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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Ten Commandments (1956) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Ten Commandments (1956) Quiz

Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Ten Commandments (1956)

This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956).

About the movie: The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.

1.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		Body count: 64.
b.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
c.		Final film role for George Raft.
d.		Every year since 1973, American TV network ABC airs this film on Easter, or Passover. In 1999, when for some reason ABC chose not to televise it, they received numerous irate phone calls from people accustomed to watching it every Easter than they have for any other film they have ever telecast.

2.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		The film is usually very slightly edited for TV transmission, although because of numerous and lengthy commercial breaks, most showings clock in at close to four-and-a-half hours. Its length is 3:40, three hours and 40 minutes, commercial-free and continuous on two DVDs. This has led to some humorists commenting as if it had been "trimmed to seven commandments".
b.		Gregory Robert Wilson originally played Stan in the short film but was cast as Perry in the feature.
c.		Shortly before the movies release, Detroit Lions head coach Wayne Fontes was fired. His brief role was not cut from the final edit of the film.
d.		Edward Burns was considered for the part of Cyclops. D.B. Sweeney auditioned for the role (he has a cameo in the film as a police officer). Thomas Jane turned down the role (Jane went on to play The Punisher alongside Rebecca Romijn). Eric Mabius and Vince Vaughn were interested in the role. James Caviezel was cast as Cyclops, but he had to drop out due to schedule conflicts with Frequency and was finally replaced with James Marsden.

3.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		A Nitrate Print of the silent version of this film, and the 9 sound discs for the Sound version survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
b.		According to director Kevin Lima, "thousands" of references are made to past and future works of Disney in Enchanted, which serve as both a parody of and a "giant love letter to Disney classics". As Lima worked with Bill Kelly, the writer, to inject Disney references to the plot, it became "an obsession"; he derived the name of every character as well as anything that needed a name from past Disney films to bring in more Disney references.
c.		The Paramount mountain at the beginning of the film was a stylized version of the studios logo. The mountain retained its conical shape but with a red granite tone and a more angular summit under a red clouded sky to suggest the appearance of Mount Sinai for this single motion picture. Its circle of stars faded in with the announcement: "Paramount Presents - A Cecil B. DeMille Production."
d.		Charlton Heston blamed this pictures poor box-office performance on the films downbeat ending as well as the Paramount Studios who he said "more or less buried the release of films made under the previous regime, preferring to press forward with their own plans".

4.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		The electrical device used by the police throughout the film to disable the cars is non-existent in reality. It was just made up by the creators of the film to add more excitement.
b.		The personal insignia of Reed Cassidy is an eagles head surrounded by the words "Je Vois Tout" meaning "I see all".
c.		The sounds of Toothless (the Night Fury) are a combination of various sounds, including the voice of Supervising Sound Designer Randy Thom, elephants, horses, tigers, and even domestic cats.
d.		Actress, Nina Foch, had role of Bithiah, was actually one year younger than Charlton Heston, her 30-year on-screen son, Moses.

5.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		The poetry that Justice writes was actually written by Maya Angelou. Maya Angelo makes a cameo appearance as Aunt June.
b.		Although its commonly believed that the famous "jump cut" is from the bone being tossed in the air to a ship floating in space, it is in fact not a spaceship, its a nuclear device circling the earth. So the bone being used as the "first" murder weapon is thrown to the "ultimate" weapon. Originally the "star child" was to detonate this device and all the other devices that were circling the earth. Stanley Kubrick decided against the ending as it was too similar to the end of his previous film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, where nuclear bombs are exploded.
c.		Up until the release of The Passion of the Christ in 2004, The Ten Commandments was the highest grossing religious epic in history, earning over $65.5 million in 1956. (This translates into $446 million $446,000,000 numerically, in current figures and inflation, throughout the years.)
d.		One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

6.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		Shawshank prison is a staple of Stephen Kings writing, most of which is set in Maine. While it only appears in this story, several other books and short stories mention characters who were sentenced to serve time at Shawshank.
b.		The orgy sequence took 3 weeks to film.
c.		The beginning of the film is completely free of dialogue. Nobody speaks a word until 15-minutes and 10-seconds into the film.
d.		The entire movie was shot against blue screen, with everything except the main characters computer generated. This was one of several movies to take that approach (although which was first is debatable), including: Immortel (ad vitam), Casshern, and Sin City, the last of which shot on High-Definition digital cameras, like this movie. Because of the film being totally shot against blue screen rather than via orthodox locations and sets, filming was completed in just 29 days. Normally with sets and locations, filming could have taken the best part of a year to finish.

7.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		Last film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, who, despite his fame and success, won only one Oscar, for "The Greatest Show on Earth" - not for his Biblical spectaculars.
b.		The quote before the end credits: "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore I am no beast." is from Richard III. Screenwriter Edward Bunker also used "No Beast So Fierce" for the title of his first novel.
c.		The large "island" in the stadium was great for filming, since a backdrop of a stone wall is cheaper to film than a backdrop of thousands of extras. However, such an "island" in a real stadium prevents spectators from viewing the race properly at all angles and would not normally exist.
d.		A specific day-for-night shooting process was used to create the nocturnal point of view of the "killers".

8.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		William Goldman, who wrote the early drafts, was reportedly unsatisfied with the re-writes and never saw the finished movie
b.		This picture is notable for a motor-cycle stunt where a motor-bike rider, at the end of a long chase, rides his bike off a 200 foot cliff. Husqvarna motor cycles were specially adapted to film the chase hitting speeds of nearly 110 miles per hour whilst filming on location at the Indian Dunes, Newhall, California.
c.		This was the first film to be granted the production seal of approval under new guidelines set forth by the Production Code Administration Office and the Motion Picture Producers and Directors of America. The modern US ratings system continued its numbering system, which granted certificates to over 40,000 titles by the mid-2000s.
d.		Cecil B. DeMille suffered a heart attack during the production after climbing 130 feet to check a faulty camera perched on one of the giant gates used during the exodus sequence, as it was occurring. He took two of days off and then, against his doctors orders, returned to work to complete the film.

9.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		To create the effect of the sandstorms, in the narrated desert sequence, as Moses left Egypt and headed to Midian, (unknown, to him), Cecil B. DeMille used the engine blast from tied-down Egyptian air force planes.
b.		Third of only three films to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
c.		Among Marys horror movie videotapes, theres a DVD of Christinas House, Gavin Wildings previous feature.
d.		Because of the lax accounting methods of its distributors, it was difficult to determine how much the film actually made at the box office. As a result, those connected with its making ludicrously exaggerated its box office take (Lillian Gish wrote in her autobiography that it made over $100 million). Its actual take is now estimated to be about $10 million, still a fantastic sum for its time.

10.	Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Ten Commandments (1956)?
a.		Rick Polito of the Marin Independent Journal printed in Northern California is locally famous for his droll, single-sentence summations of television programs and movies which the newspaper reports will be broadcast. For the Wizard of Oz, he wrote, "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."
b.		As a publicity stunt, Cecil B. DeMille had public displays and monuments of the Ten Commandments erected around the country. Known as decalogues, most of them were placed in, on or near government buildings.
c.		In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
d.		The location used for the campsite and gates was bulldozed by the town overnight during the production due to a municipal scheduling error.

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