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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : School Ties (1992) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : School Ties (1992) - Part (2) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992).
About the movie:
A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
Several places in Groton, MA were given money to fix up their buildings in order to be in the movie.
b.
While the film does not touch on how the baseball owners settled on offering the job as commissioner to
Kenesaw M. Landis
, many baseball historians feel he was given the job considering he ruled in favor of the American and National league when both leagues were sued in court by the Federal League in 1914.
c.
Thomas Haden Church
was originally considered for Randall.
d.
SFX man
Douglas Trumbull
created the cloud effects by injecting white paint into tanks of salt and fresh water.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
The second of fourteen films pairing
William Powell
and
Myrna Loy
.
b.
During the course of giving a very positive review to the film on his show,
Gene Siskel
recalled similar types of attacks on his own person when he went to college, and gave the example of once being handed piece of toast with the jam in the shape of a swastika.
c.
The nickname given to the Somalis by the Rangers, "Skinnies," does not actually refer to the famine and rampant malnutrition in Somalia. It is the nickname given to an alien race in
Robert A. Heinlein
s novel, Starship Troopers, which was a popular book passed around the battalion, and is on the required reading list at West Point. The Rangers felt that their culture was so strange, that they seemed to be from another planet. The "Skinnies" do not appear in the film version of
Starship Troopers
d.
Queen Eleanor was in actuality perhaps the wealthiest and most powerful woman in Europe, and hardly the figure portrayed in the play. Although here she remarks that she will complain to her uncle the emperor, she was not related to Frederick Barbarossa. Complaining to Frederick would have been awkward for a devout Catholic anyway, as he had himself been excommunicated in 1160 and was in a power struggle with the pope, establishing several rival antipopes before reconciling with Rome in 1177. Eleanor also says she will protest to her father, but her father died when Eleanor was 15, long before she met Henry.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
The nonprofit Foundation of Joy, an adoption and pregnancy wellness organization, was founded by Producer Julie Hassett because of this film.
b.
The French assignment that McGivern fails to recite properly is a French translation of the poem On Seeing the Elgin Marbles for the First Time by John Keats.
c.
Michael Caine
explained the infamous continuity error of his dry clothing after climbing onto the boat out of the water (see Goofs), that they waited so long for the camera to turn over that his shirt and pants dried in the sun.
d.
Ryan Fleming
broke his left wrist a week before production and performed the role of Hucklebilly wearing a removable cast hidden under the sleeve of his shirt except for the skinny dipping scene where he removed the cast for each take.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
Jordan DeNoce was able to get the ambulance for the crash scene by telling the local paramedics he was making an anti-drug P.S.A for a local school district. There is a special feature on the DVD where Jordan DeNoce actually made a gag P.S.A from the footage he shot.
b.
The 12-foot Cobra was not milked or defanged during production. It was a pet of writer
Emerson Bixby
, and no other cast or crew were permitted near the animal.
c.
Cole Hauser
s film debut.
d.
The names of Dr. Evils lesser minions are displayed next to the buttons he pushes to send them into the fiery pits. In the opening scene, the following assassins end up in the pit: Generalisimo, Jurgen, Don Luigi and Rita, who is dressed as a meter maid (refering
The Beatles
song Lovely Rita). In the scene where Dr. Evil addresses the United Nations, his henchmen include four men in business suits. They are identified as Number 4, Number 5, Number 6 and Number 7. We can assume Frau Farbissina is Number 3.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
The framed picture seen behind Mr. Morehouse in his office is actually actor
Ned Beatty
s high school graduation photograph.
b.
During filming, director
Oliver Stone
would play African tribal music at full blast on the set, as a way of keeping a frantic mood.
c.
The Hebrew prayer that David (
Brendan Fraser
) recites in the chapel is the "Avenu Malkenu" (literally, "Our Father, Our King), which is a series of petitions to God to grant atonement. The prayer is repeated throughout the High Holy Days (the ten days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur). The holiday for which David misses services because of the football game was Rosh Hashanah (the New Year in the Jewish calendar).
d.
Shot in 1985, not released until 1987.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
Neither
Roddy McDowall
nor
Slim Pickens
are credited for their voice work in the film in either the opening or closing sequences.
b.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
was not the first choice to play Jude.
Gwyneth Paltrow
was originally slated to play the part, but dropped out and was replaced by
Jennifer Garner
. After Garner left the project, Gyllenhaal was awarded the role.
c.
The Scranton Bus Depot scene was filmed outside Russells Package Store in Leominster, MA. The building was used because it was a former train station and the exterior looked like an old bus station. The owners were compensated for its use with a complete interior remodel. To this day the Scranton PA Bus Depot decals remain in the front windows of the liquor store.
d.
Robert Mitchum
: Has one line of dialogue in the movie in a very early role.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: School Ties (1992)?
a.
In one underwater scene,
Olivia Wilde
s character is supposed to be panicking while trying to find an air bubble. This is actually real, as Olivia missed her mark and could not locate the air bubble. Because it as a wide shot, the safety divers were too far away to get there, but she eventually found the pocket
b.
There was no script. The entire film was improvisation.
c.
Ironically, given the antisemitism that pervades almost all of the students attitudes, "Smokey Joes Cafe," the song that the classmates enjoy (and which Mr. Cleary dismisses as being from the "jungle") was written by a pair of Jewish songwriters,
Jerry Leiber
and
Mike Stoller
, who wrote many of the biggest radio hits of the 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the other songs heard in the movie and on the soundtrack were also written or co-written by Jewish songwriters, including "Rock Around the Clock," "Three Coins In The Fountain," "That Old Black Magic," "Isnt It Romantic," and "When I Take My Sugar To Tea."
d.
Graeme Revell
had composed a complete original score when the movie was slated to be released as "Eaters of the Dead" in 1998. But after the film was deemed unwatchable during test screenings,
Michael Crichton
took over the project and rejected Revells original score and brought in
Jerry Goldsmith
to rescore the film, renamed "The 13th Warrior."
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