Quiz XIV (18th Feb 2002)-The Answers.

Quiz XIV ( 18th Feb 2002 )

Hollywood-The Answers
Today's quiz looks at Hollywood-another perennial favourite of quizzers
and film buffs. And also, let's not forget, very google and imdb friendly!
I have tried, as far as possible, to make my questions "google and imdb
resistant", but there are obviously limitations to my efforts. In any
case, I hope all quizzers, whether of the serious or the informal variety,
will enjoy the questions.
Gautam
1. What connects the characters Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the
Lambs" and Norman Bates in "Psycho"?
# Both the fictional characters are based on the real-life serial
killer Ed Gien

2. Plagiarism zindabad. It was Zeenat Aman and Padmini Kolhapure in

"Insaf ka Tarazu". What was the Hollywood original, and who played the
Zeenat and Padmini roles in the Hollywood version?
# "Lipstick". Quite appropriately, the two sisters were played
by the real-life sisters Margaux and Mariel Hemingway, the
granddaughters of Ernest Hemingway

3. Who played Rosa Klebb, the cold-blooded KGB officer in "From

Russia with Love", and which illustrious person was she married to?
# Lotte Lenya; Kurt Weill, the music composer

4. Hollywood dynasties. Who are the actress mothers of the following

actresses: (a) Carrie Fisher (b) Jamie Lee Curtis
# (a) Debbie Reynolds (b) Janet Leigh

5. Who was originally selected to play Johnny Fontaine in "from Here to

Eternity" whose unexplained withdrawal and replacement by Frank
Sinatra at the last moment led to speculation about a Mafia hand in the
proceedings?
# Eli Wallach

6. We all know about the tradition of Hollywood luminaries putting their

fingerprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, but who was the first
person to start this practice?
# Norma Talmadge, on 18 May 1927. According to legend, she
stepped on the white cement by accident, thereby giving Sid
Grauman the idea for his celebrated and still continuing
publicity stunt
7. What special commitment did the theatres, which wished to screen
"Psycho" had to give, when it was initially released?
# That nobody would be allowed to enter the theatre after the
screening of the film started

8. What connects the September 11 incidents with the Film "The Deer
Hunter"?
# The song "God Save America", by Irving Berlin; it was plated
at the ending of the film, and also became very popular in the
USA in the wake of September the 11th incidents

9. What do the following have in common: Moses, St. John the Baptist,
Mark Anthony and Michaelangelo?
# Charlton Heston has played all these characters in films

10. Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" was based on which real-life incident?

# The Leopold-Loeb case

11. According to conventional wisdom (this has been strongly refuted

by certain reliable sources), Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were the
original choices for the lead roles in "Casablanca". By the same token,
who were originally selected to play the lead roles in "The African
Queen", which were subsequently played most effectively by
Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn?
# David Niven and Bette Davis

12. What connects the following films: "The Empire Strikes Back", "A
Shot in the Dark" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"?
# They are all follow-up films-to "Star Wars" (now renamed "A
New Hope" , "The Pink Panther" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark"

13. About which film did the inimitable Groucho Marx comment that
"it's the first picture I've seen in which the male lead has bigger tits
than the female'?
# "Samson and Delilah". He was referring to Victor Mature and
Hedy Lamarr

14. Who was the first person invited to direct "The Godfather"? The
commitment of this director to which film led him to reject the offer?
The rest, as they say, is Cuppola and history?
# Sergio Leone" "Once Upon a Time in America"

15. Which actor has written the following novels: "The Hidden Place";
"The Man in the Glass Booth; and un Doctor" (winner, 1962
Hawthornden Prize)?
# Robert Shaw
16. Who is the third person in this series: Brigitte Bardot, Catherine
Deneuve…? Quite obviously, it's a Hollywood personality.
# Jane Fonda; they all had affairs with French director Roger
Vadim

17. Three famous filmmakers have to date been conferred the French
Legion of Honour. One of them is of course our very own Satyajit Ray.
Of the other two, one was a Hollywood personality. Who?
# Orson Welles"; the third, for the record, was Akira Kurosawa

18. Who declared himself, "by any practical definition of the words,
foolproof and incapable of error"?
# The supercomputer HAL, in "AD 2001 A Space Odyssey" (I
have taken the artistic license of referring to HAL as a person,
as "he" was endowed with AI)

19. Which Hollywood thespians were nicknamed: (a) The Fiddle and the
Bow (b) Sexpot of the century (hint: it's NOT Marilyn Monroe) (c)
Hollywood's most professional virgin?
# (a) Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (b) Jane Russell (c) Doris
Day

20. If Hattie McDaniel was the first black actress to win a Best
Supporting actress Oscar, who was the first black actress to be
nominated for the Best Actress Oscar (Hint: she didn't win the award,
though)?
# Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones, 1954