Weekly movie quiz

Questions from the blood simple to the die hard

QUESTIONS

1 "Porous and yellow, absorbent is he." Which maritime TV and movie star is so described?

2 In which 1963 war film did Steve McQueen play The Cooler King?

3 Who once compared his beloved to "Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront"?

4 Why might we treat Ralph Richardson, George Burns and Morgan Freeman with special reverence?

5 What evidence do we have that Roger Corman's The Wild Angels was of interest to Primal Scream?

6 What common fate befell The Producers, Smiles of a Summer Night, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Nights of Cabiria?

7 Alec Guinness had eight. Dennis Price had two. Everybody else had just the one. What are we talking about?

8 Coyote Ugly, The Insider, Die Hard 4.0 and Blue Crush all began life in what form?

9 Who is the odd one out: Remy, Ben, Willard and Roddy?

10 Which is the odd one out: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Last Great Train Robbery, Waking Ned and Saving Private Ryan?

ANSWERS

1 SpongeBob SquarePants

2 The Great Escape

3 Lloyd Cole, of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, in the song Rattlesnakes

4 They have all played God. The films in question are Time Bandits, Oh, God! and Bruce Almighty.

5. An excerpt of dialogue from the film - "We want to be free to do what we want to do" - appears in Loaded, a song by the band

6 They all became stage musicals. The shows in question are The Producers, A Little Night Music, Spamalot and Sweet Charity

7 These are the number of roles taken by the actors in Kind Hearts and Coronets

8 Magazine articles

9 Willard. All the rest are rats. Remy in Pixar's upcoming Ratatouille, Ben in Ben and Roddy in Flushed Away. Willard was the human protagonist of Willard, a film about killer rats

10 Waking Ned. All the others, though set elsewhere, featured lengthy sequences shot in Ireland. Waking Ned, though set in Ireland, was shot in the Isle of Man