Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions... and answers

1. What word completes Christmas, Swan, Narcissusand Stallion?

2. “The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests... There’s no way down. There's no way out.” The tagline to which disaster movie?

3. Single White Female, Klute, Easy Rider, 12 Angry Men. Which clan?

4. Random Harvest, Memento, The Bourne Identity, The Hangover. What have we lost?

5. Which Oscar-nominated actor gives his last screen performance in Killing Bono?

6. Suzie Salmon, Briony Tallis and, shortly, Hanna. Which youngster?

7. Which classic concerns Billy Casper and a bird of prey?

8. Why might Forbidden Planetand Prospero's Booksremind you of a recent Helen Mirren film?

9. Which team of film-makers took the same name as that of a radio soap opera?

10. “Well, ma’am, if I see him, I’ll sure give him the message,”followed by a blast of The Four Tops’ It’s the Same Old Song. The ending to which great movie?

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Answers

1. Black

2. The Towering Inferno

3. The Fondas (Bridget, Jane, Peter, Henry)

4. Our memory

5. Pete Postlethwaite

6. Saoirse Ronan (in The Lovely Bones, Atonementand Hanna)

7. Ken Loach's Kes

8. Both are based on The Tempest,recently adapted by Julie Taymor with Mirren.

9. The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

10. Blood Simple