featured directed by
Burt Reynolds
until
The Last Producer
, a gap of fifteen years. That movie was not theatrically released but during the interim Reynolds did direct in television.
d.
While filming the funeral scenes most of the extras were Orthodox Jews and prevented the crew from shooting on Shabbat and craft service was forbidden from serving any non-Kosher food on the property lines.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Clue (1985)?
a.
The color of each characters car is the same color as their playing piece in the game.
b.
Ava Gardner
s original vocal track of "Cant Help Lovin Dat Man" and
Annette Warren
s dubbed-in vocal track of the song were both modelled on
Lena Horne
s rendition of it in the then-recent M-G-M biography of
Jerome Kern
, "Till the Clouds Roll By". Warrens vocal tracks of "Cant Help Lovin Dat Man" and "Bill", not Ava Gardners, were the ones that eventually ended up being used in the film.
c.
The films dedication states: " . . . a film dedicated to the IV Armored Corps of the Army Ground Forces, United States Army, whose cooperation made it possible to tell this story."
d.
Director
Simon Wells
is the great-grandson of
H.G. Wells
who wrote the book upon which this movie is based.
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