Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions... and answers

1 Which film series concerns itself with the adventures of John Connor?

2 What connects Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck?

3 Which 1980s smash made prominent use of Don't You Forget About Meby Simple Minds?

4 If John Cleese is Robin Hood and Sean Connery is King Agamemnon, then who is God?

5 Who parted over a bottle of “’53 Margaux, best of the century”?

6 What begins with a tune by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos and ends with another from Gene Kelly?

7 Christy, The Bull, Gerry, Danny (in that order). What are we talking about?

8 Who’s the veteran attending a documentary on her life at the recent Tribeca Film Festival (above)?

9 What did Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Frank, Martin Scorsese and the Maysles brothers all do?

10 “There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die.” The first line of which classic?

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Answers

1. The Terminator

2. They all played Jack Ryan in adaptation of Tom Clancy novels

3. The Breakfast Club

4. Ralph Richardson in Time Bandits

5. Withail and I

6. A Clockwork Orange

7. Protagonists of the first four films by Jim Sheridan

8. Carol Channing (pictured with director Dori Berinstein at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Larger Than Life)

9. Directed films featuring the Rolling Stones ( Sympathy for the Devil, Cocksucker Blues, Shine a Light, Gimme Shelter)

10. The Right Stuff