Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions... and Answers

Questions

1. In which long-running series might you encounter Emma, Rupert and Dan?

2. What links Ratatouille, Willardand Ben?

3. Lit match is blown out and we cut to the burning desert sun. Which award-winning epic?

4. Walt Disney's Secretariatwill be with us soon. To what does the title refer?

5. Which recent film concerns the weird adventures of Dominic Cobb?

6. Who was born Frances Gumm?

7. “I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.” The last line of which classic?

8. Whose parents were (apparently) named Hortense and Quackmore?

9. Who has been Glenn Miller, Charles Lindbergh and Wyatt Earp?

10. Why might Sidewaysand Mondovinomake you think of a particular Hitchcock MacGuffin?

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Answers

1. Harry Potter (the lead actors)

2. They all concern rats

3. Lawrence of Arabia

4. A racehorse from the 1970s

5. Inception

6. Judy Garland

7. The Shawshank Redemption

8. Donald Duck

9. James Stewart ( The Glenn Miller Story, The Spirit of St Louis, Cheyenne Autumn)

10. Both films concern wine. Hitch always viewed the wine bottle – containing uranium – in Notoriousas the archetypal MacGuffin.