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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005).
About the movie:
Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
The film was on the voting list for a Hugo, the yearly major science fiction award.
b.
A Bon Appetit magazine can be seen in Hannibal Lecters temporary cell.
c.
Several times in the movie, Cal wears t-shirts with music LP covers on them. They are: -
Nirvana
: Nevermind -
Sonic Youth
: Dirty -
Public Enemy
: Fear of a Black Planet -
Genius
/
The GZA
: Liquid Swords. All these albums were released through Universal Music labels; this film was released by Universal Pictures.
d.
Nancy McLoughlin
who had a role in the film as Lizabeth is the directors wife
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
Gozer was originally going to be played by
Paul Reubens
, who turned down the role. In the original script, Gozer took on the form of Ivo Shandor (the ghost buildings architect, who started the original Gozer cult), who resembled a pale, slender, unremarkable man in a business suit.
b.
The "beautiful old Guatemalan love song" sung by Javier to Paula translates to: When I clean my room / I cant find anything / Where are you going in such a hurry/ To the soccer game.
c.
The boat Elvis boards ("Bonn"), is now in Karlshamn, southern Sweden, and is used as a discotheque.
d.
Joe Spinell
was working in between the filming of
Maniac
with other movie projects, one of them being
Nighthawks
which began filming before production on Maniac ended, in which Spinell cut his hair short and shaved off his mustache to play a clean-cut, high-ranking New York police official for Nighthawks. In a few scenes (most of them being where Frank Zito is driving his car), Spinell is wearing a fake mustache with a long-haired wig under his cap.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
Tim McIntire
, who performed the voice of "Blood", sang the main title song, "A Boy and His Dog."
b.
The restaurant that Andy and Trish eat at on their first date is a Benihana.
c.
Voted number 5 in Channel 4s (UK) "Greatest Family Films"
d.
Eric Idle
, upon seeing the "coconuts as horse hoof sound effects" segment in the stage show scene, admonished the makers of the film publicly. He claimed they were ripping off
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
and "stealing" their joke. He perhaps failed to realize that coconuts have been used as horse hoof beats since the days of radio - from whence Monty Python were no doubt inspired.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
The twenty-seventh of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
b.
The episodes were: (1) Invitation to Danger; (2) Jungle Sacrifice; (3) The Flaming Mountain; (4) Wildcat Stampede; (5) The Burning Jungle; (6) Danger Ship; (7) Trip-Wire Murder; (8) The Mortar Bomb; (9) Death Watch; (10) Execution Chamber; (11) The Trail to Doom; (12) Dragged Under; (13) The Secret of the Sword.
c.
During filming, the cast had to avoid tripping on cables that laid over the floor, because of the moving cameras and lighting.
d.
A lot of the movie was improvised while shooting.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
Final movie written by Oscar winner
Ben Hecht
.
b.
The thirty-fourth of sixty-six Hopalong Cassidy movies.
c.
The Yellow Post-It note attached to Andys calendar says "Dont Forget! Power Off Wed. Midnight to 2 AM".
d.
The film is loosely based on Arthur Diennets sisters wedding, in which nearly everything in the film happened.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
Andrew Garfield
was announced for the lead role in early July 2010.
b.
In the Dredd comics, tradition dictates that Dredd rarely takes off his helmet, thus his face has mostly only fleetingly appeared in full, but the producers obviously would not allow an expensive performer such
Sylvester Stallone
to never show his face clearly.
c.
Judd Apatow
s daughter came up with the idea of having the drunken Nicky (played by Apatows wife
Leslie Hand
) fall asleep while driving Andy to her place and bouncing off of parked cars.
d.
The monitor box thats on top of SAL 9000 early in the movie is shaped exactly like the Kaypro portable computer that Arthur C. Clarke used to communicate via email with Peter Hyams during the movies production. Later, when Dr. Chandra is inputting commands to HAL 9000 in Discovery, initializing his voice recognition capability, the keyboard he is typing on is from a Kaypro portable computer.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
The scene where Andy has his chest hair removed required five cameras set up for the shot. Star
Steve Carell
s chest hair was actually ripped out in the scene. The actor had told director
Judd Apatow
just before shooting the scene: "It has to be real. It wont be as funny if its mocked up or if its special effect. You have to see that this is really happening." The scene had to be done in one shot.
b.
Filmed entirely in the State of Oklahoma including, state parks Little Sahara, Gloss mountain and Natural Falls
c.
Although it has been reported that Hughes re-shot all the silent material, that seems unlikely looking at the footage shot in the dirigible. The voices are out-of-sync and some of the action seems hurried, suggesting it was shot at a silent speed of 18 frames per second, rather than 24 fps sound speed and dubbed later.
d.
Originally scheduled to be shot over four months, the film ended up taking eleven months to wrap
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
The "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store was a real store; it was written into the script after the location was chosen.
b.
Director
Robert Zemeckis
asked
Danny DeVito
to shoot a special promo for the movie. It was to be filmed on a Malibu beach, next to a tall cliff. For the promo, DeVito was strapped into a harness and hoisted fifty feet in the air by a huge crane. When he was in the air, DeVito discovered that there was a house on top of the cliff, with a swimming pool terrace outside. A woman in a bikini was lying on a deck chair next to the pool. She jumped up and began screaming at DeVito, yelling that he was a "peeping Tom", and that she was going to call the police. In a panic, DeVito yelled for the film crew to bring him down at once. The film crew told him that the crane had jammed, and DeVito was left hanging in the air with the screaming woman throwing things at him from the top of the cliff. A few minutes later, the woman told DeVito that he was being filmed for a segment of the TV show, "TVs Bloopers and Practical Jokes".
c.
The American theatrical prints of this film were in black and white, however the television prints are in color.
d.
During filming, media reports stated that
Goldie Hawn
and director Demme argued constantly.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
H.C. Potter
was the initial director but quit over "Selsnickian interference." His footage (in black and white) was completely discarded.
b.
The top turret gunners of the real Memphis Belle were Leviticus "levy" Dillon, Eugene Adkins, and Harold Loch.
c.
In a deleted scene on the Unrated DVD, when Andy is on the phone trying to get help to get rid of his erection, the person on the other end is director
Judd Apatow
impersonating an Indian accent.
d.
During the recording of
Vincent Price
s lines, animators sketched his exaggerated Shakespearean gestures and worked them into the animated poses for Ratigan.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)?
a.
For the scenes filmed in Wal-Mart, various pictures of
Natalie Portman
as Queen Amidala in
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
had to be removed.
b.
It was
Richard Donner
s intention to film and edit the scene where Jennings is decapitated in such a way that the audience, having closed their eyes at the beginning of the scene, would open them only to see the head still floating in the air.
c.
The hairstyle of
Uma Thurman
s character Mia Wallace was loosely modeled after
Louise Brooks
, a silent film actress of the 1930s, and is known as the Louise Brooks bob (Umas hair is longer but the style is the same). Brooks was also considered one of the first naturalistic actors in cinema compared to many other silent film performers of the day.
d.
When Cal and Andy walk through the bookstore, the first book thats prominently visible in the upper left corner is "The Historian" by
Elizabeth Kostova
.
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