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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004).
About the movie:
A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Gary Cole
and
Jason Bateman
had to keep redoing their voice recordings for the dodgeball matches because everyone kept changing stuff in the script during the shoots.
b.
Barry Levinson
claims that the infamous football quiz that Eddie forces his fiancée to pass is based on something that one of his male cousins did in real life.
c.
John Turturro
decided to star in the movie because his son, a big fan of
Stephen King
, convinced him to.
d.
Biff Tanen is named in homage to
Ned Tanen
, one-time head of Universal, who threw
Bob Gale
and
Robert Zemeckis
s script for
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
on the floor in a heated meeting, accusing it of being anti-Semitic. Despite the fact that Bob Gale is Jewish.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
The film has never been released in the UK and was recently banned from public showing at the 2006 Edinburgh Film Festival following intervention by the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA). According to the BBFC the movie would never receive a UK certificate as the film contravened the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937 because the cockfighting scenes were organized for the purpose of filming.
b.
Ben Stiller
and
Christine Taylor
had an 18-month-old baby at home while shooting this film. Taylor was so exhausted from taking care of the baby that she often dozed off in between takes.
c.
Ron Howard
: One of the startled Whos while the Grinch rants in the city square.
d.
According to Harrigan, Thornton is Pikes Judas goat. A Judas goat is an animal trained to lead others into a slaughterhouse. Its life is spared as its betrays its own kind.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Ben Stiller
broke three cameras in succession filming one scene, and even hit his wife
Christine Taylor
in the face once.
b.
The name of the
Teri Hatcher
character, Miss Gradenko, is a reference to a song by The Police on their 1983 "Synchronicity" album.
c.
William Fichtner
s scenes were shot in just one day.
d.
One trailer included moments from a deleted opening scene in which Fletcher unscrupulously defends an obviously guilty Mr. Skull against a terrified old man in court. Skulls actor,
Randall Tex Cobb
also played a character who beat up
Jim Carrey
s car in the beginning of
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
, also directed by
Tom Shadyac
.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Although this movie musical has been a beloved favorite for decades - especially at Christmastime - there has never been an official "original soundtrack" album released in any form. Decca controlled the soundtrack rights, but
Rosemary Clooney
was under exclusive contract to Columbia, who would not allow her to appear on a competing label. As a result, Decca and Columbia each released their own White Christmas albums in 1954, although neither is an official soundtrack. Deccas album featured the movie cast minus Rosemary Clooney, with
Peggy Lee
taking over Clooneys part. Columbias album had Rosemary Clooney singing 8 songs from the film. Both albums have been issued on CD in recent years.
b.
Another easter egg/finger snap is after the scene in White Goodmans office where he asks Kate out. He snaps for Meshell. When you press enter, it cuts to a clip of the dodgeball game and then a fat
Ben Stiller
says, "You found it."
c.
When Bane breaks into the Arkham evidence room, there is a teddy bear on the shelf next to Riddlers costume. This is in reference to Banes only friend, Osito, when he was imprisoned at Pena Duro. He used to hide a knife in the bears head and used it when being threatened.
d.
despite playing a major role
Angie Dickinson
only has 20 minutes of screen time.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Adult dodgeball leagues began to spring up across the country around the time of the films release. Cast member
Gary Cole
was even invited to a tournament in Chicago.
b.
The red dress sequence was based on a real-life white ball in Hollywood at which all the women dutifully appeared in white - except for Mrs. MGM,
Norma Shearer
. Comment from another guest: "Who does Norma think she is - the house madam?"
c.
According to his certificates, among the 9 special commendations Sergeant Angel received were awards for Operations Shakedown, Crackdown, Showdown, and Takedown.
d.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 24, 1950 with
Dick Powell
reprising his film role.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Before violent takes,
Robert A. Masciantonio
would often tell America to strike Christian without his knowledge.
b.
Jack Sholder
s original idea for the film was to have the story be about mental patients escaping during a blackout in NYC and the mafia being used to stop them. Due to the low budget it was re-envisioned to take place on a smaller scale outside of New York.
c.
Brigitte Nielsen
was briefly considered for the role of Fran.
d.
During Beefs introductory scene at the airport, on of the gathered reporters is named "Mr Pizer". This is probably a reference to the films director of photography,
Larry Pizer
.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Posters credited the 3-D process used in the film as "Supervision" and "Wondervision". Both of these processes are fictitious, the actual camera system was the Marks 3-Depix Stereospace Converter.
b.
This film is the only ever time that
Burt Reynolds
and
Clint Eastwood
starred together in a movie.
c.
The Spanish well-known TV host
Anne Igartiburu
was invited to participate in the movie in a brief role like a beautiful alien in the Bakus village, but it was deleted in the final montage.
d.
EASTER EGG: On the Special Features section on the DVD, if you click on the Globogym logo at the bottom, you will see a short video with White Goodman talking about easter eggs on the DVD. He tells you that if you press enter every time he snaps his fingers youll see an easter egg. These "Easter Eggs" are deleted scenes not included with those in the Special Features. There are 4 White Goodman finger snaps in the movie. The first comes as he gets into the tanning bed, the next when he sends the lawyer out of his office, the next as he motions for Meshell to pick him up from Kates porch, and the last when He motions Meshell to give him the contract for Peter to sign at the hotel room in Vegas.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
Dolores Pickles Dries
, the lady in the Cooperstown bleachers who referred to Dottie as "the best player in the league", was a pitcher for the Rockford Peaches in 1952, 53, and 54.
b.
Because of the films low-budget, the car crash between the two drunks was faked by sound effects and placing the cars at an angle to make them appear to be touching.
c.
There is another finger snap by
Ben Stiller
as the Cobras leave the Dirty Sanchez.
d.
This is the first Coen brothers film where
Joel Coen
and
Ethan Coen
are both given directing and producing credits. They have shared these duties on all of their films, but Joel has always been listed as the director, and Ethan as producer.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
In the scene in which Jinx asks the NASA computer about launch possibilities (the second scene involving Jinx and the computer), as the computer monitor rapidly flashes data on the screen, a couple of hidden messages are included, but only for one or two frames each. On the display of the shuttles main engine, the caption reads "Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) burns liquid hydrogen & liquid oxygen fuel (as if anyone didnt know that, I must say...)" The next frame features a message saying "Dont get down on the DSK thrust factor, man". And the following frame displays a message saying "Three SSMEs are on the orbiters aft end, which is driving (@27,000 Knm) me quite mental". (The messages are references to
Martin Short
s character "Ed Grimley", who was popular on
Saturday Night Live
at the time the film was being produced.)
b.
In the US, the film is promoted with the tagline "Grab life by the ball". In foreign markets such as the UK and Australia, this is changed to the more risqué "Grab life by the balls".
c.
According to Mamet, despite the excellent reviews the film received in a limited showing in four theaters, Orion decided against spending the money for the prints and publicity that would have accompanied a general release and sent the film almost directly to TV and video.
d.
Matt LeBlanc
s feature film debut.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)?
a.
A remarkable eight members of the cast and crew went on to become directors: actors William Conrad and Joseph Pevney, writer Abraham Polonsky, cinematographer James Wong Howe, editor Robert Parrish, art director Nathan Juran, assistant director Robert Aldrich and script supervisor Don Weis. Additionally, set decorator Edward Boyle directed a film in the silent era.
b.
The glass cane that Elijah Price uses was
Samuel L. Jackson
s idea.
c.
Reshoots a year later caused a few unforeseen problems. One of the main ones was that Clifton Collins Jr had shaved off all his hair and mustache for another role so he had to wear a wig and a false mustache for his redone scenes.
d.
Justin Long
s eyebrow was actually cut open by the first wrench thrown at him. All the wrenches thrown were made of rubber, but the first was harder than all the others.
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