Movie Quiz

Plus: To whom did Chris Rock eventually present an Oscar after being smacked by Will Smith?

Plus: Which movie does not feature a credit for a member of The Beatles?

Plus: Which is the only Shakespeare play to have won the best picture Oscar?

Plus: Which Odyssey character is played by a veteran of the Dark Knight trilogy?

Plus: Who flew Heywood Floyd to Space Station Five?

Plus: Which film is the least likely to be a favourite of Andy Dufresne?

How many of The Magnificent Seven were also in The Great Escape?

Plus: What might have come into your head before, say, Singin’ in the Rain or A Night at the Opera?

Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?

Plus: Which TV cartoon hero returns to cinemas this weekend?

What just won the Palme d'Or?

Plus: Who does not appear anywhere in Michael?

Plus: What won last year’s Palme d’Or?

Plus: Which golfer makes a celebrity cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Plus: What sort of beans did Hannibal Lecter like with his liver?

Plus: Who has not written a novel that became an Oscar best-picture winner?

Plus: What’s missing: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink, Brown?

Plus: What film just broke the all-time record for the most losses at the Oscars?

Plus: Which class of Italian professional lands back in cinemas this week?

Plus: Who, apart from the director himself, has appeared in the most Woody Allen films?

Plus: Oscar Levant’s famous quote ‘I knew her before she was a virgin’, was about whom?

Plus: Who claimed that the Oscar was so named as she had noted its backside resembled that of her uncle Oscar?

Plus: Which of these stars has worked with the most female directors?

Plus: What was the first film to take a billion dollars at the world box office?

Plus: What is the actual last line of Sunset Blvd?

Plus: The director of which sequence has just stepped up as the first lady’s official chronicler?

Plus: What song plays under the Walt Disney logo at the start of their films?

Plus: Who just passed out Scarlett Johansson’s record, set last July, as the highest grossing film star ever?

Plus: Which Grease song was not in the original 1971 stage musical?

Plus: What is the only film to have won the best picture Oscar with no other nominations?

Plus: Who is not mentioned in the longest song on Highway 61 Revisited?

Plus: Which director did not have a film released in Irish cinemas this year?

Plus: Who has never played a Swan (or a Swann)?

Plus: Which unit of distance does Han Solo apparently mistake for a unit of time?

Plus: Which is not a Rock Hudson and Doris Day film?

Plus: Which beer were they drinking at the end of Ice Cold in Alex?

Plus: Who is the only person to have directed sequels to two best picture winners?

Plus: Do you know which character actor is Tom Cruise’s cousin?

Plus: Who was the last person to direct a Die Hard film?

Plus: What was the first Stephen King adaptation to make it into cinemas?