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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Team America: World Police (2004) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Team America: World Police (2004) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Team America: World Police (2004)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004).

About the movie: Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. As the world begins to crumble around him, he must battle with terrorists, celebrities and falling in love.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Shot in 1978, but not acquired for distribution and released until 1983.
b.		John Hughes in an interview on the Those Arent Pillows DVD edition was inspired to write the films story after an actual flight from New York to Chicago he was on was diverted to Wichita Kansas, thus taking him 5 days to get home.
c.		Marc Shaiman composed songs and a score for the movie, but the score was rejected by Paramount execs about three and a half weeks before the movie was released. Harry Gregson-Williams was hired to rewrite the score and compose it at the 11th hour. Shaimans songs, however, still remain in the finished film.
d.		In the prologue of this Stephen King adaptation, Thad Beaumont wants to become a writer and is shown writing stories. The title of his first typewritten story is "Here There Be Tygers", which is also the real title of the first short story King wrote in his career. The story can be found in Kings "Skeleton Crew" anthology.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Sean Penn was so insulted by his portrayal in the film that he wrote an angry letter to Matt Stone and Trey Parker with the closing "a sincere fuck you, Sean Penn".
b.		In the scene where Gordon Gekko is standing in front of the mirror at the London tailer shop, theres a picture of Kirk Douglas (Michael Douglas father) hanging on the wall behind him.
c.		At one point during filming, Drew Barrymore was consistently forgetting her lines, annoying Steven Spielberg to the point where he actually yelled at her. He later found out that she had reported to work with a very high fever. Feeling guilty, he hugged her and apologized repeatedly as she cried and cried. He then sent her home - with a note from her director.
d.		Jenny McCarthy, when her popularity was boosted when she hosted Singled Out, tried to audition for the role of Eleanor.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		In the song "America, Fuck Yeah", the word "fuck" is used 37 times.
b.		Harold Lloyd originally began production with the football scenes, filming at the Rose Bowl. However, he couldnt achieve the right tone for these final scenes, and he decided to start over again and shoot the film in sequence.
c.		Jonathan Harris movie debut.
d.		The $30,000 that Leonard Smalls talks about as "1954 dollars" would be equal to just over $120,000 in 1987.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Team America first meets Gary performing in a play called "Lease", an obvious parody of the popular broadway musical Rent in which several of the characters are struggling with AIDS.
b.		Donald Houston served in the RAF during the Second World War.
c.		As part of the promotion for the movie at the Comicon in San Diego, promoters threw a huge "Welcome" party open to the public, with barbecue, beer, skateboarding demos, and a wall where people could write "subjects" theyd like to study. Justin Long and other cast members mixed in with the crowd, to the point that you couldnt pick them out.
d.		The stop-motion alien models were designed by David Allen and Jon Berg, and constructed by Berg. Although Allen is generally credited with the alien puppet animation, it was largely done by Randall Cook, who worked without credit.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		The two maps of the rail line shown on the news are of real Pennsylvania counties: The First map has Union and Snyder on the left, and Northumberland, Montour and Columbia in the center and Lycoming on top as well as Schuylkill on the bottom. The Second map has Cameron on the top left, Clinton in the center, Centre on the bottom and Lycoming on the right.
b.		George Raft was originally cast as Sam Spade. He turned it down because it was "not an important picture," taking advantage of a clause in his contract that said he did not have to work on remakes. However, according to the author John McCarty, author of The Films of John Huston, in an ICONS Radio interview (10-07-07) the real reason Raft bowed out was because a successful screenwriter, John Huston, was going to direct his first movie. Raft didnt want to trust his part to this neophyte director.
c.		Traci Lords and director Brook Yeaton were married at the time this film was made. (Theyd met on the set of Cry-Baby.)
d.		When Trey Parker and Matt Stone showed the first footage of the film at the 2004 San Diego Comic Convention, it began with the tagline (words flying at the screen) "Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Janeane Garofalo, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Kim Jong-Il .... will all HATE this movie!" A teaser trailer shown in theaters used an even longer list of names.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		The only Star Wars film that was not the top box-office earner the year of its release.
b.		Some archive footage of football games were incorporated into the football sequences. Varietys review reported seeing 2 well-known football players at the time: Albie Booth and Barry Wood.
c.		Some reviews credited Charles Middleton with the role of "Johnson," but that part was played by Guy Usher.
d.		Before Trey Parker and Matt Stone settled on the final plot for this film, one of their original ideas was to do an all-puppet version of Armageddon. They had been given a copy of the script and thought it was already funny as was; but thought that if they were to make it into an all-puppet movie; then it would substantially funnier. The main reason why this idea never came to fruition was because of legal problems with the studio who owned the rights to the film.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Ewan McGregor was cast as Young Ed Bloom when producers noticed the striking similarity between him and pictures of a young Albert Finney, who plays Senior Ed Bloom.
b.		The very first footage screened for Paramount executives was of a poorly crafted puppet in front of a background of a badly drawn Eiffel Tower, prompting one executive in the audience to yell. "Oh god, they fucked us!" This was a prank pulled by the directors and the shot then pulls back to reveal a highly refined marionette manipulating the inferior one, then flies over beautifully detailed Parisian landscape full of believable yet cheesy marionettes. This actually ends up being the opening shot of the movie.
c.		In the crowd shot of the scene of Aragorns ascension you can see the blue banner with the silver swan of Dol Amroth being waved. The prince of Dol Amroth, Imrahil, isnt a major character in the story but is the one who discovers that Eowyn is still alive after her slaying of the Witch King.
d.		The very last scene to be filmed was the toothbrush flirting scene with Jesse Bradford and Kirsten Dunst.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Matt Stone referred to the puppet technique used in the film as "supercrappymation".
b.		Originally titled "Knock, Knock".
c.		Originally, the book that suicidal students supposedly underline "meaningful" passages from was "The Catcher in the Rye". The producers could not get clearance to use this book and it was changed to "Moby Dick" instead.
d.		Average Shot Length = ~10.1 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~9.6 seconds.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		Andy House: The Second Assistant Director. Second Assistant directors work primarily on getting exterior filler shots or them work on action scenes, and the tragedy on Segment 1 might have had something to do with this "Smithee" credit.
b.		A billboard in Times Square reads "Chiodo: You Go Now." The Chiodo Brothers are responsible for the puppets seen in the film.
c.		According to director Ronny Yu the special effects team used 300 gallons of fake blood for the movie.
d.		A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Team America: World Police (2004)?
a.		The voice of the History Teacher (played by actor Earl Schuman) had to be re-recorded. In order to save time and money, producer Cole Taylor filled in as the voice over actor.
b.		The idea for the film came in 2003 when Matt Stone and Trey Parker were watching television and came across re-runs episodes of Thunderbirds, which Parker had never seen. Instantly intrigued, the two decided a marionette action film would be "the perfect way to send up all those Jerry Bruckheimer movies".
c.		Its Sir Michael Caines opinion that Heath Ledger beat the odds and topped Jack Nicholsons Joker from Batman: "Jack was like a clown figure, benign but wicked, maybe a killer old uncle. He could be funny and make you laugh. Heaths gone in a completely different direction to Jack, hes like a really scary psychopath. Hes a lovely guy and his Joker is going to be a hell of a revelation in this picture." Caine bases this belief on a scene where the Joker pays a visit to Bruce Waynes penthouse. Hed never met Ledger before, so when Ledger arrived and performed he gave Caine such a fright he forgot his lines.
d.		Russell Brand filmed scenes performing as rock star Aldous Snow at his sell-out comedy show "Scandalous", in front of 20,000 people, at the O2 arena in London. Jack Black and Jason Segel joined him on stage.

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