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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Explorers (1985) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Explorers (1985) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985).
About the movie:
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The main ghost hunting investigation was filmed in an abandoned hospital in Central North Carolina. After wrapping filming at 4am in the morning, some of the actors that stayed on set to sleep some before the next mornings call time got scared so badly by sounds around the hospital that they packed up at 5:30am and drove almost an hour home just to drive back out there at 10am the next morning.
b.
The map from the shipwreck that Madison uses to find Allens home is an old map of the Province of New York. It bears the name His Excellency William Tryon Esq. Tyron was the colonial governor of the Province of New York from 1771 to 1780.
c.
After a tough day of shooting,
Kim Novak
gave sandwiches and homemade cookies to the cast and the director.
d.
As the boys look through the junkyard for the pieces for their ship, Rosebud (the sled from
Citizen Kane
) can be seen sitting at the top of a pile.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
Charlie the cinematographer was the night manager at the Marriot hotel where the dorm room scenes are filmed. Residents complained to Charlie claiming that a porno was being filmed by a 13 year old boy. Charlie had the front desk calls forwarded to the room where they were filming. He explained that they were not filming a porno and that he was the cinematographer and that he was 25 years old.
b.
In the beginning of the movie, the retiring owner, Lefevre, says that the only way to please Carlotta is, "Grovel, grovel". This is part of a song from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, another one of
Andrew Lloyd Webber
s shows.
c.
Cherie Currie
was considered for a part but, according to her autobiography, she was in the throes of drug dependency and couldnt even make it to a meeting.
d.
Footage for the number "Swinging the Junx Away" was borrowed from
Born to Dance
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
Franks frontal shots in the office scenes were filmed 8 months after the scenes were first shot. Any lines he is seen saying are lip-synced.
b.
The name of the town in which they live, Besame Heights, means "Kiss me" in Spanish.
c.
When the helicopter pilot looks the newspaper, one of the headlines says "Kingston Falls Riot Still Unexplained". Kingston Falls was the town where the events in
Gremlins
(also directed by
Joe Dante
), took place.
d.
The Woads in the film are supposed to be Picts. The term Woads was created for the film because the producers felt the term Picts didnt sound right. The word comes from the blue plant that the Picts may have used to paint themselves prior to battle.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
In the scene in which Harolds team interrogates Scott in the van,
Andy Tennant
, who played "Melio," was sick with the flu and had a fever of over 103 degrees F.
b.
The setting of the story in "Sandrock" and the design of the Harvey House sets that stood on MGMs Back Lot #3 and on the sound stage for this film were inspired by the Castaneda Harvey House in Las Vegas, New Mexico, which still stands as a National and State Historic Landmark of New Mexico, along the old Santa Fe tracks and just to the north of that towns current Amtrak station. Amtraks Southwest Chief still stops at the station, but the Castaneda is vacant and fenced off. Although the studio sets were constructed of wood, elements from the Castanedas basic exterior architecture and of the interior dining room were applied to the set designs for this film. A few of the historic incidents that had occurred at the Castaneda were incorporated into the script. A large outcrop of rock such as that where Susan Bradley (
Judy Garland
) and Ned Trent (
John Hodiak
) meet can be seen from the Castaneda across a small prairie. The balcony upon which Garland,
Cyd Charisse
and
Virginia OBrien
share a song is a replication of the Castanedas street-side second-floor balcony. And yes, a saloon once existed directly across the street from the Castaneda in a building which is now abandoned. All of the sets from the
The Harvey Girls
were built in Culver City, California; most of them utilizing existing western street buildings on the back lot; using the Castaneda and Las Vegas, New Mexico, only as a blueprint for elements in the script and for set design. However, the Castaneda and much of Las Vegas, New Mexico, would later be used as an actual location in
Red Dawn
.
c.
During his solo in "Youve Got What It Takes",
Robert Paige
inadvertently allows a whistling sound to accompany the "s" at the end of the word "takes" a couple of times.
d.
WILHELM SCREAM: Heard during an explosion in the Drive-In movie "Starkiller".
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The view of the "city lights" is a model which includes a suburb that looks suspiciously like a circuit diagram, complete with logic gates and an integrated circuit.
b.
Actor
Charles Aidman
was originally cast to play the role of Maury, but
Lonny Chapman
replaced him when Aidman was called in by CBS temporarily to replace Ross Martin on "The Wild, Wild West" (1965).
c.
Francesca Bruni was not a real person. The characters name is taken from the
Bob Hope
film
Casanovas Big Night
, where Francesca Bruni was played by
Joan Fontaine
.
d.
This was originally developed as a traditionally animated cartoon feature at Warner Brothers. The closure of Warners animation division led Bird to move to Pixar.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The computer Wolfgang uses to control the bubble and eventually the completed spacecraft is an Apple IIc, a computer released by Apple in April 1984 that sported a blazingly fast 1.4MHz processor and 128 kilobytes of RAM.
b.
Joseph Bologna
s character, "King Kaiser," was based on
Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar
.
c.
Michael Masley
s companion, the VW camper, burnt at least a dozen times during the course of the shooting of this film. In fact it broke down numerous times sometimes holding the whole crew in the middle of the road for hours. Some of this footage appears in the film.
d.
James T. Aubrey, future studio chief of MGM, played one of the lodge members.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The fountain pen you see Lovecraft using to make his notes on the Necronomicon is a Sheaffer Calligraphy.
b.
Robins license plate as the parking lot cop approaches Robin, includes the letters BWS. Those letters stand for
Bruce W. Smith
, the director of this movie.
c.
The film was never finished, and was released as a work in progress when the studio decided to move up the release date and release the film as it was, telling director
Joe Dante
that he was finished and they were going to go ahead and release what he had at that point.
d.
This is the first "Terminator" film not to feature
Earl Boen
, who played a doubting psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Silberman, in the earlier films.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The sound effects from the movie at the drive-in were taken directly from
Yars Revenge
, an Atari video game.
b.
For the film, Javier gained over forty pounds - going from approximately 160 lbs to 208 lbs - and then undertook a fasting regimen where, for two months he ate not one bite of food and ran two miles a day with a plastic sweat suit on. This caused him to loose a pound a day - for 56 days - going from 208 to, at the films end, 146 lbs.
c.
Based on multiple short films done by director
Henry Weintraub
.
d.
The story was inspired to
Stephen King
when he met his mechanics intimidating dog while having his motorcycle repaired one day.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
The boys attend "Charles M. Jones Junior High School". The school is named after animator
Chuck Jones
.
b.
J. Hutchison is better known as Hutch Parker - brother of
Parker Stevenson
, and presently President of Production for 20th Century Fox Studios.
c.
NORAD HQ set was built in the Cascades, the "Oregon" airport was really Boeing Field, "Goose Island" is really Anderson Island in the southern part of Puget Sound (all in Washington). The last ferry off the island really is at 6:30, and you really are stuck there if you miss it.
d.
One of the two movies where Juliette Lewis character has a fight with Tom Sizemore, the other film being
Natural Born Killers
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Explorers (1985)?
a.
In the same year that this film was released, there was a "George Whites Scandals of 1935" playing on Broadway. That show had nothing in common with this film except the title.
b.
The ranting and raving of Wak and Neeks Dad is peppered with just barely recognizable bits of English including "You have no respect for authority!" and "Wolfgang? Who the hell is Wolfgang?"
c.
The movie had its world premiere on 12 March 1942 in Columbus, Ohio, the location of Ohio State University, the school where both
James Thurber
and
Elliott Nugent
attended.
d.
Ford Sterling
and
Louise Fazenda
, who played heroine Bernice Clares parents, were both veterans of
Mack Sennett
s Keystone studios in the silent era.
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