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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Precious (2009) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Precious (2009) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Precious (2009) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009).

About the movie: In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		A friend at college told Gabourey Sidibe about the open-call audition for the role of Precious. On the morning of the audition, her normal route to school was blocked by a film crew working on American Gangster, so she went to the audition instead.
b.		About nine cats were used throughout the film as the role of Cat.
c.		Ranked #1 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June 2008.
d.		In 2006, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon created a 24-hour slow-motion version of the film titled "24-Hour Psycho" that played at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		The play "Crimes of the Heart" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1981.
b.		Lee Majors was originally cast as Joe Buck, but had to pull out when his TV series, The Big Valley, was renewed for another season.
c.		Universal threatened to sue when they found out that the directors were trying to get Helen Reddy to repeat her role as the singing nun from Airport 1975. George Kennedy from the original Airport movies was also being courted for the film but thought better of running afoul of Universal.
d.		The first film to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		In one of her meetings with her social worker, played by Mariah Carey, Precious asks "What color are you anyway, you some type of Black or Spanish?" Carey, who is of mixed ancestry (Irish, Black, Venezuelan), is often the subject of "what is she" speculation and discussion.
b.		Although playing a nine-year-old, Mark Lester was actually eighteen at the time of filming.
c.		Seized by NYC Police at the premiere, this film was officially determined to be obscene by a NY Criminal Court.
d.		"Screen Directors Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 10, 1950 with Joseph Cotten reprising his film role.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		The movie that the "real" Julia Roberts is discussing in L.A. is "Clowns Cant Sleep" which was the working title for the script of this movie.
b.		A scene between Tony Manero and his dad was cut from the film. Karen Lynn Gorney was going to play the same role she played in the original, but those plans were cancelled.
c.		David Ayer wrote an early version of the films screenplay.
d.		Gabourey Sidibe worked with Lenny Kravitz in this movie, then with his daughter Zoë Kravitz in her next film, Yelling to the Sky.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		The films opening credits mirror its main characters illiteracy by misspelling the title, which is given as "Precious (Base on Nol by Saf)" with the correction "(Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)" underneath.
b.		The tagline seen on the DVD box art says "In space, no one can eat ice cream". This is a play on words that pays homage to the tagline for the 1979 film Alien, which states "In space no one can hear you scream".
c.		The film was started over ten years ago. The film makers set it aside for several years before recently raising the money to finish the film.
d.		WOPR goes through more than 150 possible scenarios in Global Thermonuclear War, including Zaire Alliance, Gabon Surprise, and English Thrust

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		When the newly recruited Merry Men are getting outfitted with clothing and weapons, their tights are seen being taken out of giant plastic eggs. This is in reference to when Leggs pantyhose used to be sold in plastic eggs packages.
b.		Very first Best Picture Oscar nominee to be directed by an African-American filmmaker.
c.		Nearly every member of the above-the-line crew makes a cameo and is killed on-screen, including the director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. The sound recordist, key grip, gaffer, FX artist, and several PAs also make cameos.
d.		Clark Gable spent two days working with a newsreel crew to get a feeling for his part.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		In the long shots of Milt Lackey, a double was used to stand in for the 99 year old George Burns.
b.		The car wash in the beginning of the movie still exists. It is now a Mobile Station on Elston Avenue in Chicago.
c.		The Clampetts automobile is a 1921 Oldsmobile.
d.		Holds the record for averaging US$100,000 per screen in fewer than 50 US theaters.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		A sex scene between Dominique and Bruce in Bruces hotel room was cut for time.
b.		Producer Donald E. McCoy strongly disagreed with the use of nuclear warheads. He only agreed to finance the film if Edward D. Wood Jr. rewrote his original script, and made it end with a nuclear explosion as a warning against the use of nuclear weapons.
c.		MoNique accepted her role to raise awareness of sexual abuse. A confessed victim of incest herself, the actress had great reservations about playing the part, but ultimately found the experience therapeutic.
d.		Author Winston Groom had a 3% share in the films profits.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		Average Shot Length = ~8.5 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~7.9 seconds.
b.		Writer Geoffrey Fletcher became the first African-American to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
c.		In the scene where Hana is being pulled up to see the paintings in the church, the electric power and smoke for her "torch" was being piped through the seemingly real rope on which she was sitting.
d.		Although produced in 1933, the bulk of the film takes place in 1940; events depicting the start of World War II are, of course, fictional and strictly futuristic, but nonetheless on target as far as the date is concerned.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Precious (2009)?
a.		In one of Precious fantasies, she is shooting a commercial and we see a clapper. The names on the clapper indicating the director and cinematographer are Lee Daniels and Andrew Dunn, who are the films director and cinematographer.
b.		Final film of Jackie Gleason.
c.		Jean-Pierre Aumont, who played Jacques in this movie, spoke of this films scheduling conflicts between Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra in his autobiography Sun and Shadow: "Spencer Tracy, a genial man who was not well at the time, couldnt work past the morning. The problem was that Sinatra would only work in the afternoon. In the morning he hired a private plane and hopped from island to island trying to convince the startled inhabitants to vote for Kennedy in the next presidential election. Around two oclock he returned, exhausted, at the precise moment when Tracy was retiring for the day to his rooms. How, in these conditions, the scenes between Tracy and Sinatra were shot is a mystery to me."
d.		Ann-Margret shot scenes with Peter Fonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fondas creepiness adequately.

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