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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The House on 92nd Street (1945) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The House on 92nd Street (1945) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The House on 92nd Street (1945)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945).

About the movie: Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the FBI in a Nazi spy ring.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		Many of the bit roles in this film were played by real FBI agents, and this was their only film.
b.		Entertainment Weekly ranked the film as the 8th most controversial movie ever made.
c.		This was an adaptation of a Broadway play starring Katharine Hepburn. The stage production opened at the St. James Theatre in New York on Nov. 10, 1942 and ran for 113 performances.
d.		George Romero was intended to make a cameo appearance but due to scheduling conflicts he could not.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		The spaceship became Dr. Zarkovs rocket in the Flash Gordon serial. Footage of the dance number featuring and idol was used in the serial as entertainment for Ming.
b.		Vincent Gardenias first film.
c.		Christopher Reeve was originally considered for the Edward Lewis role.
d.		Two actresses who have played love interests of Hayden Christensen (who also appears in this film) are in this film: Natalie Portman and Rachel Bilson.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		The film is loosely based on the case of Duquesne Spy Ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne and the work of real life double agent William G. Sebold.
b.		While on location in Marfa, Texas, There Will Be Blood was shooting nearby. One day, while filming a wide shot of the landscape, directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen had to halt shooting for the day when a gigantic cloud of dark smoke floated conspicuously into view. Paul Thomas Anderson was testing the pyrotechnics of an oil derrick set ablaze on the set of his film. The Coens resumed filming the next day, when the smoke finally dissipated. A year and a half later, both films were the leading contenders at the Academy Awards.
c.		This film was selected as the only feature film shown during the 2005 Gulf Coast Film Festival in Nassau Bay (Houston), Texas. It is 89 minutes long while the next longest film at the festival was 43 minutes long.
d.		During filming Steven Spielberg and Richard Donner sent the boys to the Dodger Stadium for Michael Jacksons Victory concert.

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on June 10, 1946 with Signe Hasso, Lloyd Nolan and William Lundigan reprising their film roles.
b.		One of the headstones in the film bears the name "Alex Murphy", a reference to RoboCop.
c.		Ian McKellen admitted he was surprised to be asked to play 75-year-old Kurt Dussander, since he was only 57 at the time of filming.
d.		Inexplicably this version of the Wilder novel is set in 1774, not 1714, as the novel and 2004 version are.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		Ian Astbury, (lead singer for the band The Cult), was considered for the role of Jim Morrison by Oliver Stone. They had lunch in Hollywood to discuss the role, but Astbury declined the role, stating he (and the surviving members of The Doors) did not like the screenplay. From 2002 until 2007, Ian went on tour with The Doors as lead singer.
b.		The movie deals with the theft by German spies of the fictional "Process 97," a secret formula which, the narrator tells us, "was crucial to the development of the atomic bomb." The movie was released on September 10, 1945, only a month after the atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan, and barely a week after Japans formal surrender. While making the film, the actors and director Henry Hathaway did not know that the atomic bomb existed, or that it would be incorporated as a story element in the movie. (None of the actors in the film mentions the atomic bomb.) However, co-director/producer Louis De Rochemont (who produced the "March of Time" newsreel films) and narrator Reed Hadley were both involved in producing government films on the development of the atomic bomb. (Hadley was present at the final test of the bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in July, 1945.) After the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Hadley and screenwriter John Monks Jr. hastily wrote some additional voice-over narration linking "Process 97" to the atomic bomb, and Rochemont inserted it into the picture in time for the films quick release.
c.		The films storyline goes in chronological order of the babys storybook ("The Boo-boo book") from start to finish in every location shown throughout the film.
d.		First picture to be released by the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		In the beginning of the movie, as the camera pans down his fireplace, on the fireplace is the book "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum.
b.		During the game at the Astrodome, a Toros player comments that Jimmy Feldman looks like "one of the Marx Brothers". Brett Marx, who plays Jimmy, is the grandson of Gummo Marx, a brother of the Marx Brothers.
c.		The movie was shot in 18 days on location and one more day in studio; camera was the Sony F-900.
d.		The original title of the film was, "Now It Can Be Told".

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		First film of E.G. Marshall.
b.		The footage shot in 1989 were shot in just 2 days.
c.		An Incomplete Print of this film (Reels 2,3 and 5) Survives in the Library of Congress.
d.		In the beginning, Gilhooley tells the captain who "shanghaid" him that they were supposed to be at the island "on the 7th". Taking into account the time-line of the movie, ending on Christmas, that would make Donovan and Gilhooleys birthday as December 7th, the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		Edited down to a 2-reeler and re-released under the title Too Much Dough.
b.		Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ally Sheedy, Geena Davis, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Grey, Kelly McGillis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Roberts, Linda Hamilton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joan Cusack, and Debra Winger were considered for the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler.
c.		Jon Bon Jovi: scruffy man who gets shot in the chest and blown backwards after Doc and Chavez get out of the pit jail.
d.		The man who is killed by the car near the beginning of the film is based on a real life incident. He was identified as Julio Lopez Lido but was in actuality Capt. Ulrich von der Osten, a Nazi army officer in the Abwehr. He was hit by a car on March 18, 1941 and his body went unclaimed for a time. The man who ran from the scene was actually Kurt Frederick Ludwig, known as Joseph K, a German agent who was eventually caught and sentenced to Alcatraz Island. He was deported in 1953. The cab driver who hit Lido was a man named Sam Lichtman.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		Ranked #9 on the American Film Institutes list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Western" in June 2008.
b.		First film of Paul Ford.
c.		According to Trey Parker, he based the script partially on "The Odyssey". In the film, Shannon Bell is seen reading "The Odyssey".
d.		Tim Burton wrote a three-page poem titled The Nightmare Before Christmas when he was a Disney animator in the early-1980s. Burton took inspiration from television specials of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas. On the 2008 Special Edition Blu-ray/DVD release, Christopher Lee narrates this poem with a new animated visual accompaniment.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The House on 92nd Street (1945)?
a.		Sanchez is from Isthmus City, a reference to the country of Panama which lies on an isthmus and the corrupt dictator Manuel Noriega, whom the CIA were working very hard to oust, at the time. He was eventually deposed by U.S. troops in the same year this film was released.
b.		Burt Lancaster was forced by United Artists to make four films for $150,000 a picture in the 1960s: The Young Savages, Birdman of Alcatraz, The Train and The Hallelujah Trail rather than his normal fee of $750,000, because of cost overruns at his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, for which he was personally responsible.
c.		The set used for the plane had previously been used for the interior shots of the plane in Lost.
d.		Lloyd Nolan reprised his role of FBI Agent George A. Briggs in _Street With No Name, The (1948)_.

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