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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Princess Diaries (2001) - Part (2) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Princess Diaries (2001) - 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: The Princess Diaries (2001).
About the movie:
Mia Thermopolis is the average teenager - sweet, a little geeky and pretty much invisible to everyone with the exception of her mother...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Jimmie (
Quentin Tarantino
) is wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of "Orbit", a local alternative newspaper in Metro Detroit, for which Tarantino did an interview when he was promoting
Reservoir Dogs
. See also the WWW-links section.
b.
While filming the final celebratory dance scene, the
Madonna
song "Like A Prayer" was played on a boom-box to elicit natural dancing from the actors on set (to be then dubbed over by the song that appears in the films final cut). The assistant director had to do multiple takes of this scene because the actors kept mouthing the words to "Like A Prayer" while on camera.
c.
The buffalo tongue that Wind In His Hair offers to Dunbar after the buffalo hunt is actually made of cranberry Jell-o.
d.
Marni Nixon
: voice of the singing geese during the "barnyard singalong" segment of "Jolly Holiday".
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
According to author James Kotsilibas-Davis writing in "The Barrymores" this is still another film in which
Leon Trotsky
is given credit for having been an extra (at $5 Dollars a day), contrary to Trotsky experts who say he hadnt emigrated to the United States yet.
My Official Wife
(1914 Vitagraph) credits a Leon Trotsky supported by a surviving still with actress
Clara Kimball Young
in Daniel Blums "Pictorial History of the Silent Screen".
b.
There was a golden rule. Mike Figgis told the actors to never wear exactly the same outfit every day over the two-week shooting period. This way there could never ever be the possibility of stealing a scene from another days shoot and cheating it in the edit.
c.
The building that "portrays" Grove High School in the film is located at 2601 Lyon Street at Green, in San Francisco, California.
d.
Billy Connolly
admitted in an interview that when he was offered the role of Lord Dargis in this sequel, he wasnt aware that the first
Garfield
movie existed.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
The trolley that Mia rolls back into with her mustang is not a trolley or cable car but a tour bus. The tires of the bus can be seen in the shot.
b.
Most of the outdoor live action scenes were filmed in Phoenix, Arizona.
c.
The National Transportation Safety Board investigated the accident. The report was issued April 14, 1972. In the report the NTSB concluded "...the accident was the result of a descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a non precision approach under adverse operating conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment...". The report goes on to conclude that "...two most likely explanations (for the greater descent) are (a) improper use of cockpit instrumentation data, or (b) and altimetry system error."
d.
Segment 2, "Kick the Can," features
Steven Spielberg
s future mother-in-law,
Priscilla Pointer
, as Miss Cox.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Mark Yant
(Lt. Yant) is an actual firefighter with the Baltimore City Fire Department and personally trained the cast and crew at the Fire Academy during the production of the film.
b.
Film debut of
Jim Davis
.
c.
The blue Manolo Blahnik pumps that Carrie leaves in the penthouse in "Sex and the City," and that Big uses as the "diamond to seal the deal," can be seen over her left shoulder when shes in her closet packing for Abu Dhabi.
d.
In the book, Mias father is not dead. Rather he has testicular cancer. In order to avoid what Disney thought was a too adult topic, he was just written as dead in the movie. In the book, when Mia shoves the ice cream on Lana, her father sticks up for her with her mother. Also in the book, the plot of Mias mother Helen dating her math teacher is a much bigger deal.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Dinah Shore
, who was a singer as well as an actress, was initially considered for the role of
Anna Leonowens
.
b.
The film was originally given a 12A rating in the UK for cinema exhibition, meaning that children of any age could see it, with adult supervision if they were younger than 12. In a curious move, the distributors subsequently appealed to the British Board of Film Classification to consider raising the certificate. The BBFC agreed, and the film was subsequently uprated to a more restrictive 15, preventing anyone under that age from being admitted to screenings regardless of parental supervision.
c.
During auditions,
Anne Hathaway
fell out of her chair, and was immediately given the part as clumsy Mia Thermopolis.
d.
Lead actress
Gwyneth Paltrow
actually presented
Mary-Louise Parker
with the Tony Award for Best Actres in a Play for her performance in the Broadway version of "Proof".
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Craig Gregory has a Chicago Bears helmet in his office.
b.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 31, 1948 with
Charles Boyer
again reprising his film role.
c.
It was
Anne Hathaway
s idea to have the pore strip on her nose.
d.
Press previews for the film in April, 1936 ran 85 minutes, but 15 minutes were cut for the released film in August, 1936.
Billy Gilbert
s role as "Fur Trader" did not survive the cut. It is not known if the preview print was shown anywhere to paying customers.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
When Neo goes to see The Oracle in her apartment, the jazz standard "Im Beginning to See the Light" is playing in the background; a different version of the same song also plays in the corresponding scene in
The Matrix
.
b.
The "diamonds" used for the scenes during the climax of the movie were actually Herkimer Diamonds borrowed from the Herkimer Diamond Mines of Middleville, New York. They are doubly-terminated (two-ended) quartz crystals that are found in only two places in the world. They were the only gems that would look enough like diamonds and be that large.
c.
The egg chef in the kitchen during the rain sequence towards the end of the movie is young actor/producer
Anthony Begonia
.
d.
Paul Newman
took out ads in the Hollywood trade papers apologizing for his performance in this film.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
In the preview screenings for the movie, nobody applauded after the big song numbers. The animators wanted applause and so somebody stuck the Genie with an "Applause" sign at the end of "Friend Like Me". The joke worked and the sign was kept for the movie.
b.
During shooting of tea scene in the garden and the greenhouse scene, airplanes were flying over the area and interfered with the sound. When the scenes were finished, the director gave
Anne Hathaway
and
Julie Andrews
awards for "best acting in airplane interference".
c.
Bassetts Stella and Diggs Winston ranked #10 on Moviefones The Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples. May 2008
d.
The films screenwriter
Hildegarde Stadie
(wife of director
Dwain Esper
) is one of the extras in the roadhouse at the beginning of the film. She is sitting at a table, wearing a white hat, looking like a drug addict might.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Tony Shalhoub
plays Jack Jeebs in this film, as well as in few episodes of
Men in Black: The Series
and in
Men in Black
.
b.
When Michael comes with Mias car, Mia is watching one of the deleted scenes from the movie.
c.
Debut of
Leslie Banks
.
d.
According to director
Richard Donner
,
Mel Gibson
improvised the opening scenes in which his character expounds his conspiracy theories to a succession of passengers.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Princess Diaries (2001)?
a.
Mia and her mom live in the former Chemical Engine Company 43 at 724 Brazil Avenue, in San Francisco, California. The two-story frame Mission Revival-style firehouse was built (circa 1911) to provide fire protection to the Excelsior Homestead District. It was one of the first to leave behind the horse-drawn days for the newly fashioned motorized apparatus shipped from the east. The retired firehouse was sold at auction in 1976. The private residence still retains a large hose drying tower in back.
b.
The story is inspired by the Maoist insurgency in Peru known as the Shining Path. Its leader Abimael Guzmán, who was known by the nom de guerre President Gonzalo, was captured in an apartment above a ballet studio in the capital Lima in 1992. The ballet teacher Yolanda was based on Maritza Garrido Lecca, the woman in whose apartment Guzmán was found. Bardems character was inspired by Benedicto Jimenez and General Antonio Ketin Vidal, the leading figures responsible for Guzmáns capture.
c.
Director/producer
Mel Gibson
was investigated by the RSPCA, who were convinced that the fake horses used were real. Only when one of his assistants provided some videotaped footage of the location shooting were they convinced otherwise.
d.
Frequently referred to as an entry in the "Beach Party" film series, with the relatively brief appearances of
Harvey Lembeck
as Eric Von Zipper and
Candy Johnson
as Candy supporting that, the fact that major players
Annette Funicello
,
Jody McCrea
and
Don Rickles
are not in their usual roles (Connie, Big Lunk and Big Bang a Martian here instead of Dolores/Dee Dee a nickname, Bonehead and Jack Fanny/Big Drag/Big Drop the man kept changing his "name" with his career in the other movies, respectively) suggests the contrary with much more strength. However similar the characterizations are, they are at least nominally different characters.
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