Movie Quiz

DONALD CLARKE'SWeekly Movie Quiz

1. What does Ace Ventura do for a living?

2. Who will Meryl Streep be playing in the upcoming Iron Lady?

3. Combine a major religion with a unit of hay to create a current Oscar nominee?

4. Who was Werner Herzog’s

“Best Fiend”?

5. Which Birmingham band took their name from a 1963 Boris Karloff horror ilm?

6. What links

Convoy

(1978),

Frankie and Johnny

(1966),

Alice’s Restaurant

(1969) and

Ode to Billy Joe

(1976)?

7. What’s missing:

Spanking the Monkey, Requiem for a Dream, The Damned United, Alien 3?

8. Which Oscar-winning actor is the voice of Mermaid Man on

SpongeBob SquarePants?

9. By what three English titles was Sergio Leone’s Giù la Testa known?

10. Which director gave his name to a child genius on an episode of Columbo?

Answers

1. He is a pet detective

2. Margaret Thatcher

3. Christian Bale

4. Klaus Kinski

5. Black Sabbath

6. They all took their titles and stories from songs

7.

Blood Simple

(debut theatrical features by this year’s nominee for best director Oscar)

8. Ernest Borgnine

9.

Duck You Sucker, A Fistful of Dynamite

and

Once Upon a Time…The Revolution

10. Steven Spielberg