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Quiz about 10 Degrees of Edward Furlong
Quiz about 10 Degrees of Edward Furlong

10 Degrees of Edward Furlong Trivia Quiz


From the charming little boy in "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" (1991), to a neo-Nazi in "American History X" (1998), to some real-life scrapes with the law, let's have a look at (and around) young actor Edward Furlong!

A multiple-choice quiz by Gatsby722. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
Gatsby722
Time
8 mins
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Multiple Choice
Quiz #
230,822
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
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Difficult
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Question 1 of 10
1. Furlong was only 13 years old when filming his first feature "Terminator 2". The huge hit made him an overnight star, although his raw acting skills had little to do with it. Dazzling special effects and a future California governor named Schwarzenegger did the trick nicely. Two years later, though, Edward found himself in a movie where it proved that this kid really did have some acting chops. It was a heartfelt family picture starring an Oscar winning actress. Which 1993 movie was it? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This viewer strongly admires Miss Kathy Bates. Her roles are widely diverse and almost always wisely chosen, and there's an aura of genuineness about her that is both rare and refreshing. In 1983 she had a small part in a movie that was expected to be a blockbuster, but finally wasn't at all. In fact, the film bombed very loudly. The idea was, in a roundabout way, to capitalize on the popularity of the 1978 musical "Grease". The movie was "Two of a Kind". Which of the following best describes it, in ten words or less? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The lovely Beatrice Straight (1914-2001) played an angel in "Two of a Kind", and boasted a long film career, possibly highlighted by her Oscar win for 1976's "Network". She was more often than not in secondary roles, but in 1979 she scored the part of a mostly beastly mother in a film where she went to great lengths to ensure that her son (Stephen Collins) didn't marry his beloved lady friend. It being a romance and all, let's just say Mama's goose got cooked at the end of the day, despite all that unfriendly plastic surgery and a brutal car accident. Which movie is this one? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Stephen Collins, now forever associated with the well-rounded character of Reverend Eric Camden in TV's "Seventh Heaven" (1996-2006), made several feature films. One was a remake of an old tear-jerker in 1990, called "Stella", with Bette Midler and Trini Alvarado. Stella was a single mother raising a precocious daughter (again), but I'm wondering how Stella supported herself and her daughter in that version? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Trini Alvarado, born in 1967, was a "hot property" in her youth, expected to become an actress of great depth and glory. Unfortunately she had the audacity to grow up, and the adult roles were few and far between. Let's say, without any pause, she's never given Jodie Foster a run for her money. But in 1980 she scored a coveted part in a film with Tim Curry and someone named Robin Johnson. It was a "friends from different sides of the track" story, and hoped to do for punk rock music (using the term loosely) what "Saturday Night Fever" did for disco in 1977. It fell way short of that goal. What movie was it? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Tim Curry is a survivor, and there's no other way to describe him. He's played essentially every peculiar thing you can think of (almost) and has a knack for, while not always being 'good', being 'memorable', whatever he's up to. In 2004, he appeared in a very well-received role. Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard and Laura Linney were in the film with him. What best describes the movie in question? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Greta Scacchi and Peter Sarsgaard were in the 2004 thriller "Flightplan". In it, a mother was taking her husband's corpse to America for burial, accompanied by their 6-year old daughter. The child vanished, and from there, the chaos and mysteries abounded. In the film, how did the husband/father perish (or so we are led to believe as the film begins)? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Wilford Brimley and Nastassja Kinski (and others) made a movie in 1984 about a definitively eccentric family, led by a father who liked dancing bears. All in all, it was a curious film more than anything else, with dwarfs and stuffed/preserved pets, blindness and a great deal of sexual tension. Oh, yes, Sigmund Freud even made an appearance. Based on the novel by John Irving, what was the name of this quirky but fascinating tale? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Also in 1984 came "The Natural", in my opinion one of Robert Redford's finest acting turns. Almost Arthurian in its symbolism (that baseball was certainly no less important than was King Arthur's Excalibur, and everything about the story was sprinkled, sometimes totally awash, with magic). Bernard Malamud wrote the richly layered novel, and the movie starred, along with Redford, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Wilford Brimley, Michael Madsen and Richard Farnsworth. There were several women (all seemingly muses or perhaps goddesses) in it, too. Which of these women WAS NOT in "The Natural"? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Michael Madsen's film starred him with Edward Furlong. The tagline for the movie was "Four robbers, two killers and way too many guns...". Which shoot-'em-up was this? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Furlong was only 13 years old when filming his first feature "Terminator 2". The huge hit made him an overnight star, although his raw acting skills had little to do with it. Dazzling special effects and a future California governor named Schwarzenegger did the trick nicely. Two years later, though, Edward found himself in a movie where it proved that this kid really did have some acting chops. It was a heartfelt family picture starring an Oscar winning actress. Which 1993 movie was it?

Answer: A Home of Our Own

"A Home of Our Own", while largely unnoticed at the box office, was really quite effective without being overly manipulative. An uprooted family (sans father) attempted to start a new life and moved into a veritable shack at the onset of this effort. They rebuilt the structure, formed uncharted familial bonds, and each grew up in the process of it. Edward Furlong played Shayne Lacey, a typical, rebellious (and generally angry) teenager in the precarious situation of being the "man" of the family, with Kathy Bates portraying his unstoppable mother.

It was, without question, a "feel good" movie, and Furlong's talent for exhibiting angst came through loud and clear.
2. This viewer strongly admires Miss Kathy Bates. Her roles are widely diverse and almost always wisely chosen, and there's an aura of genuineness about her that is both rare and refreshing. In 1983 she had a small part in a movie that was expected to be a blockbuster, but finally wasn't at all. In fact, the film bombed very loudly. The idea was, in a roundabout way, to capitalize on the popularity of the 1978 musical "Grease". The movie was "Two of a Kind". Which of the following best describes it, in ten words or less?

Answer: "It's the end of the world! Save us, bank tellers!"

It seems God had given up on the human race, finding the whole lot of it distasteful and, for the most part, one of His biggest disappointments and largest blunders. In a last ditch effort, four angels came to Earth in search of two random folks who would be nice people, and do a great sacrifice for one another despite their complete lack of familiarity with each other. Armageddon ended up in the hands of a thieving bank teller (Olivia Newton-John) and a con man inventor (John Travolta). Yes, the movie was dreadful, and the majority of the audience tried hard to recall the joy of Rydell High and the stars of this disaster when they were in "Grease" together.
3. The lovely Beatrice Straight (1914-2001) played an angel in "Two of a Kind", and boasted a long film career, possibly highlighted by her Oscar win for 1976's "Network". She was more often than not in secondary roles, but in 1979 she scored the part of a mostly beastly mother in a film where she went to great lengths to ensure that her son (Stephen Collins) didn't marry his beloved lady friend. It being a romance and all, let's just say Mama's goose got cooked at the end of the day, despite all that unfriendly plastic surgery and a brutal car accident. Which movie is this one?

Answer: The Promise

All of the films mentioned starred Kathleen Quinlan, but "The Promise", based on a novel by Danielle Steele, was the one in which she was horribly disfigured (nearly dead) after a fiery car crash. Since her boyfriend's rich Mother didn't like the girl to begin with, it came easy for her to concoct a plan to have the woman's destroyed face medically rebuilt, after exacting a promise that she'd go away and leave the heartbroken son (who thought his lover had been killed) alone forever.

The new face was impossible to resist so the young lady accepted straightaway. Do you think she and the old boyfriend met up again later? I wonder if he didn't recognize her at all? Now that we're asking questions: I wonder if they fell in love all over again? No need to ask, is there?
4. Stephen Collins, now forever associated with the well-rounded character of Reverend Eric Camden in TV's "Seventh Heaven" (1996-2006), made several feature films. One was a remake of an old tear-jerker in 1990, called "Stella", with Bette Midler and Trini Alvarado. Stella was a single mother raising a precocious daughter (again), but I'm wondering how Stella supported herself and her daughter in that version?

Answer: She was a waitress.

Stella Dallas has been portrayed by Belle Bennett (1925, a silent film) and Barbara Stanwyck (1937), and unfailingly gets put through the wringer each time. Very uncouth to begin with, she had a very trying time just getting by on her own, and being a mother proved especially challenging - but she was very staunch about doing her best.

A widow in earlier incarnations, Midler's version was just 'unwed' and, of course, Bette at her brashest. Collins, incidentally, played the young girl's father.
5. Trini Alvarado, born in 1967, was a "hot property" in her youth, expected to become an actress of great depth and glory. Unfortunately she had the audacity to grow up, and the adult roles were few and far between. Let's say, without any pause, she's never given Jodie Foster a run for her money. But in 1980 she scored a coveted part in a film with Tim Curry and someone named Robin Johnson. It was a "friends from different sides of the track" story, and hoped to do for punk rock music (using the term loosely) what "Saturday Night Fever" did for disco in 1977. It fell way short of that goal. What movie was it?

Answer: Times Square

First, I actually liked this movie. The story was mostly illogical and the music was some strange hybrid of any assortment of genres (but not quite annoying). The friendship between the two girls was hard to swallow, but, once swallowed, it digested just fine.

The problem with the film was that it didn't have any real heart to it. Robert Stigwood, the fellow responsible for "Fever", hoped the music would fill in the gaps, but it didn't. Miss Alvarado continued her career, but what about her friend Ms. Johnson? Her career came to a screeching halt before it really got started.
6. Tim Curry is a survivor, and there's no other way to describe him. He's played essentially every peculiar thing you can think of (almost) and has a knack for, while not always being 'good', being 'memorable', whatever he's up to. In 2004, he appeared in a very well-received role. Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard and Laura Linney were in the film with him. What best describes the movie in question?

Answer: Sex, science, and sensibilities

That was "Kinsey", where Neeson played renowned sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and Curry played an associate, Thurman Rice. The film took a predominately twisted view of both the doctor and his work, often insinuating (if not downright accusing) him of using it as little more than a platform for his own curiosities and desire for gratification. Laura Linney played Kinsey's wife, and managed to earn an Oscar nomination for her work.

It was a murky film and certainly not the sort of thing that everyone would find fractionally appealing or worthwhile. Good acting, though!
7. Jodie Foster, Sean Bean, Greta Scacchi and Peter Sarsgaard were in the 2004 thriller "Flightplan". In it, a mother was taking her husband's corpse to America for burial, accompanied by their 6-year old daughter. The child vanished, and from there, the chaos and mysteries abounded. In the film, how did the husband/father perish (or so we are led to believe as the film begins)?

Answer: He had intentionally jumped to his death.

The movie was not only intense and terrifying, it added the claustrophobic atmosphere of an airplane just to make it worse. One minute there and the next minute gone, Jodie was even told that her daughter was never there at all and had, in fact, died at the same time her father did (when he jumped he took her with him?). Our heroine had no business with any of it, and took on everybody to both get some answers, AND get her child back.

Interestingly, this role was not originally intended to be played by a woman and the parental genders were in the reverse. Jodie could, as it went, clearly hold her own as well as any guy could have, and one would never even think the part as being gender important at all.
8. Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster, Wilford Brimley and Nastassja Kinski (and others) made a movie in 1984 about a definitively eccentric family, led by a father who liked dancing bears. All in all, it was a curious film more than anything else, with dwarfs and stuffed/preserved pets, blindness and a great deal of sexual tension. Oh, yes, Sigmund Freud even made an appearance. Based on the novel by John Irving, what was the name of this quirky but fascinating tale?

Answer: The Hotel New Hampshire

The Berrys were a kooky bunch, but the 'parables of life' notion was covered many times over using them. Parts of it were notably gruesome (incest and rapes, etc.), while other parts were whimsical and lovely (the little girl who longed to be tall, but was doomed to be short in stature but enormous with wisdom for life, for example). Irving is a pretty hard author to translate into just one film since there are so many things going on in his novels.

This movie's biggest weakness was in trying to cover everyone, and everything.

In the end, we never got to know any one of the characters enough to warm up to them. It was, though, a pretty good piece of cinema despite a tendency towards confusion.
9. Also in 1984 came "The Natural", in my opinion one of Robert Redford's finest acting turns. Almost Arthurian in its symbolism (that baseball was certainly no less important than was King Arthur's Excalibur, and everything about the story was sprinkled, sometimes totally awash, with magic). Bernard Malamud wrote the richly layered novel, and the movie starred, along with Redford, Robert Duvall, Robert Prosky, Wilford Brimley, Michael Madsen and Richard Farnsworth. There were several women (all seemingly muses or perhaps goddesses) in it, too. Which of these women WAS NOT in "The Natural"?

Answer: Amy Irving

Each different and each spectacular, these women held a different key that led the baseballer to heights of an extreme, where he had nothing left to do but fall. The story was well-designed (most critics liked it but said it was more than likely "too mysterious for many").

It gained an audience, but never could be considered a blockbuster. The photography, music and art direction were all deservedly Academy Award nominated, as was Close for her supporting role.
10. Michael Madsen's film starred him with Edward Furlong. The tagline for the movie was "Four robbers, two killers and way too many guns...". Which shoot-'em-up was this?

Answer: Living and Dying

The movie involved a group of bad guys trying to get the best of another group of almost-as-bad guys, who then turned the tide and became just as bad as the other bad guys. The audience was led to find themselves rooting for one side as the heroes who would have, in any other film, be seen as villainous and despicable thugs. So, in 1991 Furlong was a mixed-up lad with an android for an ally, being protected so as to grow up and save the entire civilization. Fifteen years after that, he played a heat-packing criminal up to no good whatsoever. Somewhere in between those parts he managed, in real life, to be arrested for two traffic violations in a four hour period - the first for driving with no license, and the second for being drunk and causing a collision.

He fathered a child, too, and ended up in court facing charges of assault against the youngster's mother. Hollywood loves its bad boys and maybe, just maybe, that is the role that Edward Furlong was born to play. At any rate, I hope he doesn't burn out and die in the process.

He's supposed to save the world, after all! That eventual governor of California said so once in "Terminator 2" - albeit long before Mr. Schwarzenegger got that day job.
Source: Author Gatsby722

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