Rollercoaster (Motion Picture) quiz posted on Sploofus

[Oship]

Hey everybody,

I posted a quiz on the trivia site Sploofus about the motion picture
Rollercoaster (1977). For those of you with Sploofus accounts the URL
for the main page of the quiz is:

http://sploofus.com/triviaquiz/rollercoaster_film.html

Check it out the next time you're Sploofusing anf post here how well
you did. Many of you have seen the movie and will score well, the real
challenge for this crowd is quickly your timing is.

In about a week I'll post the top 10 from the quize leaderboard.

MARK

[tbar...@yahoo.com]

Fun quiz, but the questions were way too long.

[Oship]

Acrually when you write longer questions like that, you have a better
chance of having the editors award you an editor's choice award, which
gives you more Sploofus points.

[haunt...@yahoo.com]

This is an incorrect answer to the question given:

As mentioned in a previous question, Ocean View Park was a real
amusement park located in Norfolk, VA. However, in the film the parks
location was said to be in California. In rela life, the park had been
closed for a few years prior to the filming of Rollercoaster. What was
unusual about the sequences of Rollercoaster that were filmed at Ocean
View Park?

THE CORRECT ANSWER (as given on Sploofus) WAS: The park's roller
coaster, the Sky Rocket, was demolished and its' destruction was filmed
and used in Rollercoaster to simulate a coaster train crash and the
subsequent collaspse of the structure.

Actually, the coaster was "not" destroyed and filmed and used in
Rollercoaster to simulate a coaster train crash. That plus there was
no collapse of the structure. In reality, the station house turn was
rigged to have fake coaster cars fly off and land in the park below.
The coaster's actual destruction, collapse, etc., was filmed for a made
for television movie "The Death of Ocean View Park".

[Oship]

Thanks for your input. I'll see if I can edit the answer.

[Oship]

The answer has been edited. But in the film Rollercoaster, the coaster
did collapse after the crash, although not all of the collapse was
shown. When Simon Davenport (Fonda) calls Harry Calder (Segal) to tell
him about the accident, his words to Harry when Harry asked him what
happened are: "It just collapsed!" From what I've heard is the the
original sequence, which was shortened for the theatrical release, was
longer and more violent, and did show a structure collapse which must
have been simulated since hauntventfx appears to be correct about the
demolition being for the film The Death of Ocean View Park, whihc I did
acknowledge in the final question.

MARK