The weekly movie quiz

From the blood simple to the die hard.

1. Which Stanley Kubrick film offered inspiration for the title of David Bowies earliest hit?

2. Lois Maxwell, who died last month, gained fame playing which frustrated secretary?

3. What remark does Chief Martin Brody make after seeing Bruce up close for the first time?

4. Whose Grammy never gave gifts because "she was too busy being raped by Cossacks"?

5. Which is the odd one out: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Thunderball, Ocean's Thirteen, Alien: Resurrection, Star Trek: The Voyage Home?

6. What comes in between a young woman's bottom and The Jesus and Mary Chain?

7. Which do the following have in common: Home Alone, Children of Men, The Tichborne Claimant, Into the West?

8. What began with Crisis and ended with Saraband?

9. Which honour does the following films -- and these alone -- have in common: It Happened One Night(1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), The Silence of the Lambs(1991)?

10. Charles Foster Kane's guardian. Bob Newhart's repetitively named officer. Where the witch was. Quentin's alias. (In that order) What are we talking about?

Answers

1. 2001: A Space OdysseyBowie's song was, of course, called Space Oddity.

2. Miss Moneypenny in the Bond films.

3. "We're going to need a bigger boat." Dialogue from Jaws.

4. Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall.

5. Ocean's Thirteen. The rest are all part four in their respective series. Ocean's Thirteenis the third episode.

6. Lost in Translation. First shot and closing music.

7. The directors of each of these films went on to make a Harry Potter picture.

8. The career of Ingmar Bergman.

9. These are the only films to win all big five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

10. Recent prime ministers of the UK. The question refers to Walter Parks Thatcher in Citizen Kane, Major Major in Catch 22, The Blair Witch Projectand Mr Brown in Reservoir Dogs.