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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985).

About the movie: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		Walter Matthau received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his role as Kotch in this movie. Matthau did not win but a few years later Art Carney won a Best Actor Oscar for Harry and Tonto, a similarly themed movie.
b.		Features the only big screen appearance by The Kingsmen, famous for their hit version of "Louie Louie". Decked out in matching yellow blazers, the band did not perform that song and instead performed "Give Her Lovin".
c.		Vitaphone production reels #2421-2427; a Vitaphone musical score and sound effects were added to this otherwise silent production.
d.		The poster art for this film was one of the last done by Richard Amsel.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		Two directors were hired so that George Miller could concentrate on the stunts and action scenes, while George Ogilvie handled the performances of the large cast of actors.
b.		The company Bill Wall Leather is featured in most of David R. Ellis films. In Final Destination 2 the character Evan Lewis wears a shirt with the name on it as does Eric Christian Olsens character in Cellular and in this film the race car that help causes the accident is sponsored by it.
c.		The game that Ben is playing while Jack is talking to him about the Fourth of July camping trip is the first Wing Commander game.
d.		One of the few films in which Jack Haley received top billing. In most of his films he was usually billed third or even lower. (In his most famous film, The Wizard of Oz, in which he played the Tin Man, he was billed fifth.)

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		Richard Egans (Ken) impassioned speech to his wife about her disgraceful bigotry was so powerful that an entire packed audience at Radio City Music Hall gave it an immediate standing ovation.
b.		Originally, the film was supposed to be about a group of children living without parents in the wild. They were trying to decide what adult character would find them, when someone thought of Max. After that suggestion, it became a "Mad Max" film.
c.		Patrick Swayze was an accomplished skydiver and took part in the big skydiving scene.
d.		The fictitious cartoons produced at Tim Averys work place, Animagine, include "Siamese Popes", "The Bad Dolphins", "Cactus Jack", "Lincolns Mites" and "Torpedo Tortoise".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		Tôhô released this American version of its own Gojira to Japanese audiences in 1957. The studio ballyhooed it as being a CinemaScope production, when in fact what Toho did was chop off the top and the bottom of the frame. These mutilated shots later made it into the studios Daikaijû Baran.
b.		Alan Sues movie debut.
c.		Director/Co-Writer George Miller was given the rights to Mad Max 2 and this one to get him to step aside as the director of Contact.
d.		This was Charles Chaplins second critical failure, after his short film Sunnyside. That short was re-issued with a new score with this film in 1977.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		The filming of Angel and Skinners first meeting at the supermarket was filmed over the course of two days. The conversation was filmed entirely from Timothy Daltons perspective first. The next day, early in the morning, they were to film the conversation with Angels perspective and close-ups. Dalton, much to the surprise of the crew, showed up early the next morning, and even though he wasnt going to be on camera for that particular portion of the filming, he sat off-camera in Skinners chair and played the role so that Simon Pegg would be able to have him to work with while filming his part as Angel. Pegg stated it really showed Daltons professionalism.
b.		"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 2, 1942 with Conrad Veidt reprising his film role.
c.		Most of the films exterior scenes were shot on a seven-acre reproduction of a Beijing neighborhood constructed near the Los Angeles International Airport. The set was decorated with 300 bicycles, 15 cars, and thousands of miscellaneous props (from stoves to manhole covers) actually imported from China.
d.		The film references a novel by Russell Hoban called "Riddley Walker" about a hero traveling in post-apocalyptic England.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		The script called for Aunt Entity (Tina Turner) to drive a vehicle. All of the vehicles were built using manual transmissions, which Turner couldnt drive, so a car equipped with an automatic transmission had to be constructed.
b.		The lead role was originally offered to Gary Cooper, who wanted to take it, but he was under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time, which felt that loaning him out to a "B" studio like Columbia Pictures was too demeaning for both Cooper and Paramount and refused to loan him out.
c.		This spent 15 months in post-production after a five and a half month shoot in Slovakia.
d.		The films tagline "Their war. Our world." was originally meant for AVP: Alien vs. Predator.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		This was Woody Allens final film for the now-defunct Orion Pictures, most of whose founders had been associated with Allens movies since his United Artists days.
b.		The sandstorm at the end of the film was real, and a camera plane actually did fly into it for some shots. The storm in its entirety hit the crew in the desert, forcing them to ride it out in their cars and wherever they could find cover.
c.		On April 25, 2000, the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds played a game wearing their 1969 uniforms to promote the film.
d.		Title was changed to "The Never Dead" for Australian audiences as not to confuse it with the popular Aussie sex comedy Fantasm, which was also known as Fantasma.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		The film for "Death Proof" was physically scratched to achieve its dirty look, rather than digitally scratch the film footage.
b.		Aunty Entitys (Tina Turner) steel mail dress weighed more than 55 kilograms.
c.		In the original cut, in the scene in which McVicker is being spanked in the motel room, he was naked from the waist down. The animators had to give him boxer shorts in order to get a PG-13 rating.
d.		A large number of writers were hired at one time or another to write the script, including Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, George Jessel, Harry W. Conn, Alan Campbell, Anita Loos, John Emerson, Alice Duer Miller and Dorothy Parker. Samuel Goldwyn rejected their scripts and finally hired Ben Hecht (who wrote his script in two weeks) for the final version. It is not known if any of the earlier work was used in Hechts version.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		The folding knife Tool throws at the target when him and Christmas first compete is a Cold Steel Espada.
b.		The possible outcomes on the Wheel are: - Death - Hard Labour - Acquittal - Gulag - Auntys Choice - Spin Again - Forfeit Goods - Underworld - Amputation - Life Imprisonment
c.		Having decided that pirates were the 18th century equivalent of rock stars, Johnny Depps characterization of Sparrow was inspired by close observation of his friend Keith Richards, though he emphasized in interviews that it was not an impersonation.
d.		A portion of the film was shot in Studio 28 at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. It is the oldest known sound stage in the history of the studio.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)?
a.		The Mickey Avenue/Dopey Drive signpost was built specifically for the movie, and was supposed to be removed afterward. It wasnt, and it still stands at the Disney studio.
b.		One of the boats is named Jeromes Raft, after Jerome Ranft, a Pixar art department sculptor.
c.		Wilhelm Scream heard during the castle sequence as the dragon smashes through a bridge.
d.		Maxs eyes are different; the pupil in his left eye is permanently dilated. This is a nod to Mad Max 2: When his car is forced off the road by Wez and Max crashes, he suffers a severe injury to, among other body parts, his left eye. The disparity is easier to see in close-ups, and VERY easy to see in HD versions of the film. In the regular version, its most prominent when Max first looks down on the Thunderdome.

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