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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Nim's Island (2008) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Nim's Island (2008) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Nim's Island (2008).
About the movie:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nim's Island (2008)?
a.
Jodie Foster
beat out
Portia de Rossi
for the role of Alexandra Rover.
b.
Director
Irwin Allen
wanted to use stop-motion dinosaurs for this film, but due to budget reasons he had to use lizards - mainly monitor lizards - as dinosaurs. Plastic horns and spikes were attached to them to make them look more like dinosaurs.
c.
When Bob Wallace (
Bing Crosby
) appears on the Ed Harrison TV show, he is briefly shown - as if the audience is watching him at home - on a 1950s television set. The brand of the television is DuMont, one of the first manufacturers of TVs in America and the name of TV network from the 1950s.
Jackie Gleason
,
Morey Amsterdam
and Bishop
Fulton J. Sheen
were some of the notables that began on the DuMont Network, which ceased operations in 1956.
d.
When Danish stuntman and actor
Sven-Ole Thorsen
met
Steven Seagal
on the set, he was asked by Seagal to kick him to show what Sven-Ole was capable of. Sven-Ole hesitantly kicked Seagal, who caught his leg and threw him to the ground. Seagal asked Sven-Ole to kick him again, giving it his best shot. Sven-Ole kicked him as fast and hard as he could and Seagal fell to the ground. When shooting a scene together a day or two later Seagal hit Sven-Ole in the throat, resulting in Sven-Ole being knocked out for 3-4 seconds. It looked so realistic that Seagal, the director of the movie, decided that Sven-Oles character, Otto, died, and Sven-Oles remaining scenes were cut from the film.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nim's Island (2008)?
a.
In the opening scene on the subway, a soldier who leaves the train is shown wearing the "Big Red One" 1st Infantry Division shoulder patch. Director
Samuel Fuller
fought with the 1st Infantry Division during World War II, and later made a film about it -
The Big Red One
.
b.
The sheriff serving McGonigle the writ comes from New Philadelphia. Philadelphia was Fields home town, a city he reportedly detested.
c.
This film represents two noteworthy firsts in the career of
Carmen Miranda
: her first Technicolor movie and her first American production. Miss Miranda already had appeared in six Brazilian pictures released from 1933 to 1940.
d.
Lulu Mickelson, the daughter of producer/screenwriter
Paula Mazur
, appears briefly in the airport scene as a passenger waiting in line at the security checkpoint.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nim's Island (2008)?
a.
Karins line "Theyll come to Iowa City. theyll think its really boring..." is a reference to the original "Shoeless Joe" Novel. In the book, the Kinsella Farm was located near Iowa City, Iowa and
J.D. Salinger
s monologue (similar to
Terrence Mann
s) included ideas about people touring Iowa City before coming to the farm. In the film, the closest major city to the farm is Dubuque, Iowa.
b.
Chester Bennington
(lead singer of
Linkin Park
) consulted with an acting coach for his role in the film.
c.
The Australian sea lions used in the film are named Spud and Friday. Both reside at Sea World Australia, and shared the role of Selkie.
d.
The "castle" in Matts fish tank is a simplified model of
Frank Lloyd Wright
s famous design for a house called "Fallingwater".
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Nim's Island (2008)?
a.
The hospital at the end of the film is the same hospital used on the show
Supernatural
also starring
Katie Cassidy
.
b.
The coordinates given for Nims Island (20 degrees south, 160 degrees west) puts it in the dead center of the Cook Islands Archipelago.
c.
The video game in Simonsons apartment, "Computer Space", was one of the first coin-operated video games, manufactured by Nutting Associates in 1971 and designed by
Nolan Bushnell
, who later founded Atari and designed "Pong". The video game was painted white for the movie but the original color was either yellow, red or blue.
d.
Although
M.K. Jerome
and
Herb Magidson
are credited in studio records for songs, none were sung in the movie.
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