Mr. D. CLARKEasks the questions
QUESTIONS
1. Which current star is known to his fans as Rpatz?
2. Which late icon can still be encountered on the labels of his salad dressings and pasta sauces?
3. Tom Hanks plays a prison officer. The second film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy. Chaplin becomes a prospector. Which piece of fabric much seen this Wednesday?
4. In Her Shoes. Avatar. Hedwig and the Angry Itch. Which British politician are you thinking of?
5. Who’s looking rather unlike herself in Iron Man 2 (pictured)?
6. Ran. Throne of Blood. 10 Things I Hate About You. Chimes at Midnight. Kiss Me Kate. Which Elizabethan?
7. Who links Gollum, King Kong and Ian Drury?
8. Who’s the odd one out: Ratso Rizzo, Ted Kramer, Bob Woodward, Benjamin Braddock?
9. “For more than a year, ominous rumours had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon.” The opening line of which classic?
10. The escapade. The period after dark. The moon blocking out the sun. The scarlet wasteland. (In that order.) Whose key classics?
ANSWERS
1. Robert Pattinson
2. Paul Newman
3. The Irish tricolour (The Green Mile, Three Colours: White, The Gold Rush)
4. David Cameron (Cameron Diaz, James Cameron, John Cameron Mitchell)
5. Scarlett Johansson 6. William Shakespeare (all based on his plays)
7. Andy Serkis
8. Bob Woodward. It’s the only part not played by Dustin Hoffman. (Though Robert Redford played Woodward opposite Hoffman’s Carl Bernstein in All The President’s Men.)
9. Dr Strangelove
10. Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Il Deserto Rosso)
