If you’re not whipped into a frenzy that Harrison Ford is back for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” it might be because you’ve forgotten the finer points of his three big-screen adventures. Before Ford’s other iconic character, Han Solo, can snidely ask, “Where did you dig up that old fossil?” here is a quiz about all things Indy.
1. In “The Last Crusade,” we learn that Indiana was the name of the family dog. Where did the name really come from?
2. Where did Indy study archeology under Professor Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion, he seduced?
3. Who originally was cast to play Indiana Jones?
4. Name the actor who played a bad guy in both a “Spider-Man” and an “Indy” movie.
5. Before she was hard-drinking Marion in “Raiders,” in what hard-drinking movie did Karen Allen make her film debut?
6. What “Saturday Night Live” alum has a cameo in “Temple of Doom”?
7. In “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” is the cobra that comes face-to-face with Indiana Jones real?
8. What made him loathe snakes so?
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9. How did filmmakers create the melting face at the end of “Raiders”?
10. What was the original name of “Temple of Doom”?
ANSWERS
1. Producer George Lucas’ dog Indiana, an Alaskan malamute
2. University of Chicago
3. Tom Selleck was first cast to play Indiana Jones, but CBS wouldn’t let him out of his “Magnum, P.I.” contract.
4. Alfred Molina played the sneaky South American guide in the “Raiders” opening scene and rampaging Doc Ock in “Spider-Man 2.”
5. Karen Allen played Katy, Boon’s girlfriend, in 1978’s “Animal House.”
6. His face is in shadow, but that’s Dan Aykroyd escorting Indiana and Willie to a plane at the Shanghai airport.
7. The cobra is very real, so much so that a sheet of glass separates it and Harrison Ford. In addition, 8,000 to 10,000 other snakes were writhing around nearby.
8. As shown in the prologue in “Crusade,” young Indiana falls into a crate of snakes aboard a circus train.
9. Colored gelatin was layered onto a stone skull and melted off with two propane heat guns.
10. “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death,” but that was deemed too gloomy.
[SOURCES: PARAMOUNT PICTURES, THERAIDER.NET, IMDB.COM]