Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

1Who is the subject (pictured) of this documentary film released in the US last week?

2Name this year's two green superheroes.

3"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." Name the movie.

4Scorsese's After Hours. Kubrick's Dr Strangelove. Dude Where's My Car?What do these mostly quality films have in common?

5What onscreen duo can claim to have hung out with Neil Patrick Harris and George W Bush?

6Who famously snubbed Alfred Hitchcock, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman?

7This director's last 10 films have taken more than $500 million at the US box office yet none of those titles were released here. Who is he?

8What links Police Academy's Officer Hightower and a 2002 cult hit featuring Bruce Campbell?

9What movie connection eliminates one of the following: Simon Le Bon; Kevin Shields; Glen Danzig; and Ozzy Osbourne?

10 Irréversible. Anne of a Thousand Days. Zoolander. Pushing Tin. What's the odd one out?

Answers

1.Sarah Palin

2. The Green Hornetand Green Lantern.

3. Airplane!

4.They're all set in one day.

5.Harold and Kumar

6.American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; none of these gentlemen received an Oscar for direction.

7.Tyler Perry. Since 2005, Perry has written, directed, produced and starred in Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, Daddy's Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns, The Family That Preys , Madea Goes to Jail, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Why Did I Get Married Too?, For Colored Girls, Madea's Big Happy Familytaking $522,234,034 at the US box office.

8.Bubba. The actor is Bubba Smith; the movie is Bubba Ho-Tep.

9.Simon Le Bon is the oddity. Kevin Shields, Glen Danzig and Ozzy Osbourne all frequented bands named after movies: My Bloody Valentine, The Misfitsand Black Sabbath.Le Bon's Duran Duran was named for Jane Fonda's nemesis in Barbarella, not the film itself.

10.They all feature real-life couples - Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel in Irréversible, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Anne of a Thousand Days, Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor in Zoolander, Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie in Pushing Tin. The last one doesn't belong with the rest as Billy Bob and Angelina did not get together until a whirlwind romance and marriage two years after the shoot.