Tricky Movie Trivia I Movie Reviews I Famous Movie Quotes

Can you guess the answers to this movie trivia quiz about chick flicks?

Also, check out part 1 and part 2 of the chick flicks movie trivia quiz series.

1. You probably know that Lindsay Lohan starred in the 2005 movie featuring Herbie the Volkswagen, called Herbie Fully Loaded. But can you name the six other Herbie movies? (You don’t have to include the TV version made in 1997, which had the same name as the original 1968 theatrical release.)

2. The 1983 movie Valley Girl starred Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew. What is his name?

3. As part of the initiation to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood club in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Sandra Bullock’s character Siddalee Walker has the palm of her hand cut. In which other movie did a character played by Sandra Bullock cut the palm of her hand?

4. In Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey was older than her 17-year-old character Baby. How old was Jennifer when she filmed the movie?
a. 23
b. 25
c. 27
d. 29

5. Evening co-starred Meryl Streep’s daughter, who played the younger version of Streep’s character in the movie. What is Streep’s daughter’s name in real life?

6. Which other famous mother and daughter starred in Evening?

7. Which English actress was originally considered for Miranda, the role that Meryl
Streep played in The Devil Wears Prada?

8. Which teenaged actor turned down the role of Ducky in the 1989 release of Pretty in Pink? (Jon Cryer played the role instead.)

9. The line “Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?” was voted #86 of “The 100 Greatest Movie Lines” by Premiere in 2007. Which movie was it from?

10. A famous brother and sister had supporting roles in Sixteen Candles. What are their names?

Scroll down to see the answers.

_________

__________________

_________

_________

________________

_________

Answers

1. There are six Herbie movies, all of which were made before Herbie Fully Loaded star Lindsay Lohan was even born:

• The Love Bug (1968)
• Herbie Rides Again (1974)
• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
• Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
• Herbie the Matchmaker (1981)
• Herbie, the Love Bug (1982)

2. Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew’s name is Nicholas Cage. He changed it from Nicholas Coppola in the 1980s. Valley Girl was the first movie credit he had that used the new name.

3. Sandra Bullock’s character Sally Owens cuts the palm of her hand in the movie Practical Magic.

4. Jennifer Grey was 27 when she filmed Dirty Dancing.

5. Meryl Streep’s daughter and Evening co-star’s name is Mamie Gummer.

6. Natasha Richardson plays the daughter of the character played by her real-life mother Vanessa Redgrave in Evening.

7. Helen Mirren was originally considered for the role Meryl Streep played in The Devil Wears Prada.

8. Anthony Michael Hall turned down the role of Ducky in Pretty in Pink. Jon Cryer played the part instead.

9. The line “Can I borrow your underpants for ten minutes?” came from Sixteen Candles and was said by Anthony Michael Hall’s character.

10. Brother and sister John and Joan Cusack were in Sixteen Candles. John Cusack played Bryce, one of Anthony Michael Hall’s geeky friends, and Joan was the girl in the neck brace on the bus and who had trouble sipping water from a drinking fountain.

How did you do on this movie trivia quiz about teenage chick flicks? If you didn’t get the answers to most of these questions, don’t worry; you’re not alone. A lot of them were hard!

If you enjoyed this quiz, why not subscribe via RSS or e-mail to get free updates? See the sidebar for easy subscription options.

Posted January 16, 2008 Comments(1)

______________

Can you guess the answers to this movie trivia quiz about chick flicks?

Also, check out chick flicks part 1 and part 3.

1. In A Walk to Remember, who was originally considered for the role of Jamie Sullivan, which was eventually played by Mandy Moore?

2. A Walk to Remember was filmed in 2002 in Wilmington, North Carolina, at the same time as which hit film starring Sandra Bullock?

3. In Freaky Friday, during the end scene when Anna is dancing with Jake, there’s a woman in the background who looks directly at the camera while she dances with an older gentleman. This woman is the mother of one of the stars of the movie. Whose mother is she?

4. In Freaky Friday, which famous actress was originally supposed to have the part of Tess Coleman, which ended up being played by Jamie Lee Curtis?

5. How many different hairstyles did Reese Witherspoon’s character Elle wear in Legally Blonde?

6. Which major learning institution did Elle attend in Legally Blonde?

7. On which Shakespeare play is the movie 10 Things I Hate About You based?

8. One of the characters in the movie The Notebook is the mother of the movie’s director, Nick Cassavetes. What’s her name?

9. In The Notebook, Ryan Gosling had to wear contact lenses so his eyes would match the color of the older version of him, played by Jim Garner. What color contacts did he wear?

10. Which chick flick was the first movie production allowed to film in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks?

Scroll down to see the answers.

__________

__________

__________

_____________

_______

__________

Answers

1. Jessica Simpson was originally considered for the role of Jamie Sullivan in A Walk to Remember.

2. A Walk to Remember was filmed in 2002 in Wilmington, North Carolina at the same time as
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

3. The dancing woman in Freaky Friday is Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina Lohan.

4. Annette Bening was originally slated to play Tess Coleman in Freaky Friday.

5. Reese Witherspoon’s character Elle wears 40 different hairstyles throughout Legally Blonde.

6. The character of Elle attended Harvard University.

7. 10 Things I Hate About You is based on The Taming Of The Shrew. The titles intentionally rhyme a little.

8. Gena Rowlands, who plays Allie when she’s older, is Notebook director Nick Cassavetes’ mother.

9. Ryan Gosling wore brown contacts so his eye color would match Jim Garner’s.

10. Sweet Home Alabama was the first movie to film in New York after 9/11.

How did you do on this teenage chick flicks movie trivia quiz? If you didn’t get the answers to most of the questions, don’t worry; you’re not alone. They were hard!

If you enjoyed this quiz, why not subscribe via RSS or e-mail to get free updates? See the sidebar for easy subscription options.

Can you guess the answers to this movie trivia quiz about chick flicks?

Also, check out part 2 and part 3 of the teenage chick flicks movie trivia quiz series.

1. In Mean Girls, which of the actresses who played a “plastic” was initially supposed to play Cady, the part played by Lindsay Lohan?

2. On which book was the movie Mean Girls based?

3. Which of the “plastics” actresses is actually 10 years older than Lindsay Lohan?

4. Drop Dead Gorgeous screenwriter Lona Williams was once a contestant in local beauty pageants and appears in the film. Which part does she play?

5. Which actress who was in a hit 2007 movie had her screen debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous?

6. In Saved, Pastor Skip enters the library to talk to Hilary Faye and the Christian Jewels about Mary. There’s a poster featuring which band visible over his shoulder? (Hint: The band’s lead singer was a co-producer on the movie.)

7. Mandy Moore was given the part of Hilary Faye in Saved, but which actress was originally supposed to play her?

8. What are the letters on the license plate of Hilary Faye’s car?

9. In Clueless, Alicia Silverstone (who played Cher) didn’t know how to pronounce a word in one of the classroom scenes. Director Amy Heckerling told everyone not to correct her so she could include the entertaining mispronunciation in the film. Which word was it?

10. On which classic story is Clueless loosely based?

Scroll down to see the answers.

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

Answers

1. Amanda Seyfried, who plays Karen in the film, was initially supposed to play Cady, but producer Lorne Michaels thought she would be better as the dumb girl and that Lindsay Lohan would make a better “good girl.”

2. Mean Girls was based on Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman, even though it is a non-fiction self-help guide for parents that has no narrative. Tine Fey of Saturday Night Live wrote the script.

3. Although Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams play characters who are presumably in the same grade, there’s a 10-year age difference between the two actresses.

4. Lona Williams plays Jean, the pageant’s non-speaking judge, in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

5. Amy Adams, who starred in Enchanted, had her film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous.

6. The poster visible over Pastor Skip’s shoulder is for R.E.M. Lead singer Michael Stipe co-produced the film.

7. The role of Hilary Faye was originally given to Anne Hathaway, but funding fell through and then Hathaway had to start shooting Ella Enchanted.

8. Hilary Faye’s license plate is “JC GIRL.”

9. Alicia Silverstone mispronounced “Haitians” as “Hate-ee-uns.”

10. Clueless is loosely based on Jane Austen’s book Emma.

How did you do on this movie trivia quiz about teenage chick flicks? If you didn’t get the answers to most of the questions, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Some of them were hard!

If you enjoyed this quiz, why not subscribe via RSS or e-mail to get free updates? See the sidebar for easy subscription options.

When I came up with the idea of a movie trivia quiz site, I wondered what people were really interested in so I could write about it. I know Lindsay Lohan pics (along with those of other celebrities) is a popular subject, but not necessarily because people think she’s a good actress. (Even though I believe she is.) But I didn’t know if anyone would ever find Lindsay trivia with all the other celebrity gossip sites and blogs competing to talk about her ongoing misspent youth. It made me wonder whether quizzes about Tinseltown classic movies might be better.

But I know people like modern celebrities, so I thought maybe it would be best to start with current movie trivia questions. I began with a 2007 movie trivia quiz — and I made it good and hard. Everyone who took it said they had to struggle to getting even one question correct. So, that made me realize I needed to give people a fighting chance, even though I saw in my Web statistics that someone had been looking for a “hard superbad quiz.” Hard is a relative term I guess, because I had a question in the 2007 trivia quiz about Superbad and I don’t think that’s the question that people got right. That person who was searching might have been looking for a hard trivia question, but was probably unprepared for the gauntlet he would have to run on the Tricky Movie Trivia blog! Or, maybe he was really just searching for a super-bad, hard quiz and I just misinterpreted.

When I checked my Web statistics, I also found that people also were interested in fake names movies are shipped under. Now, I consider this category of questions especially hard to get right. How would you know the names, unless you were a movie insider (or a reader of Tricky Movie Trivia who cheated by looking at the quiz answers)? But, as I said before, people like to challenge themselves. When they’re not looking for celebrity gossip or movie facts, they sometimes want to prove to themselves that they really do have a lot of insider movie information at their fingertips.

In my search to write about topics people want, I posted one movie trivia quiz each about a variety of movies. I touched quite a bit on the teenage genre by writing about these Lindsay Lohan pics: Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Herbie Fully Loaded and Just My Luck. But let’s not forget the teenage boys, who can generate their own share of Hollywood gossip. The 2007 Movies Trivia Quiz contained a question about Superbad, as of course did the Superbad and Seth Rogen Trivia Quiz post. That post also contained some questions about two other funny movies, Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

Stars of classic movies vs. trendy celebrities

All of this was well and good, but I wondered if people are interested in more than just movie trivia and Hollywood gossip about celebrities. For example, I wonder if people still care about black and white movies. I’ve written several reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird, which I consider brilliant. (The movie, not the reviews.) Writing about Gregory Peck is a pleasure, because he was every bit as as good a man as the sterling Atticus Finch, the character he played in To Kill a Mockingbird. But do people care about Gregory Peck any more? I hope so. I know the book from which the classic movie was made is still very popular because it was labeled as the Book of the Century by a national association of librarians. But have we become more obsessed with celebrity gossip about who people are sleeping with instead of the content of people’s hearts and minds? Are great ideas dead? Let’s hope not, for all our sakes.

Besides To Kill a Mockingbird, other black and white movies also exemplify the past focus on substance over flash. One of my favorites is The Enchanted Cottage. This romantic movie stars Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young, and teaches the true meaning of love without being preachy. The production value is a little spotty in some places, but the timeless story shines through both the limitations of the medium of black and white film and the haze of each characters’ perceptions. Another example in the romantic movies genre is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which takes the concept of a love story beyond the grave. It’s truly one of the most romantic movies I’ve ever seen. The storytelling was strong, which made it transcend its being told in black and white.

Classic movies without color are particularly effective for dark, moody romantic stories with ultimate happy endings, but they also work well for comedies. A great example of this is My Man Godfrey. Screwball comedy was never more zany than in this farce that had Carol Lombard and William Powell first at odds, and then, in good old-time Hollywood fashion, in accord. I can’t imagine this movie in color. A certain elegance and Tinseltown glamor was imparted through the colorless medium. When you can shine through black and white, you know you’re a star. It was easy to imagine Carol Lombard and William Powell together at the Copa Cabana or the Brown Derby (before their divorce, of course), because they seemed born to radiate old fashioned Hollywood glamor.

Does it really matter what Lindsay Lohan is doing?

So, why am I going on and on about this? There are several reasons. The first is that I want to know whether people would be more interested in a movie trivia quiz about modern celebrities or if they would prefer movie trivia questions about classic movies. Maybe I should do both. Time will tell.

Over time, I hope to find out whether people really care more about Lindsay Lohan pics and celebrity gossip than how characters in classic movies have modeled good behavior. In the meantime, I plan on having fun writing about what I love: movie trivia. I hope to see you around as I explore the medium I love and meet people who feel the same way.

________________

Can you answer these movie trivia questions about Lindsay Lohan pics and the celebrities who were in them with her?

1. Lohan’s DUI arrest in late July 2007 prevented her from doing promotion for which movie?

2. Her character in Georgia Rule is set to attend Vassar College in the fall. Which of her Georgia Rules co-stars went to Vassar in real life?

3. Which song by Blink-182 is playing when the band McFly are preparing to go on stage at the Hard Rock Cafe in Just My Luck?

4. In which movie did Lindsay successfully lobby to have a part created that wasn’t in the original script?

5. How much does the character Maggie in Herbie Fully Loaded pay Crazy Dave for Herbie? (Hint: It’s the same price that Jim Douglas, played by Dean Jones, offered to pay in 1968′s The Love Bug.)

6. Who plays Mrs. George, the on-screen mother of Rachel McAdams’ character Regina George, in Mean Girls?

7. Lindsay wasn’t the first choice for the role of Lola Stepp in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. To whom was the part offered first?

8. How many versions of Freaky Friday have there been?

9. What was Lindsay’s first movie?

10. Lohan is currently filming the romantic movie Dare to Love Me, which tells the story of a legendary tango dancer. What is his name?

Scroll down to see the answers.

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

__________

Answers

Now it’s time to see whether you’re a movie star. Check your answers below, and then see the ratings chart at the bottom of this post:

1. A July 2007 arrest kept her from promoting I Know Who Killed Me.

2. Jane Fonda attended Vassar College in real life.

3. Carousel by Blink-182 is the song playing just before McFly go on stage in Just My Luck.

4. She lobbied to get the part as Lola in Prairie Home Companion. Author Garrison Keillor got the name Lola for the character from the song Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets.

5. Maggie pays Crazy Dave $75 for Herbie in Herbie Fully Loaded.

6. Amy Poehler of Saturday Night Live plays Mrs. George. In real life, she’s only five years older than her on-screen daughter, played by Rachel McAdams.

7. The role of Lola Stepp in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was first offered to Hilary Duff.

8. Freaky Friday has been made three times by Disney. The original was released in 1976. It was then remade for ABC television in 1995 and again for theatrical release in 2003.

9. Her first movie was The Parent Trap, which was released in 1998 when she was 12 years old.

1o. Dare to Love Me is the story of tango legend Carlos Gardel.

How did you do with this movie trivia quiz? Were you stumped? Don’t worry, the questions were hard!

Posted January 2, 2008 Comments(1)