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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Wedding Singer (1998) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : The Wedding Singer (1998) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998).
About the movie:
Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Out of all the time-traveling terminators in the series, the T-1000 is the only one that doesnt have any first-person "terminator vision" moments.
b.
Only about half of
William Shakespeare
s original text is used. Sometimes details were changed, e.g. Lord Rivers (
Robert Downey Jr.
) was killed much later in the play than he is in the movie and when Queen Elizabeth (
Annette Bening
) receives the news of his death, the same messenger in the play only told her of his indictment on Richards and Buckinghams orders. Queen Elizabeth and the Duchess of York have larger roles then in the play. An important character in the play is Queen Margaret, widow of Henry VI, who does not appear in the film. Many of her lines are given to the Duchess of York, although these lines do not suit that character.
c.
Loosely based on
Jean Genet
s play "The Balcony" - the first film version of which also starred Shelley Winters in 1963.
d.
The butterfly jean jacket that Julia wears throughout the movie actually belongs to
Drew Barrymore
. The director liked her jacket and told her to wear it as part of her costume.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Carrie Fisher
,
Judd Apatow
, and
Adam Sandler
worked uncredited on the script.
b.
Lt. Kaffee is watching a baseball game at his home after returning from Cuba. The sports announcer that can be heard on the TV is that of legendary San Diego Padres radio announcer
Jerry Coleman
, himself a former Marine officer and aviator who served in WWII and Korea.
c.
A frontier town set was destroyed in the "Witch" fire of San Diego County. This massive fire burned most of the back country of San Diego County and threatened the town of Julian, California burning hundreds of significant buildings and homes. Whitehorse Ranch in Landers, CA volunteered their location to support the completion of the film
d.
Burt Reynolds
plays a half-breed (half-white, half Yaqui Indian) native American in this movie. Reynolds had previously played a Navajo Indian in the western movie
Navajo Joe
. Reynolds is of part Cherokee Indian descent.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
The film runs for 113 minutes. In that time, the word "fuck" is used 145 times.
b.
The guitar that
Adam Sandler
s character is playing during "Somebody Kill Me Please" is a Gibson ES-335 Semi-hollow body in Heritage Cherry. The amp is a Fender Twin Reverb.
c.
The fictional band "Munchausen By Proxy" featured in the film is named after the Münchausen syndrome by proxy, which is a psychological disorder, and is composed of actress/singer/songwriter
Zooey Deschanel
and the real-life band "Von Iva", which got the part after music supervisor
Jonathan Karp
saw the cover of their CD in Amoeba, in Hollywood. On Lakeshore Records soundtrack release they are credited as "Munchausen by Proxy (f/ Zooey Deschanel & Von Iva)".
d.
During Varlas commercial for "Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready" dinners, the complete warning reads: "Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready is sold as a novelty item and is not intended for human consumption. Side effects of ingestion can included cancer, bleeding, enlargement of the heart, and second degree burns along the rectal cavity resulting in irreversible incontinence. Neither Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready nor its parent company Overlord Conglomerates, is responsible for any injuries caused by the use, abuse or failure to use our products. Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready resulted in the injury or death of 100 of 100 laboratory animals tested. Users of Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready acknowledge through their use of said product, awareness of these deaths and the fact that these deaths were protracted and excruciatingly painful. Ingestion of Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready is consider an act of suicide and is therefore illegal in California, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and the European Union. Bizzy Gal Dinners Ready contains trace elements of plutonium and as such is classified as raw weapons material under Pentagon Rule 3."
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
The opening criminal lair, "Ye Olde Benbow Tavern" is an allusion to name of the tavern in which the the
Robert Louis Stevenson
novel "Treasure Island" begins, "Admiral Benbow Inn". Commodore Schmidlapp is abducted by the fiendish foursome. The next novel by R. L. Stevenson is "Kidnapped".
b.
The Roderick Thorpe book "Nothing Lasts Forever," which serves as the basis for this movie, was actually a sequel to the book and film
The Detective
, with
Frank Sinatra
as Joe Leland. Surprisingly, few of the books details are changed. Originally, a much older Leland (changed to McClain) was visiting his daughter, Steffie Leland Gennaro, who worked for the Klaxxon oil company. Takagi was originally a VP of sales named Rivers. Harry Ellis, Al Powell, and Dwayne Robinson were essentially the same, but the FBI was not involved. Hans Gruber was originally Anton "Little Tony" Gruber, while Hans was Karls brother. The purpose of the terrorist takeover was to allow the West German radical group to uncover an illegal arms shipment Klaxxon was making to a Chilean dictatorship. Finally, in the end scene (which was Christmas morning at 10 AM), Anton Gruber is shot by Leland and falls out the window, also catching a finger on Gennaros watch, but in this case he pulls her out the window to her death.
c.
The reason
Dirk Julian
wore a gray T-shirt in the opening scene was actually as an homage to the director who often touted gray T-shirts on set (and off).
d.
The character of George was based on
Boy George
, lead singer of
Culture Club
. He sings "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" later in the film.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Robbie tells Linda at one point to "Get out of my Van Halen T-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up".
David Lee Roth
did leave
Van Halen
in 1985 (the year in which the movie is set).
b.
Jesse McCartney
was originally cast to play Zuko, but was replaced with
Dev Patel
due to scheduling conflicts.
c.
The title refers to migrating salmon.
d.
Cheapskate producer
Nat Levine
scored a windfall by being able to cast
Harry Carey
and
Edwina Booth
, who just came off starring in the major MGM hit
Trader Horn
. Booth was still recovering from a serious bout with a tropical disease contracted in Africa while filming this serial.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Fletch tells beach drifter in one scene that he "feels like a hundred dollars". This line is also said by Ty Webb in
Caddyshack
, a role also played by
Chevy Chase
.
b.
The song played during Robbie and Julias first kiss (the "church tongue" kiss) is the song he sings to her at the end, "I wanna Grow Old with You".
c.
The real Adventureland park is located in Farmingdale, New York on Long Island.
d.
Filmed during the great floods of 2002 in Prague.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Meryl Streep
reunited with
Amy Adams
in
Julie & Julia
, her film role subsequent to
Doubt
.
b.
The song playing at Robbies aborted wedding to Linda is a string quartet arrangement of
Journey
s "Dont Stop Believin".
c.
The monkeys Lara fights there are modeled after the ones at Banteay Srei, a temple located far from Angkor Wat. They are the guardians of the door.
d.
Daniel Kremer
told actor
Stephen Hatzai
to base his performance of Claude Schoonover on the mannerisms of
Sterling Hayden
.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Robert Knox
, who plays Marcus Belby, was tragically stabbed to death on May 24, 2008, just days after filming wrapped.
b.
Kevin Nealon
s second cameo in an
Adam Sandler
film. The first was as a golfer in
Happy Gilmore
; this time hes a bank manager.
c.
James Baldwin
s script was written over the space of two years, and completed after co-writer
Arnold Perl
death in 1971.
Spike Lee
shares on screen credit with the late Perl as Baldwins family asked that his name not be linked with the film.
d.
Francis Ford Coppola
was hired by
Robert Evans
to direct the movie after
Peter Bogdanovich
, among others, turned it down.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
Originally a flop play on Broadway starring
Bette Davis
nemesis
Miriam Hopkins
. Hopkins assumed she was contractually set to star in the film adaptation, but the contract only specified she would be "considered" for the film version.
b.
The original Broadway production of "Butterflies Are Free" by
Leonard Gershe
opened at the Booth Theater on October 21, 1969 and ran for 1128 performances.
Blythe Danner
won a 1970 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Jill Tanner.
Eileen Heckart
was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award for Supporting or Features Actress in a Drama for "Butterflies are Free" and recreated her stage role in this movie version.
c.
A Broadway Musical musical adaptation of this movie, opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 27, 2006, ran for 285 performances and was nominated for the 2006 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Actor (
Stephen Lynch
), Book and Score.
d.
"Reagan High School" is actually University High School in Los Angeles, CA.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: The Wedding Singer (1998)?
a.
In the United States, this film was banned in a number of states and cities. Although no longer enforced, some of the laws were never officially repealed. Therefore, it is still technically illegal for this film to be shown some areas of the USA.
b.
Production of the film took over a year and a half.
c.
It took the dancers two weeks to learn the opening dance sequence.
d.
Originally set to be a star vehicle for
Jeff Bridges
.
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