The weekly movie quiz

From the blood simple to the die hard

Questions

1 Small and green I am. Friend to Luke I be. By Frank Oz my voice is. Who I am?

2 What happened for the first time in The Jazz Singer?

3 "This woman has to be gotten to a hospital." "A hospital? What is it?" Well?

4 Who is the odd one out: John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Ashton Kutcher, Isaac Hayes?

5 Which archaeologist and adventurer will return next year to explore the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

6 What, unusually for films of such recent vintage, unites Schindler's List, The Good German (above), Manhattan and Control?

7 If Tom Skerritt is Goose and Val Kilmer (right) is Ice, then who is Maverick?

8 Which performer unites Wonder Boys, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and Renaldo and Clara?

9 What comes after Night, Dawn and Day?

10 Which actor was originally cast as the school principal in ET, but was cut from the final film because Steven Spielberg felt his celebrity might be distracting?

Answers

1. I'm Yoda.

2. An actor spoke. It was the first proper talkie.

3. "It's a big building with patients. But that's not important now" Dialogue from Airplane.

4. Ashton Kutcher. The rest are all Scientologists. He follows the Kabbalah.

5. Indiana Jones.

6. They are all in black and white.

7. Tom Cruise. Characters from Top Gun.

8. Bob Dylan. He won an Oscar for writing a song for Wonder Boys. He was in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He wrote and directed Renaldo and Clara.

9. Land. The question refers to the "Dead" films of George A Romero.

10. Harrison Ford.