Questions from the blood simple to the die hard by Donald Clarke

1. The censor's certificate for which of this week's releases is accompanied by the following comment: "Brutal Western Violence".

2. Next year's The Dark Knight is the first film in its franchise to have a certain word missing from its title. Which word?

3. "Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it." What did we do?

4. What comes between a map of Africa and a "beautiful friendship"?

5. Alain Delon, Matt Damon, Dennis Hopper and John Malkovich have all played which amoral villain?

6. What will you hear throughout both I am Sam and the upcoming Across the Universe?

7. Who comes after Clarke, Burgess and Thackery?

8. Dolly Parton, Harry Dean Stanton, Gunnar Hansen. Which American state?

9. What do the following have in common: I, Claudius, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Other Side of the Wind and Something's Got to Give?

10. Ice Cube chills out on the porch. Billy Crystal directs himself. Peter Finch kisses Murray Head. A long version of which Jean-Luc Godard film?

Answers

1. 3:10 to Yuma.

2. Batman.

3. Destroy the earth. Dialogue from Planet of the Apes.

4. Casablanca. The first image and the last line from that film.

5. Tom Ripley in versions of Patricia Highsmith thrillers.

6. Songs by The Beatles.

7. Stephen King. The writers whose novels were turned into successive Stanley Kubrick pictures. The films in question are 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and The Shining.

8. Texas. The stars of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Paris, Texas and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

9. They are unfinished films by, respectively, Josef von Sternberg, Terry Gilliam, Orson Welles and George Cukor.

10. Weekend. The question refers to Friday, Mr Saturday Night and Sunday, Bloody, Sunday.