DONALD CLARKE'SWeekly Movie Quiz
Questions:
1.Which camp nuisance was banned by Ukrainian authorities last week?
2. Which of this summer's smashes features the adventures of Sam Witwicky and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes?
3.Hans Gruber, Éamon de Valera, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Which veteran?
4. Who sang lead vocals with 30 Odd Feet of Grunts?
5.Naked Gun 2 ½, Capricorn One, The Towering Inferno, The Cassandra Crossing. Which notorious sportsperson?
6.In which comedy does the director provide the voice for "werewolf, cat hit by dart and Victor Frankenstein"?
7.What will you hear over the sex scene in Watchmen, the end credits of Lord of War, in a later scene in Sugar and at the close of Shrek?
8.Whose husbands were Paul Mansfield, Miklós (Mickey) Hargitay and Matt Cimber?
9.Which is the odd one out: Doctor Doolittle, The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, A Thousand Clowns, Awakenings, The Searchers, Hello, Dolly!?
10.The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928) is often considered to hold which distinction?
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Answers:
1. Brüno
2.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3.Alan Rickman
4. Russell Crowe
5. OJ Simpson
6.Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
7.A different version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
8.Jayne Mansfield
9.The Searchers. Bizarrely, it is the only one of those films not to be nominated for a best picture Oscar.
10.The longest ever feature film. It runs 27 hours.
