The weekly movie quiz

By Donald Clarke.

1. Which Part 4 is currently the most financially successful film released this year?

2. Which of this week's releases takes an exclamation point?

3. Why might we soon be taking an interest in a Waste Allocation Load Lifter (Earth-Class)?

4. In 1997, this actress was one of two women to both receive Oscar nominations for playing the same character. In 2001 she did it again. Who are we talking about?

5. Jesse James. Tyler Durden. Joe Black. Benjamin Button. Which hunk?

6. Why might Morse's widow, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and a resident of Railway Cuttings remind you of a current release?

7. Controversy alert! Who has blacked up to play the character in the centre of the accompanying photograph?

8. Eminem's Mile plus Michael Winterbottom's grubby songs divided by Sister Sarah's Mules gives you which durable classic?

9. Doris Kappelhoff. New Yorker film critic. Pioneering African-American actress. Diana Fluck. What's my bra size?

10. Why might Detective Tibbs and Captain Hilts make you think of the travails of Aeneas?

 Answers:

1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

2. Mamma Mia!

3. He is better known as Wall-E.

4. Kate Winslet. She accomplished the feats in Titanic and Iris.

5. Brad Pitt

6. They are all Hancocks. The question refers to Sheila Hancock, John Hancock and Tony Hancock.

7. It's Robert Downey Jr (with Jack Black and Ben Stiller) in the forthcoming Tropic Thunder.

8. 8 1/2

9. DD. The question refers to Doris Day (real name), David Denby, Dorothy Dandridge and Diana Dors (real name).

10. Virgil Tibbs was played by Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night. Virgil Hilts was played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. Virgil wrote The Aeneid about Aeneas.