Movie Quiz

Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1.

Which wizard’s next adventure will not be in 3D after all?

2.

Which brothers founded Miramax Pictures?

3.

Ballroom dancing. Shakespeare’s doomed lovers. Red windmill. The Antipodes. Whose complete oeuvre?

4.

Robin Hood. King Agamemnon. Richard 1. King Arthur. Which Scot?

5.

"He was the most extraordinary man I ever knew." The opening line of which epic?

6.

Who gets bad news about his dad after watching The Bells of St Marys?

7. Who makes his last film appearance - a voiceover turn - in next week’s animated feature Alpha and Omega?

8.

Who is the odd one out: Zac Efron, Zach Snyder, Zack Braff?

9.

Hotdog vendor, security guard, mailman, wedding crasher, “Larry King” and many others. Which publishing veteran?

10.

Which sometime baroness registered a patent for a class of modified nappy?

Answers

1

. Harry Potter

2.

Bob and Harvey Weinstein

3

. Baz Luhrmann

4

. Sean Connery (in Robin and Marion, Time Bandits, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and First Knight)

5

. Lawrence of Arabia

6

. Michael Corleone in The Godfather

7

. Dennis Hopper

8.

Zac Efron. He’s the only one whose first name is correctly spelled. It should be Zack Snyder and Zach Braff.

9.

Stan Lee (cameos in X-Men, Hulk, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

10.

Jamie Leigh Curtis (her husband, Christopher Guest, is a real baron)