This week's quiz
1 Which small green alien had the voice of Frank Oz?
2 Identify the director from this famous caricature (left).
3 Who was the first actor to receive a British peerage?
4 Which film was, in the director’s country, called Ultimo tango a Parigi?
5 What links Kenneth Branagh, Jon Favreau, Louis Leterrier and Joe Johnston?
6 Which author’s books have been adapted by Brian de Palma and Philip Kaufman?
7 Why might Arthur Dent, Bilbo Baggins and Rembrandt make you think of Slough?
8 Which band was played by The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton?
9 What was the first film to knock Gone with the Wind from the top spot in the list of all-time box-office champs?
10 Which actor has appeared in more James Bond films than any other?
And the answers. . . . .
1. Yoda from Star Wars
2. Alfred Hitchcock
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Last Tango in Paris
5. Directed films focusing on members of The Avengers (Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America)
6. Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff)
7. All played by Martin Freeman, who starred in The Office, which is set in that town
8. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (in the disastrous 1978 film of the same name)
9. The Godfather
10. Desmond Llewelyn (17, playing Q in all but one)
