The weekly movie quiz

By Donald Clarke

Questions

1. The people behind which franchise told the makers of the Indian film Hari Puttarto cease and desist last week?

2. "Life is like a box of chocolates." For whom?

3. Who came in between George Lazenby and Roger Moore?

4. Cecillia Tallis, Elizabeth Swann and Lizzie Bennett. Which English star?

5. Which female Australian actor was last week named by Forbesmagazine as providing the lowest box-office return for every dollar spent on her salary?

6. "There's something about your first piece." The tagline to which filthy late 1990s comedy?

7. Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton and the voice of Tom Hulce. Which campanologist?

8. If Killer's Kissis the first, what is the last?

9. Doc Brown, Man on the Moon, Hoffa, Ordinary People. What method of transport?

10. Why might Tom Jones and Bridget Jones's Diary remind you of Sleeper?

Answers

1. Harry Potter

2. Forrest Gump

3. Sean Connery (again). We are talking James Bond here.

4. Keira Knightley

5. Nicole Kidman

6. American Pie

7. Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

8. Eyes Wide Shut. The question refers to the commercial features of Stanley Kubrick

9. Taxi. Christopher Lloyd (Doc in Back to the Future) played Reverend Jim in that sitcom. Man on the Moonwas about Andy Kaufman. Danny De Vito directed Hoffa. Judd Hirsch was in Ordinary People.

10. Henry Fielding wrote the source novel for Tom Jones. Helen Fielding wrote Bridget Jones's Diary. Fielding Mellish was the protagonist of Woody Allen's Sleeper.