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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cognition: The Movie (2010) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Cognition: The Movie (2010)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010).

About the movie: Zachary P. Russell is a confused college student who finds himself living two lives. He mixes his dream life, with his reality life. Zach, the main character, searches for answers as to why he is experiencing these vivid dreams.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		First of the films to have J.K. Rowling as producer.
b.		There is no separate English and Japanese sound tracks. Eight of the eleven main characters are voiced by English-speaking actors, the other three actors switch between Japanese and English depending on who they are talking to.
c.		Alfred Hitchcock: About an hour in, at the party in Alexander Sebastians mansion, Hitchcock gets a glass of champagne from the bartender and quickly turns to the left and walks off screen.
d.		The several thousand dollar camera actually broke two days before filming; they were preparing to push back the filming of the movie until the arrival of the replacement camera came the day of the first scheduled day of filming.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		The script was conceived on a night in which Zach and Brennan were supposed to be working. However, they sat in Zachs car and wrote the preliminary idea.
b.		Early drafts of the films script, including the pressbook release, it stated that the werewolf speaks. In the actual film itself, the werewolf does not speak at anytime.
c.		The first film by Kevin Smith since Clerks. that doesnt feature Jason Lee or Ben Affleck (I) in any role.
d.		The bomb used to blow up the town at the end of the movie is shown to have a blast yield of 200 kilotons (about 10 times more powerful than the one used on Nagasaki).

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		Michael Sacks, who plays Billy Pilgrim, is eleven months older than his on-screen daughter, played by Holly Near, and he is actually four months younger than Perry King, who plays his son.
b.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 8, 1940 with James Cagney and George Tobias reprising their film roles.
c.		A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
d.		Rewrites occurred all the way through the final edits of the film.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		The Zach character is loosely based on another character in one of Brennans previous scripts, "Amoc Malady".
b.		Benjamin Willard, like Martin Sheen who plays him, is from Ohio.
c.		The book on Miltons poems that Professor Ruzinsky hands to Lerman was edited by Maurice Kelley (1903-1996), an actual Milton authority.
d.		The ambulance used is a 1973 Cadillac commercial chassis with coach work by Miller Meteor. It is a Lifeliner model with 54 inches of rear headroom. The actual movie car is now owned by a collector in California.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		The beginning of "Super Trouper" is sung live, a cappella, by the actresses.
b.		Doyles memorable cry of "Mickey Mantle sucks!" during the cold turkey sequence was the source of much trouble for the film makers and their legal department. Producer Robert L. Rosen had to track down Mickey Mantle to obtain his permission for the reference. After a long phone call, Rosen flew out to Mantles home in Dallas with a print of the film, which was screened for him and his lawyer. When Gene Hackman uttered the line, Mantle surprised Rosen not only by roaring with laughter but also insisting that they watched the rest of the film because both he and his lawyer were enjoying it so much. Mantle later happily signed a release waiver and the line stayed in the film.
c.		The original story came to Zach in a dream.
d.		Spiderpig by Hans Zimmer reached #3 after climbing from the 20s in the Irish Music Charts. At just over a minute it is the shortest track ever to make it in to the Irish Music Charts. In the UK it got as far as the Top 20.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
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.		This is the second time that Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey have been together in a film; the first was for Iron-Jawed Angels.
c.		The film was shot entirely in the United States (California and New York), although they were urged to shoot some portions in Canada to save money.
d.		The day of the first read-through, the printers jammed in the office, so all of the scripts were manually scanned and printed (a 60-page script and 15 copies).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		The film was originally named Platform 5, and featured a completely different cast.
b.		Nicolas Cages brother, New York radio personality Marc Coppola, often stood in for one of the Kaufman brothers during the shooting of the movie.
c.		A set design company offered to build James Cameron a complete and working APC vehicle from scratch, but the cost was far too high for the budget he had in mind.
d.		Former Marine drill instructor turned actor R. Lee Ermey coached Louis Gossett Jr. for his role as Sgt. Foley. Ermey would later play a tough and profane drill sergeant himself in Full Metal Jacket. Ironically, he was initially hired as a coach for that movie as well, before landing the role.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Cognition: The Movie (2010)?
a.		The last Disney feature for animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.
b.		The wrap party was held before the filming was actually "wrapped".
c.		In the St. Petersburg Florida Evening Independent newspaper on August 10, 1944, the following was noted: "There will be no more shattered eardrums for movie sound men. Movie ammunition has at last gone on the subdued side. After exhausting its pre-war supply of blank cartridges, Columbia Studio laid in a supply of the new wartime restricted type for scenes in which gunplay is needed. First person to fire the new ammunition was Rose Hobart in a scene for The Soul of a Monster, in which she is supposed to empty six chambers of a revolver into George Macready. The smaller explosive charge in the shells proved easier on the actors and crew, who used to get mild shock occasionally from the heavier calibre weapons. But it is the sound men -- the guys with the amplifiers and earphones -- who have offered up the biggest prayer of thanks."
d.		In 1986, a Florida satellite television tech named John R. MacDougall successfully intercepted HBO broadcasting for nearly five minutes with a message of protest regarding their rates. For this event, he referred to himself as "Captain Midnight", inspired by this film (which hed seen a short time earlier). MacDougall was subsequently prosecuted by the FCC, and slapped with a fine of US$5000 and one year of probation.