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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Urban Legend (1998) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Urban Legend (1998) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998).
About the movie:
A college coed suspects that murders around her campus are connected to Urban Legends.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
Joshua Jackson
(Damon Brooks) cranks his car before he takes Natalie to "that" spot in the woods; when it cranks the radio plays Paula Coles "I Dont Want to Wait" from the TV show
Dawsons Creek
also starring Jackson.
b.
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.
c.
Playwright
Terrence McNally
originally wrote the role of Frankie for
Kathy Bates
. Johnny was played by
Kenneth Welsh
in the 1987 Off-Broadway production of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" that starred Bates.
d.
The cop movie Suzanne works on, "LA Beat", is a reference to Fishers
Hollywood Vice Squad
.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
When Mulder and Scully first walk back into the FBI offices right before they walk into the bullpen, a female agent walks by that catches Mulders attention and he watches her walk away. The woman is
Vanessa Morley
, who throughout the series played the young Samantha Mulder, and is the same Samantha in the photo Mulder has taped to the back of his home office door.
b.
There are twelve hoverships in Zions fleet, of which ten are shown or mentioned in the films and video game,
Enter the Matrix
, and whose names and captains are as follows: Osiris - Thadeus; Logos - Niobe; Nebuchadnezzar (Neb) - Morpheus; Mjolnir (Hammer) - Roland; Caduceus - Ballard; Gnosis - Ice; Vigilant - Soren; Icarus - Ajax; Brahma - Kali; Novalis - Tirant. Concept artwork reveals the names of the remaining two ships: the Ganesha and the Vishnu.
c.
If you look behind Natalie and Parker in the auditorium, you will see the writer
Silvio Horta
acting as a college student.
d.
The interior of the shanty where Man #1 and Man #2 are shackled and bleeding is in fact a rented storage room.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
Max Cady was first offered to
Ernest Borgnine
.
b.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 27, 1941 with
Jackie Cooper
,
Jane Withers
and Edith Fellows reprising their film roles.
c.
The movie was produced by star
Hulk Hogan
and his boss, World Wrestling Federation head honcho
Vince McMahon
, only to be distributed by New Line Cinema after completion. When the first draft of the script was turned in, Hogan and McMahon disapproved of it, so they checked into a hotel in Redington Beach, Florida, and stayed up for 72 hours rewriting the script together.
d.
The author of "The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends" is Charles Breen. The doctor on Toshs bottle of lithium is a doctor Charles Breen.
Charles Breen
is the production designer
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
Sonny Steele signs the divorce papers right-handed. However,
Robert Redford
is famously left-handed.
b.
At one point,
Roman Polanski
and
Jack Nicholson
got into such a heated argument that Polanski smashed Nicholsons portable TV with a mop. Nicholson used the TV to watch L.A. Lakers basketball games and kept stalling shooting.
c.
In the scene where
Kirk Douglas
arrives at the Nautilus on a lifeboat that lies upside-down in the water, a diver under the boat holds it to keep it steady.
d.
The book sitting on the desk in Professor Wexlers desk in his class is "The Vanishing Hitchhiker," which is one of the seminal texts on urban legends.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
When Paul and Natalie walk into the hidden room in Wexlers office, a puppet of Freddy Krueger can be seen just before they see the axe.
Robert Englund
, who plays Wexler, played Freddy Krueger in
A Nightmare on Elm Street
.
b.
For the "Baby, Take a Bow" number with
James Dunn
, the studio felt it would be easier for
Shirley Temple
to do the dance she had done at her audition rather than learn a new one, so Temple spent her first day on the set giving Dunn dancing lessons.
c.
A copy of this film was recently rediscovered in a French archive, so happily it is no longer lost, although it is not available to the public as of yet.
d.
R2-D2s vocal patterns largely contain sound designer
Ben Burtt
s own voice. In trying to create the beeping, whistling noises of the droid, Burtt found that he was vocalizing a lot of what he was trying to achieve, so he recorded his voice - mainly making baby noises - and then fed it through a synthesizer.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
All seven of Hollywoods then-existing Technicolor cameras were used to film the Burning of the Atlanta Depot. Flames 500 feet high leaped from a set that covered 40 acres. Ten pieces of fire equipment from the Los Angeles Fire Department, 50 studio firemen and 200 studio helpers stood by throughout the filming of this sequence in case the fire should get out of hand. Three 5,000-gallon water tanks were used to quench the flames after shooting.
b.
The directors heavily encouraged improvisation throughout photography to help make it feel like a real documentary.
c.
Brad Dourif
, the actor who plays the stuttering gas station attendant at the beginning of the film, played the role of Billy Bibbit, who also had a speech impediment, in the film
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
.
d.
Suzannes apartment features a poster for
MASH
, also directed by Altman, Robert.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
This movie was filmed between 1989-1991 as a micro-budget indie, then spent the next 7 years seeking completion funds. Finally finished in 2000, it was released as a rental title by Spartan Home Entertainment, then picked up a year later as a sell-through title by Fox, who proceeded to botch the manufacturing and mistakenly only release the full screen version with bad sound and no extras.
b.
The filmmakers debated whether or not Jackie should kill Danny when he stumbles upon his scheme in the basement; ultimately they decided that Dannys kindness toward Jackies fake alter ego Brian justified sparing his life.
c.
Julia Roberts
was far from the first choice for the role of Vivian. It was offered previously to many successful A-list actresses including "brat pack" member
Molly Ringwald
(who starred in
The Breakfast Club
,
Sixteen Candles
and
Pretty in Pink
). Ringwald turned it down because she felt uncomfortable with the content in the script, and did not like the idea of playing a prostitute. She has since stated in several interviews that she regrets turning the role down.
d.
In addition to this film
The Skulls
and
Gossip
(both starring
Joshua Jackson
) were also filmed at the University of Toronto.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
The uncredited character played by
Brad Dourif
, Gas Station Attendant Michael McDonnell who is suspected to be the murderer, was named after Urban Legend-producer
Michael McDonnell
.
b.
Peter Jackson
: Man with movie camera in pharmacy when Jack Salmon picks up the prints from the first roll of Susies film.
c.
The title of the movie was taken from the book written by President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and credited to him onscreen.
d.
Mention is made of Lieutenant Neidermeyer getting "fragged" by his own troops. This was the fate given to Neidermeyer in the ending of
Animal House
, also directed by
John Landis
.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
During filming
Gary Cooper
arranged for his daughter to "date" gay actor
Tab Hunter
. He had previously arranged for her to "date" gay actor
Anthony Perkins
while they were filming
Friendly Persuasion
, a film he hated.
b.
The car driven in the beginning was originally supposed to be a Land Rover. It was changed to the Ford Expedition (the largest 4x4 available at the time) because the filmmakers discovered they couldnt swing an axe inside a Land Rover.
c.
After winning the 1971 Gold Cup, Jim McCormick and the Miss Madison made it 2 wins in a row, when he won the Atomic Cup in Tri City, Washington, three weeks later on July 26, 1971.
d.
According to
Albert S. Ruddy
and
Burt Reynolds
on the DVD Commentary, for reasons unknown,
Robert Aldrich
didnt like actor
Michael Conrad
(Nate Scarborough) and would always insult him by calling him the "Polish Princess". Finally, when they were filming the scene between Paul Crewe (Reynolds) and Scarborough (Conrad) where Nate says, "Theres only two things youve got left: Your pride and your balls . . . " Aldrich liked the scene so much that he rewarded Conrad with a candy bar, which was the daily award Aldrich would give out to whomever did the best work that day. Conrad, who had endured Aldrichs insults throughout filming, was actually moved to tears. Aldrich stopped referring to Conrad as the "Polish Princess" for the rest of the shoot.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Urban Legend (1998)?
a.
Win Condict
had to be sewn into the rubber Slithis costume every day because said outfit didnt have any snaps or zippers. Moreover, once Condict was in the costume he had to stay in it for the entire duration of a days shooting.
b.
At the end of the movie, students from an unnamed college recount the movies events as an urban legend. They joke about the tales validity, and one says, "And I bet Brenda was the girl from the Noxzema commercials." Actress
Rebecca Gayheart
, who plays Brenda in the film, did indeed appear in several commercials for Noxzema.
c.
The character Moe Greene was modeled after Jewish mobster
Bugsy Siegel
.
d.
Some prints were shipped to theaters under the alternate title "Sydney White and The Seven Dorks".
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