Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions... and answers

Questions

1. Which of this week’s releases takes its title from a large wasp of unusual hue?

2. What comes before the Feebles, the Spartans, the Applegates and the Parents?

3. Who returned in Magnum Force, The Enforcerand Sudden Impact?

4. In what upcoming film – and 1960s favourite – will you encounter Rooster Cogburn?

5. What will the Hollywood Foreign Press Association be handing out on Sunday?

6. Who connects Dr Frankenstein, Thor and Henry V?

7. Who’s gone blonde for the premiere of her new film?

8. What, according to a (disputed) quote from President Woodrow Wilson, was like “writing history with lightning”?

9. Why might The French Connectionand Trading Placesremind you of Rare Exports?

10. Who’s the odd one out, and why: B é la Tarr, Michael Curtiz, Herbert Lom, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Peter Lorre?

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Answers

1. The Green Hornet

2. Meet the…

3. Dirty Harry

4. True Grit

5. The Golden Globes

6. Kenneth Branagh (He directed versions of those stories)

7. Rachel McAdams

8. D W Griffiths's The Birth of a Nation

9. In both those films, the hero dresses in a Santa suit. Rare Exportsconcerns a scary Santa

10. Herbert Lom. All the rest were born in Hungary. Lom was born in Czechoslovakia.