Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1 What breed of dog was terrorised by Cruella De Vil?
2 "When God couldn't save The King, The Queen turned to someone who could." The clunky tagline to which current release?
3 Which is the odd one out: The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, Apocalypse Now, Platoon?
4 Who's that enjoying her recent win at the Screen Actors Guild?
5 What connects Prince Albert, Uxbal, Rooster Cogburn, Aron Ralston and Mark Zuckerberg?
6 Why might Millennium Square, Bristol and Dyan Cannon make you think of a certain Mr Leach?
7 How are Leonard, Adolph and Julius Henry better known?
8 What was on the flip of the single that contained I Talk to the Treesby Clint Eastwood as its B-side?
9 For which film did Stanley Kubrick receive a worst director nomination at the Razzies?
10 What did directors Roy Del Ruth, William Dieterle and John Huston all do?
ANSWERS
1. Dalmatians
2.
The King's Speech
3.
The Hurt Locker. (All the rest involve the Vietnam War.
The Hurt Lockeris set in Iraq.)
4. Melissa Leo of
The Fighter
5. Characters played by this year's nominees for the best actor Oscar.
6. Cary Grant. (There is a statute of the great man in that spot in
Bristol. He was married to Dyan Cannon. His real name is Archie Leach.)
7. Chico, Harpo and Groucho (the Marx brothers' given names)
8.
Wand'rin Starby Lee Marvin
9.
The Shining(and you thought it was
Eyes Wide Shut)
10. Directed versions of
The Maltese Falcon. (Huston's was, perhaps
surprisingly, the third.)
