Weekly Movie Quiz

This week's movie questionnaire

1 Who has been, at various points, Michael Collins, Qui-Gon Jinn, Zeus and Hannibal Smith?

2 What begins with “Saigon . . . shit”?

3 Whose directorial career stretched from The Maltese Falcon (below) to The Dead?

4 Combine a moor and a financial record book to create a late star.

5 Myra Breckinridge, Transamerica, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. What’s going on?

6 The soundtrack album for which 1960s classic features titles including Cooler and Mole, Big X and Meanwhile, We Dig?

7 Which virtual brothers were made flesh by Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo?

8 “The kid stays in the picture.” Who was the kid?

9 Why might François Truffaut and Michael Moore make you think of a 17th- century German physicist?

10 Which Oscar-winning film is also the title of a Seinfeld episode?

Answers:

1. Liam Neeson

2. Apocalypse Now

3. John Huston

4. Producer Robert Evans (An anecdote about his early career gave him the title of his autobiography.)

5. The English Patient

6. Sex changes.

7. The Great Escape

8. Super Mario Brothers

9. They directed, respectively, Fahrenheit 451 and Fahrenheit 911. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented that temperature scale.

10. Heath Ledger.