Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Possums (1998) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Possums (1998) Quiz

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Possums (1998).

About the movie: Will Collier loves his job as radio announcer for the local high school football team, the Nowata Possums...

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Possums (1998)?
a.		The town of Nowata OK is a real place in Northeast Oklahoma. The real Nowata high school football team is called the "Ironmen".
b.		While making this movie only one person got fired. Nobody got hurt that much, but there were some aches and pains.
c.		Clint Eastwood tried to option "Flags of Our Fathers" after the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers was published in May 2000. However, Steven Spielberg had already bought the rights that summer, and in early 2001, had assigned its adaptation to the screenwriter William Broyles Jr.. Spielberg wasnt satisfied with the resulting screenplay and it laid dormant until he met with Eastwood at the Governors Ball after the 2004 Oscar. After that, Eastwood took charge as the director with Spielberg as the producer.
d.		PCU was filmed in the city of Toronto, and in one scene, the building referred to as "the freshman dorms" is actually the Ontario Provincial Legislature.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Possums (1998)?
a.		The county and city name, Nowata, is derived from a Delaware Indian word, noweata, meaning "welcome". According to one story, two railway surveyors rented rooms from an educated Cherokee woman and asked her for possible station names for towns along the line. The woman suggested "Noweata". There are two stories of how the spelling changed; one is that the post office misspelled the name of the town in their official records; another story tells of how a drunken painter misspelled "Nowata" on the depot and the name stuck.
b.		George Lucas Industrial Light and Magic constructed the the puppet of the chest-burster for the film. The main effects unit for the film was Apogee, Inc. This was the company headed by John Dykstra that split off from ILM in 1978 when Lucasfilm moved to Marin County. Thus, Spaceballs marked the first time since Star Wars that the two units shared work on a single project.
c.		Fay Bainter was nominated for a best actress "Oscar" for this film. The same year she was nominated for best supporting actress for "Jezebel" - the first time an actress had been nominated in both categories. She won for "Jezebel".
d.		Ranked #3 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Western" in June 2008.

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