Cinema Trivia

Cinema trivia questions and answers.

Who was listed as "Shakespearean Tutor to Mr. Newman" in the credits for the 1990 Paul Newman--Joanne Woodward film Mr. and Mrs. Bridge?
A: Senator Bob Dole. Newman, who played a Kansas lawyer in the film, had asked the Kansas senator to help him get the accent right by tape-recording part of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (which Newman recites in the film).

What did Marilyn Monroe reply when a journalist asked her what she wore to bed?
A: "Channel NO. 5."

What hairy covering was used to make a 40-foot-high, 6-1/2 ton mechanical ape look lifelike in the 1976 remake of the 1933 film classic King Kong?
A: Argentine horse tails --2 tons of them.

What do the initials RKO stand for in the theater company's name?
A: Radio-Keith-Orpheum. It was formed by the merger of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and the Keith-Orpheum theater chain in 1921.

In 1980, who were the Top 10 box-office stars in Hollywood, according to the nation's film exhibitors?
A: From 1 to 10: Burt Reynolds, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Sally Field, Sissy Spacek, Barbra Streisand and Steve Martin.

What common location was used in filming the movies The Graduate, Cocoon, Gross Anatomy, Shocker, The Paper Chase and both the 1939 and 1982 versions of the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
A: The campus of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.

Child actress Shirley Temple was famous for her long curls. how many did she have?
A: 55--not counting the spit curl on her forehead.

What famous Hollywood character actor portrayed the evil ex-con Gruesome n a 1947 Dick Tracy film?
A: Borris Karloff.

What film did Notre Dame try to keep off the silver screen in 1965 by going to court?
A: John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. In this movie, Richard Crenna plays a Jew forced by an Arab king to coach an Arab football team to beat Notre Dame because the king's son had been cut from its team.

How did Elizabeth Taylor's rebellious brother, Howard, get out of the screen test--and acting career--his stage-struck mother had set up for him?
A: He shaved his head on the eve of the scheduled screen test.

What movie star was one of both The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty Dozen?
A: Charles Bronson.

What well-known Hollywood producer is the grandson of the man who developed a popular vegetable?
A: Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, whose grandfather developed the broccoli in Italy. The vegetable was introduced to America in the 1870s by Broccoli's uncle, Pasquale de Cicco.

The summer of 1989 was dubbed the "Summer of Sequels." Name the eight film sequels that were responsible for this.
A: Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan; Ghost-busters 1; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; The Karate Kid III, Lethal Weapon II; License to Kill (in the James Bond Series): Nightmare on Elm Street V; The Dream Child; and Star Trek V; The Final Frontier.