Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions... and answers

Questions

1 Who unites such unlikely characters as Martin Cahill, Winston Churchill and Menelaus?

2 Who is the odd one out: Kevin Costner, Errol Flynn, Frank Sinatra, Patrick Bergin, Russell Crowe?

3 How are Smalls, Tuffnell, St Hubbins and Savage better known?

4 A Macedonian-born ruler. Two buildings. A letter. Insomniac currency. Whose last four?

5 The soundtrack LP to which film features titles such as I Work the Whole City, Betsy in a White Dressand Sport and Iris?

6 What might you hear in Man on Wire, The End of the Affair, Gattacaand The Claim?

7 Who is the actor celebrating a successful party conference (above)?

8 What's missing from Airplane, Goodbye, Lenin, The Informantand Moulin Rouge?

9 What links Robert Langdon, Maverick, Charles Bronson and Renfield?

10 What will you find at Queensgate, 23 Dock Rd, Galway?

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Answers

1. Brendan Gleeson

2. Frank Sinatra. All the rest played Robin Hood. (Though Frank was Robbo in

Robin and the 7 Hoods

)

3. Spinal Tap

4. Oliver Stone (Alexander, World Trade Center, W, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)

5. Taxi Driver

6. A soundtrack by Michael Nymana

7. Jim Broadbent (as Dennis Thatcher in the upcoming

The Iron Lady

)

8. An exclamation point!

9. All played by Tom (Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code, Tom Cruise in Top Gun, Tom Hardy in Bronson, Tom Waits in Francis Coppola’s Dracula)

10. The Irish Film Board