Quotes, Trivia & Production Quiz
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Movies are remembered not only for their stories and performances but also for their unforgettable quotes, fascinating trivia, and the incredible work that happens behind the scene...
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All 20 questions in this Quotes, Trivia & Production quiz
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What was the first film to use digital intermediate processing to digitally grade the colour of an entire film?
- A. O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)
- B. Fight Club (1999)
- C. The Matrix (1999)
- D. Gladiator (2000)
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What is the significance of the phrase I'll be back from The Terminator (1984)?
- A. It was scripted as a throwaway line that became iconic
- B. It was improvised entirely by Schwarzenegger
- C. Arnold Schwarzenegger argued with director James Cameron about the pronunciation of I'll requesting permission to say I will be back
- D. It was recycled from an earlier Cameron film
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What famous production fact is associated with Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007)?
- A. He performed all his own physical stunts
- B. He stayed in character for the entire 6-month shoot refusing to break character off camera
- C. He learned to play the violin for one scene
- D. He refused to speak to anyone on set who was not in character
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What production technique was pioneered in Gravity (2013) to create the zero-gravity environment?
- A. A revolutionary LED lighting cube combined with wire rigs and CGI to create believable weightlessness
- B. Entirely CGI with actors on static sets
- C. Underwater filming to simulate weightlessness
- D. Real zero-gravity filming on a parabolic flight
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What production trivia is associated with the famous opening of Saving Private Ryan (1998)?
- A. Spielberg gave the cast no script for the opening sequence to capture genuine fear and confusion - some actors were genuinely traumatised
- B. The D-Day sequence took 6 months to film
- C. Spielberg used slow-motion photography throughout
- D. Spielberg used real veterans for the battle scenes
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What famous line opens the film Sunset Boulevard and what is unusual about the narrator?
- A. The narrator is a ghost
- B. The film opens with no dialogue at all
- C. A detective opens the film - this is standard
- D. The narrator is a dead man floating in a pool - he is narrating his own murder investigation
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What famous production decision did Stanley Kubrick make about the ending of 2001 A Space Odyssey that confused audiences?
- A. He refused to explain the ending saying it was meant to be felt not understood
- B. He added the Star Child sequence at the last minute
- C. He cut 20 minutes after the premiere without informing the studio
- D. He filmed three different endings
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What production challenge did the makers of Mad Max Fury Road (2015) overcome?
- A. Rebuilding the entire vehicle fleet after a fire
- B. Filming largely in Namibia after years of drought prevented filming in Australia
- C. Recasting the lead after injuries
- D. Filming entirely in CGI due to location restrictions
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What production technique did Roger Deakins use in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) for which he finally won an Oscar?
- A. He shot the entire film on 35mm film
- B. He pioneered a new digital camera system
- C. He combined real location filming with enormous practical light sources and minimal CGI colour grading
- D. He used exclusively natural light
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What famous improvised line did Robin Williams deliver in Good Will Hunting that made Matt Damon laugh genuinely on camera?
- A. It's not your fault - he kept repeating it
- B. His monologue about baseball
- C. His speech about being young and naive
- D. His story about his wife's flatulence which made Damon laugh involuntarily
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What production innovation did James Cameron use to film underwater scenes in The Abyss (1989)?
- A. He built the largest fresh water underwater filming tank in history at an abandoned nuclear reactor
- B. He used CGI water entirely
- C. He used a miniature tank with forced perspective
- D. He filmed in the actual ocean with trained divers
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What does the famous line Im the king of the world from Titanic (1997) mean and was it scripted?
- A. It was suggested by the film's producers
- B. It was taken from a deleted scene
- C. Leonardo DiCaprio improvised the line on the bow of the ship
- D. It was fully scripted by James Cameron
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What production technique made the dinosaur sounds in Jurassic Park and who created them?
- A. The actors vocalising sounds that were pitched down
- B. Ben Burtt using synthesised sounds
- C. A combination of lion and bear roars
- D. Gary Rydstrom using recordings of animals including tortoises mating and horses in mud
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What is the production significance of the opening tracking shot of Goodfellas (1990)?
- A. It was the first use of a Steadicam in cinema
- B. It was entirely CGI despite appearing natural
- C. The continuous two-minute tracking shot through the Copacabana nightclub was used to put audiences in Henry Hill's privileged perspective
- D. It took 30 takes to complete
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What production technique created the distinctive visual style of Sin City (2005)?
- A. Shot in black and white film with selective colour added in post
- B. Filmed entirely in CGI
- C. Shot in colour then digitally desaturated
- D. Shot on digital cameras in front of green screen then processed to replicate the high-contrast black and white look of the comic
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What famous production decision did Alfred Hitchcock make about Psycho that was unprecedented at the time?
- A. He refused to allow audiences to enter the cinema after the film had started
- B. He gave away the ending in trailers
- C. He cast only unknown actors
- D. He filmed it in colour for the first time
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What famous production fact about Parasite (2019) concerns its production design?
- A. CGI was used for the house exteriors
- B. All locations were real Seoul locations
- C. Production designer Lee Ha-jun built the entire Park family house from scratch as a specially constructed set
- D. The entire film was shot on location in real houses
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What production innovation did Inception (2010) use for the rotating hallway fight scene?
- A. CGI was used entirely for the sequence
- B. Green screen with post-production rotation
- C. A full-scale rotating set was built allowing the camera and actors to tumble together
- D. The actors performed the sequence in zero gravity
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What is the production significance of Birdman (2014) in terms of its visual style?
- A. It was the first film shot entirely on a smartphone
- B. It was shot entirely in black and white
- C. It used handheld cameras exclusively throughout
- D. It was edited to appear as a single continuous take shot in real time
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What famous line from Casablanca was voted the greatest movie quote of all time by the AFI?
- A. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine
- B. Play it again Sam
- C. We'll always have Paris
- D. Here's looking at you kid