DONALD CLARKEsets the challenge...
1Who was originally going to be called Mortimer Mouse?
2Who is about to join the Chipmunks for their upcoming "squeakuel"?
3The end of one of my legs. The pasture. A closing line of the Lord's Prayer. The fighter. Who's first four?
4Why might Annie Hall, Toy Story and Larry Flynt remind you of a woodpecker?
5Lean adapts Dickens. Clayton adapts Fitzgerald. Chaplin ridicules Hitler. Chronicle of a breakout. Which superlative?
6Which gongs are handed out by AMPAS?
7The subtitle of which current release translates as a "German children's history"?
8Which is the odd one out, and why: Jaws 2, Dial M for Murder, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Avatar (pictured below)?
9What is "Smultronsället"?
10What might you expect to see after reading the words "Ars Gratia Artis"?
Answers
1Mickey Mouse
2Alvin
3Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, The Field, In the Name of the Father, The
Boxer)
4They all involve Woody, as in Woody Woodpecker. (Woody Allen directed
Annie Hall. Woody is the cowboy in Toy Story, and Woody Harrelson played
Flynt in The People versus Larry Flynt.)
5Great (Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, The Great Dictator, The
Great Escape)
6The Oscars
7The White Ribbon
8Jaws 2. All the rest were in 3-D. (Jaws 3-D was, of course, filmed
using the process.)
9Wild Strawberries. This is the Swedish title of Bergman's classic.
10An MGM film. That's the studio's slogan