Movie Quiz

Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1 Schindler, Kinsey, Collins, Aslan, Gawain. Which Antrim man?

2 The anti-hero of which of this week’s releases has also been played by Mickey Mouse, Michael Caine and Alistair Sim?

3 One flew east, one flew west . . . Complete the verse for an iconic film.

4 Mile, Street, Goblin, Hornet. Why are you thinking of this week’s Ticket?

5 What links Sharon Williams, Gale Anne Hurd, Kathryn Bigelow, Linda Hamilton and Suzy Amis?

6 One was born in St Louis Park, Minnesota in 1954. The other was born in the same place three years later. Who?

7 Which actor's last two albums were Born to Reignand Lost and Found?

8 Who was detained in the (fictional) Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane?

9 Who began his career by directing the only feature of The Dave Clark Five (below)?

10 Looking glass. Spaceship peripherally named for the Sun. One who pursues another. Warm feelings for the past. The giving up of something treasured. What are we on about?

Answers below

1. Liam Neeson. The question refers to Schindler's List, Kinsey, Michael
Collins, Narniaand Excalibur.

2. A Christmas Carol

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

4. The word "green" completes these films and characters

5. They were all married to James Cameron

6. The Coen brothers

7. Will Smith, apparently

8. Hannibal Lecter

9. John Boorman. (The film is Catch Us If You Can.)

10. The last five features of Andrei Tarkovsky ( Mirror, Solaris, Stalker, Nostalgia, The Sacrifice)