Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1. Which current smash features a prolonged argument between Zeus and Hades?
2. “He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home.” The tagline to which 1980s classic?
3. What comes before Noon, Spirits, Sierra and Hopes?
4. “It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty that killed the Beast.” The last line of which film?
5. Who is about to follow in the footsteps of Barry Norman and Jonathan Ross?
6. Who is the only person to win best actress at the Oscars and worst actress at the Razzies in the same year?
7. Who, in different films, grew up to be both Gloria Stuart and Judi Dench?
8.
Enduring Love, The Deceivers, The Beautician and the Beast
(in reverse order), What’s the connection?
9. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Siobhan McKenna, Dorothy McGuire and Maia Morgenstern have all done what?
10. Sonny Bono was to Palm Springs as Clint Eastwood was to… Where?
Answers:
1.
Clash of the Titans.
2.
ET: The Extraterrestrial.
3. High.
4.
King Kong
.
5. Claudia Winkleman (as host of the BBC’s
Film 2010
)
6. Sandra Bullock (this year, for
The Blind Side
and
All About Steve
)
7. Kate Winslet (in
Titanic
and
Iris)
8. Films starring the last three actors to play James Bond (Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton)
9. They all played The Virgin Mary (in
The Nativity, King of Kings, The Greatest Story Ever Told
and
The Passion of the Christ)
10. Carmel. They were both mayors of those towns.
