The weekly movie quiz

Questions and answers to this week's movie quiz

Questions

1. "We're going to need a bigger boat." Which 1970s classic?

2. Who has been, at various times in his career, Alvy Singer, Isaac Davis
and Sandy Bates?

3. Who unites The Birds, Don't Look Now and Rebecca?

4. In which film might you encounter such lunar hits as Bad Moon Rising,
Moondance and Blue Moon?

5. How many decades separate Ruby Dee and Saoirse Ronan, the oldest and
youngest people nominated for acting awards at this year's Oscars?

6. What begins with the lighting of candles and ends with stones being
placed on a gravestone?

7. Which film last week managed to add one Oscar nomination to its eight
Razzie nominations (the awards for the year's worst achievements in cinema)?

8. If Gwyneth Paltrow is Dixie Normous and Kevin Spacey is Dr Evil, who is
Austin Powers?

9. Jennifer Jason Leigh in Margot at the Wedding. Gena Rowlands in Gloria.
Julie Andrews in SOB. Madonna in Swept Away. Why might all these actors have
felt particularly at home during these shoots?

10. Mickey's dog. Ellen Page's award-nominated role. Peter O'Toole ogles
Jodie Whittaker. What Mr Spock is. The connection please?

Answers

1. Jaws

2 Woody Allen

3. Daphne du Maurier

4. An American Werewolf in London

5. Seven.

6. Schindler's List

7. Norbit. The Eddie Murphy film got an Oscar nod for best makeup.

8. Tom Cruise. The question refers to Austinpussy, the fake film at the end
of Austin Powers in Goldmember

9. They were all directed by their husbands

10. Roman gods. The question refers to Pluto, Juno, Venus and Vulcan.