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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Destination Moon (1950) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Destination Moon (1950) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Destination Moon (1950)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950).

About the movie: One of the first science fiction films to attempt a high level of accurate technical detail tells the story of the first trip to the moon.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		The cracked surface of the moon is reminiscent of a dried lake bed. Bonestell knew this was scientifically inaccurate, but used it to give a sense of perspective to the lunar panorama.
b.		Jerry, the videographer in the movie, is actually Jeremiah, the films caterer.
c.		Ang Lee: [outdoor settings] The Hulk traveling in the desert.
d.		Steven Bauer is the only actual Cuban in the principal cast.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		The rocket uses water, heated by a nuclear reactor, as reaction mass. This system, although with electrical heating, is actually occasionally used for small unmanned rockets for scientific research. Both the US and the Soviet Union tried to build (jet) airplanes on the principle but abandoned the concept because a flying nuclear reactor was too risky.
b.		The movie does not follow the plot of the original story except in the scene where the forty thieves are stuffed in jars and then brought to the palace as a gift for the villain, Hulagu Khan.
c.		The RoboCop suit was designed by Rob Bottin and his team. It took a while for the production team to settle on a design, so that by the time the suit was completed it was three weeks late and arrived at the studio on the day that the first RoboCop scene was scheduled to be shot. It took 11 hours for Bottins people to fit Peter Weller into the suit, and when it was done Weller found that all his mime exercises were now useless because he needed time to get used to the suit and to perform as a robot in it. Production was halted so that Weller and his mime coach, Moni Yakin, could learn how to move in the suit.
d.		Karl Urban and Gerard Butler were both considered for the part of Victor Creed.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Although no date appears on the newspaper, nor does the year appear on the calendar, having the month of June begin on a Tuesday suggests that the film takes place in the year 1954.
b.		In the premier screening of the film, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson who said "Will someone tell me what the hell this is about?" Arthur C. Clarke once said, "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered."
c.		Referred to, in the title story of the short-story collection We Were Writers for Disastrous Love Affairs Magazine by Adam Thomlison, as "that Woody Allen musical." It is to date Allens only musical.
d.		Mechanical effects designer Isidoro Raponi built fake tarantulas to augment the 200 live ones used in the spider attack sequence.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Based in part upon a legend that Max Schreck was in reality a vampire which is why he played the role of Orlock/Dracula so well. Some variations of the legend suggest that Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens was the only film Schreck made, though in reality he was already a stage and screen veteran by the time Nosferatu was shot, and would appear in many non-Vampiric roles before his death in 1936.
b.		Residents of the area around Stockton, California were used as extras in the film; often, director Robert Rossen would give them speaking parts and film the "rehearsals" to get a more spontaneous effect.
c.		The panoramic view of the lunar scenery was a Chesley Bonestell painting 13 feet long, mounted on wheels and rolled past a stationary camera. To make the stars appear brightly luminous, 534 holes were punched in the painting and illuminated from behind.
d.		The game that the drug-dealing white "jokers", that according to Baine doesnt fit the profile, is playing when Sancho and Adel busts through the door is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a game in which actor Clifton Collins Jr. (Sancho) does one of the main characters voices.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Rick Moranis feature film debut.
b.		In the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio and Kenneth Branagh are watching a boxing match, magician David Blaine can be seen sitting behind them. Blaine was on the set visiting DiCaprio that day and they put him in at the last minute.
c.		Of the films 90-minute runtime, only half actually shows the trip to the Moon. The films entire first half is devoted to the construction of the rocket and to giving reasons for going to the Moon in the first place.
d.		This movie was made and released about five years after author Derek Lamberts source novel Touch the Lions Paw was first published in 1975.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		This marked the first time that Grace Stafford (cartoon producer Walter Lantzs wife) did the voice of Woody Woodpecker.
b.		Throughout the movie sparkles of light can be seen in the background of almost all scenes, more accurately in Dr. Powells office when he talks with Prot.
c.		Actor Jeff MacKays final role. He passed away within a few months of the film wrapping.
d.		In DIVINE SOULS, actress Jeffie Legend played a character dying of AIDS. In real life, at the same time, she was dying of Cancer. She told no one about this until the very end. She died in October of 2006, a few months shy of the films premiere at the AFI Dallas International Film Festival.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Burt Munros children visited the set one day, when, according to director Roger Donaldson, "Tony (Anthony Hopkins) was having a particularly good Burt day". His performance was so authentic that it moved them to tears.
b.		Several cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Nick Copeland (Window Washer), C.L. Sherwood (Window Washer), Tom Ricketts (Henry) and Charles Irwin (Mounted Police). There is a mounted policeman seen near the end, but in extreme long-shot and from above. He is not recognizable.
c.		A massive campaign was undertaken to create public awareness of the film during its production. This campaign also attracted the attention of independent producer Robert L. Lippert who rushed a low budget space travel film, Rocketship X-M, into production to capitalize on this campaign. Legal action forced Lippert to modify the campaign for his film. Material sent to exhibitors for "Rocketship X-M" carried the disclaimer "This is not Destination Moon." Lippert was able to have "Rocketship X-M" into general release more than three weeks before this film had its preview engagements.
d.		George Harveys death was originally left to the imagination after he falls off the cliff, numerous test audiences wanted to see a more brutal ending for the character so a last minute re-shoot was added which shows him violently tumbling down the cliff side.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Many of the guests at the party were played by crew members. Buck Edwards, who plays the cult member with a shaved head, is briefly visible as a guest in the background.
b.		In the original script, Quint was killed off by drowning. The rope from the harpoon that he fires at the shark wraps around his foot and he is pulled under by the shark, calling for Brody to give him the knife. (This was also the way the character was killed off in the book and, according to an interview with Steven Spielberg about this scene, it is similar to the way Ahab dies in "Moby Dick".) However, it was decided that Quint should be eaten, so the script was changed to what is in the movie.
c.		The theme song "Get Off the Road" was covered by Josie Cotton on her 2007 album "Invasion of the B-Girls".
d.		In order to make the space suits appear to be in a vacuum they were padded to make them seem inflated. The padding and the studio lights made the suits so hot the actors could wear them for only a few minutes at a time.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		Sylvester Stallone had never heard of Judge Dredd until he was offered the role.
b.		Paramount Pictures biggest hit of 1919.
c.		The effects of acceleration is shown by the way the actors faces distort. According to a magazine article this was done by gluing thin strips of flesh-colored fabric on their faces. The fabric was in turn tied to fishing line which was passed through the "acceleration couches" and pulled by crew members to stretch the skin.
d.		Also present in the 2015 antique shop, front and center, is the video game Burgertime for NES. Burgertime which was an arcade game ported to several home video game platforms also including Mattel Intellivision and Atari 2600.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Destination Moon (1950)?
a.		After Wilder and Brackett fought with director Mitchell Leisen to make sure as much of their work made on the screen as possible, Wilder was convinced he had to direct the scripts they wrote and Brackett was convinced he had to produce.
b.		The Woody Woodpecker cartoon used in the movie was updated and then used by NASA to explain space travel to the public.
c.		The Clampetts automobile is a 1921 Oldsmobile.
d.		According to a Julie Andrews, biography Ian McKellen screen tested for the role of Noel Coward by performing Cowards own "Parisian Pierrot" and received an ovation from William Fairchild and the crew. However he lost out to Daniel Massey.

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