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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - Part (2) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - Part (2)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990).

About the movie: A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		Playmates toys the company that produced the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" line of action figures from the late 1980s well into the mid 1990s declined to produce any movie based toys off of the film due to the violent content language and overall dark tone the movie presented. However, with the lighter tone of the sequel released a year later, Playmates would release the very popular (and now highly collectible) Movie Star Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles assortment.
b.		Ron Howard was also approached about directing the film but he turned it down.
c.		The Terminator makes good on his promise to not kill anyone before he even meets John; even when he first tears up the biker bar, the only character the Terminator "kills" in the entire movie is the T-1000.
d.		Nick Nolte spent five weeks as a homeless person in preparation for his role.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		Co-stars Stephen Baldwin and Gabriel Byrne share the same birthday, May 12th.
b.		There is conflicting information for the original (1927) song credits. Some references list music by Ray Henderson; lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. However, sheet music published in connection with that show, and the 1947 movie list all three for music and lyrics. The on-screen credits also lists all three for music and lyrics.
c.		Leif Tilden, the performer inside the Donatello costume, also plays the Foot Messenger that meets April in the subway station. He says, "Weve been looking for you, Miss ONeill," then he slaps her.
d.		The majority of the movie was shot in an underground sound room. During Elvins (Marcus Barcroft) screaming scenes, the yells were so loud that upstairs tenants alerted the police.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		Linda Blair once stated in an interview with Fangoria magazine that the original title of the film wasnt as exploitive, and as associate producer, she could have sued to fight the change, but it would have ended up costing her more money than she got out of the whole project.
b.		While at Lucilles diner, Winston orders pancakes. In the original Cabin Fever, the little kid, Dennis, repeats "Pancakes!" over and over.
c.		According to the audio commentary on the German version of the DVD the movie was originally planned to be made and released before the cartoon was on the air. The movie was intended to be a direct comic book adaption in the mid 1980s, but no studio or country (except France and Germany) wanted to invest in the project.
d.		The post-credits coda shows a cat getting possessed by the last surviving creature. In an early draft, this was meant to happen to Bill, after the Grant-creature is destroyed. Starla sees the resulting wound later, prompting her to shoot Bill to death.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		The hospital scenes were filmed using the set for ER.
b.		Kevin Smith: [Comics] Ollie and Gertie refer to the street sweeper as the Batmobile.
c.		David Forman, the performer inside the Leonardo costume, also plays a gang member in the warehouse when Casey Jones defeats Tatsu.
d.		First film of Luther Adler.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		Josh Pais, who plays Raphael, also plays a passenger in the back of a taxicab who says, "What the heck was that?" right after Raphael hops on the cabs hood.
b.		H.A.R.M. stands for Human Aetiological Relations Machine. Aetiology is a British variant of etiology which is the branch of medical science concerned with causes and origins of diseases. This full wording is seen at the top of the world map in the very last scene of the movie.
c.		The child actors had to have ice placed in their mouths during outdoors shooting in order to prevent their breath from registering on camera due to the cold.
d.		As Jake discovers in the movie, the word Monkeyshine does actually mean A Practical Joke.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		The Japanese Tanaka Plan was examined in the documentary The Battle of China, episode 6 of the "Why We Fight" series by Frank Capra. According to the book Brasseys Guide to War Films by Alun Evans, this movie is "Fiction highlighting fact, but a strange release date. One would have thought that the unearthing of the Tanaka Plan . . . might have received dramatic attention by Hollywood before Pearl Harbor, rather than at the end of the war. The Tanaka Plan, the blueprint for Japanese world domination - which actually specified the taking out of Pearl Harbor - was uncovered in 1927, but this dramatisation has James Cagney as U.S. newspaper man in 1920s Japan printing the story."
b.		Robert Mulligans way of handling his child actors was to let them play together while keeping the cameras as unobtrusive as possible.
c.		Michelan Sisti, the performer inside the Michaelangelo costume, also plays the pizza delivery man who delivers the pizza to the Turtles sewer.
d.		The title is an inside joke on Hollywoods Poverty Row, Gower Street (also known as the Gulch), long-time home to the worst studios in town.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		Los Angeles - April 5, 1939: Samuel Goldwyn has withdrawn "Wuthering Heights" from the entire province of Quebec. Quebec censors demanded deletions because certain sequences dealt with divorce and infidelity, situations long frowned upon by the Quebeck board. Goldwyn refused to make the cuts. Whether the picture will play in other provinces is not known.
b.		Pumbaa the Warthog was the first character in Disney films to exhibit flatulence.
c.		In the comics and the cartoons, the turtles are around 3-4ft. tall. However, for obvious costuming reasons, the turtles are the same height as April, Casey, Shredder, and the Foot Clan (Between 56-60).
d.		As described in a special feature on the films DVD and Blu-ray releases, the inhabitants of the Axiom were originally going to be aliens led by a royal family with a penchant for mistreating its robots. Andrew Stanton eventually scrapped the alien idea, and the design of the Axioms passengers changed from gelatinous green blobs to more-solid grey blobs to the final "big baby" concept.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		In the script and novelization, the young boy that Tatsu attacks was to die from the beating. The sounds of the boy breathing and others saying he would be all right were added at the last minute after the movie ratings board objected to the scene.
b.		Modern sources include in this film the songs "Marianne," Funny Little Sailor Man" and "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (all from the original stage production), but they were not heard.
c.		An edited picture from the original ending was used during Ernests funeral scene. The picture of him aged was actually a of him in full age makeup from the first ending. Bruce Williss aged face was used, but put on an actual picture of a mountain climber, which thus resulted in the end picture of Ernest at his funeral.
d.		About 200-300 horses were used in the trilogy. Because most of the scenes involving horses are intense battle scenes where the horses could likely be harmed, a horse and rider were fitted with the same type of suit that Andy Serkis wore for his role, and were filmed in the studio doing typical "battle" things, like galloping and rearing up, so the footage could be inserted digitally into the battle scenes. In that way, no horses were hurt.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		The character of Buzzy was originally written as a man. When Hilary Swank read the script, it was the character that "spoke to" her the most, and she asked writer/director Greg Marcks to rewrite the role as a woman so that she could play it, and he agreed.
b.		Some theatergoers experienced nausea from the handheld camera movements and actually had to leave to vomit. In some Toronto theatres, ushers asked patrons who where prone to motion sickness to sit in the aisle seat and to try not to "throw up on other people."
c.		The yellow raincoat the April wears in the beginning of the movie is a play on the yellow jumpsuit that she wears in the comics.
d.		After the film was withdrawn from circulation, there was a failure to renew the copyright and it fell into the public domain. As a result, in the early years of home video, the film became widely available from a number of discount/public domain labels

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)?
a.		The gun Chev uses in the bar scene is a Springfield XD. The loaded chamber indicator on the top of the gun indicates that there was no round in the chamber (the gun wasnt loaded) and the cocked position indicator indicates that the striker was down and the gun could not be fired even if it was loaded.
b.		The head of the "FBR" is named Lux. "Lux" was a then-popular brand of vacuum cleaner. At the time, the director of the FBI was named Hoover.
c.		Brian Tochi (The voice of Leonardo) and Robbie Rist (The voice of Michaelangelo) are the only actors who appeared in all three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
d.		While driving to the lighthouse, Stevie flips around the radio dial, and a broadcast confirming a search for the ship The Sea Grass is heard. The voice mentions "a sweep south of Waitely Point and Arkham Reef". Both Arkham Reef and the surname "Waitely" are references to writer H.P. Lovecraft, as he used both repeatedly in his stories. Carpenter is an admitted Lovecraft fan.

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