Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

This week's movie quiz.


This week's movie quiz.

1 Which hit film is set to spawn sequels entitled Catching Fire and Mockingjay?

2 What are Pinewood, Elstree and Shepperton?

3 Whose debut feature was THX 1138?

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4 Identify the classic film from the still.

5 Rupert Wyatt, Tim Burton and J Lee Thompson are the last three men to do what?

6 Which was the first James Bond film not to take its title from an Ian Fleming novel or story?

7 A musical take on the first World War. The early life of Churchill. Operation Market Garden. A deranged ventriloquist. What's the link?

8 Who famously described making movies as being in possession of "the biggest electric train set a boy ever had"?

9 Which is the odd one out: Blue Juice, Big Wednesday, Lords of Dogtown, Blue Crush?

10 Where might you find Lieutenant Col Nicholson, Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett and Lieutenant Maréchal?

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. The Hunger Games
2. British film studios
3. George Lucas
4. Badlands
5. Direct Planet of the Apes films (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Apes, Battle for Planet of the Apes)
6. Licence to Kill
7. The first four films directed by Richard Attenborough (Oh, What a Lovely War, Young Winston, A Bridge Too Far, Magic)
8. Orson Welles
9. Lords of Dogtown. All the rest concern surfing. Lords of Dogtown concerns skateboarding.
10. In a prison of war camp. (Internees in Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape and La Grande Illusion.)