Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Marooned (1969) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Marooned (1969) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969).

About the movie: Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		An astounding 12 sequels have been made, as well as eight games, two sing-a-long videos and a TV series.
b.		Sandra Knight was pregnant while filming.
c.		In the film, the astronauts are seen using what appears to be the early concept of the Manned Maneuvering Unit - during the real-life Skylab missions, the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (the AMU) was tested inside the space station and never tested in the vacuum of space. The first use of the MMU was during STS-41-B (the fourth flight of the Challenger) on February 7, 1984.
d.		The movies line "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" was voted as the #73 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		Real National Guard troops - mostly from Virginia - drove most Convoy Scene military vehicles. Extras, bit-players, and stunts-crew filled in the Hummer seats and troop trucks.
b.		There is no musical score for this film. Instead, each spacecraft has its own ambient soundtrack when it is shown in space. The Apollo shots feature a low hum; the XRV, a hollow ringing; the Nimbus Weather Satellite, a rapid series of beeps ascending in pitch; and the Russian Voshkhod, a constant pitch series of beeps. The only exceptions to this is are a very slight, muted bit of music played under the Apollo ambient soundtrack during Pruetts final EVA, and a single tone (with some ambient effects that could be called music) during the opening credits.
c.		Blue Oyster Cult band members Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser are seen standing outside of a store trying to sell bootleg t-shirts for $5 after the movies final credits.
d.		Weeping Mary, Texas is a real place. Just west of Alto, Texas, thought to be haunted by a weeping ghost named Mary for the loss of her all Black community to White settlers.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		This film is believed lost. Please check your attic.
b.		When asked his feelings about a "Crystal" sequel by the San Francisco Chronicle, Frank Oz had a one-word answer: "Why?"
c.		The films release (prior to the launch of Apollo 13) about a space disaster led to a real-life crisis aboard Skylab 3 (c. July -September 1973) where a thruster leak developed on board the Apollo CSM. The depiction of a rescue vehicle was as a lifting body (for a description of what a "lifting body" is, see Wikipedia and search for the term). This lifting body was the basis of the Skylab Rescue space vehicle, which based on a Block II Apollo Command Module (CSM #119) which was modified by North American Rockwell. Memos dating back to December 1970 (from NASA facilities at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, and Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral) confirmed that a rescue spacecraft would be next in line if the main Apollo CSM failed during flight. By November 1971, the modified CSM was phased in with evaluation and testing prior to the final lunar mission, Apollo 17, which launched in December 1972. The real-life thruster leak aboard Skylab 3 was neutralized and fixed. Thus the rescue launch vehicle (piloted by NASA astronauts Vance Brand and Don Lind) was pulled from flight duty. The vehicle was on standby for Skylab 4 and the Apollo-Soyuz mission. Brand would fly on the Apollo-Soyuz mission and Lind on STS-51B in 1985. After the final Apollo flight in 1975 (Apollo-Soyuz), the modified command module, CSM #119, was put on display at the Kennedy Space Centers Visitors Complex. NASA engineers have studied the modified Skylab Rescue CSM for the Orion Spacecraft (part of Project Constellation), which will replace the Space Shuttle Atlantis after her final mission in July 2011.
d.		The movie that Ellen (Doris Day) describes to Bianca (Polly Bergen) while giving her a massage is My Favorite Wife, of which this is a remake.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		Was the impetus behind the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project where American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts docked in space.
b.		George E. Stones film debut.
c.		RZA was hired to do the films score, but was later replaced with Organized Noize.
d.		Pam Bouviers alias as Ms. Kennedy is a reference to Jacqueline Kennedy, whose maiden name was Bouvier. Her weapon was a .25 caliber Beretta 950 automatic.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		Mel Brooks came up with the idea for this film when he discovered he had yet to spoof space movies, since he already destroyed the western films with Blazing Saddles, made fun of the horror genre with Young Frankenstein, and gave silent movies the ax with Silent Movie.
b.		Adrienne Wilkinson received a BEST ACTRESS NOMINATION at the Action on Film Festival, in Pasadena, California for her work in Reflections.
c.		The title of Hamlets play-within-a-play is "The Murder of Gonzago", which may or may not have been extrapolated from an Italian prose work. However, when asked its title by Claudius, Hamlet responds by bestowing on it a new moniker, which reflects its purpose (to "catch the conscience of the King") - he calls it "The Mousetrap".
d.		Based on a novel by Martin Caidin, who would later write "Cyborg", the basis for the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		Final film of Billy Bevan.
b.		During post-production, the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
c.		Frank Capra began work on the film. Inspired by his work on the Martin-Marietta Corp.-commissioned faux documentary, "Rendezvous in Space" for the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York, Capra (a chemical engineer by education) worked to make the picture for Columbia, but finally abandoned the project in preproduction in May 1966 when he couldnt bring the budget down to the $3-million required by Columbia worldwide production chief M.J. Frankovich. The eventual budget for the finished film (directed by John Sturges) was $8 million. Capra never made another film.
d.		This is the first film that Forrest J Ackerman saw, and it began a lifelong love affair with science fiction. He is credited with coining and/or popularizing the phrase "Sci-Fi" in the 1950s.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		"Best Feature Length Drama" at the Hollywood international HD DV festival as a first time film festival submission, and first time writer, director, producer, actor.
b.		Peter Sellers turned down numerous offers to play the lead role, but made a cameo appearance as a jazz drummer in a restaurant scene. The scene was cut from the movie.
c.		The space station using a spent Saturn S-IVB stage was based on early proposals during the Apollo Applications Program; at the time of filming, what came to fruition as Skylab was still under development. The only differences between the orbital workshop depicted in the film (which has a rocket motor attached) and the real Skylab was the incorporation of the Apollo Telescope Mount and two docking ports on the docking module, not to mention the absence of a rocket motor. The real Skylab was launched as a dry workshop using a surplus Saturn V #SA-513 (originally earmarked for the canceled Apollo 18 mission). The three-man crew in the film spend 5 months living in space; the longest duration in the real Skylab was 84 days during the final mission, Skylab 4.
d.		The Characters names are never mentioned in the story. A personal choice made by the Writer and Director, Jose E. Cruz Jr., to give the audience a more emotional attachment to the characters, their plight and an understanding that these characters could be someone they may know personally.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		Jack Nicholson was considered to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Emmanuelle Seigner was considered to play the title role and Roman Polanski was originally directing, but the package fell apart.
b.		Fellini had to re-shoot parts of this movie, including the elaborate Venice carnival scene, when several reels of film were stolen at the Technicolor labs of Tiburtino, Rome, in August 17, 1975. The thieves were apparently interested at Pier Paolo Pasolinis Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, and some reels of this film were also stolen, along with half of Damiano Damianis spaghetti western Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975)_. Apart from the re-shoots, this theft also forced Fellini to abandon a sequence featuring Barbara Steele. The negatives were never found.
c.		In September 2010, Casey Affleck (qv) was sued for sexual harassment by producer Amanda White (III) (qv) and cinematographer Magdalena Bonacorso (qv). The incidents supposedly occurred during their work together on this movie. The cases were settled.
d.		One of the few films in which "NASA" is referred to correctly by the rules of grammar. "NASA" is an acronym for the "National Aeronautics and Space Administration." At the press conference, Gregory Pecks character Keith says, "... resources of the NASA," as in "THE National Aeronautics and Space Administration." Most films use the acronym incorrectly as a proper name, as in, "... resources OF NASA," which would actually be "...resources of National Aeronautics and Space Administration," and does not make proper grammatical sense when the "the" is left out.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		On the advice of Sam Raimi, the Coens went door-to-door showing potential investors a two minute trailer of the film they planned to make. They ultimately raised $750,000 in a little over a year, enough to begin production of the movie.
b.		Due to the highly contentious subject matter, no major studio would dare touch the property. 20th Century Fox head Darryl F. Zanuck expressed an interest but had to relinquish the idea when his boss point blank refused to allow it to happen.
c.		Average Shot Length (ASL) = 8 seconds
d.		The redheaded henchman who shakes Creeper and yells "More women!" is a self-caricature of animator Phil Nibbelink, who also voiced the character.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Marooned (1969)?
a.		The Film Ventures International re-edit of this film (retitled "Space Travelers") was featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. This was also the only film featured on the show to have won an Academy Award.
b.		During the early days of filming pictures were released to a Mexican newspaper called "Record". In that paper a full run down of what Dragonball was to be about as well as information on its director James Wong were given. However the pictures labeled as "the Director" and "actors" were nothing more than simple extras, in fact the picture of the supposed director was that of a chubby, white, blond haired extra, a huge contrast to James Wong who is of course a slim, Asian man.
c.		This film was the second consecutive Charles Bronson movie that depicted a rape. The previous film was Death Wish.
d.		After the failure of some of the previous animated features like The Emperors New Groove and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner decided that the studio should try their hand at a smaller scale and a less expensive film. The idea was inspired by Dumbo which was made at the studios for relatively little cost in the wake of the more expensive productions _Pinocchio_ and _Fantasia_.

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