Trivia Bit: 'In one scene Jim West is walking up to the White House. The film-makers obviously want this scene to be funny as sheep are grazing on the White House lawn. But they forgot that this is the White House right after the Civil-War. They have a cast-iron gate surrounding the White House (as it looks today). The gate was not added until the 1930s.' (trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
2. Smart and Smarter
Answer: Dumb and Dumber
Trivia Bit: 'Jim Carrey refused to shoot an alternate ending of Harry and Lloyd getting on the bus with the Tropicana girls.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
3. Chocolate Ground
Answer: Vanilla Sky
Trivia Bit: 'The scene with Tom Cruise alone in Times Square is not computer enhanced. The production was given unprecedented permission to shut down Times Square for one Sunday. At the time, the news ticker was providing updates on the Bush-Gore election. To avoid dating the film, Crowe got permission to change the NASDAQ sign in post-production.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
4. Ugly Man
Answer: Pretty Woman
Trivia Bit: 'The opera Richard Gere takes Julia Roberts to is "La Traviata", which is about a prostitute who falls in love with a wealthy man.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
5. Small Mommy
Answer: Big Daddy
Trivia Bit: 'The "Scuba Steve" action figure in this movie is a fictional doll made up by Adam Sandler. "Scuba Steve" is based on a doll that Adam owned when he was a child, called Diver Dan.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
6. Stationary Groom
Answer: Runaway Bride
Trivia Bit: 'In development for 10 years. Actors attached at various times: Geena Davis, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Sandra Bullock, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Affleck, Téa Leoni.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
7. What Stands Above
Answer: What Lies Beneath
Trivia Bit: 'Many people claim that just as the final scene at the cemetery fades out to the closing credits, you can briefly see the shadows on the snow forming a face (Madison's or Norman's?). There are two eyes, a nose and lips across the entire screen. Others think this is imagination.' (I saw it, it's creepy.)(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
8. Many Bad Women
Answer: A Few Good Men
Trivia Bit: 'When searching for an appropriate setting for the trial, the producers learned that regular military courtrooms are plain and featureless offices. In order to create a more photogenic setting, they settled on an vacant courtroom in a empty courthouse.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
9. Live Soft
Answer: Die Hard
Trivia Bit: 'The scene in which Gruber and McClane meet was inserted in to the script after Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) was found to be proficient at mimicking American accents. The filmmakers had been looking for a way to have the two characters meet prior to the climax and capitalized on Rickman's talent.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
10. The Devil Mother
Answer: The Godfather
Trivia Bit: 'The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray the actor found while on the lot at Paramount, and was not originally called for in the script. So content was the cat that its purring muffled some of Brando's dialogue, and, as a result, most of his lines had to be looped.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
11. Untrue Truths
Answer: True Lies
Trivia Bit: 'The US Government supplied three Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736 ($2,410 per hour). Arnold Schwarzenegger learned how to land and take off a Harrier Jet for the climax of the film.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
12. The Slow and the Calm
Answer: The Fast and the Furious
Trivia Bit: 'The police scanner mounted on the dash on one of the "lookout" cars during the street race is an early-'80s Radio Shack Patrolman scanner which is not capable of receiving the current 800mhz digital trunking system currently used by L.A.P.D. and L.A. County Sheriff.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
13. Beginning of Nights
Answer: End of Days
Trivia Bit: 'A voice-over news announcer reports that blood has been seen coming from the hands of the infant Christ child in the sculpture "The Pieta". However, "The Pieta" does not depict the infant Jesus - it is a statue of Mary holding the dead body of the adult Jesus.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
14. Women In White
Answer: Men In Black
Trivia Bit: 'When J accidentally throws the "ball" in the MIB office, the ball briefly flies past the green alien "Quack" from the Joe Dante movie "Explorers". "Explorers" featured an almost identical scene with a flying sphere that goes out of control and smashes through things.'(trivia courtesy of imdb.com)
15. Pro Land
Answer: Con Air
Trivia Bit: 'Garland Greene (Steve Buscemi) says, while "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd is playing in the background: "Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash." On October 20, 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed. It was the model Convair 240.'
This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor DakotaNorth before going online.
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