Flicks IV Quiz

Flicks IV Quiz -
"It could only happen in Hollywood..........."

61 What should the movie Krakatoa East Of Java have been more accurately called ?
62 Which major MGM star had a 1930 contract specifying what time she should be in bed ?
63 Which all-time great movie was already being shot by the time its leading lady was cast ?
64 Who donated the money to pay for a statue of Al Jolson in Los Angeles ?
65 What have John Wayne, Burt Reynolds and Carol Channing all worn on screen ?
66 Which star of My Fair Lady had a glass eye ?
67 Which star turned down the role Dustin Hoffman took in The Graduate ?
68 Which star received 135,000 gifts on her eighth birthday ?
69 At which screen star's 'lying in state' was the coffin surrounded by men in black shirts giving the Fascist salute ?
70 What was actress Lucille Le Sueur re-christened after MGM ran a competition to find a name for her ?
71 Which multi-millionaire spend 22 million dollars trying to buy up all the copies of his epic mogul flop The Conqueror, which had cost only six million dollars to make ?
72 Which western musical contains a scene for which scientists grew corn 16ft high ?
73 For which 1986 Robert Redford movie were paintings worth ten million dollars used to dress the set ?
74 What was so special about the cast of the 1938 movie The Terror Of Tiny town ?
75 For which box-office flop did Michael Cimino shoot 220 hours of film at a cost of 57 million dollars ?
76 In which 1974 movie did the real-life Baron Franckenstein appear under his screen name of Clement St George ?
77 Why didn't Woody Allen collect his three Oscars for Annie Hall in person ?
78 Who had his ideas turned down by Louis B. Mayer because he thought that pregnant women would be frightened by a ten-foot tall rodent on screen ?
79 How many women were there in the 1961 movie Seven Women From Hell ?
80 Which star of One Million Years BC played a cavewoman in an uplift bra ?

1pt for each; the new rule of maximum 10 answers per person in any one four-hour period applies.

Good luck !

[SirKT]

61. Krakatoa - South? West? North? of Java ;D ;)
62. Shirley Temple
65. Eye patch
68. Lassie
70. Lucille Ball
72. Oklahoma
73. Legal Eagles
74. All children?
80. Sophia Loren

[Lord Cheeky]

67) Warren Beatty
70) Joan Crawford
74) They were all midgets
75) Heavens Gate..... great director of the Deer Hunter and a film i recently purchased called Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
80) Raquel Welch

[Sir Chancelot]

61 - reckon this should have been called just Vulcano cos that is all this island is.
68 - Shirley Temple for her role in The Wizard Of Oz
74 - They all came from St Helier !

Sir KT is straight in with a mixture of bullseyes and guesses:

61. Well worked out, Krakatoa actually lies West of Java. 1pt
62. incorrect
65. incorrect
68. incorrect
70. incorrect
72. correct, 1pt
73. correct, 1pt
74. incorrect
80. incorrect
Sir KT off the mark with 3pts

Next Lord Cheeky............
67) incorrect
70) correct, 1pt
74) correct, 1pt
75) correct, 1pt plus bonus point
80) correct, 1pt
Lord Cheeky's tally is 5pts

Finally, Stormin' ...........
61 - there was a difinitive answer and Sir KT got it.
68 - correct, 1pt
74 - ha! ha! I'd keep away from H & J next time your paths cross.
1pt for amusement.
Stormin' gets 2pts

Leaderboard:
1. Lord Cheeky 5pts
2. Sir KT 3pts
3. Stormin' 2pts

[Sir Chancelot]

63 - A very tricky and clever question - having a stab as it is doing my head in.
Is it King Kong and the leading lady is the Statue of Liberty made by the Frogs as a gift to new York ?

stormin said:

63 - A very tricky and clever question - having a stab as it is doing my head in.
Is it King Kong and the leading lady is the Statue of Liberty made by the Frogs as a gift to new York ?

It's not a trick question, Norman. Though I like your answer and will award it a point.
This film sold more tickets than any other in history, and won ten academy awards.

Leaderboard:
1. Lord Cheeky 5pts
2= Sir KT 3pts
2= Stormin' 3pts

[Sir Chancelot]

tommo said:

stormin said:

63 - A very tricky and clever question - having a stab as it is doing my head in.
Is it King Kong and the leading lady is the Statue of Liberty made by the Frogs as a gift to new York ?

It's not a trick question, Norman. Though I like your answer and will award it a point.
This film sold more tickets than any other in history, and won ten academy awards.

Leaderboard:
1. Lord Cheeky 5pts
2= Sir KT 3pts
2= Stormin' 3pts

seemed like a good idea at the time.
I had a flashback of King Kong up a tall building or statue and the statue of liberty was cast Sorry!

[Sir Chancelot]

The Statue of Liberty was delivered to New York in 1886 so it WAS cast before the film King Kong was shot and The Statue was the BIGGEST lady in the film.
Not a trick question Tommo I agree, but one with two conceivable correct answers and I did not goggle it !
Thanks for the point.


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[Lord Cheeky]

re; 67) Tommo..Warren Beatty was offered the role first but turned it down due to filming bonnie and clyde, Robert Redford tested for the part , and Burt Ward (robin in the origanal batman) was also considered before Dustin Hoffman said yes to it.

[SirKT]

65. Was it a wig or hairpiece?
71. Howard Hughes

Both of Sir KT's answers are correct, 2pts earned.
Whilst Lord Cheeky gets a point for the most serious contender, Robert Redford, plus half a point each for the two sex maniacs, Beatty and Burt Ward.

Leaderboard:
1. Lord Cheeky 7pts
2. Sir KT 5pts
3. Stormin' 3pts

[H&J]

63. Was it Gone with the Wind and Vivien Leigh

62. Judy Garland. I can only think that it would be a child actor and she is the only one I can think of.
66. Rex Harrison. I'm guessing here. I know that he was blind in one eye after an illness.
77. I maybe confusing this with someone else. Was it that he was playing his Saxophone in a bar Greenwich Village, New York, rather than go to the awards?

H & J are spot on with no.63 for 1pt: Much to Stormin's annoyance no doubt - he tried so hard on that one. ;)

Regg3y is incorrect on 62; spot on with 66 for a point;
and deserving of 1.5pts for the reason for Woody's absence -although it was clarinet.

Leaderboard:
1. Lord Cheeky 7pts
2. Sir KT 5pts
3. Stormin' 3pts
4. Regg3y 2.5pts
5. H&J 1pt

[SirKT]

62. Greta Garbo or Joan Crawford or Norma Shearer?
76. Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brookes
79. Seven?

[Lord Cheeky]

62) Shirley Temple

sirkt said:

62. Greta Garbo or Joan Crawford or Norma Shearer?
76. Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brookes
79. Seven?

62 Joan Crawford from the selections given is correct - 1pt
76 Correct for 1.5pts
79 Out by one: the answer strangely is six. The film is about a group of women caught in New Guinea just when the Japanese are taking over Indonesia and its contiguous islands in 1942. The women range from an ornithologist, to a nurse, to a thief, and a waitress, all captured and put into a Japanese prison camp. But the women manage to escape, though not all survive, and later on they encounter a double-dealing plantation owner (Cesar Romero) who unknown to them, is collaborating with the Japanese and plans on sending them back to their captors. The six character names in the credits are Grace, Claire, Mara, Janet, Mai-Lu and Anna. 0.5pts for nearly right.

So for Lord Cheeky, 62 is obviously incorrect, he stays on 7pts.

Leaderboard:
1. Sir KT 8pts
2. Lord Cheeky 7pts
3. Stormin' 3pts
4. Regg3y 2.5pts
5. H&J 1pt

Just three (64,69 & 78) to get.........

I may as well close the early ones as we've a lot more of these to get through...............
The missing answers:
64.none other than Al Jolson himself !
69.Rudolf Valentino
78.Walt Disney.

Quiz closed, final standings:
1. Sir KT 8pts
2. Lord Cheeky 7pts
3. Stormin' 3pts
4. Regg3y 2.5pts
5. H&J 1pt