Ultimate 62-Question Hollywood Movie Trivia Quiz: Hard Mode for Cinephiles
Round 4: Hardcore Production & Industry Secrets (Questions 39-51)
- Which film is often called “the most cursed production in history” due to a series of plane crashes and lightning strikes?
- What is the “Wilhelm Scream,” and in which film did it originate?
- Which director famously used a “MacGuffin” as a plot device?
- Which 1999 film was shot entirely on handheld digital cameras to simulate a documentary?
- Who is the most nominated person in Academy Award history (not an actor)?
- Which film features the longest tracking shot in history (before the digital era)?
- What does the “A113” appearing in almost every Pixar film refer to?
- Which actor refused his Oscar for The Godfather and sent a Native American activist in his place?
- What was the first movie to be rated X (later changed to R) and still win Best Picture?
- Which 1993 film had its production famously overseen by George Lucas while the director was away filming Schindler’s List?
- Who is the only person to win an Oscar for a film they also directed, produced, and starred in?
- What was the first feature-length film made entirely with CGI?
- Which movie lost its entire digital render just before release and was saved by a backup on a worker’s home computer?
The fact about Toy Story 2 (Q51) is even crazier than it sounds. When an accidental command started deleting the film’s files, the team watched as Woody’s hat, then his boots, then entire scenes vanished in real-time. The only reason the movie exists is that an engineer, Galyn Susman, had been working from home to care for her newborn and had a complete backup on her personal computer.
