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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Out of Africa (1985) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Out of Africa (1985) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985).

About the movie: In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		The wedding dress that Jayne Mansfield wears was loaned to her to use for her real-life marriage to Mickey Hargitay in 1958.
b.		It took director Sydney Pollack and writer Kurt Luedtke two years to find the spine of Karen Blixens stories upon which they could hang the elements of the plot.
c.		This movie was not originally intended to have a theatrical cinema release.
d.		This film was a hit in the Soviet Union at the time, as the film showed a working-class rebellion against a corrupt government.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		On the screen of one of the handheld info devices can be seen the phrase HAB GPS GROK. "Grok" is the only Martian word in Robert Heinleins novel about a Martian-raised human, Stranger in a Strange Land.
b.		Buffy The Vampire Slayer makes a cameo in one scene. The cover of the October 1, 1999 issue of Entertainment Weekly featured Sarah Michelle Gellar, as Buffy, wearing a sleeveless blouse with "Vampires Suck" written all over it.
c.		When Denys washes Karen Blixens hair, he quotes from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. One line, "He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast," is inscribed on the real Denys Finch Hattons gravestone.
d.		This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		A Jewel Production. Universal, not owning a theater chain, devised a 3-tiered brand system that helped it market its feature product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions). Jewels would often receive special promotion and be marketed with an eye for higher roadshow ticket prices. The studio would cease this brand-driven marketing system in late 1929.
b.		The in-flight movie was American Graffiti.
c.		Originally, Rambo was supposed to hold the M2 .50 caliber machine gun in his hands and fire it, but when fully assembled the .50 weighed 120 lbs. Stallone was still capable of holding and firing it but it was too cumbersome for quick movements, so they mounted it on the back of a jeep instead.
d.		Production designer Stephen B. Grimes spent a year building a replica of Nairobi circa 1913 and Karen Blixens house. The films sets were built not that far from where Blixen had once lived. In fact, that district now bears the name "Karen".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		It was David Leans suggestion to have the British soldiers march into the POW camp singing "Colonel Bogey" at the start of the film. Producer Sam Spiegel was opposed to including the song and felt it would have not meaning to most audiences. The song was in fact a British military march. At first, Spiegel tried to convince Lean that the song would cost too much money to license, but eventually Lean got his way.
b.		Vivien Leigh, who suffered from bipolar disorder in real life, later had difficulties in distinguishing her real life from that of Blanche DuBois.
c.		Industrial strength fire extinguishers were used to keep lions at bay.
d.		Charles Barton, who has a small part as Buddy McMonigal, was at the time an assistant director at Paramount, having started his career as an actor. He had had a bad experience working as an A.D. to Paramounts top director, Cecil B. DeMille, on Union Pacific and refused to work with him again when he was assigned to. Paramount "demoted" him to a bit actor on this picture as punishment. Barton soon left Paramount for Columbia where he was made a director, and never worked for Paramount again.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		The Wile E. Coyote-style blueprints used by Jay and Silent Bob were drawn by producer Scott Mosier.
b.		Filmed in 1974, not released until 1980.
c.		Klaus Maria Brandauer was always Sydney Pollacks first choice to play Bror Blixen. Pollack had been particularly taken by his performance in Never Say Never Again.
d.		Screenwriters Jeffry Price and Peter S. Seaman first adapted the Gary K. Wolf novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, in 1981, with a view to making it with up-and-coming director Robert Zemeckis. However, when Disney viewed Zemeckis two feature films (I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars), they felt that Zemeckis wasnt talented enough to pull off the movie. After Zemeckis made Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future, Disney reconsidered and the movie was green-lit.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		Official Selection of Indie Fest Chicago
b.		This is a collection of four different films, directors , casts and filmed at different times. Episode 1: "The Bad Samaritan by Thomas McMorrow; Episode 2: "The Man Who Heard Everything" by Walter Trumbull; Episode 3: "Hop" by Hugh Wiley; Episode 4: "The Intrigue" by Marshall Neilan.
c.		Actual descendants of the Kikuyu tribe who were described in the book appeared in the film. It was also filmed near the actual Ngong Hills outside Nairobi in Kenya.
d.		With the exception of Dave Rudabaugh, many of the gang members who did follow Billy the Kid both during and after the Lincoln County War did not appear in the film including Billy Wilson, Tom Pickett and Charlie Bowdre, the latter having been killed off in the original film.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		Woody Allen decided to make the film for two main reasons. One was because he had always wanted to do a "chamber piece", a film with a small cast (there are only six principal characters, and only nine in the entire film) in a single location. The other was for the location itself, Mia Farrows Connecticut country house, which inspired Woody Allen to write the screenplay with the intention that it would be shot at the house. Unfortunately, by the time Allen finished the screenplay, it was winter and the location was unusable for a movie so firmly planted in September. The entire movie (which takes place in Vermont) was shot on a single soundstage at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York.
b.		Alan Hale Jr.s last movie role.
c.		Director Lexi Alexander said that she was against using the Skull emblem on Ray Stevensons costume. However, fans wanted it to be more prominent than it was in the 2004 film. She described this design as "pre-schoolish" in an interview and eventually compromised with a degraded and worn skull image (similar to the 2004 movie).
d.		Meryl Streep was extremely nervous throughout the hair-washing scene, which was shot close to some very territorial hippopotamus.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		While he was editing the picture, director Sydney Pollack used musical selections from John Barry to act as his temp track. When it came the time to actually score the film, Barry seemed like the perfect choice.
b.		The characters of George and Ira were written specifically for Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.
c.		Walter Brennan (Farmer), Arthur Byron, Dick Elliott (Gas Station Attendent), Sam Flint, Norman Phillips Jr. (Messenger Boy) and Monte Vandergrift are listed in studio records for this movie, but were not seen in the print.
d.		A microphone was placed in the coffin used in the funeral scene to amplify the sound of the grave dirt hitting the lid.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		The original title was "Damages".
b.		Robert Redford initially intended to play Denys Finch Hatton, as an Englishman. That was later nixed by director Sydney Pollack, who felt it would be too distracting for audiences. Redford had to overdub some of his lines from early takes, when he used a trace of English accent.
c.		The Dracula sequence was the last one completed for the film. It had to be shortened because William Holden smashed his new Ferrari into a wall and wound up in a splint.
d.		The cockroaches that Jean Hill and Mink Stole are forced to eat in the castle are actually raisins.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Out of Africa (1985)?
a.		During the "Pure Imagination" song, Willy Wonka whips his cane around here and there to stop the crowd in place during various points of the song. According to Paris Themmen (Mike Teevee) in the DVD commentary (at 53:08), during one of the takes as Gene Wilder whipped his cane around, he accidentally whacked Themmen.
b.		Sydney Pollack initially never considered Meryl Streep for the role of Karen Blixen as he figured she wasnt sexy enough. Streep landed the part by showing up for her meeting with the director wearing a low-cut blouse and a push-up bra.
c.		Kevin Bacons film debut, 12 years earlier, had been Animal House, opposite Kiefer Sutherlands father, Donald Sutherland.
d.		VFX director Sean C. Cunningham and compositor Claas Henke morphed Bruce Davison into a liquid figure for Senator Kellys mutation/mutant scenes. Cunningham said it was an arduous job back then that took 39 hours per frame: "There were many digital layers: water without refraction, water with murkiness, skin with/without highlights, skin with goo in it." They considered showing Kellys internal organs during the transformation, but Cunningham thought that seemed too gruesome.