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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : October Sky (1999) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : October Sky (1999) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : October Sky (1999)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999).

About the movie: The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		In the psychedelic nightclub sequence, the band seen performing on the stage is The Litter, a Minneapolis-based group. However, in the original release version, their music is not heard; instead, we hear a piece by Frank Zappas Mothers of Invention.
b.		Screenwriters at the Republic Studios gave the Spy Smasher character a twin brother, a character which did not appear in the original comic strips.
c.		The Japanese title of the movie, directly translated, is "Towards the distant sky". The sub-heading however, is "Rocket Boys", which the author wanted to be the English title (see trivia above).
d.		Kubrick optioned the novella Traumnovelle 20 years before he made it into a film.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		1941 it was rediscovered that the original nitrate print had decomposed in the Universal vaults.
b.		The photo of a future Chinese leader in the shack, in black suit and tie, was included in the film at the time when Mao was still very much alive and a Chinese leader in capitalistic attire would have been unthinkable.
c.		Two of the real-life rocket boys, Sherman Siers and Jimmie ODell Carroll were combined into one character named Sherman ODell.
d.		The two main actresses, Michelle Monaghan and Keri Russell, share the birthday: 23 March 1976.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		The voice of "Max Marsh" was dubbed in by Michael Findlay (who also plays the detective). The Max Marsh and detective characters are in archive footage from The Slaughter
b.		Chris Ellis, who plays Principal Turner, also played Deke Slayton in Apollo 13 and appeared in the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon.
c.		Dan Bradley was hired as the films second unit director on the basis of his work on The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, so the film would continue the contemporary gritty action style begun in Casino Royale. Alexander Witt, the second unit director on Casino Royale, was also second unit on The Bourne Identity.
d.		In preparation for his role, Olivier Gruner claims he brought his total body fat down to four percent.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		Author Toni Morrison based part of her story on a true case. Margaret Garner was a slave who lived on a farm called Maplewood in Boone County, Kentucky. Her owner was Archibald K. Gaines, who was most likely her half-brother, and the father of two of Margarets children. In January, 1856, Margaret, her husband Robert Garner, and their four children escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the home of Margarets uncle, Joe Kite, just outside Cincinnati. When slave catchers caught up with them, Margaret Garner attempted to kill her four children rather than have them returned to slavery. She succeeded in killing her two-year-old daughter with a butcher knife before she was subdued. It took four weeks to bring the case to trial in Cincinnati, because the prosecution argued that Margaret should be tried under federal Fugitive Slave Laws, while the defense argued that Margaret should be tried for murder under state murder laws. (The defense hoped to obtain a pardon from the Ohio governor if Margaret was convicted.) By the time the judge ruled in favor of the federal Fugitive Slave Laws, Margarets owner had taken her back across the river to Kentucky. To keep her out of the hands of Ohio abolitionists, Gaines sent Margaret to New Orleans, and then to a Mississippi plantation, where she died of typhoid fever in 1858.
b.		The first film to feature Mel Gibson singing.
c.		The author wished the movie to be called "Rocket Boys," like the book its based on, but the studio believed that title would not sell well. The compromise title "October Sky" works on two levels: its the month when the hero is first inspired by Sputnik flying overhead, and it is an anagram of "Rocket Boys"!
d.		Derek Smalls bass-playing technique (playing with one hand, so the other is free to point in the air) is based on the bass player from Saxon.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		According to Daisy von Scherler Mayer, Eric Stoltz was in the opening party scene but his footage was cut.
b.		When the college recruiters approach Homer at the end of the science fair, the last one identifies himself as being from "Virginia Tech", the real life Homer Hickams alma mater
c.		When Wray is first introduced, he asks the owner of the Bone Shack for a pack of cigarettes. The brand he is handed, "Red Apple," is the same brand that Bruce Willis character, Butch Coolidge, is handed in Marsellus Wallaces bar in Pulp Fiction. This is perhaps a nod to the much noted friendship between Tarantino and Rodriguez.
d.		Andrew Stanton came up with the idea of using Put on Your Sunday Clothes from Hello, Dolly! as he had portrayed Barnaby Tucker in a 1980 high school production.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		This was Warner Bros. highest grossing film of 1954.
b.		Shooting lasted from late Sept-Oct. 15, 1941, before "The Wolf Man" commenced on Oct. 27.
c.		Although known as Virginia Tech since the early 1990s, at the time the movie takes place, the university was known as VPI.
d.		Walter Wanger consulted with the National Committee for Education of Alcoholism and used their suggestions about continued vigilance in the film. Similarly, director Stuart Heisler consulted with authorities on alcoholism.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		Robert Zemeckis keeps the stop-motion model of the flattened Judge Doom in his office.
b.		In the steam engine scene where the boys are salvaging iron rails from unused rail lines, the Norfolk & Western coal hauling steam locomotive they see is the former Southern Railway engine #4501. This engine is currently in use at the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The scenes with the locomotive were filmed in upper Tennessee around Harriman, Oliver Springs, and Lake City with engine #4501 pulling a string of coal hopper cars lettered in authentic N&W livery.
c.		Bobbie Bresee shockingly revealed on the BCI DVD commentary that producers actually set up bleachers for crew members to come in and watch the filming of her sex scene.
d.		The Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters seen in the film are in fact modified Aerospatiale SA 330 Puma transport helicopters with fabricated bolt-on wings similar to the real Hind-Ds used in the former Soviet bloc nations.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		In the courtroom scene of Jackie the hookers preliminary hearing, the Judges name on his desk nameplate is "Hon. Fred R. Simpson" . This is also the name of the films First Assistant Director.
b.		Its common practice with a high budget feature film to have more than one unit shooting at any one time, usually two or three. With "The Lord of the Rings", there were occasions when there would be between five and seven units shooting at any given time.
c.		Homer H. Hickam Jr. never actually met Wernher von Braun.
d.		George Dzundza completely blows the toast line when the group arrives in the mountains the first time. His reaction is legitimate, and a few of the other actors can be seen laughing in response.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		In the highway scene where Neil Tabor leaps from the speeding car he was assured by director Jordan DeNoce that he would drive no faster then 15 MPH when it came time to shoot Jordan DeNoce told actor Greg Hamilton in secret to go double the speed. Although not happy with this, JR Wickman was not hurt by the stunt.
b.		Elsie claims that shell move to Myrtle Beach after she leaves John. This was where the real Elsie moved after Homer Hickam Sr. (John) died of Black Lung Disease, and still currently resides.
c.		After the film had been withdrawn and shelved by MGM, the distribution rights were acquired by notorious exploitation roadshow specialist Dwain Esper. Esper traveled the country showing the film under such lurid titles as "Forbidden Love" and "Natures Mistakes".
d.		For the second year in a row, Luise Rainer won a Best Actress Oscar, becoming the first performer to win two Academy Awards and the first to win two Oscars in two years.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: October Sky (1999)?
a.		Rob Reiners first directorial effort to be produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, the company he co-founded, since The Story of Us.
b.		Body count: 14 humans and 1 crow. (Four killed in the Ballon mansion, four by Dreyfus during Clouseau & Marias date, and six killed at the end of the movie by the bomb Dreyfus put in Clouseaus car.)
c.		Nicolas Cages Oscar award (for Leaving Las Vegas) makes a cameo in the film. Look for it, wrapped up in black string/laces on Eddie Pooles desk when Cage breaks in to tap Pooles phone.
d.		The school exterior was actually two different schools - the football scene was shot in the soccer field of Gresham Middle School, Knoxville, Tennessee, and the other exterior scene, right before Homer and his friends are arrested, is the exterior of Fountain City Elementary school in Knoxville. The actual schools are directly across the street from each other.

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