Donald Clarke's Weekly Movie Quiz
1. In which film series does Ewan McGregor grow up to be Alec Guinness?
2. Which two stars recently upped Top Gear’s wattage by racing the series’ reasonably priced car?
3. Which film has the hero making fists with naked toes?
4. “April 1945, a nation awaits its…” What, according to the tagline for a classic from the past decade?
5. Proctor, Brown, Cutting, Conlon. About whom are we talking?
6. Who is the odd one out: Aileen Wournos, Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchence, Tupac Shakur
7. Who is missing: Gyllenhaal, Farmiga, Kendrick, Cruz
8. I was born as Arthur Stanley Jefferson in 1890 in Lancashire. Who am I?
9. Rope, Compulsion, Swoon, Murder by Numbers. Which notorious team?
10. Whose movie career began with
Higher and Higher
and ended with
Cannonball Run II?
Answers
1. Star Wars
2. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz
3. Die Hard
4. Downfall
5. Daniel Day Lewis (played characters of that name in The Crucible, My Left Foot, Gangs of New York and In the Name of the Father)
6. Michael Hutchence. All the rest were the subjects of documentaries by Nick Broomfield.
7. Mo’Nique (the women nominated for best supporting actress at this year’s Oscars)
8. Stan Laurel
9.Leopold and Loeb. The murderers inspired all those films.
10. Frank Sinatra
