DONALD CLARKE'SWeekly Movie Quiz
1.What time of year do Die Hard, Kisses, Love, Actuallyand Home Alonetake place?
2."I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, dear Father." The opening line of which seasonal classic?
3.What jolly fat man links Richard Attenborough, Paul Giamatti, Tim Allen, Ed Asner and Edmund Gwenn?
4.Who, according to a 1979 film, was born at the same time as Jesus in the neighbouring stable?
5.In which 1980s creature feature does one of the heroes tell a horrific story about her father dying in the chimney while imitating Father Christmas?
6.The subject and star of Ken Russell's Valentino. The director of The Modernsand Choose Me. Which Christmas character?
7.What class of Santa was Willie Stokes in a 2003 film?
8.Which spirit has been played by David Johansen, Jiminy Cricket and Jim Carrey?
9.Where did CC Baxter and Fran Kubelik spend a troubled Christmas?
10.Which classic features an idyllic Christmas at the Ekdahls house?
Quiz Answers
1. Christmas
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Santa (in the 1994 Miracle on 34th Street, Fred Claus, The Santa
Clause, Elf and the '47 Miracle on 34th Street)
4. Brian Cohen in Monty Python's The Life of Brian
5. Gremlins
6. Rudolph. (The question refers to Rudolph Valentino, Rudolf Nureyev
and Alan Rudolph.
7. Bad
8. The Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged, Mickey's Christmas Carol and
Disney's A Christmas Carol
9. In CC's apartment (in Billy Wilder's The Apartment
10. Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander
