The "Lost" Secrets Behind Oceanic 815 In Oahu Quiz

Answer: $10 million

This episode, which showed the first 24 hours for the survivors after the crash, took over a month to film and cost about $10 million to produce, making "The Pilot" one of the highest priced pilots in television history (it cost $250,000 alone to ship the plane pieces to Oahu). On the original airing date, "The Pilot" attracted approximately 18.65 million viewers worldwide. (Even before it was designated to ABC for fall 2004, the network had ordered several additional scripts beyond "The Pilot".) The first season covers the first 40 days on the island, with the intentional biblical reference of "40 days".

Answer: "House Of The Rising Sun" (October 27, 2004)

Even before the show aired, there were "Lost" fans. (The opening was sold out before the first episode even aired, and had to be re-booked to fit a larger audience.) After the pilot episode, nearly every episode following scored over 16 million viewers and won ABC the highest ratings on the evening of the original airing.
It seemed "Lost" had claimed Wednesdays on the calendars of devoted- and curious- fans as the mysteries continued to unfold with each new episode.

Answer: Michael Keaton

Originally, the character of Jack Shepard was supposed to appear in only one episode and be killed off after the first. J.J.Abrams (creator of "Lost") offered the role of Jack to Michael Keaton, but Keaton rejected it when the character was kept alive. Instead, Matthew Fox took the role and became Jack.
William Mapother guest-starred as Ethan Rom and Dominic Monaghan, of course, became Charlie Pace.
In addition, Yunjin Kim (Sun) originally auditioned for the role of Kate. Although it was decided that the role was not right for her, the producers were so impressed that they created the Korean couple of Sun and Jin for her.

Answer: Special

Although several episodes, before and after, focused mainly on more than one character (such as "House Of The Rising Sun" and "Hearts and Minds") "Special" was the first to show both point of views in the flashbacks. Although the flashbacks were primarily Michael's point of view, the time in which Walt was with his mother and Brian (and the bird died) could only have been Walt's memory. "House Of The Rising Sun", while focusing on Sun and Jin, showed flashbacks from only Sun's point of view. This allowed the audience to be inclined to believe in one certain way, while "In Translation" (from Jin's point of view) changed the perception when the whole story was told.

Answer: Valley Of The Temples

The stunningly beautiful "Korean house" was actually filmed and located in the Valley Of The Temples, a unique cemetery in Oahu (located near Kaneohe).
Old Pali Road, Oahu, was the site near which the first few days of filming for "Lost" took place. (This was where Kate, Jack, and Charlie find the cockpit and later, the pilot in the tree.)
Waikane Valley is where the filming took place when Sawyer, Kate, Boone, Shannon, Sayid and Charlie were hiking through the jungle and encountered the mysterious polar bear.
Likeke Trail is near Old Pali road, but no filming took place here. If you'll notice during the credits, at the end of each episode is "The producers gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the people of Hawaii and their Aloha spirit."

Answer: Charlie was created for Dominic Monaghan based off his real experiences

The unfortunate and slightly distraught "Charlie Pace" was almost a very different character. "Charlie" was originally supposed to be a much older, middle-aged faded rock star. However, like with Yunjin Kim, the producers were so impressed by Dominic Monaghan that the character was recreated, and Charlie became a much younger (as Sawyer said) "VH-1 has-been".
Charlie's dynamic appearance featured, in various episodes, black nails, tape with the words "Fate" and "Late" on his fingers, and a tattoo bearing the words "Living is easy with eyes closed" (a lyric from "Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles).
Dominic Monaghan also has a tattoo on his right shoulder, which relates to his previous role in the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy. (The symbol is the Elfish number nine.)
In earlier episodes, with scenes where Charlie was snorting "heroin", (it was actually brown sugar) Charlie was identified by his dark hooded sweatshirt. After he came out of his "cocoon" (like the moth) the character opened up and Charlie became very close to Claire.

Answer: "Confidence Man"

This song played at the very end of the episode, as Sayid walked (alone) down the beach to leave the camps and map out the island. He told Kate before he left that he did not feel that he had a right to stay after breaking the promise he made to himself and doing what he did to Sawyer. Music was often incorporated well with the episodes, usually through Hurley's CD player, until the batteries died at the end of "In Translation".

Other songs which often seemed trivial but held greater symbolism and significance of the lyrics (hint: listen closely) were "La Mer", the French version of "Beyond the Sea" from "Finding Nemo" (the lyrics of which were scrawled on Danielle's maps) and the very popular "You All Everybody" by Drive Shaft.

Answer: True

The name and logo of this popular and doomed airline appeared in many other television programs and motion pictures, and "Oceanic" is now more or less a red flag in Hollywood for a flight doomed for disaster. Oceanic appeared in "Executive Decision", in which Oceanic Flight 343 was hijacked by terrorists (and both pilots were killed); "Nowhere To Land"; an episode of "JAG"; "Category 6; Day of Destruction"; "Panic In The Skies" and "After The Sunset". In most the same logo also appears, though no real Oceanic airline existed when "Lost" was created. (And after, who would dare step on board?)
There was once, apparently, a genuine airline named "Trans Oceanic Airways" (Australian, of course) which existed in the 1940's and 1950's.
Obviously, a ticket to Oceanic is a gateway to disaster. (Especially Gate 23, in particular.) Advice to the wise: don't fly Oceanic.

Answer: False

Although this was a breakthrough in the relationship between Shannon and Sayid (and their first on-screen kiss), the first between the survivors would have been Kate and Sawyer in "Confidence Man".
Real love also appeared for awhile between actors Dominic Monaghan and Evangeline Lilly. The two dated off-screen for some time during the filming of "Lost".

Answer: "Deus Ex Machina" and "Outlaws"

Tom was the name of the man Kate loved (and whose death she was responsible for). He was introduced in "Born To Run" and it was revealed that the toy plane Kate longed for belonged to him. (It resembles a small model of the Oceanic plane. Meanwhile, Thomas was Claire's boyfriend back in Australia, and the father of her child Aaron. (This appeared in the only Claire-centric episode, "Raised By Another".)
In "Whatever The Case May Be", the bank manager with whom Kate spoke (and who tried to save her during the robbery) was Mark Hutton. Marc Silverman was a childhood friend of Jack, who was first introduced in the episode "White Rabbit" and later appeared in the tuxedo shop with Jack before he got married in "Do No Harm".
Brian Porter was the boss/boyfriend (and eventually husband) of Walt's mother, who turned Walt over to Michael in the episode "Special". Shannon had an abusive boyfriend (so it seemed- it was actually a set up so that Boone would pay $50,000 (a la numbers) for him to leave) named Bryan. This occurred in the flashbacks from Boone's perspective in "Hearts And Minds".
The reasoning and/or meaning behind the recurrence of names in most likely to present a fact that although each passenger's life was very different from the next, there was common ground between all of them. (It is highly probable that if one were to look back and carefully examine each of the flashbacks, some of the numbers may appear as well.)
Repetition of similar names can be found between other episodes as well, such as Frank being the name of both the wealthy father Charlie's ex-girlfriend Lucy (whom he conned into stealing from) in "Homecoming" and the man Sawyer shot in "Outlaws" (whom he was conned into believing was the real Sawyer who had ruined his life). Also, Eddie was the name of the man at the gates of Locke's father's house in "Deus Ex Machina" and Edward was the first name of Edward Mars, the U.S. Marshal escorting Kate aboard the plane. (He was first introduced in the first episode, "The Pilot, Part One".)

Answer: Jorge García

Jorge García's character Hurley at first appeared to hold a role of providing comic relief to the more serious characters (such as building a golf course and his amusing one liners, often beginning with "dude"). It was later revealed that Hurley played a much greater role than anyone knew, possibly being responsible for the crash with his mysterious "cursed" numbers.
The numbers which he used to win the lottery appeared on the mysterious hatch, linking them to the island in an unknown way.
Communication was presented as an obvious concern throughout the many different interactions between characters. Aside from Jin and Sun's language barrier, Rousseau's crucial clues needed to be translated from French. In her transmission (which she revealed to have changed from the original that was repeating the cursed numbers) that was picked up by the transceiver in "The Pilot, Part Two", Shannon translated the message "Il les a tués tous" as "It killed them all". Many therefore believed that the "it" referred to the notorious island monster (which Danielle referred to as a "security system"). However, in French the pronoun "Il" can mean either "it" OR "he". (Could this be a critical clue? Hmmmm.)
Another possible- and extremely important- transmission error occurred when Boone discovered a working radio transmitter in the Nigerian plane and sent the SOS call; "We're the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815!" While the original response via radio is indistinguishable and debated, a recap video of "Deus Ex Machina" played on the ABC web site had the transmission clearly audible as "No, we're the survivors of Flight 815". Keep in mind that this particular video was released on April 1, 2005 (April Fool's Day).
In addition to numbers and transmissions, locations are also key details (as all three of the prior have seemingly played a role in drawing those involved to the island). Danielle's team had come from Tahiti; the drug smugglers'/"Priests'" plane, from Nigeria; the ship known as the "Black Rock" (which was mysteriously several miles inland in the jungle) also from Africa, possibly Mozambique, and carrying slaves. Hurley's friend Leonard heard the transmission while at their post in the Pacific.
Hurley's "messages in a bottle" could also be significant in many ways, as time and even a parallel dimension can be referred to.

Answer: Mokuleia Beach

The beautiful white-sanded Mokuleia Beach stretches for about six miles, bordering some of Oahu's last undeveloped shoreline, and is located near Kaena Point (Oahu's northwest tip).
Mokuleia Beach is over thirty miles away from Kaaawa Valley (on the east coast) where many jungle scenes were filmed. Kaaawa Valley is one of very few valleys which are privately owned and was the site of quite a few productions, including a famous chase scene from "Jurassic Park".
At the beginning of production, "Lost" scenes were shot entirely outdoors. However, due to inclement and unpredictable weather, an indoor studio for the "cave scenes" was created. This scene, complete with life-like rubber rocks (so as not to pick up on sounds of actors and crew members walking on them) also holds the mysterious waterfall.

Answer: 36

This real Spanish comic book, which Walt is seen looking at in earlier episodes, is revealed to have belonged to Hurley in the very last episode. It features a polar bear and a scene with a domed island-like habitat and is loaded with significance and symbolism. The featured pages (and presumably the most significant) include page 34 (hmmm), on which a character looks at the isolated island domed above the planet and surrounded by snow says (translated) "It's exactly the same; it looks just like it did fifty years ago". The other is page 36, which features an angry polar pear and the joke made by the superhero, "Es una alfombra de piel del oso... con el oso adentro"- "One of those bearskin rugs... with the bear still in it."
Other pieces of writing and literature also appear. In several episodes, particularly "Confidence Man", Sawyer is seen reading "Watership Down", a novel by Richard Adams about a group of lost bunnies that work together to find a new home. He is later seen reading Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle In Time" in the episode "Deus Ex Machina".
Some scenes from "Lost" episodes are also comparable to those from other sources as well. The scene from "The Pilot" in which Charlie is on the plane and is chased by flight attendants as he sneaks drugs into the bathroom is very close to a scene described in Stephen King's novel, "The Dark Tower, Volume Two: The Drawing Of The Three". Another such scene occurs in "Exodus, Part One", where a scene with Michael and Jin working on the raft is comparable to a scene from "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" between Chewbacca and Han. (In fact, Sawyer later refers to them as "Han and Chewy".)
Even the names have significance. Philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke, held similar perspectives on society and provided a basis for the mysterious characters of Danielle Rousseau and John Locke. The "real" John Locke was an English philosopher from the late 1600's who reasoned that all human beings in their natural, pre-social state were happy, equal, and tolerant before forming and entering a society. This is known as the theory "Lockeian Pre-Social Man". (Interestingly, "tabula rasa" (title of Locke-centric episode number three) was part of John Locke's theory that all are born with a "soft tablet", an empty mind which will be shaped by experiences.)
Meanwhile Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a French philosopher from just after the time of John Locke, wrote the famous piece, "The Social Contract". This pessimistic view of society opened with the statement that "Man is born free and is everywhere in chains", and described that a corrupt society destroyed the "natural state" of civil equilibrium and balance. When taken from the grips of society, Rousseau theorized, man could become noble.

Answer: "Raised By Another"

Religion-related irony is all around in the series, from the documented first 40 days on the island to the title of the final episode, "Exodus". An "exodus" refers to a departure, and relates to the second book of the Torah (of the Five Books of Moses) in which Hebrew slaves were led by Moses on an escape from Egyptian rule. (This also relates because slaves were found aboard the Black Rock, and the smugglers from Nigeria were disguised as priests.) Claire's child's name was "Aaron", who was the brother of Moses.

Inside the statues of the Virgin Mary were the temptation to sin (for Charlie). Jack's father's name was, ironically, "Christian Shepard" and he appeared as a ghost to lead Jack around the island to startling discoveries. The bodies found in the caves were nicknamed "Adam and Eve" and it was theorized by some that they were in fact the bodies of Amelia Earhart and her copilot, though no evidence was given to support this in the first season.

The black and white symbolism also appeared throughout the earlier episodes in particular- at one point, in Claire's dream in "Raised By Another", Locke had an eye of each color. (Locke undoubtedly represents some type of supernatural force on the island after his ability to recover from paralysis.)

Answer: 5

The final "Exodus" episode was originally supposed to air in only two parts and run a length of 90 minutes. It was changed to a two hour (and three part) season finale due to last minute filming and changes to the ending. (Several alternate endings were shot prior to the end of the filming for the season.) So there became "Exodus" part one, two, and three.
Even with the additional time, one particular scene which the writers had hoped to included but had to eliminate due to time constrictions. The scene featured Charlie and Claire observing Danielle Rousseau (who was seen eating the raw contents of a bird egg and then seated thoughtfully on the beach). Charlie told Claire that he thought Rousseau was genuinely insane and Claire revealed that after she had been taken by Ethan, she knew the "Others" would return. (This was why she was superstitious about naming the baby.) It was later revealed after the baby was kidnapped that his name was Aaron.
By this time the island's casualties of Flight 815 were; the Marshal (Edward Mars), Joanna, Scott Jackson (not to be confused with Steve Jenkins, as is a commonality on the island), Boone Carlisle, and finally Leslie Arzt (after literally exploding in the final episode). This leaves the season one survivor count at 45. According to the writers, the unknown man person who was sucked into the plane in the first episode and the pilot did not count towards the original 48 survivors. Neither does Ethan Rom (who was already on the island, presumably). If these three were added to the list, it would bring the remaining survivors to 42, and those killed 8, both of which are also "cursed" numbers. Possibly killed was Sawyer, who was shot in the final episode, or any of the other rafters who may have drowned (though fortunately it is unlikely for the storyline).
While many answers were found in the aspects of fate and destiny, as well as a glimpse into the flashbacks of each main survivor as they boarded the plane, many more questions were left unanswered for season two. (The significance of the cursed numbers, the fate of those on the raft, the real explanation for the monster/security system, and the contents of the hatch, to name a few.)

*Note* Much of the information gathered for this quiz (and more interesting facts) can be found at tvtome.com.