Movie Quiz

Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1. Which current hit sells itself with the tagline “You’ve got a very important date”?

2. Christoph, Jeff and Sandra: who’s missing?

3. Who’s that enjoying himself at the Goya Awards (pictured)?

4. “Screen is a storm” is an anagram of which director?

5. Combine a famous American gay rights activist with an Irish Joyce scholar to create a movie star and karate expert.

6. Leaf, River, Rain, Summer and Liberty. Which groovy family?

7. ESP. Indestructible. Indications. The settlement. (In that order.) Who are we talking about?

8. Which child star grew up to become the US ambassador to Ghana?

9. Boxing classic. Singalong cult horror. Pioneering Irish documentary by Peter Lennon. What’s the connection?

10. What, during the 1940s and 1950s, did the protagonist do to a communist, a monster from outer space, a Nazi and a witch?

ANSWERS:

1. Alice in Wonderland

2. Mo’nique (Wwinners of acting awards at the Oscars)

3. Pedro Almodóvar

4. Martin Scorsese

5. Chuck Norris

6. Phoenix

7. M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village)

8. Shirley Temple (Black)

9. Rocky (

Rocky, The Rocky Horror Picture Show

and

The Rocky Road to Dublin

)

10. He or she married them. (The titles all begin “I Married…”.)