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Quiz about Favourite Movies at Red John Towers
Quiz about Favourite Movies at Red John Towers

Favourite Movies at Red John Towers Quiz


Here at Red John, we love movies, but there are some that we love more than most. Can you answer these questions about our ten favourite movies?

A multiple-choice quiz by Red_John. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
Red_John
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
400,313
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - Lt Schaeffer, played by Clint Eastwood, is the only American in the otherwise all-British group attempting to infiltrate the Schloss Adler. Which intelligence organisation is he identified as being a member of? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "RoboCop" (1987) - The exterior of which US city's main municipal building was used to represent the corporate headquarters of OmniConsumer Products? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Top Hat" (1935) - Although filmed entirely on sound stages on the RKO Radio Pictures lot, which Italian city was the primary setting of the film? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) - "Star Trek II" begins on Admiral Kirk's birthday, with Spock presenting him with the gift of an antique copy of which novel? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989) - Actor Andrew McCarthy appeared in both "Weekend at Bernie's" and the 1987 film "Mannequin", but which of his cast mates from 1989 subsequently appeared in "Mannequin 2"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "The Battle of the River Plate" (1956) - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were able to obtain significant cooperation in the use of warships for the film, but which ship, that took part in the actual battle from 1939, played herself? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "MASH" (1970) - Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones is a neurosurgeon drafted into the 4077th MASH not just for his surgical skills, but also due to the fact that he played professional football. Which team did he play for before his career in medicine? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Blade Runner" (1982) - During the film, the lead character, Rick Deckard, daydreams of a mythological creature. What creature does he see in his daydream? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) - Although a relatively faithful adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, the film does feature some changes. One of these sees Poirot's Belgian friend, the director of the railway, change nationality. Which nationality is he in the film? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "The Name of the Rose" (1986) - As well as having Sean Connery in the lead role of William of Baskerville, the film also features a former Bond villain as one of the main supporting parts. Which actor plays The Abbot? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Where Eagles Dare" (1968) - Lt Schaeffer, played by Clint Eastwood, is the only American in the otherwise all-British group attempting to infiltrate the Schloss Adler. Which intelligence organisation is he identified as being a member of?

Answer: Office of Strategic Services

"Where Eagles Dare" originally came about when actor Richard Burton approached producer Elliott Kastner to see if he had any film ideas that were action oriented, as his stepsons had requested him to do something that they could enjoy; most of his film work at that point having been fairly highbrow. Kastner approached novelist Alistair MacLean who, having had most of his novels either filmed or in the process of being filmed, produced an original story called "Castle of Eagles". Kastner loved the story, but hated the title, and instead chose a line from Act I, Scene III of "Richard III" - "The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch" - as his title. Burton and his co-star Clint Eastwood subsequently dubbed the film "Where Doubles Dare", as a result of the amount of time their stand-ins were used in the film's extensive action sequences.
2. "RoboCop" (1987) - The exterior of which US city's main municipal building was used to represent the corporate headquarters of OmniConsumer Products?

Answer: Dallas

Although the setting for RoboCop was Detroit, the majority of location shooting for the film took place in Dallas between August and October 1986. A number of Dallas landmarks, such as the Reunion Tower, are visible in the cityscapes seen over the course of the film.

The front of the seven storey Dallas City Hall, completed in 1978, served as the headquarters of OCP with the addition of a matte painting that turned it into a skyscraper, while the old Dallas Municipal Building was used as Detroit City Hall. Owing to the high temperatures prevalent in Texas in the summer, Peter Weller, who played the lead role of Murphy/RoboCop, was losing up to three pounds a day simply through sweating as a result of the bulky costume and working in temperatures up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
3. "Top Hat" (1935) - Although filmed entirely on sound stages on the RKO Radio Pictures lot, which Italian city was the primary setting of the film?

Answer: Venice

In the musical films produced by RKO Radio Pictures and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, of which "Top Hat" is perhaps the most famous, what became known as the "Big White Set", the massive, Art Deco inspired set upon which the majority of the action in the film would take place, tended to absorb most of the production budget. On "Top Hat", a winding canal feature, spanned by a pair of staircase bridges at one end and a flat bridge at the other, was constructed across a pair of sound stages. Around the curve of the canal at the flat bridge end was a stylistic interpretation of the Lido di Venezia built on three levels, which formed the backdrop for the film's climactic musical number, "The Piccolino".
4. "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) - "Star Trek II" begins on Admiral Kirk's birthday, with Spock presenting him with the gift of an antique copy of which novel?

Answer: A Tale of Two Cities

After being hired as producer of the second "Star Trek" movie, Harve Bennett, who had never seen the series, watched every episode, from which he determined that the issue with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" was the lack of a discernible enemy. Focusing on the episode "Space Seed", featuring Ricardo Montalban as Khan Noonien Singh, Bennett saw the character of Khan as perfect to fill that space in the new film. Director Nicholas Meyer, using the outlines and ideas that Bennett and others had come up with, then produced a screenplay that eventually became "The Wrath of Khan".

This included, at actor Leonard Nimoy's request, the death of Spock; this part of the script was eventually transferred to the film's finale, with Spock making a noble and heroic sacrifice in the manner of Sydney Carton at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities".
5. "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989) - Actor Andrew McCarthy appeared in both "Weekend at Bernie's" and the 1987 film "Mannequin", but which of his cast mates from 1989 subsequently appeared in "Mannequin 2"?

Answer: Terry Kiser

Although Terry Kiser has had an acting career going back to the late sixties, he is best known for his portrayal of Bernie Lomax in "Weekend at Bernie's". For the majority of the film, the character of Bernie is a corpse, having been murdered approximately 20 minutes in, but despite this very little use of models or mannequins was used in the production process - the only major sequence where a dummy had to be used was the boat scene, where Bernie is pulled behind the speeding powerboat.

Besides this, the corpse of Bernie was portrayed largely by Kiser or his stunt double.
6. "The Battle of the River Plate" (1956) - Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were able to obtain significant cooperation in the use of warships for the film, but which ship, that took part in the actual battle from 1939, played herself?

Answer: HMS Achilles

The Battle of the River Plate was a surface action that took place in December 1939 between the German ship "Admiral Graf Spee" and three cruisers of the Royal Navy. When Powell and Pressburger came to produce a film based on the events, they worked alongside the Royal Navy to obtain the use of warships to provide realistic exterior footage of ships at sea, which was part of a then policy of cooperation between the Royal Navy and film producers.

In addition, both the US Navy and the Indian Navy also provided ships for use in the film - the cruiser INS Delhi, which was provided by India, had originally been built as HMS Achilles, one of the three cruisers that took on the Admiral Graf Spee in the original battle.

Another cruiser, HMS Cumberland, also appeared in the film as herself; although part of the force in the South Atlantic, Cumberland did not take part in the battle, but joined up with Achilles and HMS Ajax subsequent to its taking place.
7. "MASH" (1970) - Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones is a neurosurgeon drafted into the 4077th MASH not just for his surgical skills, but also due to the fact that he played professional football. Which team did he play for before his career in medicine?

Answer: San Francisco 49ers

Spearchucker is drafted into the 4077th as a 'ringer' on the recommendation of "Hawkeye" Pearce, who has set up an inter-unit football game with the 325th Evac Hospital, with the possibility of winning big on bets placed with General Hammond. In the film, Spearchucker is played by three-time AFL All-Star defensive back Fred Williamson. Two years later, the character transitioned to the TV sitcom based on the film, this time played by former NFL running back Timothy Brown, who had previously appeared in the film as Corporal Judson.

However, the character was dropped early in the first season. Timothy Brown was one of four actors to appear in both the film and the TV series.
8. "Blade Runner" (1982) - During the film, the lead character, Rick Deckard, daydreams of a mythological creature. What creature does he see in his daydream?

Answer: Unicorn

One of the elements of "Blade Runner" is the presence of replicants, which are synthetic lifeforms created to appear human. A continuing debate among fans of the film is whether the character of Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, the eponymous 'Blade Runner' of the film's title, is actually a replicant himself.

The scene in which Deckard daydreams of the unicorn is included in both the Director's Cut and Final Cut of "Blade Runner"; included in every version of the film is a scene at the end where Deckard, while fleeing Los Angeles, discovers an origami unicorn left by the character of Gaff.

This has been taken to mean that Gaff knows that Deckard has implanted memories, just as a replicant would. However, although director Ridley Scott has stated his belief that Deckard is a replicant, Harrison Ford has equally stated his belief that the character isn't.
9. "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974) - Although a relatively faithful adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, the film does feature some changes. One of these sees Poirot's Belgian friend, the director of the railway, change nationality. Which nationality is he in the film?

Answer: Italian

The 1974 film version of "Murder on the Orient Express" sees a number of significant changes to the names of various characters, with the most obvious one being the switch of Poirot's friend, and the director of the railway company, Monsieur Bouc, a fellow Belgian, to become the Italian Signor Bianchi, played by Martin Balsam.

This is somewhat ironic, as in the novel, Bouc himself has a dislike of Italians.
10. "The Name of the Rose" (1986) - As well as having Sean Connery in the lead role of William of Baskerville, the film also features a former Bond villain as one of the main supporting parts. Which actor plays The Abbot?

Answer: Michael Lonsdale

Michael Lonsdale was born in Paris to an Irish mother and an English father, being brought up first in London and then Casablanca, before moving back to the city of his birth following the Second World War, where, despite plans to study painting, he eventually came to become an actor. Fluent in both English and French, Lonsdale has appeared in almost 200 film and television productions in both languages, most famously in the role of the billionaire Hugo Drax in "Moonraker" opposite Roger Moore as James Bond.

In addition to appearing with Sean Connery in "The Name of the Rose", he has played opposite a third James Bond actor when he was in the 2005 film "Munich" with Daniel Craig.
Source: Author Red_John

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