Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Which Oscar-winning actress was born Helen Lydia Mironoff?

2 Which job has been held by Barry Norman, Jonathan Ross and Claudia Winkleman?

3 Which mantle has been passed from Tobey Maguire to Andrew Garfield?

4 Who's that signing his poster last week in Berlin (below)?

5 Which Australian director derived his first name thanks to a supposed similarity to Basil Brush?

6 "Earth - it was fun while it lasted." The tagline to which 1990s smash?

7 Which film's title may be (the story has been disputed) an amalgam of Au Revoir les Enfantsand Straw Dogs?

8 Why might Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler make you think of Barack Obama?

9 Which two real-life historic figures have generated a record three separate acting nominations at the Oscars?

10 Westerns, Universal horror, silent cinema, Hitchcock (in that order). What are we talking about?

Answers:

1 Helen Mirren

2 Presenter of the BBC's Filmprogramme?

3 The role of Spider-Man

4 It's Josh Brolin

5 Baz Luhrmann

6 Independence Day

7 Reservoir Dogs

8 They were all born in Hawaii. (Tea Party lunatics may wish to insert the word "allegedly" in there.)

9 Henry VIII and Elizabeth 1. (Henry: Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, Robert Shaw in A Man for All Seasons, Richard Burton in Anne of the Thousand Days. Elizabeth: Cate Blanchet in Elizabethand Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love.)

10 Successive film parodies by Mel Brooks ( Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety)