The weekly movie quiz

By Donald Clarke

Questions

1. Which enormously popular novel by John Boyne is about to become a movie?

2. "He's having the worst day of his life...over, and over..." Which 1990s comedy smash?

3. Who was the first African-American to solo host the Oscars?

4. Which animated film begins with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and ends with Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Schubert's Ave Maria ?

5. According to the 2001 census in England and Wales, 390,127 people are adherents of which film-related belief system?

6. Who was Baby Herman's long-suffering sidekick?

7. Blanche Hudson. Mildred Pierce. Crystal Allen. Which mighty female star?

8. What might you hear in American Gigolo , Scarface , Midnight Express and - if you're very unlucky - a reissue of Metropolis ?

9. Mr Mom, The Doors, Michael Clayton, Rescue Dawn (in that order). What are we talking about?

10. Which Oliver Stone film might come to mind while listening to The King and I, West Side Story and My Fair Lady?

Answers:

1. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2. Groundhog Day

3. Whoopi Goldberg (in 1994)

4. Fantasia

5. Jedi Knights

6. Roger Rabbit

7. Joan Crawford

8. A score by Giorgio Moroder

9. Successive actors to play Batman. The films starred Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale.

10. Nixon . Marni Nixon dubbed the female leads' singing voices in all those films.

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