Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz

Questions


Questions

1 Which classic ends with “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”?

2 Steve McQueen is the fireman. Paul Newman is the architect. Which 1970s hit?

3 Who’s missing: John Boorman, William Peter Blatty, Paul Schrader, Renny Harlin?

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4 Billy Crudup, Bob Hoskins and (shortly) Leonardo DiCaprio. Which controversial figure?

5 The soundtrack album to which current film features the tracks Airey Neave, Community Charge and MT?

6 Observe the detail from Ralph Steadman’s (slightly misleading) poster below. What’s the film?

7 Which classic horror film featured a killer with William Shatner’s face?

8 What film beat Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Capoteand Good Night, and Good Luckto the best picture Oscar?

9 Which act's first, ultimately aborted film was provisionally titled Who Killed Bambi?

10 The second man to portray James Bond died recently. Who was he?

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Answers

1. Casablanca

2. The Towering Inferno

3. William Friedkin (directors of Exorcistfilms)

4. J Edgar Hoover (in Public Enemies, Nixonand J Edgar)

5. The Iron Lady

6. Withnail and I

7. Halloween(Michael Myers wore an altered Captain Kirk mask)

8. Crash

9. The Sex Pistols

10. Bob Holness (the Blockbusterspresenter starred in a 1956 radio adaptation of Moonraker)