Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fever Pitch (2005) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Fever Pitch (2005) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005).

About the movie: Lindsay is stuck in the middle of her relationship with Ben and his passion for the Boston Red Sox.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		Steve Sweeney was originally slated to be the scalper, but had pneumonia. Peter Farrelly then pulled Ken Rogerson, who was just an extra at the time, over and said, "Your part just got bigger."
b.		First intended as a duet for Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts in the Broadway production of "Oklahoma!", the Rodgers & Hammerstein song "Boys and Girls Like You and Me" had been discarded from that 1943 Broadway triumph and replaced with "People Will Say Were in Love". MGM producer Arthur Freed then purchased screen rights to the song, planning to interpolate it into the film score as a Judy Garland solo, but her rendition was cut from the picture. Miss Garlands Decca album of songs from the film included the song in an arrangement similar to her MGM prerecording. Later, the ballad was chosen to be crooned by Frank Sinatra to Betty Garrett in another Arthur Freed production, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, but again the tune was deleted. The footage of Judy singing the song to Tom Drake no longer exists, but on the Warner Home Video special-edition DVD, the original audio recording is played over Garland-Drake production stills. Only about two or three seconds of footage from this sequence may be seen on the trailer in which Tom Drakes name is screened. It shows a medium shot of Tom Drake, and in the background, you can see some buildings supposedly under construction as they would appear in the surviving production stills.
c.		In "The Ledge", Cressner flips through a magazine on the coffee table. That magazine is the July 1976 issue of "Penthouse", which featured the short story the segment was based on.
d.		A largely complete copy of this film is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Although titled in two languages, neither is English.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		One of very few films banned in the UK, but not the Republic of Ireland.
b.		Footage from a game in Toronto, Canada between the Yankees and the Blue Jays on 1 October 2004 was shot for the movie. Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were present at the game and she threw out the first pitch.
c.		Actress Cynthia Eilbacher ran out of the room crying during her audition for the part of Valerie.
d.		The last film to date to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without also being nominated for Best Director.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		Exactly 17 members from the Boston Mens Baseball League were selected to appear as player extras in full uniform in the film. Filming took place at Fenway Park from September 16-23, 2004 from 5pm to 5am nightly. Included in the cast from the BMBL were: - Boston Athletics: John Howe - Boston Cardinals: Dan Jalbert - Boston Marlins: Andy Katz - Boston Rockies: Dave Mitrou - Boston White Sox: Ryan Gray & Jason Hoye - Cambridge Cubs: Billy Burton & Jamie Waters - Medford Mets: John Collins - North Andover: Paul Laurin - Somerville Senators: Michael Sawyer & Russ Ward - Ts Pub Dodgers: Scott Gilefsky & Andy Hickey - Wayland White Sox: Jerry Dawson, Dana Johnson & Steve Wolf
b.		Walt Disney came up with the idea for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when he was only 15, working as a newsboy in Kansas City. He saw a major presentation of a silent film version of the tale starring Marguerite Clark. The screening was held at the citys Convention Hall in February, 1917, and the film was projected onto a four-sided screen using four separate projectors. The movie made a tremendous impression on the young viewer because he was sitting where he could see two sides of the screen at once, and they were not quite in sync.
c.		Gavilan is based on Robert Souza, who was a homicide detective in the LAPD Hollywood Division and moonlighted as a real estate broker in his final ten years on the job. The scene where a cuffed crook steals the gun from a patrol officers belt and starts shooting it off in the parking lot actually happened during Souzas tenure.
d.		Filmed entirely in San Diego, California using only two ambulances from two companies (the red "DIC" ambulance a retired San Diego Fire Department/Rural Metro ambulance and the blue "BALS" ambulance from a non-emergency company no longer serving San Diego).

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		The Opening Day sequence was filmed on 4 September 2004 with Stephen King throwing out the first pitch; the Red Sox lost that game, ending a ten-game winning streak and King was blamed for it in the Boston Globe.
b.		Miko Hughes has kept the sewn up Rex dinosaur since filming. Wes Craven has an original copy without the scars.
c.		Orson Welles attributed the success of the film to a marketing strategy that featured a naked tattooed lady on the films posters and print ads.
d.		Alan Parker: the frustrated director.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		Another game filmed for the movie was the September 16, 2004 game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, which Boston won 11-4. The shooting consisted of Drew Barrymore running across the field to where Jimmy Fallon was sitting, near the Red Sox dugout. This was filmed after the game, with about half the crowd staying after to be extras.
b.		Alan Arkin filmed scenes as Peters long lost father, but they did not make the final cut of the film.
c.		Talisa Soto, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Grand L. Bush went to appear in video game based films. Soto and Tagawa appeared in Mortal Kombat as Kitana and Shang Tsung respectively, while that Grand L. Bush appeared in Street Fighter as Balrog.
d.		The laser aimed handgun was specially built by Laser Products Corporation (now Sure-Fire). This was in the early days of laser aimed weapons and the what was seen was actually not a complete assembly. Only the laser was mounted but the required battery pack was hidden from view. In those days the battery packs were very large, about the size of a TV remote control. A wire was hidden underneath his sleeve.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		Curtis Hanson asked Eminem to dye his hair back to his natural colour so that the audience would relate him to as Jimmy Rabbit, instead of his Eminem persona.
b.		According to Christopher Mallick (the man whom the film is based on) both Oliver Stone and Paul Thomas Anderson were highly impressed after seeing the film at the Santa Barbara festival. Anderson reportedly said it was the best film hed seen in five years.
c.		The name of the burger shop that Julie works at is called "Fat Boy". This is a nod to the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Fat Man and Little Boy.
d.		One of the Red Sox games filmed is the 4 September 2004 game against the Texas Rangers (Red Sox lost 8-6).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		The warm-up jacket Drew Barrymore wears in the film became extremely popular among female Red Sox fans the week before its national release, and was sold out in stores all across New England.
b.		An early draft of the script had the Fallen encased in a sarcophagus on the bridge of the Nemesis starship, which was being supplied energon fuel from the hatchlings. This concept occurred in the movies comic adaptation, but in the actual film was rejected in favour of having the Fallen being directly present.
c.		Throughout the movie, many references are made to the original Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. These include the following: Cutler Beckett is corrected by Elizabeth and Will when he fails to refer to Jack Sparrow as "Captain" (Jack insisted on being called "Captain Jack Sparrow" in the first movie); Governor Swann breaks off an arm of a candlestick inside the dungeon (the same happened to Will in the Governors house in the first movie); Governor Swann asks where the "dog with the keys" is; the dog is still holding the keys in the rowboat; Jack asks, "Why is the rum always gone?" (he asked Elizabeth the same twice in the first movie); Will gets slapped by a lady in Tortuga (Jacks being slapped by ladies he once mistreated was a running joke in the first film); Jack says "Hide the rum" when Elizabeth arrives (Elizabeth burned his rum in the first movie); a running gag plays on the fact that Jack the monkey is immortal (he stole one of the Cortez coins in the post-credits scene at the end of the first film).
d.		A tilting office set was constructed to simulate the Drillers destruction of the skyscraper.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		On 27 October 2004, Game 4 of the 2004 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox, the finale of this film was shot. After the last play of the game in the bottom of the ninth during the Red Sox celebration, stars Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon were filmed also celebrating together on the field. A brief shot of the filming could be seen live on the Fox broadcast of the World Series. Rewrites by Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly had to be done immediately following the World Series game 7 clincher of the ALCS against the New York Yankees to include the historic 2004 Boston Red Sox post-season.
b.		Producer Don Simpson originally intended to take a supporting role as a fellow driver in this film but his role was reduced to only one line.
c.		Brigitte Nielsens character (Ludmilla Drago) was not written in the shooting script, where her talking was done by Nicoli Koloff (Michael Pataki). Sylvester Stallone likely incorporated her at the last minute rewrite.
d.		The novel upon which the film is based was inspired by the true story of Ed Gein, a serial killer who was also the inspiration for Deranged, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		Marion Cotillards character is called Mal, short for name Malorie, a name derived from French word malheur, meaning misfortune or unhappiness. The shorter version mal means wrong/bad or evil (when a noun) in French, as well as some other Latin-based languages.
b.		Ben teaches at East Boston High School, which had served as the exterior for Winslow High School in Boston Public.
c.		Douglas Fairbanks was inspired to make this film by an episode in Paul Lenis German film Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (US title: "Waxworks").
d.		The actress who plays the lady Mr. Orange shoots was Tim Roths dialect coach. Roth insisted that she take the role, as she was very hard on him.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Fever Pitch (2005)?
a.		The first word spoken by an ape is "no". This was also the same first word as spoken by Aldo (as told to us by Cornelius in Escape from the Planet of the Apes) in the original timeline, and by Lisa in the "altered" timeline shown in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
b.		Ben has a gigantic replica of Fenway Parks left field wall (a.k.a. "The Green Monster") on the wall of his apartment. In real life and in his apartment, the wall includes a hand-operated scoreboard. The particular game immortalized on Bens mural is that of Game 3 of the 1999 American League Championship Series, won by the Red Sox over the N.Y. Yankees, 13-1. Before Bostons conquest of New York in 2004 (depicted at the end of the film), the 99 game was one of the most memorable Boston wins in recent memory.
c.		One scene takes place in from of a theatre where posters for The Vampire Bat are on display. "The Vampire Bat" was one of Majestics biggest hits, and remains the most widely seen of its existing films. It had gone into release about three months before the release of this film.
d.		Even thought the story takes place in Bakersfield California, we filmed in Lancaster, California.

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