1 Which Oscar-winning actress was born Helen Lydia Mironoff?
2 Which job has been held by Barry Norman, Jonathan Ross and Claudia Winkleman?
3 Which mantle has been passed from Tobey Maguire to Andrew Garfield?
4 Who's that signing his poster last week in Berlin (below)?
5 Which Australian director derived his first name thanks to a supposed similarity to Basil Brush?
6 "Earth - it was fun while it lasted." The tagline to which 1990s smash?
7 Which film's title may be (the story has been disputed) an amalgam of Au Revoir les Enfantsand Straw Dogs?
8 Why might Nicole Kidman and Bette Midler make you think of Barack Obama?
9 Which two real-life historic figures have generated a record three separate acting nominations at the Oscars?
10 Westerns, Universal horror, silent cinema, Hitchcock (in that order). What are we talking about?
Answers:
1 Helen Mirren
2 Presenter of the BBC's
Filmprogramme?
3 The role of Spider-Man
4 It's Josh Brolin
5 Baz Luhrmann
6
Independence Day
7
Reservoir Dogs
8 They were all born in Hawaii. (Tea Party lunatics may wish to insert the word "allegedly" in there.)
9 Henry VIII and Elizabeth 1. (Henry: Charles Laughton in
The Private Life of Henry VIII, Robert Shaw in
A Man for All Seasons, Richard Burton in
Anne of the Thousand Days. Elizabeth: Cate Blanchet in
Elizabethand
Elizabeth:
The Golden Age, Judi Dench in
Shakespeare in Love.)
10 Successive film parodies by Mel Brooks (
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety)
