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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

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About the movie: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		K-19 suffered a fire in 1972 that killed 28 people.
b.		Adapted from a Broadway play by Louis N. Parker. The original stage production of "Disraeli" also starred George Arliss and opened on Sep 18, 1911 at Wallacks Theatre in New York and ran for 280 performances. It was revived in 1912, 1917 (again with George Arliss) and 1927.
c.		First feature produced in the United States in the Technirama widescreen process, developed by the Technicolor Corp. Many of the credits were rendered in the style of the Technirama trademark.
d.		In the German dubbing of the film, the Abominable Snowman speaks the Swabian dialect, which is mostly spoken in south-western Germany, and makes a reference to wishing he had banished to the Swabian Alps where he has friends.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		The last official film distributed and co-produced by Savoy Pictures, who went into bankruptcy soon after and had sold off all films that had been delayed or had not been released theatrically.
b.		Tom Stoppard, as script doctor, did a re-write uncredited on the script.
c.		A joke cut from the final scene of the movie reveals the large garbage bag in Stueys hand was supposed to be his "lunch". In DVD the commentary, the filmmakers claimed that it was the dismembered remains of Stueys latest serial killings.
d.		In the scene where Kate Hudsons character Stephanie meets Guido at the hotel bar, Stephanie confesses her love for Guidos films to which Guido says: "Grazie" and Stephanie replies "Prego." This is a reference to the stage version of the song "Folies Bergère".

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		One of the main movie posters for this picture has Barbra Streisand climbing on a pole wearing a large dress with three male characters beneath her, evoking a classic movie scene from The Seven Year Itch where Marilyn Monroes dress flies up in the air from a breeze blown from a street subway grill.
b.		Audrey Hepburns first, and only R-rated film in the United States.
c.		The principal actors in the movie did most of the stunt driving themselves. Whilst all of the principals needed stunt driving lessons - Mos Def needed a little more work because he didnt have a driving license at the outset of the production.
d.		The Russian submarine used for filming was sold to the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation in Rhode Island for uses as an exhibit.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		The phrase "Romancing the Stone" is a piece of jewelers jargon, referring to a step in preparing a gem for use in jewelrey.
b.		Franco Ferrini was a young film critic and great admirer of the films of Sergio Leone when the director asked him to contribute to the films script in the 1970s.
c.		The film contains a couple of clever in-jokes for Holmes aficionados in the form of references to famous unrecorded cases for the Great Detective: at one point Watson begins to recite the tale of The Giant Rat of Sumatra (mentioned in Conan Doyles "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"); whilst the action takes place aboard the S.S. Friesland (from Conan Doyles "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", and alluded to as "a Dutch-American liner" in his Professor Challenger book "The Lost World", though here it has links to Malmö in Sweden).
d.		The submarine that ties up along side K-19 and rescues the crew appears to be an Oberon Class (British Royal Navy class name, may differ elsewhere) diesel submarine with the sonar dome near the bow removed.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		After Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film a negative review on their show, David Lynch issued a new poster calling the thumbs-down verdict "two more reasons to see Lost Highway." Asked for his opinion, Gene Siskel said, "I found it petty."
b.		The Soviet sailors who survived the events depicted in this movie heartily approved of the directors take on it, but were amused by the "Hollywoodized" elements.
c.		The production company couldnt get the rights to film at the actual Plaza hotel in New York, so it had it recreated on sound stages. To recoup construction costs, Disney built a sitcom around it, The Nutt House. It was an expensive flop.
d.		The set for Bedford Falls was constructed in two months and was one of the longest sets that had ever been made for an American movie. It covered four acres of the RKOs Encino Ranch. It included 75 stores and buildings, main street, factory district and a large residential and slum area. The Main Street was 300 yards long, three whole city blocks!

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		According to interviews with director Val Guest, Peter Sellers became such a problem during the filming that the decision was made to fire him before he had finished all of his scenes. As a result, the end of the marching band torture scene was noticeably altered and Sellers subsequent scenes were written out.
b.		Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) dancers really wore split knickers under their dresses, a technical point that the film-makers chose not to follow in order to obtain a PG-13 rating. An enormous elephant statue in the garden, bought from a theme park, housed an Arabic nightclub and an opium den. Several images (i.e. clowns, men in tuxedos with tutus) are taken from Toulouse-Lautrecs paintings of the Moulin Rouge and nearby clubs. Some of Lautrecs lines in the scene after Satine rejects Christian are taken from his letters.
c.		Both the rescue sub and the American destroyer were former Canadian warships. The American destroyer was actually an Improved Restigouche Class Canadian destroyer escort which was decommissioned in the mid-90s. This class did not have a flight deck for a helicopter. Both ships used were stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, home of the Canadian Atlantic fleet. Halifax was used in shots of the K-19 departing for sea. In the background of that shot, Canadian warships can be seen.
d.		Photographed in 17 days.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		Documentary footage of the royal family and British nobility was filmed in 1917 by Griffith and Bitzer while on location in England for Hearts of the World, and intended to use the footage in that film. It was not used after all for that project but was later used in this one.
b.		Paul Gleason plays an uncredited character called "Blind Boy Grunt". Blind Boy Grunt was a pseudonym used by Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, and was also the name of a famous bootleg album of his in the early 1970s.
c.		The Juliette-class sub used for the filming had to be restored back to "sea-worthy" condition and then modified to make it resemble the original K-19, which was a Hotel-class sub. The modifications included a longer sail and lengthening of the sub by more than 100 feet.
d.		Shot in twenty days.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		Michael Biehn stated that he didnt get to customize his armor because he was cast so late in production. For the most part he liked all of the custom work on his, but he states that he hated the heart with the padlock on the chest plate as it was far too much like a bulls-eye.
b.		Upon reading the films script, the surviving crew members were so incensed that they sent an open letter to star Harrison Ford, producer/director Kathryn Bigelow and producers Christine Whitaker and Steven-Charles Jaffe, expressing their dismay. Among the less-than-credible details they objected to were profane language, the animosity between the two highest-ranking commanding officers, insubordination among the crew, drunk crew members, the attempted mutiny, the guns (which are kept under seal in a secret location) and the handcuffs (which were only used by and available to cops).
c.		The scene where the Union and Confederate privates cross the river to exchange gifts was the final scene of the movie to be shot.
d.		In 2005, Ralph Bakshi stated in interviews that he along with hip-hop group Wu Tang Clan and producer Albert S. Ruddy planned on producing a sequel.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		The first edition VHS in the United States mistakenly lists the film as having been released in 1997.
b.		The actual K-19 was a Hotel-class ballistic missile submarine. The sub used in the movie is a modified Juliet-class guided missile submarine. The rescue sub in the film appears to be the SSK 73 RCN Onondaga, which was a Royal Canadian Navy submarine of the Ojibwa class (Improved British Oberon Class, or Super Os) which was launched on September 25, 1965 (four years after the K-19 incident).
c.		Although this film version of "Show Boat" was quite faithful to the show, and although it features many of the songs from the stage version, poster advertising for the film prominently mentioned the three additional songs written by Kern and Hammerstein especially for the film, even to the point of downplaying the fact that nine songs from the stage score were sung in the film, several of those were reprised twice or more, and three other songs from the stage version were used as background music.
d.		Three cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Dick Powell (Customer), Irving Bacon (Cook) and Inez Palange (Italian Woman). Since Richard Powell is in the cast, it is most likely the listing of Dick Powell refers to him, since he is a Bar Customer.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)?
a.		The segment The Telephone was the first Italian thriller to be shot in color.
b.		The talking animals in this film can communicate not only with other animal species but also with human children who bother to begin conversation with them. The 1977 "Disneys Wonderful World of Reading" picture book based on the film revealed that the reason Rufus had not told of Pennys fate to another child at Morningside Orphanage was because no child or adult had bothered to ask him. It is unknown whether Rufus could have spoken to a human child without being talked to first, or if he could talk to grown-ups at all.
c.		Initially, Jane Russell was to have performed her "Lookin for Trouble" number in a bikini, a bathing suit that was quite racy for 1954. She wore the skimpy outfit for a production still (later reproduced in her autobiography) but complained that she felt "very naked" in front of the movies crew. Eventually a compromise was reached, and she appeared in the one-piece outfit shown in the movie.
d.		The blue glow inside the nuclear reactor is known as the Cherenkov effect. In order to simulate it, the crew poured 700 2-liter bottles of Canada Dry tonic water and illuminated the reactor with Ultraviolet light. The tonic water contains quinine, which emits a bluish glow in the presence of UV light.

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