Know A lot About "Indiana Jones"? Take This Quiz to Find Out

Question: How big a pencil-neck trivia geek are you?

Answer a series of forehead-slapping anecdotal factoids. It's up to you to weigh each fact in each anecdotal factoid. They're tricky. One might seem like total B.S. until it's revealed to be strangely and disturbingly "True." Another anecdotal factoid might seem to contain all solid and verifiable facts until it's revealed to be yet one more big fat garden variety "Bald-Faced Lie." And here's the trickiest part: an anecdotal factoid might even be "Half-True"; in other words, a mishmosh of truths and bald-faced lies, where you don't know where one ends and the other begins, much like the usual slop served by Madison Avenue, Washington D.C., and the Internet in its entirety.

Category: The Archaeologist that Kicks Butt Quiz

Decide for yourself, and mark "T" for "Truth", "F" for "Bald-Faced Lie" or "TF" for "Half-Truth" in the blank slot next to each factoid.

The answers will be revealed in a follow-up "Answers" article.

1) __ In "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", the film studio's insurer Fireman's Fund agreed to insure the 1,000 rats that were to be used in a scene with Harrison Ford. The insurance company agreed to cover any delay in filming caused by the rats being unable to perform, insuring the 1000 rats as if they were Screen Actors Guild actors.

2) __ Actor Tom Selleck was the original actor cast to play Indiana Jones. During pre-production, Tom Selleck backed out of the film because his television series "Magnum P.I." was about to go into production. Harrison Ford was then cast as Indy.

3) __ On the set of "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", a practical joke was played on Harrison Ford. In a scene where he was chained to a boulder, singer Barbra Streisand walked onto the set dressed in a black leather dominatrix outfit and proceeded to "whip" Ford.

4) __ "Star Wars" characters R2D2 and C-3PO made a cameo appearance in "Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Director Steven Spielberg

Credit: Department of Defense

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