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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saigon, CA (2012) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Saigon, CA (2012)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Saigon, CA (2012).

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1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saigon, CA (2012)?
a.		Winner of "Best Comedic Short Film" at the Wilmington Film Festival 2002.
b.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 11, 1945 with Charles Ruggles and Ellen Drew reprising their film roles.
c.		The director, Mark Tran, caused a sensation at the 2009 Cinequest Film Festival when he won the Audience Award for Best Feature. Widely considered the most promising filmmaker out of the Bay Area, Mark directed the film at the age of 22 on a shoe-string budget. During the films premiere at the festival, every showing was sold out with an overcapacity crowd celebrating inside the lobby and outside the theater, forcing the festival directors to call in security.
d.		Merle Oberon was originally signed to play Domini, but was "bought off" by David O. Selznick at a cost of $25,000.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Saigon, CA (2012)?
a.		This was the first major, high-profile film with music by James Horner. Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score for this films predecessor, _Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)_, and the following quote by Horner likely references this fact: "Im sure that I was influenced by Goldsmiths large orchestral scores when I started out, and that was because the people who employed me wanted that kind of sound. I wasnt in a position to say, Go To Hell!"
b.		The actor Jimmy "JimmyBoi" Phans father and aunt are the founding members of Vietnams most famous rock and roll band, the CBC Band. JimmyBoi himself is a popular rapper hailing from Houstons "Dirty South" hip-hop scene, and has recently cut a single with Sean P of the YoungBloodz.
c.		When John Koestler is teaching his class at MIT at the beginning of the movie, the equations behind him on the blackboard are Maxwells equations of electro-magnetics. The Earths magnetosphere is what protects us from harmful solar radiation called "solar wind" by channeling these particles to the Earths magnetic poles, causing the phenomenon known as the Aurora or Northern Lights. This same solar wind, when extreme, cannot be fully mitigated by the Earths magnetic field and may cause electrical and radio communications problems. Theoretically, a very powerful solar emission, such as the one which destroys the Earth in the movie, is a very extreme case of solar wind, called a Coronal Mass Ejection. Hence, the equations on the blackboard are a subtle and clever hint of what will happen later in the movie. Additionally, the equations are, rather unusually, given in _spherical_ coordinates, with rudimentary drawings of a circle (possibly representing the Sun) and the Earth and its magnetosphere, all of which indicate that this is a deliberate and clever hint of the movie-makers. However, NASA has recently predicted that a very big solar wind would hit the Earth on the proposed "End of the Year" year of 2012, but it may cause communication problems.
d.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on August 28, 1944 with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey reprising their film roles.