Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : How the West Was Won (1962) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : How the West Was Won (1962) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962).

About the movie: A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the nineteenth century--including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Hermes delivers a bouquet of flowers to Hera. Hermes (Mercury to the Romans) is a registered trademark of FTD Florists.
b.		The film is based on the Chinese epic story "Journey to the West" a fictionalized account of the legends around the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzhuangs pilgrimage to India during the Tang dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Many programs have been based on this tale, such as television show Saiyûki, and anime series Dragon Ball Z holds a few loose facts from the same story.
c.		Shortly before the barracks scene, Keith David fell off of a seven foot railing outside the building while the actors were between shots, breaking two ribs and cracking two vertebra. He when on to film the scene in great pain and then went to the hospital afterwards.
d.		During the Indian attack that was filmed in Lone Pine, California, a Conestoga Wagon tumbles down a hill. In order to create the illusion of the audience being inside of a tumbling wagon, a track was built down the slope of a small hill and the top portion of a Conestoga Wagon, without the wheels, was affixed onto a flatbed along with a mechanism that would turn the wagon over and over as the flatbed was guided down the hill. The Cinerama camera, in turn, was attached to one end of the flatbed so that it could shoot directly through the turning wagon as the stuntmen, including Loren Janes, were tumbled around the insides of the wagon along with boxes, barrels, blankets and other cargo. It took more than two days to prepare the scene and several takes to complete. In the final cut, this scene lasts no more than five seconds on the screen.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		The production schedule only allowed for 24 days of shooting.
b.		Filming went a few weeks over schedule, which in turn caused some conflicts with Casablanca, which also starred Claude Rains and Paul Henreid. Rains finished work on this movie June 3rd in 1942 and did his first scene on Casablanca at 10:30 the next morning.
c.		One of the few American films to have its world premiere in London, England.
d.		As a promotional book-tie in for the movie, all the original Ian Fleming James Bond short stories have been housed in the one volume for the first time. The compendium is called "Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories". It includes all nine short stories from the For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights anthologies. It was released on 29 May 2008 in the UK and on 26 August 2008 in Northern America.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		The French waiter in the trailer talking about the cheeses is voiced by the films director, Brad Bird.
b.		David Niven was close to death during filming and could not speak. His voice at times was dubbed by Rich Little.
c.		At one point in the movie Danko is discussing (in Russian) Americas heroin problem. He makes a reference to a location in the U.S. as being a particular problem. He says (in Russian) "...Gharlem..." which should properly be translated to English as Harlem. In the translation sub-titles the location is "...Miami...". However, the UK DVD release has the correct translation.
d.		Since the three lenses of the Cinerama camera sat at angles to each other on the camera itself, it was very problematic for actors to film a scene as they would in front of a single-lensed camera. When their images were projected onto the three panels of the Cinerama screen, it would appear as though the actors were looking either slightly up-screen or slightly down-screen, and not directly at their fellow actors. This is very evident in a few scenes in the previous Cinerama film, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. However, by the time this film went into production, this problem was solved somewhat. In order to compensate for the lens angles, actors would have to look one-third of the way in and toward the camera, and pretend that they were looking at their fellow actors. Hence, when their images were projected onto the Cinerama screen, it would appear as though they were looking at each other. It was a very difficult process for actors, which is one of the reasons that three-panel Cinerama was abandoned for narrative films after this film was released.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Because the only remaining 8 gauge shotguns on the market were either too antique or too valuable to use, the movies armorer, Gibbons Ltd., had to specially contract for replicas. Gunsmith Steve Karnes purchased three replica Colt 1878 shotguns and modified the barrels so that all three sets would have bore sizes equal to that of a real 8 gauge shotgun. The first two shotguns were designed to fire full-load 12 gauge blank rounds (one gun could be used while the other was cleaned or repaired from a previous film shoot.) The third shotgun was designed to chamber 8 gauge inert rounds, and was used for reloading scenes. All three were then given identical, aged finishes, to make them appear old and used.
b.		Corbin Bleu wrote and performed the lead song on the soundtrack, titled "Moments That Matter". The song is also featured on Bleus sophomore record, "Speed Of Light".
c.		The prison camp guard dogs were actually military dogs and hence very dangerous.
d.		Some stock footage from other (non-Cinerama) epics were used. The Mexican army marching past the Alamo came from The Alamo and a Civil War battle was taken from Raintree County. The final scenes of the modern U.S. were from This Is Cinerama.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		The last of Bela Lugosis five serials, shot April 24-early June 1939, after Lugosi returned from England, where he completed "The Dark Eyes of London."
b.		The play, "As Good as New," opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 3 November 1930 and closed in December 1930 after 56 performances. The opening night cast included Marjorie Gateson, Otto Kruger and Vivienne Osborne.
c.		Richard Bransons cameo in the film is cut out of the in-flight version shown in all the leading airlines, as indeed was a shot of the Virgin Atlantic aircraft that Branson supplied.
d.		No ordinary "single-camera" version was filmed simultaneously with the Cinerama version, resulting in two noticeable dividing lines on the non-Cinerama theater prints, video, TV and DVD versions (indicating the three synchronized film strips originally used). The same problem occurred with the other Cinerama film in release at the time, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, which had not been shot in a "single-camera" version either. Both were MGM films.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Stuntman Bob Morgan was seriously injured, and almost died, while performing a stunt in this picture. Toward the end of the film, there is a gunfight on a moving train between the sheriff and a gang of train robbers. Morgan was one of the stuntmen playing a robber and was crouched next to a pile of logs on a flatcar. The chains holding the logs together snapped, and Morgan was crushed by the falling logs. He was so badly hurt it took him five years to recover to the point where he was able to move by himself and walk unaided.
b.		Lesley Ann Warren was offered the stage role of Norma Cassidy (her Oscar (R) nominated role) in the stage version of "Victor/Victor" starring Julie Andrews, but had to turn it down due to other movie commitments.
c.		Ruth Taylor originally was set to play the female lead, the Marjorie Merwin character.
d.		For the banquet scene, two different types of pie were used; for shots where no one was eating, the pie was rare meatloaf, for shots where people can be seen eating, it was bean pie.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Red says that Andy broke out in 1966. This was the same year as the landmark Miranda v. Arizona case before the Supreme Court, where it was decided a defendant must be informed of their rights (i.e. right to remain silent, right to an attorney, etc.), when put under police custody. Thats why at the end of the film, when they arrest Captain Hadley (Clancy Brown), the officer is reading the Miranda rights from a piece of paper.
b.		Tedde Moore, who plays Miss Shields, is the only person from A Christmas Story to reprise her role for the sequel (that is, outside of Jean Shepherd narrating as an adult Ralphie).
c.		When the project began in the late 1980s, the role of Mary Jane Watson was considered for many actresses, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ally Sheedy, Jodie Foster, Natasha Richardson, Phoebe Cates, Tatum ONeal, Bridget Fonda, Lori Loughlin, Diane Lane, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick, Justine Bateman, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Molly Ringwald, Jennifer Aniston, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, Alyssa Milano, Tori Spelling, Neve Campbell, Tiffani Thiessen, Alyson Hannigan and Drew Barrymore. But when the project eventually went into pre-production, all of them were considered too old for the part.
d.		Debbie Reynolds and George Peppard are the only cast members who appear in three of the five sequences in the film. According to Ms. Reynolds, in an interview for the documentary Cinerama Adventure, her character of Lilith was originally supposed to have drowned in the river. However, it was decided that Lilith would best tie the generations of Prescotts together, so, she remained in the story to become an elderly lady in the films conclusion.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		As with most films featuring stand up comics in the lead role, there are bits of Andrew Dice Clays routine in the film. This includes moments like asking the two guys in the club "Whatre names? Neil and Bob? Or is that like what you do?" The blabbering noise he makes after he leaves Johnny Crunchs radio station the first time. And referring to his genitals as "Stanley The Power Drill".
b.		Due to the detail that would have been shown via the Cinerama process, the costumes had to be sewn by hand, rather than with a sewing machine, as they would have been during the time periods depicted in the movie.
c.		"Entertainment Weekly" magazine voted this the the second scariest film ever made, behind The Exorcist
d.		Originally, Barry Kane was to be named Barry Ford, Patricia Martin was Teddie Miller and Philip Martin was Edward Miller.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Jim Van Bebber directs, writes, produces, edits and acts in this film, and even financed most of it himself.
b.		Alfred Lind was the actual Commander of the convoy (NY 119) in which the USS Mason experienced that massive storm in mid October 1944. Commander Lind, as with most of the veterans of WWII, didnt speak of his experiences from the war. His family learned of these recommendations after Mary Pat Kelly had written her book. His real name was used in the movie, after some good timing when a grandson discovered the existence of the book, then attempted to contact Mary Pat Kelly.
c.		One of the films included in "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (and how they got that way)" by Harry Medved and Randy Lowell.
d.		The first non-documentary Cinerama film, it was also one of the last to use the old three-camera technique, resulting in two very visible, somewhat distracting, dividing lines in the non-Cinerama print and all TV and home video versions.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: How the West Was Won (1962)?
a.		Hope Lange was cast as a love interest for George Peppards character, but her scenes were cut from the final print of the film. She portrayed young Julie Stuart, the daughter of Henry Fondas character, Jethro Stuart. After Langs scenes were deleted from the film, Julie was later portrayed by Carolyn Jones.
b.		Cindy tells Dean that he has potential in life because of his artistic talents. The argument about potentiality was based on a talk between Derek Cianfrance and his wife about getting the film made for many years.
c.		Actors were told to remain in character the whole time they were on set. Microphones where placed around the house that were not functioning just so the actors would always remain in character.
d.		Jamie Campbell Bower, who stars as Volturi member Caius, originally auditioned for the role of Edward Cullen in Twilight.

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