DONALD CLARKE's Weekly Movie Quiz
Question
1. Who links Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man?
2. "The Horror! The Horror!" The last line of which classic?
3. Who has his back to us?
4. In which classic comedy does Phil Connors get stuck in a rut?
5. Which tip-top team is about to be reconstituted by, among others, Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel?
6. He has a shorter, fatter twin. He has to become a teacher. He's pregnant. Whose high concepts?
7. What comes before Bravo, Lobo and Grande?
8. Who is the odd one out: Max von Sydow, Jeffrey Hunter, Willem Dafoe, John Turturro and Jim Caviezel? (For an extra point, why have we included this particular odd one?)
9. Why might a classic Federico Fellini film and a recent John Hillcoat picture make you think of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
10. A song from Bruce Springsteen's Darkness at the Edge of Town. From dusk to dawn in paradise. Kipling's column of heroes. Famous piece by Dvoøák. What are we talking about?
Answers
1. Robert Downey Jr
2. Apocalypse Now
3. It's Michael Moore in Capitalism: A Love Story
4. Groundhog Day
5. The A-Team
6. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Twins, Kindergarten Cop and Junior)
7. Rio (in various classic westerns.)
8. John Turturro. The rest played Jesus Christ. Turturro did, however, play Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski.
9. The Fellini is La Strada ("The Road"). The Hillcoat is The Road. Bob Hope and Bing Crosby starred in many Road to... films.
10. The films of Terrence Malick (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World). Okay, we admit that was very hard.
