Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1"We're going to need a bigger boat." Who? Why?
2Which of this week's films is based on a Pulitzer Prize winner by Cormac McCarthy?
3Which film last week became the fifth ever to take $1 billion at the world box office?
4Musical version of Fellini film. Recent adventure featuring woollen robots. Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore are having a baby. Michael Winterbottom shoots actual sex. What integer?
5I was born in Bristol in 1904 to Elsie Maria Kingdon and Elias James Leach. Who am I?
6Alec Guinness, Ron Moody and Ben Kingsley have all played which controversial figure?
7What links Lynndie England, Bob McNamara, Fred A Leuchter Jr and Randall Dale Adams?
8One Man Band, Lifted, Presto and Partly Cloudy (in that order). What are we on about?
9Lupine period. Concealed. Amusing diversions (in the US). Colourless band. The last four what?
10Which actor took her professional name from a character in The Great Gatsby?
ANSWERS
1.The cast of
Jaws. Because a big shark is after them.
2.
The Road
3.
Avatar
4.Nine (Nine, 9, Nine Months, 9 Songs)
5.Cary Grant
6.Fagin
7.They are the subjects of films by Errol Morris (
Standard Operating
Procedure, The Fog of War, Mr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A
Leuchter Jr, and
The Thin Blue Line)
8.Shorts released with the last four Pixar films
9.Films by Michael Haneke (
Time of the Wolf, Hidden, Funny Games USand
The White Ribbon)
10.Sigourney Weaver
