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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Groundhog Day (1993) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Groundhog Day (1993) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993).
About the movie:
A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
In one sequence, Anna and Sadie go to a music/book store and check out a bunch of books, albums and magazines. The ones visible on-screen are as follows: Books: "Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls" by the Guerrilla Girls; "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast; "Pretty in Punk" by Lauraine Leblanc; "Backlash" by Susan Faludi; "How Wal-Mart is Destroying America..." by Bill Quinn; "The Power of Feminist Art" by Broude & Garrard; "Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader" by Barbara Crow; "The New Our Bodies, Ourselves" by The Boston Womens Health Book Collective; "Emma" by Howard Zinn; "We Owe You Nothing" by Daniel Sinker; "The Beauty Myth" by Naomi Wolf; "Zines! Volume One" by V. Vale; "Grassroots" by Baumgardner, Richards & LaDuke; "The Radical Women Manifesto" by The Radical Women; "Angry Women" by Vale & Juno. Magazines: Ms., February/March 2001 ("Oh My God, Im a Hardcore Feminist!" cover); Bitch, Spring 2002 (Sandra Tsing Loh cover); Venus, Summer 2005 (Sleater-Kinney cover). Albums: Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control; PJ Harvey - Rid of Me; The Queers - Punk Rock Confidential; Tiger Trap - Tiger Trap; Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock; Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out; Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One; various artists - Otis Opuses (Kill Rock Stars sampler). This sequence lasts for 30 seconds.
b.
Phil at the piano teachers house, when he is fumblingly playing
Sergei Rachmaninoff
s "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paginini", is actually
Bill Murray
playing. He does not read music, but he learned that much of the song by ear.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
s "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paginini", specifically its 18th Variation, was also used in another time fantasy movie,
Somewhere in Time
.
c.
According to
Martin Scorsese
in the "Raging Bull" DVD, this was going to be one of eight boxing movies to come out in 1980.
d.
One of the dancers cheering on
Robin Johnson
in her first musical scene was actually porn star
Sharon Mitchell
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
Malia Scotch Marmo
did some rewrites on the final script but remains uncredited.
b.
Robert Garland
,
John Milius
and
David Shaber
all did uncredited work on the script.
c.
Bill Murray
and
Harold Ramis
have both been honorary grand marshals for the Groundhog Day celebrations in Punxsatawney, PA.
d.
This film is being preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding from the AFI/NEA Preservation Grants.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
When they hold up the Terence Mann book that is going to be banned in the school auditorium, it has the same cover design as the first edition of
Jack Kerouac
s 1957 novel "On the Road".
b.
Two people were involved in the James Bond franchise.
Anthony Zerbe
(Wille Joe Worth) would later appear
Licence to Kill
, while
Yaphet Kotto
(Sonny Boy Mosby) would later appear in
Live and Let Die
.
c.
Reels 2,4 and 5 of this 5-reel film survive in the Library of Congress.
d.
On the DVD,
Harold Ramis
states that the original idea was for him to live February 2nd for about 10,000 years. Later he says that Phil probably lived the same day for about 10 years.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
Writer/Director
Daniel Minahan
s childhood friend, Dawn Lagarto, is given a "Special Thanks" credit. He originally wrote the story using her name for the main character. When it came time to start filming the producers had legal concerns regarding the use of a real persons name, but actress
Brooke Smith
felt an affinity for the name and wanted to retain it for her character. Minahan called the real Dawn Lagarto and got her blessing to use the name. The real Dawn Lagarto is not an unwed mother, has never participated in a reality TV series, and has never killed anyone.
b.
The director/producer (George Butiri) makes his cameo appearance as the ACE2 pilot.
c.
Margaret OBrien
s film debut.
d.
According to director
Harold Ramis
, most of the times when he tried to explain a scene to
Bill Murray
, Murray would interrupt and ask, "Just tell me - good Phil or bad Phil?"
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
David Lean
spent several years developing this film in the late 1970s, working with his longtime collaborator, screenwriter
Robert Bolt
.
b.
The VFXperts developed a program that would realistically portray what an explosion in space would look like (short blasts sucking inward, leaving debris floating). For shots of an imploding planet, the same program was used on a greater level, but the animators had to manually composite multiple layers of rocks and wind sucking into the planet.
c.
The 1992 restoration of the film, done at UCLA Film and Television Archives, was financed by
Martin Scorsese
, who would direct a biopic of
Howard Hughes
- upon whose life the film is based -
The Aviator
a decade later.
d.
Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time" in 2006.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
William Baldwin
agreed to
Raoul Ruiz
directing after reading a newspaper review of
Trois vies & une seule mort
.
b.
John Gielgud
: as the Ghost of Hobson.
c.
The movie was shot in 20 days, most of the fight scenes were done in less than 3 hours.
d.
At one point in chase scene involving the red Cadillac Eldorado,
Bill Murray
and friends were to race along the sidewalk in front of the movie theater, barely missing the ticket booth, which was still occupied. The scene was filmed, but left on the cutting room floor.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
Bill Murray
was bitten by the groundhog twice during shooting.
b.
The structure of the film was based loosely on "The Comedy of Errors" by
William Shakespeare
.
c.
In preparing this film for production, MGM borrowed a print of
This Island Earth
from Universal-International.
d.
The star Ray calls "Evangeline" is in fact the planet Venus. Venus is known as the Roman goddess of love.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
Bill Murray
quotes lines from a poem by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, "Work Without Hope": "All Nature seems at work; slugs leave their lair, The bees are stirring; birds are on the wing, And winter, slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring; And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing."
b.
At the time of its release, this was the highest grossing Disney cartoon since
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
.
c.
This film was rushed into production by Cannon Films, Inc. after the runaway success of "Comin At Ya!", another 3D film by the same producers. It was released as the 1983 3D era was coming to an end.
d.
Jack Lemmon
s real-life son,
Chris Lemmon
, plays his movie-son "Josh", whilst Jack Lemmons wife
Felicia Farr
plays a fortune teller.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
At one point
Gary Oldman
was considered for the role of Jonas and
Hayden Christensen
was considered for the role of Allan.
b.
Director
Harold Ramis
originally wanted
Tom Hanks
for the lead role, but decided against it, saying that Hanks was "too nice".
c.
Original title of the film was "Déjà Vu".
d.
Several of the sets depicting Hill House were built in the hangar that housed The Spruce Goose, the mammoth airplane built by
Howard Hughes
.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Groundhog Day (1993)?
a.
Ben Umstead and Renee Sandler who appear in the film as staff members at the Kids School were actually involved in similar schools in real life. Renee has been a staff member at Play Mountain Place in LA for 15 years, and Ben graduated from Fairhaven School outside of Washington DC.
b.
With only a budget of $6m for this film, director
Paul Haggis
had to cut the costs by using his own house for scenes and even his own car for other scenes.
c.
Tommy Lee Jones
s theatrical directing debut. His only other directing credit was the TV movie
The Good Old Boys
.
d.
In the original version of the script by
Danny Rubin
, Phil Connors was already trapped inside Groundhog Day at the start of the story. We joined him on a typical day, with the audience wondering how he knew everything that was going to happen.
Harold Ramis
promised not to change this aspect of the script, but ultimately decided to do so.
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