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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Vacation (1983) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Vacation (1983) Quiz
This quiz will test your movies knowledge by asking you questions related to the various famous movie trivia from the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983).
About the movie:
The Griswold family's cross-country drive to the Walley World theme park proves to be much more arduous than they ever anticipated.
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Exterior filming of the Griswolds "on the road" took a greater part of three months, crossing numerous states including California, Arizona, Colorado, Misouri and Illinois.
b.
The wedding dress for the character Lydia Rodman was designed by Canadas illustrious wedding designer,
Justina McCaffrey
.
c.
This became the first feature-length film directed by
Quentin Tarantino
to feature fewer than 100 uses of the word "fuck." It is used 17 times.
d.
Warner Bros. erected 67 sets for this movie, a record at the time.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
The script originally called for Newt, the child from
Aliens
to be cloned. But the studio changed it to Ripley instead because she is the anchor of the series.
b.
As the Griswalds are leaving Chicago, you can see the Buckingham fountain (a popular attraction in Chicagos Grant Park used in the intro to
Married with Children
) in the background at one point.
c.
The café where the three ladies meet and Diane introduces Oscar to her friends was also the location where director
Gary Winick
arranged a meeting with
Sigourney Weaver
before production, to play the part of Eve. After Weaver spoke to the restaurant owner, they agreed to let them use it in the film.
d.
The logo of Dwayne LaFontaine, the Verminators pest and vermin control company, featuring a man resembling himself hitting a rabbit with a hammer, is a spoof of a pest control company in California, Nevada, and Arizona, Western Extermination Company, whose logo features a man named Kernel Kleenup with a top hat and suit about to squash a rat with his hammer.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
John Wayne
later blamed the failure of the movie on co-star
Vera Ralston
.
b.
There was a Walley World Water Park in London, Ontario, Canada, which opened several years after the movie was released.
John Candy
was invited to the opening of the park but the park owners couldnt afford his appearance fee.
c.
The Carson and Colorado railroad used in the railroad sequences in this movie was one of the last classic narrow gauge RRs left in the United States at the time of filming. The movie was released in 1950 and last engine to travel the tracks was the #9 in 1960 when it was towed (it could not power itself because the boiler did not pass inspection) to Laws Califoria (east of Bishop)where it remains today. This engine and cars are featured in the movie. This railroad was incorporated in 1880 and its first goal was to build tracks from just south of Carson City to Mojave. That never happened and the railroad only built tracks to Keeler on the Owens Lake. The Southern Pacific built tracks from Mojave to Keeler but they built standard gauge so transfer from the narrow gauge C&C was difficult. It is good to see this historic railroad and engine #9 preserved on film.
d.
The first Muppet film since the deaths of
Jim Henson
and
Richard Hunt
to have their signature Muppet characters (Rowlf, Scooter, and Dr. Teeth) talk. Rowlfs only line is "Awwww!" at the breakfast table, when he finds out theyre having bologna. Dr. Teeths only line is "Shalom!", on the way to a bar mitzvah. Scooter was voiced by Richards brother
Adam Hunt
, and his line is "Get your Gonzo T-shirts. Only ten bucks!"
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Based on the article "Vacation 58" by
John Hughes
, which appeared in September 1979 issue of National Lampoon.
b.
The main character Paul Sheldons novels are published by Viking, the same publishing company that published
Stephen King
s books at that time.
c.
The French dialogue between Yvonne and the French officer translates as: French Officer: "Hey you, youre not French to go out with a German like that!" Yvonne: "What are you butting in for?" French Officer: "I am butting in..." Yvonne: "Its none of your business!"
d.
While filming in Texas,
Milla Jovovich
(Michelle) and Shawn Andrews (Kevin Pickford) eloped to Las Vegas and got married. However, Jovovich was only 16/17 at the time and her mother had the marriage annulled.
5.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Patrick Tatopoulos (I), the Godzilla designer and supervisor, created a mechanically operated suit for the monster, as well as scale models, but in a 1998 interview,
Volker Engel
, the visual effects supervisor, estimated that less than ten percent of the effects shots featuring Godzilla used prosthetic and mechanical effects.
b.
John Hurt
wanted to read the script before he signed on. He had previously heard about actors who signed on to a
Steven Spielberg
film before reading the script, since "Spielberg - you know, GOD - was doing it!" Hurt replied, "Well, I need to have a little bit of previous knowledge even if God is doing it." The filmmakers sent a courier with the script from Los Angeles over to London, who gave the script to Hurt at three in the afternoon, reclaimed it at eight that evening and flew back the following day.
Ray Winstone
mentioned a similar experience on a British chat show: he was asked if he wanted to be in the film, and he requested to read the script. He described a young man in a suit coming to his house, drinking tea while he read it, then getting on the next plane back to America. He also noted that once the film was over, they had to give the scripts back.
c.
The childhood pictures of Audrey on the living room wall were actual portfolio shots from the young commercial-acting days of
Dana Barron
.
d.
All of the earthquake sequences in the film were actually filmed one month prior to the Los Angeles quake of 94. The real quake struck only 2 weeks before the end of filming. Subsequently, a unit was sent out to film drive-by footage of actual quake damaged areas of the city before the end of filming. The cast and crew believed that the earthquake scenes that were filmed before the real quake struck were perhaps a bit overdone, but when viewed after the real quake hit, all were frightened by the realism of it.
6.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
1000 extras were used in the making of the movie
b.
Apparently, it was originally scripted that after Aunt Edna was tied to the roof of the car, there was a shot of her fingers moving implying she was, in fact, still alive. This was considered "cruel" to have a live person on the roof of a car by the ratings board, so it was cut and she remained dead.
c.
The combination entered on the keypad by Rogue to access his weapons locker forms the shape of a letter, which may have been intended as a clue to his true identity.
d.
Because of scheduling conflicts caused by a legal dispute, Reiner Prochaska acted as photo double for the Killer more often than Carl Randolph got to play his part.
7.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
According to
Lindsay Anderson
s diaries he was asked to direct this project.
b.
According to several
Barbra Streisand
bios, she directed a few minor scenes herself after she and
Frank Pierson
disagreed over the necessity of those scenes.
c.
The "W" in Clark W. Griswold stands for Wilhelm.
d.
Each of Doc Ocks tentacles were 13 feet long when fully expanded. They were also fully articulated.
8.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
Thirty percent of the film was re-shot when
Brian Helgeland
was replaced as director.
b.
Although there was some impressive second unit work shot in Kenya, the principal actors shot their African scenes in Hollywood.
c.
Cameron Carr is reading Stephen Kings The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger when shes attacked.
d.
The Wagon Queen Family Truckster is actually a modified Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon.
9.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
In later interviews,
Robert Mitchum
admitted that much of the script was made up as they went along.
b.
The theme park that served as Walley World was actually Six Flags Magic Mountain. The roller coaster referred by Clark as the "Whipper Snapper" is actually called "The Revolution" and was the first roller coaster to have a 360 degree vertical loop.
c.
Fabio
was considered for the role of Vega.
d.
This was
Roman Polanski
s very first adaptation, and it is very faithful to the novel. Pieces of dialog, color schemes and clothes are taken verbatim.
10.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Vacation (1983)?
a.
At the beginning of the film, a Fangoria Magazine featuring Heather Langenkamp on the cover can be seen in the Burne Brothers prison cell just before she appears on the television.
b.
After the August 1968 Russian Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia when the film unit had to leave the country, apparently communist newspapers of the day alleged that the production of this movie was none other than a CIA project.
c.
The scene where the station wagon goes airborne in the Arizona desert actually caused some production changes due to the hard nose-landing that wasnt expected. Among those were matching the exact front-end damage on other station wagons used in other scenes.
d.
Julianne Phillips
was in the running for playing Nell McLaughlin, but eventually lost the part to
Maria Bello
.
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