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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Maverick (1994) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Maverick (1994) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994).

About the movie: Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		Josh Lucas had to wear brown-colored contacts in the film to disguise his piercingly blue eyes. Director Green said that it was to mask what made girls fall for him in his role in "Sweet Home Alabama".
b.		In one scene "Billy" is reading a report that claims he is a lefty, to this he replies, "I aint left-handed." This is a reference to films, books and media wrongly claiming Billy the Kid was left-handed based on the tintype photograph of him (tintypes produce a reversed image), making Billy look like he used his left hand to shoot.
c.		Was the main feature at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis and was billed accordingly on the theater marquee. A photo of the theater marquee taken at the time is in the collection of the L.A. Public Library. It shows a matinée crowd exiting to the street.
d.		Final film of Dub Taylor.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		In the stagecoach chase sequence, stuntman Mic Rodgers (double for Mel Gibson) had to go under the coach and get up at the back. This is a direct nod to Yakima Canutts similar stunt in Stagecoach. Coincidentally, second unit director Terry Leonard , a former stuntman himself, performed this in the truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
b.		In an Associated Press article that was published prior to the films release, writer/director Richard L. Bare revealed, "I have an old lady recounting how grandly she once lived; on the other side of the screen we see that she had really been a hooker." In the final print of the film, the character is briefly seen on stage dancing nude but its never made explicitly clear that she was also a prostitute.
c.		Based on the true story of Christopher Mallick, one of the producers of the movie. He still owns an internet billing company.
d.		Due to all the cameras, lights, and equipment virtually trapping him in his bed, at one point Bruce Campbell was forced to actually answer natures call by using the same bedpan his character used to capture the giant scarab beetle.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		Final film of Denver Pyle.
b.		The first of the series made with American financing. Which explains why American stars like Tina Turner crop up in the film.
c.		Visa dexploitation en France : # 86827.
d.		In the original script Elliot, Tom Hanks character, was suppose to fall victim to the killer. However, Hanks was so charismatic on screen that the writers opted to cut Elliots murder from the script.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		The dolly shot in the library was done 45 times before the cinematographer was satisfied with the take. The editor chose the third take as the best and steadiest shot.
b.		Sydney Chaplins final film.
c.		The $25,000 needed to enter the poker tournament in the 19th century America would be about $600,000 in 2004 terms.
d.		Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr were the stars of the original Broadway play. It opened at George M. Cohans Theatre on August 16, 1913 and ran for 441 performances.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		The boxing match that Lomax and Milton attend was not a staged bout, but in fact a legitimate world championship boxing match. The bout occurred on October 4, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Roy Jones Jr., IBF super-middleweight champion, squared off against top contender Bryant Brannon. Jones knocked out Brannon during the second round of the bout.
b.		Michael Papajohn who plays Guard Papajohn, was Adam Sandlers stuntman in The Waterboy, making the hard hits as Bobby Boucher. In The Longest Yard, things came full circle as Michael has his own stuntman.
c.		James Garners role was first offered to Paul Newman who turned it down.
d.		Brothers Tim and Chris Rogus auditioned for the film. Tim was chosen for the role of Rober Monroe. However, the director wrote in a scene with Chris walking through a hallway and having a brief exchange with Tim just so he could have an "in-joke" in the film.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		Another Lethal Weapon reference arises when Annabelle shrinks Mavericks "Lucky Shirt", in the same way that Leo shrinks Riggss shirt in Lethal Weapon 2.
b.		Both Jean Arthur and Barbara Stanwyck turned down the role of the teacher. Additionally Julie Andrews also declined the role.
c.		While the MTA agreed to be a willing participant in the film, the transit unions refused to allow their workers to take part. Therefore most of the scenes involving buses and trains were shot with hand held cameras that wouldnt bring in any unwanted attention.
d.		Marty uses a Frisbie pie plate to knock a gun out of Mad Dogs hand. In 1871, the Frisbie Pie Company started in Connecticut. Their pie pans were thrown on the campus of Yale and these eventually lead to the invention of Frisbees (tm).

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		Many of the creatures in the film were played by dancers so they could be flexible enough to create the required disturbing movements.
b.		A number of stars of classic television westerns play in the poker tournament: Denver Pyle from The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, William Smith from Laredo, Doug McClure (I)and James Drury from The Virginian, Henry Darrow from The High Chaparral and Robert Fuller from Wagon Train and Laramie.
c.		This film began production with a budget of zero. Director Steve Coker and his Producer/wife G.B. Barker set out to make a quality film for as little money as possible. To achieve this they enlisted the help of an amazing group of dedicated film makers who all believed in their vision and the script.
d.		Sayed Moustafa Al-Qazwini, who plays an Iraqi defector who sells Maj. Gates cars stolen from Kuwait, was in real life tortured and kicked in the eye by Saddam Husseins security forces, blinding him in that eye. Like many advisors and extras in the film, he is an actual refugee from Iraq.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		In one scene, Tom Milford (Bobby Darin) explains to Harvey Granson (Donald OConnor) that the party scheduled for that night will celebrate the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty which took place 78 years ago that day. So the date of the party is 28 October 1964 since the unveiling of the Statue took place on 28 October 1886.
b.		This is the first film to see Buster Keaton (the bus driver) smiling.
c.		Linda Hunt and western actor Clint Walker both had cameo roles in this film, Hunt playing a magician and Walker playing a sheriff. However, the film itself ran too long, so their parts were cut from the theatrical release.
d.		The conversation between Joe and Jimmy about the $650 pants was taken from a deleted scene in Lethal Weapon. Murtaughs daughter is wearing an expensive dress for a New Years Eve party, and he asks "It doesnt have a little TV in it?" She says no, and Murtaugh mutters "I am very old."

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		The phrase "Fuck Jay and Silent Bob. Fuck them up their stupid asses" became so popular that it was used in just about every talkback on Aint It Cool News (Such as "Fuck Osama bin Laden. Fuck him up his stupid ass.")
b.		Near the movies beginning, Maverick asks the young man wearing the bowler hat at the poker table who claims to be a gunfighter what his name is. He answers, "Johnny Hardin," and Maverick fumbles his chips pretending to be scared, but then clowns around pointing his own gun at the youth. The real John Wesley Hardin was a notoriously fast, volatile and deadly gunfighter of the old west who shot and killed over 40 men before being shot in the back of the head and killed in 1895.
c.		A nail gun was used for the sound effect of Chigurhs cattle gun.
d.		The white convertible in the movie is a 1969 Camaro RS/SS Indy 500 Pace Car one of only 3,675 made.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Maverick (1994)?
a.		Kathryn Graysons final B-Flat on "Theres Beauty Everywhere" had to be re-dubbed.
b.		Won the Harvard Lampoons "Dullest Movie" Award.
c.		The steamship "Lauren Belle" is named for Lauren Shuler Donner, wife of director Richard Donner. She also appears in the movie as the bathhouse maid. James Garners character calls her "Mrs. D" as she is leaving.
d.		In the original novel, John Hammond is killed by a small dinosaur called a Procompsognathid, a species which does not appear in this film. However, this death scene was resurrected and reworked for the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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