50 Fun Facts About The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Which city does the adult T. rex rampage through in The Lost World: Jurassic Park after its ship hits the docks?

San Diego was a late change of plan: two months before filming, Steven Spielberg swapped a longer island ending for the city rampage.

A fleeing Japanese businessman's shouted line in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a joke about which movie monster?

Godzilla is the target: the man yells in Japanese about having fled Tokyo's monster troubles, a gag slipped in by the director and the screenwriter.

Which dinosaur's baby does Sarah Harding pet in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a species added by popular demand?

Stegosaurus joined the script after a child's letter to the screenwriter asked for it. Full-size adults were built for the shoot but went unused in favor of digital ones.

Which 1997 film beat The Lost World: Jurassic Park to both the year's biggest gross and the Visual Effects Oscar?

Titanic took both prizes, though The Lost World got in first with a record of its own: a $72.1 million opening weekend, the biggest up to that point.

Which actor returns as mathematician Ian Malcolm to lead the team in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Jeff Goldblum steps up to lead the cast, and his character only agrees to go because his girlfriend Sarah Harding is already on the island.

Which author wrote the 1995 novel behind The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the only sequel of his career?

Michael Crichton had never written a follow-up and at first refused, until pressure from fans and the first film's success changed his mind.

In The Lost World: Jurassic Park's city rampage, a bus rammed by the T. rex crashes into which store?

Blockbuster Video was a storefront built as a set, and sending the bus into it took pneumatics, cables, breakaway glass and charges.

What slips into Dr. Burke's shirt in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, panicking him out from behind a waterfall?

A snake does it: the milk snake startles him out of the hiding place, straight into the jaws of the dinosaur waiting outside.

Ian Malcolm's daughter kicks a predator through a window in The Lost World: Jurassic Park using which sport's skills?

Gymnastics saves her father: she swings on a pipe to launch the kick, a moment that critics of the film often single out.

In the televised interview that ends The Lost World: Jurassic Park, John Hammond says Isla Sorna has become what?

A nature reserve is the outcome, declared by the American and Costa Rican governments once the dinosaurs have been shipped home under Navy escort.

Which actress plays paleontologist Sarah Harding, Ian Malcolm's girlfriend, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Julianne Moore got the part because Steven Spielberg had admired her in The Fugitive and urged the screenwriter to write the role with her in mind.

Which actor, cast without a screen test, plays documentarian Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Vince Vaughn won the role after Steven Spielberg watched an early cut of a low-budget comedy whose makers wanted permission to use music from Jaws.

Which actor reprises InGen founder John Hammond, ousted from his own company, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Richard Attenborough committed early, saying in November 1994 that he would return, months before the sequel novel was even finished.

Which composer scored The Lost World: Jurassic Park while avoiding most of the first film's main themes?

John Williams went for a more action-driven sound and earned a Grammy nomination, and Steven Spielberg rates the result above the original's music.

Isla Sorna, where InGen bred its dinosaurs in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, goes by which company code name?

Site B was the factory floor: the animals were cloned and raised there before being moved to the theme park, until a hurricane forced staff to abandon the island.

Which small dinosaurs attack a girl on the beach as The Lost World: Jurassic Park opens?

Compsognathus got the scene from an unused chapter of the first novel, and effects supervisor Dennis Muren called the tiny animals the most complex digital dinosaur.

Which dinosaurs ambush the InGen team in a field of long grass in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Velociraptor packs strike unseen, in real grass grown for months on eight acres because any stalks flattened during a take would not stand back up.

The executive who seizes InGen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is which relative of founder John Hammond?

His nephew takes over by using the beach attack on a visiting family to turn the board against the founder, then plans to cash in on the surviving dinosaurs.

What injury do Sarah Harding and Nick Van Owen treat on the infant T. rex in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

A broken leg is set inside the research trailer, and the rescue backfires at once: both parents follow their baby's scent straight to the vehicle.

What on Sarah Harding's jacket leads the T. rexes to camp in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

The infant's blood, left from treating the baby, gives the camp away, and the panic that follows drives the survivors into even worse danger.

Ian Malcolm, the reluctant hero of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, specializes in which branch of mathematics?

Chaos theory makes him the story's resident doomsayer, and this time he returns to the dinosaurs only to bring his girlfriend home.

How do the T. rexes wreck the trailer after reclaiming their baby in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

They push it over a cliff with the heroes still inside, one of two ideas in the novel that Steven Spielberg liked and kept.

Which character stows away in the research trailer bound for Isla Sorna in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Kelly Curtis blends two children from the novel into one, and was rewritten as the hero's daughter after a tutoring subplot was scrapped.

Which character becomes the infant T. rex's first kill in a ship's hold in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Peter Ludlow goes after the baby himself and is caught by its father, a death borrowed from the fate of the novel's villain, Lewis Dodgson.

What does Nick Van Owen secretly take from hunter Roland Tembo in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

His bullets vanish so the male T. rex cannot be shot as a trophy, but the hunter simply brings the animal down with tranquilizers instead.

Which actor plays Roland Tembo, the big-game hunter after a T. rex trophy, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Pete Postlethwaite so impressed Steven Spielberg that the director later called him the best actor in the world.

The title The Lost World was borrowed in homage from a 1912 dinosaur adventure novel by which author?

Arthur Conan Doyle also inspired a plot trick: the sequel revives a hero declared dead in the first book, just as Sherlock Holmes was brought back.

After The Lost World: Jurassic Park opened, hackers swapped the T. rex on its website logo for which animal?

A duck took over the logo, and the title briefly became The Duck World: Jurassic Pond. The studio denied that the prank was a publicity stunt.

Which carmaker used a tie-in with The Lost World: Jurassic Park to launch a new sport utility vehicle?

Mercedes-Benz put its new ML 320 on screen, copying the product placement that had made the Ford Explorer a star of the first film.

Which character is killed by both adult T. rexes while towing the trailer in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Eddie Carr nearly lived: Steven Spielberg liked him enough to consider sparing him, until the actor playing him argued that the death raised the stakes.

Which screenwriter gave himself a cameo as a man eaten during The Lost World: Jurassic Park's city rampage?

David Koepp asked for the part himself, then found that acting opposite a dinosaur that would only be added digitally was harder than he expected.

Doomed dinosaur expert Dr. Burke in The Lost World: Jurassic Park is based on which real paleontologist?

Robert Bakker enjoyed watching his double get eaten: a rival adviser had requested the death, but Bakker felt it proved his view of the T. rex as a hunter.

Which dinosaur head-butts a hunter's vehicle during the InGen roundup in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Pachycephalosaurus needed three separate puppets, one of them a reinforced head built purely to survive ramming the truck.

Which flying reptile, cut from a helicopter attack, is seen only as The Lost World: Jurassic Park ends?

Pteranodon stayed in only because two producers wanted it kept after the original airborne finale was replaced by the city rampage.

Which overseas location was dropped from The Lost World: Jurassic Park as too costly, in favor of California?

New Zealand was meant to host the opening beach scene and the dinosaur roundup, until financial incentives from Humboldt County won the production over.

Which Hawaiian island, used for the first film, hosts the opening beach of The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Kauai was the last stop of the shoot, picked as a closer and cheaper beach after a five-day trip to a remote national park was cancelled.

Whose effects studio made the two nine-ton animatronic adult T. rexes seen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Stan Winston had a year less to work than on the first film, and the finished robots were so heavy that sets had to be built around them.

Which effects company made the 75 digital dinosaur shots in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Industrial Light & Magic animators videotaped elephants, rhinos and reptiles at a wildlife park to make the creatures move like living animals.

Nick Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park says he joined which environmental group to meet women?

Greenpeace turns him from thrill-seeker into saboteur: he slips into the hunters' camp and frees the captured dinosaurs.

Which actor, hired after his turn in Fargo, plays hunter Dieter Stark in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Peter Stormare wore a jacket covered in rubber dinosaurs for his death scene, in which a swarm of tiny predators brings his character down.

Which director offered to make The Lost World: Jurassic Park and ended up directing Jurassic Park III instead?

Joe Johnston got his wish four years later, taking over the 2001 sequel while Steven Spielberg stepped back to executive producer.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park's rampage echoes a 1925 film where a Brontosaurus runs amok in which capital?

London suffers in the 1925 silent version of The Lost World, a film the director pressed his screenwriter to watch more keenly than to read the sequel novel.

A chase cut from The Lost World: Jurassic Park and reworked for Jurassic World used which vehicles?

Motorcycles would have carried the heroes away from a hunting pack, as in the novel, and Steven Spielberg regretted losing the scene from the script.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park's InGen village set was built behind the house from which horror film?

Psycho's famous house stands on the Universal lot, and the village was left standing nearby afterwards to become a stop on the studio tour.

Steven Spielberg hesitated to direct The Lost World: Jurassic Park while busy launching which new film studio?

DreamWorks kept him wavering until two months after the novel came out, and he later admitted he grew disenchanted with the film while making it.

The names Roland and Van Owen in The Lost World: Jurassic Park salute a song by which singer-songwriter?

Warren Zevon sang about a mercenary called Roland and his nemesis, which is how the film's hired hunter and the activist who thwarts him got their names.

Which rival company in the novel was replaced by a second InGen team in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?

Biosyn and its leader Lewis Dodgson were cut, and Dodgson's grisly fate in the book was handed to a brand-new InGen villain.

Which dinosaur in The Lost World: Jurassic Park reused the first film's altered Brachiosaurus model?

Mamenchisaurus existed only as computer animation, yet a 70-foot recreation of one headlined a touring museum exhibit launched alongside the film.

Which city near Los Angeles doubled for the downtown streets in The Lost World: Jurassic Park's T. rex rampage?

Burbank was chosen just 16 days before the sequence was due to shoot, and the crew took over five city blocks behind barricades that passed for roadworks.

The first trailer for The Lost World: Jurassic Park aired in January 1997 during which televised sporting event?

The Super Bowl spot followed a cinema teaser that used synchronized strobe lights in 42 theaters to mimic lightning during a rain scene.