The weekly movie quiz

Questions and answers for this week's movie quiz.

Questions

1. "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a
hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic
Empire." Which film presents these words to the lucky viewer?

2. Naughty schoolgirls from which notorious academy are coming your way
next week?

3. Who might you find on the same boat as Quint and Matt Hooper?

4. What sort of creatures, sensitive to being fed after midnight, were
named Gizmo, Mohawk and Stripe?

5. Heineken, f**k! I like Pabst Blue ribbon. I also like inhaling f**ing
oxygen during the act of love and terrorising my "neighbour". Who the
f**ck am I?

6. Oliver Reed did it during Gladiator. Brandon Lee did it during The
Crow. Marilyn Monroe did it during Something's Got to Give. What?

7. Who, from 1967, began job-sharing with Penelope Gilliat?

8. 'He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwurdigeliebe. Which Doctor's name translates into German thus?

9. Lance Henriksen in Aliens. Batman (according to his next film). The
author of The Shining. Mama Morton in Chicago. Which cerebral pastime?

10. Nick Cassavetes's dog is one. Mrs Douglas's middle name is six.
Aronofsky's debut is No 16. Charlton Heston's apparent last man in the
world is 24 (and last). What are we talking about?

Answers

1. Star Wars

2. St Trinians

3. Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) from Jaws.

4. Gremlins (or Mogwai, depending on their state)

5. Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in Blue Velvet

6. Died

7. Pauline Kael, film critic of The New Yorker.

8. Dr Strangelove

9. Chess. Lance played Bishop. Batman is The Dark Knight. Stephen King
wrote The Shining. Queen Latifah was in Chicago.

10. Order of letters in the Greek Alphabet. Cassavetes's film was Alpha
Dog (alpha). Catherine Zeta Jones (zeta) is Mrs Douglas. Darren's film
was called ¦Ð (pi). Charlton was in The Omega Man (omega).